Recent content by FFM1938

Probably best to avoid local Galveston seafood for a bit. Glad it seems to have been contained fairly quickly but a million gallons is nothing to sniff at. Literally...

One of the few pics Ive seen if the tender rig monitor in operation. All credit to Steve Spak for the pic

Id imagine all those Mack C's are long since gone. Even their subsequent CF and ALF rigs are probably razorblades by now, and if they arent they are probably sitting in the weeds out in the country

Somewhere deep in the internet the current owner of the tender(?) wrote about the joys of driving a short axle Mack cross country after it had sat at the FDNY yard for a few months. I'll see if I can find it but long story short it involved a lot of fuel filter replacements and probably a...

Man oh man, if there was a way to get the Fire Fighter into the lakes other than a very long, very expensive and very unlikely trip around the Canadian Maritimes that would be a hell of a meet up. All three of W.F. Gibbs designs for FDNY in the same spot. It would be something to see Fighter...

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Wierd, would that be a vagrant or something similar? Not trying to pry

My personal take on the Newark ship fire was that the department was not "ready" for that kind of confined space fire. They attacked it as they would any structure fire but in a car carrier with hundreds of gas and oil filled sources on rubber and confined to multiple levels of steel decking and...

A great sendoff to a long timer. Happy and healthy retirement to him.

Im surprised to see New Rochelle didnt get tapped for more assets, Yorktown always seemed to get the lionshare of Mt Vernon assignments from their fleet. Especially with rigs coming all the way down from White Plains, thats a haul. Interesting to see Larchmont TL7 on the job, that rig is old...

Holy F...those poor guys were trying to get airborne until the last second.

The pics coming in today are very haunting. Shades of AA191 at O'Hare in 1979. There are also rumors the accident aircraft was delayed 2hrs for maintenance on the same engine thats now on the side of the runway. What an awful event for all involved.

Fully loaded for Honolulu no less, thats 8+ hours of fuel at a minimum plus everything that goes to the islands themselves and onward. Heavy, heavy bird. Condolences to the crews families and those on the ground, certainly doesnt look good.

Likely a garbage barge at the transfer station but Vane keeps a lot of their MDO and heating oil barges in the Gowanus for layby and maintenance