Awesome Fire

You’ve got to hand it to Engin Koçak, who has the brass cojones to jump into a flaming tanker truck, driving it away from storage tanks filled with gas, averting a major explosion and likely saving lives.

We can always count on Freddie Wong to lighten our day with his fun, effects-filled videos. In today’s short and fiery clip, we learn why Freddie should never pleasure himself.

An 8-foot-tall monster made out of snow is cool enough, but one that breathes fire would be the envy of any neighborhood. This family in Bel Air, Maryland wins our prize for best lawn ornament.

Chris Marion mapped five fire poofers to the keys of a Guitar Hero controller. The result is just like the game, except instead of colored notes, huge pillars of fire rise up in sync with the music.

While it might look like the craggy surface of a distant planet, what you’re looking at is the tip of a match, lit on fire, and captured at 2000 frames per-second. Watch another perspective here.

Isabelle Hayeur’s Fire with Fire is a site-specific video project in Vancouver; the video loop piece simulates a fire in a building in Downtown Eastside, the city’s oldest and most run-down neighborhood.

Fireplaces aren’t normally something we’d call “portable,” but Conmoto’s flueless firebox can go from room-to-room. Burns clean bio-ethanol fuel, bringing a warm glow wherever you go.

It seems like such a simple concept, but getting a match to stay lit in the rain or wind isn’t easy. These incredible sticks from REI not can hold up to just about anything you can throw at ’em.

Dragon or dinosaur? No matter: we’re enjoying what the talent from .wav has created on this visitor platform for the “Hafencity” in Hamburg; they’d probably get arrested trying to do it here.

Check out Everett Bradford’s Prometheus Device, inspired by X-Men’s Pyro: a homemade, wrist-mounted flamethrower, controlled by the position of your hand. Kids, don’t even think about it.

It’s getting cold out. These firestarters from Natural Light Candle Co. will let you use even damp wood to start a fire. Made from shaved hardwood chips and food-grade wax set into a 3oz paper cup.

We’re not sure if the skateboarders in Garth Davis’ incredible short film for Burn are actually on fire, or if it’s just the most amazing CGI we’ve seen. Either way, our minds are boggled.

If you’ve never played Minecraft, you’re not alone. But this guy went through all the trouble to build a sweet looking home, and then accidentally burns the place to the ground. Um, whoops.

One of the more dramatic installations at Burning Man 2010, Ein Hammer is a metal tower which can belch massive jets of fire as 3 workers below smash sledgehammers to trigger the flames.

What would you do if you were stuck on a desert island with nothing more than your wits and an IKEA store? Helmut Smit shows us how to assemble an IKEA fire without matches or a lighter.

Jonathan Crawford plays the trombone – but you wouldn’t want to be the one marching in front of him on the glockenspiel in the band, what with his propane-powered trombone.

Just the very idea of a music video that features the epic conflict between flamethrower and fire extinguisher piqued our curiosity. But watching this clip in all it’s slow-mo glory is truly epic.

Self-described Scottish “materials junkie” David Mach creates detailed sculptures using tens of thousands of matchstick heads. Bonus: some pieces are set aflame at art exhibitions.

Experience the cozy warmth of a tiny bonfire on your desk or dining table with Gido Wahrmann’s Slate Tabletop Fireplace, two 7.5-inch stainless steel oil lamps anchored to a slate base.

Created by Tony DeRose and his two sons for the upcoming Maker Faire, Saphira is an 8-foot tall metal, mechanical, fire-breathing beast. Now, that’s some dragon breath. (Jump to 2:50 for fire!)

This retro Dodge Power Wagon firetruck was customized in honor of the fallen firefighters of 9/11. Part of the proceeds of its sale will go to the Rolling Memorial for Fallen Firefighters.

Your flaming moped is cute – but it’s no match for Jason White’s White Hot Lamborghini Gallardo that shoots fire from its exhaust pipes. Nobody will be tailgating Jason during his next tarmac rally.