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Tunnel job with live 3rd rails? Sounds like tons of fun

I drove the Newark Bay Bridge several times a day when I was working at the port and the amount of go-arounds and near misses I saw with aircraft on the 29 approach was nuts.

Wild footage coming up on most major news sources now but a United Airlines flight landing in the crosswind runway (29) got so low they clipped a bakery truck with their landing gear. Driver survived with minor injuries...

My 1st job out of high school was doing maintenance and driving the work boat at an old waterfront club that had burned to the ground several times in its past. My brother, then a FF but now the Capt told me that in the event of a fire there again it would be a quick check then surround and...

Well now, I knew a lady from Flushing once...but thats a whole other story

Satellites and the Super Pumper in service at the same warehouse job? What year is it?

I'm no detective by any means, but Im pretty sure it may have involved a Double Dog Dare

I run a fleet of trucks and to be clear, its refined cow piss

Starting to read into it, it sure sounds like there was one controller in the tower running the whole show at the time of the incident. Not saying thats the case until the facts are in, but if its true he was running ground ops, working a smoke in cabin emergency and approach at the same time...

Were any of the satellite units actually running their deck guns or were they just running LDH and manifolds? Side question, if a marine unit is supplying ladders/engines, do the companies flush out the rigs at the end of the job to get the salt water out of the pumps and internals?

I always heard it stood for K-Mart Engine but hey its the same theme!

Awful for all those involved, family of those lost and members who had to make what I can only imagine was a very difficult set of recoveries.

6-14 inches will be a ton of fun for the city. I recall just about 12-16 inches was enough to start wreaking havoc with the 3rd rail shoes on the Subway, Metro North and LIRR trains

Most definitely. I wonder if they could repurpose/order new the lowback brush rigs out on Staten Island for the role? Having 4-wheeler with a big tank on the back makes more sense to me than a bucket brigade.