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FIRE SERVICE AND GENERAL FIRE SAFETY TOPICS => Fire Safety => Topic started by: Tom W on March 26, 2014, 10:40:53 AM

Title: Dramatic rescue
Post by: Tom W on March 26, 2014, 10:40:53 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg9PWSHL4Vg#t=131

This dramatic video captures the heart-stopping moment a construction worker was plucked from a burning building moments before part of it collapsed.

The clip, recorded yesterday by a shocked eyewitness in a building opposite, shows the man standing on a ledge as fire rages around him.

According to the Houston Chronicle, the man was working on a $50million (£30million) luxury apartment building currently under construction in Houston, Texas.

The astonishing footage shows the roofer climbing down to a lower balcony as the fire threatens to engulf him in the city’s Montrose district.

He is rescued by a fire truck ladder just seconds before the ceiling collapses and falls down around him in high winds.

(http://metrouk2.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/g13.jpg?w=650&h=503&crop=1#038;h=602)

Title: Re: Dramatic rescue
Post by: Dinnertime Dave on March 26, 2014, 07:34:00 PM

Reminds me of when I was an ALP operator - always positioned the thing a yard short of the objective.

Builder is quite laid back though. No panic.

Title: Re: Dramatic rescue
Post by: jayjay on March 26, 2014, 08:16:46 PM

Good bit of video, looks like another timber framed inferno

Title: Re: Dramatic rescue
Post by: colin todd on March 28, 2014, 09:52:11 PM

Wow, it takes Big Al back to the the time the scout hut caught alight at Bathmat Lock, and he had to heroically use a hook ladder to rescue the scouts' cat from the roof. Its where the expression cat on a hot tin roof came from.

Suppers, the reason the ALP was wrongly positioned is that you were clearly still working in yards, whereas the UK went metric before I was even born.  It was the difference between a yard and a metre that screwed you up.

Title: Re: Dramatic rescue
Post by: Dinnertime Dave on March 28, 2014, 10:23:18 PM

Quote from: colin todd on March 28, 2014, 09:52:11 PM

Suppers, the reason the ALP was wrongly positioned is that you were clearly still working in yards, whereas the UK went metric before I was even born.  It was the difference between a yard and a metre that screwed you up.

About 1965 I believe. The Year after I was born.

Title: Re: Dramatic rescue
Post by: colin todd on March 29, 2014, 09:58:58 PM

QED Suppers.

Title: Re: Dramatic rescue
Post by: kurnal on March 29, 2014, 10:03:22 PM

Yes Colin we did have to rescue an animal off a roof in Matlock Bath but it was a cow not a cat. Must show you the photos sometime.

Title: Re: Dramatic rescue
Post by: colin todd on March 30, 2014, 05:57:26 PM

Nowadays, Al, they would sent 10 appliances but conclude they will need to wait around for a specialist cow rescue unit coming from Auchtermuchty and then charge for the service.