Virtually every household in America contains many common items which are far more dangerous than even a massive ammunition collection. Cans of spray paint or hair spray, a container of gasoline for a lawn mower, or a propane tank for a BBQ grill or even a small propane torch for home improvement use will all "explode" about as easily as ammunition, and cause more damage by providing fuel to a fire.
Tests have shown that ammunition exposed to a fire may eventually be heated to the point that the primer and/or powder will ignite. This will usually result in the cartridge case rupturing, and force the primer from the primer pocket. The powder burns, and does not explode. Since the ammunition is not constrained within the barrel of a gun, the force is dispersed in all directions, and the bullet will do little more than drop out of the case. The primer, any pieces of the ruptured cartridge case, and the bullet will not penetrate anything much stronger than a corrugated cardboard box a few inches away. Military surplus "ammo cans" are excellent and safe methods for storing ammunition.
Newspaper accounts of house or business fires where "bullets exploded by the heat went shooting over firefighters' heads" are completely false and based on invalid assumptions and ignorance. However, news people often leap to hysterical conclusions which attract a lot of attention and are seldom corrected
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supporting any nation in the firefighter
is produced by sami the sporting arms
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and ammunition manufactures institute
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sammy was created in nineteen twenty six
at the request of the united states
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federal government to create standards
related to safety and reliability and
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firearms ammunition components
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this video as part of our continuing
mission to promote safety in this case
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by providing firefighters with
fact-based information to help them
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address the realities of fires they
contain sporting ammunition
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peachy around the world
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the public shoots billions of cartridges
in shock shells
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rifle and handgun cartridges consist of
a brass case with primer powder and
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bullet
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shot shells are similar
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but also have a wild that holds the shot
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sporting a new nation include shot
schultz oh two eighty eight
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and handgun rifle cartridges up to fifty
caliber
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this video examine sporting ammunition
only it does not address military or law
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enforcement and initiatives such as tear
gas cartridges tracers or incendiary
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projectiles
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these demonstrations do not apply to a
loaded firearm
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in a fire patching bird firearm we'll
shoot as if the trigger was pulled
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sammy thinks the international
association of fire chiefs for their
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input during the making of this video
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their firefighters
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we always encounter rhys and hazards and
before we enter into any
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incident we should be doing a risk
assessment and looking at the levels of
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risk before involved
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i think in the fall of demonstrations
with small arms ammunition he'll also
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realize that the risk is very low he
should be treated no differently than
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any other hazards instructor pilot
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smokeless powders must be confined to
propel a projectile akan velocity
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when not in a firearm
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projectile velocities are extremely low
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to demonstrate this fact a special test
device was made to hold cartridges
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one-at-a-time for igniting and filming
in slow motion
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which will be a shot show is the most
common shot shell available
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without the confinement of a file on
camera
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the shock is not penetrate standard two
hundred pound fiber board at a distance
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of seven inches
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projectiles superficially mark the fiber
board
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much of the powder is left on bernie
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unsupported five hundred smith and
wesson magnum handgun cartridge exhibits
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more energy anestachio
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the brass breaks apart and the bullet
may penetrate one sheet of five eighths
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inch sheetrock
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it may not even penetrate their farm
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which happened here
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the four sixteen remington magnum rifle
cartridge
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is one of the largest sporting
cartridges
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but that's similar to magnum handgun
cartridge
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conclusion
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projectiles ignited outside a firearm
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have significantly lower velocities and
energies that man shot from a firearm
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if any nation has dropped in
transportation or storage
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willette ignite
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to answer this question
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consumer packages of ammunition were
dropped from a height of sixty five feet
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measured with the weight of world
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the sporting emulation consisted of a
fifty-round box of federal three fifty
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seven sick
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handgun cartridges
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a twenty five around lots of remington
twelve-gauge shot shells
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and a twenty round box of twenty four
fifty eight point four cartridges one of
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the biggest cartridges on the market
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consumer packages of shot shells
handguns and rifles cartridges were
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dropped at the same time
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from this extreme quite
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two of the handgun cartridges ignited
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there was no propagation from cartridge
to cartridge
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three shipping cases of the same
ammunition were dropped from sixty five
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feet
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these cases contend two hundred rounds
of rifle cartridges
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two hundred fifty rounds of shots shells
and one thousand rounds of handgun
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cartridges
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none of the ammunition ignited
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conclusion
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when dropped from extreme heights
supporting ammunition is unlikely to
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ignite
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the cartridge ignites
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it does not propagate
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if a cartridges ignited accidentally
will ignite other cartridges
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the ultimate test is to shoot boxes of
ammunition with a high-power rifle
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ammunition in retail packaging and
shipping cases was placed on a pedestal
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in the cabinet
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to help contain the impacted cartridges
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which can scanner for twenty to thirty
feet
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the cabinet also protects the
slow-motion camera
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some unacknowledged cartridges were not
found immediately
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but all cartridges were accounted for by
the end of the day
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the three oh eight caliber rifle used
here
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the shooting one hundred fifty green
bullets two thousand six hundred
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tentative per second from a distance of
