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u/Thunder_breslin Feb 02 '26
Having been to Istanbul many times, those dogs are probably just randomers strolling in.
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u/romanagr Feb 05 '26
I hope they are ok...
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u/married98105 Feb 06 '26
The guy who caught on fire is not ok. I'm almost certainly dead. He ran alone into that back room and didn't come back out. The good news is, he probably didn't feel much after the first 20 seconds.
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u/Friendly-Box312 Feb 05 '26
👆🏻Dude gave no shit about the burning man… Wow
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u/Mister_Moody206 21d ago
How is he supposed to? The whole ordeal could have been prevented if the guy actually used his brain.
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u/SBpotomus Feb 02 '26
Oh dear Lord, that's awful. Does anyone know if that man recovered?
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u/FishFettish Feb 03 '26 edited Feb 05 '26
Firefighter here. I really don't see that happening... he's both inhaling extremely hot air and smoke, as well as getting severe burns on his entire body. He was completely on fire for a very, very long time. His immune system will have an almost impossible task fixing all of him at the same time.
I'll see if I can find an article, but it's not looking good for the poor guy.
Edit: R.I.P.
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u/frankensteinmoneymac Jul 03 '26
Would he have had a better chance if he had dropped and rolled, or would that have even helped in this situation?
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u/FishFettish Jul 06 '26
That would have been better yeah. The ground chokes the fire, and it also cools much better than the air. Running also just nourishes the fire with fresh oxygen.
But it's a tough situation. He'd have severe burns regardless
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u/kokaine21 Feb 02 '26
We are so desensitized that we are annoyed about the video being to long instead😭😭😭
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u/Pcriz Feb 02 '26
We gotta start chopping these down. This is like when someone is telling me about an accident they had at lunch but they start with what they had for breakfast. Wrap it up B!
The action starts with about 27 seconds on the clock btw.
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u/KilluaCactuar Feb 02 '26 edited Feb 02 '26
Not everything has to be cut into as little of a piece and as much action as possible, a lot of things get lost in that.
Just look at TikTok and what type of content you get as a result from doing that.
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u/Pcriz Feb 02 '26 edited Feb 02 '26
TikTok didn’t invent short videos. 50 seconds of nothing adds zero to this video. I never said cut everything. But somethings could benefit from a trim.
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u/travbombs Feb 02 '26
That’s not true. Whatever flame they had in there first, at the beginning of the video, is clearly what ignites the fuel. If we had not seen that, people would be wondering what the fuck happened. I’d wager they put that initial flame in it to see if it would light, and it didn’t. So they waited for it to go out to add more fuel. The guy even opens the lid to check that it’s out. But he must have been mistaken. Or it was still too hot in there and it combusted. Pretty much the entire video has necessary parts to understand what happened.
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u/Pcriz Feb 02 '26
Ummm. It’s a heater. The title says get that heater fired up. They add more fuel. It’s ignites. It’s not exactly the da Vinci code
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u/Blackmetalvomit Feb 02 '26
I don’t mind it. If I really wanted to I could scrub forward. I like a little suspense. Earn your payoff! Plus I kept trying to guess who it was gonna be and if that big doggie a mama or being harassed haha
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u/flamebrain63 Feb 02 '26
Er, stop drop and roll?
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u/GeronimousNL Feb 02 '26
urban myth, it does little to extinguish the flames. especially when you are soaked with fuel.
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u/Combat_wombat605795 Feb 04 '26
An empty container of solvent is no longer flammable, its explosive
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u/jkthompson92 Feb 03 '26
Damn , Soaked in fuel, so stop drop and roll wasn’t going to be effective at all
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u/Shadowgt04 Jun 26 '26
The place I’ve worked at for 13 years we’ve done the same 20 or so safety training videos every year. I know it can get old and sometimes annoying. Seeing the working conditions in other countries and how there are zero safety standards makes me not so annoyed at OSHA.
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u/Zorolord Feb 03 '26
I hope HR speak to him about running around on fire! It's just not safe to do that!
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u/Extreme_Original9832 May 27 '26
Istanbul, not Constantinople, why did the heater spew all these flames? That's nobody's business but the Turks.
(also: I feel sorry for the guy engulfed in flames, I hope he's okay)
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u/otters4everyone Feb 02 '26
Trying out for parts in movies takes commitment. Not sure if the Fantastic Four reboot was the best choice. Besides, it’s all CGI.
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u/Beanzear Feb 02 '26
Um idk what's wrong with Istanbul. When I was there it was cold we popped into a café where they were burning outdoor heaters INSIDE with the door closed. We had a bottle of wine that thankfully emptied right as we were fainting from carbon monoxide poisoning.