[Scan-DC] fire call, Alexandria

[Doug K.]

Arlington Truck 105 is from Pentagon City, that's the station where my buddy 
who lives in Cherrydale works (he's C-shift and is off until the 25th).

Could be, believe it or not, a broken mercury thermometer.

A fair amount of the Montgomery County apparatus also wear the FDNY logo.  
In fact, that's popular everywhere... might check seagrave.com and some of 
the other manufacturers and look at the recent deliveries, a lot of them 
have it as I recall.  I saw it on the new DC pumper that's at the station 
that serves the White House (Engine 4? - I forget!)

Sounds like an "adaptive" (whatever that is) or box assignment for a house 
fire or incident where the dispatchers suspect there might be something to 
it... response in Montgomery would be similar, esp with the jillions of 
command officers.

(Except the C-17!  Any more on that?)

Squad 51, KMG-365


>From: b_thom at juno.com
>To: Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] fire call, Alexandria
>Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:35:23 -0400
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>On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:02:28 -0400 b_thom at juno.com writes:
> > Engine 203 and a few other piece of equipment just showed up in the
> > 200-block of West Mason Avenue in Alexandria. The firefighters are
> > unrolling the hoses. I don't see any smoke or flames. Let me see
> > what's
> > happening over there....
>
>Here's the tally so far of the equipment responding:
>
>Engine 201, 202, 203, and 298
>Tower 203 and 292
>Truck 204
>Extraction Engine 204
>FM (I think) 215
>Battalion Chief 211
>Arlington Truck 105
>SUV number 5703
>A Chevrolet sedan, number 5904
>Hazmat Support Unit 5203
>Medic 202 and 205
>MWAA Rescue Engine 335 drove past but did not stop
>two Crown Victorias, one red and one unmarked
>vehicle 5007
>EMS Supervisor 5051
>and finally, a C17 flew over from Andrews, but I think that was not
>related to this event
>
>The Arlington equipment: would that have been responding from the station
>in Fairlington, or the one near Pentagon City? Neither is particularly
>close, but the Fairlington one is closer.
>
>Alexandria Engine 203 has a FDNY logo on its side. I do not know how many
>other vehicles have one.
>
>The event has that "food on the stove" look to it, and the presence of
>the Hazmat team makes me think that the gas line is involved. I still
>smell no smoke and see no flames, but an onlooker said he picked up a
>smoky smell.
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