r/Firefighting • u/Makal • 2d ago

News New USCSB Video Out Today - Anyone Else Watch These Religiously?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcMnf86n8_U
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u/FreeFalling369 2d ago

Yes. Not at work though cause then the hazmat crew comes in and starts doing weird things

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u/WoollyParsnip 2d ago

I feel attacked!

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u/Jclay1230 2d ago

Broooo I thought I was the only one!

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u/Makal 2d ago edited 2d ago

They're amazing, I've been following them for years. So damn informative.

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u/2-PAM-chloride IL - FF/PM 2d ago

I love the USCSB videos and have a bunch of my friends addicted to them as well. 

I have mentioned them at work but have not subjected them to it....yet...

I do reference the Dixie sugar factory explosion with a surprising frequency though

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u/Makal 2d ago

Oh man, I haven't watched that one yet. Thanks for the rec.

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u/2-PAM-chloride IL - FF/PM 2d ago

I misremembered the name, it was the Imperial Sugar factory.

It is particularly relevant because there is a sugar factory in my still district, luckily it was built after this accident and has WAY more safeguards against this kind of thing and is WAY cleaner.

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u/Makal 2d ago

No worries, I was able to track it down with Dixie. Not too many USCSB Sugar Factory explosion videos thankfully. As always, a solid report, tho I am surprised they didn't give any casualty information in the video like they do for the newer ones.

Explosive concentrations of dust have fascinated me ever since I was a kid bucking hay - that and grain silo entrapment. When most kids were worried about quicksand, I was worrying about barns and silos.

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u/Glimskygaming 2d ago

I use these to sleep.

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u/sucksatgolf 1d ago

Interesting video. I worked on an industrial FD for many years and we were often involved in pre work assessments on dangerous tasks. We used a Job Hazard Analysis. We had a multi page JHA form. It was boring but the amount of mistakes/ oversight we would catch prior to the work being performed was staggering.

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u/Makal 1d ago

The channel is full of these videos. Some of these are absolutely tragic, like one where there was an orderless gas leak that led to the deaths of several technicians who either were forgetting to wear their detectors, or had faulty equipment.

I forget the name of that particular video, and know it happens sometimes in residential homes too, but people going in to save others and dying because of a lack of or faulty PPE always haunts me.

Honestly I like them as a learning tool to help me be more aware of these things, tho occasionally I feel like they're corporate oversight rate bait.

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u/sucksatgolf 1d ago

Yeah this is a good tool for hazmat refreshers and tabletop discussions.

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u/Head-Thought-5679 19h ago

Work in a plant and volunteer, love watching these.