HUGE fire near my work

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A welding plumbing supply business went up in flames about an hour ago. It's long gone, but the business next to it is about to go up. There's about 4-5 fire trucks on the scene (maybe more) and they are having trouble keeping it from spreading.

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Edit: Helicopters have left the area. :(
 
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Wow! I think I saw a couple bottles explode and shoot across the screen....
 
That's terrible, i'm praying they've managed to evacuate the people who work there, and those in surrounding or close by buildings.
 
It was about 3/4 of a mile from my work.

Nobody was hurt in the fire, but it sure did some damage. There were more than 150 fire fighters on the scene. :eek:

This photo shows the beginning of it. Before we lost the live stream, the fire had spread all the way around that building to the left.

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Damn, this reminds of that firework fiire and a fire like this a few years ago in a vacant manufacturing plant.
 
I hope everybody made it out of there OK. Really black smoke! You guys know what they say about black smoke.....
 
R1600Turbo - Thought you were in Wyoming - (now I see, and remember, that you are in Arizona) and knowing about the huge fire in Colorado, I actually thought the fire had spread that far! You guys are not having a very good time right now.

Popcorn - stay away from the heat would you - you've already been popped.
 
This is that fire I was thinking of.


Wiard Plow Co. Was all over my local news.





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This one is just creepy...
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I actually know the guy responsible for starting that fire, he's 16 now. Obviously he got arrested a week later but all he got was house arrest and a year of probation...



Just to give you an idea how big...


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I think this was bigger than my fire though.
 
This was in the riots last summer, about a mile from where I live. I could actually see the flames. Scary stuff.

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What was left...
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That's insane. It's terrifying to think of how a fire can spread like that and do so much damage. One of my town's pizzaria's caught fire overnight a few years back, and it spread like a disease. Jumped to a couple other buildings before it was finally put out.

My best wishes go out to anyone who got hurt in any of those fires.
 
This gives you an idea of what burned. Basically everything in the red outlined area. The building also received some pretty major damage, but didn't burn up.

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I actually know the guy responsible for starting that fire, he's 16 now. Obviously he got arrested a week later but all he got was house arrest and a year of probation...
Hopefully, he would be held liable for the damage? It must be devastating for most families and businesses to lose building(s) to fire. In case of arson, I sure hope there would be some serious accountability, especially financially. If the arson has to work the rest of his/her to repay the damage, you betta!
 
Hopefully, he would be held liable for the damage? It must be devastating for most families and businesses to lose building(s) to fire. In case of arson, I sure hope there would be some serious accountability, especially financially. If the arson has to work the rest of his/her to repay the damage, you betta!

The buidling was owned but not kept up. It was run down, in disrepair and falling apart (despite being a monument in that area). That was all he got after being charged with arson. The kid is a good kid, to be honest it was an accident. But it happened and he had to deal with it.
 
The buidling was owned but not kept up. It was run down, in disrepair and falling apart (despite being a monument in that area). That was all he got after being charged with arson. The kid is a good kid, to be honest it was an accident. But it happened and he had to deal with it.
Good kid, until he accidentally burns your house down! :scared:

I'm not gonna lie, I've played with fire when I was a kid. Twice. But both times, I knew enough to do it in the open. Once by the river. Gravel, cement, nowhere near dry grass or anything like that. Second one(or first, I forget, I was young) is really funny.

We found a lighter or match or something, we decide to start a small fire with it, because we are bored. We put some junk together. I think it was a empty flower pot filled with paper or twigs or something. We take this to a local park, plant the thing in the sandbox, try to get the fire going.

This kindergarten kid approaches us, "hey, you aren't supposed to play with fire!". We give him some kind of smart-alec answer, start fire, got bored within minutes, then left.

Next morning, very first thing, the teacher asks for attention(more like yelled for attention) of our class. "Yesterday, a little boy was commended by the Fire Department for warning boys your age to stop playing with fire at a local park". I swear, my teacher made eye-contact with me. "Please don't be like these boys playing with fire", blah-blah-blah.

Me and my friends just looked at each other going "Awww 🤬 ". We never saw the kid again, and our teacher knew better than to ask us if it was indeed us. :lol:
 
I once got evacuated from a fire that was close to my relative's big house. They live at the bottom of a hill, and at the top of the hill, the fire got as close as about 350 yards!

Needless to say, we were evacuated and and every house on the street (11 of them) got a firetruck.

No one was killed in the fire, no houses destroyed, only some outlying structures like sheds.
 
Good kid, until he accidentally burns your house down! :scared:

I'm not gonna lie, I've played with fire when I was a kid. Twice. But both times, I knew enough to do it in the open. Once by the river. Gravel, cement, nowhere near dry grass or anything like that. Second one(or first, I forget, I was young) is really funny.

We found a lighter or match or something, we decide to start a small fire with it, because we are bored. We put some junk together. I think it was a empty flower pot filled with paper or twigs or something. We take this to a local park, plant the thing in the sandbox, try to get the fire going.

This kindergarten kid approaches us, "hey, you aren't supposed to play with fire!". We give him some kind of smart-alec answer, start fire, got bored within minutes, then left.

Next morning, very first thing, the teacher asks for attention(more like yelled for attention) of our class. "Yesterday, a little boy was commended by the Fire Department for warning boys your age to stop playing with fire at a local park". I swear, my teacher made eye-contact with me. "Please don't be like these boys playing with fire", blah-blah-blah.

Me and my friends just looked at each other going "Awww 🤬 ". We never saw the kid again, and our teacher knew better than to ask us if it was indeed us. :lol:

I always play with fire but only when the area permits. I enjoy it.

It didn't help he was stuck out in the street in the middle of winter either. But enough said.
 
When i was in high school a fireworks factory about 10 miles away from my school caught on fire and parts of it exploded. I was in math class, and the blast shook the ground so hard it knocked down some decorations in the room.
 
Glad noone's hurt, and i'd never wish anyone to get hurt in something like this but I can't be the only one to find huge fires to be amazingly fascinating and incredible things to watch? Not just fires but any destructive act of nature. Though many fires aren't necessarily an act of nature of it's own.
 
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