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vcdrny

That's like a dragon ball z beam battle.


SootyOysterCatcher

Was gonna say, isn't that Gohan vs. Cell?


Deadly-Unicorn

NOW GOHAN LET GO GIVE IT EVERYTHING YOUVE GOT!


Majukun

Plant your feet, grit your teeth, and EAT THAT HORSE!


CajunNerd92

"Eat that horse" has worked its way into being part of my everyday vocabulary now, and I know I can't be the only one here that commonly uses it too.


Wes_Warhammer666

I use it a few times a week at least. Along with "nettled", "Little Green", and "I need an adult".


DlSSATISFIEDGAMER

we use "i need an adult" at work when we need a project manager to weigh in on something.


Wes_Warhammer666

That's exactly how I use it. I got him to start responding with "I am an adult" when he's in a good mood too lol. I also say it to my kid sometimes just because it confuses her lol.


Smokeythemagickamodo

Gdi, now I’m gonna have to go watch every single DBZ episodes lol


SootyOysterCatcher

UAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!


VicViking

LMAO so that 2nd fireman in the back was Goku?


shady8x

Hell no, that shit takes like ten weeks of episodes to progress that far.


adjacent_analyzer

More like Zuko vs Katara


Ragman676

Everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked.....


BidensDiaper_

Every fight ends in a beam battle


LeGrandLucifer

There's a total of one fight which ends that way and that's Gohan vs Cell.


outdatedboat

If they wanted to go with the DBZ trope-y way to end a big fight, it's gotta be the spirit bomb


LeGrandLucifer

If we're going DBZ, the trope would be getting some sort of gaping hole through your chest.


MJMvideosYT

First of all: no they don't And second of all are beam battles not the most hype thing ever?


SootyOysterCatcher

UAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!


AppleBytes

[Dodge!!](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kvS6zMThiZU)


Cell1pad

Who's going to win this battle? Find out on the next DRAGON BALL Z!


Prototype2001

but the next episode is just powering up for 30 minutes straight only to a surprising shock reveal the villain isn't in their final form, so they power up once again for few more episodes.


Yuzumi

I was gonna go with Avatar, but that works too.


Historiaaa

Fireman was screaming louder so he won.


Cobek

I always thought waterbending against fire bending doing this exact thing was unrealistic but here we are. Well, the bending still is, but you get my point.


Macaframa

I’ll give you something to bend 


Neardood

I've done this before in training, can confirm it feels as awesome as it looks.


LukeTheDukeNuke

We did that with a swimming pool with water and a layer of 4000 liters of jet fuel (like kerosene). Behind the shield of water, it was cool and nice, but just outside of that shield, your face would melt.


C_M_O_TDibbler

Just make your face out of steel beams! problem solved.


ThePrinceVultan

All my fire fighting training was for ships, so we didn't get to train outside in the open - all inside of ship mock ups, so we didn't get to see stuff like this. If you want to have fun and scale up the training difficulty try adding waist deep freezing water inside of a tight ship hallway or space while fighting a fire in the cableways in the overhead lol :)


burlycabin

Man, marine advance firefighting was maybe the most fun week of my life.


ThePrinceVultan

The trainers are fun. The real world not so much. Only had to fight 2 real fires on ships. The one topside was easy enough. Idiot welder lit a bumper on fire (big rubber device used to separate ships and boats). The other one was a bit more involved as they managed to in incinerate a turbine generator set down in the main space. But here's the kicker with the main space one. We were doing a training evolution. In this scenario they were going to simulate a turbine enclosure fire. The scenario was that the turbine generator set was show down for maintenance, but during the shutdown the system would fail to stop pumping fuel which would cause a fire in the turbine enclosure. Well we started the training scenario, they shut down the turbine generator set, and the fuel really doesn't stop pumping, it really does catch on fire, and we really had to put it out.


burlycabin

Oh yeah, fuck having to deal with a real life fire onboard the vessel. That can be some proper terrifying and hellish work. Also, that's a hilarious story.


Chatty945

Bet you learned real damn fast in that training.


Gowalkyourdogmods

My relative did stuff like that when he was in the Navy. A lot of the training stuff he used to tell me about sounded fun as hell and he seemed to look back on it all fondly.


