The Boyd Street Incident

We're joined by LAFD Firefighters Alex Saenz & Ryan Ramirez. These men barely escaped a nightmare scenario, caught inside a BLEVE (boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion) that blew a huge fireball thru the building they were inside of and on top of for a full 33 seconds of constant flashover flames with 8 men inside the building and another 6 men on the roof. We get the full story of how a seemingly routine commercial structure fire in the busiest district of LA turned into a hellscape. On top of the firsthand accounts we have bodycam footage as well as video footage from a neighboring roof. We learn a lot of standard operating guidelines from the busiest fire company in the west, real insight into roof operations, & interior attack from the best guys to do it, what you look for when you can't see anything, the strange sounds & lack of sounds that preceded the BLEVE, what it's like to think you were the only survivor of a catastrophe, having to save your brothers once you've realized they survived, giving medications with burned hands, freaked out cops, homeless guys complaining about burning tents, being asked to leave the hospital while your brothers are fighting for their life, & more. We also get a real inside scoop on life at the Skid Row Firehouse, from the human litter box, to people jumping on the front and back of the engine, bleaching the sidewalks, people throwing themselves in front of the rig, learning from the best, no sleep, & MORE. This episode is long and has a lot of cursing in it BUT this is an incredible story everyone needs to hear.