Two Men TRAPPED On Top Of BURNING Wind Turbine | Scary Fascinating
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- Опубликовано: 20 окт 2022
- Two Men TRAPPED On Top Of BURNING Wind Turbine | Scary Fascinating
Two Hundred of Feet off the ground sits hundreds of tons of metal spinning on an engine with the specific goal of generating energy. With little human activity on them each year Windmills or Wind Turbines are safe machines when properly maintained and replaced. But when things go wrong, like all large machines, they can lead to disaster to anybody nearby. That was made blatantly clear on the 29th October of 2013.
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I am a wind Turbine tech, and at the moment i m working in this exact same site,Turbines are no longer this type,but at the entrance of Turbine 1 There is a plate with the name of the guys...give me chills every time...
Please tell me, can you work as a turbine tech if you are afraid of heights? is it tested all the time????? Please answer to this.
i mean they'll know you're scared of heights when you get to the top and have a panic attack and cant actually do any work :P@@rgtwergf
are the new turbines in the same footprint as the old ones, witch unit where the technicians in at the time.
That photo may truly be one of the most gut wrenching captures I will ever see. You could not paint impending doom a better picture.
Yeah I remember seeing this when it happened back then. It was so terrifying and gut wrenching just because of the helplessness that the men experienced and the unthinkable and horrifying options they had to choose from.
Reminds me a bit of the world trade center. You can chose to jump, or burn. It's pretty horrific.
Remember 9/11?
I would of asked the other engineer if I was there if we want to choose to go out jumping cause I wouldn't leave them alone with their fate if we didn't choose the same one.
@@edfgamer7351 after the first jumped the other tried to descend the maintenance shaft, but got stuck and died in the blaze. the long embrace before the one jumped leads me to believe they had already made their peace.
I would have tied my hands to my partner and try to slide down one the blades to soften my descent.
I’m a climber and this really pisses me off. SAFETY ALWAYS COMES FIRST. YOUR LIFE IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN WHAT YOUR BOSS HAS TO SAY. The fact that they had no available decent device, no safety rope rigged, no man lift EVERYONE NEEDS TO BE FIRED!!! WHERE WAS THE JOB HAZARD ANALYSIS? WHO MADE THE RESCUE PLAN? YOU ARE YOUR OWN ADVOCATE FOR SAFETY!!! FUCK YOUR BOSS TELL HIM YOUR NOT WORKING TILL YOU GET THE RIGHT EQUIPMENT!!!!
Me too, a descent cable, a zip line, and I don't even climb and know that.
should've gave them a fking parachute when climbing something this tall
Absolutely agree. Well said.
At the time the descent cable harness was stored inside. After this incident, new protocol says that the descent harness should be worn with the person at all times.
You should not only have that but redundancy and a back up line, just completely the companies fault
What a scary way to go. Definitely preventable
100%
Tragic, that’s one of the ones that sticks with me... AND it’s the 9th anniversary in 8 days! and everyone calling them men but they were like 19 and 21, so one was still a teenage adult and one just finished being a teen and starting to be a young adult... one took his chance and jumped and the other tried to make it to the ,adder through the fire... even more tragic considering if they hadn’t hesitated like the other two they’d have made it through before the fire got uncrossable... these two didn’t make it though... AND it’s the 9th anniversary in 8 days! BIP Daan Kous (the 19yo) & Arjan Kortus (the 21yo)...
I'M glad due to this seriously sad incident, they now have safety measures in place. RIP.
Tragic, as they say, safety codes are written in blood.
@@rsinclair689 ohh I agree friend. Cheers!
They already had safety measures. The two removed their slow descent harnesses for reasons unknown.
I've worked for VesTAS once. I've seen black and white security footage from the pair, right before one of them jumped. It was recorded from another windturbine close by. He shook hands with his work buddy, then jumped. The other one was found in the nacelle, burned up trying to escape.
The root cause was an electrical failure in a worn out mill. And a lack of a prober maintenance manual. And gear that can't create a short and start the whole line of events.
RIP
Why dont they put emergency parachutes up there?
should be mandatory
Not high enough to deploy one properly
@@imchase7796at least there is a chance of survival!!
It's just not enough space to deploy
I wonder if they should have fire extinguishers up there.
