Good point, didn't even think about that...
That one boat was a devil of a time to extinguish, even with three streams being used.
Had to be the fuel.
But hey, they saved everything below the water line! LOL!
That is a myth.....The gear and the SCBA tank float - Many Departments train their FF's by having them jump into pools in full PPE and SCBA. Training PPE is used so as not to expose actual assigned PPe to Chlorine products. Same with SCBA. There are techniques for managing yourself after falling into a body of water in PPE/SCBA. A big one is upon reaching waters edge or getting to a ladder, beach yourself, or very slowly get out of the water allowing the water to drain from the bunker gear. I was taught these procedures at a HOT session at a fire training conference many years ago. The IC, or safety officer should have egress ladders placed near the water that the companies are operating around and assign personnel as lifeguards with flotation devices and throw ropes.
That's what I'm thinking. Regardless of what started the fire initially, the twin engine boat had fuel burning. You could also see what looked like oil in the water that 1 of the boats was trying to beak up and later it was burning. The only critique I see is M8 was flowing foam and had a pretty good knockdown. 1 of the other boats was flowing water on the same boat, and washed the foam away, before the other FDNY Marine units arrived to refill M8. And it flared up again. In reality it didn't matter since the boat was a total loss anyway, but in practical circumstances mixing water and foam doesn't work too well. Most of the time.
