I was born in woonsocket hospital and lived in Blackstone for 18 years. Live in New Jersey now. I remember when I was a kid in the 80s and a mill burned down 5 miles away we had ash on our roof. The old mill fires are no joke.
I haven't seen a factory fire like that, since I was a little kid. Growing up in a old factory city, I've seen more than my share of them, and watching them burn and my dad taking me to the main firehouse and the firemen would take me up into the cab of a pumper. Was what led me to become a volunteer firefighter. Hopefully there was no injuries to anyone related to this incident. Thank you to all firefighters everywhere for protecting the citizens of your coverage area.
@@staylowtinostaylowtino9796 No, they let it get out of control. They only had one hose pipe on it. At 2:33 you see a guy wasting time washing the fire truck instead of putting out the fire. They just let it burn down.
@Tyler Vajen No, these US fire crews just walk around trying to look cool. 50 of them, and they just stand around watching it burn. In contrast to the European crews who actually put out the fires and save the buildings.
Yeah I was one of them. I saw the smoke from the Blackstone/NS line and we hopped in the car and went over. It was a weird vibe. All the electricity was out and people just walking around in the streets. It was an experience for sure.
@@PreservationEnthusiast it has nothing to do with them caring or not, one it gets going, all you can do is damage control, theres not putting that out.
I remember being at work when Grenfell Tower in London was on fire. That was the worst fire I ever seen. People was in the windows on 8th and 10 floor they was calling for help. They could not get out. The next thing I seen was people jumping out the window I think it was the 12 floor. I never want to see nothing like that again. 72 people died. This was on June 14th 2017. When they show the tower the next day after the fire went out. It was black. The people that died some were burnt to death the others from jumping out the window. Men, women and children.
I remember that too. IM American and was working on constructing the new us embassy by vauxhall 9 elms. I woke up that morning to the news. Such a tragedy. We could see it still smoking days later. Bad as that was seeing the burned out building standing there weeks, months later was like it was an evil demon still looking at the area. I hope nothing like that ever happens again. I did hear many buildings had to remodel the exterior cladding as it was the same or similar to grenfell tower. It was so hot people were actually cremated in their flats.
Such a sad and preventable tragedy. The horror of being trapped knowing you won’t get out alive. Early on residents were told to stay inside instead of escaping. More lives could have been saved if people could have left early on.
You know it's gone to hell when the firefighters start spraying their trucks and not the fire. Wow! I heard the whole building collapsed and burned for over 24 hours. Insanity.
I remember that while I was living up there. That was the night the railroad got their train as far as they could, and then had to backup all the way to Valley Falls.
You know you're going to be there for the rest of the shift and more when your firestream turns to steam before it reaches the fire! Basically only a shortage of fuel is going to see that job out! Last time I was on a job like that the appliance beacons melted with radiated heat and the cage controls were too hot to operate without Kevlar gloves. My face was tender from the heat for days; the days before we had flash hoods and I don't think we did the slightest of good. The building collapsed and all the contents (bales of cotton) were lost. Even the recovered bales reignited on the backs of the lorries on the way to the salvage company. They had to station fire appliances en-route to keep the fire suppressed as the air flow when moving intensified the smouldering insides of the bales. Personally I would have broken them open onsite but it seems they were worth a lot of money to the salvage company.
I lived about 7 miles south of this fire when it happened and could see the smoke from my house. I drove up to see closer and only could get within a mile of the place and parked my car and walked the rest of the way. This fire pretty much went on all night. The building itself was a rubber factory for most of it's life and during World War II was the largest producer of rubber products in the world supplying the war effort with nearly a third of all rubber goods needed to prosecute that war. 2000 people worked here at that time. The building itself dates to the 1880's and the entire inside was a wood structure with floor ceiling, walls and beams all made of oak. When this building went up it had absorbed 130 years of accumulated oils. In the old days they prevented rot by soaking wood structures with petroleum oils and did so regularly for maintenance purposes. .
All the old mills go up like this. All wood construction including floors. All floors soaked with machine oil for over a century. Once it catches it just goes forever.
