😭 did anyone check the house/attic for treasures? I saw some old budweiser memorabilia! The doors and the brass doorknobs were valuable. Shameful to burn history, if you ask me.
@@Alphajay86 They said in the video that the house had too much repair work and was unlivable Doing controlled burns like this can give precious training/practice for the firefighters that can be useful for the real thing.
I wonder if there were any old photos, tools etc that were burned. The house looks like it could have been saved if the right person got hold of it. I know my father and I purchased an abandoned house that had to be removed from the property per the owner of the property. So we dis assembled it piece by piece and got excellent wood beams , siding and lumber that we used later on our own property.
Saved at what cost??? Looks like you'd have to put in at LEAST a quarter million to get that house up to date, and would it ever be worth that in the market it's in...
I watched a few minutes of it, then decided I didn't want to subject myself to that any longer. And the mama cat that refused to leave will now need to find a new place to live. I found this too heart wrenching.
This was a testament of the building construction of 100 years ago. They had natural wood products nothing synthetic. If a home caught fire you had more time to escape. With today's construction you only have three minutes to escape. I wish it could have been saved it looked like a beautiful farm house.
An old home furnished from the 40’s ~50’s will give you appropriately 14 minutes to escape when it catches fire. A modern home with modern furniture gives you 3~4 minutes to escape. Huge difference. A burned body is a smell you never forget.
No, this shows the FD doesn't get that fires burn up not down and you don't start a fire in an attic if you're don't want it to take Aaaaaallllllllll night and half of tomorrow to burn. They also don't seem to get that you have to check weather reports before a controlled burn for the reason displayed in this video. That plastic box n should have been removed and anything that would be an EPA issue. Metal windows should have been scrapped. And the , she had to call them BACK because the winds picked up? They should have never left.
The old farmhouse my grandparents lived in and my father grew up in and I grew up in was burned in a like manner. It is emotional. Our farm neighbor's Sears house was also destroyed at a later time. Small Family farms are rapidly disappearing. But I'm glad I grew up on one!
Hah, Sears, now there's a name that takes me back. Growing up, one of our biggest family things was dressing in our Sunday best and going shopping at Sears once a month.
That old farmhouse doesn't look any worse than our 1916 farmhouse did when we bought it. And 29 years later we are still working on ours. 2 rooms left to do. And more outside things need doing. But I felt I was shown my house to save it. Sorry but couldn't watch this house burn. Too sad.
I’m so glad you were able to save your house! I love old houses and the history that goes along with them! We were very sad the house was in poor structural shape.
A lot of people wanted to have old doors and old woods to use in their house renovations or building their own. Because old building materials are more sturdier, built to last than new ones. Old woods have more characters to used them as a table or any other furnitures.
Watch how the old house kept it's integrity for so long, a newer home that much burn time in would have been a death trap...excellent video, even to watch and evaluate for training purposes.
To all asking why they bothered the fire department when they have other emergencies to bother with. Those of us that are volunteer first responders in rural America this is how we train because we don't have the million dollar training facilities of the cities and we use this a an opportunity to train ourselves and the younger ones in the service it's also a way of serving the people in our service area.
Not only that, but in some areas you can't even get a permit to do this unless you have the Fire Department involved for safety purposes, if you don't it can still be ruled as arson.
I wonder how many folks called the fire department?. Such a shame it had to go, however unless you've got a limitless bank account these old places could be a money pit I suppose.
They literally let everything old and historic burn to the ground! As a history hunter and metal detectorist I’m extremely saddened by watching this 😢💔
So very sad to see this old home burn taking many treasures that it still had within it, and with tears in my eyes wondering the tails the walls could say & the love once held!!!! P.S the music fit very well
Years ago where I live thier was a house explosion caused by a utility company hitting a supposedly non functional gas line. This farm house was well over 100 yrs old and had a dirt basement floor the man that lived there was blown out of his cloths and across the yard and his sister got the worst getting blown through a wall and losing her leg. I guess what I am getting at is they posted 4 police officers to guard the basement due to the fact the found over 250k dollars buried in that dirt floor and were finding more for days. There family settled this area way back and farmed a huge amount of land and didn't trust the banks like many that went through the depression.