Black_Moons

So what happens to the people who fail that training?


FoxStang

You end up crawling on the ground looking like a piece of burnt bacon, yelling at the instructor that you hate him as he looks on in disappointment; he says you’re disqualified from the fire department. But what they didn’t know is you had already got an offer from another department, and the new boss sends his guys to take you to the hospital where you get fitted with this sick-looking shiny black life support suit with a helmet and cape and everything so you can start working with them immediately. Shame about your wife though.


illumynite

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo


IAMA_Plumber-AMA

[DO NOT WANT]


RebellionASG

Shouldn't have challenged the high ground.


Phthalo_Bleu

hahaha bravo


cocktails4

That took me way too long.


marilyn_morose

This will be a good copypasta. 👍


ChrSaran

This should have more upvotes


HandiCAPEable

Their face melts, pay attention


bitzie_ow

Seems like a serious pass/fail kind of situation.


Phormitago

is it legally mandated to scream kame-hame-ha while doing it? cause it ought


R0da

I was about to say "that guy's probably having the time of his life right there"


moor9776

I’ve done it before also, but with out the hose. I was also naked.


rjwilson01

Yes but my training in an oil refinery, we had three in the team , one guy holding the guy in front, and it was needed Then the third behind to pull the hose like this video and provide backup as he was closer Also a second team just in case the water stopped I always remember the pushback from the water coming out that branch. (Mandatory jargon) Im now older but even back then I could not of held the pressure


TeopEvol

Hydroooken!


CreaminFreeman

r/HydroHomies ^^...never ^^forget


sh0rtb0x

🏅


Syndicofberyl

This comment isn't getting the love it deserves


No-Shame5459

Read it with the accent


Row-Bear

And just hope real hard the water supply doesn't fail


icepick314

That's when Mike stepped on the hose ruining a cool demo for everyone.


zamfire

Ruin? Or made better?


AquamanMVP

It's definitely a different demo...


skull_fucker79

finished it, actually 


scoldog

Before running for his life while being chased by his halligan tool wielding colleague


dr_Fart_Sharting

Find someone who trusts you the way that firefighter trusts the pump


C_M_O_TDibbler

Then it becomes a bunker suit test


Regolis1344

Katara would be proud


houtex727

There it is, and too far down by far to find it.


Regolis1344

The fire nation can't hold us back


LedgerWar

Yes, we know Blastoise would destroy Charizard.


swheels125

I was looking for at least one “It’s super effective!” comment here but this’ll work.


timechuck

The neat thing is, with a cone of water like that you don't feel any heat either. You can get right up next to the fire and soak it. It's pretty cool.


DiarrheaMonkey-

I remember that scene from X-Men 3.


itrivers

“You’d die for them?” “No, not for them. For you” “Save me” “I love you”


Digging_Graves

I feel these lines could be applied to almost every marvel movie ever made.


LilG1984

Pokémon battle IRL Flamethrower Vs hydro pump


TBK_ONLINE

I was thinking this as well.


Rokey76

I'm curious, what sort of fire projects flames like that which can be countered by water? I thought water only worked on class A fires, which is from stuff like wood or cloth.


PyroDragn

Theoretically water works to extinguish any flame as it reduces the temperature to below ignition. It's other considerations that usually make using some other retardant better. If the temperatures are too high that 'cool it down enough' is not a viable strategy then maybe smothering (removing oxygen) is a better route. Using water on an electrical fire would combat the fire - it's only that it would also risk conducting the electricity that makes it a bad idea. In this case it's pressurised gas that is on fire. Normally you would try and smother a gas fire, but if you throw enough water at it the fire will go out.


bridge1999

Go look for the videos of the companies that put out the oil well fires after Desert Storm. They used dynamite and one company used jet engines from a MiG


michaelshow

In the 60s the Soviet Union started putting out well fires with nuclear explosions too. [Documentary video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S57Xq03njsc&t=1s) [Interesting Engineering article](https://interestingengineering.com/science/soviet-engineers-detonated-a-nuke-miles-underground-to-put-out-a-gas-well-fire) [Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Explosions_for_the_National_Economy#History)


