So many negative comments about how horrible that fire department is... too long to respond, firemen just walking around slowly, etc. FYI - that is a small, rural town, and the nearby fire departments are all volunteer or paid/on call, and they probably all responded from their homes or jobs. They don't have the manpower, equipment or training that full-time fire departments have. Give them a break. There are many, many rural communities all over the U.S. who are in the same situation, because the make-up of the rural areas don't have the tax infrastructure to support what larger towns and cities are able to provide.
I agree 100% with you everyone wants to talk negative about these companies nobody wants to give their time we need more volunteers we need more firemen instead of people on the sidelines running their mouths do something volunteer help your community fire companies out during desperate need more help give these guys credit they need it most
@@jennypurlock2280 You make no f..k..g sense. You'd be better off spending your time in school, learning to read and write, rather than watching fire videos and trying to write comments that don't add up to s..t.
A 66 year old woman and the home's two pet cats were tragically lost in this fire. From what I read in a shorter video, the woman who rolled out of the home at the beginning of this was screaming mom, it was her mother. My mom is the same age and she is everything to me, truly my entire world. I wouldn't be able to go on another day if this happened to her.
OMG: I didn’t realize it happened so fast. My brother was a volunteer fire fighter. Available at a moments notice, wherever he was. Unpaid!! Thank you to all firefighters around the world. 😊❤
Flashover occurs within 3-5 minute of the fire first starting where the entire rooms is suddenly engulfed in flames with 1,100 degree temps. They're not kidding when they say you only have minutes to get out of your house
@@copenhagen6116 a lot of fire departments do look pretty that is true , the problem is a lot of fire departments across America including volunteers, don't have enough money or funding to keep their vehicles consistently in check , or not the right vehicle for certain scenarios, for ex down here in Colorado a simple crew truck and a deck gun will do , But in NY especially a lot of fires are in multistory buildings so they need tower/ladder trucks to hit the roof tops . I'm not familiar with the area mentioned In your comment But it is possible to fire station referenced didn't have the right equipment and or vehicles to take that specific fire call And or maybe they did but they were busy? Lol hard to tell But it's definitely likely that they were not equipped to handle that big of a fire
I live in a small town in southern Germany. One morning I drive through town on my way to work. I thought the chimney in a house smokes heavily though. When I looked more closely, I noticed that the roof truss was on fire. I stopped immediately and called the fire department. I immediately rang the bell at the house and was able to wake up and rescue 15 people. I was a fireman myself and knew immediately what to do. Some people don't dare to intervene or they just don't care. Even worse they film everything. In Germany, the filming of accident victims now costs a fine of €300.
@@pbelle1971 100%. My job as an EMT is already hard enough, I don’t need to have to be worried more about protecting my patient’s dignity and privacy. Unfortunately, I see some instances where cops could abuse a law like that, though.
The poor girl screaming "Mom" broke my heart. Especially when the fire starts getting obscured by the smoke, and she starts to lose hope and gets quiter.
This gave me chills. Seeing that glow in the window, almost unnoticeable, quickly become an all consuming devastation so powerful you can hear the sizzle from the surveillance video, is just chilling.
You may be correct but in saying it took 10 minutes to arrive but that’s 10 minutes after the fire was first visible in the lower corner window The fire wasn’t visible to the exterior until 2:30 assuming no one called it in from the inside of the house this would be the first time it would be noticeable Assuming someone called it in at that point subtract a minute to 2 minutes to take and dispatch the call Then you’re down to 6 minutes Subtract a minute to minute and a half for dressing and turning out your down to 4-5 minutes and 5 minutes travel time from the station to the scene Theres 10 minutes I’d say they did an excellent job responding The fire department can’t control how long it takes to get notified nor can they control the distance that they have to go to get to the scene
It's also a small fire department, with a mix of career and volunteer, covering 3 villages. I'd say their response time was pretty damn good, assuming it took several minutes before anybody called (it looks like the UPS driver was one of the first to stop). Obviously career showing up first, with the on-call vollys getting there as soon as they could. And a balloon frame house. You may as well have gasoline in your walls, they go up FAST. You pretty much go into a defensive attack immediately unless you catch it in the first minute.
They can control how long it takes to park.and get the hoses spraying. It took them a long time to get the water flowing. I thought for a minute they were going to make.smores and not extinguish the fire.
She may have been out feom the smoke before the fire moved anywhere near her. As fast as that went up... the houses need to be rebuit in that area. Too dangerous. At least get sprinkler systems and detectors hardwired in, to give them a chance to escape. But old houses... not sure if all owners can be convinced to pay the cash, or if they even have it. Amazed any of the building is still standing and didn't fall on anyone.
@@Migglefitch In the beginning of the video, you could hear a man say that he already called 911. Reason why I didn't see anyone at first is bc he was on the phone. What pissed me off was those cars driving by! Except for the SUV, right before the delivery driver. 😭😭😭😭
10 minutes from the first possible 911 call (a car slowed down, they possibly noticed and called) to the first water on the fire. That's an amazing response time. Our local FD volunteers are likely up to 7 miles from the station and cover about the same distance. So that's 911 call, dispatcher relays info to FD, FD seems out the alarm to all volunteers, they stop what they're doing, maybe even have to get dressed, get in their car, haul ass up to 7 miles to the fire department, get in gear, get on the truck, haul ass up to 7 miles to get to the fire, drop the hose... as I said, 10 minutes is amazing. When you're sitting here watching it from first flame, yeah, it seems painfully slow, but it's the best anyone could possibly do.
Thanks so much for pointing that out. The surveillance camera certainly didn’t dial 911. That car that stopped was most likely the first call for the fire.
That's something that not many people know about volunteer firefighters; that they don't stay at the station and therefore have to go there before they do to the emergency
Unbelievable video capture. Its very rare to observe a fire from the very beginning of the event . The vantage point is perfect, with audio as well , unbelievable. That deck gun was a game changer on this one.
@@kgbiggie9871 This absolutely. I've seen a number of different structure fires in my time, and as an electrician I've also done a number of retrofits on a variety of different structures. Some of the scariest structures are the unmodified century-old homes, as they have hollow spaces between the walls with no insulation whatsoever, no fireproofing whatsoever, and the wood is extremely dry from simply existing for over 100 years. These houses also sometimes have outdated wiring which at this point is so dangerous that many insurance companies won't insure a house with it. But in short, with the empty spaces inside the walls, a fire that gets inside the walls can basically consume the entire house within a few minutes, and just like how dry firewood burns a lot better than wet firewood, the house will burned super hot super quickly. What's also scary these days is, surprisingly, _modern_ homes. Although they have a ton of fireproofing, and even though it's hard to accidentally set a fire in one, what people don't realize is that the fireproofing chemical makeup includes - if I'm not mistaken - hydrocarbons. So even though it takes a really intense heat to start a fire in a modern home, once it starts, it becomes extremely stubborn and very difficult to fight. I have seen such homes get so hot that they actually caused neighboring homes to catch fire just from the residual heat alone. That being said, I would still prefer being in a modern home because it would still take time for that fire to reach that point, and I would have a lot more time to escape. Homes like this scare the crap out of me.
@@TheEDFLegacy One thing about the old homes, most of them have thick plaster on the walls, that doesn't burn. I can't remember where I read this, but older homes typically go up slower than a modern home.
That's what happens when you build houses with wood. America builds them from wood because the profit is higher, they don't give a shit that this is then the result
My house burnt down June 4th last year. It was an electrical fire. It started in the kitchen behind the wall behind the stove. I lost 3 pets and everything I had. Lost my car because the fire was so hot that it melted the front right side. Prayers go out to this family. I’m so sorry for their loss. I know how it feels watching your life burn to the ground. 😭
Oh my goodness, so sorry for your loss. I can't imagine. But you are here, "things" can be replaced, so glad you are here and ok. Take care & God bless you!
@@TheBeachMawMawExcept for her pets... losing pets is so hard as well especially if you form emotional bond with each other and to know you will never see the m again it's just sad 😔
@kquiwi yes, I definitely agree. I have had to bury 3 dogs over the years, their ages were 14yrs, 6yrs and 11yrs. It was horrible. They were part of our family and we loved them so very much. We have a dog now that we've had since she was a puppy, same as the other 3, the dog we have now is 11yrs old. She's our girl, and we spoil her but she deserves it, she is a wonderful dog. ❤️
It is just unbelievable how many people actually rode by that house and never seen nothing with the smoke and fire showing. I just seen where somebody was actually in the house my heart goes out to the family and friends such a tragedy. God bless you
I was thinking the same. Only the white car stopped. The rest were totally naive or just didn't care, not their problem. Nowadays it's just a big talk. So proud to be citizen. But when it comes time to sacrifice their time or things, then they remember their right of freedom.
5 minutes from ignition to fully engulfed is the average time according to one of my lessons awhile ago at my fire department. This video really supports that concept, it used to be 30 minutes in the 80s or so for refference. All these synthetic materials burn really well, it's scary how much worse it might get in the future.
All the construction contractors are interested in lighter weight materials. Those particle board I-beams for example. Less material, more surface area, less burn time required to destroy it. Hopefully one day contractors will start thinking less about the cost of material, and more about survivability in the event of a fire.
@@OneSkiWonder oh thats a definitely a factor but mostly its all the oil products we have is what i was told. Plastics, synthetic fibers for clothes and chairs, etc. Oil burns really well.
So this wasn't caused by arson but poor materials... Fn amazing I can't believe how fast it was, I do remember them burning slower back in the day. It's not like I see a house burn on a daily or yearly basis. But this vid just scares me to death. Thanks for your comment. Real eye opener.
@@ESSER68NJ Unfortunately yes. If you have a wood stove and used a 2 liter bottle out of annoyance due to wet wood (guilty) you'll know once it melts that thing burns ripping violently. Now imagine a house filled with stuff like that. I can't remember if insulation is to blame as well, makes it hotter in the house due to keeping the heat inside and things reach their ignition points faster. That one isn't anyone's fault that's just thermodynamics. If you want I can ask at my meeting next Tuesday.
If anyone is complaining about the response time of the fire department a quick Google search gives the answer. People are saying it took the fire department way too long. I am putting the first 911 call at 4:43pm on the time showing in the video. From the time the phone rang until the dispatcher answered and got all the information was probably 45 seconds, then when the dispatcher dispatched the call to the closest fire house and the bell went off at the station probably took another 45 seconds. So we are at a minute and a half. The firefighters had to stop what they were doing then run to the truck, maybe another 30 seconds, then they had to get into their turnouts, which the goal is to get into them in under 30 seconds. So we are at 2 minutes and 30 seconds. You can see the first fire truck to pull up says Turner Falls on it. From the exact address of the house to the fire station in Turner Falls is 3.3 miles away, Google is saying the drive time is 6 minutes. The fire truck pulled up at 4:50, which is 7 minutes after the first 911 call. That's a damn good response time.
2010 was mine. Was accused of setting it, then firemen were arrested for setting it. Big news in Pa. They only got paid for fires they went out on so they went around setting them to get paid. CPT of one department was involved.
