Incredible Speed of a Live Christmas Tree Fire - PSA Video

A smoke detector will probably not save you from this type of fire. By the time you hear the alarm and respond you have almost no time to crawl (not stand and walk) out.

You can see that the floor level is already unsurvivable withing 30 seconds. It usually takes more than 10 seconds to crawl out of a house.

However smoke alarms are better than nothing at all.

Less that 30 seconds and everything that was in the room is toast.

If you were in that room the super heated air would kill you on first breath.

You couldn't even fill a bucket of water in that time.

And keep in mind this was a tree that had been left unwatered for about 6 days to display a tree that was either cut incorrectly at the base or left unattended while the family went on vacation; however, had the tree been properly watered, perhaps the Ignition may have been delayed a bit or taken a few seconds longer to advance in the growth stage, but I don't think the results would be much different, once the tree caught. Perhaps a few seconds at the front. Artificial Trees For the win.

It was a test done by the institute. The Ignitiion was caused by the christmas tree lights. They replicated a malfunction with the cord. Frayed etc.

im curious as to how the fire started cuz it looked like it started at the base thing that holds the tree and i dont think theres anything that could cause a fire to start down there

tell every one to get a live tree firefighters love them thanks

by the time you recognize your smoke detector is going off your house is filled with smoke. and then there's the fire you have to worry about too.

Fit a smoke detector and survive!

Merry Christmas!

Thats a quick of getting rid of the tree in january

I am going artificial!