My city has literally been a dumpster fire today....
- Thread starter baimun
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So...Just to mess around I was going to say:
Trench cut in front of the head of the fire, strike team of Type 1's (regular fire engines you see every day), a foam unit and a Water Tender (the tanker truck) strike team. Place the engine monitors on the ground with 2" tips and make like Christmas with the foam.
But it looks like they kinda did that already...I don't see foam and the trench was more of a joke but...
Back in the early '90's our district had a manure pile fire. It was called the Bandini Incident, for reasons that should be clear. We thought we had it out in a few hours but it kept rekindling. We kept going back. For three weeks.
Fires like that and the above dump fire are hard to extinguish due to the air pockets in the pile. They will feed hot spots for weeks. I was on another fire on a day with high winds. The fire kept creeping through the wood chips that were spread over about an acre and we chased that thing for hours.
That dump pile may have to be totally taken apart just to cool it off. Unless, of course, you dump about 100K gallons of foam on it an mix liberally with water.