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Burning the barn part II

Roar — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:34:55 +0000

As I promised I’ll post some pictures from the burn here. It’s kind of scary to see how fast it actually goes.

This first picture was taken about five minutes after we lit the place up. The barn was torched inside up against the wall to the right in this picture.

This next one was taken 3 minutes later.

The 12 minutes after this shot I took this picture. We have now been bruning for about 20 minutes

And at last I took this one about 26 minutes after the place was lit up.

Burning the barn

Roar — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:24:52 +0000

We’ve done it, we planned and executed the burning of a 800 square meter barn. Woppee.

The whole thing was a part of the course I’ve been attending the last couple of weeks, yesterday we went out to the place in the morning to have a look at the place and to see what other buildings we needed to protect from the fire.

As you can see the barn was quite close to the main building, about 40 meters, and even closet to a newer tool shed. But we managed to protect those. We set up four fire pumps at the lake which is about 250 meters to the east of these buildings, three that was supplying water to hoses and three water walls, and one in backup just in case. then we rolled out something like 1.2 km of 4″ hoses and a then some 2.5″ hoses.

Then after a few problems with the pumps and a few broken hoses that needed replacing we were ready to light up place. The fire was lit in an old sofa in the north end of the barn at 10:25 and after about 8 minutes the whole place was ablaze. At 11:13 the last south wall finally collapsed inwards as planned and at 11:35 there was no more danger that the fire would escalate outside the foundation of the building so the fire pumps were shut down. It’s kind of scare to se how fast the fire grown and how destructive it is, but it’s also nice to have experienced this so close.

I’ll se if I cannot create a timeline of the pictures I took as the fire progressed some day when I get back home.

Civil Defence Forces course @ Starum

Roar — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:14:24 +0000

well then the first day of my two weeks course has ended, and so far it looks like it’s going to be a good two weeks. The people here are nice and the whole course plan seems to be interesting. I’m hoping to be able to do some updating here from time to time.

Today we’ve had some general Civil Defence information, done a short presentation of ourselves for our class, had some information on the rules regarding uniforms and starter on some team leader exercises, and tomorrow we’ll continue with more of the same. Should be good.

The best part of this course will probably be next Wednesday when we are going to lead the people doing their basic training when they are burning down an 800 square meter barn. Should be fun.