2/16/12 Manhattan Unusuall Occurance Box 68 All Hands

[SoHoTruckin20]

Address: Church St & Cortlandt St

FDNY Using All hands for a large column fell 40 stories from WTC Tower 4, crushed a car, 1 victim.

All Searches are negative

10-75/Collapse Matrix
E-10,6,7,55??
L-10,1,20(Fast)
B-1,2,4
Sq-18
R-1,2
D-1
L-25 w. C.R 1
L-132 w. C.R 2
L-131 soc support
Soc Comp
RB,SB
FC
Tac-1
Rac-1

Relocations:
Ladder 106 Act. Ladder 20
Engine 28 Act. Engine 6

 

[efd274]

http://www.dnainfo.com/20120216/downtown/wtc-crane-accident-drops-construction-material-onto-truck

Another crane accident - I wonder what the cause will be! We should get an idea pretty quickly.  As an engineer and being involved in construction this a very serious incident. Very fortunate that there is only one victim thus far.

 

[tbendick]

Remember it was something like this that caused the fatal 10-60 down the block from Engine 8

 

[efd274]

http://www.nybuff.org/2012/02/world-trade-center-crane-drops-beams-in.html

That is a pretty big I-beam