Republic Waste Facility on Fire in Chicago (on 11-7-2019) 4K

I was driving along and I heard a light explosion right around the corner from where I was in Chicago on 11-7-2019, I looked up in the sky and saw a huge plume of black smoke, I thought it was the coffee roaster nearby but the smoke just got worse within seconds.
I drove down the block to the location of the fire which turned out to be Republic waste Management Facility on Wood and Carroll Street, I first took a looked around made sure nobody needed any help, who wants to be near a pile of garbage anyway, and then took a video of the entire fire.
It seems like the fire was started either from a lithium battery or from spontaneous combustion in the garbage, or who knows what else, i'm sure there is methane gas coming off of the garbage which could be ignited I'm sure.
Either way, the Chicago Fire department got that fire completely under control in like 10 minutes flat.

[@dnrfrank]

take a shot every time he says spontaneous combustion

[@WarpedLab]

Spontaneous combustion

[@donmcmannamy3409]

No it is not there most have been something hot or smoldering in a bike of trash the started it

[@markmullin4246]

How about every time, he says " holy crap "

[@jurgenkuhlmann9194]

Just looks like a fire we had in Duisburg this same year! The location: a recycling facility! These places are a fireman's nightmare: high fireload, heaps of combustible material, and days to put out the fire & to search for fire pockets.

[@damonmeredith7277]

CEO of spontaneous combustion

[@WarpedLab]

I think it's spontaneous combustion

[@wrkhrse]

I like watching and appreciate how firefighters work. The most disturbing thing they do...their masks aren’t a priority. You can’t fight a fire if you’re passed out from inhaling whatever’s burning.

[@WorldOfWonder873]

They have air if they need them they will put them on

[@makelpolk4470]

Too many videos of guys wearing their SCBAs and not using them

[@nik9401]

Makel P It’s so weird that i see so many US firefighters not using them.. In Switzerland there are strict rules about them.

[@anthonymcmeel3072]

As much as I agree Chicago is very old style and in the olden days just like now they would have there SCBA tanks on but not there mask

[@ronbradley5631]

lol. Spontaneous combustion lol. I bet he just learned that word and was dying to use it. Even if wrong. lol.

[@CoastalStormChasing]

I was thinking the same thing hahaha

[@WarpedLab]

Lol. SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION!!

[@jurgenkuhlmann9194]

"Spontanious combustion" is what happens when you have run out of money to pay off the mortgage!

[@Jimmythefish577]

We’re fighting hard to get presumptive cancer coverage for firefighters, trying to make our case, and yet here we have those very same firefighters refusing to help themselves reduce their chances of future health problems by wearing their SCBA.

[@AttackLineConsultingLLC]

i am a firefighter...my dad has lung cancer currently. For gods sake wear your mask all the time the air is free

[@joker432]

I am a fellow firefighter, and not all firefighters are smart, clearly.

[@amandaforeman7441]

If there's smoke, my mask is on 100% of the time. Don't kill yourself brothers. Those who came many years before us, who had to fight without SCBAs, would have LOVED to have them now! Have some respect for your families.

[@centralnewyorkresponses7887]

joker432 they don’t really have a good ISO rating I would think. My city that runs 3 people out of station 1 gets an ISO class 2 rating. And you have full engine and ladder crews here that have no sense of how to use PPE. They get full turnout on any fire alarm or fire. Maybe they should learn from my city.

[@colinayers3139]

we just had a meeting recently at my local fire house about wearing SCBAs and i was thinking of that exactly when i seen them stretch that hoseline up there

[@jamesfraser4173]

I like how rubber neckers can determine cause while the fire is still out of control!

[@trinityfirec1711]

Civilian OFI 😆

[@b3j8]

Cracked up when he said "OH NO! That's the GARBAGE FACILITY! "

[@charmcitytoe]

When compost heaps keep it real! Lord that had to be a smelly job there. Kudos to you for hanging in there. 🤠 Nice work brother!

[@WarpedLab]

Lol... It's always super smelly right there.

[@wetsock5512]

i didn't see severide or casy where they not on shift?

[@whitespeare.]

Squad 3 was missing to.

