Nobody Beats Boston FD's Aerial Placement

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Check out this photo that was posted on FireNews.org by Paul Koolloian

Boston 4/7/10- 9 Alarms, Box 1583, 483 Beacon Street. (photo by Paul Koolloian)

http://www.firenews.org/fires/Boston040710.jpg

[wraftery 1,275]

I'll give Boston credit for their great ladder work, but us Yankee fans are right up there in the running.

"Waiting to Open Up"

Edited April 21, 2010 by wraftery

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Gee, I wonder who was IC for that incident in Hartsdale? That's also great ladder placement, thanks for the photos.

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I might have been IC but it took 6 good apparatus operators to pack all that into a narrrow street.

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Wow. Just wow.

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I might have been IC but it took 6 good apparatus operators to pack all that into a narrrow street.

And Engine Chauffeurs and officers that kept their engines from blocking out the trucks.

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And Engine Chauffeurs and officers that kept their engines from blocking out the trucks.

Absolutely right, Lieu. All the players have to do their part before you can call it a team. We've all seen what happens when the truck doesn't get the front of the building. We have to leave room for the truck(s) at every run even those automatic fire alarms that you know are 99% falses. We have to operate on the premise that every run is that 1%...the big one.

In my photo, a cockloft fire, also note that there is no water flowing. Interior crews are still operating, but fighting a losing battle. The fire, because of the Tudor parapets with no fire stops, has gotten around three trench cuts, and was inaccessable to aerials except for Side A. (It's an old picture...it was side one back then) The aerial pipes are waiting for the interior crews to back down to two floors below and the word from the IC before they open.

There are a couple of good threads that can be opened for discussion here:

1. Fireground discipline...so you don't kill your brothers inside.

2. Trench cuts...How Where When Why, and the importance of triangle inspection cuts behind the trench. Just because you cut a long strip, it ain't necessarily a trench cut.

Edited April 21, 2010 by wraftery