I'm a little surprised they just burned it. Did anyone think of doing some salvage work? Tin on the roof, wooden doors, maybe windows, and who knows what other kind of wood trim?
wow I just want to say what an awesome team of fire fighters and volunteers for coming out and helping y'all out the way they did and especially for the volunteers for coming back out and sticking around as long as they did to keep an eye out for any other flare ups folks helping each other out that's what it's all about. 👍🙂❤🇺🇸
Bet those hand rails have been worn smooth from years of being held on to.. "what are four walls anyway? They are what they contain. The house protects the dreamer"
I think I may have previously commented on this... maybe Part 1? Too bad the old place had to go, especially like that. It's interesting to think about how many generations of the same family grew up on that one piece of land. How many kids played outside in the snow or grass, found wild critters, picked fruit off of trees or bushes and learned how to live off the land? How many generations learned real self-sufficiency in those days? I'm glad I did, or at least partly. Old relatives of mine were crop farmers out in the Prairies.
Unless that was a cat that was unknown before the fire was started I literally cannot believe the fire was was set while the cat was so close to the house. Just Wow. But regardless my sympathies to the farmhouse and it leaving from your memory. I myself still live on my grandparents 160 acre property with some structures still intact from when their parents emigrated from ukraine in 1906 . I truly feel sad seeing it go up in smoke
Such a shame to see that old house go. It looked like the bones were still good. A newer house would have been on the ground much quicker than this one.
So sad, so much material that could have been reused. That house looked in extremely good shape, and should have tried to have someone demo it for materials.
@@grasslandsacreage2116not the copper door knobs and good doors! Also what about the detergent and stuff like laundry. Probably rubber and plastic and trash you burned, illegal
As a retired Firefighter, I was involved with several control burns. Don't worry, all keepsakes were removed before any fire was set. Good job to all the Firefighters involved.
I suspect they set it up for s relatively slow burn. Punch a large hole in the roof to vent much of the heat. Light the attic - so much of the heat go uselessly upwards and leave doors open for a relatively clean burn. I didn't like all the plastic items I saw left in the building.
Oh boy!!! I wish I could have pulled all that copper wire out first, Brass door fixtures, and any other good metal for scrap value. What a waste of $$. Probably some stuff in there Mike Wolff from American Pickers would have wanted too.
Copper wire was not widely used until after 1940's & WWII. Aluminum & silver would be used. There was no romex wiring, wires were routed along walls by augering holes through wall studs.
I think aluminum house wiring was from the 60's. All older houses I have seen had copper. Silver was far to o expensive, except for switch contacts. @@henrythompson8582
It's heartbreaking to have to do that, myself on my local department have conducted burns like that. I hate to see all that history go away but at least some good comes out of it with training for us on the FD.
And if there is a lot of wood inside the house, it becomes an oven if there is a fire. If you want fire resistance, build with steel studs/rafters/beams/joists and drywall.
As an FD Safety Officer, there are so many questions here. In my state, we could never burn over ten MPH. There is limb movement in bare trees and the noise in the audio indicating the wind is already too high.
@@Manoffire260 another thing I noticed I'm just a black helmet is that they didn't have any "security " lines pulled for if it started to get away from them and they were able to burn with a bunch of stuff still in the structure. I know the few live burns in actual buildings I've been on in my 9 years they've gutted the whole house and only burned clean pallets and hay, I wonder if they could do this because they didn't have people doing stuff interior?
Then you fire officials are too cautious - depending on where you live. Of course, if you live in a tinderbox area like Southern California, it could be argued that open fires should be totally prohibited. 10 mph is only a slight breeze. If you go camping in the mountains, the wind is probably stronger than that almost every night. @@Manoffire260
I know this was 2 years ago, but there was so much wonderful antique and vintage salvage in there. All the other items from the garage and house that could have been donated to charity. Waste not, want not.
I couldn't help but notice that you just decided, on a whim, to burn down the house, and within a few minutes, the Fire Department had it burning. Practice burns are usually something planned months ahead of time, while burning old homes for renewal is a deliberate process, of salvaging historic items, then carefully burning the house in stages, with appropriate resources in place, for safety. What you did should get both you and the Firefighters arrested. !!
As a woodworker, I have to say. What a waist of 100 yo resources. That wood would have made beautiful gifts. Curious; Why start in the attic and not the ground floor?
