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#251
1 hour ago, BlueGreySky said:

Friend’s photo from downtown today...

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Holy crap, I picked a perfect time to be working in San Antonio and not Houston. 

#253
57 minutes ago, BrickTop said:

Just talked to a buddy who is on one of the fire boats, said don’t listen to what the news is saying, he said it’s gonna burn the whole tank farm before it goes out,I asked him to send some pics when he had some down time.

 

 

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That much was obvious once it got to a certain size. Too much fuel with such a low vapor pressure. The amount of water or chemical required to successfully fight it would be impossible to deliver. 

#254
That much was obvious once it got to a certain size. Too much fuel with such a low vapor pressure. The amount of water or chemical required to successfully fight it would be impossible to deliver. 

Agreed just passing it on, I’m a career FireFighter myself and haz-mat definitely isn’t my thing.


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#255
5 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

That much was obvious once it got to a certain size. Too much fuel with such a low vapor pressure. The amount of water or chemical required to successfully fight it would be impossible to deliver. 

Would almost need a MOAB to straight put it out 

#257

Water and foam going into the ship channel, so there's cleanup there as well

#258
On 3/18/2019 at 11:30 AM, Scraps said:

One from this morning a00489a4a123236283b7eed4d3045a10.jpg

After the hot tub photo I was expecting a Porsche or Land Rover steering wheel ornament to peek it's way into the frame.

#259
4 hours ago, clapclapclap said:

I think they learned to film from a little further back after the old Mykawa Road train explosion  (1:28):

 

Smoking clothes at 1:28.  Damn, that looks bad.

#260
10 minutes ago, Bullneck said:

After the hot tub photo I was expecting a Porsche or Land Rover steering wheel ornament to peek it's way into the frame.

Somewhere, over the oilbow 

#261
1 hour ago, Trey3216 said:

Would almost need a MOAB to straight put it out 

I like that idea, but let’s workshop this. We have Dustin Hoffman make a stand, and fly up in a helicopter, forcing the plane off course. But instead of the bomb drifting harmlessly over the ocean, it drifts harmlessly over college station

#262
Just now, OrangEngr said:

I like that idea, but let’s workshop this. We have Dustin Hoffman make a stand, and fly up in a helicopter, forcing the plane off course. But instead of the bomb drifting harmlessly over the ocean, it drifts harmlessly over college station

Dropped from the right elevation, with the right prevailing winds and a hard right bank.   I can get behind it 

#263

Anyone need foam? I am selling 265 gallons of A-FFF for $6000. Foam was manufactured in 2015. It is 9K new.

My VFD doesn’t need it. We need the money.

#264
3 minutes ago, Leeroy Jenkins said:

Anyone need foam? I am selling 265 gallons of A-FFF for $6000. Foam was manufactured in 2015. It is 9K new.

My VFD doesn’t need it. We need the money.

That could make one hell of a party.  

 

So is toxic plume of death heading towards aggyland? 

#265
13 minutes ago, Leeroy Jenkins said:

Anyone need foam? I am selling 265 gallons of A-FFF for $6000. Foam was manufactured in 2015. It is 9K new.

My VFD doesn’t need it. We need the money.

pm Marco Rubio

#269
1 hour ago, InkaUtexas said:

So is toxic plume of death heading towards aggyland? 

After it goes over the UT Houston campus.

#270
1 hour ago, InkaUtexas said:

That could make one hell of a party.  

This is from a person that's never been around AFFF.

Spoiler

It's made from animal blood.

 

#275
41 minutes ago, relapse98 said:

West could have used it.

Not sure about that. One big boom and that was over. Did they even get to the fire before the explosion?  I know the truck was there, but had they started fighting?

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#279
23 hours ago, thestud said:

 


Decisions have to be made as to what we gain by entering IDLH. We take calculated risks based all the time. Is it a strip center under demolition where we are 99.9% positive there is no one inside? Or is it a supposed “vacant” house at 2am in an area known to have squatters/homeless?

You won’t find many firemen unwilling to risk a lot to save a lot (lives, property, family pets etc), although we do have our cowards that are just there for the paycheck. In this exact situation I would have a hard time ordering anyone into harms way. They weren’t going to effect a positive outcome on it anyways, not with that much fuel load; so the risk far outweighs any potential reward IMO.

 

Yep. The rule is always risk a little to save a little ... risk a lot to save a lot.

#282
1 hour ago, thestud said:

 


AFFF and AR-AFFF are not protein based foams. No aminals were harmed in their production

 

That's not what I was taught in firefighting school in the CG. Of course that was 40something years ago... 

Just looked it up and you're right, I had shit confused. FFFP is what I was thinking of. 

Edited by RPM

#283
50 minutes ago, TexasMan said:

 

I am hoping so my brother is getting called in to help fight it. My dad is at the plant. They work at a neighboring plant. 

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#284

Yeah.  I just got into work.  They went offensive a little after midnight.  Hopefully it's out by mid afternoon.  Just hoping they don't go too aggressive. 

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#286

Haha, one time on the submarine the engine room lower level lined up a lube oil transfer wrong so it went out the electric precips.  Someone saw smoke in lube oil bay and called out a lube oil rupture.  The lower level sump was filled up with so much AFFF afterwards it 3 days to clean

#287
1 hour ago, FartingMonk said:

Haha, one time on the submarine the engine room lower level lined up a lube oil transfer wrong so it went out the electric precips.  Someone saw smoke in lube oil bay and called out a lube oil rupture.  The lower level sump was filled up with so much AFFF afterwards it 3 days to clean

So...you went dry on your sub and she overheated and ruptured?  You're a bad man.....

#289
That's not what I was taught in firefighting school in the CG. Of course that was 40something years ago... 
Just looked it up and you're right, I had shit confused. FFFP is what I was thinking of. 


40 years ago there used to be protein based foam. That shit was nasty. No more today.
#290

Used a "5 shot" last night to put it out. Trucks and other vehicles were burned up during the past 3 days

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#291
7 hours ago, RPM said:

That's not what I was taught in firefighting school in the CG. Of course that was 40something years ago... 

Just looked it up and you're right, I had shit confused. FFFP is what I was thinking of. 

Don't feel bad, I was in the Navy 35 years ago and recall being told then that AFFF was made from animal fat/blood. 

#294
Used a "5 shot" last night to put it out. Trucks and other vehicles were burned up during the past 3 days

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What’s a five shot
#296
 

What’s a five shot

 

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Name something that your mom requests on a nightly basis.

 

Dammit - too slow.

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