From the blaze of Grenfell Tower, to the Californian and Australian wildfires like we've never seen before. Code Red takes a look at the most devastating fires in recent history
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Code Red investigates some of the most notable disasters in our recent history. In each episode, the anatomy one type of catastrophe is investigated and is looked back at on the ways in which they have changed us forever.
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The reason why the fire brigade told Grenfell residents to stay in was due to the design of the buildings. They were self contained flats within the building, with fire breaks and a central stairway that needed to be clear for fire fighters. the external cladding meant that the self contained nature of the design was circumvented. It was known to be flammable, but it was still used. When they realised the fire was going up the outside, it was too late to get the people out as the central part was clogged with smoke. The fire fighters were bringing people out on their BAs. Awful. Just awful.
Stupid firefighters and stupid building for not having more then one stairway
@@beverlyarcher546 Why stupid firefighters? Blame the top, not the common man.
Stay hope not to die because of staying? No, I am getting out first chance I get.
@@catnip2167 You and me both
@@odd_shoes because one they didn't think about the fact that the tower has only one staircase and could cause problems if they couldn't get the fire under control which they didn't get it under control in time and lives were lost because of their stupidity just like that ferry where the captain and his men got off first and abandoned passengers and lied about no passengers on board and all those students who died because they were told to stay in their cabins
It’s unbelievable that post-2003 we still have un-sprinklered buildings
Anything is possible under capitalism
We live in Northern Sonoma County, remember that night so we’ll in 2017. We were evacuated but the winds changed direction at the last second, saving our community from the inferno. We heard the dispatchers recordings during the fire when I attended the Sheriffs Office Citizens Academy in 2019; the call takers knew they were talking to people that were surely to die that night. Kudos to all our first Responders, I am now a COPE leader and a CERT MedOps responder.
My friend and his dad died in the 2009 fires in Victoria. He had only been married 3mths. It was hell on earth, I will never forget ash falling on our house. We live just outside of Melbourne. The fires from 2019-2020 were horrendous, and our Prime Minister - Scomo, decided it was a great time to go on a family holiday... while half our country was on fire. Two weeks later, we were flooding.
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I learned to hate the phrase "he died of smoke inhalation before the flames reached him." Implying he felt no pain? If you listen to the people who survived to tell what it was like when they thought they were going to die inside the towers, but made it out instead, there was NOTHING PAINLESS about it at all. Someone we know DID die. It took weeks for me to realize that their stories are showing me what his last moments of life were like..
Yeah, smoke inhalation is BETTER than burning to death, but only in comparison. Breathing carbon-monoxide-and-cyanide laced air will at least knock you out pretty soon as your blood loses its ability to ever re-oxygenate as CO/cyanide bind firmly to the hemoglobin. With luck, you get dizzy, you realize that this is getting dangerous, and then...it got dangerous, but for that person, it is now over. Getting into sooty-plastic-smoke is a different form of notably-worse 'smoke inhalation'. 'Searing your lungs' is, in my estimation, worse still since you drown slowly from the blistered lung fluid. With luck, maybe you'll drown quickly...but that still seems like it would be three-or-four eternities of Hell before you'd actually die from it. Actually 'dying of fire' in a direct manner is both slow and agonizing...and worse, you might survive weeks, even MONTHS of treatment to try to re-cover your body in sound skin once more, grafts and coatings and more grafts, debriding-scrubs removing contaminated-burned flesh that hadn't quite burned away, and then you die of septic shock after all that treatment and so many surgeries because a bacteria got lucky before your skin was whole enough again to spare you from its ravages. I would DEFINITELY prefer to die of smoke inhalation than by direct burning. Is smoke inhalation a good way to die? No, just like there are almost NO ways to die that one might generally consider 'good', but of the 'bad ways to die', getting knocked out by succumbing to CO and/or cyanide poisoning (which is also considered 'smoke inhalation' if I am not mistaken) would be the BETTER of the not-great ways in which I could die during a fire. 😕 Should this make you feel better about how your friend DID die? Maybe not, but maybe it'll help. It's more likely than not that 'smoke inhalation' involved unconsciousness-before-any-burning-alive happened. With luck, they might have lost consciousness due to carbon monoxide not long after starting to worry about "If this might be actually getting SERIOUSLY dangerous around here". CO makes you a bit light-headed at first, and then gives you a headache and maybe queasiness, and if you don't get to fresh air soon after that...well, you no longer need to worry about the situation. Luckily, *I* got to fresh air in time...but it WAS luck. I'd only dimly come to fear that SOMETHING was amiss in my home, and fled because I was NOT feeling comfortable staying in 'whatever was wrong'. My 'fire' was from a blocked hot water heater chimney so it isn't the same thing, but carbon monoxide really does sneak up on you. "Smoke inhalation" covers a lot of options for dying...several of those options aren't nearly as awful as the others. I hope this at least helps you to not imagine the WORST of the fates that might have befallen your friend...it's quite possible that they were unconscious even before truly deciding that they were actually IN grave danger, or shortly after that. Burning plastic puts out a lot of carbon monoxide.
