Japanese man attempts to put out a fire, fails spectacularly.

[Brainonska511]

And if your fire extinguisher is in the kitchen, which is on fire, it will be hard to get to it. :biggrin: You want it nearby but not actually in it. Depending on the layout you can have it in it but just not near the stove as that is the most likely place for a fire.

If your kitchen is so badly on fire you can't get to your fire extinguisher, perhaps you should leave it to the professionals to put out. It is better to leave a fire extinguisher close to where a fire is likely to appear (such as a kitchen) so that it is readily accessible in the event of a fire starting.

 

[Brian Stirling]

I used to work for a Japanese company and they'd send engineers to work on the bigger projects. As you may know many Japanese smoke and a few were doing so one day outside the field trailer and they set the garbage can on fire with there butts. I heard the commotion and stepped outside to see what was going on.

Well all three of them had gotten cups of water but the fire was getting bigger and, as the garbage can was against the trailer, the trailer was beginning to catch fire to. So, first thing I did was grab the garbage can and pulled it away from the trailer. I then went inside the trailer and grabbed the fire extinguisher and when I came out the next thing I did was spray the burning part of the trailer as my Japanese engineers were still fixated on the burning garbage can. Only after putting the trailer fire out did I turn my attention to the garbage can and put it out.

I had to scratch my head over the response of three smart guys from Japan.


Brian

 

[IGBT]

fukushima ;

 

[SP33Demon]

Lighting fires for fun and then kills an old lady because he fueled a fire? Well done.

 

[Jaepheth]

Looks like this is the sort of thing he was using:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Novelty-Shopper-Reusable-match-lighter/dp/B000T8D3MK


...All the fire hazard of a sloppily filled Zippo combined with the inconveniences of a match box.

In the reviews:

Instructions wernt clear enough. Set my hand on fire

 

[OutHouse]

And if your fire extinguisher is in the kitchen, which is on fire, it will be hard to get to it. :biggrin: You want it nearby but not actually in it. Depending on the layout you can have it in it but just not near the stove as that is the most likely place for a fire.

I have 5 extinguishers in my house, 2 are in the kitchen, 1 in the laundry room, and one mounted by the front and back doors.

 

[MrRamon]

What I said in the other thread.

Stupid ass! No fire is too small for the fire Dept. as soon as you have one stop everything and call your emergency number! Plus they have FLIR to make sure there is no hot spots.

This.

 

[Imp]

I used to work for a Japanese company and they'd send engineers to work on the bigger projects. As you may know many Japanese smoke and a few were doing so one day outside the field trailer and they set the garbage can on fire with there butts. I heard the commotion and stepped outside to see what was going on.

...

I had to scratch my head over the response of three smart guys from Japan.

I worked with engineers, licensed, with decades of experience. Two didn't know how to get a car stuck in the mud out, and one bottomed out a pick-up on the edge of a road.

 

[Jaepheth]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8mD2hsxrhQ

Guy had so many chances to get that under control it's tragic.

 

[Jeff7]

I worked with engineers, licensed, with decades of experience. Two didn't know how to get a car stuck in the mud out, and one bottomed out a pick-up on the edge of a road.

An electrical engineer will look at a lever and start to hyperventilate.
A mechanical engineer will try to make a lightbulb work using a chisel and screwdriver, then run away frightened once he realizes that there are electrons in them thar wires.


Some engineers are really fine-tuned in where their skills go.
Other engineers are the sort that make you think "Somewhere in the world is the worst engineer. I'm pretty sure I've found him."

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Don't use that term, man. It's derogatory... you now use the term "intellectual disability." I agree, that person appears to have an intellectual disability.

PC brah

 

[Newell Steamer]

Autism or super high?

 

[SlitheryDee]

That's kind of scary. Fire gets out of control quick.

 

[Drako]

Wow, what a moron. That guy has to have some kind of mental issues. :|

 

[tynopik]

So, first thing I did was grab the garbage can and pulled it away from the trailer.

Yeah, the first thing i would have done would have been to remove it from additional sources of fuel

people have mentioned carrying it to sink or bathtub, but if you can't do that, i would have dumped out the trash bag and kick away everything that WASN'T on fire so there was only a small pile of burning stuff with nothing else to fuel it.

 

[Markbnj]

That's kind of scary. Fire gets out of control quick.

It does... but not in his case. He had to work at it.

 

[Drako]

Wow, I just saw a neighbor might have died because of this? Is this guy in jail now? I can't read Japanese.

 

[uhohs]

Some people think that 3 buildings + 1 death report is of another incident on the same day.

Supposedly this guy is 40something and lives with his parents, so maybe that's his mom coming in to help throw water on the fire. :awe:

 

[Hugo Drax]

This thread got me to look up carbon dioxide fire extinguishers and why they don't cover class A fires when class A fires seem to be the simplest... We don't have an extinguisher but I'd only be interested in a CO2 one to avoid a mess -- may as well let it burn if I have to clean up powder/foam?

I have a large CO2 extinguisher this model for the office/dataroom

And a large 6A:120B:C Dry Proplus 20 Kidde extinguisher.

I am surprised that they did not make use of the extinguisher.

 

[Brian Stirling]

Some people think that 3 buildings + 1 death report is of another incident on the same day.

Supposedly this guy is 40something and lives with his parents, so maybe that's his mom coming in to help throw water on the fire. :awe:

There's still the creepy little girls voice that has me wondering what the hell he was doing on the computer. Also, the video appears to have come from a webcam or PC camera but who recorded it? It would appear that his PC would have been burnt to a crisp so someone else must have recorded the video I think.


Brian

 

[Red Squirrel]

Think the voice was a Ghast in minecraft. Though, listening to it again it does not sound exactly the same, but maybe the Japanese minecraft is different?

 

[Imp]

There's still the creepy little girls voice that has me wondering what the hell he was doing on the computer. Also, the video appears to have come from a webcam or PC camera but who recorded it? It would appear that his PC would have been burnt to a crisp so someone else must have recorded the video I think.


Brian

Heard it was Twitch TV or something?

It's like cam girls... except more clothes and I think you get to watch the actual game they're playing. Some people (ladies with breastesses) are supposedly making bank on it from tips.

 

[balloonshark]

I had to scratch my head over the response of three smart guys from Japan.

Brian

There's a huge difference between being really smart and having common sense. The most dangerous one of the bunch is the dumbass who placed the trash can next to the trailer to begin with

 

[bononos]

Think the voice was a Ghast in minecraft. Though, listening to it again it does not sound exactly the same, but maybe the Japanese minecraft is different?

The news articles said it was some text to speech synthesizer and that someone was warning him about the fire.

 

[UnholyCarcass]

Man i love how he tried to smother the fire with more flammable materials. Genius move LOL