sixty five yards
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handgun rifle and shot shells were
tested
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a retail box of each type was shot
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followed by shooting a case of the same
ammunition
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four cartridges ignited
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five cartridges ignited
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gunpowder pork out of the impacted
cartridges
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three-card regions where ruptured
without igniting
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five cartridges were damaged
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three of them were ignited
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gunpowder erupted from the shot shells
without igniting
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for shot shells were damaged
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one primary was destroyed which did not
ignite the shot shell
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conclusion
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most of the ammunition did not ignite
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when a cartridge did ignite there was no
chain reaction
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old
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lasting cancer used to ignite quite
forces
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they send out a shockwave and final
manam fragments
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blasting cap was placed inside a box of
four fifty-eight winchester magnum rifle
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cartridges
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the blasting cap destroyed the package
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none of the cartridges ignited
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totally destroyed category
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it was decided to place a blast in
catholic side effect is
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a box of fifty winchester forty-five
cold cartridges was used
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the primer was exposed
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the blasting cap was a fixed on top of
the expos primer
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the targeted cartridge ignited
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but no one around and i didn't
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there was no propagation
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the fifty-round boss was largely
undisturbed
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next an entire two hundred fifty round
case of federal twelve-gauge shot shells
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was used
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polls were cut through the fiber board
and consumer packaging to expose a
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primer
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the blasting cap was attached directly
against the expos primer
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the targeted shot shelving knighted
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there was no propagation
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the two hundred fifty round case was
largely undisturbed
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the tests showed that blasting caps are
usually unable to ignite sporting
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ammunition
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when placed directly against an expose
primer
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the blasting cap made nine that
cartridge
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there was no propagation from cartridge
to cartridge
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conclusion
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ignition using a blasting cap is
difficult and is not propagate
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a forklift was driven at high speed into
a pallet of ammunition
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there was no addition
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damage to the ammunition was negligible
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worst-case scenario it was decided
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russian livable
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rejecting visas
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two hundred mounting federal seven
millimeter remington magnum rifle
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cartridges
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two hundred rounds of point eighteen
forty four magnum handgun cartridges
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and two hundred fifty rounds of federal
twelve-gauge magnum shot shells
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the bulldozer crushed the cases
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no ammunition was ignited
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since crushing the ammunition did not
cause the sporting a new nation to
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ignite
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it was decided to conduct an extreme
test
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all the packaging was removed
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the ammunition was left in piles on the
ground
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the bulldozers and won't be any nation
on the asphalt
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this demonstration is extreme
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but it shows and missions resistance to
accidentally mixed
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during thirty seconds of grinding
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screenshot shell primers were ignited
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many climbers were crushed without
igniting
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two one four climbers were ignited
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no propagation occur
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many cartridges were crushed without
igniting
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none of the handgun cartridges ignited
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most extreme
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unlikely to overnight and does not
propagating
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a bonfire of packaging munition was
conducted
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the purpose was to measure the danger of
projectiles from an ammunition fire
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demonstrate that sporting ammunition
does not mass explode in a fire
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twenty eight thousand rounds of sporting
ammunition were placed on a bench table
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above award and diesel bonfire
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nine witness hands were placed around
the fire fifteen to fifty feet from the
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bonfire
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the witness stand speech consisted of a
two-by-four would rectangle
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this dog wall frame was covered front
and back one tool for twenty eight foot
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sheets of five aids and she rock
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diesel fuel was applied to the working
people people
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the bonfire was ignited
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the ammunition began to ignite
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the ammunition was not fully involved
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melted plastic from shot shelton's
burned on the ground
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witnessed plates that we've set up
meetings the proc
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various distances from the fire could
show exactly how much
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get them and with what portion
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only a few pieces of the ammunition
actually went through the first piece of
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sheet rock and none penetrated the
second
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a lot of the pieces of any action stuck
in the sheetrock
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and install bcn for treating from it
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we stepped out from behind the shelter
that was used for the video cameras
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in our poll firefighter turnout birthday
shield vannatter helmet
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and were able to feel some of the pieces
of the ammunition striker turn out here
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in fall into the ground
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nothing more than a force to actually
carry into the turnout here or injury
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anyone
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conditioned upon your convenient
imitating
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the noise is intense
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you can see and here projectiles flying
past you
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this test demonstrated that sporting a
munitions and a large and intense finder
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does not create projectiles dangerous to
firefighters within a reasonable working
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distance
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conclusion
