The Worst Oil Disaster Ever

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Thumbnail: Simon Buckmaster
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[@ylstorage7085]

"it saves 400,000 dollars to fire this gun for 12 seconds"

[@noahwilliams8996]

Some fires think they can outsmart me. Maybe. *sniff* Maybe. I have yet to meet one that can outsmart water.

[@christhompson4630]

MEET THE FIRETRUCK

[@XxDramaticBatu]

Finally, a class to beat w+m1 pyros

[@MrTcollinson]

This is a very American unit of measurement. Dollars per gun second.

[@nnelg8139]

​​​​@@noahwilliams8996 Flourine fires. Alkaline metal fires. Nuclear reactor fires. Underwater flares.

[@aithwndr]

That burning map animation was 🔥

[@volvo09]

Yeah that was a good touch.

[@nawfalshafiu5694]

😂saw what you did there Nice pun

[@lelandbatey]

Burning map is @ 0:31 in the video In case you're like me and were looking away when the video started.

[@gamingforfun8662]

Volumetric smoke

[@jt92]

Literally

[@trappist-1d587]

"Chill, it's just a watergun!" What bro pulls against me:

[@felixleong61]

Bro be like: *The Instrument of Doom.* *It is Day of Judgement.* *Armageddon is here.* *Soviet power supreme.*

[@sdHansy]

Man I hate how you type / speak.

[@WangNurMouth]

Da.....for the motherland

[@USSAnimeNCC-]

I'll write your tombstone buddy

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

this is like a watergun if it was made up by a kid play-fighting during recess.

[@ktkdiabl0]

As a Hungarian, I'm extremely proud that you made this episode. The story behind the development of this true beast is the following. A gas well drilling accident in 1979 took 21 days to completely put out. They had a smaller unit with a MiG-15 jet engine, but the fire reignited after putting it out. Motivated by the need for a more powerful firefighting machine, there was an order for an advanced unit in 1984 that was sufficiently powerful to fight against such fires. The preceding firefighting engine had only one jet engine and three less powerful water injection ports. The tank base was from a T-55 tank. The Big Wind is still in operation, but fortunately, it didn't receive any further real tasks to put out similar fires.

[@kangirigungi]

There was a gas well fire at around 2000 in Hungary, where they used this same machine to put out the fire. Unfortunately, they couldn't cap the well so they had to relight the fire until they could come up with a solution.

[@ylstorage7085]

@7:06 the tank base was clearly a T-34 there. also, jet engines are not the best for this purpose either, turbo fans should have performed a lot better

[@Sekir80]

The chassis seen at 7:05 is a T-34. Its story is more complicated, but this video gives a great shoutout to it. Love it!

[@andrew1717xx]

​@@ylstorage7085Am I hearing a little jealousy?

[@francikaa1]

@@ylstorage7085 In 1991 the first iteration, based on a T-34 chassis, was used in Kuwait to put out fires. Later it was updated to use the T-55 chassis because there were part supply issues to the old T-34 chassis, and more parts available to the newer T-55 chassis.

[@ethercat.]

This machine is every 10-year-old boy's fantasy IRL.

[@bunkey1]

When I was 10 my fantasy was a big tank

[@WangNurMouth]

That's for chumps when I was 10 I wanted the Mach 5, and I still do lol.

[@wowplayer160]

Pretty sure any large, especially tracked, vehicle is a kids fantasy.

[@dragondev2617]

@@bunkey1 SAME!

[@gladlawson61]

When I was ten I wanted the councillor from star trek next gen

[@JM-cv7nv]

This thumbnail looked 100% like clickbait garbage but it turns out to be completely real haha. I only clicked cuz it was Real Engineering

[@Sekir80]

Yea, as a Hungarian I knew about this crazy monster, so for me it was a throwback in time to see a real engineering video about it.

[@hugoytb194]

I also found clickbait I clicked to confirm if it was clickbait If that were really the case, I would use the "do not recommend videos from this channel" option hehe. I was happy with the authenticity of the channel. Congratulations, by the way.

[@FungkhaBasumatary1997]

If it were any other channel I would have skipped the video too...

[@Etendard1708]

​@@Sekir80who is he? I thought the guy on the thumbnail is just another AI-generated thing

[@Sekir80]

@@Etendard1708 I haven't seen this thumbnail. Real Engineering changed it. Originally it was a 3D render of the Hungarian tank/jet hybrid which looks like some sci-fi shit. That's why people considered it fake on first glance.

[@Blaze10523]

By far the most Thunderbirds looking vehicle that ive seen

[@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115]

If it's not transported by a Thunderbird 2 I'd feel my life has been pointless.

[@RegiRaidillonVT]

First Helldivers and now this 💀

[@jasyamaha]

Absolutely

[@codeysimmons790]

I was looking for this exact comment. The machine is so incredible and the problem so massive that only something from the brains behind the Thunderbirds could work.

[@Favk21]

Exact same thoughts from me as well.

[@schwkrls]

People: Nuclear energy is too dangerous! Oil industry every couple years:

[@GM-xk1nw]

Nuclear energy IS too dangerous, that area is safe now unlike Chernobyl.

[@YTDE426]

@@GM-xk1nwit’s not.

[@enderexiusnova5213]

@@YTDE426 its more risky instead of dangerous id say

[@zoxl345]

Please watch a informed statistics analysis of nuclear energy like the kurzgusgat video on it, oil industry has an average death 20x-50x higher per kwh generated compared to nuclear because of the invisible pollution. It's the same logic as why some people think planes are more dangerous, it's because the media likes to sh*t on it and make headlines with it to get views. Car crash happenes every hour, but nobody reports massively on them because it will just be stale news, imagine if every death caused by pollution in the air is reported, you will be one hundred percent horrified by it.​@@GM-xk1nw

[@teejin669]

​@GM-xk1nw if we base our risk management off of soviet builds, we'd go back to the stone age.

[@mdexterc2894]

Doomslayer's watergun

[@TheCrewExpendable]

Lol reminds me of those arcade firefighting light gun games. They even had "boss fires" with a boss healthbar at the bottom of the screen.

[@bbbnuy3945]

blast & splash

[@submachinegun5737]

For putting out the fires of hell

[@WangNurMouth]

Hahaha he just gets into the barrel instead of shooting water. Hahahaha

[@WangNurMouth]

Cant propel yourself at a target through a giant weapon to solve all ur problems my guy *doomslayers hand you his beer*

[@SeseSchneider]

I highly recommend the documentary film "Fires of Kuwait" (1992) which also features this machine and gives great insight into the fire fighting efforts made in Kuwait.

[@stoshu9584]

I agree, that's worth the watch. This is one of the more overlooked conflict events of its period imo

[@sywor]

It's available to watch here on youtube!

[@T4gProd]

Thanks for the tip, had a quick look, seems interesting!

[@simpledragon]

They showed the tank shoots water driving forward then they hit the jets and put out a well fire like a match. Wish they showed it in action.

[@fraserhenderson7839]

In that film, Safety Boss from Alberta Canada is shown to have extinguished more than half of all burning wellhead using large, off road fire trucks. Simple and massively cheaper and more deployable than this monstrosity.

[@majlosz21]

C&C unit quotes: "Water tank, ready to spray" "Let's quench their thirst" "Fight fire with water" "We will hydrate them!"

[@smithyMcjoe]

I just heard it with the same voice as the GDIs Mammoth tank.

[@majlosz21]

@@smithyMcjoe I'm hearing it with a RA2 Soviet/Eastern European accent myself, since the tank is of Hungarian make. I'm imagining if you could play as the soviets and choose Hungary as the subfaction, you'd get this special unit.

[@mnxs]

"Wet dream, standing by."

[@majlosz21]

"We will drown their sorrows"

[@kanemartin2249]

Read this with COD4 ac130 comms voice

[@theRunel0rd]

The guy's shaking hands at 4:22 - you can tell he is fearful for whatever is about to happen when he touches that mine.

[@ian4175]

Considering it’s not covered in oil and there’s a camera crew filming I’d think that was some form of training but who knows.

[@Redslayer86]

He wouldn't be that nervous if it wasn't real. there's a ton of combat footage out there. ​@@ian4175

[@fastinradfordable]

@@ian4175tell the new guy the test bomb is live

[@redactedrider7606]

Yeah training for sure. They even show the training area and the dude watching over him. You dont just go out there in your BDUs and bare hand mines lol

[@_Bosley]

That thumbnail pic looks like it would make a sick Transformer 😁

[@ChineduOpara]

Transformers don't get sick 😐 😂

[@USSAnimeNCC-]

Look like something Char would drive slaying tanks

[@axmajpayne]

6:36 Big Wind wasn't built on a T-62. It was originally built on a T-34 and then some time after it was used in Kuwait its turret was moved to a T-55.