Smoke inhalation is far from painless. Your lungs are burning. Your nose, throat and eyes sting. You cough uncontrollably. Only adding to the pain. Your chest tightens, heart pounding in an effort to keep you going. But slowly you start to feel tired. Your cognitive abilities diminish. You collapse and after a few more painful coughs and choking…lights out. Former firefighter and EMT
Folks say the weirdest things “He choked on his own vomit” Under what circumstances would he have choked on somebody ELSE’s vomit ???
@@Torahboy1 I mean, one CAN conceive of possibilities...
Lived through 2017, just not in Santa Rosa. Truly terrifying time across the county, but especially in Santa Rosa. A classmate of mine and her family had to flee their home with just the clothes on their backs, their dog and their phones. They lost everything else. :(
That's terrifying! Where did they go? How are they doing now? And, how exactly does one start over after something like that? Did they have insurance?
We live in Asti and remember 2017 all too well…
One of the scariest docs I ever watched was about the Paradise fire. I can’t imagine how scary it would have been to actually being there.
I was on the edge of my seat that entire Netflix special. I was almost nauseous with anxiety after watching it.
Paradise was scary, I'll admit. That fire ran out to about 150,000 acres after a couple days, and it burned at about 1900-2000F in grass, pine and fir. Black Saturday was over a million acres in 1 day, and the fire front spread by 44km in under 6 hours, with the Eucalypts burning at close to 3000F in places, with blue and purple flames going several hundred feet in the air. Watch Jim Baruta's film from St. Andrews right at the wind change. It is horrifying, and not something you see in the US.
In the Station fire Daniel Biechele, the tour manager of the band who had set off the fireworks, although he said he had permission from the owners, which the band also stated the same, decided to own up to his part of the disaster and pleaded guilty to 100 counts of misdemeanor manslaughter and served prison time. The owners plead "no contest" and only one of them server prison time.
I'm glad he was man enough to admit responsibility for his part in that fire. The problem with 99.99% of criminals is that they don't admit they did anything wrong. They always blame someone else for their trouble. This is one case where I think parole should be applied to allow Daniel to get out of prison early. A man like that is not someone who will ever re-offend and hopefully will go on to do some volunteer work helping victims of fires and other tragedies. It's too bad the owners wouldn't admit responsibility for their actions.
Also, the owners knew how flammable the "soundproofing" they used was. And I think one even did a news show about it not being used as bedding before the fire.
Sounds like how it usually goes.
Daniel also wrote a letter asking forgiveness to each victim's family
Biechele is currently out and living with his wife and kids in florida. Poor man will never ever forget and was genuinely remorseful. The owners on the other hand…
I live about an hour from Warwick, R.I. A few people from a town I live in Norwich, CT died in the club. I remember a tattoo parlor closing down for a few days with one of the victims picture on the door. A few years later I got a job for an auto shop and used to drive all over New England picking up parts. I got sent to Warwick one day and decided to go to where the club was. The area the club sat on with it's 100 individual markers for each person that died was on a small piece of land. The size of an average back yard. To think there was a building there that had that many people plus the ones that escaped is mind blowing. The building looked larger in the footage but between the parking lot area to the grass and then to the end of the property line, you could barely fit a convenient store on it.
