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.
@@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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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 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 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 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?
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.
Sredinnaya i dr.dlinnaya j.p.dumayut kak naiti lyubimogi ,rastrachivaya na poiski muja.po krutim senam,a pochemu kogda vilazuet malen'kie iz chasov s kukushkoi,nachinayut dumat' chto oni ne kukushka a rebyonok obventaet...
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.
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.
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.
Moi dyadya devid koperfild iz Ameriki toje popal v rossiyu,i okaz chto on dlya detei fokusnik,a ne mi s nim vmeste izychem moego dyadi professiyy i zachem nam shola kogda moi drug uchit svoi tuda brejat' podunali chto ti ne snakoma i luchshe,dr odejda,a esli tam uje skladi imi shampunikosmasa
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.
A glavnoe protiv nepravdi i ne pravil'nosti nado pryatat'blokator lakator ih lapshu,kotoruyu oni berut sebe cherez blokator lokator,smeyas'kto bi vseh zdes'bil,a dr korovkam jalovalis'.
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.....
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 8 and 1/2 years have gone by since this?? was nearby and saw/felt the heat from the fire.....
I remember this as if were last month. 12 years wow.
All the mill fires were crazy to witness believe this one was 122 years old shame to see that history an architecture gone
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.
Great coverage of the fire. Subbed
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.
Wow! So hot they had to hose the ladder truck.
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.
That's a bad feeling when you only have enough water to protect exposures. They had their hands full.
That was a hell of a fire I hope there were no casualties.
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?
Mike Caldear
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?
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.
11:32 is just surreal.
right...
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
Try living on the aves, there was no water, you couldn't open any windows, the air was toxic, it was terrible.
I have never seen a fire this big. How many firefighters where there
I remeber that they had Every Fire Truck in the State That Day
I was 9 watching this burn, was a crazy fire.
Completely out of control. Protect exposures and just let it burn itself out.
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?
does anyone know how the fire started? I have my guess, do you?
Sparkywfd did you cover the Diamond hill rd. skating ring fire..... (old Walmart area)? happened about the same time period
Holy crap need to call in an air tanker for this. Geez sad.
Nothing was going to stop that Fire
Das ist "kontrolliertes ABBRENNEN"
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.
Zubnoi devushka zachembrat stomooratit?
Sredinnaya i dr.dlinnaya j.p.dumayut kak naiti lyubimogi ,rastrachivaya na poiski muja.po krutim senam,a pochemu kogda vilazuet malen'kie iz chasov s kukushkoi,nachinayut dumat' chto oni ne kukushka a rebyonok obventaet...
That fire didn't give a shit about water.
What is a woofsocket plz?
Hydrants welded shut? What gives?
I'M AT WORK!!!! I HAVE TO FIND A WAY TO STOP WATCHING THIS STUFF!!!!!
HEY................ WHERE DO YOU PLUG IN A WOON???............. IN THE WOONSOCKET: DUH!
10:45 best part
SOOOOOOOO glad I don't live there anymore.
The worst chapter of my life took place there. Never again.
*WHAT'S THE USE OF SPENDING THIS AMOUNT OF WATER IN VAIN?*
Thebossman1973 has good footage as well with this fire
A couple of booster lines and they should be able to knock that right down
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.
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.
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.
Where’s the marshmallows??
Poidu kushat'yaizi.
I was literally on first ave when this happened. My family was having a party and we saw the smoke and we called 911.
What a waste of water! Let it burn, less stuff to truck to a landfill.
A very fast burning fire.
A pochemu huge mani,i kakie znacheniya ,govoryat v skazkah medvedei tri dorojki sredinnaya luchshaya.
Kto prav chi lokatori chi krestiki vrodechavtov chi dorogi skazok pro raznie dorogi,kto za menya?
looks like a high school but i feel sorry for the mill
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.
Poidu pop'yu.
Kak je buduchee,parnii,dam...devochki.ne hochet net smislov.restnizi u mamash plastmas santimetrovi na kleyu,chto tak tyajelo
Ih shmotki komeri,kommiri.
Arhistratig razocharovalsya v prilipaniyah lileipud,che moloko na voennislujachego,vse narachivali reznizi ih,kak na uschezayuschem pyatne chyorni marker ne yavlyayuschi travoi musul'manakoi ust'moi lyubvi tyag predlojeni eleni veronikovoi ,predlojila posmeyatsya krestikami putanis malen'kogo d.aleksandra,sama lena s ferganskoi dolini,bila 500kg,lyubvi ojidani,u nih lokator best of plutki.
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!
Kak on govorit povezyot pro korovke v odejdah razberyotsya isus hraister,oblezut korovki v shmotkah?
Pro ih kotushki beli asterik promichaksya,i chto ih shmoti shmotki,blokator snova u nih?ti chto ...?ya v zabilyave, ya matil'da i kleopatra,danu je?
Em tort
Glavnoe ne tyanet na devushku stomatologa,govoryat ne dano,znachit nashi fokusniki devochkam.
OUCH! THATS HUUUUUUGE!
Fir 1
Fir 2
Fir 3
Fir 4
Fir 5
Pro seni.
A isporchenie parni devushkami s glupimi glazami smotryat tol'ko na dorogie idejdi,ne ponimaya ot nachala skol'ko proizvodstvu hlopka let,kak ego proizvodyat,kak sh'yut,kak prodayut odejdu,kak pokupayut,pofigizm i chyom,eto nazivaetsyu ichen'nado.
Pozvonyu lyubimomu drugu.
Не интересно смотреть. Пожар сам по себе выгорает, смысл тущения????
I wonder which developer torched it in order to save demolition costs...
Moi dyadya devid koperfild iz Ameriki toje popal v rossiyu,i okaz chto on dlya detei fokusnik,a ne mi s nim vmeste izychem moego dyadi professiyy i zachem nam shola kogda moi drug uchit svoi tuda brejat' podunali chto ti ne snakoma i luchshe,dr odejda,a esli tam uje skladi imi shampunikosmasa
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.
Kakogo hlopka,ne pravda smuslov,pravda v nado imeyut,tak uchat kukushki ves'globus.
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.
A glavnoe protiv nepravdi i ne pravil'nosti nado pryatat'blokator lakator ih lapshu,kotoruyu oni berut sebe cherez blokator lokator,smeyas'kto bi vseh zdes'bil,a dr korovkam jalovalis'.
Menya zovut lisa,kto za menya pishite.
Tak ychat kukushki chasov.
Now that's a FIRE!!!
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 could watch your videos all day, Spark. Amazing coverage.
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
wow thats very hot n toasty
Real weenie roast huh?