The black Jeep is my car. We were driving past in Miller’s to go to the bridge. When the tone dropped we went right past it, not knowing what it was. Apparently it was an old woman who smoked and had an air tank. The air tank exploded which resulted in a fire. We did not even know that there was a fire there If you look very closely, it started just as we drove past
I used to live in Miller's Falls , it's a very small town and the closest other FD is 10 min away outside of the volunteers. These homes are very old and fire is detrimental very quickly. My condolences to the family who lost their loved one and the animals. 😭🙏
@@ryanangelone1165 Everything in the description says MILLERS Falls.... If you can read !!!! No need for nasty comments. Be Kind !!!!!! Prayers for all involved.
I can't imagine my mother being in that house... I just can't. That's terrible, a person who's guided you your whole life, being lost in such a terrible way...
This video reminds me of an experience I had driving my school bus down a residential street back in 1976 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. It was just after I had dropped my high school kids off and I spotted smoke coming out under the eaves of a one story home. I stopped but everyone else was just driving by. I ran up and opened the side door to the neighbors house where a car was in the driveway and I see a guy sitting there nonchalantly drinking his morning coffee. I told him to call the fire department as the house next to him was on fire. I asked him if he knew if anyone was home as I ran back outside. He didn't know so I quick looked in the attached garage to see if there were any vehicles but there weren't any. I then kicked a locked entry door to the house open but as soon as I did thick smoke poured out and I could hear the fire picking up with the influx of air. I yelled got no response and closed the door but noticed clear air under the smoke. I guess I could have crawled under if I heard someone. I then ran back next door and got the neighbors garden hose and sprayed some water where the smoke was coming out under the eaves, of course that was worthless. The fire department got there probably about 5 minutes after the call. I handed the neighbor his garden hose said he might want to soak his house down. As I left I saw one fireman charge out of the fire truck with an axe to break out the windows, while others uncoiled hoses and a couple others geared up to go in. I was now a few minutes late for my elementary school pickup so I took off. Later returned after my run to tell the police that I was the one that kicked in the side door. Guess no one was home thankfully.
Thank you for reacting so quickly. Kudos for the bus driver job. I tried. I drive for a transportation company here in mi, that is based on a bus system for kids 💜🧡💖💙❤️
@@markedwards8127 I know it breaks my heart when I hear of the animals in any situation like this , about 4 yrs ago my workplace factory was set fire to twice but the second time the entire building went up ( large print firm / family run buisness ) so I know the pain of losing something you work hard to archive wether it’s a home or company but the thought of losing someone or a pet is to much 😔
I would never put down a volunteer fire company or a payed one. The only question is the first truck to arrive has a deck gun. Our town is all volunteers and the first thing they do when hooking up is use the deck gun. This house went up pretty quick and they did a good job getting it under control. Thanks for sharing ✌️
@@eriksimca9409 I believe that was someone already inside the house. Unless they went in through the back because the door was opened from the inside. Then he tries to run upstairs to get his mother I believe.
Yeeees.. shirtless guy knows how extinguish a fire, safe the man, lead the country, play a football, fix the car and of course he is a king of fishing! 😂
The response time was great. I worked on a Rescue Squad with 24/7 station Manning, response time from tones to the farthest part of our ground was nearly ten minutes. This looks like a rural area with probably a volunteer department which makes the response time impressive. I now live across the pond in rural Wales and the response time to my neighbour's house when it was on fire was about 22 minutes.
@@MusicLoverPearson I think the worst part was the third due engine guys didn't even have SCBA packs on upon arrival even though the packs were in the seats. Get dressed and be ready to fight fire upon arrival!
@@collectivefilmgroup4241 there you go, you are absolutely right. Get fully dressed and ready while on your way. And the hoses, man i cannot watch that. They absolutely need to look at other countries how to handle them, folding has never been the right answer. Fold once then roll them up starting at the fold, easy to un-roll in one move. On here it is spagetti
@@collectivefilmgroup4241 yeah I've noticed that also that's a damn shame our NYFD can get a fire location less than five minutes after they received the first call. That's because there's a Fire station every ten blocks from each other.
This is sad. I lost my dad at 18 years old right before I graduated high school (he had lymphoma) but losing someone from a house fire is a lot worse. More memories are just straight up gone. My heart hurts for this family
Memories are never gone. The house is just an item, along with stuff inside. Sorry, I disagree, losing a loved one is worse. Even more so knowing you’re🎉 watching and they are burning alive inside. A house can be replaced with a safe feeling. A loved one cannot be.
This is so eerie that it showed up tonight of all nights. This just happens to be the 4 yr anniversary of the night me & my husband went out to dinner and where almost home when we got a call that our home was on fire, our dream home with our 4 yr old female lab inside. It was fully engulfed by the time we arrived with fire dept in tow, who had been given the wrong address. Wasn't there fault but was still hard to see so many firefighters just standing in our yard doing nothing. But again not their fault. They all felt horrible and took up money for us and the next week brought us $5,000 that was much needed and so appreciated we both broke down and cried. It's been 4 yrs and it hasn't gotten any easier yet, feels like it was yesterday. My heart goes out to this family. 🙏
I feel you my friend, my brother and I lost our house to a fire in 1985, we didn't have any pets at the time. To this day when I smell burning wood it always takes me back to that awful moment in time. Sorry for your loss. ❤
This is why I installed commercial fire alarms in my house, heat detectors, photoelectronic smokes and 2 manual pull station by front and back door, got some horn strobes and strobes installed as well, my condolences go out to her and the fam!!
What a tragedy! My the woman rest in peace. God bless the people who tried to rescue her. The fire moved so fast. Shame on all the people who drove by the house at first and ignored the smoke and flames.
That Fire flashed before anyone noticed it. Smoked only appeared after the fire flashed and used up all the oxygen. There was no saving that structure. I’m a firefighter and if any of us ran in full turn outs and a tank at academy the instructor would scream at us. The gear makes us top heavy and we’d be tripping all over the place if we run, plus we can’t see the ground with a mask on. We move quickly and carefully. So learn something before you rip on the FD.
As a Mom about to be 66, I can't imagine what the daughter and family went through! God rest her soul! Only positive thing that came out of this is the video!
@@basrover6544I believe she means that this video captures the entirety of a fire and how quickly it can engulf a home. This is an excellent way to train new firefighters. Things like this are used as training all the time. Despite that, the loss of life definitely isn’t worth it. Not one bit.
My point exactly, so many people just not aware of there surroundings. I'm from a small town, and also just habit but I look around as driving, and glowing orb of light would have got me to stop and back up.
From the Millers Falls Newspaper, the RECORDER: "MILLERS FALLS, MA (WGGB/WSHM) - One person is dead and a family is without a place to live after a two-alarm fire ravaged a Franklin County home Tuesday night. “To know that everything that we had, including my mom, is gone, it’s just, it’s pure torture,” said Tina Verscot. Verscot was at her home in Millers Falls on Tuesday afternoon when tragedy struck. “Smelled electric, you know, that electrical smell that you smell and I said to my husband or maybe it’s behind her bed because, you know, a little bit of smoke, so I grab the fire extinguisher. He sprayed it, nothing. Open our door to go down the stairs and big black smoke just hit us,” Verscot added."
Apparently there were misspellings, but it was indeed a woman and not a man who was killed in the fire. There was a six year old boy in the house at the time of the fire and a neighbor rescued him and possibly one other person, but when they attempted to get to the room where the grandmother was, the room was engulfed in flames and he had to get himself out before he was trapped by the fire. Janelle Verchot was interviewed by the press because her mother was not emotionally able to speak to them.
Wow! That was a stubborn fire. I asked my son who is a fire captain here in our moderately sized city about why they just walk around like that. He said that they have to follow protocol and must listen for instructions from the captains and fire chief, not run around like a bunch of keystone cops. You only see the frenzied “heroes” running in to the burning structure, explosions and all on shows like Chicago Fire. That’s not reality. I’m so sad to hear about the woman and her pets that didn’t make it out. Truly a tragedy.
We would already have members on scene in their personal vehicles. We never waited on members at station. First there grab a truck and roll. In the 15 years I was a volunteer we had the quickest response time in the county. Call toned out until first truck called enroute was less than 2 minutes. Today it's all trained and by the book. You have to wait on instructions. Back then we knew what to do without being told. When had officers I was a Lieutenant. We saved houses that State Investigators said by all rights the house should have been ashes. In no way am I saying we were the best we just didn't have to be told every move to make. My heartfelt condolences to the family
I’m calling absolute bullshit from tones to in service was 2 minutes lmao you got 2 guys responding on a truck and waiting for others to meet on scene is just wack how are you gonna be efficient with 2 people on scene
@zosoxo3511 sorry bud you are what you say. 5 members less than half a mile from station. Chiefs garage a 100 feet from station door. You think what you want I know the facts. Have a nice day living in the new generation
In the space of about half an hour that entire family's life went from likely normal and peaceful, to being completely torn apart, by some unstoppable force of nature. It's humbling but also horrifying
And a good reminder to everyone to CHECK YOUR SMOKE DETECTORS FREQUENTLY. Working smoke detectors may not have stopped this fire, but they almost certainly would have saved a life here. By the time you notice a fire from the other side of your house, you may not have any more time to escape. 2/3 of fire-related deaths occur in homes without functioning smoke detectors.
I’ve been through this. Your whole life does change. One minute life is normal and the next minute you’re trying to find the door through the smoke and that’s alot harder than you would think. You get on your knees like they say to do and there is more air and less smoke but theres also absolutely no light. Pitch black from the floor to where the smoke is hovering. So you still can’t find the door. Once i finally got out and got my dogs out i had lost all my possessions and i was homeless.
I wouldn't even say half an hour. I would say 5 minutes. That was unsurvival anywhere between 3 and 10 minutes, depending on whether the victim was at the same location as the fire (ie. Dropped cigarette from falling asleep while smoking), or on the upper floors. The sheer amount of heat to create that amount of fire so early on would have literally cooked that poor lady alive. 🥺 Unless the fire department was literally only a block away, I don't think the outcome would have been any different, unfortunately. 🥲
Awesome response time for a volunteer department. In my area it’s generally 15-20 minutes depending on where you live in the county. Ambulance can be as long as 40 minutes.
I have watched many fire videos. For a rural volunteer department they and the help from other towns did a fantastic job of getting the fire under control. And I can't believe they kept the house next door from catching fire also. Great job guys and thank you for your service.
Anyone driving by should have noticed early on and called the fire dept. They had to have seen flames &smoke as they stopped at the intersection. At least run to knock on the house door! Community negligence.
What you mean?!! How did you come to that conclusion?! Just cuz someone else posted that t a mom died in the fire?!!! The Man that was in the house was the only one who came out and he said that HIS SON was still in the house!! What mon are you talking about?! What pets?!!!.....
@@teresaescobedo5504"She spoke exclusively with Western Mass News and said she was inside with her 66-year-old mother, Judith Verscot, and six-year-old son when the house burst into flames."
Just wanted to say I am grateful to our firefighters and especially grateful to our small town volunteers. We have needed them a couple of times in the last 35 years we've lived here and they have been there for us. For anyone who just drives past the volunteer toll collectors that come out on holidays instead of giving them a dollar just remember these small town emergency personnel might be the ones who save your life when you go off the road.
