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RAW VIDEO: Dramatic Apartment Fire Flare Up Thanks To A Dry California Tree

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A video first reported by Statter911 over the weekend, is from an apartment fire last Wednesday in the 900 block of East Jones Street near Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria, California. The most impressive part of the video is at 1:14 where a seemingly simple fire catches a typical dry California tree which dramatically helps spread the fire. (more…)

Posted by on January 24, 2011 • Filed under: fire-prevention-education, firefighting-operations, Fireground, fires, sidecharlie.com, Videos • Tagged: , , , , , , ,

YouTubers Burning Their Christmas Trees A New Post-Holiday Tradition?

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[fblike]There seems to be a new annual trend on YouTube consisting of homeowners armed with Flip video cameras burning their Christmas trees in the backyard. As many times as I’ve seen the fire department pre-Christmas fire safety demonstrations of burning a tree, nothing compares to seeing the 30 second flare ups of a post-holiday tree. (more…)

Posted by on January 9, 2011 • Filed under: fire-prevention-education, Fireground, fires, wildland • Tagged: , , , , , , ,