I was born in woonsocket hospital and lived in Blackstone for 18 years. Live in New Jersey now. I remember when I was a kid in the 80s and a mill burned down 5 miles away we had ash on our roof. The old mill fires are no joke.

These guys earned their money today!!! That fire was a beast. Glad everyone went home safe

@staylowtinostaylowtino9796

3 жыл бұрын

Yes they did 🤝💯

@PreservationEnthusiast

3 жыл бұрын

@@staylowtinostaylowtino9796 No, they let it get out of control. They only had one hose pipe on it. At 2:33 you see a guy wasting time washing the fire truck instead of putting out the fire. They just let it burn down.

@PreservationEnthusiast

3 жыл бұрын

@Tyler Vajen No, these US fire crews just walk around trying to look cool. 50 of them, and they just stand around watching it burn. In contrast to the European crews who actually put out the fires and save the buildings.

@kevinjacks1258

3 жыл бұрын

@@PreservationEnthusiast why risk a lot to save an abandoned building? Seems like you don’t know what you are talking about.

@PreservationEnthusiast

3 жыл бұрын

@@kevinjacks1258 It's the firemen's job to put out the fire.

I remember being there watching this happen live. Everyone could see the smoke from all over the city. So many people showed up to watch.

@FannyGodMother

4 ай бұрын

Yeah I was one of them. I saw the smoke from the Blackstone/NS line and we hopped in the car and went over. It was a weird vibe. All the electricity was out and people just walking around in the streets. It was an experience for sure.

So sad to see these old buildings with so much history and beautiful architecture go up in flames.

@tonysmith7428

3 жыл бұрын

If you don’t know how this started it started with people putting fireworks on the roof and then lighting them off

@PreservationEnthusiast

3 жыл бұрын

@@tonysmith7428 Probably that building was going to get demo'd anyway. The Fire Department didnt seem to care, they just let it burn down!

@igotanM16

3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful architecture? That place was an eyesore.

@bouchee2007

3 жыл бұрын

@@PreservationEnthusiast it has nothing to do with them caring or not, one it gets going, all you can do is damage control, theres not putting that out.

@PreservationEnthusiast

3 жыл бұрын

@@bouchee2007 Most of the time these US FDs don't bother putting the fire out anyway. They just stand there trying to look cool, watching it burn.

I haven't seen a factory fire like that, since I was a little kid. Growing up in a old factory city, I've seen more than my share of them, and watching them burn and my dad taking me to the main firehouse and the firemen would take me up into the cab of a pumper. Was what led me to become a volunteer firefighter. Hopefully there was no injuries to anyone related to this incident. Thank you to all firefighters everywhere for protecting the citizens of your coverage area.

WOW 8 and 1/2 years have gone by since this?? was nearby and saw/felt the heat from the fire.....

I could watch your videos all day, Spark. Amazing coverage.

I remember this as if were last month. 12 years wow.

I remember being at work when Grenfell Tower in London was on fire. That was the worst fire I ever seen. People was in the windows on 8th and 10 floor they was calling for help. They could not get out. The next thing I seen was people jumping out the window I think it was the 12 floor. I never want to see nothing like that again. 72 people died. This was on June 14th 2017. When they show the tower the next day after the fire went out. It was black. The people that died some were burnt to death the others from jumping out the window. Men, women and children.

@jeffkerr7418

2 жыл бұрын

I remember that too. IM American and was working on constructing the new us embassy by vauxhall 9 elms. I woke up that morning to the news. Such a tragedy. We could see it still smoking days later. Bad as that was seeing the burned out building standing there weeks, months later was like it was an evil demon still looking at the area. I hope nothing like that ever happens again. I did hear many buildings had to remodel the exterior cladding as it was the same or similar to grenfell tower. It was so hot people were actually cremated in their flats.

@dougobrien4877

Жыл бұрын

Such a sad and preventable tragedy. The horror of being trapped knowing you won’t get out alive. Early on residents were told to stay inside instead of escaping. More lives could have been saved if people could have left early on.