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supporting ammunition fires are no easy
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but the projectiles have low-energy and
remarks we can't find one sheet rocket
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short distances
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normal turnout here will protect the
firefighter at a reasonable working
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distance
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eighteen thousand rounds of sporting
ammunition were placed in a matchbox
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without and packaging
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the bonfire was doused with diesel
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and ignited
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app
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the absence of back and did not increase
the intensity of the fire
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put heat anti-white cost the state of
the collapse
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the plastic from johnson one early
morning after the wouldn't be so fun or
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was removed
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conclusion
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the lack of packaging did not cause the
ammunition to burn more fiercely
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no explosion occurred
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one hundred fifteen thousand rounds of
sporting ammunition were placed in a
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simulated retail store
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this included shot shell
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handgun rifle ammunition
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there was a large amount of ammunition
in a small area
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the warden diesel fire was intense
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these factors created an unusually
intense ammunition fire
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the fire was ignited
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fill it out
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making approach with two different
attack lines
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cutting off a mobile
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rich completed the firefight on up
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retail store of over a hundred thousand
rows of sorghum ammunition
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we came up with two different poses
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and the initial
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officer to put his wide pattern of life
was almost immediately affected david i
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came around behind him
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with that never or fog and reach the
back of the building
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and we were very effective it worked
really fast
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who are approaching the borrower or what
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any project alpharetta anything that
came out before was very low velocity
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and uh... nobody got strep that will
make in our fire vaccinate projectiles
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from afar
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the wall in this room was a normal
stonewall made up of two going forward
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the front of the wall was covered by
finding tension brock
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the backside all consisted of seven
sixteenths inch would wait for board
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the sheetrock was tested more severely
mister than in the bonfire
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the sheet wanted the scenario is only
zero two five feet from the ammunition
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none of the one hundred fifteen thousand
rounds was more than twelve feet away
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from the sheetrock
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there were many penetrations of the
sheetrock
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as she brought penetrations from best
seen by the sheet rock dust on the wood
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sheeting behind
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no evidence of any penetration or even
any dent was found on the would she be
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at one place in the wall there were two
pieces of sheetrock overlapping
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the seventies
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was undamaged
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the fire was controlled within ten
seconds
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projectiles were mobile on city
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printed nineteen p two firefighters
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five pallets of sporting any nation
containing two hundred fifty two
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thousand rounds were placed in a semi
trailer
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wood and paper fuel was piled against
the palace
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the fuel unbalance was so put ten
gallons of diesel fuel
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the fire was ignited
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firefighters had path of the project and
struck central time
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nineteen percent right
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redistricting semi trailer fire
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were able to get up here
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and not the fire down very quickly with
which you attack lines
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we had to climb up into the trailer and
get some of it
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hidden hot spots back behind the pallets
of anything
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and we really usual ammunition still
going on
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i walked up to the fire after it was
then fall blaze a name initially was
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going up very quickly
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and i've seen that happen
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penetration rocket previous tests so i
came up to test it out mcdonough
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for spring
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and i felt
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being threatened and times
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pain sensation or didn't feel very hard
from our vantage point i was pumping the
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structure truck
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supply in the water for the forest
persons from what i saw in the just in
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the world
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of the the rooms for all
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i had no
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exposure
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journey of a lot of rooms everything was
coming out
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per portions of the trailer the willing
to work
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uh... everything from our vantage point
was
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relatively safe
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the fire was controlled within ten
seconds
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projectiles were low velocity
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and strong
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but did not impede the firefighters
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over four hundred thousand rounds of
ammunition were used during the
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demonstrations shown in this video
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these demonstrations confront that
sporting ammunition is difficult to
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ignite
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ammunition does not propagate burned
were exploding and subjected to extreme
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stimuli
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when subjected to fire
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ammunition is loud and won't just small
debris
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however these projectiles could not be
injured firefighters were inhibit them
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from proceeding with their duties in the
immediate vicinity of a fire
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firefighters may safely and quickly
extinguished burning admission with
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standard method using water
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firefighting personnel must wear
standard fire protective gear including
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self-contained breathing apparatus and
keep it on while extinguishing hot spots
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after the fire was controlled
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sporting ammunition does not pose a fine
air force accident hazard substantially
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different from other common commodities
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and in fact it's months ago was and
cancelled products
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