Recent content by FFM1938

A large portion of the remaining structure and scaffolding collapsed today, thankfully no injuries. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68850576

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68824189

Victim #4 was confirmed recovered today, hopefully the remaining 2 victims can be recovered soon

https://westchester.news12.com/fire-engulfs-3-cars-at-port-chesters-the-waterfront-shopping-complex

Interesting to see the inner workings of the rig. Its certainly very well designed for its purpose, I can't imagine it has many miles/hours on it. Is this one of the units being spec'd out in the next big rescue-style body order from Seagrave?

Its no small feat to untie a ship the size of the Harvey by yourself and still be able to jump aboard, I guess ya gotta give him credit for that I suppose. Hopefully the grounding didn't damage her

Quints are a sensible platform for smaller departments with fewer crews and tighter budgets. There's plenty that could be said about being the Jack of all trades, but the master of none when it comes to quints, but having a quint in many cases means that departments can cut down the overall...

We had a 3.8 here in Buffalo last year in the middle of the night. Didn't amount to much other than an unwelcome wake-up call, but I'll say with 100% certainty I'll never forget the sound of it. It was so loud it woke me up a second or two before it rattled our house as it rolled in from the SW...

USGS reporting it as a 4.8, centered 7km North of Whitehouse Station NJ https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma74/executive

In my own opinion, in this situatuion specifically above the special operations units there really isnt much else land based units could do other in the initial response beyond providing manpower. Once the SAR and initial fire prevention/structural concerns were addressed its become a plan and...

Salvage ops have been called off after discovery that a high pressure gas main runs beneath the accident scene. The local authority has isolated the main but in the meantime salvors are concerned the bridge structure itself ia basically sawing thru the ship with every tide...

Agreed 100% I also saw this afternoon that DonJon out of NJ had dispatched pretty much all of their heavy hitter tugs and barges, most of which were already in the C&D canal heading for Baltimore. Help is on the way

What is the point of adding the line about the Mexican president? It has no bearing on the event.

Thats really great video of the site and vessel. Lots to digest there, but my immediate thought is once the recovery is completed how on earth are they going to get the bridge off the ship? There are only a handful of cranes with lifting power capable of lifting that wreckage up enough for the...

Really heartbreakingly awful, especially for the work crews and people on the bridge when it went down and their families. I can't even imagine what the crew and harbor pilot are going through as well, once that plant went down the second time there was nothing they could do but watch the bridge...