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What is wrong with this picture???
Consider - This is a 18-wheeler tanker carrying Sulfuric Acid that apparently overturned off of an onramp to I-95
What is wrong with this picture
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What is wrong with this picture???
Consider - This is a 18-wheeler tanker carrying Sulfuric Acid that apparently overturned off of an onramp to I-95
Wingnut
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Uh that Hazmat isn't out there setting up the zones?
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Close
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:lol:
rescuecpt
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:lol: [/b][/quote]
Yes, but he's a funny shade of fuscia.
CaptainPanic
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The photographer was too close to the scene for safety??? :blink:
*sometimes its not so much whats in front of the camera, but more about whats behind it.
*sometimes its not so much whats in front of the camera, but more about whats behind it.
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If the oinker isn't dead. It's safe.
Identify a HAZMAT using the COP Method:
1. Officer standing/Car running: Not hazardous.
2. Officer unconscious/Car running: Toxic fumes.
3. Officer unconscious/Car stalled: Oxygen displacing chemical.
4. Officer/Car both melting: Acidic chemical.
5. Officer/Car on fire: Extremely flammable.
Identify a HAZMAT using the COP Method:
1. Officer standing/Car running: Not hazardous.
2. Officer unconscious/Car running: Toxic fumes.
3. Officer unconscious/Car stalled: Oxygen displacing chemical.
4. Officer/Car both melting: Acidic chemical.
5. Officer/Car on fire: Extremely flammable.
Celtictigeress
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well
the damage sustained to the truck would have caused an explosion or flames
the cops out of his car there no backup, no firetrucks, no ambulances
No "glowworms"
the cop is not following procedure and protocol, when we arrive at a scene we call for backup, we dont park too close especilly with the concept of a "spill" or potential hazardous.. yeah I can see writing a report and adding "And this is when and why my car caught Fire"
He has no roadblocks or flares set up to divert oncoming traffic which should have been done or no directing of traffic via alternate route yeah he has his car turned sideways but there neds to be more of an advanced warning then that again hes breaking protocol ...no alert and trying to explain "And this is when they sideswiped me"
I dont see the trucker.. either hes dead or fled in which case big no no to the latter....
Im sure Ill nitpick a few other things
the damage sustained to the truck would have caused an explosion or flames
the cops out of his car there no backup, no firetrucks, no ambulances
No "glowworms"
the cop is not following procedure and protocol, when we arrive at a scene we call for backup, we dont park too close especilly with the concept of a "spill" or potential hazardous.. yeah I can see writing a report and adding "And this is when and why my car caught Fire"
He has no roadblocks or flares set up to divert oncoming traffic which should have been done or no directing of traffic via alternate route yeah he has his car turned sideways but there neds to be more of an advanced warning then that again hes breaking protocol ...no alert and trying to explain "And this is when they sideswiped me"
I dont see the trucker.. either hes dead or fled in which case big no no to the latter....
Im sure Ill nitpick a few other things
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I think this was taken after EVERYONE was onscene. I think the photographer saw the cop there, and got the photo just to make this point. In the other photos, there dosen't appear to be any damage to the trailer, but the tractor took some damage.
And Alex... you nailed it.
And Alex... you nailed it.
AnthonyM83
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I don't have the other pictures in the series, but this could have been taken at the moment the officer arrived on-scene. The person who called it in might not have mentioned the type of truck or the officer might have come upon the scene himself. He could get be getting back into his car after realizing truck type and that it was Hazmat.
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Even if he did just arrive on scene and doesn't know what he has yet, look at the way he parked across the roadway. His light bar is going to be minimal protection against any vehicle travelling on the road way.
AnthonyM83
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Is he trying to block traffic with his vehicle (yet leaving partial space for emergency vehicle set up)? Sometimes if you park you car with the roadway, cars back up behind you. If you park perpendicular, cars make their u-turns way before the reach you b/c it's obvious the road is closed.
*shrug*
I dunno.
*shrug*
I dunno.
Even if you don't know what is in the tanker, you would park an minimum of 100 feet from any incident. Canaries should get haz-mat awareness training as well, so they should know what type of tankers carry what level of hexa-dexa-bad-stuff. It's not like our ops training is that much greater than the awareness training.
CaptainPanic
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When I was traveling cross-state I noticed ALOT of HazMat tankers on the I-40 between Conway and Lonoke.
I could have played HazMat BINGO if I had Whkr with me, LOL :lol:
-CP
I could have played HazMat BINGO if I had Whkr with me, LOL :lol:
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He shouldn't of PIT'd a tanker with sulfuric acid?
AnthonyM83
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No way. This is not a common rule or practice in the real world. 100 feet from any incident? Yeah, it'd be nice, but will rarely happen, unless you already have an idea of what kind of incident, or you're on a wide freeway with cars scattered about and you're just going to block of a big area or something like that.
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Ding-ding-ding, we have a winner!! [/b][/quote]
LOL :lol: