What is fire? - Episode one

[@gabriele5719]

Matt, this series is great! I’m a scientist in a cancer research lab, we work with quite a lot of flammable materials and I’ve been designated as fire safety officer; your contents have been extremely helpful in order to achieve the qualification! Thank you so much!

[@MattDavis5]

You're welcome! Thanks for you comment. That's great to hear!!

[@juliawilliams6464]

As someone starting out as a volunteer firefighter these videos are invaluable! Thank you for sharing your knowledge through videos with great examples and explanations!! ☺️

[@jeanfrancoislandry385]

Thanks for all these 19 videos. I teach basic firefighting to industrial fire brigade at mine sites in Canada. I'm using your videos as teaching aid to explain basic fire science and i get excellent review from the participants. So thank you. Cheers.

[@MattDavis5]

You're welcome! Glad they are coming in handy for your training 👍🏼

[@louisluyt-y6y]

I use your Videos in South Africa during Health and Safety training. People love them thank you.

[@MattDavis5]

Very cool! Great to hear they are coming in handy. Thanks for letting me know.

[@tarasweeney23]

Thank you for these videos. I'm a firefighter in the UK and I wanted to learn more about fire dynamics and how to understand fire better. You explain things really clearly and enables me to understand better. Thank you

[@MattDavis5]

Hey there! You're welcome 👍 I'm glad they've come in handy for you!

[@Harry-bc2dn]

This was fantastic! Both entertaining and intelligible - thank you 😊

[@Paraselene_Tao]

Hey, I'm glad you made this series. I've never taken any firefighting training beyond some simple fire rules from scouts. I'm 31 and just interested in understanding firefighting a bit better than, "Gee, idk." Fires are a very common thing in life to deal with, so I think everyone should have some simple understanding.

[@MattDavis5]

Thanks! I’m glad you enjoyed them. It’s an interesting thing hey, most people are familiar with fire. But much fewer people really understand it 🙂

[@garthmarenghi9040]

Fascinating stuff. I'll be watching this entire series!

[@MattDavis5]

Glad you like it! Let me know what you think when you get through them all 🙂

[@earthagain]

Your videos are great! I just started maritime school to become a ship captain and I have an entire class about fire science and safety. The entertaining and educational videos you have here are SO helpful to my studies. Thank you for bringing life and real examples to what my text book is struggling to express to newcomers like myself.

[@MattDavis5]

Thanks! I'm glad they have come in handy! And Good luck with the study 👍🏼🙂

[@jolchius]

Super cool! very easy and interesting explanation. Love it!

[@cephalopodx7587]

Great video. Thank you so much for this information.

[@DanielVerberne]

Very interesting and informative series, Matt!

[@MattDavis5]

Thanks Daniel 👍

[@simioncsm5042]

Matt, your videos are great. Keep it going, Is exactly what I was searching for. Explain please each type of fire extinguisher, where and how to apply. Donning fireman suit in the correct way and ...

[@MattDavis5]

Thanks! Glad you like the videos. And thankyou for the suggestions 🙂👍🏼

[@miki1319]

Thanks mate for creating this channel and sharing your knowledge. Its pretty difficult to find concise information about the subject of fire on yt. Keep up your great job. Cheers!

[@MattDavis5]

Thanks! A lack of similar content was one of the reasons why I started the channel 🙂 Glad you like it 👍🏼

[@dc2lifelive881]

Matt. Great job. I’m going to use your videos on fire dynamics for our training this week’s training session. Great information and quality in content

[@MattDavis5]

Thanks! I'm always stoked to hear when the videos are getting used! All the best with the training 👍🏼

[@howdyfriends7950]

what a cool series! I'm amazed that you don't have more subscribers, because this is great content!

[@MattDavis5]

Thanks! I'm glad you like it!! 🙂

[@meganm5160]

Hi Matt I love your videos, they are high quality and you explain things extremely well. Would you ever be willing to share your setup and any tips on making content like this? It’s a bit overwhelming but i would really like to learn about making content like this. Thank you so much for making these. Respectfully Joe Miller

[@ABHISHEKKUMAR-el3br]

amazing , great work . Keep it up. Love from India

[@MattDavis5]

Thanks! Glad you like them so far 🙂👍🏼

[@cpattullo1]

Hey Matt, really well done videos. The entire series! One thing that may confuse some people about this first video is how the wax gets from a solid to a liquid to a gas (heat -> melt -> up into the wick -> pyrolysis as you mention). I only throw it out there as it may be a stumbling block for some to grasp the concept of pyrolysis. i.e. is it the solid candle that's vaporized or the little pool of melted wax below the flame? And what about the wick? etc. etc.

[@MattDavis5]

Hi Chris, thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it! There are a few things that I could have presented differently throughout the series. (It's all been a bit of trial and error in making the vids). But I do try to make them as accurate and straight forward possible 🙂

[@cpattullo1]

@@MattDavis5 ya, no worries. This is just a comment in case you ever come back and do an edit or add on. The whole series is *very* well done. You touch on content many others don't. And I've not seen it be in such an effectively presented series like this either. Kudos, big time.

[@amrunning1301]

best videos on youtube ! thank you !

[@GirishJois]

Super demo of smoke lighting-up 👌👍

[@MattDavis5]

Thanks!!

[@SizSarayut]

Your videoes are very useful for artist as well

[@MattDavis5]

Thanks!! Glad they are coming in handy!!

[@nakamura7346]

Can some chemical reactions that emit a lot of heat in a short time be considered fire(without the participation of oxygen)?

[@MattDavis5]

Interesting question. There are oxidising elements other than oxygen e.g. chlorine that will sustain a fire. But for it to be considered fire I would think it would need to be some kind of oxidation reaction. But I’m not really sure about the wider implications to be honest.

[@tinidavies6531]

Thanks for making this series! I couldn’t find a decent explanation for pyrolysis anywhere!

[@MattDavis5]

Your welcome Tini. The lack of Pyrolysis videos was actually one of the motivations for the series. It's such an important part of fire dynamics and yet I couldn't find much in the way of straight forward explanation videos.

[@nobody-xk2og]

you deserve a lot more subscribers

[@MattDavis5]

Thanks 🙂

[@PhilipRhoadesP]

I used to be a scientist but I never knew it was the smoke that was burning! - in fact I thought that the smoke was some non-flammable dust or ash or something - thanks for the chemistry clarification! - but what about the smoke well above a bush fire? - would that still ignite if there was another flame introduced? - maybe there is cooling as the smoke rises and it becomes not hot enough to continue to burn?

[@kaifrahman2703]

Just a curious guy. I think if the smoke from bushfire gets another heat source, it could possibly catch fire and the resulting flame will be bigger than the bushfire.

[@badantman]

Fkin legend. Start training in June and you’ve domne better at teaching than everything on the powerpoint they sent me!

[@MattDavis5]

Thanks! Glad you like it!

[@kaifrahman2703]

I m so surprised to see that given the time and effort u put in ur videos plus the way u explain, u have so less subscribers. U deserve a million ones.

[@MattDavis5]

That's very kind of you to say! Glad you like them!

[@kaifrahman2703]

@@MattDavis5 why won't I? U explain so nicely with incredible practical examples.

[@thisloveisindiebutitschill7311]

Good content. But the music is soo loud 😅

[@thisloveisindiebutitschill7311]

I got distracted so quicklyy by the edm

[@MattDavis5]

Agreed 👍🏽 I didn’t really get the levels right in the earlier videos. But the newer videos are a bit better. 🙂

[@thisloveisindiebutitschill7311]

@@MattDavis5 yes sir! I noticed it too. Thank you for these!

[@notyourbusiness2672]

This gym music is so distracting and redundant

[@MattDavis5]

Hi thanks for the feedback. This was my first try at making a video so some mistakes were made (I still make mistakes, I just generally make different ones now 😆). My more recent videos have less of the music.