We're convinced we were gypped as kids when it came to homemade volcanoes. It turns out we should've been making them out of matches instead of clay, baking soda and vinegar this whole time! With the help of some glue and about 100,000 matches, we see the mother of all homemade volcanoes come to ...

You may think that after the tanker crashes and erupts into a massive blaze that the most exciting part of the following video is over — it's definitely not. After it looks like a tanker rear ends another semi on a road in Italy, it only takes a few moments for a bright red blaze to start taking ...

There are a lot of ways to weed a field, but none of them come close to being half as awesome as this flamethrowing tractor! Powered with propane, this fire spitting tractor will make killing weeds a breeze and you just might end up with some popcorn if you're using it on a corn field.

Firefighting is inherently dangerous, so anything that can make it safer is a welcome addition to any firefighting crew. The PyroLance is unlike any hose you've ever seen. With a water gun on steroids design, this attachment allows firefighters to literally cut a 6mm hole through a wall. Once ...

After a wildfire broke out on the bank of a lake, a boater decided to help keep it under control until help arrived. A group of onlookers filmed the entire thing as he used his speedboat to spray the fire at some pretty incredible distances. Witnesses say he made a huge difference in keeping it ...

We couldn't help feel like we were watching an epic space battle when this mingun started firing. That'll happen when they load one up with tracer rounds and open fire on everything in sight. Since they're using tracer rounds, everything ends up looking like an endless stream of lasers. We ...

It's tough out there for a bird. Not only do birds have a hard time figuring out how windows work and when the best time to fly by an airport is, now solar power plants are setting them on fire. Solar power plants in California, those owned by this Bay Area company, are being urged to figure out ...

It's no secret that lighting multiple matches at the same time makes a stronger and more impressive flame. But what if you glued 42,000 matches into a giant sphere and lit it? Benjamin Ahles wanted to figure out how many matches he needed to stick together to make a globe. After ...

Snowmobiles may not hold as much gas as a car, but that doesn't mean one with a full gas tank is gonna sneeze at you if it's on fire. These two guys standing by a burning snowmobile teach us all a valuable lesson — don't do that. It looks like these guys are discussing what happened to cause ...

If you're ever out in the woods and need to start a fire but don't have any supplies you might be in luck. Here's how a piece of quartz can be used to start a campfire.

Sparklers are that firework that always seems great in theory, but as soon as you light one (after holding over a flame for the better part of a minute) you realize that maybe your childhood self made them way better in their mind. It turns out it's a numbers game. One sparkler isn't anything ...

The wildfires in California continue to spread devastation across the state. Several hundred horses at a San Diego County training facility have been some of the most recently displaced victims of the blaze. Chaos ensued at a horse training center in San Diego County as workers frantically ...

Commuters traveling along the 405 Freeway were in for a shocking sight after the latest wildfire broke out in Southern California near the Getty Center. Dubbed the Skirball fire, the inferno had covered over 50 acres and was at zero percent containment at the time of the clip. As of today, ...

It turns out you don't always need a lighter or a firestarter when making a fire. A little ingenuity and some knowhow goes a long way, as The King of Random shows here. Armed with only a sandwich bag that he filled with water, he manages to use it like a magnifying glass to build a fire that'd ...