That water doesn't look like it's doing much. With a fire like this, are you essentially just protecting what's near it until it burns itself out a little?
Should've called for an air water drop. I've been in buildings like this. I could smell the oil that all the wood inside was soaked with. A catastrophe waiting for a spark to touch it off.
My buddy lived in the Apartment complex on Main street right beside Renaissance. I remember this like it was yesterday. We ran up to the roof and watched it from there. Crazy good view. I remember seeing bumper to bumper traffic on all streets for 45 minutes when this started. What was this an 8 alarm? I remember seeing towns from ALL surrounding areas. Just as crazy as the Mill Fires where the new middle schools are
Pizza Face I remember you commenting then you lived that close.... I also remember it like it was yesterday and the skating ring right next to the old Walmart.....
All the old mills go up like this. All wood construction including floors. All floors soaked with machine oil for over a century. Once it catches it just goes forever.
It looked like they let it burn. If no water or water pressure and it is empty... don't risk life or equipment... investigate later is see if it was arson.
skiqsr...right, no use risking lives in a building that’s lost from the start. And very few if any fire departments have the resources or water supply to control a fire of this magnitude. Protect the exposures, establish a collapse zone, and wait for it to burn down.
Those old mills are tinderboxes it takes very little to get them going and once they are you cant haul pump draft pipe etc enough water to put them out many of these are heavy timber on the inside and the floors are wood soaked in machine oil the only thing you can do is protect exposures and wait till it runs out of fuel more or less you could have 100 ladder pipes and 400 other master streams you are never going even to dent buildings like this I get they can be "Pretty" but a preplan for this should read as a list of exposures no entry and wait for it to be over.
Either that or maybe the oil from all the old machines that used to be in there. I never remember reading anything about Mill buildings having the floors water sealed with oil. But all the machine oil that leaked onto the flooring, probably would have been enough to act as an accelerant.
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I was born in woonsocket hospital and lived in Blackstone for 18 years. Live in New Jersey now. I remember when I was a kid in the 80s and a mill burned down 5 miles away we had ash on our roof. The old mill fires are no joke.
I haven't seen a factory fire like that, since I was a little kid. Growing up in a old factory city, I've seen more than my share of them, and watching them burn and my dad taking me to the main firehouse and the firemen would take me up into the cab of a pumper. Was what led me to become a volunteer firefighter.
Hopefully there was no injuries to anyone related to this incident.
Thank you to all firefighters everywhere for protecting the citizens of your coverage area.
These guys earned their money today!!! That fire was a beast. Glad everyone went home safe
Yes they did 🤝💯
@@staylowtinostaylowtino9796 No, they let it get out of control. They only had one hose pipe on it. At 2:33 you see a guy wasting time washing the fire truck instead of putting out the fire. They just let it burn down.
@Tyler Vajen No, these US fire crews just walk around trying to look cool. 50 of them, and they just stand around watching it burn. In contrast to the European crews who actually put out the fires and save the buildings.
@@PreservationEnthusiast why risk a lot to save an abandoned building? Seems like you don’t know what you are talking about.
@@kevinjacks1258 It's the firemen's job to put out the fire.
I remember being there watching this happen live. Everyone could see the smoke from all over the city. So many people showed up to watch.
Yeah I was one of them. I saw the smoke from the Blackstone/NS line and we hopped in the car and went over. It was a weird vibe. All the electricity was out and people just walking around in the streets. It was an experience for sure.
So sad to see these old buildings with so much history and beautiful architecture go up in flames.
If you don’t know how this started it started with people putting fireworks on the roof and then lighting them off
@@tonysmith7428 Probably that building was going to get demo'd anyway. The Fire Department didnt seem to care, they just let it burn down!
Beautiful architecture? That place was an eyesore.
@@PreservationEnthusiast it has nothing to do with them caring or not, one it gets going, all you can do is damage control, theres not putting that out.
@@bouchee2007 Most of the time these US FDs don't bother putting the fire out anyway. They just stand there trying to look cool, watching it burn.
I could watch your videos all day, Spark. Amazing coverage.