Exactly. The comment below says they saved many items but that door and door known at the top of the stairs were highly salable so I doubt much was saved that could have been despite what is said by grasslands
They used a combination of conditions - the fire started in the attic to slow the spreading and fully open doors to allow plenty of air but reduce the draft a bit.
i would have loved to have that old home ,i have the skill to rebuild it and live in a camp trailer now, to a homeless person that place is a dream home just needed work
You did your fire department I can't state this enough a HUGE favor by letting them do this unfortunately we don't get to do much live fire due to EPA rules let alone structure burns so this holds alot of value being able to teach the younger firefighters how to read smoke and what it means in relation to conditions inside the structure.
What kind of city doesn’t care about the other toxic chemicals and pollutants being burned and turned into vapor for other citizens to breathe in. A lot of these videos are sounding rather unprofessional. Did this lady just get back from Hawaii is she employed by Dole
that fire department did not know what they were doing when they said the house was not safe to live in. i have seen way more worse than this be fixxed up to there former glory
It probably was not safe for habitation at the time it was burned. It would have cost far more to bring it up to modern codes than it would to just build a new house. Most of the extra cost would be in the greatly increased labor required - as well as disposal of the defective stuff.
the 100 year old wood is better then new fast growing wood today, and it is expensive to 2022 , and the most buildings today have plywood and plastic coating it burns much more easily.
This house just needed a bit of love to bring it back. Sad that it was destroyed. Old house's are STRONG and have good bones. I have a similar house on my farm which I restored, It is magnificent and sturdy compare to the crappy paper homes built today. The person who did this is very Stupid and has no appreciation of History.
ugh...UNskillful! bottles of toxic chemicals left inside...a perfectly good wood picket fence that someone on the city or even around them could have repurposed into a garden structure.
@@eriksimca9409 I have no idea where you get that from? Open air landfill burning has been outlawed 40 years ago in my country and I imagine the rest of EU has similar strict air pollution laws. Further waste building material needs to be fractioned and treated differently. If you set your own house on fire, you'll be heavily fined, even if you don't try to make an insurance claim.
@@Tore_Lund The eu want to overcomplicate things just to look good... what do you think happens to all the shit in the landfill? it gets burned anyway.... or purchased and sent away to any 3rd world country that cant handle trash.
I don't think they even asked someone if they were interested. Gut and heart wretching that they burn it down for no reason without even asking someone. Someone might have been interested
The copper can be recovered after the burn. And there would be little if any insulation to strip. A lot of rural America did not get electricity until the 1950s and there are probably houses in some areas that still don't have it.
Build a 950 square foot 100% concrete house. 12 inch outer walls. 9 inch inside walls. 12 inch slanted roof. A hole in wall in all rooms for wood stoves.
I know the pain of such a loss. We lived in a home 120 years old. Begged and pleaded for the owner to sell it to us. We offered 4 times the land value (cash) So we could borrow the money needed to (save it). We loved that home. After 13 years under that roof, it was time to go. We had no choice. It was later burned down at the owners expense. I was not going to put 50k into a home for somebody else to decide you need to go. That land is now 1/2 the price it was, and the house is gone. Greed destroys lives. The owner has over 4k acres of property. What's the problem with selling sombody who needs it 5 acres at 4 times the market value.
I can't believe you just burnt it down... All those memories, shadows of families been.. gone. .. If there are such thing as spirits.. looks like you just gained some new housemates.
Was anyone allowed to go through the house to see if there were any items that could have been retrieved? It looks like there were several nice pieces of vintage hardware that could have been collected….
Back when I was a little kid my folks took us kids to see the fire department burn down an old farmhouse much like this one. The sight of it burning down bothered me for years.
I heard stories like that from my grandparents when I was little. Apparently during and after the great depression many folks particularly those who lost their life savings and waited in Bread lines, never trusted banks again, and so they believed their home was the ultimate safe place.
Glass does not turn purple from heat - it turns purple from long exposure to ultraviolet light - e.e. sunlight - If the right type of glass, which windows are not.
I’m really surprised burning is allowed! The smoke and emissions for one. In Europe it would have been pulled down by a digger, and separated into recycled wood, metals and other materials. Burning is such a waste, dangerous and not good for the environment.
😭 did anyone check the house/attic for treasures? I saw some old budweiser memorabilia! The doors and the brass doorknobs were valuable. Shameful to burn history, if you ask me.