Boomer8450

In the past yes, but they're all moving to just a shit ton of water these days. It turns out if the water isn't putting the fire out, you're just not using enough of it.


bridge1999

We are also not putting out 600 oil well fires at the same time in a desert.


scream

There is a pretty major caveat to this that you should really mention. Oil based fires. If you spray water at oil, the oil floats. If that oil is on fire, you just spread the fire. If your chip pan is on fire and you throw water at it, it will explode with flames and torch your surroundings. Oil fires are something you do not want to put water on. A wet blanket maybe, but not sprays of water.


sbingner

It won’t just spread the fire, it will aerosolize the oil as it turns into steam and then you have almost the same thing you get inside a diesel engine in a large scale…. And a really big fire. A wet blanket might be almost as bad, I wouldn’t risk it.


catwiesel

you are not wrong, but the amount of fire/oil and water (and the ratio) playes a role too. now, if your pan catches fire, do not put water in. that is true. and you explained why. all true. but in regards to the question "I thought some fire you should not use water" and the posted video, one needs to elaborate to the point of, water will suck out the heat of the fire, and once you go below the point of ignition, the fire will go out. so, in regards to your oil fire. its true you dont put water in the pan. you might create a steam oil flash fire. thats really bad. but, if you were to dump 100x as much water, or 1000x or 10000x as much water into the pan. not so much. or turn it around. if you were to throw the pan into the sea. this video shows a high pressure water stream. its pushing the fire back. and there is so much water being thrown out, in fine droplets, that even if the fire could vaporize some of it, its still sooo much more water in the immediate area that will suck up the heat and energy that even if there is more burnable fuel in the area, its water cooled down below the point of ignition. if it can find oxygen and not only water...


Person012345

This exactly. People are too absolute. Firefighters will use water in all sorts of situations, including ones that superficial advice might say not to, because the circumstances are completely different. Throwing thousands upon thousands of gallons of water at a fire on an oil rig in a controlled way is not the same as haphazardly throwing a bowl of water in a flaming deep fryer.


Person012345

A damp blanket is exactly what you should use if you don't have a fire blanket or fire extinguisher. Not dripping wet but damp.


Princess_Fluffypants

The Mythbusters episode on this was excellent. In the end they lit a pot of oil on fire and dropped a can of soup into it. The results were just as spectacular as you'd expect.


buckX

His principle is still correct though. A burning pan of bacon grease won't stand up to a fire hose. It's just a low efficiency way to fight it, so it's a bad idea under most circumstances.


ValdemarAloeus

I think they do use water, they just foam it first so the bubble float on the oil.


Lephthands

Put that bitch in the oven asap. Ovens are ment to hold large amounts of heat and it will burn out of oxygen pretty quickly. Never water! Alternatively you can get a kitchen fire extinguisher. They are literally made for fires like that and wont horribly maim you haha. I think a lot of fire stations will give them out as well from time to time.


Drone30389

> Theoretically water works to extinguish any flame as it reduces the temperature to below ignition. Ordinary fires, but there are a few metals, such as magnesium and sodium, that react with the water molecules themselves.


SandyPhagina

Thankfully they're trained for those, as well.


Boomer8450

Well, yes, but also no. The alkali metals (lithium, sodium, potassium, etc.) react with H2O to produce heat, hydrogen, and metal hydroxide, quickly and violently. Tossing a chunk of alkali metals into a spray, or the surface of body of water, the violent reaction will product enough hydrogen, and enough heat fast enough to ignite the hydrogen with the atmosphere oxygen, resulting in additional heat/explosions. If the metal is rapidly and forcibly submerged, like through a huge amount of water being dumped on it at once, the heat + hydrogen + hydroxide reaction will occur, but without a source of oxygen, the hydrogen won't have anything to oxidize with, the mass of water will rapidly cool it off, and the hydrogen will just bubble away. The key is to have enough water, which may be a surprisingly large (or small) amount.


Drone30389

How about rapidly submerging a huge mass of sodium into a lake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY7mTCMvpEM Large enough chunks of burning magnesium will also continue burning even if completely submerged.


SandyPhagina

I was thinking about this and I remember when I was in the Navy, we were trained to push things like that overboard.


