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Grain elevator fire


I took this last summer while in Dawson Creek, BC on a job. It was a hot day and the grain got hot and ignited by itself. By this time the fire department just backed away and kept other things from burning.

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JoJo says:
It's hard to believe that it wasn't arson...I've never heard of grain catching on fire by itself.
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )
John pro replies:
Surprisingly, it does happen. It's the same with rags that have been used with Linseed Oil. They create so much heat, they catch fire. This was an unusually hot day here.
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )
Mark Waldron says:
Not much can be done about a fire like that! Just back away and let it burn itself out. Great piece of video history John!
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )
John pro replies:
Thanks,I was certainly there at the right time.
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )
Kugler pro says:
Great photography! Oddly, I spent the weekend at the Mill Museum in Minneapolis. They had a devastating grain/flour explosion that blew out and burned most of this mill.
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )
John pro replies:
Thanks, It's common, and one of the reasons crops are left in the fields to dry.
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )
DSutherland says:
wow scary! Nice catch of the moment, listen to those flames
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )
John pro says:
It went from just a wisp of smoke to this in just over an hour.
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )
Pixie pro says:
Wow!
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )
John pro replies:
Exactly! :))
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )
Matthäus Felder says:
Wow!
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )
John pro replies:
Wow is right! :))
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )
Yeshim Khaley Istanbul says:
great video...It is alive and very good capture...
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )
John pro replies:
Thanks, it was quite something to see.
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )
Nada says:
You had you camera ready for action.. it does look like a hot day..
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )
John pro replies:
I've learned to keep a camera close always! You never know what can happen in front of you!
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )
Lebojo says:
le grain ça chauffe.........impressionnant
Posted 2 weeks ago. ( permalink / translate )
John pro replies:
Yes it does, Thanks!
Posted 2 weeks ago. ( permalink )

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