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I’m just glad the guy was able to be rescued in time. Man structure fires are scary when my neighbors garage caught fire 2 years ago it shocked me how fast it went up. Once a fire gets going it really takes off like crazy. I will say the guy looked more like a supervisor or the GC with the type of clothes he was wearing.
Smart and lucky dude right there. Our house burned to the ground when I was a kid. 10 minutes and it was a pile of rubble. The fire was burned out by the time the fire department got there. Probably why I keep fire extinguishers in every room now.
dude has some balls to jump to lower level like that, he was quite a ways in the air. Good to see he was on his A game
Nice find DR. Kinda makes you realize SOMEBODY actually does watch out for us!
yea i would have been crisp carnitas! I am terrified of heights! That guy has guts! Glad too see he made it out ok
Didnt look like he had any choice but to jump that fire was starting to get unbearably hot where he was I imagine.
He is really lucky he jumped down to the lower level. That fire would of got him for sure. Wow
Dan M wrote:
Wow that was crazy! Man I am really liking this forum now lol
Dan found out where all the cool kids hang out 🙂
It gives HOT NUTS a whole new meaning. I worst think I have ever seen on a job site was a trench collapse and that guy was not so lucky.
regopit wrote:
It gives HOT NUTS a whole new meaning. I worst think I have ever seen on a job site was a trench collapse and that guy was not so lucky.
That’s a big problem and if OSHA gets a phone call about a guy in a trench with out adequate wall shoring prepare to bend over. The other thing OSHA is really anal about right now is using harnesses of any sort of open elevated work. Those are the 2 big ones OSHA likes to hit jobsites with fines on.
DR99 wrote:
That’s a big problem and if OSHA gets a phone call about a guy in a trench with out adequate wall shoring prepare to bend over. The other thing OSHA is really anal about right now is using harnesses of any sort of open elevated work. Those are the 2 big ones OSHA likes to hit jobsites with fines on.
I used to teach trench shoring and safety. If you are in a trench collapse the only thing the harnesses and tag line are good for is finding the body.Why you my ask dirt weights then you think 1,890 to 2,160 pounds per cubic yard.
Sorry should have clarified that when I was talking about a harness I was talking about elevated work not subterranean. Yea when your buried in sand or mud the cable isn’t going to do much good. The only place that a harness does help is in a confined space like a tank where you could get overcome with fumes and can’t self rescue.
That guy is brave, I just saw this video this morning on the local news. Good thing when the roof collapsed over them it didn’t fall on them both
I’m not a big fan of stick built apartment buildings not that masonry matters in most cases because they don’t fire block the walls good enough it’s all over for a building once the fire gets in the attic. I wonder what the cause of the fire was there are so many things that can start fires on a job site a plumber sweating pipe to an electrical issue to some one being careless with a cigarette.
DR99 wrote:
Sorry should have clarified that when I was talking about a harness I was talking about elevated work not subterranean. Yea when your buried in sand or mud the cable isn’t going to do much good. The only place that a harness does help is in a confined space like a tank where you could get overcome with fumes and can’t self rescue.
Don’t be sorry I sounded like a dick. I was not trying to say you where wrong a lot of company’s have a harness and part of their safety procedures when working in a trench. I think that they have in their procedures to CTA. Now working in a confined space is a whole another animal.
Wow, just saw this!! That’s insane.. that can’t be an easy jump from balcony to balcony, things could have went a lot worse for this dude.. glad they didnt!
Wow, that’s amazing. That place went up quick, not sure if I would have been able to jump. Although I think burning alive is also not a great option either.
That is a crazy video. I think he deserves the rest of the day off. It’s amazing how fast structures get burn down. Given that the inside looked empty, air flow was probably helping spread the fire more quickly.
I hadn’t seen this video either wow that was crazy!
Scoszko wrote:
That is a crazy video. I think he deserves the rest of the day off. It’s amazing how fast structures get burn down. Given that the inside looked empty, air flow was probably helping spread the fire more quickly.
Haha, at least an extra long lunch break!!
It sure did go fast.. I’m assuming it had no drywall installed which would have helped slow things down a bit
Once a fire gets to that size nothing is gonna slow or stop it though.. just try to prevent it’s spread to surrounding buildings and watch it burn