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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

Sounds like a multi-casualty event, as of 1325 EST 10/10 several dead and as many as 19 missing. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c0e9lyypedjt

Wow that is an entire flank of the building, no wonder they went with the 10-60

I know L28 is an older rig but Im surprised to see it hasnt been more cannibalized for parts. Is it not FDNY practice to take OOS rigs that are heading to the farm and picking them clean of reusable parts? For a newer rigs Id image things like tool compartment doors, bumpers, cab doors would...

Currently standing at 5 fatal and a number of injuries, some required helo ops. Local scanner reports are indicating the overturned bus had to be lifted to complete recovery. https://www.btpm.org/local/2025-08-22/developing-i-90-closed-near-pembroke-due-to-tour-bus-crash...

FC per D-6. Grappler in operation. Does that mean the junk yard grappler moving stuff to get to the fire? SOC has a lot of toys but I dont think they have one of those. Side question, Sat-2 was there, why not use the deck gun?

Very sad news, from the overhead video it also looks like there was a team truck or team lead in the area when the blast went off. Old-tech coking ovens are no joke, like blast furnaces they are usually attached to they rarely ever go cold and to do so requires a hell of a lot of forethought...

Ah crapola, you are right

Grain dust is amazingly explosive in the right conditons and concentrations. I wonder if the mill lost air circ control during operarions and either didnt stop the process early enough or didnt wait long enough to restart the fans. Or both. Either way, very sad to hear about the lives lost

My cousin worked with Tom on M1 and I met him in passing when they were stationed at Pier 40 when he was retired and stopping by to see "how the boat was doing". He was a good kind guy and definitely someone you could tell had a huge depth of knowledge and skill. RIP.

From: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2n39dvp0po A 61-year-old man has died after he was sucked into a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine at a medical centre while he was wearing a heavy metal necklace. The man, who has not been identified, entered a room at Nassau Open MRI in...

Woof. Just get an 18-wheeler already

Other sources are quoting a passenger aboard who may or may not have survived showing that there was no A/C, no seatback entertainment and his seat lights did not work pre-departure, pointing (allegedly) to electrical issues. In the end, with the tail section surviving where the FDR and VDR...

Great video, especially the rarely seen official FDNY backhoe