I also feel sorry for the environment. Pollution not avoided. You just left everything inside the house.
I spy a cement mixer.
Ohh, nevermind, just a really big bucket.
Maybe it was too far gone to save.......no that's crazy talk
@@Alphajay86 They said in the video that the house had too much repair work and was unlivable Doing controlled burns like this can give precious training/practice for the firefighters that can be useful for the real thing.
This really breaks my heart to watch there was a lot of valuable items in that house.😢
I wonder if there were any old photos, tools etc that were burned. The house looks like it could have been saved if the right person got hold of it. I know my father and I purchased an abandoned house that had to be removed from the property per the owner of the property. So we dis assembled it piece by piece and got excellent wood beams , siding and lumber that we used later on our own property.
Exactly right. Some of that old wood is worth a fortune
Saved at what cost??? Looks like you'd have to put in at LEAST a quarter million to get that house up to date, and would it ever be worth that in the market it's in...
Easy when ur not paying
It’s always sad with old houses like this. All the memories of the family(s) that lived there...
I watched a few minutes of it, then decided I didn't want to subject myself to that any longer. And the mama cat that refused to leave will now need to find a new place to live. I found this too heart wrenching.
Mama and babies are safe. We love and spoil them.
@@grasslandsacreage2116 Glad to hear it. Thank you. I love cats too.
I was more worried about the cats than anything else.
hope the cats have home insurance
I miss my cat , if my cat was hanging around not wanting to leave I wouldn't burn it I would give it to the cat .
I don't know how it would pay rent .
Not sure where i found this quote but it applys here...." houses get lonely when people leave. They decay fast"
This is sad. So many memories. ❤ The home isnt going down without a fight.
The Christmas lights near the front door make me sad
This was a testament of the building construction of 100 years ago. They had natural wood products nothing synthetic. If a home caught fire you had more time to escape. With today's construction you only have three minutes to escape. I wish it could have been saved it looked like a beautiful farm house.
An old home furnished from the 40’s ~50’s will give you appropriately 14 minutes to escape when it catches fire. A modern home with modern furniture gives you 3~4 minutes to escape. Huge difference. A burned body is a smell you never forget.
That light blue painted wall was gorgeous!
This shows how well homes used to be built.
Right
No, this shows the FD doesn't get that fires burn up not down and you don't start a fire in an attic if you're don't want it to take Aaaaaallllllllll night and half of tomorrow to burn. They also don't seem to get that you have to check weather reports before a controlled burn for the reason displayed in this video. That plastic box n should have been removed and anything that would be an EPA issue. Metal windows should have been scrapped. And the , she had to call them BACK because the winds picked up? They should have never left.
What a shame to burn a beautiful old house down like that
You could have saved the house 🏠 looked pretty good to me looked fixable
some who have money dont care
Key word "looked" ....hey i watched this video and I know everything about the situation I'm so insanely smart.
It’s sad that these beautiful buildings have to go, if someone could have saved the house, it would have looked beautiful.
I wish I could have saved it. I would have made it look like it's worth a million dollars
The old farmhouse my grandparents lived in and my father grew up in and I grew up in was burned in a like manner. It is emotional. Our farm neighbor's Sears house was also destroyed at a later time. Small Family farms are rapidly disappearing. But I'm glad I grew up on one!
Hah, Sears, now there's a name that takes me back. Growing up, one of our biggest family things was dressing in our Sunday best and going shopping at Sears once a month.
That old farmhouse doesn't look any worse than our 1916 farmhouse did when we bought it. And 29 years later we are still working on ours. 2 rooms left to do. And more outside things need doing. But I felt I was shown my house to save it. Sorry but couldn't watch this house burn. Too sad.
I’m so glad you were able to save your house! I love old houses and the history that goes along with them! We were very sad the house was in poor structural shape.
Old houses remodeled when you thru cost twice as much as building new.
Exactly. 😊
@@grasslandsacreage2116 evidently not.
Yes, same, ours is 1920 farm house and it took them like 7 years to build it, too....
A lot of people wanted to have old doors and old woods to use in their house renovations or building their own. Because old building materials are more sturdier, built to last than new ones. Old woods have more characters to used them as a table or any other furnitures.
thats the thing, people say they want it, but when it actually comes around to happen the only thing thats intrested are moths...
@@eriksimca9409 Exactly!