We have a windmill farm by me. About 10 years ago one of them "ran-away" the propeller was spinning as fast as it could for an hour or so until it blew apart. Propeller pieces where scattered for miles away.
Ran away? What a strange way to describe it
Idk, I think that's a pretty good description.
Where money supersedes safety.
They should have a emergency Helicopter on standby due to the heights these guys work at. They could have flew the helicopter alot higher than the turbine and drop a safety harness for the guys to quickly hold onto then lower them to the green. Rip
was thinking the same
all they needed was a life net
I mean not really though. It would be too risky bc they wouldn't be able to ground a line so the person rescued doesn't spin out of control. And when spinning out of control, they could easily be pushed into the path or the spinning turbines
They could start with having automatic fire suppression devices that are triggered by smoke or heat, plus include several extinguishers placed throughout the interior and exterior of the turbine. Escaping with some survivable burns would have been a much better outcome.
its honestly so odd that they dont. every aircraft ever has it for their engines so why not on this?
Damn that could be one of the worst ways to go
Oh it was 2 ways jump as one did or burn as the other did...I'm sick about a helicopter not close enough or just a quick descender set up ropes & harnesses....this didn't need to happen ...Damn... It would be the worst way 2 go so true. A great comment,thought provoking ...Cheers!
They are responsible. These young men should not have been up there without parachutes, glider suits, descenders, slide, gliders, tie offs/ bungee cords, emergency chopper near by, something to avoid this.
The company is responsible you mean right? I hope you’re not blaming the victims here
These turbines are 300+ ft up in the air that you have to walk up via ladder. You have to wear a heavy full body harness plus bring your working gear (boots, helmet, tools). The weight adds up very quickly, even after this accident turbine techs are not going to bring a parachute and associated gear with them. It doesn't make sense.
@@Blasterwy Gliders? 😂😂 they’re engineers not base jumpers
You're a dumbass 13.
you're right. how irresponsible for them not to take out a loan so they could, together, potentially afford all that for this one day at their job.
Oh yes, the company was very heartfelt.
These men should be equipped with some sort of parachute.. this is not the way ones life should end.. beyond imagination what these guys would have gone through 😢
Heartbreaking RIP boys.
agreed
I’m curious what there last words were and what they were talking about before the accident):😢
truly an interesting question
Fix this situation. Have a helicopter on site for an emergency situation. This honestly should have never happened. RIP gentlemen.
What safety measures are there now after this incident?
you would never see me go up there without a parachute
Totally fair
❤Bless them ❤ and all of you guys that work on them❤
It enfuriates me to think that someone always has to die for safety procedures to be put in place. That could have been you. Unreal
My nerves get so bad with heights, I'm sitting in my chair in my living room, and I feel nauseous just thinking about this situation. Horrible, sad.
Sit on the couch.
Absolutely horrendous
Corporate greed kills. Too cheap to put in safety line
One can’t completely dismiss the responsibility of those workers. I’ve worked at places that did not have proper safety gear and quit when they would not fix the problem. And before anyone has a hissy fit, I’m not rich, I ate rice and ramen noodles for a month while looking for another job
Poor men. May they be at peace. RIP.
Honestly, such a sad story RIP
I think I would have suffered 3rd degree burns getting to that stairwell
I would’ve died trying
I will never understand how companies like this that build such huge machinery don't ever think of safety 100% first, and then they want to say they are not at fault.
This is why I refuse to ever break my back, working hard to make someone else ritcher when they don't give a shit about me or my safety.
My heart and prayers go out to these two young men and to their loved one's. They literally had their whole lives ahead of them. God bless their souls always. 🙏
So true
Tragic and Horrifying!!!!
Nobody's talking about the incompetent firemen ? What about a helicopter ?
Yeah I was thinking that too
Fireman don’t tend to fly helicopters mate. All they could really do was helplessly watch.
Are you fucking dumb?! Don't Talk Like that about the Firemens! They Always do their best. But how should they react so fast to get a Helicopter & all that ? It was way too late. So don't Talk about Incompetence you Idiot !
What about the hellicopters that use a bucket to dump onto forrest fires?
@@jstape740 Maybe you could of just reached down from cloud nine and pulled him off :/ seriously you lot aint got a brain cell between ya! How about you stop judging those who could clearly do nothing about the situation.