MAN! When you cut corners with safety, that could come back to bite you! What were they thinking?!
They weren't.
It didn't bite the ones whose bad decisions were responsible... :-/. "thoughts and prayers"
The worst has to be Grenfell Tower fire! 😢💔🕊
I agree!
The worst is the Station. Have you watched the entire footage of the fire?
So many failures of the Grenfell refurbishment.. and no way out 😢
Glad to see the inclusion of an explanation about backburning. This emergency procedure was used with one of the larger fires in my area and the conspiracy theorists went nuts when someone posted a video of it.
in clusion ugh
Living in Oregon, we're becoming all too familiar with fires. The last couple of years have been devasting for us, California and Washington. The thing that really wrecks me, is the animals. All of the wildlife. It's beyond horrific, beyond tragic. And there's no way to save them. For those that start wildfires, there aren't punishments severe enough to come close to equaling the suffering caused by their carelessness!
I haven’t smelled smoke during summer for awhile
Yeah and alot of those fires are preventable but y'all don't want to stop it dead brush
Many of the fires, especially out in California, are due to poorly managed power lines. The sheathing gets old and cracks and then shorts to trees that contact them. PG&E is your main culprit and they keep getting away with it.
The fires are one of the main reasons I moved from Oregon and have no current plans to move back. I’ll take tornadoes instead
Two of the most catastrophic wildfires in my state, New Mexico, were started by National Park personnel. Both were prescribed burns that got out of control.
That is the risk with "controlled" burns is they can get out of control and bad things happen. That said we have suppressed fires for so long that instead of fires being tiny and beneficial. Now they just rip through and destroy everything!
That's too bad. I definitely understand the reasoning behind prescribed burns, but you'd think, by now, they'd be able to have more control over them. What I mean by "by now" is that people have been doing prescribed burns to mitigate summer fires long enough, I would think, to have better control.
@@scootermom1791 people cant control nature. to think otherwise is hubris
Yeah, it's more than a little ironic that the fact that they can get so out of hand basically shows that they are VERY necessary, and quite overdue.
Here in Northern California, prescribed burns are only allowed the wetter months. But you’re right, prescribe burning does go out of control at times.
"Underground fires are dangerous" Nooooo yah don't say..... Guys Russia's Peat fire is similar to the like 100 year fire still burning in Centralia.
Fun fact; the band White Snake did the pyrotechnics all on their own & the brothers that own the club that got jail time did order the proper fire retardant “Sound Foam” but the foam company sent regular packing foam neither the band or foam company were charged with a crime. 😊
And the Station Fire Was also made worst which was not told here was 2 of the exits were CHAINED SHUT so people could not SNEAK In without paying.......there were people on top of people just like the front Entrance
I find these docs to be very insightful in helping to understand what the fires can do and why it acts the way it did
I seriously love these docu series.
My childhood home and a few friends of mine were lost in the Tubbs Fire
You can really learn a lot from these docu series.
Here's a great idea: let's clad high rises in a petrolium product! 😖
2 1/2 minute intro. LMAO
Fires are fully part of the natural cycle. The problem is when we contain fires for a long period in an area, when a fire comes, it is a big big one. It is better to have moderate fires every years vs a mega fire every 10 years.
Yep. The woods behind my childhood home haven't burned in around 120 years. The amount of deadwood in some places is so thick you can't walk. Add the dead ash trees, mostly fallen over now and huge spruce that just die and it's scary. Mom owns 120 acres of this behind her house... I was really worried this spring because it was so very dry for so long. Almost no mosquitoes this year. Northern Michigan .
