Stay One Step Ahead: Flashover - Full Video

I think I'm kind of late to the party, but found your video while doing some research on aircraft in-flight fires, specifically Air Canada 797 that experienced a flashover in the cabin after making an emergency landing in Cincinnati and subsequently opening the doors for passenger evacuation. Very educational video, particularly to a non-firefighter such as myself. I knew there was a science to firefighting, but I had no idea. Again, great video.

Just a layperson here but I had never heard of flashover or really anything about how a fire progresses until I watched the station nightclub fire video. That scared the crap out of me! I now respect fire a whole lot more. You know how people say what would you save in a fire? Me and my family and get the heck out!

Good Video, well done and great in depth visuals and explanations.

You mentioned the ceiling height can be a factor in flashovers. It was when I had a fire in my dining room. All the first floor ceilings were 10' high. The room had smoke billowing from ceiling to about shoulder height (the smoke residue was visible on the walls). The chief said it would have flashed in less than five minutes. A humorous note - the department was training that day so every firefighter was there for training - and eager to respond to the 911 call!

Massive respect to all fire fighters!

Thank you for posting this. Incredibly informative and well done.

Great training video! All the way from Shreveport, La

Lots of discussion on straight v/s fog streams here. From my 25 years on the job, I have learned that if there is a known life hazard, I am going to straight stream immediately. why? Because the civilian doesn't have ppe/scba that we have. The straight stream doesn't interrupt the thermal column no where near as much as the fog does. The straight stream doesn't create as much steam as the fog. This gives our victim at least a fighting chance. Now if the situation is reversed and all I have to do is put out fire then sure I will open up the pattern. Remember our basics, R.E.C.E.O Rescue is 1st. Exposure is 2nd. Confinement 3rd. Extinguishment 4th and Overhaul is 5th. I realize that all 5 can be happening at the same time but our priority is rescuing that life. Love you brothers out there be safe!

This was an excellent training video.

Thank you!!! This helped me so much

. . . this incredible concentrated knowledge within the heads of this fire department - the chief's and the engineer's together - is priceless . . .

It would be great to have that kind of training here in Peru.

Thank you for the upload, great video.

Thank You for this knowledge!❤

Thank you so much!!!! I will spread this knowledge with my mates.

Excellent information and thank you for sharing!

great explanation, i actually attended a training for Flashover and this video summarizes the flashover attitude very well. is there online courses that firefighters are able to attend from different countries? i would love to get more involved in fire behavior and to be more advanced

Informative.

Awesome video.

That was amazing!!! So.articulate.