I have a weird childhood memory from when I was in kindergarten. I was driving with my grandpa through a neighborhood and we noticed smoke coming out of someone’s basement windows. He said something about a smoke detector and I don’t know if anybody was home or not. But that was that, I don’t remember whatever became of that, but I do remember seeing fire trucks blazing by later that day. It’s just something that’s stuck with me for almost 30 years that I will never know the full details of.
This video is a great example to show in real time how fast fire can spread throughout a frame house. There’s no doubt that the house had modern day furniture in it as well. There was a demonstration showing how quickly a living room flashover can occur with modern day furniture as opposed to old vintage furniture (1950s or earlier). It took the living room nearly 30 minutes to flash over with old furniture and 3-4 minutes in the modern furniture living room. 30 minutes after the start of this video (from when the flames were not even noticeable) the entire house was already charred both inside and out and the fire fighters were spraying at the hot spots that were still on fire. I could not believe how fast the fire spread. The materials in that house were like fuel in a solid form.
Start of video is 4:40 to 5:05 the response time was pretty good considering it's a small rural town. The negative comments usually come from people that don't know what they are talking about.
Exactly. Unfortunately. Can't believe that someone was saying that they should sue because it took them 10 minutes. I can't drive to my own local fire department in my personal vehicle in 10 minutes doing the speed limit even in the middle of the night - and I live in the geographic center of my city!
My heart goes out to the family of the 66 yr old woman who was lost in the fire. I lost my mother end of 2021 to suicide, it's devastating to lose a parent at any age, esp when it was sudden and unexpected. May she be at peace and the family slowly start to heal their hearts.
My heartfelt condolences to this family on their loss🙏🕊🙏...Thank you to the first responders in their efforts to keep the fire from advancing to neighboring properties! 🇺🇸❤
Job well done.. by everyone involved.. even to the people that beat on that front front door to rescue someone. Was born and raised in an area that only had volunteers each person were top notch !! Hats off to you all.. it actually could have involved other structures , but they knew what needed to be done to guard against that.. 🙏🏼 🇺🇲
In the video it was just 10 minutes in the fire truck got there and someone probably didn’t call 911 right away at beginning of video. I think 10 minutes is fairly fast. Fire is not noticeable untilLike 2 minutes in.
My question is, the time stamped at 4:40PM in the late afternoon!!!??? How did they not hear the smoke alarms or the smell of smoke at that time??!! So tragic my lord 😢
My heart goes out to this family. This was so sad to watch as the fire progressed, with the woman running back inside too! The house was already fully enveloped in flames when Fire/Rescue arrived, so given that, I think the fire department did an outstanding job, from the fast arrival time, to getting the fire under control, to preventing further damage to the surrounding properties. RIP to the person who lost their life.😢
It’s unbelievable to me how many cars just kept driving by, especially when smoke was billowing out the damn window. The house went up so quickly, it’s like they built it out of matchsticks. That poor family, it must have terrifying.
The simultaneous blasting of air horns is a almost universal message for any firefighters in the house to get out as conditions have turned terrible and most likely deadly
When I was 11 years old, a siren woke me up and as I looked out the window, I saw, that the house next to us was in flames. It was terrifying, because Icould not do anything. I was happy, when I Heard the next morning, that no one was hurt
This is how fast a fire spreads very rapidly this is why you need smoke Detectors in each room and have a monitored fire alarm that notifies the fire department as soon as the smoke starts because seconds makes a big difference please make sure your smoke Detectors have batteries and consider getting a fire alarm that is monitored by alarm company.
RIP to the lady and pets lost. And my condolences to the daughter that came outside but couldn't reach her mother inside. Really shouldn't have gone back inside at that point, but I understand fully why she did. Hard to watch everything that you know in your life going up in flames. Your home, your memories, and your family... I hope she has awesome friends who can help you through the hard times ahead. Wasn't her fault that her 66 year old mother didn't make it. If she had gone into the house further, it's unlikely that she would've made it out herself. Any word on the cause of the fire?
Old mom smoking and on oxygen tank in the living room first floor died instantly and son-in-law and daughter live upstairs and gotten both daughter and wife outside son-in-law was rolling out the front door and broke his leg and medical emergency ambulance fix his leg out of view away from the firetruck just came and firetruck was 8 miles away from the fire started 3 minutes at start of video and UPS driver is a hero called 911 and it takes firetruck 13 to 15 minutes drive to get to burning house but some said 8 minutes drive for firetruck 18 miles away would have been 15 minutes away I don't know which .it was the Second comment answered before this post started.
Grandma shouldn't be smoking around oxygen tank while breathing for oxygen doesn't make sense to me I know old habits are hard to quit smoking my grandpa was in nursing home with Alzheimer's memory loss out of over 100 old people with medical bad stuff and old people have to smoke outside of the nursing home in a fenced yard with cover deck and bar-b-que grill and outdoor chairs and tables and pets birds and cats and little dogs kennel with dogs house and grandpa died from his brain shutdown body organ and my grandmother died from old age natural cause and mom died from kidney infection and quicker Alzheimer's memory loss within 4 months and I took care of my great grandparents and my first grandparents and my mom while living with them separately between my grandparents house and my mom house and I'm still living in my mom's house since 2019 .
They deserve alot of credit tons of it let's stop and honor and appreciate the paramedics and firemen and police who proudly serve us your service and time and efforts are deeply appreciated thanks great job great team work and great and sweet catches as usual still going strong let's stop and hope everyone is doing ok right much love and respect and appreciation job well done you should be amazed and proud way to go thanks !!! Joe ❤😂😂
If you live in a house, make sure each floor has a smoke detector, which actually talks to the others too. So if there is a fire in the basement, and you are sleeping on the second floor, you will still be woken up by loud noise. Most house are hardwired, if not get a battery operated ones which still talk to others, even have wifi. Skip a few restaurant meals, invest in smoke detectors.
I'm sorry the young lady lost her mother! I lost an aunt in a house fire in Ocean Springs, Mississippi in 2014. I learned about it at my employer in Fort Worth, Texas. RIP to the Mother.
Commendations should be given out for everyone who tried to help at the beginning. Even the UPS driver stopped and could have easily kept going and ignored the situation. For the comments who say it was a slow response etc. I suggest you step up in your community and volunteer. Every community with vol fds need help. Sad it was a fatality .
Personally, I thought the fire department got there in record time. From the details I'm reading about this fire, they responded faster than the requirements for a completely professional force. Great job by the firefighters! I don't really see anything they could have done better here. Maybe the deck gun if the engine was equipped with one.
Fire starts at the beginning of the video, first outward signs of fire/smoke at 2:10 (when people could have called the FD), FD actually called around 3:10 it would appear, they arrive at 10:20 and get water going at 12:20. The home was fully engulfed just after the 6 minute mark, so with a 7 minute response time even if there was a fire alarm that contacts the FD they wouldn’t have made it in time. Even the best departments have a 4-5 minute response time. Shows you the importance of a good fire detection/suppression system. Check the batteries in your smoke alarm and get a fire extinguisher in your kitchen, garage, laundry room.
I used to live in Millers falls. It is literally in the middle of nowhere. Turners falls is around 15 to 20 miles away. That is why it took the backup units so long to get there.
I can’t believe how many drivers went past & ignored it !! I’d be hammering on that door incase someone was inside .. terrifying how quick that went up
This is so sad, a couple with their 6yr old son lived here, along with the woman's mother, a 66yr old lady, the couple smelled electric cords burning smell, then went downstairs and the whole thing was full of flames, they barley got out and was hardly able to save their 6yr old, but sadly, the mother(66yr old lady) died in the fire! Very sad story!!
Thank you for this information. I was trying to find out more about this particular fire. I'm glad that they were able to get out... they were _very_ lucky. I wonder if they saw the fire before people started yelling and knocking to warn them? Also, electrical smell? I wonder if it was a space heater. I had a friend once who had their cord melt so badly that one of the prongs ended up separating from the wire, leaving itself embedded in the socket. They are so dangerous, and people should only be using the radiator-type.
Woww! From the time it was a flicker seen through the lower right front window (and who knows how much was already burning inside at that point) to being almost fully engulfed when the first responders got there - that fire acted fast!
Yep. Century homes are scary like that... super dry wood, hollow walls, and quite often using the old knob-and-tube wiring that at this point is often falling apart due to age, and also lacks a ground wire, which makes them incredibly dangerous.
When the heat and flames broke the glass and the flames and smoke came outside where people could see, that's when people came to help. No telling how long the fire burned before we could see it because of the higher camera angle.
I hope everyone made it out, I went through a fire when I was ten, we lost it all. We struggled for a long time living in a hotel room for six months. A family of five, my dad finally found a place to rent, life eventually got better but it took a long time. My dad was so stressed out I'm surprised he didn't have a heart attack, This was in the early seventies and things were much different back then, no property insurance or Red Cross to help you out.
My heart goes out to the daughter who went in to save her mom. I am very sorry for your loss. I have lived through 4 house fires . The kid up stairs from us always started fire.
If you have a pyro kid living above you I suggest you find a new place to live ASAP. If you have survived four of his fires you are living on borrowed time my friend.
I Iike that they got around to using the deck monitor eventually. I wish more departments would use them as part of their initial attack, they are so good at knocking down a lot of flame fast but so under utilized. Nice job fellas
For the people that are saying it took too long, from the time someone was banging on the door to the time the first apparatus arrived was around 6-7 minutes. That’s a good response time. Especialy if this is a volunteer. From when the call comes in and dispatch sends out the tones. Then enough people to arrive at the station and gear up and leave to get to the scene. It was 7 minutes. And when they got on scene they went straight to work
Now the people who say they should have went faster . When you come to a scene like this you’re suppose to size up the scene for the other responding units, and lay hose line out and hook up to water supply. Then plan you’re attack. They did exactly that. If you go too fast you cause more risk of an error. Cool calm and collected. I hope this brings more understanding to people.
That house was a balloon framed house without insulation, that big puff of smoke just before the window blew was the fire venting up the walls and into the attic space. The house most likely had heart pine tinder dry framing. Houses of that age without safety upgrades always burn like that. The deck gun flowed for 17 minutes the first time. Conservatively flowing 1,000 gpm X 17 minx 8.3 lb/ gal is 141,100 pounds or 70.5 tons of additional weight in a poorly constructed wood building. They could have had a serious disaster with that many firefighters that close to the building before the evac tones.
@@virgilhilts3924 Yes! Turn of the 19th century homes often did NOT in fact have insulation. This is a small dink town in Northwestern Massachusetts. Data puts population there about 1,800 people.
According to news reports on the story, it turned to 2-alarm. Took 10hrs to extinguish. 66 yr old found dead inside. Fire under investigation. Daughter stated she smelled "electrical fire" smoke. So sad. They lost everything. 😢
@@virgilhilts3924 That house was built in the early 1900s, they did not insulate houses then especially that particular type, balloon frame. Absolutely no fire stopping. Western platform frame which is built presently has fire stop between each floor. No insulation also, smoke freely blew out of all the corner siding joints for 2 floors to the ridge line.
I couldn't finish watching, it was too much for me emotionally. I started crying, my heart goes out to the family, I'm so sorry they had to go through this. so horrible....
