He caught on fire himself alcohol burns invisible as well you can see he got ate up trying to help. Good hearted human. We out here just tryna have fun and go home to see the kids at night
This track needs to practice this more because it shouldn't take this long. Kudos to the other driver trying to help, he's lucky he didn't break his leg stepping on him though. Speedy recovery
@James Smith lol well he's trying to stomp out the fire. Whats funny is the other comment about how soft the shoes are and that they aren't steel toe, who the HELL said anything about steel toe?
Caden Steele is the one on fire, DJ netto Hanford native to the track is the one trying to help put him out. Cadens been recovering after a hospital stay
I assume the fire was at 140âą F with more than 5 seconds. So he got 2nd and 3rd degree burn. Itâs probably less damaged since he was wearing a protective suit. But still itâs obviously he felt the burn like shown in the video.
I caught on fire almost exactly like this in a derby car. A guy from the stands made it to me and put the fire out with his shirt WAY before the safety crew got to me.
Safety crew at my local track would have been ther before he started climbing out. I've seen them do it several times. The only issue I ever seen them have is how to geta driver with severe injuries. So they got with a local driver that had a spare car and they practiced till they had it pefected.
the have to be sure everyone else is slowed down on track before they move, otherwise they risk causing more accidents by guys not seeing them and crashing into them
Says some jackass keyboard hero that's never worked as a "yellow"( firefighter). I have and I am. I assure you they got there as quickly as possible and when they did they had the situation under control rather quickly. Driver should've stopped, dropped and rolled.
@@devinsciranko5219 all the track workers should all always be ready if something like this was to happen again even if it doesn't but they weren't prepared for this to happen which is unacceptable because they could take too long, also somebody states there opinion doesn't mean their a "keyboard hero"
Thats terrifying. Gotta be seriously painful. I could not imagine the outcome if that car was on its top and on fire like that. Wow. Hopefully by now hes mostly healed. đą
I used to play ball with DJs brother. They're cool dudes in my book. fascinating to see em race and even cooler to see DJ helping out another racer on fire!!
Then folks that run that track need to come to my hometown track in Putnamville Indiana and learn a thing or two about response time and how a safety crew should operate
I think it should be required they go to Knoxville Iowa and train with that EMS crew considering the fact that for the last 30 years they have had the fastest response time of any track in America
@@williamheaton3254 is Knoxville the same place Eldora pulls their EMS crew from? They are Johnny on the spot over there. Was there a few years ago and the EMS crew was there as this non winged sprint landed its last role. Spectacular response time
The unfortunate bit is the track is responsible for lack of staffing. At least they helped - there is no volunteer dragging their feet they live for this stuff.
That probably felt like forever waiting for the safety crew, I grew up my whole life watching races at Husets Speedway and the safety crew is all around the track so they can be on things like that immediately.
Fire crew all should be fired that's way too long of a response time ,then they acted like they didn't know what to do when they got to him . I have total respect for Nettle trying to put the fire out .he is a class act
Hoping his burns aren't too serious and he is back at it soon! I'd keep the one safety guy that finally tackled him so they could put him out. Thing with safety is it needs to be practiced and practiced and practiced. In these situations you don't have time to think! Someone mentioned the crew putting out the car. So long as the first crew is working on the driver, it seems that's what they should do. I would like to see more of what came before. Were vthe safety guys in their trucks at the ready? Was the equipment loaded and ready? Was the crew paying too much attention to the race??? All of these questions should come up and be answered as the response time did seem pretty slow.
Glad the driver is okay. Methanol fires are a nightmare. I love sprint cars, and I know this isn't a common problem, but maybe its time to figure out how to move the bulk of the fuel cutoff valve and fuel lines to the other side of fire walls.
Geez bro they taught us to stop drop and roll in grade school. But really, if my legs were on fire, being calm would probably be easier said than done. It's always scary watching fire.
I hope the driver is ok first and foremost, but I'd be lying if Talledega Nights didnt spring into my head while warching this.. Major fail by the safety crew though..
Look, everyone hopes and prays the driver is OK BUT.... I'm pretty sure the vast majority of people who saw this clip thought of Talladega Nights so yeah, everyone was thinking it. Lol
Oh my! I just had a flashback. The exact same thing happened to my right leg in a demo derby car. Those few seconds feel like a lifetime when nothing puts the fuel fire out. Hope he recovered well. Burns are no jokeđđ»âïž
You people are right ! His fellow competitor is what this world needs more of. My hat is off to you sir. My faith in humanity has been dwindling lately You have restored a portion , thank you. I hope your buddy is okay. I know he was burned to some extent. To hot, to long Fire, one off racers biggest fear.
