Massive 3-Alarm Construction Site Fire / East LA 9.16.20

Units from LA County Fire & Monterey Park Fire attack and extinguish a 5 story building under construction with heavy fire and smoke showing from the third and fourth floor, pushing through the 5th and out the roof. A collapse did occur with no injuries to personnel or civilians. Next neighboring building had heavy attic involvement through the roof as it was exposed from the construction site. Incident was held at a 3rd alarm with no injuries. Arson is the cause, and the suspect is in sheriff custody. This was a defensive operation with assistance from Monterey Park E63 & Q61. Fire took a few hours to fully knockdown. In the end, there were no injuries reported to firefighters or civilians.
East Los Angeles, CA- September 16th, 2020

[@DrLumpyDMus]

Thanks for the tone outs, and the occasional fire scene radio traffic. Good job getting the audio to be intelligible.

[@ladentladent4776]

en temps que vétéran des pompiers de Paris merci pour ces vidéos cela me rappel des souvenirs

[@JasmineLindros]

Hats off to Ladder 4, which didn't just keep pouring water through the same window, but instead moved the nozzle around repeatedly to attack the fire from different directions. Well done.

[@FB1ResponseVideos]

awesome coverage! crazy fire. love the radio traffic

[@malcolmcossar6447]

WOW,Spectacular Footage and Coverage!👍

[@Thug-12Na]

Respect!
Thats a massive fire!

[@lynskeyti9940]

18 year firefight here, sometimes it just makes sense to let this shit burn down... you arent saving anything and wasting hundreds of thousands or millions of gallons of water not to mention the massive runoff pollution.
Not knocking the FD as it was good work

[@juliecasey5196]

Sorry for the late reply but awesome footage

[@DByers-ci5kr]

Got it. No injuries. This was a defensive/exterior operation. Generally don't result in any injuries. Whoever filmed this didn't show us any exposure problems. The point of a defensive operation is to save any exposures & not risk crews in a heavily involved or unstable structure. I still dislike watching crews hold onto straight-stick ladders while operating master streams, especially when they aren't pre-piped. Tower ladders & articulating platforms are much safer & allow crews maneuverability in rescue operations with less risk of falling.

[@malcolmcossar6447]

I'm not a Firefighter,but as Far as I know the LACOFD does Not have Tower Ladders Or Platforms,so I'm assuming that's why None were used🤔

[@DByers-ci5kr]

​@@malcolmcossar6447 You are correct. Thank you for getting my point. LA County still uses 100 ft tillered-ladder quints which are not pre-piped & some small 75 ft quints. There are very few ladder-tower platforms on the US West Coast. Towers are more often used in the NE & upper midwest due in part to steeper roof sloping to avoid snow accumulation as well as numerous large & often abandoned industrial structures requiring many hours of elevated master stream suppression.

[@malcolmcossar6447]

@@DByers-ci5kr Thanks for the info.Although I don't live in California I've always wondered why LACOFD and other California cities don't have or Use Tower Ladders or platforms🤔

[@code3_cali563]

@@malcolmcossar6447 There are plenty of Departments in California that use Tower Ladders and rearmounts.

[@shelbymccoy3936]

Arson??

[@notthatdonald1385]

Looks eerily similar to a fire a few years back in LA.

[@XHollisWood]

🚒🚒🚒🚒🚒🔥🔥🔥🚒🚒🚒🚒🚒 Crazy 🚒🚒🚒🚒 Great Suppression Effort, Thank you for sharing 👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@sabrinahulsey1782]

Burn it

[@tg5298]

Why not a copter drop

[@cherokeekid9491]

Copter drop might have collapsed the building spreading the fire and injuring firefighters and damaging equipment