Nurta

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v5...asTreeFire.flv

That is nuts how fast things can spiral.

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Liviya

holy shit.. wow thats fast.

Malachani

Can't help but think that was partially "helped" but who knows. I think I might avoid lights on my tree this year.... hehe

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Calthine

Well it was done by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, so I'm sure it was a really dry tree and a cord with stripped insulation. Still, pretty scary.

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Otis

Yes, the tree is dry but it is still green. And it is also very likely a simulated ignition source. However, I can assure you that this video is very much how it happens in the real world.

You don't even need a tree. I remember a training video very similar to this one that simulated a lit cigarette butt falling between couch cushions. The room became fully involved in less than a minute from the first visible flames on the couch.

Remember to check those batteries in your smoke detectors when you change the clocks for daylight savings. Also, if you're one that sleeps with your bedroom door open, you may want to reconsider. A closed door can buy you (or your children) precious minutes in the event of a fire.

Telpacpaw

If my house ever catches fire I'm barbecue. I sleep in the basement bedroom, and the only exits are as follows:

1. Bedroom door, which leads directly to the staircase to the ground floor. To my left, the family room, which has no exits, and covered windows. To my right, the wood furnace, which is probably where the fire started in the first place.

2. Two, conveniently placed 14x38 inch windows, which, in the summer, give me a nice view of dirt and grass, and in the winter, provides me with a startling view of 8 feet of packed icy snow. I guess I could shovel it out, or make a sweet tunnel to safety, but where would I store my cold things? Upstairs in the fridge? Forget that. I'm playing Counter-Strike! If I stand up some noob will knife me and take me back down to the dualies in Gun Game

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Calbiyum

Wow that was crazy lucky I got a fake tree =)

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Ninibi

Seriously, I'm going to go hug my fake tree now. I love the smell of pine needles, but yegads.

We had an apartment fire in 98 - it started outside on the boardwalk/deck in front of our place. We had a fan in the window, luckily facing outwards instead of inwards, so it kept it from being too bad, but the fire still came in the window, melted the fan, torched a couch and half the living room before we could get it put out. I woke up to people banging on the window and shouting. Looked at the door, which was ajar, and groggily thought "I don't remember leaving the lights on." Opened the door and oh hey, the living room is on fire!

Shitty ways to wake up for 500, Alex! (not that I'm not glad I'm still here, of course)


Months after that, I'd wake up while my husband was getting ready for work, not realize what time it was & that he was up and freak out when I saw light under the door.

I woke up one morning just after he'd taken a shower and the steam had made everything smokey and foggy - I sat up, saw this hazy foggy light and the "smoke" drifting under the door and nearly broke my freakin neck jumping out of bed. Scared the HELL out of him when I yanked open the door in a panic (I have no common sense), saw him standing there in a towel and just lost it.

I feel so bad about that - just imagine, you wake up, drag yourself out of bed, you're all groggy, you go take a nice hot shower, you're still trying to work yourself into coherency and suddenly your wife yanks open a door and shrieks bloody murder in your face. LOL Bet you're awake NOW!