[@Sekir80]

T-34 at 7:05; T-55 at 8:45.

[@joshb8302]

11:17 I think those guys were having a bit of an argument.

[@Eddy002]

😂 I thought he was gonna kiss him

[@alyoooh]

Yeah, I came to check if anyone else also noticed that

[@damnwereinatightspot]

Ya he was barking alright... i think 11:15

[@sntslilhlpr6601]

Yeah he was a bit heated. I wonder if it was about a safety issue.

[@RikaRoleplay]

I was curious about that interaction as well, someone beat me to the comment

[@OrdenTheMan]

my dad was a firefighter that helped put out the fires. I remember him telling me stories about how big the flames were, and telling me about his team. I didn't think much of it but man was he a hero

[@NovaAge]

New Command & Conquer looking good.

[@felixleong61]

*The Apocalypse has begun.*

[@KevinDC5]

lol it does look like the "tesla tank" from CC Red Alert! 😂

[@user-ux5px4en8c]

looks like something out of a special event in war thunder.

[@BlueTeam-John-Fred-Linda-Kelly]

That's a fantastic idea for an April fools trailer or an actual short time event.

[@Waitin4_a_Mate]

Thug shaker intensifies

[@shahan484]

That's literally what the last event modern tanks were

[@cmrs521]

11:15 that guy was getting his ass chewed out lol

[@ryanthomas2374]

actually they were probably just trying to talk. Those wells were so damn loud.. 7000PSI jet stream is LOUD! the fire fighters at the base of the well would use hand signals for communication.

[@bypy3550]

​@@ryanthomas2374imagine losing valuable time by trying to understand 3 words for 5 minutes cause no one was taught an specific hand signal

[@rojorohr4723]

I remember this, was 7-8yo back then; it was overwhelming and heartbreaking to see it on the news, like watching hell coming to Earth. This and the gulf of México spill by BP left a huge impact on my mind. Every year when I teach Environment conservation at school (I'm a highschool teacher in México), I use this cases to show my students all the damage we cause to the environment with petroleum, when we abuse, overuse and become selfish and greedy. Great vid, my boy.

[@kormocziaron4362]

Teach them about Bhopal...

[@N8Claw]

At 6:34, you say "They removed the turret from and old Soviet T-62 tank". As far as I can tell, this is False. Every source I find says that a T-34 hull was used for "Big Wind" and the footage I've seen seems to back up this claim. However, I did find some images that suggest that the turret was either later transferred to a T-62 hull or a version of the turret was made for the T-62 hull. This would've likely happened after these oil fires were put out though. After some further research, it seems that the T-34 hull was retired after the gulf fires, being replaced with the hull of a VT-55A tank according to the site CarAndDriver. (I couldn't find it anywhere else)

[@ati847]

You are correct. In the first years it had a T-34 hull, but nowadays a T-55 recovery tank’s hull is being used. In the following video from 1:23 to 1:35 the host talking about just like that. He says that it was increasingly difficult to find new parts and people who could repair the T-34, so it was switched to a VT-55. kzbin.info/www/bejne/j4qpaYyHbNV_pMk

[@minidreschi2]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/m3vYqKN5ad6Nqsk Attraktor's episode about is is better, but you guys are right. Its not a T-62, its a T-55 but it was T-34 originally.

[@Sekir80]

Yeah, at 7:05 it's clearly a T-34 chassis. Later in the video, the MOL section, it's a different one, (8:45) seems like a T-55. And thanks guys for the additional info! Great stuff!

[@SaltyMartian]

Furthermore, Hungary didn't have T-62 in the first place

[@RussianBiasEnjoyer]

The tank shown in the older video footage was certainly a T-34, while the newer footage looks like a T-55, so your probably right

[@Thoran666]

Great video and visuals. I love how this video doesn't just focus on Big Wind, since it had little impact, but on the insane task of the people in Kuwait. Some of the firefighters in the clips are not even wearing gas masks or face protection.

[@ctdieselnut]

Theres a great documentary on yt about this. You're right, iirc 'big wind' put out a very small percentage of wells. To think saddam did this only for spite is mind boggling to me. What an #$&%!/* !!!