All those antiques up in smoke.
Watch how the old house kept it's integrity for so long, a newer home that much burn time in would have been a death trap...excellent video, even to watch and evaluate for training purposes.
Thank you!
That is because new homes are mainly plastic and softwoods.
That house was also probably softwood. Since it is in South Dakota (I believe), probably pine or fir. @@GraemeMurphy
Must be different fire laws where you are.. Firefighters would never set fire to a house on a day that windy where i am.
Right!
the wind came 10 hours after the fire was started
There was nothing close by that could be endangered. It also looked like it was really wet weather.
It's sad to see history go away for good. Thank you for donating it as a training aid.
To all asking why they bothered the fire department when they have other emergencies to bother with. Those of us that are volunteer first responders in rural America this is how we train because we don't have the million dollar training facilities of the cities and we use this a an opportunity to train ourselves and the younger ones in the service it's also a way of serving the people in our service area.
Thank you!
It is also good common sense to be around when there is a BIG fire you KNOW can get rambunctious under control.
Not only that, but in some areas you can't even get a permit to do this unless you have the Fire Department involved for safety purposes, if you don't it can still be ruled as arson.
Now that the house is burned down, the ghost will move themselves into your home. Hope y’all don’t mind the extra company
I wonder how many folks called the fire department?. Such a shame it had to go, however unless you've got a limitless bank account these old places could be a money pit I suppose.
Did you not see the fireman go in and light it 😂
Was there any attempt to allow a salvor to take the doors and door knobs at least? Those are irreplaceable.
I'd love to have them for my old farmhouse!
They seemed like they did not care
They literally let everything old and historic burn to the ground! As a history hunter and metal detectorist I’m extremely saddened by watching this 😢💔
@@detectingnewyork this is how it is now. everything historic is gone. there is no history aside from what we are told.
It's a world of waste😢, personally I would salvage everything 😉
I shed a tear for the old farmhouse. 😢 So very sad that the house couldn’t be saved, abandoned and left to deteriorate, history is lost.
I agree ☺️
Yeah. :'( How many generations grew up in that old building, played outside in the dirt, picked fruit off of trees and bushes to make their own food?
I'm sure someone was paying taxes on it because a person don't live in it don't mean it's not someone's property
@@grasslandsacreage2116I don't think you do. you burned it down! 😤
@@bluecollarcanuck Dont forget termites
So very sad to see this old home burn taking many treasures that it still had within it, and with tears in my eyes wondering the tails the walls could say & the love once held!!!! P.S the music fit very well
Ridiculous. It didn’t need to be burnt down.
I doubt they even asked someone if they were interested in it. I think they just burned it down for no reason which is absolutely sickening
a 100year old farm house deliberately burned up what a waste they do not build like that anymore
Years ago where I live thier was a house explosion caused by a utility company hitting a supposedly non functional gas line. This farm house was well over 100 yrs old and had a dirt basement floor the man that lived there was blown out of his cloths and across the yard and his sister got the worst getting blown through a wall and losing her leg. I guess what I am getting at is they posted 4 police officers to guard the basement due to the fact the found over 250k dollars buried in that dirt floor and were finding more for days. There family settled this area way back and farmed a huge amount of land and didn't trust the banks like many that went through the depression.
I'm a little surprised they just burned it. Did anyone think of doing some salvage work? Tin on the roof, wooden doors, maybe windows, and who knows what other kind of wood trim?
Yes. We salvaged many items. 😀 thank you for watching
The money Gradma hid in the mattress burnt up. 🥵😠
Who knows what could of been hiding in that house..gold silver coins. Hard telling
@@HDDynalowrider auto smelt 🗿
@@HDDynalowrider Nazi gold.
In England nearly everything would have been recycled.
Not nearly, but everything
wow I just want to say what an awesome team of fire fighters and volunteers for coming out and helping y'all out the way they did and especially for the volunteers for coming back out and sticking around as long as they did to keep an eye out for any other flare ups folks helping each other out that's what it's all about. 👍🙂❤🇺🇸
We are very grateful to them! Thank you for watching!
Bet those hand rails have been worn smooth from years of being held on to.. "what are four walls anyway? They are what they contain. The house protects the dreamer"
Unlike the matchbox houses built today, this house was built when things were meant to last.
I think I may have previously commented on this... maybe Part 1?