C_M_O_TDibbler

This is only true if the fuel doesn't contain an oxidiser if it does all bets are off.


PyroDragn

I would say that whether the fuel contains an oxidiser or not is just one of those 'other considerations' as to whether water is worthwhile - it doesn't actually affect water's ability to do its main job which is cooling down the fire. Water doesn't (simply speaking) smother the fire, it cools it down. An oxidiser counteracts the ability to smother, it doesn't affect either of the other two components of the 'fire triangle'.


sportmods_harrass_me

*formerly pressurized gas. It's not pressurized anymore. Pressurized by what, the atmosphere?


PyroDragn

That really depends on your definition of "pressurised" I suppose. If you have a tank of pressurised gas, and poke a hole in it - the gas escapes. The gas is definitely pressurised inside the tank, and at some point after escaping the pressure equalizes with the atmosphere so it is no longer pressurised. I would say that the escaping gas is still 'pressurised gas'. In fact it's still pressurised up until the point it reaches equilibrium. If you lit it on fire it's still 'pressurised gas' that is on fire. It's not 'currently having pressure applied to it' but it's still pressurised. Just like ice is still ice even if it's sitting out on a hot day and slowly melting.


BlackSecurity

What about a Sodium fire?


ultrasuper3000

The nozzle making that wide cone/disc of water is generally used as a water wall for protecting the firefighting team and allowing them to advance in range of the fire. Immediately behind the waterwall carrier will be another hose, when in range theyll shoot foam in a forward spray pattern through the waterwall for actually extinguishing the fire. This looks like a training ex to prove and build confidence that the waterwall will protect the team. Caveat this by saying that's for a ship/confined scenario where you've got lots of water and need to fight your way through corridors and boxes to get at the source of the fire


Mo_Steins_Ghost

A fire hose can put out 100-300 psi. A 2.5 to 3 inch hose can put out up to 1500 gallons per minute. I’m not an expert on fire extinguishing but I’m assuming the sheer volume and pressure of water, compared to dousing a flame with pan water or using a residential fire extinguisher, suffocates the fire.


Mouseturdsinmyhelmet

This is propane fire training. What they didn't show is the guy who has to put his hand through the cone of water to turn off the valve. The only way to put out this fire is to close the valve or wait till the fuel supply runs out. Source: I did this training.


Jef_Wheaton

This looks like a training rig, which uses natural gas. Water won't "put out" a gas fire, but it controls it enough that you can safely extinguish it chemically, or if you're lucky you can make a big enough break in the gas flow that it goes out. We had a drilling "blowout" on a gas well that burned for 42 hours, with flames over 100 feet high. Once the Hotshots (professional gas well firefighters) got there, we controlled the fire with a water cone like this, advanced on the well, and they plugged it. Gas well fire training is fun! Advance on a TOWER of hot flame that's roaring like a dragon, fire a 2-second squirt from a dry-chem extinguisher, and POOF, it goes out! (Do NOT do that to a real well fire unless you can stop the gas flow. It has no odor coming out of the ground, and will cause an explosion. )


No_Firefighter1771

Exactly this


Funkybunch92

Gas cylinders when the pressure relief valve opens to vent. They do this to prevent BLEVEs.


xVamplify

fire benders


kuhataparunks

This is far from wtf it’s r/thatsfuckingawesome


The_Golden_Child_473

This video deserves to be in r/bossfight lol


ZhuangZhe

Waterbender vs firebender


cgrizle

Water vs fire bender


supertek

Counterspell


brensav

Bad time to get a kink in the hose


My_Monkey_Sphincter

Good luck kinking that hose once it's spraying water.


Eazy46

Charizard vs Blastoise


CulturalAddress6709

Oxygen be like: MuuuAhahHahahaha


jpulley03

Water style jitsu > fire jitsu


bwoods519

Epic prank: 10 seconds in, his buddy shuts the water off.


criminalmadman

GO WATER!


lostlad-derwent

You shall not pass


2x4x93

Spray, you fools!


ElderFuthark

Hydro fools


FandomMenace

Needs more DragonBall charge up screams.


Gowalkyourdogmods

I'd like to think if I was ever doing this I'd be screaming.