I feel bad for the person losing their mom and pets. That's the saddest thing to go through, and me and my cat Cuda lived through 2 apartment building fires before too, I always made sure I grabbed my Cuda first thing both times, as well as alerted the friends I had over, despite my self losing everything, everyone got out safe. My thoughts are with the family and survivor.
Very emotional to watch😢 I can’t believe (well unfortunately I can) the number of people who just kept on driving past!! UPS driver was first to stop!! 😊 Considering these were volunteer departments I think their response time was actually impressive and water flowed quickly. Arriving at a fire that far advanced puts you at a big disadvantage in terms of fire and heat!! It doesn’t matter if your volunteer or municipal fire crews
Great example of why you never open a door without first checking for heat. That woman got punched in the face with massive heat and it forced her away from her escape route back deeper into the structure, she had to gather her wits and force herself back into the heat to make an escape by throwing herself out. This is also a great example of why you should close doors whenever possible. Watch how the fire intensifies when she opens the exterior door, and then intensifies even more exponentially after she opens the interior door into the fire compartment.... Game over
@@heliohork9736 "t would have been a different story if they used the deck gun sooner" -Do tell... "Why didn't they just use that damn deck gun, Virgil? How come?" -It wouldn't have done squat on that large of a deep seated fire load spread across three floors, meanwhile the tank is dry in about 60 seconds. You people who clearly have ZERO firefighting experience seem to think a DG is some sort of magic wand when it isn't. And you never manage to grasp the larger picture of each event.
@@msz5543 I'm living the easy life on a double pension😊 I started my FF career in the 80's first with the DoD and then got in with a metro FD serving close to a million. I still VFD in the little mountain community we live in but most folks up here a very fire conscious so things stay relatively quiet, thankfully. We mostly get car wrecks on the twisty steep roads or down on the highway.
Good for you, Virgil.Horrible seeing homes and lives lost. People have no idea. I think this is one of the best videos I've ever seen. This is the living room flash over simulation video in real life. Absolutely incredible how quickly this whole thing went up. You can see the gasses igniting in the second room along the ceiling. Any good Samaritan opening that front door would have been in big trouble. I still can't believe that person rolling out of there. Was this thing a lost cause from the get go in your opinion? Even if the residents got the woman out early on and called 911?
So tragic. I accidentally set fire to my childhood home in early December of 2002. We were beyond lucky. No loss of life or massive structural damage. I applaud the firefighters for their quick response and effort. Things could have ended a lot differently that night.
So many people drove by even when the smoke was crossing the road in front of their eyes. If only someone would have stopped and rang that bell and yelled, there would have been plenty of time. Unbelievable.
You assume they could see it when it's behind bushes and a tree. Plus we don't know what is to the right so that window might not be visible from the road when traveling at speed. At least not easy to see since clearly people have just driven by. Fact is, as an outsider looking in we can all easily point out flaws of what had happened, but we never know what it actually is like until we are actually there. The only thing unbelievable here is the tragedy of the fire and your behavior towards it.
@@Kristina-mm9ih Not always, and they did start to stop when the smoke started to become prevalent. What we saw before that was very small and likely dissipated as it went out into the streets. Point is, I don't know what the view was from the road as a driver and neither do you. All we got was a straight on shot from across the street which is not what the drivers on the road sees. So best not to assume they see what we see.
@@alisonflaxman1566 From our perspective sure, looking at smoke from the direction of the road, possibly towards the sky or something else that could easily blend the smoke probably not. We 👏 do 👏 not 👏 know 👏 what 👏 the 👏 drivers 👏 see. 👏 It could be the road leads to something that blend the smoke into it, the smoke likely is thin from that perspective vs what we see which is a direct look at it to the source, etc. we cannot assume we know what people looking in /that/ direction can see.
I have just seen this video, mydeepest sympathy to her family. I hope all those firemen/women are all right. There is nothing worse than knowing that there was someone inside. From start that building was engulfed within 4 minutes. It would appear to me that building was tinder dry. A big thank you to all the emergency response crew. I live in a small town in New zealand that is covered by volunteers. If more are required they have to travel 20 kilometers. So they should be thanked not criticized. They did well getting water on the fire when they did.
I can’t believe so many cars drove by before everything started and no one stop to knock on the door or scream or do something knowing there is a car parked on the driveway 😢so sorry for the losses .
So if people are mad watching this because the FD took so long to get there. By CAR the drive is 6 minutes long, firetrucks go over the speed limit so that's about 5 minutes from the Turners Falls Fire Department (first firetruck on scene). The firefighters in the area are volunteers meaning they need to get dressed, haul ass to the fire station, get in their gear, get in the truck then drive to the scene. Millers Falls area is a rural area. That whole part of Massachusetts is. In reality they responded and got there VERY quickly. I checked the news for this fire and found that the Turners Falls Fire Department MIGHT'VE not been the only department to respond. I'm from the area and believe if more than 1 department responded then the next closest one is Greenfield (A town over from Turners Falls), which from there the drive to the fire is about 14 minutes. "Brunelle told Western Mass News the home appears to be a complete loss and crews from his department, along with several other communities, were on-scene for upwards of ten hours attempting to put out the flames" I suggest if you want more information about it just search the title of the video the town, type of fire and the date.
As a teenager our family experienced a house fire while I was at school and the cat was found alive days later at a friend's house. Whatever the fire didn't damage,the soot and water would. Watching the video from beginning to end is hard for me to do...
Oh what a tragedy for that family! Losing a family member is heartwrenching but in a fire oh GOD it's even worse! My heartfelt condolences to this family🙏
So many negative comments about how horrible that fire department is... too long to respond, firemen just walking around slowly, etc. FYI - that is a small, rural town, and the nearby fire departments are all volunteer or paid/on call, and they probably all responded from their homes or jobs. They don't have the manpower, equipment or training that full-time fire departments have. Give them a break. There are many, many rural communities all over the U.S. who are in the same situation, because the make-up of the rural areas don't have the tax infrastructure to support what larger towns and cities are able to provide.
Cuz all these town got rid of volley and paid dept have 3 guys at station paid FF ruined the fire service
Yes Most apparatus says "Turner's Falls" on them. Millers Falls is basically a census tract. Less than 2000 people living there.
I agree 100% with you everyone wants to talk negative about these companies nobody wants to give their time we need more volunteers we need more firemen instead of people on the sidelines running their mouths do something volunteer help your community fire companies out during desperate need more help give these guys credit they need it most
@@jennypurlock2280 You make no f..k..g sense. You'd be better off spending your time in school, learning to read and write, rather than watching fire videos and trying to write comments that don't add up to s..t.
No excuses they took way to long
A 66 year old woman and the home's two pet cats were tragically lost in this fire. From what I read in a shorter video, the woman who rolled out of the home at the beginning of this was screaming mom, it was her mother. My mom is the same age and she is everything to me, truly my entire world. I wouldn't be able to go on another day if this happened to her.
that was my dad
@@janelleverchot Was this your home?
@@janelleverchot holy crap if that was your home i am truly so sorry for everything, my condolences.
Hi Janelle I'm so sorry for the loss of your dad try to move forward and do what your dad would like you to do💗🙏🏽💗
It cracks me up how people obviously see the fire and don’t make sure everyone is out or call the FD.
OMG: I didn’t realize it happened so fast. My brother was a volunteer fire fighter. Available at a moments notice, wherever he was. Unpaid!! Thank you to all firefighters around the world. 😊❤
Flashover occurs within 3-5 minute of the fire first starting where the entire rooms is suddenly engulfed in flames with 1,100 degree temps. They're not kidding when they say you only have minutes to get out of your house
It takes roughly 4 seconds for a curtain to light ablaze and 30 for it to set a large fire , most cloth being similar.. every second matters.
So do y’all just have a fire department in town to look pretty? Why did turner falls fire respond first? Why didn’t Erving respond first?
@@copenhagen6116 a lot of fire departments do look pretty that is true , the problem is a lot of fire departments across America including volunteers, don't have enough money or funding to keep their vehicles consistently in check , or not the right vehicle for certain scenarios, for ex down here in Colorado a simple crew truck and a deck gun will do ,
But in NY especially a lot of fires are in multistory buildings so they need tower/ladder trucks to hit the roof tops .
I'm not familiar with the area mentioned In your comment
But it is possible to fire station referenced didn't have the right equipment and or vehicles to take that specific fire call
And or maybe they did but they were busy? Lol hard to tell
But it's definitely likely that they were not equipped to handle that big of a fire
Omg, I can't believe how fast that house was engulfed by the fire!
I live in a small town in southern Germany. One morning I drive through town on my way to work. I thought the chimney in a house smokes heavily though. When I looked more closely, I noticed that the roof truss was on fire. I stopped immediately and called the fire department. I immediately rang the bell at the house and was able to wake up and rescue 15 people. I was a fireman myself and knew immediately what to do. Some people don't dare to intervene or they just don't care. Even worse they film everything. In Germany, the filming of accident victims now costs a fine of €300.
They were incredibly lucky you knew what to do. I totally agree with you, filming accidents and victims should be illegal.
@@pbelle1971 100%. My job as an EMT is already hard enough, I don’t need to have to be worried more about protecting my patient’s dignity and privacy.
Unfortunately, I see some instances where cops could abuse a law like that, though.
I was shocked how many cars drove by ! They could have alerted the home owners at least !
Yeah it's incredible how many people just drive past and don't give it a second thought 😑. God bless you for knowing what to do in that situation.
Having fines for filming sounds like a recipe for disaster when it comes to people's rights to film more important events (political corruption, etc)
The poor girl screaming "Mom" broke my heart. Especially when the fire starts getting obscured by the smoke, and she starts to lose hope and gets quiter.
I was so caught up, I thought the woman who tumbled out had her son still in there. I can’t imagine knowing your loved one is engulfed in flames!!!
It's so unbelievably sad. I feel terribly for her
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@@SunsetEdits21i think around 5:42
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This gave me chills. Seeing that glow in the window, almost unnoticeable, quickly become an all consuming devastation so powerful you can hear the sizzle from the surveillance video, is just chilling.
same.
You may be correct but in saying it took 10 minutes to arrive but that’s 10 minutes after the fire was first visible in the lower corner window
The fire wasn’t visible to the exterior until 2:30 assuming no one called it in from the inside of the house this would be the first time it would be noticeable
Assuming someone called it in at that point subtract a minute to 2 minutes to take and dispatch the call
Then you’re down to 6 minutes
Subtract a minute to minute and a half for dressing and turning out your down to 4-5 minutes and 5 minutes travel time from the station to the scene
Theres 10 minutes I’d say they did an excellent job responding
The fire department can’t control how long it takes to get notified nor can they control the distance that they have to go to get to the scene
That's why it's critical for others to get the occupants aware their home is on fire and to get TF out of the house
They were shopping
It's also a small fire department, with a mix of career and volunteer, covering 3 villages. I'd say their response time was pretty damn good, assuming it took several minutes before anybody called (it looks like the UPS driver was one of the first to stop). Obviously career showing up first, with the on-call vollys getting there as soon as they could.