[@foabmoab]

'What have you got for us this time, Brains?' *gestures at this machine*

[@tonywatson987]

I had the privilege to see one of these flares up close - absolutely terrifying! The noise was deafening, the heat was volcanic and the low-frequency vibrations actually shook my body, making it even more difficult to breath. The soles of my boots melted, as did the tyres on my 4X4 - I didn't stay long!

[@ericlotze7724]

Odd bit if i remember correctly the Studies of the effects of all that Soot on the atmosphere essentially proved that Nuclear *Winter* is unlikely, Nuclear Fall is probably what would happen. Still MASS FAMINE, and suffering, and increased cancer/birth defects etc, but that fear of Unending Nuclear Winter played/plays (Mild Citation Needed Here) a major role in people’s fear of Nuclear Weapons / the understanding of “it being unwindable”. Just an interesting tidbit i guess. The Environmental Devastation War brings really sucks.

[@HALLish-jl5mo]

Nuclear winter was conceived by badly modifying a 1D simulation of the martian climate, then using 1980s nuclear stockpiles but 1960s targeting methodology, accidentally doubling the amount of combustible material in the target zones, playing around with the variables until an anomalously apocalyptic result appeared, and then publishing that. It was scientific fraud. It only avoided being laughed at because the point of the fraud was to make politicians more hesitant to use nuclear weapons. And because Carl Sagan tried to ruin anyone who critiqued him by calling them warmongers with his massive hold over the court of public opinion.

[@PrograError]

Still, that prob worsens the climate change/ global warming problem with the amount of hazardous gas released from the fire...

[@kostarak3160]

I believe there is a difference on the height of the soot. During fires almost all the soot is inside the troposphere where rain clouds exist making far easier to fall back to earth while nuclear mushrooms could pull all that shoot well above lasting for significally longer.

[@ericlotze7724]

@@kostarak3160 yeah we need to dig for papers on the specifics, and if i remember correctly there was some report doing all the math for a “limited” India-Pakistan Nuclear War and even then it had Nuclear Fall, plus all the nasties I mentioned.

[@kostarak3160]

@@ericlotze7724 Well it depends on a lot of factors from the quantity and what materials will be burned to the regional weather patterns. One thing is for sure, when only all the active nuclear weapons will be fired (~4k compared to ~400 india - pakistan) most of us wont be arround to feel the effects of the nuclear winter or fall.

[@gepin-sp7xn]

My Father has operated this beast during a training misson in hungary

[@Infraviored]

No

[@TheMysteryDriver]

@@Infravioredyes

[@alexromeo3495]

@@TheMysteryDriver no

[@gepin-sp7xn]

@Marburg-yw4nj nah in like 2000 something like i said he was a fire fighter who took part in the training to operate the enignes with the lil joy stick, he worked as a "chemical specialist" he was also one of the first reaponders to the Hungarian red mud accident

[@balintkormos9837]

This is what happens when hungarian engineers are not paid with hard liqour, biscuits, and a pack of cigarettes but actual money instead.

[@henrymelon8781]

Ngl I thought the thumbnail was click bait

[@simpilot001]

A model of this would go crazy on Christmas

[@bakedbeanfanclub]

Imagine it as a Lego set 🥰

[@MyMostBeautifuCinema]

6:42 That fence is not stopping sand.

[@StkyDkNMeBlz]

Looks like a Command and Conquer tank

[@real1cytv]

Quick fun fact, the BASF Ludwigshafen uses a very similar fire truck with 2 jet engines as a normal part of its firefighting.

[@motomarco_]

They not only have one, but two of the so called "Turbolöscher". And according to BASF they spray 6000-8000 liters of water per minute.

[@simonargus7662]

Came for this

[@the_retag]

Bayer also has a small version. Turbine fire trucks are not common but not a one off

[@LMacNeill]

I remember this happening back in '91. I remember them estimating DECADES to put them all out. They were comparing the environmental cost to Chernobyl -- they said the land would be uninhabitable for a similar period of time. Yet they got all those fires put out in about 8 months! All of those firefighters and oil & gas workers are HEROES! They did AMAZING work!!

[@chloeholmes4641]

Bit of a nit pick but the original model as seen in the real life video the chasis was actually from a t-34 tank, then it was later put on an extended t-55 chassis if my history serves me correct, not a t-62!

[@aaronpohle2016]

iam not even sure if it was ever put on a t-55 chassis from what i could find online. there was an differen fire fighting tank on the t-55 chassis but only with one engine called hurricane. and i wouldnt say it is very nit picky to point out the tank model is wrong if the whole video is about that tank. Nevertheless a great viedo, errors like this happen to the best.