That's sportsmanship at its finest. The one driver rate unbelted and went to help try to get him out. There was another driver that did the same. Safety crew beat the second driver. And I agree Safety needs practice. The Safety crew here would have been on him as he got out.
15 seconds from the time the announcer let them know. Not bad at all. Cars were audibly still at pace at the beginning of the video also. Track probably wasnât clear for the safety crew until about 4-5 seconds after he got out of the car.
All these people complaint about the 10 seconds it took safety crew to get onto a track where usually nothing like this happens and responding properly. The entire situation was 32 seconds (the part we got), that is not bad, probably faster than any safety crew would have in NASCAR.
That is what you get with the fuel pump in the cabin, usually coupled with the powersteering/ wing pump. And that is the methanol burning on his pants leg,, not the suit catching fire. I am sure he will have some semi serious burns from this.
I know you don't like hearing this, but back in the day we carried multiple 5-gal buckets of water in the trucks just for driver fires works instantly. Those spray cans are a joke.
This is the reason for race preparation. I hope all is well for the driver and his recovery is quick. Maybe fire extinguishers should be mandatory or more track crew needs to be hired.
This should be a wake up call to rescue personnel and to come up with a MUCH better way to handle situations like this. A sprint car track is not that big, it should not take that long to get water or foam onto a fire, especially a PERSON on fire.
Safety crew can move once the race cars are slowed down. Sounds like they are still at race speed. First guy on scene started putting the driver out, only takes one guy to put him out while the others can get the car under control. I donât see much of an issue here. Though I will say, I wasnât there just like most of you werenât so maybe in person the circumstances are different.
I know in the daytime alcohol fires are essentially invisible. Is this true at night or does it show the same to the naked eye as what the camera sees?
you see this alot at the dragstrip. it takes forever for someone to get out there with a fire extinguisher. or they don't have any extinguishers at the end of the track. these guys should have been out on that track before the car had a chance to even come to a stop.
Get onto the ground and roll over and over until the fire is out. I was taught this in elementary school. Thankfully Iâve never had to put this knowledge into practice.
Other driver that tried to help him is a goat, he was trying to get him to lay down and put them out the entire time
He caught on fire himself alcohol burns invisible as well you can see he got ate up trying to help. Good hearted human. We out here just tryna have fun and go home to see the kids at night
Great competitor friend.
it's almost like we saw the same thing
It looks more like he is trying to break his leg so he cant compete next race
He almost got flat feet trying to stomp out the fire on dude's legs.
Hope he's OK safety crew needs to wake up and be trained
lawsuit incoming
clearly incompetent safety crew.
if it was their family member, would they have got there quicker?
They can only do so much
i am ok
@henryg5337 i was ok
The safety crew did their job
This track needs to practice this more because it shouldn't take this long. Kudos to the other driver trying to help, he's lucky he didn't break his leg stepping on him though. Speedy recovery
Racing shoes are soft and made of nomex not steel toes
Lucky he didnât break his leg?đ wtf thatâs the funniest thing Iâve read in a while congrats Scott
@James Smith lol well he's trying to stomp out the fire. Whats funny is the other comment about how soft the shoes are and that they aren't steel toe, who the HELL said anything about steel toe?
@@Duece1122 i think heâs trying to say a broken leg is that last worry he has when heâs on fire
Id say they showed up pretty quickly considering its at least a quarter mile oval with other cars ripping around
Caden Steele is the one on fire, DJ netto Hanford native to the track is the one trying to help put him out. Cadens been recovering after a hospital stay
Thanks for the update Iâve been keeping my eye out but havenât seen or heard much about the aftermath
Hanford native ?
@@frankcastillo7703 local racer.
I would see stuff like this at hussets back in the day.....scary stuff.
What a idiot jumping around stamping there feet while there legs on fire. Stop drop and roll is basic knowledge.
Iâm glad heâs ok alcohol fires can be dangerous. I hope some of these guys practice fire situations and just stop drop and roll
Stop drop and role dose not work when you have fule on you. The same thing happened to me. Scary!!!
Yeah, ethanol is the same thing. Rolling wonât help though. And ethanol is that scary invisible fire stuffâŠ
â@@coopertown7867 fuel
it is easy to say stop drop roll, but when your butt is on fire, I bet it is hard to remember
â@mysteriousbikingsociety I think you are thinking about methanol. That is almost invisible in the daylight. Light blue at night.