All the mill fires were crazy to witness believe this one was 122 years old shame to see that history an architecture gone

Great coverage of the fire. Subbed

So much for protecting the rest of the exposure...went up like...well..fire!

You know it's gone to hell when the firefighters start spraying their trucks and not the fire. Wow! I heard the whole building collapsed and burned for over 24 hours. Insanity.

Kudos to all the firefighters who kept this conflagration from burning down the whole city east of the river.

Sparkywfd did you cover the Diamond hill rd. skating ring fire..... (old Walmart area)? happened about the same time period

Wow! So hot they had to hose the ladder truck.

I was 9 watching this burn, was a crazy fire.

That was a hell of a fire I hope there were no casualties.

Now that's a FIRE!!!

Wow that was a Huge fire including Divisions. Not very often you see a fire to this magnitude. Wish it was longer and not edited

I remember that while I was living up there. That was the night the railroad got their train as far as they could, and then had to backup all the way to Valley Falls.

That's a bad feeling when you only have enough water to protect exposures. They had their hands full.

11:32 is just surreal.

@luckycharms6322

3 жыл бұрын

right...

You know you're going to be there for the rest of the shift and more when your firestream turns to steam before it reaches the fire! Basically only a shortage of fuel is going to see that job out! Last time I was on a job like that the appliance beacons melted with radiated heat and the cage controls were too hot to operate without Kevlar gloves. My face was tender from the heat for days; the days before we had flash hoods and I don't think we did the slightest of good. The building collapsed and all the contents (bales of cotton) were lost. Even the recovered bales reignited on the backs of the lorries on the way to the salvage company. They had to station fire appliances en-route to keep the fire suppressed as the air flow when moving intensified the smouldering insides of the bales. Personally I would have broken them open onsite but it seems they were worth a lot of money to the salvage company.

@zyglo9826

4 жыл бұрын

Steven Booth...I’m assuming you’re in the UK? If so, what city?

@mikecaldera5171

4 жыл бұрын

Mike Caldear

@nunyabiznez6381

3 жыл бұрын

I lived about 7 miles south of this fire when it happened and could see the smoke from my house. I drove up to see closer and only could get within a mile of the place and parked my car and walked the rest of the way. This fire pretty much went on all night. The building itself was a rubber factory for most of it's life and during World War II was the largest producer of rubber products in the world supplying the war effort with nearly a third of all rubber goods needed to prosecute that war. 2000 people worked here at that time. The building itself dates to the 1880's and the entire inside was a wood structure with floor ceiling, walls and beams all made of oak. When this building went up it had absorbed 130 years of accumulated oils. In the old days they prevented rot by soaking wood structures with petroleum oils and did so regularly for maintenance purposes. .

@XxMasonicXx

2 жыл бұрын

How do u have time to sit here and write a whole novel?

All the old mills go up like this. All wood construction including floors. All floors soaked with machine oil for over a century. Once it catches it just goes forever.

Try living on the aves, there was no water, you couldn't open any windows, the air was toxic, it was terrible.

I remeber that they had Every Fire Truck in the State That Day

That fire was so massive they weren't going to put it out no matter what they did. The fire will put itself out when it's fuel source is gone.

What did this mill produce? It's spreading so fast there doesn't seem to be any fire separations existing in the building or sprinkler systems.

@robjohnson1138

4 жыл бұрын

Ian Sheppard It looks like it was producing gasoline and paper. That thing really went up.

@doreenblatz2440

Жыл бұрын

This mill produced rubber products.

@raymondhoule6108

Жыл бұрын

All the old mills go up like this. All wood construction including floors. All floors soaked with machine oil for over a century. Once it catches it just goes forever.

That water doesn't look like it's doing much. With a fire like this, are you essentially just protecting what's near it until it burns itself out a little?

does anyone know how the fire started? I have my guess, do you?

Should've called for an air water drop. I've been in buildings like this. I could smell the oil that all the wood inside was soaked with. A catastrophe waiting for a spark to touch it off.