[@javierdelacruz7346]

Lmfao

[@scotttiminey]

They'll be doing the investigation after tthey're done drinking at Molly's

[@christophermarshall4080]

It was Firehouse 26 not 51, but it does seem odd that 51 aren't the first on scene

[@AntLoud773]

Y'all is goofy for that one

[@johnroberts9560]

Hi Matt , that was a really big fire at first , I hope nobody was hurt !! 😳🚒🚑

[@DigitalDash7]

Whole damn company full of smoke eaters

[@amandaforeman7441]

Yep if this was my company and I was their Captain, every single one of them would be done. At the very least suspended without pay. How dare them put brothers at risk by not protecting themselves. Pisses me off.

[@christophernilescoughlin7049]

Great video of garbage fire buddy . Do you know where I can get so Chicago fd t shirts patches from thanks u?.

[@WarpedLab]

I'm not really sure about that, I'm doing a few videos on fires very soon and I have a lot of friends in the Chicago Fire department, I will ask them next time I see them very soon.

[@GradyRho92]

The battery theory makes the most sense

[@rico334]

Damn, that's a shame... There's some good shit can be found in a lot of trash.... Plastic cups, sometimes clothes, shoes, books, appliances.... Even have found some good canned food and stuff like that before.....

[@pabuffa]

No Air Packs. Sad.

[@misiftchoppers2011]

i see scbas

[@danielstephenson577]

I work at a facility like this in Hesperia! That is why we encourage people not to put that stuff in the trash because of the dangers it poses!

[@BransonCerakote]

I wonder if it was caused by spontaneous combustion?

[@patrickmitchell6968]

Did anyone notice that Engine 26 (and trunk 28) have only red lights on the left and red/green lights on the right? That is a nod to the position lights on aircraft and maritime vessels - they are always red on the left and green on the right. I don't think it was a coincidence.

[@charleskirby6143]

It's a long standing tradition CFD has that dates from a former chief that was a maritime captain. Just like black over red apparatus that dates from the 1920s. TRADITION! Now every dept copies CFD apparatus. How original.

[@fireboigotti2647]

Boy all you hard chargers are doing a hell of a lot quarterbacking off your couch....they are one of the best fire departments in the world I think they know what they are doing...so calm down there champs

[@jimtaylor1204]

Take a shot every time he says "holy crap".....

[@breckjones5987]

In case you didn’t her him. “That right there is spontaneous Combination “😂

[@WarpedLab]

Lol...

[@michaelcrowley7330]

I just have 1 question. Was dat right dare spontaneous combustion or what?

[@delizard523]

hats off to the engineer on engine 26 for doing good work

[@brensdad7445]

One guy fights fire. Nineteen guys fuck with hose.

[@liamarnold2373]

Nice horn use by Truck 28.

[@BReese504]

Its crazy how many firefighters in our country forget about the deck gun on top.

[@robertross804]

why wasn't a sprinkler system put in or retrofit for the building

[@cpjr715]

robert ross it probably fell under old fire code requirements, and the only reason why they would have to put in a system is if they did a remodel which would then put them under new code

[@gillesrenaud6926]

Well be at the good place at the write time! Good job sir!

[@WarpedLab]

Thanks

[@fireguy284]

Spontaneous Combustion..at least that's what I told my wife.

[@jamesbartlett4935]

Don’t think the fire was out because smoke coming from roof of the structure!

[@centralnewyorkresponses7887]

James Bartlett smoke is from heat. Things can smoke and not be on fire. Overhaul still needs to happen.

[@samwilliamson6506]

Technically it’s spontaneous ignition remember the fire triangle.

[@WarpedLab]

Good point!, You are right, this whole thing happened in the spur of the moment so it slipped my mind, but you're right the fire triangle " Oxygen Heat Fuel" but where did the heat come from or the ignition source for spontaneous ignition in this case ?

[@timwalker5646]

@@WarpedLab maybe a burning cigarette started it

[@JackMacLupus]

@@WarpedLab Well considering what people throw into their garbage that really DONT belongs there it could be actually hundreds of causes for a fire like this. Maybe a battery or some oily rags or even some cleaning chemicals people use to clean their bathroom or kitchen that reacted with each other in the garbage.

[@anesiajohn8829]

You now see me

[@donbrinkman3874]

Is this the first fire you have seen?? Spontaneous combustion, really??

