1/23/10 -- Melville,NY --Fatal Tanker Truck Fire

[rdm258]

This morning around 0800 a Tanker Truck was involved in a MVA with a SUV on the LIE(Nassau County Side),1 DOA--Truck Driver.
Some of the Mutual Aid --Syossett FD,East Farmingdale FD, Republic and McCarthur Airport's Foam Tankers, Nassau ESU and Suffolk ESU,DEP,OEM,DOT.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/one_dead_in_fiery_lie_gas_tanker_zlP80H12gqZXAnLMlZukoO

 

[firebuffkevin]

Additional info from News 12 Long Isand with great video.  You actually see the overhead sign structure crashdown across all 8 lanes of traffic eastbound and westbound.   

http://news12.com/articleDetail.jsp?articleId=242125&position=1&news_type=news&rand=37323429


Saw the Melville FD putting water on the tanker.  Wouldn't foam be used??

 

[firebuffkevin]

Additional great video from Fox 5 NY

http://www.myfoxny.com/

 

[vbcapt]

I would hope they used foam. Also, in the article it said the tanker had 12,000 gallons of gasoline...I thought a tractor-trailer tanker was around 8000-9000.

 

[badge13]

I would hope they used foam. Also, in the article it said the tanker had 12,000 gallons of gasoline...I thought a tractor-trailer tanker was around 8000-9000.

they can carry up to 12000 gallons with an special permit

 

[firebuffkevin]

This was the second time in recent years that they had a major tanker explosion.  I recall several years ago, when I lived just a few miles from the site of yesterday's crash and explosion, that there was a tanker fire further east around exit 53.  I could see the smoke from where I lived. The tanker burned under an overpass for the Sagitkos Parkway, and the structure had to be closed down and replaced.

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/08/nyregion/crews-on-lie-rush-to-reopen-lanes-closed-in-fiery-crash.html?pagewanted=1

 

[In2theJob]

Happened on Sunrise Hwy in North Babylon too in 05

http://www.firehouse.com/node/89972