It is terrifying. But that's executive business people for you. Safety comes last and their pocketbook first. Kangaroo court says its no one's fault which of course is BS.
so true
Via tiktok so sorry for those two guy's and families. What I do t understand why they didn't make 2 experience guy's work with un experience guys
These men should be equipped with sos parachutes....
I love that people consider this clean but then say nothing when this happens
...how does this make it less clean? it's still clean energy. And this was completely preventable. There just weren't good enough safety precautions put into place a decade ago. It's very different now.
@@noelleirina5628 oh I don't know maybe the fact it's on fire and it kills 150 people per petawatt hour compare that to nuclear which has only killed 60 people in the last 80 to 100 years
Congratulations! There are a lot of stupid comments posted on RUclips every day but yours is among the dumbest.
it would be great to do a paranormal investigation in the the unit that caught fire.
This makes me so sad 😢 i'm almost crying
Almost.....
The hug photo is traumatizing
They should wear parachutes when working on these things
There really should have been some kind of back up excape method
they need parachutes!!!!!
That why i stay away from heights. .
Agreed
Truly sad cause it was avoidable. But I'm wondering why thumbnail clearly says "how do they survive" when they didn't
How do they get up ? Ladder on the inside ?
Yupp
exactly that
Rip you will be missed
All turbine workers should get parachutes that should be in the contract
I had a terrifying realization, one jumped off and jumped into the fire. Both jumping to their deaths.
The death of these two men is indeed tragic beyond description. I will not disparage them for showing up for work and doing their jobs. This horrific event would never have happened if these behemoths (turbines) were not allowed to be so heavily relied upon for generating electricity. There are so many of them and there has to be, even 100 times more than there are now, in order to even scratch the surface when compared to what coal-fired power plants, nuclear plants, natural gas power plants, and hydro power plants have reliably and safely generated in this country for decades. And, these idiots forcing "renewables" on all of us, have an evil plan to keep building these things, as well as solar farms, until such time as they nearly totally eliminate all of our much-need farmland. Where will we get our food? Have you thought about that? Do you think China & Russia, our enemies, will be perpetual food suppliers? Are you that naive? The politicians, D.C. lobbyists, and radical environmentalists are to blame for these kinds of catastrophes. They are the ones with blood on their hands. They are also the monsters who forced these things down our throats, despite the overwhelming amount of evidence that refutes claims of their efficiency, reliability, feasibility, and environmental responsibility.
This is the most retarded rant I've ever heard. Have you ever, I mean EVER, driven across this country and taken in how unbelievably vast it is? Take a map on state level and lay a dime on it. That drive will take you 2 or 3 hours at 80 miles per hour.
A wind turbine farm here and there isn't harming anything.
And the only good energy sources are geothermal, hydroelectric, nuclear, and wind
Well said💯
Für den Notfall müsste schon gesorgt werden, hoffe das die Situation heute besser ist und für den Notfall mehrfach vorgesorgt ist
Tragic man, what if they went up with a parachute backpack? I’ve heard of people jumping from 200 ft successfully also even if it wasn’t all the way successful wouldn’t it slow the fall. Just a thought
Parachutes are heavy and expensive unfortunately
rope would suffice. I had a rope that can safely hold my weight despite being around 1cm in diameter. I only have around 10 meters, but climbing some 30 meters to a wind turbine roof with a 30 meter piece of that rope would not be that hard.
lmao. What an excuse ypu dumbo
lmao. What an excuse you dumbo
lmao. What an excuse you dumbo
There should be emergency safety nets people can jump down into for cases like this. 👍
yeah something like 50ft x 50 ft. could totally work
265ft off the ground. Most are this is such a sad story
Honestly terrifying
Why don't they wear parachutes and receive training for them?
I believe that still isn't something Turbine workers do.
Love these videos. Even the older ones that I didnt remember seeing!! As always great content!
Would air filled crash pads work at a hight like this if so why weren’t they used?
True, didn't think about that one
I'm trying to investigate the origin of the image you used in the thumbnail. I've come across your video, and wondering if you can give me a source for the image?