[@chloeholmes4641]

@@aaronpohle2016 I just googled and the first two links of the firstbpage states it's a Czech VT-55 tank that it was upgraded to. So yes, it was a t-55 chassis!

[@SephirothRyu]

Sweet, I LOVE hearing and learning things about this thing!

[@keab42]

Your graphics have gotten so good. Some fantastic shots in this one.

[@JoshuaC923]

Those firefighters were unsung heroes of the war, crazy job they did🫡

[@Car_Fanatic]

So roughly over 23 billion dollars worth of oil were gone, 4 million per hour, 8 months of this. And the damage to the environment and people is just sad

[@saranshgautam6551]

Ahhh man if only I could have a few millions of that lost money

[@volvo09]

All caused by basically a temper tantrum due to a failed war...

[@SoylentGamer]

Huge respect to the brave firefighters and engineers that undertook this mission. They put an unbelievable amount on the line.

[@willsoe]

It's Infinitrack River Stormer! Earth machine kings rise up

[@MagicNick97]

Best deck ever

[@kl1thedominion]

I'm glad I didn't have to scroll far to find a comment mentioning River Stormer. RISE UP!

[@stephangg000]

I had to scroll way to far down to find this lol. Earth machine gang

[@MartinRyleOShea]

40K in our time “For the omnissiah, we will vanquish this flame bothers with purifying waters”

[@Malikav0311]

Sure is odd how many people in the comments have fathers that either designed, built, or operated this machine.

[@DK33O]

Commenters with uncles/fathers/grandfathers involved with (cool historical event) are to history videos as stories of hot girlfriends from Canada are to middle school playgrounds.

[@TerminusCodex]

I was quite young when that was going on and I didn't understand until now how it all happened! Thank you for yet another amazing topic explained amazingly well!

[@spacecase13]

Finally, a decent look at this machine that I have always loved. For making this beautiful video, you are my hero. Thank you.

[@danieltsimbler343]

It's a good day when Real Engineering posts

[@mauliksatasiya6664]

Texas crews 357 Canadians 176 But who wins the show? The guys who arrived late to the party and extinguished just 9 wells. Looks matter!

[@producedbypodcast]

Never heard of this. Love your content, especially when it shows something unexpected like this. Keep it up!

[@KristovMars]

Fascinating episode, thankyou.

[@martint8986]

Finally someone made a proper video on the Big Wind, this thing has fascinated me since a child, Fires of Kuwait was such a good documentary

[@DagobertX2]

I remember watching this as a kid in our national tv, live. A small poorer country helping the bigger ones for greater good. I was proud of my country back then. Sadly not anymore.

[@BensonCaisip]

2 Mig21 engines mounted on top of a T-62 chassis is the most Soviet thing I ever heard.

[@cancersillycrab]

@real Engineering Correction, the tank hull shown in the live footage was a T-34 chassis (note the sloped rear plate) from WW2 and not a T-62 hull. Additionally, the CGI model used to demonstrate Big Wind is a T-55 chassis (please note the spacing of the road wheels) and the aerial footage from source MOL looks more like a T-55 as well.

[@saadhero9107]

As a Kuwaiti I thank you so much for bringing such topics, I always wanted to learn about this huge disaster and how it was solved.

[@gabrielst828]

Maybe if you'd stop watching anime and spend more time learning about your country it wouldn't take 33 years to learn about it. Also, there's literally a great documentary about it called the Fires of Kuwait that came out in 1992.

[@saadhero9107]

@@gabrielst828 Ouch but you have a point, I will look into this. Already have the documentary open on another tab to check after the finals.

[@Don_Melon]

I saw an old Romanian movie called "Cuibul Salamandrelor" (translated to "Salamander's Nest" in which a jet engine (possibly a MIG-15 engine) on an SR-113 truck rolls up to extinguish the blaze. I cannot find any info about the truck used, or the first time this technique was used. In the film, the jet truck also had water cannons and it had a few other SR based fire trucks next to it.

[@stinkyvonfishstix4196]

im glad you brought up what a failure that machine was. they had over twenty wells they just gave up on because they couldnt do it.

[@Roaming-Rob]

God damn that nebula ad was so good I subscribed while it was still playing.

[@fieryjustin]

MadMax-esque firetruck

[@Dhruvalization]

when firefighters don't mess around

[@dontknow3886]

When do they?

