PPE!

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Just read about this vehicle fire in the 1st Responder Newspaper, but it's this picture that caught my attention. This was a vehicle fire at a gas station/mini-mart. The chief was 1st on scene, and started "attacking" ?? the fire with a dry-chem and NO PPE!!! I know it's said time and time again, but people still tend to do it... IT'S A FRIGGIN CAR!! Why breathe that garbage in and risk burns and other injuries for a car that is already going to be a total loss?

Be safe out there, and for your own sake, wear PPE!

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Hey brother. Could you possibly give us a link to the story so we can read about it? Just curious to see if the pumps, or another vehicle were being threatened, and why the automatic dry chem system on the canopy failed to activate.

Thanks

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Middle Hope Firefighters respond to a working vehicle fire

By JOHN MILLER Correspondent

1st Responder Network

Town of Newburgh, Orange County NY

When fire department units are dispatched to vehicle fires in parking lots of a gas stations, they always prepare for the worst scenario.

Middle Hope fire department chief Edward Bailey was the first on the scene of a vehicle fire in the parking lot of a Sunoco gas station, on route 9W near the intersection of interstate 84 in the Town of Newburgh.

Chief Bailey was happy to see that the vehicle was parked several feet away from the gas pumps and the convenience store, and most importantly the vehicle was not parked over top of the gas storage tanks.

Town of Newburgh police quickly removed all other vehicles in the lot so Middle Hopes responding two engines could have ample room to fight the blaze.

A dry chemical extinguisher was used by chief Bailey before his units arrived but did little at extinguishing the fire.

The first engine crew quickly set up a hand line and began fighting the blaze as the second engine crew took position on the opposite side of the vehicle.

The fire was knocked down in about fifteen minutes.

At one point during the extinguishment of the vehicle, magnesium could be seen exploding, causing the first attack crew to step back a few feet.

There were no injuries reported, and units picked up and were back in service in about forty five minutes.

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Fortunatley, it was away from the pumps and the fuel tanks. PD removed the vehicles nearby to clear room for the engines.

What really gets me is the magnesium burning... Those jeans and that sweater are gonna do a hell of a job protecting against that!

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Hey, I used to live right near that place.