And a balloon frame house. You may as well have gasoline in your walls, they go up FAST. You pretty much go into a defensive attack immediately unless you catch it in the first minute.
They can control how long it takes to park.and get the hoses spraying. It took them a long time to get the water flowing. I thought for a minute they were going to make.smores and not extinguish the fire.
@@rushlynn1347 omg that is best trolling of bad firefighters hahaha hahaha hahaha can I use that one hahaha hahaha hahaha
I love how people just band together in these situations to help. RIP to the woman and animals that lost their lives.
She may have been out feom the smoke before the fire moved anywhere near her. As fast as that went up... the houses need to be rebuit in that area. Too dangerous. At least get sprinkler systems and detectors hardwired in, to give them a chance to escape. But old houses... not sure if all owners can be convinced to pay the cash, or if they even have it. Amazed any of the building is still standing and didn't fall on anyone.
Sad...
I love how dozens of people saw the fire, couldn't give a sh!t and continued on their way, but all you saw was people band together.
Excuse me? All I saw was car after car pass while flames were shooting out. That's all I saw. Nobody banded together until it was OBVIOUSLY TOO LATE
@@Migglefitch In the beginning of the video, you could hear a man say that he already called 911. Reason why I didn't see anyone at first is bc he was on the phone.
What pissed me off was those cars driving by! Except for the SUV, right before the delivery driver. 😭😭😭😭
10 minutes from the first possible 911 call (a car slowed down, they possibly noticed and called) to the first water on the fire. That's an amazing response time. Our local FD volunteers are likely up to 7 miles from the station and cover about the same distance. So that's 911 call, dispatcher relays info to FD, FD seems out the alarm to all volunteers, they stop what they're doing, maybe even have to get dressed, get in their car, haul ass up to 7 miles to the fire department, get in gear, get on the truck, haul ass up to 7 miles to get to the fire, drop the hose... as I said, 10 minutes is amazing. When you're sitting here watching it from first flame, yeah, it seems painfully slow, but it's the best anyone could possibly do.
Thanks so much for pointing that out. The surveillance camera certainly didn’t dial 911. That car that stopped was most likely the first call for the fire.
And the fact the town this happened in didn’t have a fire department, so this isn’t a bad response considering that aswell.
That's something that not many people know about volunteer firefighters; that they don't stay at the station and therefore have to go there before they do to the emergency
Unbelievable video capture. Its very rare to observe a fire from the very beginning of the event . The vantage point is perfect, with audio as well , unbelievable. That deck gun was a game changer on this one.
It would be a good test on the accuracy of the fire examiner who says where it started to then see the video after concluding.
Yeah the deck gun - buries a 3 point shot at the final buzzer- final score Fire 150, FD 3.
Reality: people literally died and lives were ruined.
You: whoa, sweet angle, bruh! Front row seats ftw
@@pearlsswine lol. He's right tho, the camera footage with sound is astonishing.
@@pearlsswine It's a morbid fact but these videos can be really helpful for training purposes. Hopefully saving lives in the future
It's scary how fast a fire can go from a little flicker to an raging fire in under 10 mins!
A fire in a structure roughly doubles in size every minute or so.
Building construction plays a huge part in this as well
@@kgbiggie9871 This absolutely. I've seen a number of different structure fires in my time, and as an electrician I've also done a number of retrofits on a variety of different structures.
Some of the scariest structures are the unmodified century-old homes, as they have hollow spaces between the walls with no insulation whatsoever, no fireproofing whatsoever, and the wood is extremely dry from simply existing for over 100 years. These houses also sometimes have outdated wiring which at this point is so dangerous that many insurance companies won't insure a house with it. But in short, with the empty spaces inside the walls, a fire that gets inside the walls can basically consume the entire house within a few minutes, and just like how dry firewood burns a lot better than wet firewood, the house will burned super hot super quickly.
What's also scary these days is, surprisingly, _modern_ homes. Although they have a ton of fireproofing, and even though it's hard to accidentally set a fire in one, what people don't realize is that the fireproofing chemical makeup includes - if I'm not mistaken - hydrocarbons. So even though it takes a really intense heat to start a fire in a modern home, once it starts, it becomes extremely stubborn and very difficult to fight. I have seen such homes get so hot that they actually caused neighboring homes to catch fire just from the residual heat alone.
That being said, I would still prefer being in a modern home because it would still take time for that fire to reach that point, and I would have a lot more time to escape. Homes like this scare the crap out of me.
@@TheEDFLegacy One thing about the old homes, most of them have thick plaster on the walls, that doesn't burn.
I can't remember where I read this, but older homes typically go up slower than a modern home.
That's what happens when you build houses with wood.
America builds them from wood because the profit is higher, they don't give a shit that this is then the result
My house burnt down June 4th last year. It was an electrical fire. It started in the kitchen behind the wall behind the stove. I lost 3 pets and everything I had. Lost my car because the fire was so hot that it melted the front right side. Prayers go out to this family. I’m so sorry for their loss. I know how it feels watching your life burn to the ground. 😭
Oh my goodness, so sorry for your loss. I can't imagine. But you are here, "things" can be replaced, so glad you are here and ok. Take care & God bless you!
@@TheBeachMawMawExcept for her pets... losing pets is so hard as well especially if you form emotional bond with each other and to know you will never see the m again it's just sad 😔
@kquiwi yes, I definitely agree. I have had to bury 3 dogs over the years, their ages were 14yrs, 6yrs and 11yrs. It was horrible. They were part of our family and we loved them so very much. We have a dog now that we've had since she was a puppy, same as the other 3, the dog we have now is 11yrs old. She's our girl, and we spoil her but she deserves it, she is a wonderful dog. ❤️
Oh yeah. I still have trauma
It is just unbelievable how many people actually rode by that house and never seen nothing with the smoke and fire showing. I just seen where somebody was actually in the house my heart goes out to the family and friends such a tragedy. God bless you
No god only science and fact
their eyes are supposed to be on the road
I was thinking the same. Only the white car stopped. The rest were totally naive or just didn't care, not their problem. Nowadays it's just a big talk. So proud to be citizen. But when it comes time to sacrifice their time or things, then they remember their right of freedom.
Yes very sad to see that...
One life could have been saved if a driver noticed the flame and stopped to see if anyone was inside the house.
5 minutes from ignition to fully engulfed is the average time according to one of my lessons awhile ago at my fire department. This video really supports that concept, it used to be 30 minutes in the 80s or so for refference. All these synthetic materials burn really well, it's scary how much worse it might get in the future.
All the construction contractors are interested in lighter weight materials. Those particle board I-beams for example. Less material, more surface area, less burn time required to destroy it. Hopefully one day contractors will start thinking less about the cost of material, and more about survivability in the event of a fire.
@@OneSkiWonder oh thats a definitely a factor but mostly its all the oil products we have is what i was told. Plastics, synthetic fibers for clothes and chairs, etc. Oil burns really well.
So this wasn't caused by arson but poor materials... Fn amazing I can't believe how fast it was, I do remember them burning slower back in the day. It's not like I see a house burn on a daily or yearly basis. But this vid just scares me to death. Thanks for your comment. Real eye opener.
@@ESSER68NJ Unfortunately yes. If you have a wood stove and used a 2 liter bottle out of annoyance due to wet wood (guilty) you'll know once it melts that thing burns ripping violently. Now imagine a house filled with stuff like that.
I can't remember if insulation is to blame as well, makes it hotter in the house due to keeping the heat inside and things reach their ignition points faster. That one isn't anyone's fault that's just thermodynamics. If you want I can ask at my meeting next Tuesday.
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If anyone is complaining about the response time of the fire department a quick Google search gives the answer. People are saying it took the fire department way too long. I am putting the first 911 call at 4:43pm on the time showing in the video. From the time the phone rang until the dispatcher answered and got all the information was probably 45 seconds, then when the dispatcher dispatched the call to the closest fire house and the bell went off at the station probably took another 45 seconds. So we are at a minute and a half. The firefighters had to stop what they were doing then run to the truck, maybe another 30 seconds, then they had to get into their turnouts, which the goal is to get into them in under 30 seconds. So we are at 2 minutes and 30 seconds. You can see the first fire truck to pull up says Turner Falls on it. From the exact address of the house to the fire station in Turner Falls is 3.3 miles away, Google is saying the drive time is 6 minutes. The fire truck pulled up at 4:50, which is 7 minutes after the first 911 call. That's a damn good response time.
I had a house fire over 20 years ago, and still this video makes me cry...it stays with you forever ....my heart goes out to all involved
Wow man same but it happened to me like half a year ago 😢
@@shinyghist4901 I glad you survived it.
@@murraychadwick9362 thank you. 🙏
I jus cried too thinking about my fire
2010 was mine. Was accused of setting it, then firemen were arrested for setting it. Big news in Pa. They only got paid for fires they went out on so they went around setting them to get paid. CPT of one department was involved.
The black Jeep is my car. We were driving past in Miller’s to go to the bridge. When the tone dropped we went right past it, not knowing what it was. Apparently it was an old woman who smoked and had an air tank. The air tank exploded which resulted in a fire. We did not even know that there was a fire there If you look very closely, it started just as we drove past
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@@BELLA-YT 0:04 i think
@@HDEDITZZsThanks!
Thanks to all the volunteers who put their lives on the line to help others 🙏
Did they go in?
@@Lower985 Show some gratitude ingrate.
The women tried to save her mom. She kept screaming " Mom!!!" This is tragic. God bless this family.🙏🙏🙏
Just pure heartbreak
I’m not sure this is a “high 5” post😳
@@alastairjhunter3666that’s the praying emoji
@@alastairjhunter3666LMAOOO
So the mom didn’t make it??!!
I used to live in Miller's Falls , it's a very small town and the closest other FD is 10 min away outside of the volunteers. These homes are very old and fire is detrimental very quickly. My condolences to the family who lost their loved one and the animals. 😭🙏
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It was turners falls if u can read
@@ryanangelone1165 Everything in the description says MILLERS Falls.... If you can read !!!! No need for nasty comments. Be Kind !!!!!! Prayers for all involved.
10 minutes is fast 🙄
I can't imagine my mother being in that house... I just can't. That's terrible, a person who's guided you your whole life, being lost in such a terrible way...
The delivery workers are now super heroes! They know their routes and always are willing to help. Thanks UPS guy.
This video reminds me of an experience I had driving my school bus down a residential street back in 1976 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. It was just after I had dropped my high school kids off and I spotted smoke coming out under the eaves of a one story home. I stopped but everyone else was just driving by. I ran up and opened the side door to the neighbors house where a car was in the driveway and I see a guy sitting there nonchalantly drinking his morning coffee. I told him to call the fire department as the house next to him was on fire. I asked him if he knew if anyone was home as I ran back outside. He didn't know so I quick looked in the attached garage to see if there were any vehicles but there weren't any. I then kicked a locked entry door to the house open but as soon as I did thick smoke poured out and I could hear the fire picking up with the influx of air. I yelled got no response and closed the door but noticed clear air under the smoke. I guess I could have crawled under if I heard someone. I then ran back next door and got the neighbors garden hose and sprayed some water where the smoke was coming out under the eaves, of course that was worthless. The fire department got there probably about 5 minutes after the call. I handed the neighbor his garden hose said he might want to soak his house down. As I left I saw one fireman charge out of the fire truck with an axe to break out the windows, while others uncoiled hoses and a couple others geared up to go in. I was now a few minutes late for my elementary school pickup so I took off. Later returned after my run to tell the police that I was the one that kicked in the side door. Guess no one was home thankfully.