[@Andy-je3el]

Gee I wonder how the fire started???

[@PasqualeDigiovangiacomo90]

I bet all week all he talked about was , Spontaneous Combustion

[@WarpedLab]

SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION

[@megaweld7018]

Good Up Close Clip !

[@WarpedLab]

Thank you

[@SuperHusky83]

that isn't spontaneous combustion is it?

[@christophersanabria3757]

Weird. I thought for sure I would've seen Wallace Boden there.

[@timwalker5646]

guys if you have Caba on use the bloody thing when you in close to these kind of fires. why are you that close. use deck gun and ladder truck

[@jamesdillard3583]

Why didn't they put the ladder up and use that. How things have changed since I was a volunteer.

[@rcor87]

Why would you put the ladder up? The fire appears to be completely contained within the structure, and they have it under control rather quickly.

[@jamesdillard3583]

@@rcor87 Thank you for letting me know and I enjoy watching your Videos because It brings back memories and how things have changed since I was a volunteer

[@Eric-sn4qz]

Nice early vid arrival of the brothers. There’s enough fresh air I can see why they didn’t fully use their tanks. It’s their choice in that situation. The vid operator need a lesson in fire.

[@armyguy872008]

Was hoping House 51 showed up for the spontaneous combustion....

[@jesteranonisgamegameover2321]

Bro, your commentating is giving the feeling that you started this inferno and are now getting off on it.

[@WarpedLab]

Lol.. nah, I was imitating those people who go around and chase fires and listen to the police scanner...lbvs

[@kel2580]

The fire is still very hot at the middle or the bottom of the the heap! No they ain't got it out. There's plenty of heat deep inside.

[@michaelboccino5251]

Building Might of Had A Sprinkler system ' Most DPW Plants Do ' Need to Check The Side or Front of Building For A Connection '

[@royschrader8003]

Looks like they just spontaneously got it out

[@galexander9857]

That was NOT spontaneous combustion. Probably a cigarette in the garbage. Smoldered forever, and then BOOM! Spontaneous Combustion LOL

[@newthirstaddictionministry]

Have you ever tried to start a fire with a cigarette? Everyone always blames a cigarette. People that don't know anything about fire blame a cigarette... always

[@galexander9857]

@@newthirstaddictionministry Actually I have. I placed a lit cigarette on the cushion of an old couch. After several hours of smoldering, it ignited. Test was done in a controlled environment

[@2009KyleWood]

Should be 12 disciplines including the captains for no masks. This is disgusting, some of the worst conditions to not wear a mask for us firefighters and not a single firefighter there have a shit

[@wxguy60]

This guy is another armchair You Tube Fire Investigator, and besides, the fire is NOT out by a long shot. It's time to call in the backhoes.

[@WarpedLab]

Lol... I ain't no fire investigator that's for sure ...LMAO, I just saw the smoke followed it and shot the video.... I don't even know what an armchair is.

[@fuhwurd]

that’s one way to burn trash

[@SuperNytube]

This guy is tough to listen to. On another note The Keyboard Battalion Chiefs set up an IC in the comments section, thank God.

[@jurgenkuhlmann9194]

3:45: "This happened out of nowhere." Not really! All it takes is a hot bearing & lots of oil & grease around, plus metal shavings, plastic waste & other stuff. And there is the fire, and it reaches temperatures that even make aluminium & other light metals start to burn.

[@derrickguffey4775]

By that he was obviously referring to how quickly this fire ignited and began to rage

[@jurgenkuhlmann9194]

@@derrickguffey4775 Exactly. The fireload makes it easy for fires to burn out of control. So hats off to the firemen who have to put THAT out!

[@WorldOfWonder873]

Lmao does anyone else just see the overhaul that’s needed here? That would fricking suckkk

[@jamesfraser4173]

Dont need investigators with you around, Bubba!

[@TylerSmith-xv4yn]

Word of the day Spontaneous Combustion!!!

[@amandaforeman7441]

Whomever is IC and/or SO needs to have their rank stripped, and every single fire fighter not wearing SCBA suspended. How dare them put brothers in danger like this? So damn selfish. Not wearing SCBA doesn't make you look tough, it makes you look like an idiot.

