Bomb Blasts in Brussels

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Apparently four bombs went off in Brussels, Belgium this morning - CNN saying that 23 are dead - many more injured - bombs went off at the Brussels Airport and the Brussels Metro Station - that's all I've heard as of right now.
 
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Museborn -

It would be great if you could keep us up-to-date on the European view of events and any FD activity.

Thanks.
 
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manhattan said:
Museborn -

It would be great if you could keep us up-to-date on the European view of events and any FD activity.

Thanks.

Sorry, I'm not in Europe.  I was monitoring CNN here in the States this morning when the news broke.
 
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Is this real ?.....  http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2016/03/22/brussels-attack-obama-wave-raul-castro/
 
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RIP TO ALL....    http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/22/europe/brussels-explosions/
 
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68jk09 said:
Is this real ?.....  http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2016/03/22/brussels-attack-obama-wave-raul-castro/

That's Just Shameful. Jackass !
 
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manhattan said:
Museborn -

It would be great if you could keep us up-to-date on the European view of events and any FD activity.

Thanks.

I live in Belgium and they says 34 killed and 230 injuries.

This terror attack was probably precipitated due to arrest of Salah Abdeslam by Brussels SWAT, a eighth man from Paris attacks.

About FD activity, the Brussels Fire Dept has been fast overwhelmed. EMS from other cities in Belgium and also from France (Valenciennes, Lille) come in Belgium to assist. 25 hospitals in and around Brussels activate the "MASH plan" who consiste in several proceedings to receive these numerous injuries.

For information, the FD in Brussels is called SIAMU (Service d'Incendie et d'Aide M?dicale Urgente - Fire and Medical Emergency Service), composed of 1000 firefighters. It consist of
- 1 big firehouse who home several fire companies (including here a tower ladder) and ambulances, all special vehicles, officer cars (battalion), administratives offices, repair shops, and 100/112 call center (911 equivalent number) of Brussel region
- 6 little firehouses
- 3 firehouses with only ambulances
These stations is implemented to respond within 7 minutes anywhere in the capital... in theory

The FD handles only BLS ambulances (as many fire departments in Europe). Here this is the hospitals who handle the ALS runs with cars (called SMUR) with 1 doctor and 1 nurse from local hospitals, sometimes there is also 1 chauffeur.

You have in Brussels :
- 22 ambulances (BLS)
- 11 SMUR (ALS with doctor and nurse) at the hospitals
- 11 pumpers
- 9 ladders
- 4 tankers
- 4 officer cars (they are all in the main firehouse)
- special units (marine, haz mat, rescue (rope), heavy rescue (hurst tool and collapse), big rescue crane, foam tender, command post, RAC unit, ventilation, rescue dog, ... ...) in the main firehouse
- a big vehicles reserve in the sub-basement of the main firehouse

The typical fire box run is :
- 1 pumper
- 1 ladder
- 1 officer car
- 1 ambulance

The FD shift is as follow : 24 hours on duty (8AM - 8AM), and then 72 hours break. As you can understand, there is 4 big platoon.

They handle 65 000 responses per year (55 000 of them are ambulances), so 180 per day.
 
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STAjo said:
68jk09 said:
Is this real ?.....  http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2016/03/22/brussels-attack-obama-wave-raul-castro/

That's Just Shameful. Jackass !

There are quite a few inaccuracies in that report, and it's hugely slanted to the right.  CNN has the story here:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/22/politics/obama-baseball-cuba-brussels-terror/index.html

Obviously in this day and age one cannot get a news broadcast that is not slanted to either the right or the left.  Unfortunately.

 
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A Zaventem firefighter (the city who home the Airport) was on duty and responded to the airport attack. He loss his daughter, she was hostess, probably at check-in desks  :'(
 
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