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Re: The Saturday, April 28, 1973 Roseville Railyard Explosion...
Author: OTN
Date: 04-29-2012 - 09:46
George Andrews Wrote:
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> The Roseville Explosion was covered in a recent
> issue of SP Trainline, the magazine of the
> Southern Pacific Historical & Technical Society.
> Really sad to read where the Fire Dept. refused to
> go on site to extinguish the fires until all the
> bombs were located and defused, and the Army Bomb
> Disposal unit refused to go on site until the
> fires were extinguished !!! Sooo, Espee asked for
> volunteers who ran a train of Donner Pass fire
> water cars into the yard to fight the fires. Turns
> out the Espee guys were the real first responders
> that day !!!
The info I acquired fron the VPO was that only Supervisors and Officers were used to cordon off the fire and to operate the fire train wster cars. the Union emplolyees refused to go beyond the yard office.
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> The Roseville Explosion was covered in a recent
> issue of SP Trainline, the magazine of the
> Southern Pacific Historical & Technical Society.
> Really sad to read where the Fire Dept. refused to
> go on site to extinguish the fires until all the
> bombs were located and defused, and the Army Bomb
> Disposal unit refused to go on site until the
> fires were extinguished !!! Sooo, Espee asked for
> volunteers who ran a train of Donner Pass fire
> water cars into the yard to fight the fires. Turns
> out the Espee guys were the real first responders
> that day !!!
The info I acquired fron the VPO was that only Supervisors and Officers were used to cordon off the fire and to operate the fire train wster cars. the Union emplolyees refused to go beyond the yard office.