WOW 8 and 1/2 years have gone by since this?? was nearby and saw/felt the heat from the fire.....
I remember being at work when Grenfell Tower in London was on fire. That was the worst fire I ever seen. People was in the windows on 8th and 10 floor they was calling for help. They could not get out. The next thing I seen was people jumping out the window I think it was the 12 floor. I never want to see nothing like that again. 72 people died. This was on June 14th 2017. When they show the tower the next day after the fire went out. It was black.
The people that died some were burnt to death the others from jumping out the window. Men, women and children.
I remember that too. IM American and was working on constructing the new us embassy by vauxhall 9 elms. I woke up that morning to the news. Such a tragedy. We could see it still smoking days later. Bad as that was seeing the burned out building standing there weeks, months later was like it was an evil demon still looking at the area. I hope nothing like that ever happens again. I did hear many buildings had to remodel the exterior cladding as it was the same or similar to grenfell tower. It was so hot people were actually cremated in their flats.
Such a sad and preventable tragedy. The horror of being trapped knowing you won’t get out alive. Early on residents were told to stay inside instead of escaping. More lives could have been saved if people could have left early on.
I remember this as if were last month. 12 years wow.
You know it's gone to hell when the firefighters start spraying their trucks and not the fire. Wow! I heard the whole building collapsed and burned for over 24 hours. Insanity.
All the mill fires were crazy to witness believe this one was 122 years old shame to see that history an architecture gone
Great coverage of the fire. Subbed
Sparkywfd did you cover the Diamond hill rd. skating ring fire..... (old Walmart area)? happened about the same time period
So much for protecting the rest of the exposure...went up like...well..fire!
Kudos to all the firefighters who kept this conflagration from burning down the whole city east of the river.
I remember that while I was living up there. That was the night the railroad got their train as far as they could, and then had to backup all the way to Valley Falls.
Wow that was a Huge fire including Divisions. Not very often you see a fire to this magnitude. Wish it was longer and not edited
You know you're going to be there for the rest of the shift and more when your firestream turns to steam before it reaches the fire! Basically only a shortage of fuel is going to see that job out! Last time I was on a job like that the appliance beacons melted with radiated heat and the cage controls were too hot to operate without Kevlar gloves. My face was tender from the heat for days; the days before we had flash hoods and I don't think we did the slightest of good. The building collapsed and all the contents (bales of cotton) were lost. Even the recovered bales reignited on the backs of the lorries on the way to the salvage company. They had to station fire appliances en-route to keep the fire suppressed as the air flow when moving intensified the smouldering insides of the bales. Personally I would have broken them open onsite but it seems they were worth a lot of money to the salvage company.
Steven Booth...I’m assuming you’re in the UK? If so, what city?
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I lived about 7 miles south of this fire when it happened and could see the smoke from my house. I drove up to see closer and only could get within a mile of the place and parked my car and walked the rest of the way. This fire pretty much went on all night. The building itself was a rubber factory for most of it's life and during World War II was the largest producer of rubber products in the world supplying the war effort with nearly a third of all rubber goods needed to prosecute that war. 2000 people worked here at that time. The building itself dates to the 1880's and the entire inside was a wood structure with floor ceiling, walls and beams all made of oak. When this building went up it had absorbed 130 years of accumulated oils. In the old days they prevented rot by soaking wood structures with petroleum oils and did so regularly for maintenance purposes. .
How do u have time to sit here and write a whole novel?
I was 9 watching this burn, was a crazy fire.
That's a bad feeling when you only have enough water to protect exposures. They had their hands full.
Wow! So hot they had to hose the ladder truck.
That was a hell of a fire I hope there were no casualties.
Try living on the aves, there was no water, you couldn't open any windows, the air was toxic, it was terrible.
All the old mills go up like this. All wood construction including floors. All floors soaked with machine oil for over a century. Once it catches it just goes forever.
Now that's a FIRE!!!
That water doesn't look like it's doing much. With a fire like this, are you essentially just protecting what's near it until it burns itself out a little?