Screw the car, put the dude out first.
When i got my fire truck EV job. That was the first thing my boss said.
Hit the driver first.
Car go boom. No good. Put out car.
I'm not one to criticize track crew but they really dropped the ball on this fire!
Stop drop and roll? Must have been sick that day in school. Mad props for everyone that stopped to try and put it out with their hands. Stay safe!!
Easy to say when you're not the one on Fire!
I pray that his burns aren't to serious
I assume the fire was at 140âą F with more than 5 seconds. So he got 2nd and 3rd degree burn. Itâs probably less damaged since he was wearing a protective suit. But still itâs obviously he felt the burn like shown in the video.
I was on fire like this once when I was younger . That shit changes you fire is a primal fear beyond reason .
I heard burning is the most painful death. So Iâm not surprised.
so true I lost all my belongings in a house fire a few months back and I will never look at fire the same again watched it eat everything I owned
Response time of 25 minutes there from the safety crew
Ya definitely one of the slowest Iâve seen
They had to finish their beer first
I caught on fire almost exactly like this in a derby car. A guy from the stands made it to me and put the fire out with his shirt WAY before the safety crew got to me.
To slow
Safety crew at my local track would have been ther before he started climbing out. I've seen them do it several times. The only issue I ever seen them have is how to geta driver with severe injuries. So they got with a local driver that had a spare car and they practiced till they had it pefected.
Kudos to the other driver trying to put him out!!
Did they quit teaching Stop, Drop and Roll!? But seriously, I probably would have panicked too, that looked painful. Hope the driver is alright.
Everyone wearing yellow should be fired
C'mon, they were the in 15 seconds
Agree u shouldn't have to resort to other drivers to deal with the situation especially when it involves fire
the have to be sure everyone else is slowed down on track before they move, otherwise they risk causing more accidents by guys not seeing them and crashing into them
Says some jackass keyboard hero that's never worked as a "yellow"( firefighter). I have and I am. I assure you they got there as quickly as possible and when they did they had the situation under control rather quickly. Driver should've stopped, dropped and rolled.
@@devinsciranko5219 all the track workers should all always be ready if something like this was to happen again even if it doesn't but they weren't prepared for this to happen which is unacceptable because they could take too long, also somebody states there opinion doesn't mean their a "keyboard hero"
That's some real life Ricky Bobby stuff right there!
That alcohol is no joke. Ive known some dirt trackers that got burned bad.
"Help me Tom Cruise! Help me baby Jesus!" Good ole Ricky Bobbyđ
Thought the samething. Lolđ
Thats terrifying. Gotta be seriously painful. I could not imagine the outcome if that car was on its top and on fire like that. Wow. Hopefully by now hes mostly healed. đą
Remember, kids: stop, drop, and roll.
Thatâs right. Smoke a doobie kids.
This is why you wear fire resistant underwear, gloves and a head sock every time you are in the car
Was that DJ Netto trying to extinguish the flames??? Whoever it was good on yuh!
Yes
My dad used to work with DJ, wouldnt be surprised, good kid.
I used to play ball with DJs brother. They're cool dudes in my book. fascinating to see em race and even cooler to see DJ helping out another racer on fire!!
Then folks that run that track need to come to my hometown track in Putnamville Indiana and learn a thing or two about response time and how a safety crew should operate
sadly alot of these guys who work at the tracks are drinking they literally race fans thinking nothing will happen its wrong
I think it should be required they go to Knoxville Iowa and train with that EMS crew considering the fact that for the last 30 years they have had the fastest response time of any track in America
@@williamheaton3254 is Knoxville the same place Eldora pulls their EMS crew from? They are Johnny on the spot over there. Was there a few years ago and the EMS crew was there as this non winged sprint landed its last role. Spectacular response time
The unfortunate bit is the track is responsible for lack of staffing. At least they helped - there is no volunteer dragging their feet they live for this stuff.
That probably felt like forever waiting for the safety crew, I grew up my whole life watching races at Husets Speedway and the safety crew is all around the track so they can be on things like that immediately.
Fire crew all should be fired that's way too long of a response time ,then they acted like they didn't know what to do when they got to him . I have total respect for Nettle trying to put the fire out .he is a class act
Hoping his burns aren't too serious and he is back at it soon!