[@ronbradley5631]

I mean what the hell. Just use your deck gun. No need for anyone to even be that close.

[@TheHazcat22]

Yep Nose that ladder truck to the roll up door opening and punch it right in the mouth with 1000 gpms

[@TheHazcat22]

Then mop up with hand lines and trackers

[@rcor87]

@@TheHazcat22 Chicago truck companies do not have pumps, tanks, discharges, or any way to "punch it right in the mouth with 1000 gpms" as you put it, unless a master stream was set up using an engine and its line, which wouldn't make sense in this scenario.

[@liamarnold2373]

Awesome catch, bro.

[@Bg12789]

All the KZbin firefighters with there expert opinion like always !

[@ayatotakema1194]

As so. Done who brother PVC smoke those air tanks are very important if you don't want to cough

[@luckyama4867]

This is America

[@FixItYerself]

that company is always a dumpster fire 🤣

[@trainman071]

people need to wake up and stop throwing volatilizes in the trash. oh never mind they cant even put the cans out the correct way at the curb

[@brandonwagner3873]

Cool

[@roychivers8134]

Got a cause their SHADOW...MICE with MATCHES.😂🤣😆

[@josephtravaldo1295]

Surround and drown. Gotta get tower ladders operating. Be safe brothers

[@rcor87]

Just curious, but how and or why would you use tower ladders on a fire like that? Looks like they got it under control before the fire even touched the roof

[@timothymorgan2150]

Nonfreeze hoses hmm

[@roychivers8134]

Where's Brain and Steven.😆

[@andrewhaymaker476]

Matt no matter 💯💯🙏🙏🙏

[@upsidedowndog1256]

I bet that smelled pretty bad!

[@WarpedLab]

Not really, with that amount of heat being created the convection current is so strong that it pulls everything upward, that's why it's so clear where I was filming from, the bigger the fire the more oxygen gets pulled in from the bottom. I did an episode early this year about house fires and I learned very quickly that the fire is literally breathing, pulling air in from the bottom mixing that oxygen with the fuel creating the reaction with intense heat as a by-product which goes up which completes the cycle.

[@upsidedowndog1256]

@@WarpedLab Yes, I watched that one. This fire was quite intense.

[@brandonreynolds7697]

stop being in there business

[@stevesmith-wc2gb]

They need to setup the ladder truck and the deck gun

[@rcor87]

Just curious, but how and or why would you setup a truck company on a fire like that? Looks like they got it under control before the fire even touched the roof

[@stevesmith-wc2gb]

Robert C it is quicker than trying to pull Hose

[@rcor87]

smith are you talking about setting up a master stream from a truck company? How is that quicker than pulling hose? You still have to pull the hose, and then stretch it up the ladder. And then where are you going to direct the stream? Onto the roof that from the looks of the video isn't even burning?

[@djebriss9991]

When I say SPONTANEOUS, you say COMBUSTION!.... SPONTANEOUS!.............

[@KOBIELWOODS]

COMBUSTION!!!!

[@galexander9857]

For the record, Spontaneous Combustion occurs with wet hay (or straw) and oily rags. They heat up on their own and get hot enough to start a fire, spontaneously combusting 😂

[@Paxzis]

Yo they are right where Chicago PD was filmed when Jay and that Marine got shot carrying money for a side hustle

[@paulpanter5261]

He kinda sounds like Norm McDonald!

[@roychivers8134]

Engine 17 on the job😂🤣😆

[@willgossard9645]

Duh

[@dwightarnold6980]

Took long enough to get water on it l

[@eriksand9262]

First engine arrived at the 2:04 mark, and water was being applied at around the 3:43 mark. Is that really too slow?

