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Re: Derailment and Fire near Portland
Author: Dragonslayer
Date: 05-05-2011 - 08:51
jdm Wrote:
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> These fireman are using water and not much like
> pissing on a volcano, also three of the tank cars
> are in pool fire and could BLEVE and the one on
> its side has the Pressure Relief Valve pointing
> right at the two pumpers. Pull the rest of the
> cars off the siding that are on the rail and let
> it burn out water need is over 500 gallons per
> minute on each car to cool them down and they do
> not have near engouhg water and need ARFF foam to
> put out a fire best way to handle ethanol fire is
> to let it burn out. Fire crew need to back off and
> let it burn out.
Good thing the firemen didn't listen to you. Nice armchair firefighting though.
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> These fireman are using water and not much like
> pissing on a volcano, also three of the tank cars
> are in pool fire and could BLEVE and the one on
> its side has the Pressure Relief Valve pointing
> right at the two pumpers. Pull the rest of the
> cars off the siding that are on the rail and let
> it burn out water need is over 500 gallons per
> minute on each car to cool them down and they do
> not have near engouhg water and need ARFF foam to
> put out a fire best way to handle ethanol fire is
> to let it burn out. Fire crew need to back off and
> let it burn out.
Good thing the firemen didn't listen to you. Nice armchair firefighting though.