Too bad the old place had to go, especially like that. It's interesting to think about how many generations of the same family grew up on that one piece of land. How many kids played outside in the snow or grass, found wild critters, picked fruit off of trees or bushes and learned how to live off the land? How many generations learned real self-sufficiency in those days?
I'm glad I did, or at least partly. Old relatives of mine were crop farmers out in the Prairies.
I was thinking the same things… “Dust in the wind”
What a waste all that wood could have bin recycled and door fixtures so you decide to burn it and polute the air Way to go folks
Unless that was a cat that was unknown before the fire was started I literally cannot believe the fire was was set while the cat was so close to the house. Just Wow. But regardless my sympathies to the farmhouse and it leaving from your memory. I myself still live on my grandparents 160 acre property with some structures still intact from when their parents emigrated from ukraine in 1906 . I truly feel sad seeing it go up in smoke
Such a shame to see that old house go. It looked like the bones were still good. A newer house would have been on the ground much quicker than this one.
So sad, so much material that could have been reused. That house looked in extremely good shape, and should have tried to have someone demo it for materials.
There’s a lot of damage not shown in the video. We save a lot from the house
My thoughts exactly. As a woodworker I could imagine how much wood could have been salvaged for making “stuff” in my shop.
@@grasslandsacreage2116not the copper door knobs and good doors! Also what about the detergent and stuff like laundry. Probably rubber and plastic and trash you burned, illegal
Forgot all the toxic smoke and fumes released.
Look up India tire burn.......look up China oil refineries
As a retired Firefighter, I was involved with several control burns. Don't worry, all keepsakes were removed before any fire was set. Good job to all the Firefighters involved.
I suspect they set it up for s relatively slow burn. Punch a large hole in the roof to vent much of the heat. Light the attic - so much of the heat go uselessly upwards and leave doors open for a relatively clean burn.
I didn't like all the plastic items I saw left in the building.
In our burns, the roofs got opened up in several places to train new firefighters in ventilation practices. So yes wholes are often cut in roofs.
They could have called those barn savers these guys might have been interested in the wooden beams and planks.
I'm betting they never got an EPA asbestos inspection before they burned... I wouldn't put this on the internet...
Oh boy!!! I wish I could have pulled all that copper wire out first, Brass door fixtures, and any other good metal for scrap value. What a waste of $$. Probably some stuff in there Mike Wolff from American Pickers would have wanted too.
Copper wire was not widely used until after 1940's & WWII. Aluminum & silver would be used. There was no romex wiring, wires were routed along walls by augering holes through wall studs.
I think aluminum house wiring was from the 60's. All older houses I have seen had copper. Silver was far to o expensive, except for switch contacts. @@henrythompson8582
Yea, wipe the shit off of it first I suppose. I guess u know everything from ur keyboard
Funny they don't want people driving cars because of the CO2 yet will torch a house with all the hazardous materials and not give a hoot.
I don't know how bad the house was but it didn't look like it was unrepairable
Sure, it could have been repaired even if it had collapsed. But the cost would be far more than just building a new house.
Seems odd to me that the FD didn't check the weather before they agreed to start it... and then apparently left the scene before it was out.
It's heartbreaking to have to do that, myself on my local department have conducted burns like that. I hate to see all that history go away but at least some good comes out of it with training for us on the FD.
That house looks stable to live in rent it out
I actually teared up for you a couple times..
I could feel your emotions..
Glad everyone and everything is well.. And a huge shout out to the FD..
Thank you!
My dad would have salvaged every scrap of wood of that house. Then built a 100% concrete house. 100% fire proof.
And if there is a lot of wood inside the house, it becomes an oven if there is a fire. If you want fire resistance, build with steel studs/rafters/beams/joists and drywall.
What is amazing is some things made it thru that crazy heat
Its always sad to see a old house burn. I live in a 102 year old home. It has been kept up over the years though. This one was too far gone.
No it wasnt
I would have salvaged the hardwood doors throughout the house. They are difficult to come by and very expensive when you do find them.
100 years of memories gone for noGOOD reason!
And doing a controlled burn in that high of winds doesn't seem the smartest
Wind warnings came up unexpectedly 10hrs after fire was started.
@@grasslandsacreage2116 I got ya, I'm no fireman so I really should probably just watch the video and stay quiet, 😆
As an FD Safety Officer, there are so many questions here. In my state, we could never burn over ten MPH. There is limb movement in bare trees and the noise in the audio indicating the wind is already too high.
