Bin lorry on fire and exploding in Weybridge - Big Explosion at 6 mins 25 😯

No bait, accurate title and the bit everyone needs to skip to in the title. A rare thing on the internet these days. Respect to the uploader.

This incident shows that street hydrants need to be checked and cleaned out regularly.

As an appliance driver myself, I take my hat off to this driver in getting that job done. The grief we have with hydrants can be a nightmare, he continued until the crew had a good water supply. 👏🏻 As a note to anyone else, if you have a hydrant near your home or place of work please make sure your local water company are keeping them clear & maintained so we can use them effectively and QUICKLY! 💦

As a bin lorry driver myself !!!! Not only do refuse crews get abuse from all sorts of drivers because they have left the house late and are late for work when we are just collecting your own rubbish we have to keep in the back of our minds how easy it is for these Dennis trucks to go up in flames due to the rubbish and how hot it gets in the chamber of the vehicle and how much the hydraulic oil works keeping the plates and pumps working . We had a chap threaten to shank us this week because we didn’t take his blue recycling bin this was after we explained that we couldn’t take his blue recycling bin as we were only taking away brown garden materials. This individual did come back down the street with a metal pole so we abandoned the street

As others say, absolutely disgusting state of that water feed, imagine that was a burning building with people in it, those few minutes could have meant the difference between life or death. Poor poor show but as always well done to the crew who always put 101% into their work.

Shocking lack of maintenance on that hydrant. They should be regualrly inspected and tested, clearly that valve hadn't been opened in a long time. Surrey Fire Brigade have a had a huge amount of funding cuts in recent years. Looks like hydrant checks have suffered because of that.

That sounded like a tyre exploding. I was an HGV1 driver for 15 years and I had a tyre blow out on the front right, which is virtually under my seat. It blew the wheel arch off and sounded like a hand grenade. Over 200 PSI. I don't mind admitting that I nearly shat myself.

I remember as a kid in the 1950s the fire brigade used to inspect the hydrants on a regular basis.

It's absolutely disgusting that the hydrant was so chocked up. It would have taken months/years to get in that mess. Welcome to modern Britain!

Fred dibnah always said it was important to keep fire hydrants clear and well maintained.

Firefighters are true heroes. Thanks for your service boys and girls. We appreciate you a lot. 💛

That was enlightening ! I see why in most of north America and here in Canada fire hydrants are above ground and on the sidewalk, After watching that poor guy struggle with that connection, I can only imagine how he would cope with a sheet of ice and a foot or two of snow on top of all that other muck. kudos to those responders for getting it done though !

I have every bit of admiration for any emergency service and these guys/girls are no exception!

That hydrant reflects the state this country is in at moment.

Well done to the fire engine crew and especially the engine driver trying to source additional water from a local fire hydrant. Sadly, Weybridge water suppliers have failed to maintain these town fire hydrants. It is about time to arrange service and maintenance of all hydrants on a regular basis, it pays dividends and reduces response timings to putting out fires and refilling fire engines water bowser tanks.

Respect to that man opening the water valve. He is not that big but strong. Cheers!

There used to be (The Water Board before being privatised thus becoming Thames Water) who employed a person, whose job it was, was to maintain all the stop cocks in the local area. He had a bicycle and a stop cock key, and whenever there was an emergency, he knew exactly where to turn them off, and knew the exactly layout of all the pipes and sewer system. They were all made redundant in the late 80's, and this is one of the reasons why the water and waste is a complete and utter shambles in the UK. Still, as long as the share holders are getting a huge dividend, who cares that the leaks aren't fixed, hose pipe bans every year, and sewage gets dumped into the rivers and lakes?

The driver was on it, fair play to him. Great camera work too.

In Germany, we equip respiratory protection on the way to the site. This saves enormous time. Fire hydrants must also be checked regularly. And why was there only one fire brigade team on site? This is negligent.

Thank God our hydrants are not buried here in Canada. What an amazing job that man did digging that hydrant out!