I remeber that they had Every Fire Truck in the State That Day
That fire was so massive they weren't going to put it out no matter what they did. The fire will put itself out when it's fuel source is gone.
11:32 is just surreal.
right...
Should've called for an air water drop. I've been in buildings like this. I could smell the oil that all the wood inside was soaked with. A catastrophe waiting for a spark to touch it off.
My buddy lived in the Apartment complex on Main street right beside Renaissance. I remember this like it was yesterday. We ran up to the roof and watched it from there. Crazy good view. I remember seeing bumper to bumper traffic on all streets for 45 minutes when this started. What was this an 8 alarm? I remember seeing towns from ALL surrounding areas. Just as crazy as the Mill Fires where the new middle schools are
Pizza Face I remember you commenting then you lived that close.... I also remember it like it was yesterday and the skating ring right next to the old Walmart.....
@@sharongagnist6428 what lol? I never commented I lived that close
What is a woofsocket plz?
does anyone know how the fire started? I have my guess, do you?
Completely out of control. Protect exposures and just let it burn itself out.
What did this mill produce? It's spreading so fast there doesn't seem to be any fire separations existing in the building or sprinkler systems.
Ian Sheppard It looks like it was producing gasoline and paper. That thing really went up.
This mill produced rubber products.
All the old mills go up like this. All wood construction including floors. All floors soaked with machine oil for over a century. Once it catches it just goes forever.
Holy crap need to call in an air tanker for this. Geez sad.
It looked like they let it burn. If no water or water pressure and it is empty... don't risk life or equipment... investigate later is see if it was arson.
skiqsr...right, no use risking lives in a building that’s lost from the start. And very few if any fire departments have the resources or water supply to control a fire of this magnitude. Protect the exposures, establish a collapse zone, and wait for it to burn down.
Das ist "kontrolliertes ABBRENNEN"
Thebossman1973 has good footage as well with this fire
A couple of booster lines and they should be able to knock that right down
Nothing was going to stop that Fire
Those old mills are tinderboxes it takes very little to get them going and once they are you cant haul pump draft pipe etc enough water to put them out many of these are heavy timber on the inside and the floors are wood soaked in machine oil the only thing you can do is protect exposures and wait till it runs out of fuel more or less you could have 100 ladder pipes and 400 other master streams you are never going even to dent buildings like this I get they can be "Pretty" but a preplan for this should read as a list of exposures no entry and wait for it to be over.
A very fast burning fire.
I wonder which developer torched it in order to save demolition costs...
Many of those old mills used oils on there wood floors to water seal them. Over the years that's alot of fuel. Shame to see it go.
the floors were reportedly oil soaked was the biggest fire i have witnessed
Either that or maybe the oil from all the old machines that used to be in there. I never remember reading anything about Mill buildings having the floors water sealed with oil. But all the machine oil that leaked onto the flooring, probably would have been enough to act as an accelerant.
10:45 best part
That fire didn't give a shit about water.
I got some awesome footage I was at the park close to the bridge then moved to end of first ave then they kicked us out
I was literally on first ave when this happened. My family was having a party and we saw the smoke and we called 911.
Not much you can do about that. Just let it burn. It all makes sense, look likes its timber framed. No wonder it went up like a match.
looks like a high school but i feel sorry for the mill
I'M AT WORK!!!! I HAVE TO FIND A WAY TO STOP WATCHING THIS STUFF!!!!!
SOOOOOOOO glad I don't live there anymore.
The worst chapter of my life took place there. Never again.
Where’s the marshmallows??
Hydrants welded shut? What gives?
wow thats very hot n toasty
Real weenie roast huh?
*WHAT'S THE USE OF SPENDING THIS AMOUNT OF WATER IN VAIN?*
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What a waste of water! Let it burn, less stuff to truck to a landfill.
OUCH! THATS HUUUUUUGE!
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Incredible... they cared more about washing their fire engines than putting out the fire!
Protecting the equipment not washing it. The fire was not extinguishable. Note the water turning into steam before it gets to the fire.
@@joebledsoe257 They are just a bunch of idiot then. Don't bother to park it or drive it further away. Just spray it with water!
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