@@Manoffire260 another thing I noticed I'm just a black helmet is that they didn't have any "security " lines pulled for if it started to get away from them and they were able to burn with a bunch of stuff still in the structure. I know the few live burns in actual buildings I've been on in my 9 years they've gutted the whole house and only burned clean pallets and hay, I wonder if they could do this because they didn't have people doing stuff interior?
Then you fire officials are too cautious - depending on where you live. Of course, if you live in a tinderbox area like Southern California, it could be argued that open fires should be totally prohibited.
10 mph is only a slight breeze. If you go camping in the mountains, the wind is probably stronger than that almost every night. @@Manoffire260
I know this was 2 years ago, but there was so much wonderful antique and vintage salvage in there. All the other items from the garage and house that could have been donated to charity. Waste not, want not.
4 controlled burns? Was there a structure left on the property?
Sad to see the craftsmanship burning in that old home.
I couldn't help but notice that you just decided, on a whim, to burn down the house, and within a few minutes, the Fire Department had it burning.
Practice burns are usually something planned months ahead of time, while burning old homes for renewal is a deliberate process, of salvaging historic items, then carefully burning the house in stages, with appropriate resources in place, for safety.
What you did should get both you and the Firefighters arrested. !!
As a woodworker, I have to say. What a waist of 100 yo resources. That wood would have made beautiful gifts.
Curious;
Why start in the attic and not the ground floor?
Sad that the family didn't take better care of the house.
so sad they didnt save the bannisters and other saveable things...terrible to see such waste
We saved many many items. Somethings were destroyed by 🦝 raccoons and not worth saving. Thank you for watching
Exactly. The comment below says they saved many items but that door and door known at the top of the stairs were highly salable so I doubt much was saved that could have been despite what is said by grasslands
What about the cats ? 😨 I don’t judge but if i do that I will never leave animals so close to danger.
Mama cat and kittens were removed prior to fire. Mama Cat snuck out of the kennel. But she and babies are all safe. They are very loved and spoiled.
They used a combination of conditions - the fire started in the attic to slow the spreading and fully open doors to allow plenty of air but reduce the draft a bit.
i would have loved to have that old home ,i have the skill to rebuild it and live in a camp trailer now, to a homeless person that place is a dream home just needed work
You did your fire department I can't state this enough a HUGE favor by letting them do this unfortunately we don't get to do much live fire due to EPA rules let alone structure burns so this holds alot of value being able to teach the younger firefighters how to read smoke and what it means in relation to conditions inside the structure.
Thank you!!!
What kind of city doesn’t care about the other toxic chemicals and pollutants being burned and turned into vapor for other citizens to breathe in. A lot of these videos are sounding rather unprofessional. Did this lady just get back from Hawaii is she employed by Dole
You didn’t salvage old doors and door knobs??? What the hell? You know those things are worth $$.
Not much for most of them. My local theater has about a dozen old doors like that and several dozen of the antique door knobs.
that fire department did not know what they were doing when they said the house was not safe to live in. i have seen way more worse than this be fixxed up to there former glory
It probably was not safe for habitation at the time it was burned. It would have cost far more to bring it up to modern codes than it would to just build a new house. Most of the extra cost would be in the greatly increased labor required - as well as disposal of the defective stuff.
the 100 year old wood is better then new fast growing wood today, and it is expensive to 2022 , and the most buildings today have plywood and plastic coating it burns much more easily.
Old wood is great when it’s not rioted and moldy. Yes new wood is not the same quality as it use to be! Thanks for watching
This house just needed a bit of love to bring it back. Sad that it was destroyed. Old house's are STRONG and have good bones. I have a similar house on my farm which I restored, It is magnificent and sturdy compare to the crappy paper homes built today. The person who did this is very Stupid and has no appreciation of History.
Same here
ugh...UNskillful! bottles of toxic chemicals left inside...a perfectly good wood picket fence that someone on the city or even around them could have repurposed into a garden structure.
This shows how absent environmental legislation is in the US. What about lead paint and Asbestos?
you do know that controlled burns of old houses happen all over europe to right?