Scary this happened to my brothers in Clio, mi. Can't remember the year. Was on tv here
Thank you for reacting so quickly. Kudos for the bus driver job. I tried. I drive for a transportation company here in mi, that is based on a bus system for kids 💜🧡💖💙❤️
I’ve read on the comments that a woman and 2 cats were inside and didn’t make it 😥😥
@@hazelduerdoth7298 yes very sad. I always think of the pets trapped inside.
@@markedwards8127 I know it breaks my heart when I hear of the animals in any situation like this , about 4 yrs ago my workplace factory was set fire to twice but the second time the entire building went up ( large print firm / family run buisness ) so I know the pain of losing something you work hard to archive wether it’s a home or company but the thought of losing someone or a pet is to much 😔
I would never put down a volunteer fire company or a payed one. The only question is the first truck to arrive has a deck gun. Our town is all volunteers and the first thing they do when hooking up is use the deck gun. This house went up pretty quick and they did a good job getting it under control. Thanks for sharing ✌️
All the people that ran towards the house to help are heroes
4:44 the dude who had run in the door and jumped out
Meh, or just curious
@@eriksimca9409 almost died too
Not heros, just helpers
@@eriksimca9409 I believe that was someone already inside the house. Unless they went in through the back because the door was opened from the inside. Then he tries to run upstairs to get his mother I believe.
It made me cry to see the woman on her knees screaming and crying for her mom. So tragic.
Didn’t she say Dog?
@@geneeverett7855 Mom...
Every neighborhood has one shirtless guy who knows everything
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Yup... his mum died in that fire.
Yeeees.. shirtless guy knows how extinguish a fire, safe the man, lead the country, play a football, fix the car and of course he is a king of fishing! 😂
Most neighborhoods have more than one . they compete like dogs.
They are either shirtless or they own a huge ass dog.
The response time was great. I worked on a Rescue Squad with 24/7 station Manning, response time from tones to the farthest part of our ground was nearly ten minutes. This looks like a rural area with probably a volunteer department which makes the response time impressive. I now live across the pond in rural Wales and the response time to my neighbour's house when it was on fire was about 22 minutes.
*_22 MINUTES?!_* That is incredibly dangerous. Granted, rural areas can be really spread out.
The response time was a joke look how long it took for them to get there?
@@MusicLoverPearson I think the worst part was the third due engine guys didn't even have SCBA packs on upon arrival even though the packs were in the seats. Get dressed and be ready to fight fire upon arrival!
@@collectivefilmgroup4241 there you go, you are absolutely right. Get fully dressed and ready while on your way. And the hoses, man i cannot watch that. They absolutely need to look at other countries how to handle them, folding has never been the right answer. Fold once then roll them up starting at the fold, easy to un-roll in one move. On here it is spagetti
@@collectivefilmgroup4241 yeah I've noticed that also that's a damn shame our NYFD can get a fire location less than five minutes after they received the first call.
That's because there's a Fire station every ten blocks from each other.
This is sad. I lost my dad at 18 years old right before I graduated high school (he had lymphoma) but losing someone from a house fire is a lot worse. More memories are just straight up gone. My heart hurts for this family
Lost? They said clearly only a dog was still inside?
@@geneeverett7855I thought it was a mother inside
If there was someone in the house, why did they stay inside?😮
@@kquiwi that’s what I thought.
Memories are never gone. The house is just an item, along with stuff inside. Sorry, I disagree, losing a loved one is worse. Even more so knowing you’re🎉 watching and they are burning alive inside. A house can be replaced with a safe feeling. A loved one cannot be.
This is so eerie that it showed up tonight of all nights. This just happens to be the 4 yr anniversary of the night me & my husband went out to dinner and where almost home when we got a call that our home was on fire, our dream home with our 4 yr old female lab inside. It was fully engulfed by the time we arrived with fire dept in tow, who had been given the wrong address. Wasn't there fault but was still hard to see so many firefighters just standing in our yard doing nothing. But again not their fault. They all felt horrible and took up money for us and the next week brought us $5,000 that was much needed and so appreciated we both broke down and cried. It's been 4 yrs and it hasn't gotten any easier yet, feels like it was yesterday. My heart goes out to this family. 🙏
I feel you my friend, my brother and I lost our house to a fire in 1985, we didn't have any pets at the time. To this day when I smell burning wood it always takes me back to that awful moment in time. Sorry for your loss. ❤
I'm so sorry. Your new dream home was lost? And your furbaby? How did it start? I feel you about tragedies and time not holding any relevance.
So sorry you had to experience that. Just watching this video was traumatic. Great firefighters in this one.
What was the cause of the fire?
Im so sorry to hear of all the houses, family’s affected in home fires!
This is why I installed commercial fire alarms in my house, heat detectors, photoelectronic smokes and 2 manual pull station by front and back door, got some horn strobes and strobes installed as well, my condolences go out to her and the fam!!
Same.
What happens when you accidentally burn your food tho?
@REMINECRIAN your neighbors will hate you
It’s honestly so cool to see how firefighters do their job, see what their jobs are when they’re on scene.
What a tragedy! My the woman rest in peace. God bless the people who tried to rescue her. The fire moved so fast. Shame on all the people who drove by the house at first and ignored the smoke and flames.
The black jeep is my car
Did you see how many times the Penske truck drives by 🙄
Why?
That Fire flashed before anyone noticed it. Smoked only appeared after the fire flashed and used up all the oxygen. There was no saving that structure. I’m a firefighter and if any of us ran in full turn outs and a tank at academy the instructor would scream at us. The gear makes us top heavy and we’d be tripping all over the place if we run, plus we can’t see the ground with a mask on. We move quickly and carefully. So learn something before you rip on the FD.
Thank you for what you do and all first responders. Be safe and thanks again.
Thank you!
What does flashed mean
I love how the guy decides to save his boat while the fire truck is moving in.
As a Mom about to be 66, I can't imagine what the daughter and family went through! God rest her soul! Only positive thing that came out of this is the video!
What positive thing do you mean?
@@basrover6544I believe she means that this video captures the entirety of a fire and how quickly it can engulf a home. This is an excellent way to train new firefighters. Things like this are used as training all the time.
Despite that, the loss of life definitely isn’t worth it. Not one bit.
Thank you for sharing. It's amazing how many cars didn't notice until it was engulfed.
My point exactly, so many people just not aware of there surroundings. I'm from a small town, and also just habit but I look around as driving, and glowing orb of light would have got me to stop and back up.
I can't believe the car didn't blow up!
@@potatoesindrag4095 it’s also a very distinct smell. Idk how people were just like 🤷🏼♀️
To be fair, most people are focused on the road. You have to be. I might have missed it initially too.
From the Millers Falls Newspaper, the RECORDER: "MILLERS FALLS, MA (WGGB/WSHM) - One person is dead and a family is without a place to live after a two-alarm fire ravaged a Franklin County home Tuesday night.
“To know that everything that we had, including my mom, is gone, it’s just, it’s pure torture,” said Tina Verscot.
Verscot was at her home in Millers Falls on Tuesday afternoon when tragedy struck.
“Smelled electric, you know, that electrical smell that you smell and I said to my husband or maybe it’s behind her bed because, you know, a little bit of smoke, so I grab the fire extinguisher. He sprayed it, nothing. Open our door to go down the stairs and big black smoke just hit us,” Verscot added."
Apparently there were misspellings, but it was indeed a woman and not a man who was killed in the fire. There was a six year old boy in the house at the time of the fire and a neighbor rescued him and possibly one other person, but when they attempted to get to the room where the grandmother was, the room was engulfed in flames and he had to get himself out before he was trapped by the fire. Janelle Verchot was interviewed by the press because her mother was not emotionally able to speak to them.
Wow! That was a stubborn fire. I asked my son who is a fire captain here in our moderately sized city about why they just walk around like that. He said that they have to follow protocol and must listen for instructions from the captains and fire chief, not run around like a bunch of keystone cops. You only see the frenzied “heroes” running in to the burning structure, explosions and all on shows like Chicago Fire. That’s not reality. I’m so sad to hear about the woman and her pets that didn’t make it out. Truly a tragedy.
There is no need to run in this fire, fully involved structure, u won't save anything.
We would already have members on scene in their personal vehicles. We never waited on members at station. First there grab a truck and roll. In the 15 years I was a volunteer we had the quickest response time in the county. Call toned out until first truck called enroute was less than 2 minutes. Today it's all trained and by the book. You have to wait on instructions. Back then we knew what to do without being told. When had officers I was a Lieutenant. We saved houses that State Investigators said by all rights the house should have been ashes. In no way am I saying we were the best we just didn't have to be told every move to make. My heartfelt condolences to the family
I’m calling absolute bullshit from tones to in service was 2 minutes lmao you got 2 guys responding on a truck and waiting for others to meet on scene is just wack how are you gonna be efficient with 2 people on scene
@zosoxo3511 sorry bud you are what you say. 5 members less than half a mile from station. Chiefs garage a 100 feet from station door. You think what you want I know the facts. Have a nice day living in the new generation
Running gets people hurt.
In the space of about half an hour that entire family's life went from likely normal and peaceful, to being completely torn apart, by some unstoppable force of nature. It's humbling but also horrifying
And a good reminder to everyone to CHECK YOUR SMOKE DETECTORS FREQUENTLY. Working smoke detectors may not have stopped this fire, but they almost certainly would have saved a life here. By the time you notice a fire from the other side of your house, you may not have any more time to escape. 2/3 of fire-related deaths occur in homes without functioning smoke detectors.
So true, I lost my house back in 1985. Fortunately we only lost the house and our stuff and no lives lost.
I’ve been through this. Your whole life does change. One minute life is normal and the next minute you’re trying to find the door through the smoke and that’s alot harder than you would think. You get on your knees like they say to do and there is more air and less smoke but theres also absolutely no light. Pitch black from the floor to where the smoke is hovering. So you still can’t find the door. Once i finally got out and got my dogs out i had lost all my possessions and i was homeless.
I wouldn't even say half an hour. I would say 5 minutes. That was unsurvival anywhere between 3 and 10 minutes, depending on whether the victim was at the same location as the fire (ie. Dropped cigarette from falling asleep while smoking), or on the upper floors. The sheer amount of heat to create that amount of fire so early on would have literally cooked that poor lady alive. 🥺
Unless the fire department was literally only a block away, I don't think the outcome would have been any different, unfortunately. 🥲
@@thejakefromstatefarm6768 I am so sorry, I hope you are ok now.
Awesome response time for a volunteer department. In my area it’s generally 15-20 minutes depending on where you live in the county. Ambulance can be as long as 40 minutes.
I have watched many fire videos. For a rural volunteer department they and the help from other towns did a fantastic job of getting the fire under control. And I can't believe they kept the house next door from catching fire also. Great job guys and thank you for your service.
