r/Firefighting • u/Measure2xCutOnce Edit to create your own flair • Mar 13 '25
Videos Found on the interestingasfuck page. Definitely interesting
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u/iheartMGs FF/EMT/Hazmat Tech Mar 13 '25
RIP Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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u/Potato_body89 Mar 13 '25
It’s not turtle time anymore
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u/bontayti Mar 14 '25
That's why Aaron crashing out all the time. Dude's depressed his sibs deceased. In a real way.
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u/anticharge Mar 13 '25
It'll either burn itself out or evacuate the town for good like Centralia, PA
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u/RPKhero Mar 13 '25
I saw this earlier and believe one of the top comments was from somebody who worked in electrical. He mentioned something about a fire at the treatment facility (or whatever it is) up the street. The green fire is probably caused by burning copper lines. Also, said that that IS shit getting splashed out.
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u/Orgasmic_interlude Mar 13 '25
I think i read that and was suddenly reminded of the green and blue flash from a transformer blowing up. It scans.
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u/Patriae8182 Mar 13 '25
Arc flashes like that are terrifying lol. I’ve got an NFPA 70E safety cert, and I distinctly recall the instructor explaining how little a full arc flash suit will do. Even wearing a 140cal suit (basically an EOD bomb suit), the only thing that it’s gonna do is give you an open casket funeral.
It’ll save you from the electrical arc and the heat of the plasma, but the shockwave will still liquefy your organs.
An explosion is just a rapid expansion of gas, and when air suddenly turns to plasma (which is what electrical arc is) it expands 400 times in volume. If you’re in a confined space, or within 10-20ft of something that big outside, you’re dead.
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u/Electrical-Money6548 Mar 13 '25
Transformers very rarely blow up and they don't look like that.
It's arc flashes from an underground cable fault. Most likely network secondary, it'll burn until it burns itself in the clear. Primary will trip the upline device usually.
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u/kumbelgerie Mar 16 '25
This needs to be the top comment, it’s the only correct explanation here. 10 years in the utility business.
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u/Zealousideal-City-16 Mar 13 '25
Green flames mean Fel Magic. Someone is communing with the Burning Legion. Better call Thrall.
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u/Practical-Intern-347 Mar 13 '25
I fight what you fear!**
**Unless its anything other than room and contents or car on the side of the road. Then I stand back and stare
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u/reddaddiction Mar 13 '25
Well, at least that's what you're supposed to do for gas lines. Nothing like watching a chief rip the shit out of some new guys' asshole for putting out the flames on one of those.
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u/HoldinTheBag Mar 13 '25
I’m gonna tell my kids that’s the northern lights
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u/ArcticLarmer Mar 14 '25
Years ago we were working a fire in a large hangar in late fall, way out of control, limited water supply: she took off and the whole thing was fully involved. At one point there were massive green flames coming out of the roof and a giant streak of northern lights across the sky above it. Not sure exactly what caused it but wow.
We all just kind of stopped and stood in awe, was quite the sight!
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u/AllGoodInTheWoods_ Mar 14 '25
You clearly have no idea what you're talking about and haven't seen them in real life... because that obviously looks more like Grinch' fart than the northern lights
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u/jrobski96 Mar 13 '25
Da fuck does green flames mean, besides run away?! Shit
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u/yugosaki Mar 13 '25
green flames mean whatever is burning probably contains copper, barium, or boric acid. Probably boric acid in this case cause its used in a lot of stuff that either goes down the drain or could end up in the sewer from runoff.
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u/Goddess_of_Carnage Mar 14 '25
Watch out for the poop falling from the sky!
This is a sign the Flying Monkey’s have been unleashed.
/\ witch theme playing in my head.
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u/Hero-Firefighter-24 Mar 13 '25
How does this happen?
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u/Smattering82 Mar 13 '25 edited Mar 13 '25
The pyromancers had too much milk of the poppy and dropped a jar of wildfire.
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u/DIQJJ Mar 13 '25
I dunno about this particular fire but here we get them all the time in the winter. Snow predicted, city salts roads, eventually some form of precipitation falls, salt water gets into manholes, I’m not an electrician but apparently that’s not good for wires and now shit’s on fire.
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u/South-Specific7095 Mar 13 '25
How was this extinguished?
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u/Chicken_Hairs AIC/AEMT Mar 13 '25
It isn't, and you generally don't. Too facking dangerous.
Wait it out.
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u/Fit-Income-3296 interior volunteer FF - upstate NY Mar 13 '25
Call prince Phillip we aren’t dealing with Maleficent
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u/firebreather1911 Mar 13 '25
Tell people not to throw matches down in the sewers that methane will go up.
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u/stlcocktailshrimp Mar 13 '25
Anyone know what the hell the liquid might be that's splashing up out of it?
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u/HzrKMtz FF/Para-sometimes Mar 13 '25
Call Hazmat and a priest. I don't mess with sewer demons.
Comments on the original video mention this might be due to copper wiring or pipes that are burning up.