I think I just grabbed it from this reddit post. It is a pretty well known disaster so there was a couple photo's of the final moments. Hope that helps.
www.reddit.com/r/TerrifyingAsFuck/comments/wtz4yo/on_october_29th_2013_these_two_maintenance/
Maybe there should be fire extinguishing systems throughout the inside and outside of the turbine. Further, a last ditch means of egress such as parachute or fire proof repel line.
agreed
Compartments outside on top for emergencies would have helped. Fire blankets wind suits parachutes. Sad
Horrendous
They where actually 19 and 21
Parachute needs to be used
Why didnt they climb the blades next to them. Keep them away from the flame
Man it sucks I can get a chopper out there.
agreed
They could have cling on to the propeller and wait the rescue
Each windmill uses 700 gallons of oil a year look it up for yourself
And how much energy do they generate every year?
@@TheMassacreOfTheBanuQurayzahQu they say about 2% of our energy is from windmills not enough to pay for all that oil but I don't know what's that got to do with how much oil it uses
@@michaeljordan5972 No. i'm saying a windmill may use X amount of oil per year, but that doesn't mean it's bad or good. It depends on how much you get out of the oil. If I made a windmill which used 0 gallons of oil (hypothetically) would that make it a good windmill? Maybe but also maybe not. There are more metrics at play to see if my designed mill is feasible.
@@TheMassacreOfTheBanuQurayzahQu I think they're very bad the kill birds eagles Wales and from what I read the only make up about 2% of our energy they use more fossil fuels than all of our cars probably I'm guessing it's all about the money there a terrible eyesore this global warming green crap is just that bulshit by the way they was a big thing on the news yesterday showing where they were cooking the numbers place in their thermometers in asphalt and concrete to get high readings so they could claim it's hotter you probably won't believe that but you can look it up for yourself it is true
@@TheMassacreOfTheBanuQurayzahQu in my opinion they're not worth it they make up a small amount of our energy and from what I read kill a lot of eagles and other birds and Wales this global green crap is just that in my opinion crap I saw a study on TV yesterday where are the scientists were placed in thermometers in asphalt and concrete where they could get higher readings or they could clam that it is getting hotter I think it's all about the money okay RUclips delete me now
Anyone think of a parachute?
This why we should have parachutes
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What "issues" does these Vestas (Vestas, not Vesta) V66-1.75MW turbines have exactly? These turbines and thousands of others of similar design are still in operation today, just because they are older turbines does not mean they are faulty, your use of unfounded slander detracts heavily from the tragedy that is the maintenance company cutting corners resulting in the tragic death of two young men.
I thought I made it fairly clear that when outdated internals aren't updated or replaced they become dangerous.
I’m a professional climber and went to school to work on turbines I can tell you exactly how it happens. I’m also a low voltage technician, when electrical components start to get old they either burn out, fail, malfunction, or short. In this case probably all the above a failed breaker with a short in the system can cause an arc flash/ fire. These turbines are fitted with Diesel engines at the top to spin the top of the nacelle to catch wind to explain the burning black smoke for you it was diesel fuel
why they didnt climb on the trubine blade?
That's a great question. Although not sure I would have done that
From TikTok
w2s brought me here
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jeez
yep
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That's too bad. Shouldn't ever of happened. R.i.p both of you. Cuz the government sure don't care.
Why didnt they just latch onto anything solid and abseil down ?
not sure they had the equipment
Rip to these poor guys. But I ask myself two things, would the firedepartmebt be able to have a dropping net for both if them and why didbt they climb up the blades to increase their time
Professional climber here:
Fire truck ladder only goes 100ft these turbines are 150ft
It takes 50ft to reach maximum velocity so even if they were to jump into a net they’re chances of living are still very low people jump off bridges and die on impact from breaking their necks.
The turbines are made out of fiberglass and not easily grippable their wider than your body
yeah truly crazy
They should of gotten a helicopter and a guy to linedown to them and helicopter them out like coast guard does
solid point
Why they didnt use thise huge balloons with air ...and try to jump...i know 80 m is a lot
.but why not try ?
Not a bad idea
Are firefighters equipped with safety nets wide ones not that they will have saved there lives.
Not sure if that would work at the height they were at
I wonder why there is no safety equipment on the top of the mill, like a steel cable with climbing gear to abseil? So unnecessary these boys death...