[@felixleong61]

Firefighters: *Soviet power supreme*

[@Dhruvalization]

@@dontknow3886 do they?

[@dontknow3886]

@@Dhruvalization idk i thought by you writing „firefighters dont mess around“ you were implying that they mess around all the other time

[@Dhruvalization]

@@dontknow3886 just said it as a joke, I know fire fighters don't mess around, and its extremely dangerous to be around fire... I have a little first hand experience lots of respect for them :)

[@serpico1616]

Fantastic episode!

[@Foppopski]

Im signing up RIGHT NOW! I need to see that EP!

[@plica06]

13:07 Hold on. After all that, the Hungarian machine only put out... 9 fires.

[@agnellomascarenhas8665]

Wait.. we have firetruck and fireplanes. NOW WE GOT A FIRE TANK?!? What's a next a FIREBOAT

[@tylerboothman4496]

Fire boats exist

[@agnellomascarenhas8665]

Oh ok that's cool Thx for telling me😄

[@davidgruty]

FIRESUBMARINE!

[@tylerboothman4496]

@@davidgruty Fire Spaceship! Gonna put out the Sun!

[@agnellomascarenhas8665]

Lol 😆

[@Halapep]

As always, great quality content! Harsh topic but awesome visuals my man

[@list1726]

Thanks for posting

[@HolyNorthAmericanEmpire]

Casually ignoring that Kuwait also drilled into Iraqi oil fields...

[@BlueBetaPro]

I can highly recommend watching Fires of Kuwait (1992). A real eye opener.

[@torqtorqtorq]

11:14 Lol those two dudes shouting in each other's faces meters from the spewing oil

[@troubleq80]

I used to work in Kuwait Oil Company (KOC). It’s the Company responsible for oil exploration and production in Kuwait. It saddens me that this video did not mention the efforts of the Kuwaiti firefighting team. To this day, KOC is still doing soil remediation to undo what those oil well fires have done to the soil.

[@Nonlactoseintolerant]

👍

[@gary_dslr2615]

Well, that looks like something Thunderbird 2 would drop out of pod 5 🤩

[@nowistime8070]

I was a teenager when this happened and didnt know the details until now. thank you

[@atomdent]

Entertaining, educational, excellent!

[@justandy333]

What Saddam ordered his troops to do was just a pure act of spite. His army was in the process of getting their asses booted out of Kuwait so decided, "If I can't have that oil, then no one can!" With absolutely no consideration to the ecological devastation it would bring. A truly awful human being.

[@techterror1282]

Anybody in his position would have done the same thing You're acting like this is absurd.

[@justandy333]

@@techterror1282 ummm, it IS absurd! Causing an ecological catastrophy just because you didn't get your own way is just small minded and cruel. Let's not forget it wasnt his oil to begin with, it was Kuwait's. If you were to come at me with that arguement against Iraqi oil wells, I wouldn't be happy, but it was their oil. But to do such an act on someone else's wells is just smallminded selfish and abhorrent.

[@techterror1282]

@@justandy333 It's not normal for humans to give a s***

[@royce9018]

😂😂😂

[@user-cq6fk5go3s]

The things he did to his own people, then his soldiers did to few captured Kuwaiti soldiers who didn’t run showed what kind of person he was before this. He has them swinging from anything that could be tied off to from one end of the street to the other at the Kuwaiti naval base.

[@saranshgautam6551]

What did they do with this jet engine firetruck afterwards? Was it dismantled? Or does it sit in a museum or something?

[@volvo09]

I would bet it's still hanging around somewhere in case of an emergency... But I wonder...

[@chloeholmes4641]

Last I've heard, it's still in service

[@ichbin1984]

Wow. I never knew these fires existed. This look absolutely spectacular and perverse.

[@danchitnis]

Thank you for telling this story. I was living 100km to this area and saw how the day turned into a black sky without moon and stars. So many nations helped and worked with each other to put this disaster out.

[@vinny7114]

What Nebula is missing is good app for smarphones. But the price truly is less expensive per month than a small coffee.

[@0xdeadbeef444]

Never really thought about that every one of these fires needed to be put out.

[@PrograError]

no shit mate... it's like a leaky canteen in the middle of the desert and the nearest oasis/ water point is miles and miles away... and you are basically half dead...

