Recent content by BK_1253

Pictures are showing up online of an engine core alongside the runway. It looks like the No. 1 engine separated from the aircraft completely, so that fire was likely fuel gushing from the pylon if it didn't depart with the engine, or from the tanks themselves if it did. I won't be surprised if...

It'll be 200-250,000 pounds of fuel. JetA weighs 6.75 pounds per gallon, and MTOW of an MD-11 is 630,000 pounds. Still, that's a lot of fuel. The plane also appears to have hit a used oil recycling business with several large tanks. Hopefully everyone working at the many businesses in the area...

Building looks like it was the one old heap in a row of newly redone buildings. Did they make it a 10-41?

That helps, but the huge job in Edgewater a few years back that destroyed several occupied wood frame apartment blocks shows that even when buttoned up, these buildings can allow fire to spread very quickly. Here in Richmond, VA they can't seem to throw these piles of kindling up fast enough...

Me and my wife's old apartment! I guess I got the box wrong.

Just around the corner from my old digs on President St. Sort of suprising to see 226 3rd due engine there. I guess 226, 219 and 220 are all pretty close to the same distance from this box.

Don't know about y'all, but there's no way I'd go in to attack a fire knowing that the pump on the other end of my line is running on batteries. I'm very much in support of moving away from fossil fuels where it makes sense, but this is one place it still doesn't. What about extended operations...

Would one of the high pressure engines be able to supply a master stream with 350 ft. of lift?

I have a very fond memory of seeing SQ1 flying down 7th Avenue in front of Methodist Hospital right at evening rush hour. They were in the oncoming lane and if the siren was going, you couldn't hear it over the constant airhorn. I'm pretty sure I never saw anything moving through Park Slope that...

Rage, selfishness and stupidity are a heck of a combo. Hopefully everyone hurt as a result of this act recovers quickly and fully. Gotta wonder as well if maybe that 10-45 code 2 woulda been in better shape had the first due companies not been delayed by a different selfish and stupid person.

My daughter was looking forward to starting kindergarten at this school in the fall. It's about 3 blocks from our house. It's a big loss for the neighborhood.

Yeah, when I heard them call in to report they could see smoke from the highway I assumed at first they were responding to the box, but when the dispatcher relayed it to the chief, he told him it was from "94, they're operating on the Bruckner."

It may be they were waiting on the line to the roof as well as manpower below. As I understand it, because the fire apartment door was open, the top floor hallways were fully involved. And if the hallways were going, the trench cut may have been futile even if it had been pulled. Bottom line is...