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Omnipresent

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1. It doesn't sound like the firefighters were prepared for this fire.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Tue Jun 18, 2024, 06:30 AM

Jun 2024

Traffic needed to be stopped or routed around the area where firehoses lay too.
I believe those deaths could have been prevented with proper training.

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On this day, June 18, 2007, the deadliest firefighter disaster in the U.S. since the September 11 attacks occurred. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 OP

It doesn't sound like the firefighters were prepared for this fire. Omnipresent Jun 2024 #1

It sounds like the fire was treated too casually, as 'just' a trash fire, at first. All the breaches in walls and ... marble falls Jun 2024 #2