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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...

Deck gun in operation, thats a rarity in the FDNY these days!

Not to stoke a fire here, but the flag that was removed is not an American flag. Its a facsimilie of the flag. And its defaced. Im sure as hell means a lot to the members but Im 99% sure there are rules and regs governing what can and cant be flown or displayed from a rig. If the regs say it...

Happy St Padraigs to all, and as my grandmother always said, if you cany make our hooley may ya be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows youre dead!

Busy few days for 50th Battalion!

Oh wow is that place still there? I remember driving by whenever we were heading to see family who lived about a mile away. Always wild to see it in mid-summer still all done up.

My brother always had his scanner on local PD frequencies in Westchester since they'd be first onscene to any 911 or similar call. Id say a good 80% of the time he'd be out the door and in his car rolling to the station or the incident site before 60 Control toned out the department.

I'd much prefer to hear that than anything nefarious.

A bunch of major metro areas and interurban rail carriers, primarily in Japan/Europe use the "open car" passthru design. My experience has been that MUs are capped at 4 or 6 car consists between hard stop endpoints. Max consist is usually 8 cars in this format in Europe but is much longer in...

Better the rig than the members or occupants!

Interesting, I didn't know about that location. Wild to see just how much apparatus FDNY keeps on ice "just in case", that many rigs is a fleet larger than most cities on its own! Streetview from June 2022 also shows an old Mack Searchlight rig hiding in there as well

Sad to see, hopefully the skipper has good insurance. Yard time is the most dangerous time for fires

Pretty tight fit thru the door!

Apologies for the necropost but after doing a deep dive into the cast and crew of The Right Stuff I was very surprised and saddened to hear that Jane Dornacker, the hardassed nurse in the early training sequences of the film met her end in the East River this way. Well done to the members who...

Got it right into the driveway while also being considerate and laying out the line for the guys inside. 10/10 execution! Hope that department wears brown bunker gear pants.