Wait wa-
I live there the house on the Left not on the middle
My heart goes out to the family that lost their mother in this horrible fire. It took a long time for bystanders to see the fire and alert the home.
Anyone driving by should have noticed early on and called the fire dept. They had to have seen flames &smoke as they stopped at the intersection. At least run to knock on the house door! Community negligence.
What you mean?!! How did you come to that conclusion?! Just cuz someone else posted that t a mom died in the fire?!!! The Man that was in the house was the only one who came out and he said that HIS SON was still in the house!! What mon are you talking about?! What pets?!!!.....
@@teresaescobedo5504"She spoke exclusively with Western Mass News and said she was inside with her 66-year-old mother, Judith Verscot, and six-year-old son when the house burst into flames."
My Son is a Fireman . This is so sad and scary at how fast the fire takes off.
Just wanted to say I am grateful to our firefighters and especially grateful to our small town volunteers. We have needed them a couple of times in the last 35 years we've lived here and they have been there for us. For anyone who just drives past the volunteer toll collectors that come out on holidays instead of giving them a dollar just remember these small town emergency personnel might be the ones who save your life when you go off the road.
I have a weird childhood memory from when I was in kindergarten. I was driving with my grandpa through a neighborhood and we noticed smoke coming out of someone’s basement windows. He said something about a smoke detector and I don’t know if anybody was home or not. But that was that, I don’t remember whatever became of that, but I do remember seeing fire trucks blazing by later that day. It’s just something that’s stuck with me for almost 30 years that I will never know the full details of.
This video is a great example to show in real time how fast fire can spread throughout a frame house. There’s no doubt that the house had modern day furniture in it as well. There was a demonstration showing how quickly a living room flashover can occur with modern day furniture as opposed to old vintage furniture (1950s or earlier). It took the living room nearly 30 minutes to flash over with old furniture and 3-4 minutes in the modern furniture living room. 30 minutes after the start of this video (from when the flames were not even noticeable) the entire house was already charred both inside and out and the fire fighters were spraying at the hot spots that were still on fire. I could not believe how fast the fire spread. The materials in that house were like fuel in a solid form.
Start of video is 4:40 to 5:05 the response time was pretty good considering it's a small rural town. The negative comments usually come from people that don't know what they are talking about.
Exactly. Unfortunately. Can't believe that someone was saying that they should sue because it took them 10 minutes. I can't drive to my own local fire department in my personal vehicle in 10 minutes doing the speed limit even in the middle of the night - and I live in the geographic center of my city!
And one obnoxious troll.
Yeah people really think the fire department is just gonna appear out of thin air the minute they call 911.
Well lifes lost in this. I dont blame the fire departementet they did a great job but it's hurts seeing someone dying in there and pets too.
My heart goes out to the family of the 66 yr old woman who was lost in the fire. I lost my mother end of 2021 to suicide, it's devastating to lose a parent at any age, esp when it was sudden and unexpected. May she be at peace and the family slowly start to heal their hearts.
So sorry for your tragic loss. Prayers for you and her loved ones.
I'm so sorry 😔
I've being poor to myself for reading this, r.i.p
(“We surely belong to Allah and to Him we shall return”)
Sorry for my word to be claim at all.
I’m sorry for your loss. I’m sorry for your mother’s pain that caused her to take her own life. ❤
lol your mom killed herself thats crazy
My heartfelt condolences to this family on their loss🙏🕊🙏...Thank you to the first responders in their efforts to keep the fire from advancing to neighboring properties! 🇺🇸❤
Job well done.. by everyone involved.. even to the people that beat on that front front door to rescue someone. Was born and raised in an area that only had volunteers each person were top notch !! Hats off to you all.. it actually could have involved other structures , but they knew what needed to be done to guard against that.. 🙏🏼 🇺🇲
In the video it was just 10 minutes in the fire truck got there and someone probably didn’t call 911 right away at beginning of video. I think 10 minutes is fairly fast. Fire is not noticeable untilLike 2 minutes in.
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My question is, the time stamped at 4:40PM in the late afternoon!!!??? How did they not hear the smoke alarms or the smell of smoke at that time??!! So tragic my lord 😢
My heart goes out to this family. This was so sad to watch as the fire progressed, with the woman running back inside too! The house was already fully enveloped in flames when Fire/Rescue arrived, so given that, I think the fire department did an outstanding job, from the fast arrival time, to getting the fire under control, to preventing further damage to the surrounding properties. RIP to the person who lost their life.😢
It was a woman
The fire department should have been there sooner
@@AA-bs3iythat's why fire extinguisher are at least good to have in the beginning stages.
@@AlvinSeville1 smoke detectors and no one dies.
It took that UPS person stopping to approach that fire ... nobody else was even headed over there 😢
It’s unbelievable to me how many cars just kept driving by, especially when smoke was billowing out the damn window. The house went up so quickly, it’s like they built it out of matchsticks. That poor family, it must have terrifying.
It was a old house 🏚 very dry lumber.
I’m with you, even the large flicker of fire before the smoke. I couldn’t understand how no one noticed or thought it abnormal
I thought the exact same thing,when I'm out riding with my husband I pay attention to everything around me
@@AmeliasMema Do you ride shotgun, stick you're head out the window and wag your tail? Jkjk
@@weirdmatter people like you are the reason I never comment on anything
The simultaneous blasting of air horns is a almost universal message for any firefighters in the house to get out as conditions have turned terrible and most likely deadly
Wow! 🥺time stamp?
35:50
Wow. Didn't know that.
Means mayday evacuate now. Because there's an immediate threat of collapse or flash over
Thank you, I was wondering why they did that.
When I was 11 years old, a siren woke me up and as I looked out the window, I saw, that the house next to us was in flames. It was terrifying, because Icould not do anything. I was happy, when I Heard the next morning, that no one was hurt
This is how fast a fire spreads very rapidly this is why you need smoke Detectors in each room and have a monitored fire alarm that notifies the fire department as soon as the smoke starts because seconds makes a big difference please make sure your smoke Detectors have batteries and consider getting a fire alarm that is monitored by alarm company.
RIP to the lady and pets lost. And my condolences to the daughter that came outside but couldn't reach her mother inside. Really shouldn't have gone back inside at that point, but I understand fully why she did. Hard to watch everything that you know in your life going up in flames. Your home, your memories, and your family... I hope she has awesome friends who can help you through the hard times ahead. Wasn't her fault that her 66 year old mother didn't make it. If she had gone into the house further, it's unlikely that she would've made it out herself.
Any word on the cause of the fire?
The granddaughter said it was possibly caused by a heater with an electric problem
Something to do with heat.
It started in the heater
Old mom smoking and on oxygen tank in the living room first floor died instantly and son-in-law and daughter live upstairs and gotten both daughter and wife outside son-in-law was rolling out the front door and broke his leg and medical emergency ambulance fix his leg out of view away from the firetruck just came and firetruck was 8 miles away from the fire started 3 minutes at start of video and UPS driver is a hero called 911 and it takes firetruck 13 to 15 minutes drive to get to burning house but some said 8 minutes drive for firetruck 18 miles away would have been 15 minutes away I don't know which .it was the Second comment answered before this post started.
Grandma shouldn't be smoking around oxygen tank while breathing for oxygen doesn't make sense to me I know old habits are hard to quit smoking my grandpa was in nursing home with Alzheimer's memory loss out of over 100 old people with medical bad stuff and old people have to smoke outside of the nursing home in a fenced yard with cover deck and bar-b-que grill and outdoor chairs and tables and pets birds and cats and little dogs kennel with dogs house and grandpa died from his brain shutdown body organ and my grandmother died from old age natural cause and mom died from kidney infection and quicker Alzheimer's memory loss within 4 months and I took care of my great grandparents and my first grandparents and my mom while living with them separately between my grandparents house and my mom house and I'm still living in my mom's house since 2019 .
They deserve alot of credit tons of it let's stop and honor and appreciate the paramedics and firemen and police who proudly serve us your service and time and efforts are deeply appreciated thanks great job great team work and great and sweet catches as usual still going strong let's stop and hope everyone is doing ok right much love and respect and appreciation job well done you should be amazed and proud way to go thanks !!! Joe ❤😂😂
If you live in a house, make sure each floor has a smoke detector, which actually talks to the others too. So if there is a fire in the basement, and you are sleeping on the second floor, you will still be woken up by loud noise. Most house are hardwired, if not get a battery operated ones which still talk to others, even have wifi. Skip a few restaurant meals, invest in smoke detectors.
I'm sorry the young lady lost her mother! I lost an aunt in a house fire in Ocean Springs, Mississippi in 2014. I learned about it at my employer in Fort Worth, Texas. RIP to the Mother.
I'm so glad all those angels of people came to the rescue and all took the time to work together.
Thank you for sharing 2nd video. Camera clarity and sound is amazing. Great home security. 🙏 prayers for your neighbors
Commendations should be given out for everyone who tried to help at the beginning. Even the UPS driver stopped and could have easily kept going and ignored the situation. For the comments who say it was a slow response etc. I suggest you step up in your community and volunteer. Every community with vol fds need help. Sad it was a fatality .
Personally, I thought the fire department got there in record time. From the details I'm reading about this fire, they responded faster than the requirements for a completely professional force. Great job by the firefighters! I don't really see anything they could have done better here. Maybe the deck gun if the engine was equipped with one.
Fire starts at the beginning of the video, first outward signs of fire/smoke at 2:10 (when people could have called the FD), FD actually called around 3:10 it would appear, they arrive at 10:20 and get water going at 12:20.
The home was fully engulfed just after the 6 minute mark, so with a 7 minute response time even if there was a fire alarm that contacts the FD they wouldn’t have made it in time. Even the best departments have a 4-5 minute response time. Shows you the importance of a good fire detection/suppression system.
Check the batteries in your smoke alarm and get a fire extinguisher in your kitchen, garage, laundry room.
I used to live in Millers falls. It is literally in the middle of nowhere. Turners falls is around 15 to 20 miles away. That is why it took the backup units so long to get there.
Turners fire dept is 5 minutes away from scene
I can’t believe how many drivers went past & ignored it !! I’d be hammering on that door incase someone was inside .. terrifying how quick that went up
Woah - I have an office space just down the street from here. I saw that they were building on this lot and didn’t know this was why.
its still good to see random passerbys and strangers trying to help anyway they could.
Truly.
This is so sad, a couple with their 6yr old son lived here, along with the woman's mother, a 66yr old lady, the couple smelled electric cords burning smell, then went downstairs and the whole thing was full of flames, they barley got out and was hardly able to save their 6yr old, but sadly, the mother(66yr old lady) died in the fire! Very sad story!!
My thoughts and prayers are out to the family that lost their home and lost a love one😞🙏🏻
The son is in my sons first grade class 😢 I feel so bad for the little guy, must have been terrifying.
Three 6's?
@@joc.4992 Nothing happened to the little boy. Psycho.
Thank you for this information. I was trying to find out more about this particular fire. I'm glad that they were able to get out... they were _very_ lucky. I wonder if they saw the fire before people started yelling and knocking to warn them?
Also, electrical smell? I wonder if it was a space heater. I had a friend once who had their cord melt so badly that one of the prongs ended up separating from the wire, leaving itself embedded in the socket. They are so dangerous, and people should only be using the radiator-type.
