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#233153 - 10/03/11 05:01 PM Waxahachie Fire
MartinFocazio Offline

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Registered: 01/21/03
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Did anyone else see that ladder truck get engulfed by fire?

Heck of a fire.

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#233156 - 10/03/11 05:22 PM Re: Waxahachie Fire [Re: MartinFocazio]
Russ Offline
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#233158 - 10/03/11 06:06 PM Re: Waxahachie Fire [Re: Russ]
Blast Offline
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Originally Posted By: Russ


Holy crap!!
The firefighters don't seemed overly concerned as the wall of flaming liquid approaches.

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#233164 - 10/03/11 07:38 PM Re: Waxahachie Fire [Re: MartinFocazio]
Susan Offline
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Registered: 01/21/04
Posts: 5163
Loc: W. WA
I'm glad those firefights got clear.

But a chemical factory ("ammonia, sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, nitric acid, phosphoric acid") only 1000 ft from an elementary school? Yeah, sounds like where I'd want to send my kid.

Sue

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#233207 - 10/04/11 04:49 AM Re: Waxahachie Fire [Re: Susan]
MarkO Offline
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Registered: 03/19/10
Posts: 137
Loc: Oregon
Which was there first ? The school or the factory ?

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#233210 - 10/04/11 06:39 AM Re: Waxahachie Fire [Re: MartinFocazio]
LED Offline
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Registered: 09/01/05
Posts: 1474
Anybody know how much those things cost? Ouch.

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#233211 - 10/04/11 09:41 AM Re: Waxahachie Fire [Re: MartinFocazio]
Desperado Offline
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Registered: 11/01/08
Posts: 1530
Loc: DFW, Texas
Less than 20 miles from my house.
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#233220 - 10/04/11 02:13 PM Re: Waxahachie Fire [Re: MartinFocazio]
JBMat Offline
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Registered: 03/03/09
Posts: 745
Loc: NC
Yikes.

Wonder what a new ladder truck runs for? Or even a used one?

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#233222 - 10/04/11 02:40 PM Re: Waxahachie Fire [Re: MartinFocazio]
MarkO Offline
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Registered: 03/19/10
Posts: 137
Loc: Oregon
Close to $1M new probably. A lot of these are fitted out to the request of the particular FD that orders them.

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#233223 - 10/04/11 03:38 PM Re: Waxahachie Fire [Re: MarkO]
Matt26 Offline
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Registered: 09/27/05
Posts: 309
Loc: Vermont
For what they had probably right at a million. Our ladder truck in 2002 cost about 750k.
Watching that video gave me the hebie geebies! Years ago we were fighting a fully involved barn fire. I'm on the first engine in. Myself and a buddy pull a 2 1/2 inch diameter line across the front of the barn. We duck down out of the heat behind a trailer waiting for water. When the hose started to inflate i cracked the nozzle to let out the air and the whole thing just deflated again! Looking underneath the trailer we saw that the hose was on fire! crazy
Behind us was an 8ft high stockade fence, in front was a wall of flame. (Did you know that with the proper motivation you can climb a 8ft high stockade fence in full turnouts with airpak on!) whistle


Edited by Matt26 (10/04/11 03:38 PM)
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