On spring break in Daytona a while back, I got some practice jumping from balcony to balcony 15 stories up. Inebriatedly, of course.
not having piles of easily combustible material is a good thing
Itâs wood-frame construction, dude: the whole thing is a pile of easily combustible material until the gypsum board and exterior sheathing go up on the walls.
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Definitely didnât have ANY of its fire safety construction completed. What most people donât realize in a wood-frame building is that the gypsum board on the walls is the main thing preventing a localized fire from becoming a full-on conflagration. The construction was still in its relatively early stages - no gyp board on the interiors, no fire-sprinklers installed yet - and so was pretty much a lost cause.
For the record, I work near the building (I could see the smoke from my office), and like an earlier commenter said, there were VERY FEW people in the building, that day working, fortunately. It wasnât completely abandoned, but a friend who worked in the building from which the video was shot said that it was fairly empty of people when the fire started.
@awjt He was on the fifth floor (four stories of wood-frame construction atop a concrete ground floor). Thatâs about 48â off the ground at a minimum (possibly as high as 60â, depending on the height of the concrete plinth).
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a 2x4 is not really a pile of combustible material like a pile of sawdust is.
A 2x4 might take 30 seconds longer to combust, true, but itâs impracticable to clean up every little pile of sawdust at the end of the day, particularly on projects at the scale of this one. Regardless of whether there are piles of sawdust lying around (there are on every stick-built project, with the exception of ultra-luxury residential, and then only if you have an OCD Construction Administrator), every wood-frame project is a tinderbox waiting to go up until itâs gyp-boarded and has exterior sheathing in place.
(I say this as a building industry professional with several years of wood-frame and concrete structure Construction Administration under my belt, in sectors from multi-family,like the project in the video, to ultra-luxury single-family).
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They both burn, and kiln dried lumber does catch fire rather easily. We sometimes use it as kindling at home (say after a reno project, and there are scraps) because it catches so damned easily.
I have photo that shows the fire starting on the roof near the AC units (sorry, new user and canât upload pics). It could definitely have been copper brazing that started it.
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I see, and how do you know before watching it ?
Oh my god, that was amazing ! Jesus, that guy almost had to jump, O-M-G but thank god heâs okay now jesus I was god god almost jesus worried that the moses firemen would not get there in time.
It reminds me of the reporter interviewing someone after a tornado : âyou must thank god for being still aliveâ.
I watched it, which is how I knew the audio was useless and everybody else could mute it. Youâre welcome.
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Brazing, or poorly installed electric. Or a cig butt tossed. Lots of things could have happened.
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That wasnât a reporter, that was Wolf Blitzer.
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Theyâre common figures of speech. Itâs not an impromptu prayer meeting; I know plenty of atheists who talk the same way.
Itâs weird that you find it so obtrusive.
To be fair, itâs mostly the repetition that I find obnoxious, it would be the same if they kept saying fuck over and over.
The only saying that really annoys me is âthank godâ, but itâs just a pet peeve.
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