I've done some training regarding working on wind turbines and we've spoken of this disaster and I'd like to dispel some myths! First of all, there were 4 people working on this turbine. The two who survived were inside and they were able to escape, there are escape hatches inside the turbine which you can repel down. The two who did not survive were working outside/on top of the turbine. These turbines are made up of fiberglass and resin which go up in flames extremely quickly. It's likely that once the fire started they had no chance to get back inside the turbine to escape. In terms of bringing a parachute etc, turbines are hundreds of feet up in the air. Some models have elevators in them but otherwise you have to climb up to the top via ladder. You need a full body harness plus your working gear-boots, helmet, tools-and the weight adds up very quickly. You're exhausted by the time you get to the top and you're not going to bring up unnecessary equipment like a parachute. Helicopter rescue would not have been possible given how fast the fire spread. In any case there is no way a helicopter could have gotten close enough to the burning turbine to save them. In all it was a tragedy and may they rest in peace.
Seems like a parachute would have been necessary equipment in this case. How are hand tools necessary but the things that will save your life aren't? Doesn't matter how unlikely the event is. they had absolutely no escape plan. To me, my life is more important than you companies bank balance.
Why wouldn’t a helicopters be able to help the boys? Like at least tie a rope to the bottom of it and let them hold on as the helicopter goes back down, too late i suppose
@@IDABAYAREA650I helicopters are not willing to hover over large fires. For one, they could easily blow up. Two, heat from the fire would cause an extreme updraft pushing the helicopter upwards in an uncontrolled manor. And the wind from the helicopter getting close enough to rescue the guys would likely blow them right off the windmill, besides feeding the fire more oxygen to make the fire even bigger. Your heart is in the right place. But you would be hard pressed to find any pilots willing to endanger their own lives, plus the cost of a helicopter in this situation. I'm in construction. One of out first rules is, if saving someone is going to likely cost more lives, then you have to cut your losses or find another solution. Some type of fire suppression device should be rigged on these that is either triggered by smoke or heat. Plus strategically places extinguishers throughout the interior and exterior of the windmill may have allowed them to walk away burned, but alive. But I dont think many helicopter pilots would get involved with this rescue otherwise. Unfortunately.
What would be so wrong about a spool of rope??? You only need the few hundred feet to reach the ground, and any "extra" could be handled by folks below to steady a rappel... BUT even without too much training, it's an option "in a pinch"... and once you put it up there, it's THERE... and sheltered... and can be grabbed for at least an escape attempt.
Hell, if it was my maintenance division, I'd like to hope I'd FIND the budget for the rope, and some boxes and fittings to fasten up there for it... Tell my guys and gals to take up frequent visits to the indoor rock-climbing walls and courses... MIGHT just save their butts.
Might still be a battle they couldn't win, but it's better (even marginally) than jumping off... I think I'd be shimmying down the nearest of those big-ass blades to try and drop off the end first... BUT that's me and I've done a LOT of shimmying... Can't be worse than jumping right off the top. ;o)
@@spinewrenched848 Thank you. I was wondering why with a very very long rope they couldn't have been saved. Even a News helicopter with long 500m rope would have done it.
Hehe 😅 made in the US 😂
where the f**ck is Helikopter where? 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
I believe it would have been to dangerous
i find this questionable.
Why couldnt they use a helicopter to get them
Ain't firefighters have some type of device that people could jump and break the fall? I have see it before but do not know the name of it ,why would not use it this time?
Sadly, there still is very little protection against this exact disaster on windmills.
People that want to make tragedies about them:
“I remember that”
Meh, everybody remembers where they were when pearl harbor or 9/11 happened. Those that live thru such events become part of it.
@@brewserXxx of course you bring up an event that EVERYONE remembers. This isn’t quite that scale
So we’re not allowed to remember tragedies?
One was 19 and 21 dummy not 30s
Last
Second to last
Why didn’t they slide down the side of the wind turbine?
Turbines are very very wide, there's no way they could get good enough grip they'd have fallen to their deaths regardless
They were not 30yo men they were 19 and 21. Very sad rip
Yes we know, if you listen it says the 30 year olds were the two guys who escaped.
The 2 cowards that left them up there and lived are in their 30s.
His voice was so annoying I had to turn it off.
Sorry to hear that. Check out my newer videos though as my audio has gotten considerably better :)
😂 The future is bright its orange
I wonder how many women do this job.
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I would’ve climbed on the fan part
that would have been a sight
Where is the video of the man jumping??? This is ridiculous. We wanted to see THAT!
Such a devil