This is terrifying. My sincere condolences to the family of the woman who lost her life. 🙏
Woww! From the time it was a flicker seen through the lower right front window (and who knows how much was already burning inside at that point) to being almost fully engulfed when the first responders got there - that fire acted fast!
Yep. Century homes are scary like that... super dry wood, hollow walls, and quite often using the old knob-and-tube wiring that at this point is often falling apart due to age, and also lacks a ground wire, which makes them incredibly dangerous.
Amazing how fast it went up! I noticed MANY DROVE BY...only the UPS guy noticed and STOPPED!
When the heat and flames broke the glass and the flames and smoke came outside where people could see, that's when people came to help. No telling how long the fire burned before we could see it because of the higher camera angle.
I hope everyone made it out, I went through a fire when I was ten, we lost it all. We struggled for a long time living in a hotel room for six months. A family of five, my dad finally found a place to rent, life eventually got better but it took a long time. My dad was so stressed out I'm surprised he didn't have a heart attack, This was in the early seventies and things were much different back then, no property insurance or Red Cross to help you out.
Everyone inside died
Condolences to family and friends😢💔🙏
Respect to the firemen ❤
look how damage the house is but that dang fire alarm still going off...
@@mzrleon6425 that fire alarm is stronger than my relationship fr
My heart goes out to the daughter who went in to save her mom. I am very sorry for your loss. I have lived through 4 house fires . The kid up stairs from us always started fire.
If you have a pyro kid living above you I suggest you find a new place to live ASAP. If you have survived four of his fires you are living on borrowed time my friend.
@@murraychadwick9362 I know a guy named Chadwick macmurray lol
I Iike that they got around to using the deck monitor eventually. I wish more departments would use them as part of their initial attack, they are so good at knocking down a lot of flame fast but so under utilized. Nice job fellas
For the people that are saying it took too long, from the time someone was banging on the door to the time the first apparatus arrived was around 6-7 minutes. That’s a good response time. Especialy if this is a volunteer. From when the call comes in and dispatch sends out the tones. Then enough people to arrive at the station and gear up and leave to get to the scene. It was 7 minutes. And when they got on scene they went straight to work
Now the people who say they should have went faster . When you come to a scene like this you’re suppose to size up the scene for the other responding units, and lay hose line out and hook up to water supply. Then plan you’re attack. They did exactly that. If you go too fast you cause more risk of an error. Cool calm and collected. I hope this brings more understanding to people.
That house was a balloon framed house without insulation, that big puff of smoke just before the window blew was the fire venting up the walls and into the attic space. The house most likely had heart pine tinder dry framing. Houses of that age without safety upgrades always burn like that. The deck gun flowed for 17 minutes the first time. Conservatively flowing 1,000 gpm X 17 minx 8.3 lb/ gal is 141,100 pounds or 70.5 tons of additional weight in a poorly constructed wood building. They could have had a serious disaster with that many firefighters that close to the building before the evac tones.
Without insulation....?
😅🤣😂
Yea you keep telling yourself that
@@virgilhilts3924 Yes! Turn of the 19th century homes often did NOT in fact have insulation. This is a small dink town in Northwestern Massachusetts. Data puts population there about 1,800 people.
According to news reports on the story, it turned to 2-alarm. Took 10hrs to extinguish. 66 yr old found dead inside. Fire under investigation. Daughter stated she smelled "electrical fire" smoke. So sad. They lost everything. 😢
@@virgilhilts3924 That house was built in the early 1900s, they did not insulate houses then especially that particular type, balloon frame. Absolutely no fire stopping. Western platform frame which is built presently has fire stop between each floor. No insulation also, smoke freely blew out of all the corner siding joints for 2 floors to the ridge line.
@@iambj144
You have no clue what you are babbling about
Just looking at this in 2024. That video is superb as far as clarity
All the unsung hero’s who tried to get everyone out … bless you. First responders thank you 😊
I couldn't finish watching, it was too much for me emotionally. I started crying, my heart goes out to the family, I'm so sorry they had to go through this. so horrible....
I feel bad for the person losing their mom and pets. That's the saddest thing to go through, and me and my cat Cuda lived through 2 apartment building fires before too, I always made sure I grabbed my Cuda first thing both times, as well as alerted the friends I had over, despite my self losing everything, everyone got out safe. My thoughts are with the family and survivor.
ups man and the other people that tried to help are heroes. And the firefighters are to. R.I.P.
Very emotional to watch😢
I can’t believe (well unfortunately I can) the number of people who just kept on driving past!! UPS driver was first to stop!! 😊
Considering these were volunteer departments I think their response time was actually impressive and water flowed quickly. Arriving at a fire that far advanced puts you at a big disadvantage in terms of fire and heat!! It doesn’t matter if your volunteer or municipal fire crews
I was telling my husband the same thing. That's why I pay attention to my surroundings always!!!
They were driving past because they were watching the road as they should. We knew what to look for in the video.
If everyone just stopped that would have just blocked up the street for when the fire department showed up. There's nothing anyone could have done.
People complaining about response time are idiots. The fire station isn’t next door
Great example of why you never open a door without first checking for heat. That woman got punched in the face with massive heat and it forced her away from her escape route back deeper into the structure, she had to gather her wits and force herself back into the heat to make an escape by throwing herself out. This is also a great example of why you should close doors whenever possible. Watch how the fire intensifies when she opens the exterior door, and then intensifies even more exponentially after she opens the interior door into the fire compartment.... Game over
it would have been a different story if they used the deck gun sooner. Why didn't they just use that damn deck gun, Virgil? How come?
@@heliohork9736
"t would have been a different story if they used the deck gun sooner"
-Do tell...
"Why didn't they just use that damn deck gun, Virgil? How come?"
-It wouldn't have done squat on that large of a deep seated fire load spread across three floors, meanwhile the tank is dry in about 60 seconds. You people who clearly have ZERO firefighting experience seem to think a DG is some sort of magic wand when it isn't. And you never manage to grasp the larger picture of each event.
@@virgilhilts3924 No kidding. These people have no clue. What dept are you on?
@@msz5543
I'm living the easy life on a double pension😊
I started my FF career in the 80's first with the DoD and then got in with a metro FD serving close to a million.
I still VFD in the little mountain community we live in but most folks up here a very fire conscious so things stay relatively quiet, thankfully. We mostly get car wrecks on the twisty steep roads or down on the highway.
Good for you, Virgil.Horrible seeing homes and lives lost. People have no idea. I think this is one of the best videos I've ever seen. This is the living room flash over simulation video in real life. Absolutely incredible how quickly this whole thing went up. You can see the gasses igniting in the second room along the ceiling. Any good Samaritan opening that front door would have been in big trouble. I still can't believe that person rolling out of there. Was this thing a lost cause from the get go in your opinion? Even if the residents got the woman out early on and called 911?
So tragic. I accidentally set fire to my childhood home in early December of 2002. We were beyond lucky. No loss of life or massive structural damage. I applaud the firefighters for their quick response and effort. Things could have ended a lot differently that night.
Thank God for the brave man across the street standing there, filming everything on his phone.
Rest In Peace to the woman who sadly passed away and her cats. This is a horrible fate for anyone.
I have a 12 year old kid and 2 cats
My cats have been through 2 false activations and a few without the 2 between 2018 and 2021
So many people drove by even when the smoke was crossing the road in front of their eyes. If only someone would have stopped and rang that bell and yelled, there would have been plenty of time. Unbelievable.
You assume they could see it when it's behind bushes and a tree. Plus we don't know what is to the right so that window might not be visible from the road when traveling at speed. At least not easy to see since clearly people have just driven by. Fact is, as an outsider looking in we can all easily point out flaws of what had happened, but we never know what it actually is like until we are actually there. The only thing unbelievable here is the tragedy of the fire and your behavior towards it.
@@Skellitor301_VA I am pretty sure they could see the huge cloud of smoke they drove through. Have a good day.
@@Kristina-mm9ih Not always, and they did start to stop when the smoke started to become prevalent. What we saw before that was very small and likely dissipated as it went out into the streets. Point is, I don't know what the view was from the road as a driver and neither do you. All we got was a straight on shot from across the street which is not what the drivers on the road sees. So best not to assume they see what we see.
@@Skellitor301_VA she's talking about when the smoke was across the road. Yes we can assume they can see smoke they are driving through.
@@alisonflaxman1566 From our perspective sure, looking at smoke from the direction of the road, possibly towards the sky or something else that could easily blend the smoke probably not. We 👏 do 👏 not 👏 know 👏 what 👏 the 👏 drivers 👏 see. 👏
It could be the road leads to something that blend the smoke into it, the smoke likely is thin from that perspective vs what we see which is a direct look at it to the source, etc. we cannot assume we know what people looking in /that/ direction can see.
Let’s just give a moment of silence to remember and respect the ones involved in this tragedy thank you to all that helped 😢
what shocks me isn’t the fire department. its the twenty cars that drove by an obvious fire and didn’t do anything.
in the beginning, because NOBODY pulled over until a UPS TRUCK did
I have just seen this video, mydeepest sympathy to her family. I hope all those firemen/women are all right. There is nothing worse than knowing that there was someone inside. From start that building was engulfed within 4 minutes. It would appear to me that building was tinder dry. A big thank you to all the emergency response crew. I live in a small town in New zealand that is covered by volunteers. If more are required they have to travel 20 kilometers. So they should be thanked not criticized. They did well getting water on the fire when they did.
This is so heartbreaking. Fire moves very quickly. Every minute feels like an hour waiting for help to arrive. I am very sorry for the loss.
I can’t believe so many cars drove by before everything started and no one stop to knock on the door or scream or do something knowing there is a car parked on the driveway 😢so sorry for the losses .
And the first person to go up was a ups driver….
RIP lady who didn't get out
And dog
So if people are mad watching this because the FD took so long to get there. By CAR the drive is 6 minutes long, firetrucks go over the speed limit so that's about 5 minutes from the Turners Falls Fire Department (first firetruck on scene). The firefighters in the area are volunteers meaning they need to get dressed, haul ass to the fire station, get in their gear, get in the truck then drive to the scene. Millers Falls area is a rural area. That whole part of Massachusetts is. In reality they responded and got there VERY quickly. I checked the news for this fire and found that the Turners Falls Fire Department MIGHT'VE not been the only department to respond. I'm from the area and believe if more than 1 department responded then the next closest one is Greenfield (A town over from Turners Falls), which from there the drive to the fire is about 14 minutes. "Brunelle told Western Mass News the home appears to be a complete loss and crews from his department, along with several other communities, were on-scene for upwards of ten hours attempting to put out the flames" I suggest if you want more information about it just search the title of the video the town, type of fire and the date.
As a teenager our family experienced a house fire while I was at school and the cat was found alive days later at a friend's house.
Whatever the fire didn't damage,the soot and water would.
Watching the video from beginning to end is hard for me to do...
Glad your kitty was safe and nobody was injured. ♥️
Oh what a tragedy for that family! Losing a family member is heartwrenching but in a fire oh GOD it's even worse! My heartfelt condolences to this family🙏