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Read explanation from the incident commander
There’s a lot going on in this brief video from a controlled burn at an old farm house in Salisbury, North Carolina on Thursday. Read the description of what happened from the IC’s post on Facebook.
Shavonne Walker, Salisbury Post:
“The objective here is to run simulations of a standard house fire focusing primarily on fire attack and victim rescue, our arrival assignments and some drills that we’ve been doing for the last few months,” said Battalion Chief Nick Martin of the Salisbury Fire Department.
At one point while firefighters were on the second floor outside a window, a plume of smoke quickly turned into a wave of fire downstairs.
Martin said that was caused by a rapid ignition of flammable fire gases.
As firefighters began attacking the fire, a “smoke explosion” occurred, sending flames blowing through the windows and burning plywood in the direction of firefighters.
“The walls are real walls that are covered in old paint, lacquer, dry wall and stuff like that. When that stuff heats up it begins off-gassing and what it off-gases is very flammable gas and when that gas then begins to fill the space from the ceiling to the floor and it reaches its ignition temperature it will simultaneously ignite and that’s what you saw there,” Martin said.
No one was hurt, and as scary as it looked, it’s good for firefighters to experience it in such an environment Chief Martin says.
New scenario for firefighters battling this house fire in Salisbury. It’s a training exercise, but still dangerous. @SalisburyNCFire @millersferry Granite Quarry, East Spencer, Rowan Rescue. pic.twitter.com/TXkxL3Kysb
— David Whisenant WBTV (@DavidWhisenant) June 6, 2019