What is a woofsocket plz?

Completely out of control. Protect exposures and just let it burn itself out.

My buddy lived in the Apartment complex on Main street right beside Renaissance. I remember this like it was yesterday. We ran up to the roof and watched it from there. Crazy good view. I remember seeing bumper to bumper traffic on all streets for 45 minutes when this started. What was this an 8 alarm? I remember seeing towns from ALL surrounding areas. Just as crazy as the Mill Fires where the new middle schools are

@sharongagnist6428

4 жыл бұрын

Pizza Face I remember you commenting then you lived that close.... I also remember it like it was yesterday and the skating ring right next to the old Walmart.....

@rhodeislandredneck4562

4 жыл бұрын

@@sharongagnist6428 what lol? I never commented I lived that close

Nothing was going to stop that Fire

Thebossman1973 has good footage as well with this fire

It looked like they let it burn. If no water or water pressure and it is empty... don't risk life or equipment... investigate later is see if it was arson.

@zyglo9826

4 жыл бұрын

skiqsr...right, no use risking lives in a building that’s lost from the start. And very few if any fire departments have the resources or water supply to control a fire of this magnitude. Protect the exposures, establish a collapse zone, and wait for it to burn down.

Holy crap need to call in an air tanker for this. Geez sad.

A very fast burning fire.

A couple of booster lines and they should be able to knock that right down

I wonder which developer torched it in order to save demolition costs...

10:45 best part

Das ist "kontrolliertes ABBRENNEN"

Hydrants welded shut? What gives?

Those old mills are tinderboxes it takes very little to get them going and once they are you cant haul pump draft pipe etc enough water to put them out many of these are heavy timber on the inside and the floors are wood soaked in machine oil the only thing you can do is protect exposures and wait till it runs out of fuel more or less you could have 100 ladder pipes and 400 other master streams you are never going even to dent buildings like this I get they can be "Pretty" but a preplan for this should read as a list of exposures no entry and wait for it to be over.

That fire didn't give a shit about water.

Where’s the marshmallows??

Many of those old mills used oils on there wood floors to water seal them. Over the years that's alot of fuel. Shame to see it go.

@stormchaserfromhome7424

Жыл бұрын

the floors were reportedly oil soaked was the biggest fire i have witnessed

@mikegallant811

2 ай бұрын

Either that or maybe the oil from all the old machines that used to be in there. I never remember reading anything about Mill buildings having the floors water sealed with oil. But all the machine oil that leaked onto the flooring, probably would have been enough to act as an accelerant.

looks like a high school but i feel sorry for the mill

*WHAT'S THE USE OF SPENDING THIS AMOUNT OF WATER IN VAIN?*

wow thats very hot n toasty

@mikegallant811

2 ай бұрын

Real weenie roast huh?

I got some awesome footage I was at the park close to the bridge then moved to end of first ave then they kicked us out

Not much you can do about that. Just let it burn. It all makes sense, look likes its timber framed. No wonder it went up like a match.

I was literally on first ave when this happened. My family was having a party and we saw the smoke and we called 911.

SOOOOOOOO glad I don't live there anymore. The worst chapter of my life took place there. Never again.

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3 жыл бұрын

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I'M AT WORK!!!! I HAVE TO FIND A WAY TO STOP WATCHING THIS STUFF!!!!!

OUCH! THATS HUUUUUUGE!

@manjrasuhail5816

4 жыл бұрын

Fir 1

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4 жыл бұрын

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4 жыл бұрын

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4 жыл бұрын

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4 жыл бұрын

Fir 5

What a waste of water! Let it burn, less stuff to truck to a landfill.

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Incredible... they cared more about washing their fire engines than putting out the fire!

@joebledsoe257

2 жыл бұрын

Protecting the equipment not washing it. The fire was not extinguishable. Note the water turning into steam before it gets to the fire.

@PreservationEnthusiast

2 жыл бұрын

@@joebledsoe257 They are just a bunch of idiot then. Don't bother to park it or drive it further away. Just spray it with water!

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