This is clipped from Trial by Fire: A Carrier Burns, a 1973 film produced by the United States Navy about the devastating 1967 fire aboard USS Forrestal off the coast of Vietnam. The film is unique in that it was produced from actual footage of the fire and emergency response efforts, both successful and unsuccessful, taken by on board cameras. Due to the first bomb blast killing nearly all of the specially trained firefighters on the ship, the remaining crew, who had no formal firefighting training, had to improvise. Though there were many firefighting tools available on the Forrestal, including emergency respirators, the general crew was not trained in their use and so were unable to use them correctly. In response to this tragedy, recommendations made were: development of a remote-control fire-fighting system for the flight deck, development of more stable ordnance, improvement in survival equipment, and increased training in emergency response and fire survival. This film has been used to teach new recruits firefighting and emergency response lessons learned in the mishap.
Then Navy pilot John McCain was involved in this incident — his plane was the original one hit that began this fire. The entire 19 minutes film is available at the Fedflix site on the internet archives at http://www.archive.org/details/gov.ntis.ava19833vnb1 . For more information on the USS Forresstal and this incident, link to http://www.forrestal.org/
Duration : 0:9:50
Posted on January 25th, 2009 by roy
Filed under: OSHA Training
I definitely …
I definitely remember “Synthetic Line Snapback.” That was definitely a product of the 1970s, but seeing video of what those lines will do to a human body really drove the message in.
SON OF A !
SON OF A !
I was there in ’96. …
I was there in ’96…there was another video they used to play a lot about the Marine who “fell” off the USS America… Ironiclly I am a Reserve Recruiter now..
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This brings me back …
This brings me back to RTC Great Lakes back in ’97. I also watch the Video during my free time, when I was in ET “A” School at NTC Great Lakes.
McCain was in one of the planes hit by the Rocket. I’m not voting for him, but it’s honorable that even after this, he wanted to get back to his missions.
wow memories of the …
wow memories of the past rtc 1987 that vid scared me back then
Sorry, I don’t …
Sorry, I don’t remember who produced the Synthetic Line Snapback video… I know it was produced by one of the Naval safety centers… From about the same era.
Thanks for your …
Thanks for your comment. The fact that the incident was captured on film makes this amazing to me. I don’t have a copy of “Synthetic Line Snapback” – do you recall who made it? I’ll look for it and post it if I find it. Thanks for the suggestion.
Mark
Haha… I remember …
Haha… I remember watching this video while in the ROTC program at the University of Missouri. It was definitely an informational and poignant video, but I remember thinking the entire time, “Seriously, they haven’t made better training videos since 1970??”
Thanks for posting. Do you have “Synthetic Line Snapback” from the same era?
we saw this at …
we saw this at r.t.c (recrute traing comand) grate lakes IL and it shows why we get the training nessesary to our survival at sea incase of a serious fire on borad a navil vessial.