@martha-anastasia ugh, scary. My parents live in Northern Wisconsin, and the area had a very nasty macro burst storm that snapped off countless trees about 3yrs ago now I think, and even now, they are still logging at an insane rate, trying to clean so it doesn't go to waste and isn't a hazard. But they can't take everything. It's going to still be hazardous for years until the vast majority decays.
We humans need to find a way to cut down the fire triangle when fires get out of control. We are smart enough...
Or, at least, we should be!
These fires are also the result of global warming. More extreme heat, weather and patterns.
19:55 why does wonder aways show the Baja peninsula as part of the state of California!?! Pls tell me someone else noticed this.
oh dude good point thats weird
Maybe it's like---if you mow a strip of your neighbor's yard for 10 years, you get to keep it
Remember, lessons are only learned when the associated mistakes are not repeated. Only those with memory deficiencies need a second dose of similar- consequences for the same faux pas Otherwise, it can be recalcitrance (enforced ignorance) or FEAR (false evidence appearing real)
Very educational video. Was this all produced before the California Paridise 🔥?
I think external sprinkler systems similar to landscaping sytems but which could wet the roof and external walls should be installed on all homes in areas prone to brush fires or wild fires. They could help dampen the roof, exterior walls, and vegetation in the immediate vicinity and possibly create a fire break, if you have enough houses close together with a sprinkler system.
I live in Alberta. We have lots of wildfires here and across Canada. It already feels like a long, hot summer.
Fun fact... wildfires have been a part of the planet far longer than your education....
There is a really good doc about black Saturday. It was truly truly horrific
Still wanna photograph a fire tornado. I always thought it was just a movie only event, not it being a real thing like it now seems to be. Like a tornado is already creepy as it is.
Bushfires are so deadly. They spread so quickly, these firefighters have an impossible task. It’s so upsetting.
Why is is I have the feeling "we ain't seen nuthin yet" in terms of historic firestorms ? -__-
Exactly what I was thinking. This is only the beginning of things to come.
17' - 20' California had a major fire in the Northern half every summer. I think one of those years had 2.
I live in Oakland Hills where firestorm destroyed 3500 homes and erases entire neighborhoods, 25 people died, 150 were injured. We have fire inspections every year before fire season starts. I just passed it yesterday.If you don't have it done as specified by fire department, you pay 500.00 fine. My neighborhood is surrounded by national parks, forests, trails and open spaces. I am keeping my fingers crossed.
Soon, I'm sure there will be a documentary about the fire on Rhodes (Rodos) and the largest evacuation in at least recent Greek history! Friends were shocked to find that I was on the island at the time of the blaze. The hotel (Akti Imperial), roughly 90 kilometres away from the fire, had to divert power, and travel was impeded. My mother ended up speaking to people who had been evacuated away from the fire. They had left all their things behind while getting away to safety. Hotels farther from the blaze became filled with people who had fled the flames. The airport was packed. Everything was chaos. The fire had effects all across the island.
Can't believe the WTC isn't on this list.
I think this list is purely fire-based disasters like initial fires that grew out of control.
The WTC was an intentional act of terrorism. This episode seems to cover more of the natural fire-related disasters and unintentional fires.
Jamie Decker of course it did not they were “ imploded”
I’d say those fires were overshadowed by the collapse of the buildings
My sisters husband is Battalion Chief, it would make me crazy to have my husband do something so dangerous.
With Grenfell tower, honestly think more could have perished in the stairwell being it was their only way out.
Fire in the bush is scary
39.31 - I went out to a Concert one night with a Friend. That Friend insisted that we recce all the exits & fire doors Then we went back to where we probably would be standing & we did a dry run of making our way to the nearest fire door. We did this again to another fire door. I made fun of him the whole time, yep I absolutely mocked him. My Friend then said, that we should do it again but blindfolded. I thought he was joking but he was not. We missed out getting the standing room directly in front of the stage, but still we got a fairly good position. Also as my Friend pointed out, its no good getting the best spot - if you die. My Friend's Dad had been in a Hotel fire, nearly died of smoke inhalation & spent a few weeks in Hospital. That was the reason my Friend always stressed the importance of knowing where all the Emergency Exits were. Every Nightclub/ Hotel or Building I now go into I religiously go through the same procedure of what my Friend took me through that night. I even sometimes to often intriguing & entertaining outcomes, blindfold myself & try to make the exit. I have even made a point of thanking my Friend. This is some of the best advice you can be given - always no matter how silly you feel- RECCE THE EMERGENCY EXITS / EXITS. It may one day save your life.
