Structure Fire: Watch House Burn from Start to Finish in Live Fire Training Burn [Training Material]

That is one stubborn wall!!

Wow! What a strong old house and the chimney stack still stood strong & proud. The builders did a great job. RIP house.

Amazing Chimney!! Stands strong and works perfectly, even without a house!!

That was a well built house to burn that long. Also the chimney stood the test of heat that it was never supposed to be subjected to. I liked the Firenado on the A/B corner of the house. Great video.

Ahhh..but well made chimney stands strong and proud. A big salute to the chimney!💪🏻💪🏻🔥🔥🔥

For all those bashing the firefighters for "standing around", this was done at the end of a live fire training session. Landowners will donate an unwanted house for the local fire departments to use for teaching search and rescue, forcible entry, and fire attack strategies. When the planned training is done, the firemen will burn the house to the ground in order to save the owner the expense of demolition, and to ensure that a potentially unstable structure isn't left behind. The property owner has his or her own reasons for wanting the building demolished. Usually a new house has been built on a different part of the property, and there is no longer a use for the old one which may have some underlying condition that renders it uninhabitable and not worth repairing. As for letting homeless people live there, it is private property.

I was amazed at how long the plywood in the lower front windows was lasting, and JUST as it started to catch, that's when you decided to move the camera.

"Honey". "What, Thelma?" "I think I might have left the oven on...."

When you know there is no loss of life or possessions..a controlled burn is facinating.. Altho bittersweet as that house looked solid..probably a strip mall going on that site... And cudos to the cameraman who kept it on a tripod.. Watched it to the end.. Amazing..

I love it you can read the smoke and watch how fast it burns and all of the new people can get hands on training how to safely to attack a house fire and your fire arson investigators can track down where and how it started thank you for sharing

The one time I see my Heros have an easy day with a fire. That chimney was definitely smokin. God Bless The Firefighters. You guys stay safe.

Wife of firefighter, hi honey how was your day ? Firefighter, we learned how to watch a house burn down. 😊

So amazing watching this. I can't begin to imagine how hit that was. In its own right fire is a beautiful thing‼️💜

kinda cool seeing the mini fire tornado at 13:25 starting

That smoke stack was built very well. Kept waiting for it to fall. Lol

When I was a paid FF, we had a Shift Comander that upon arrival of first unit if it was determined that structure was vacant and no exposures, and no life safety issues, it became a controlled burn. We could leave one unit with 3 personal and in about 1.5 hours be back in station, instead of tying up 12 people for 3 hours to save something that was going to be bulldozed anyway.

I have said that we need more training like this!!!

If this house could talk. I wonder what stories it could tell about the families that have lived there.The birth of the home and it's death. The first wife to walk into it, And the first baby to come home to it. I think of the bricklayer that built the Chimney. And the roofer that nailed the shingles

Fire fighters arrived just in the nick of time, they managed to save the chimney..

There are two positive outcomes, 1. The chimney was saved 2. The chimney works!!