Not sure if this is the right forum, but I thought some might find this interesting.
The Greater Stockholm Fire Department (Storstockholms Brandförsvar) in Sweden has a bit of a unique ”tool” that they use now and again. Explosive filled frames that they ventilate roofs with when they’re of a type that hampers speedy manual ventilation, and it’ll take too long to do the manual cut given the fire conditions.
A demonstration of how it’s used can be viewed in this video:
Note that this is just a demonstration at a firefighting exhibition though. Normally they wouldn’t vent such a small/light building as this with explosives. Also note the trench cut that had previously done on the buildong by a different department as part of the exhibition.
An example of explosive ventilation at an actual fire (shot from a distance) can be viewed at the very beginning of this video clip:
This was a fire at an art college in Stockholm a few years ago. It comes of as pretty dramatic to onlookers, especially at night like in this case.
There’s a single station in Stockholm that operates these explosives (Vällingby), so it’s a special capability and not something that every company runs with. The station also runs a 37 meter (121 ft) Bronto snorkel specifically so they are able to quickly and safely get the explosives in place even on fairly tall buildings with slanted roofs, of which there’s a fair few in Stockholm.
The Greater Stockholm Fire Department (Storstockholms Brandförsvar) in Sweden has a bit of a unique ”tool” that they use now and again. Explosive filled frames that they ventilate roofs with when they’re of a type that hampers speedy manual ventilation, and it’ll take too long to do the manual cut given the fire conditions.
A demonstration of how it’s used can be viewed in this video:
Note that this is just a demonstration at a firefighting exhibition though. Normally they wouldn’t vent such a small/light building as this with explosives. Also note the trench cut that had previously done on the buildong by a different department as part of the exhibition.
An example of explosive ventilation at an actual fire (shot from a distance) can be viewed at the very beginning of this video clip:
This was a fire at an art college in Stockholm a few years ago. It comes of as pretty dramatic to onlookers, especially at night like in this case.
There’s a single station in Stockholm that operates these explosives (Vällingby), so it’s a special capability and not something that every company runs with. The station also runs a 37 meter (121 ft) Bronto snorkel specifically so they are able to quickly and safely get the explosives in place even on fairly tall buildings with slanted roofs, of which there’s a fair few in Stockholm.
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