It's bad enough that YT has ads. You don't have to include recorded ads in your episodes, too!
It can be tricky getting them out of the video though
Just focus on rhe part where you didn't have to pay to watch this lol
I want to hear about flashovers to.
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@@boundish1 Yup.We will.Thanks for helping our country and our refugees.
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Some more : Fire at Inno shopping in Brussels in 1967 : 251 died. Fire at reveillon 1994 in hotel in Antwerp: 15 died. Fire at club Collectiv in Bucharest in 2015: 64 died. ....
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Some fire can be good, as some seeds wouldn't sprout if there was no fire. True,some are started,but others are from cars, lightning, set,or some are started by careless campers,thinking a fire is romantic, then go to sleep,leaving it burning.Before you know it,the wind picks up,and seeds sparks flying, and you have your wild fires! Even now in 2023,I'm smelling smoke in an area that had a TON OF RAIN! I came upfrom my basement just a few minutes ago, and smelled smoke.I don't know if it's from the 3 parts of the world that are burning, or iff there's a fire here some where
Many of the western forest fires (California) are to blame on PG&E and the poor maintenance of power lines on their behalf.
Woof burning eucalyptus stinks something special, I remember a wildfire almost took my old condo in CA and yuuuuck! Poor koalas.
Okay this is gonna bother me, where have I heard the opening credits music before? @1:28 inb4 Darude Sandstorm
It's not the Diablo winds, it's the el Nino winds.
I thought it was the santa ana wind's?
@Victoria neeson Santa Anna is the common name, by Americans
No, they’re called Diablo winds up here. Diablo means devil, that’s what the fire officials call them.
My bodies feeling it literally
As long as we continue to: a) learn nothing from these events, and b) not change our lifestyles or our strategies, and c) not make any sacrifices at all in terms of where we'll live or what profits we'll give up...then sadly, d) people will keep dying, and e) these events will actually get worse.
very interesting (I did not know of the Moscow fire), but a bit misleadingly titled. Most Catastrophic In History? Really? How about in the last 30 years.
I lived through those Australian bushfire in Canberra and surrounding areas, as a fire fighter I'd never seen anything like it and hope to never seen again but given the start of our Fire Season is a mirror image of the last big fire what 2018/2019 I believe were in for a catastrophic season....in part its global warming, fire authorities are to tightly governed & cant do off season burns and people being blaise & not ready...me I'm always ready go bag & fire plane done
Funfact: If you put "Funfact" at the beginning of your comment, people will read it.
Yes
Funfact: That funfact is 100% accurate
That was indeed, a fun fact😊
tl;dr
OMG, that was SO much fun!
Why advert 10x louder then programme, Almost wake up people "/
Before you donate to the above company you need to do some research. After you do i bet you wont donate to that organization 😮
Oh, appsalutely I think the country 👀 California wildfires every year until we 👀 Australia ablaze even worse if that's possible. The drought is really hurting the country USA
Hell on earth
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Mother Nature fighting back against the parasite that is human beings. Lol. We deserve it.
The commercials are horrible.
Pay for Premium then. NO commercials. Duh.
particulates
“This; is red red web”
:Your map is off at 19:55 LOL, California ends at the Mexican border and becomes the Mexican state of Baja California. Two different states in two different countries. Please improve your researching.
"Well, we printed all these maps saying Baja was ours, and nobody ever complained, so it's ours now, ok?". :-/
@@RogerLewis-ey2tt I'll go with that!! I like Baja.
Weather warfare
Fire guys needs intensive training
Something in my living room smells like sour milk and I can’t find it!
Ok, it's 2 months later, tell us what you found!!
