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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

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?