[@jeffreywillis1838]

Well Mother Nature is into recycling.😂😂😂😂

[@richkeeshan9757]

You have a crack in your windscreen

[@WarpedLab]

I know

[@matthewdempsey6583]

wheres wally lol

[@raymondsullivan7230]

Don't get me started on fire departments you won't like what I say but that's too bad RPS 111

[@spenner3529]

clean the bird shit off your windshield

[@cfdeng57ltrt89]

Do old school drop two go to hydrant

[@roychivers8134]

this is going to taste like SHIT🤣😆😂

[@mikemuppet3807]

just a strong suggestion- GET THE .... away from the fire fighters mother ... I dont give a flying ... if you want content or to record it they are trying to do their job without having to worry about your getting hurt because you want to post st on youtube... lucky i wasnt there id put you down myself add to fact it isnt cooling down nor going out thats why all the trucks are still there. Spontaneous combustion is the act of material combusting or reaching a flammable temperature without an external source being present. So this was someone being negligent which is why there are cameras all around to see that

[@WarpedLab]

LOL (put me down?..hahah!)I know you're kidding right? You do realize that my camera has a zoom lens .. and I was probably 40 feet away from the fire trucks.. now if 40ft wasn't enough for those boys to pull hoes.... Then it would be dangerous for them to be firefighters.I mean imagine you can't do your job with onlookers? By the way I was a firefighter for a period Of time and I have plenty of my friends who are firefighters. That was a good laugh though I mean I am assuming you were joking but in your defense the firechasers are very annoying sometimes, I'm not a fire chaser I just happened to be there at the right time.

[@tommyflynnable]

here come all the keyboard warriors

[@WarpedLab]

They are here already!

[@javierdelacruz7346]

Everyone knows how to fight fires !!!! Smh lol

[@rescueraver]

Because it's was SC there was no need for SCBA got save that air for real fires. You paid guys make me laugh and they talk about volunteers. Hell we mask up, layout from hydrants and use the deck gun for stupid stuff like this.

[@Ucfknightlinepodcasttube]

Would of been much better if the dude didn’t talk...just shoot the video

[@WarpedLab]

I'm assuming your phone doesn't have a volume button, You can mute it or lower the volume, this is 2020 we have options unless your phone is from 1910.

[@derrickguffey4775]

Hmmm another brainless puke who weakens the nation when he thinks

[@danielbierwirth2190]

I once dated a girl who could cause "Spontanious Combustion", but that's another story.....

[@simonsupersi2225]

Hook guys just wontput.them down to help the engine haha

[@billbeck47]

Can you say anything other the Jesus Christ? What? You never saw a fire?

[@WarpedLab]

LOL I was trying to imitate the people who Chase fires and firefighters on the police scanners.. I thought it was funny

[@stupullenchannel3525]

not spontaneous, someone flipped a match to get that going

[@boseitz8216]

My god this fricken guy. Take the camera out of his hand and educate him 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@PeterNichtlustig0815]

USA in a nutshell: Remembering all the line of duty and lung cancer deaths, but not using their SCBA and common sense while fighting fires... ^^

[@centralnewyorkresponses7887]

Peter Nichtlustig that’s Chicago for ya

[@PeterNichtlustig0815]

@@centralnewyorkresponses7887 Last time I checked the map Chicago was located in the USA ^^

[@SirBender]

Wow the video photographer films a quite almost every day happening garbage fire 😅 actually nothing special and nothing really dangerous there.

[@JeffreyStrader]

That's NOT Spontaneous Combustion....................(shakes his head)...............and STOP TAKING THE LORD'S NAME IN VAIN!

[@derrickguffey4775]

Oh does it hurt you the way he talks. You seem to forget this is the United States and in this country we have freedom of speech dumbass. You are not going to wake up with leprosy because of what he said. You dont like the way he talks simple dont watch duh. People shouldn't have to watch what they say because it might offend someone else that's not a crime and you've no right to expect someone to talk the way you want. Remember genius hes only your lord not everyone else's.

[@TheCelltek]

Engine 26 first on scene last to get water on it. Truck 7 pulled in and had water in about 2 min. probably off the internal tank.

[@WarpedLab]

I saw that too !

[@Aceholez76]

In Chicago, truck companies have no tank, no pump, no water. Only engine companies carry water

[@centralnewyorkresponses7887]

Zach F exactly, referred to in the industry as a stick. One ladder truck in Chicago has a pre-piped waterway.

[@HayK47]

Matt Mikka No you didn’t see that because Truck 7 carries maybe 10 gallons of water in extinguishers at best.

[@houseofbells1660]

this is my favorite part about youtube fire heros, 26 last to put water on the fire. they were the only one to put water on the fire. trucks neither carry water or hose. everyone has an opinion and most of them are wrong.