“Heat” is not a part of the fire triangle.
They usually say ignition source for the third part. Well, heat can be an ignition source AND any ignition source is going to be hot, so it works well enough.
What in earth is his accent? Anyone??
Italo-Australian is my guess
😢threaten me again I’ll send a pic of ur house
Lmao but the building did not collapse on its own foot print in 22 sec
Если б рашка сгорела б к хренам в 2010 то не было б войны
С МУДРОСТЬ 1:1-2. ВСЕМ НЕВЕРУЮЩИМ: Любите справедливость, v c вы, судящие землю; думайте о Господе в благости и ищите нас в чистоте сердца; Потому что его/ее находят те, кто не испытывает ее, и он/она является тем, кто не неверят ему. Те, кто кормит военную машину, просят о начале войны в вашем собственном тылу. Я просил вас оставить войну в моих руках и не тратить свои деньги на финансирование войны и еще большей агрессии. Что принес вам ваш путь, кроме бесконечных расточительных трат и новых бедствий? Деньги - ваш единственный ответ в разрешении агрессии? Как это вообще звучит для ваших ушей? Дает ли деньги хулигану остановить его издевательства? Вы считаете меня хулиганом за то, что я требую уважения к Богу, но не видите настоящего угнетателя - вас! Я собираюсь положить конец этой войне только для того, чтобы вы осознали, насколько глупой была ваша подпитка военных усилий. Русский народ закончит эту войну, и это не будет стоить ни копейки. Ваша гордыня сделала вас упрямым, мятежным, наглым, воинственным и откровенно глупым. Во имя Ghavam Forever пусть каждый гражданин России выйдет из трущоб, из чуланов, из страны, из городов и пойдет рука об руку за свободу для Украины и мир для всей Азии. Пришло время каждой добропорядочной женщине, ребенку и мужчине выступить солидарно за ЕДИНУЮ РОССИЮ И ЕДИНЫЙ МИР! СТОЯТЬ! ДЕРЖАТЬСЯ ЗА РУКИ! ПРОСТО СТОЙ И СЧИТАЕШЬ. МИРНЫЙБ ПРОТЕСТ. ПОЙТЕ СЕРДЦЕМ О ЛЮБВИ, МИРЕ, СВОБОДЕ, СЧАСТЛИВЫХ ВРЕМЕНАХ, РАДОСТИ, ВМЕСТЕ. СПОЙ СВОИ МЕЧТЫ! БОГ ИДЕТ ДО И ПОСЛЕ ВАС. АНГЕЛЫ НАБЛЮДАЮТ ЗА ВАМИ. ВЭВ ПОБЕДИТ! ПОБЕЖДАЕТ МИР! ПОБЕДИТЬ! ПОБЕДИТЬ! С. Б. 06.01.2023. 17:31. СТАНДАРТНОЕ ВОСТОЧНОЕ ВРЕМЯ. The Guardian 🕊🔪⚖️🗡♥️👦💃🏡🦅⚖️💯⚔️🏋♾️
Rip Granite mountain ⛰ Hotshots !!!... 🔥
Over produced. Too much music Just show the videos
U.K. firefighting is a joke
care to explain why instead of making a baseless statement
This is all Biblical. The more evil the world gets, the more the eschatology in the Bible is coming to pass. We ARE in the end times, and getting closer daily. I personally, am anxious for the Lord to return.
The Bible is very clear that NO ONE knows when the end will come 'not even the Son but ONLY the Father . Mark 13:32.
@@elizabethsohler6516 CORRECT!
Climate change is why destructive wildfires are happening. Not evil.
@@reneenapier8669 that will be your little secret.
@@reneenapier8669Climate change IS evil---WE aren't the problem, it's that 1% high-functioning psychopaths we keep giving birth to!
PG&E! How many fires has their faulty equipment started????
Old video
Still good
Don't let this distract you from the fact that Hector is going to be running 3 Honda Civics with spoon engines. And on top of that, he just went into Harry's, and he ordered 3 T66 turbos, with NOS. And a Motec exhaust.