I'd keep the one safety guy that finally tackled him so they could put him out. Thing with safety is it needs to be practiced and practiced and practiced. In these situations you don't have time to think! Someone mentioned the crew putting out the car. So long as the first crew is working on the driver, it seems that's what they should do. I would like to see more of what came before. Were vthe safety guys in their trucks at the ready? Was the equipment loaded and ready? Was the crew paying too much attention to the race??? All of these questions should come up and be answered as the response time did seem pretty slow.
And how many were there. If they were all stationed at the flagstand it's worthless.
it took 3-5 business day for safety crow to come
The safety crew needs to be fired...immediately. Prayers go to the driver heal up quickly.
No you can't see where he was on the track. Saying thy should be fired shows low intelligence
Glad the driver is okay. Methanol fires are a nightmare. I love sprint cars, and I know this isn't a common problem, but maybe its time to figure out how to move the bulk of the fuel cutoff valve and fuel lines to the other side of fire walls.
Never should have taken that long for safety crew!!
Geez bro they taught us to stop drop and roll in grade school. But really, if my legs were on fire, being calm would probably be easier said than done. It's always scary watching fire.
Talladega Night stuff right there! Ricky Bobbyâs on fire!
HELP ME JESUS, HELP ME JEWISH GOD, SAVE ME ALLAH, HELP ME TOM CRUISE
I hope the driver is ok first and foremost, but I'd be lying if Talledega Nights didnt spring into my head while warching this.. Major fail by the safety crew though..
Exactly my first thought
Look, everyone hopes and prays the driver is OK BUT....
I'm pretty sure the vast majority of people who saw this clip thought of Talladega Nights so yeah, everyone was thinking it. Lol
Don't let the invisible fire burn my friend
Never good if a driver is the first to get to you
Oh my! I just had a flashback. The exact same thing happened to my right leg in a demo derby car. Those few seconds feel like a lifetime when nothing puts the fuel fire out. Hope he recovered well. Burns are no jokeđđ»âïž
As a former speedway driver and club officials that fire crew was way too slow
Makes me wonder how many were there and where they were standing. You know you can't run half a straight from the flagstand in 2 seconds.
Stop drop and roll is the first thing you forget when you're on fire!
You people are right ! His fellow competitor is what this world needs more of. My hat is off to you sir. My faith in humanity has been dwindling lately
You have restored a portion , thank you. I hope your buddy is okay. I know he was burned to some extent. To hot, to long
Fire, one off racers biggest fear.
Stop, drop and roll. Hope he's not seriously injured. Was always my greatest fear when I raced.
When your clothes catches on fire thatâs one thing, this racer had racing fuel on him and you can see how intense it was burning
when your firesuit is soaked in fuel/oil, it's gonna take more than stop, drop and roll to put out the fire.
It's amazing how when we are out there we compete against each other but when we wreck we save each other
Did anybody else have a flash back to talladega nights with this?
Absolute bafoonery on the part of the safety crew. The dude that left the burning human to put out the burning car... smh
Ahhh yes, proper fire safety. Run around like a couple of overwhelmed children, jumping and dancing and slapping....
Every first grader who just graduated from safety town be like "bruh, just stop, drop, and roll"
Wow! Youâd want to practice that escape until it was muscle memory just because how tight it is. Thatâs scary stuff there.
That's sportsmanship at its finest. The one driver rate unbelted and went to help try to get him out. There was another driver that did the same. Safety crew beat the second driver. And I agree Safety needs practice. The Safety crew here would have been on him as he got out.
Stop Drop and Roll !!....They taught that back in 3rd grade while this guy was playing with his hot wheels on his desk
I guess he never was taught STOP DROP AND ROLL.
Hope he is OK.
Hard to remember when youâre ON FIRE.
Took the safety workers long enough
15 seconds from the time the announcer let them know. Not bad at all. Cars were audibly still at pace at the beginning of the video also. Track probably wasnât clear for the safety crew until about 4-5 seconds after he got out of the car.
Damn , alcohol!! Yeah it doesn't burn hot , but it is absorbed through the FR fibres.
legend has it that boy still flopping around trying to get that fire out..
Looks like that safety Crue needs to do some practicing once a week đ
All these people complaint about the 10 seconds it took safety crew to get onto a track where usually nothing like this happens and responding properly. The entire situation was 32 seconds (the part we got), that is not bad, probably faster than any safety crew would have in NASCAR.
Need to replace that entire safety team..
What you see is the suite burning. That's a methanol fire
Everyone always forgets to stop drop and roll when on fire.. Glad the other driver stopped to help him out instead of trying to win.
