Watch dramatic moment 64 firefighters tackle ferocious inferno at amusement park fire station and fail to stop it burning down in the POURING RAIN
One crew miraculously escaped from the building next to Knotts Berry Farm, in California, before the blaze took hold
FIREFIGHTERS were forced to take on flames in their own back yard when their own station burnt down in a rainstorm.
In the dramatic footage, the men can be seen trying in vain to douse the blaze, as the two storey building went up in smoke.
The fire station is next door to famous amusement Knotts Berry Farm in Anaheim, California.One of the teams was out on a call when the blaze broke out - a fire truck parked inside caught alight.
In the clip the flames can be seen leaping high into the air and despite pouring rain the inferno was just too intense to be brought under control.
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The fire burnt through the first and second floors of the building, and all of the crews belongings were lost.
Fire station captain Larry Kurtz told : "With a wildfire, we do get a lot of help from the rain.
"With a building a lot of times the fire is inside the building. With this situation where the roof is burnt through, the amount of gallons from raindrops, you get, you could actually take a garden hose, stand over the top of your roof, and you would have more gallons per minute coming out.”
The blaze broke out at 3.30am on Thursday morning and it was still smouldering despite the storm six hours later.
A 64 strong team tried to get it under control.
One batallion was still in the building when the fire started, but fortunately everyone got out alive.
Kurtz said: "The fire did extend through the second floor and the roof of the building. Our investigators are going to look into exactly how this fire began."
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