@@eriksimca9409 I have no idea where you get that from? Open air landfill burning has been outlawed 40 years ago in my country and I imagine the rest of EU has similar strict air pollution laws. Further waste building material needs to be fractioned and treated differently. If you set your own house on fire, you'll be heavily fined, even if you don't try to make an insurance claim.
@@Tore_Lund i said controlled housefires ment for firefight training.... not landfill fires or anything else
@@eriksimca9409 That is a different thing. The video is about getting rid of an old house by burning it.
@@Tore_Lund The eu want to overcomplicate things just to look good... what do you think happens to all the shit in the landfill? it gets burned anyway.... or purchased and sent away to any 3rd world country that cant handle trash.
Thank you for sharing this video
All kinds of cancer causing stuff relased there, good job.
How much cool old stuff did they burn..
Not sure, but it's disgusting what they did
Poor Momma Kitty looks so sad… I’m glad that she and her babies were rescued. I love cats…
Sad to see 100 yr old house burnt down on purpose
I don't think they even asked someone if they were interested. Gut and heart wretching that they burn it down for no reason without even asking someone. Someone might have been interested
I felt really sad with you. That house would have been evidence of real success back in its day. If the walls could talk, eh?
The only complaint i have is not getting the wiring out.
Otherwise,Awesome burn!
The copper can be recovered after the burn. And there would be little if any insulation to strip. A lot of rural America did not get electricity until the 1950s and there are probably houses in some areas that still don't have it.
Build a 950 square foot 100% concrete house. 12 inch outer walls. 9 inch inside walls. 12 inch slanted roof. A hole in wall in all rooms for wood stoves.
It's too bad you didn't save the doors and door knobs and such. They were nice and irreplaceable.
Why burn and polute the air?
I would have paid good money for that old wood. I find it beautiful.
I know the pain of such a loss. We lived in a home 120 years old. Begged and pleaded for the owner to sell it to us. We offered 4 times the land value (cash) So we could borrow the money needed to (save it). We loved that home. After 13 years under that roof, it was time to go. We had no choice. It was later burned down at the owners expense. I was not going to put 50k into a home for somebody else to decide you need to go. That land is now 1/2 the price it was, and the house is gone. Greed destroys lives. The owner has over 4k acres of property. What's the problem with selling sombody who needs it 5 acres at 4 times the market value.
I can't believe you just burnt it down... All those memories, shadows of families been.. gone.
.. If there are such thing as spirits.. looks like you just gained some new housemates.
Some of these are tough to watch.
Sooo Sorry You Lost The Farm House ❤️🙏🏻✌🏻My Heart Hurts For All Our History and Such We Are Losing Everyone 🕊
🥲 I wish we could have saved it
They had a choice. They chose to let it go, not work on it.. Thats the typical thinking of most people these days.. Easy way out
Was anyone allowed to go through the house to see if there were any items that could have been retrieved? It looks like there were several nice pieces of vintage hardware that could have been collected….
Back when I was a little kid my folks took us kids to see the fire department burn down an old farmhouse much like this one. The sight of it burning down bothered me for years.
Old timers hide money in the floor or walls
True
I heard stories like that from my grandparents when I was little. Apparently during and after the great depression many folks particularly those who lost their life savings and waited in Bread lines, never trusted banks again, and so they believed their home was the ultimate safe place.
Tough old house built with oak true 2x4s. When they burn a old house around here wisconsin they remove all windows. Metal ect .
So sad. Its always a shame to destroy history.
My grandmother‘s house is 130 years old. She died last year and now the house is falling apart.
For those saying why burn it. What’s the point of having a house that you can’t live in. And the windows turned purple cause it was at melting point
Glass does not turn purple from heat - it turns purple from long exposure to ultraviolet light - e.e. sunlight - If the right type of glass, which windows are not.
I’m really surprised burning is allowed! The smoke and emissions for one. In Europe it would have been pulled down by a digger, and separated into recycled wood, metals and other materials. Burning is such a waste, dangerous and not good for the environment.
Very sad to seeing the house go with all it is history, but now your making way for the future and a another 100 years history to come.
Lots of diapers too 1:18 people in Hawaii would kill to have those
100 years of memories and life...
That house more then likely was texas chainsaw family lived. Set the fire in ole leather faces room.
How do u know it was 100 years?
100 years of memories, only one hour to be completely destroyed...
There could have been money 💰 in that old house or valuables worth money 💰