That is what you get with the fuel pump in the cabin, usually coupled with the powersteering/ wing pump. And that is the methanol burning on his pants leg,, not the suit catching fire. I am sure he will have some semi serious burns from this.
That's why they call'em firesuits
I know you don't like hearing this, but back in the day we carried multiple 5-gal buckets of water in the trucks just for driver fires works instantly. Those spray cans are a joke.
Now that's a teammate
Big facts I want him on my team
*"Save me Tom Cruise!"*
Another reason fire systems should be in all motorsports. A few extra pounds is nothing in the grand scheme of things...
Man went full Ricky bobby..... "I'm on fire!! Tom cruise use your witch craft!!"
Spraying water on fuel⊠đ helpful bro thanks for spreading it around.
Man, that other driver is a HERO!
It should be a rule that all racecars have fire extinguishers too
Damn. He got soaked!
I know it was crazy
It's hard to remember Stop drop and roll when your actually on fire. That looked nasty. Hopefully he's ok
The driver panicking didn't help things
this would be funny if it had the benny hill theme over it đ
Scary moment, fire suits don't stop the flames of high octane racing fuels. Pray he's not scarred too bad.
He went all Ricky Bobby!
This is the reason for race preparation. I hope all is well for the driver and his recovery is quick. Maybe fire extinguishers should be mandatory or more track crew needs to be hired.
When panic sets in all logical thinking is hard to come by!! Been here before and this will change a racer forever!!!
"please TOM CRUISE USE YOUR WITCHCRAFT TO PUT THE FIRE OUT. HELP ME OPRAH WINFREY!
The guy helping looked more like he was tossing him a beating đđđ
This should be a wake up call to rescue personnel and to come up with a MUCH better way to handle situations like this.
A sprint car track is not that big, it should not take that long to get water or foam onto a fire, especially a PERSON on fire.
most short track firefighters have no training at all, and often ancient equipment that may or may not even work...
Thank God for the driver and rescue crew good job hope the driver did not get hurt to bad
It's Ricky Bobby. "HELP ME TOM CRUISE!!!!!"
Thats at the fairgrounds in my town hanford ca
Yoo Iâm from Lemoore or I just moved here a year ago. Cool.
Where I live in Graingeville I didn't know there was a dirt track here, I know there is one in Visalia.
At the fairgrounds what you mean hahaha been there for years bruh
That looks like my last relationship
@@rafaeltorres2886 it's by the Saturday cemetery and weekend swapmeet
These tracks just hire anyone to be a safety guy. This stuff is dangerous and scary man. They should be Johnny on the spot at anytime.
Safety crew can move once the race cars are slowed down. Sounds like they are still at race speed. First guy on scene started putting the driver out, only takes one guy to put him out while the others can get the car under control. I donât see much of an issue here. Though I will say, I wasnât there just like most of you werenât so maybe in person the circumstances are different.
When you wear your adidas to the track after paying for a firesuit.
This is why todays school suck!
This guy didn't know the simplest of teachings, STOP, DROP, & ROLL
Race tracks must be better prepared than this!!!
I agree
THAT emergency crew needs to be quicker than that. That was quite a bit of time to be on fire.. AND that was cooking .
I know in the daytime alcohol fires are essentially invisible. Is this true at night or does it show the same to the naked eye as what the camera sees?
that is the slowest safety crew I have ever seen
They probably had to come from the other end of the inner track , they can't just get there in 2 seconds.
@@paulreichelt1259 thatâs really bad they should have safety crew all around the track or ride one of the many quads that are at the track.
Alcohol fire feel the pain canât see the flame
you see this alot at the dragstrip.
it takes forever for someone to get out there with a fire extinguisher. or they don't have any extinguishers at the end of the track. these guys should have been out on that track before the car had a chance to even come to a stop.
I hope hes ok but did schools remove "stop, drop, and roll" when they removed prayer and pledges? Good grief.
"Tom Cruise use your witchcraft to get the fire off of me"
Someone forgot to stop, drop, and roll
Get onto the ground and roll over and over until the fire is out. I was taught this in elementary school. Thankfully Iâve never had to put this knowledge into practice.
Dam i hate fire. Especially methanol fires.
Jesus Christ. I could not imagine the shear terror that driver felt. Hope heâs alright.
Wow, took the medics long enough to get there.
As someone who was put in a furnace i can tell you getting burned is a rush
Way back in the 80's..they would teach..STOP.DROP.AND ROLLđ
If the fuel pump is still between their legs you'll have that.....obviously "drop and roll" has been replaced with the "chicken dance".....
Legit just being stomped out lmao