11-21-10 1716 hrs 2nd Alarm box 269 ( JFK Airport )

The shots were really great.  If I rememer correctly, the 0-6 had only one hand line. We always had a Staff Sgt on that truck.
 
Ray,

Thanks, that was a great site to look at. I been back to what is left of my old base for reunions. Two of the fire stations are gone.
The city took over providing fire protection with one crash truck, a pumper, & a brush truck. Now the Air Guard is responsible for
that mission in a new station & with much better equipment. The city sold there crash rig, but kept the station with the other two units.

You should see the new fire station that the 105th Air Wing has at Steward Air Guard Base in Newburgh, NY.

And Ray, I like your pocket rocket! Thanks for serving!!!

Atlas
 
My 1st PCS assignment was to Site 5, a Mace missile site outside Hahn AB, Germany.  Our "Fire Dept" consisted of 5 guys who worked rotating shifts, one at a time, manning a 530B pumper.  Exactly how the USAF figured these guys could fight fires singlehandedly was something I never could figure out.  Fortunately, during the time I was there, we never had a fire incident.  The Mace hardly qualified as a missile . . . it was basically a pilotless T-33 with a warhead.  We occasionally had to run the J-33 engines for maintenance purposes, and the 530B would drive up from its normal parking place beside the site control center and stand by while the engine was started up and run for a few minutes.  Even though it did have a foam nozzle mounted on the cab, it seemed like quite a task for the one lone firefighter (who, of course, was required to don his silver suit while this was going on) to engage the pump, get the foam flowing, then advance the truck (he never had a hand line stretched) to flow foam onto the missile.  Again, thank God we never had a fire.  The next closest fire protection people were back at Hahn, 12 miles away.  God forbid that anyone would ever consider getting help from the local German FD (which, by the way, was well equipped & very efficient) . . . after all, who knows what they might have done had we ever let them on the site.   Glad you liked the pix.

BTW:  I've been back (after 40 years), and Hahn is no more . . . a commercial/industrial airport now . . . and the only thing familiar about Site 5 was the fence . . . still exactly the same . . . but now enclosing a mulch plant.   Probably a better use for the land  ;) ;)
 
I am not taking anybodys posts to task .....just stating the way it has always worked here.....both on land & in the water......i have operated at both .......structure fires are not usually the main problem in most of these incidents on or near the airport property.....as i said above... FDNY s mission is to supply a positive water source ......Ladder /acess the fuselage or parts remaining....conduct interior searches ....facilitate handline ops in the interior if called for ......search the surrounding touchdown path.....if a structure is involved we also have the manpower & equiptment to cover that simultaneously.
 
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