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I was always under the impression that backdrafts occur at the moment you opened up a predominately enclosed fire to lots of oxygen rapidly. I had no idea it could take so long to reignite/explode.

Backdraft (wiki) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backdraft

Calling them idiots? This coming from a person not understanding the job they are performing. The two on the roof are relieving pressure in the building as well as creating ingress and egress points, ingress for the water and egress for the fire pressure.

Building fires create a serious amount of pressure due to the expanding air in a very confined, and pretty well insulated, environment. This is the same actions you see firefighters breaking out windows to expel a large portion of said pressure. It also allows a fire to expand in a more controlled and less volatile way (see: explosive backdrafts).

The guy using the 'poker' is looking for structural weakness, both for the safety of the crew on the roof, as well as the 'cutter' to have the most direct access to the higher 'heat areas'.

It reminds me of Backdraft movie.

>> ^artician:

>> ^AeroMechanical:
>> ^Kalle:
I see potential for a FPS style firefighter game...

You know, that actually could be pretty good.

It's been done on a number of occasions.
First there was the arcade game "Brave Firefighters" from 1999:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2RdoLgO388
It was sorta ported/updated to Wii almost 10 years later as "Real Heroes Firefighter":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXRQVFDWxFw&feature=related
There are also a number of "Serious" games (simulations for training people) that tackle firefighting as a profession.
"Firefighting Training Simulation":
http://serious.gameclassification.com/EN/games/
17997-Firefighter-Training-Simulation/index.html
"Firefighting the REVAS process":
http://www.3dseriousgamesandsimulations.com/showcase/firefighter-s
imulation/
To name a few.


All neat and well but no crysis backdraft firefighter explosions towering inferno bam bam game...

Upvoted only because I hope it makes people HATE the damn thing as much as me.

I SO Hate hearing it in movies, and I notice it pretty much any time it happens.

It's almost as bad as, well, it's a hard one to explain, it's a kind of (kii woosh) eplosiony sound thing that seems to be used far, far too much. It's hard to explain, it's used as a backdraft sound sometimes, and just all round explosion thing. I'll try and find an example of it. (AHAH, I remembered it from the intro to Magic Carpet from 1994 of all places... it's here at 3:22 (skip forward to it, terrible intro) It gets used EVERYWHERE and I hate, hate, hate it

Damn lazy sound designers, damn them to hell

*chilling.
great choice of score, & photography that reminded me of some of the best of Backdraft.

and that rare mix of *dark and *happy that i dig.
sorry i missed it the first time 'round, ox!

This isn't technically a backdraft, it's more of a flashover effect. A backdraft occurs when the fire is basically out and smoldering, a major vent is opened and a rush of air reignites the fire.