[@dedracingteam]

Très enrichissant les boys. Bravo ! 👌

[@MenOfMeansUK]

"how was your day in the office?" "A minefield, been fighting fires all day"

[@Some-Guy-]

There was actually a few seconds of content about the firefighting machine hidden away in this video.

[@bikeny]

Thanks to you I was able to skip ahead to find those bits. Appreciated. Especially as the background music gets in the way of his narration (well, any host that plays background music has their narration/dialogue messed up with music being played at the same time). I am curious if they had asked Red Adair for help.

[@mh6276]

Are you saying that this video is not a masterpiece? I think this is the coolest thing I have seen in months (that does have to do with the topic and less the video but the topic makes in amazing). And there is at least 5 minutes about the machine in the video.

[@CS2architecture]

176 capped wells... wow. The Canadien fire fighting team got the job done (no doubt). Eventhough this Hungarian firetruck (firetank?) only capped 9 oil wells, the Hungarian firetruck was the dopest looking fire fighting machine. Most badass firetruck in existence.

[@ericlotze7724]

5:13 WILD. I never would have thought of that but it makes sense! Now i want to dig for some pictures of all that, must have been a sight to see, entire formations emerging looking almost alien to the surrounding sand.

[@RaunakbirSinghBedi-lz6ll]

very good keep it up!

[@choty7066]

Me after taco bell

[@ScottBFree]

Taco Bell is pretty rough, but you might want to get that checked out. 😂

[@choty7066]

@@ScottBFree lol i have never actually eaten taco bell before

[@aquilaFUN]

The more I learn about Iraq under Saddam, the less sorry I feel for 2003, not gonna lie

[@atharv5585]

USA killed hundreds of thousands of civilians for no reason

[@firstwolfplus]

Empathy Check FAILED

[@matheusalves3525]

lol right people feel bad for saddam?????

[@throwback19841]

​@@matheusalves3525I think it's all the dead Iraqis, civil war and instability they feel sorry for, not Saddam

[@jimsvideos7201]

Well done, Brian.

[@Mustacheman17]

Not that I don’t like the engineering heavy videos, but this doc style was amazing!!

[@suhass5710]

This type of thumbnail should be illegal Damn i click it 😩

[@jackalovski1]

As long as these wells are still in use, that oil is still being burned and still being released into the atmosphere. Every day thousands of times this oil is burned but because it’s burned in car engines it’s invisible to us.

[@volvo09]

It's being burned much cleaner though, after refining and exhaust after treatment. Black sooty fires are horrifically dirty.

[@dr.cheeze5382]

I'd like to hear someone knowledgeable talk about this. Surely refined petrol products produce less pollution than pure unrefined oil? Then again, the refining process could produce even more waste than just burning the oil.

[@crackedemerald4930]

​@@volvo09it's probably burnt much cleaner, as it's not atomizing raw crude oil into the atmosphere. but it's not like shitty evil sulphurous oil isn't burnt too, and even the cleaner burning stuff is being burnt at a much bigger volume.

[@crackedemerald4930]

​@@dr.cheeze5382i vaguely remember refining oil being terribly energy efficient.

[@Nathan-vt1jz]

This is a crazy and amazing machine!

[@aririzkirivaldo173]

I already hit like button under 1 minute mark of the video. Your graphic are awesome!

[@custos3249]

Also, really makes ya wonder where the world would be if we'd invested in solar and wind long back when we should've rather than continuing to be reliant on this instability.

[@Quicks1lvr]

The world would be filled with even more strip mines then, along with the tons of trash from wind when the turbines stop. Not only that these 2 sources are dependent on the weather. Anything less than nuclear is a joke

[@kevikiru]

Saddam in this case is what we call a Sore Looser!

[@jeoffrey9733]

Dude, the guts those reporters had to stand so close to undetonated explosives is mind bogling

[@miltonb4522]

One of the boots and coots guys was a company man on a site I was on an about 8 years ago. We actually went through and watched Fires of Kuwait on his recommendation while we waited for some tools to show up.

[@omristoliarevsky4704]

One of the first I guess

[@ahmedsaoudi2344]

Even if we disregard everything else he did, this incident here is way more than enough reasons to dispose of Saddam Hussein. What a terrible person.

[@TrainMedia00]

That fire tank looks insane, this is real mad scientist.

[@michaeldruyan1506]

Damn those animations are sick

[@observantmagic4156]

First

[@zensamurai6582]

feel sorry for you

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