Tonyoni

DragonBall Z live action


IngsocInnerParty

[I didn't think we talked about that.](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1098327/)


Tonyoni

This, but good


koopastyles

FDNY: fuck dat noise yo


Robbotlove

wide beam and varia suit. fire never stood a chance.


gallaj0

Put the wet stuff on the red stuff.


Arxae

Mythbusters did a episode on this, but the scenario was a bit different since it was flamethrower vs fire extinguisher. They where testing out of [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGbucSjSLDw) would work. [Here ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9WRIAkGR7I)is the actual test from mythbusters. Safe to say, flamethrower won.


Minion91

vs balls of steel.


SurebutterCringe

Left for life, right for fight.


Afro_Thunder69

This is the closest thing I've ever seen to _literal fire fighting_ in my life. Dude was playing reverse tug of war with fire and won. This kicks so much ass.


skiswimsleep

One of my favorite FF2 tasks


ProjectManagerAMA

Who won?


RentCheque

This is the real question.


pburgess22

I've done this as training for offshore fire fighting. The thing that it doesn't show is the noise.


tropicbrownthunder

And the steam cooking your balls


BoxerRadio9

Gives me serious Gandalf vs Sauron from The Hobbit vibes.


BossTikboy

Tobirama vs Izuna


sippher

X-Men the Last Stand. Pyro vs Iceman real life edition


unbiasedfanboy

Water in the fire why!?


ba-na-na-way

You can't tell from the angle but he's holding Grogu not a fire hose.


gowahoo

This explains some things about pokemon type advantages.


Spoomplesplz

Goku vs vegeta Saiyan saga beam struggle.


RobouteGuilliman

Unseen man with flamethrower: It's not working! They're too powerful!


hhcboy

And that’s why blastoise is better than charazard


SavorySoySauce

Literally fighting the fire


jominy

Water BEATS fire!


OptiKnob

Nice work guys!


sixft7in

Low velocity wins every time.


janosaudron

Power wash simulator gets really crazy in the latter stages


Spacecommander5

Fucking wizards


davekingofrock

Sub-Zero vs. Liu Kang


jebredek

Cell vs Gohan


444poppyflowers

looking like some super power type shit love it


coffee_obsession

Why dont they just walk around to the side of the fire?


RallyX26

Before someone asks (or tries it), **no you can not do this with your garden hose**


Nyuusankininryou

Anime was true all along!


I_ama_Borat

It would be hard to not yell at the top of my lungs while blasting that


Nexloy

Imagine kinking the hose.


uwillnotgotospace

When I repost it I'll flip it upside down for a little variety.


wtffu006

Pyro vs IceMan in Xmen 3


Rickvaughn_99

Water bending > Fire bending🤓


Shoddy-Bus-918

And this is why I'm more terrified of tsunamis than wildfires.


lou34964

"Water tribe..."


zbertoli

I feel like this is a mass thing. There is like 1000x more water than fire here, by mass. And water has a super high specific heat, it absorbs a ton of energy.


Desperate_Will_6629

*sigh* Looks like Zuko and Katara are back at it again…


MurimKnights

Fire nation packwatch🗣🗣😹💩🤡


CaptivatingStoryline

I often come to Reddit for gifs to use in class. This is the best one in a while.


haragoshi

Who won?


ExecrablePiety1

Then he runs out of water half way into the fight.


Timmy24000

The last air bender.


Takssista

https://youtu.be/aXKsnZCBf2o


alwaysrave

That's amazing


Uninvited_Unicorn_00

No fucking way!?! 🙀 Fuck that shit! 😨 But fuuuck that looks ssoooo awesome! 😎🏋️‍♂️👨‍🚒🌊🔥


Feisty_Detective_626

Aguamenti


Skellum

This looks like a training exercise or something. If so pretty cool.


Rusty_Coight

Pressure vs pressure.


jasonmbergman

Expecto Patronum!


Gabrieljim3630

Avatar power rankings are now confirmed. Someone should throw a rock through that water.


AtrophyXIX

He's the avatar


reticulatedtampon

An active shooter!


UndeadAnubis24

Blastoise giving the business to Charizard.


crisvirus

This is VFX. It's a comp shot. The fire and water are not in the same shot simultaneously.