12:12hrs Friday 03 April 2009
A gasoline tanker heading northbound lost control and cross the median just prior to Exit 88 on I-395 in Plainfield, CT.
Station numbers in (paranthesis). A map is here.
12:12 Plainfield (95), Gasoline Tanker Rollover I-395 just south of Exit 88
12:12 Moosup-Plainfield Ambulance
12:14 Moosup (94), standby quarters (later responded to scene)
12:14 Central Village (97), standby quarters (later responded to scene)
12:14 American Ambulance Medic
12:14 Connecticut DEP Haz-Mat
12:16 QV Incident Dispatcher enroute
12:17 Norwich (N1), foam trailer, HazMat-1
12:18 Per Plainfield PD, driver is extricated, tank is ruptured, placard is gasoline.
12:22 KB Ambulance
12:23 American Ambulance, second medic, chest pains
12:23 Mortlake (90) Ambulance
12:27 Griswold Fire (55), seconday accident, I-395 NB Exit 87
12:29 Willington (13), foam trailer
12:30 Windham County Coordinator, HQ 33, on scene
12:48 Atwood Hose (96), Hose Tender 196 to scene, water supply
12:59 Mortlake, one piece coverage move up to Atwood Hose;
12:59 Sterling (67), one piece coverage move up to cover Moosup;
12:59 Jewett City (56), standby quarters, covering Plainfield
13:21 Laurel Hill (N6), Hose Tender 61
13:30 East Great Plains (N5), one engine w/LEL meter to check catch basins, Lathrop Road (south side of incident)
13:30 Yantic (N3), one engine w/LEL meter, Lathrop Road
13:32 Danielson (61), one engine w/LEL meter, Route 14 (north side of incident)
13:32 Dayville (63), one engine w/LEL meter, Route 14
13:32 Scotland (16), one engine w/LEL meter, Erin Drive trailer park (west side of incident)
13:32 Voluntown (53), one engine w/LEL meter, DOT Garage (east side of incident)
13:44 Mortlake, Engine 190 to Exit 87, water supply
14:05 Scotland E-116 o/o/s mechanical, Scotland R-416 responding to replace
14:05 Jewett City, one engine to assist Scotland
14:46 Providence Canteen, for 70 people.
14:46 American Ambulance, Rehab Unit
15:07 Hartford (HTFD E11), Foam Trailer
15:20 Mohegan (M2), Light Tower
15:24 Gales Ferry (R2), Light Tower
15:35 Atwood Hose, Rescue 396 to scene for command post duties
16:59 T&S Oil, fuel tender for apparatus on scene
17:33 East Putnam (79), one engine for strike team per Windham County Emergency Plan / North
17:33 Community (81), one engine for strike team
17:33 Quinebaug (83), one engine for strike team
17:33 Bungay (77), one engine for strike team
17:52 Canterbury (93), standby quarters
18:49 East Brooklyn (92), R-192
21:22 Oneco, ET-268 (Relief?)
21:22 Colchester (28), one engine
21:22 Salem (21), one engine
21:22 Mohegan, one engine
Mortlake E-190 cleared at 00:35, which was around the same time the remaining companies also secured from the scene and one lane NB & SB were re-opened.
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Mortlake was given three assignments:
Engine 190 to participate in a hose lay in the southbound side to supply Willington's foam trailer.
Engine Tank 190 move up and cover Atwood Hose.
Ambulance to take a post at Exit 87 & Lathrop road to cover the south end of the Plainfield district for medicals. With the highway closed, there was near gridlock traffic on Route 12.
East Great Plains (Norwich, CT) Engine Tank 51 1500/2000 setup at the hydrant at Exit 87 SB @ Lathrop Road
Mortlake Rescue 590 standing by
Laurel Hill (Norwich, CT) Hose Tender 61 backing up after having finished it's lay. This unit formerly served Old Lyme and was purchased by Norwich in the summer, 2008 to improve their water supply capabilities following a couple major apartment complex fires. 1250gpm, 2500' 5".
1400' of Laurel Hill 5" was between EGP & Mortlake Engine 190. 1500gpm/700gwt/4,000+' 5"
I suspect this photo op doesn't come along too often.
It's all off. We ended up having 3,900' on the reel today, there should be another 400' in a small hose bed under the diamond plate cover. While the reel holds 4,600', it seems as fast as we get capital to replace old hose, more hose fails annual service testing. Needs are also changing as LDH is now very common, and long lays in our town are rarer. It's likely the replacement to this engine will be a radically smaller vehicle (say a 4x4 F550 equipped with a 1000gpm pump and 2,500' 5" which will meet our current needs).
There's an incident down there somewhere. Guess I don't have to feel guilty about not going on the treadmill tonite.
There was 500' of Laurel Hill and 500' of Mortlake 5" between Engine 190 & HT 61.
The 2.5" line is to allow them to relieve pressure without blowing it onto the highway.
Static water source (a fancy word for a pond). So close, so far away.
Another 1500' of 5" and a phantom pumper. Not really sure why this here, sometimes we drop a Humat 4-way valve for a later arriving engine to tie into. Here we just seem to be marking the place an engine could be put in if necessary.
Voluntown ET 253, 1250gpm/1000gwt/1500' 5". I suspect this may have originally been supposed to go in where the phantom pumper was, however more the adequate water was being moved. It was assigned to standby in case there was a problem with hose or apparatus along the lay.
Hmmm, over zealous diking?
1700' of Mortlake 5", then Yantic (Norwich, CT) Engine 33 2000gpm/500gwt
1000' of Yantic 5" to Willington's Foam Trailer. (plus 200' of Mortlake 5" laying unused)
Southbound Side:
Willington Foam Trailer. The State of Connecticut maintains 8 of these trailers with 500 gallons of 1%/3% AFFF and a 500gpm master stream.
Green apparatus are Plainfield. Black over Red is Central Village. The precariously tipping van belongs to a TV station.
Northbound Side:
Norwich, CT "Prime Mover" and foam trailer.
Moosup ET-194
At the bottom of the off ramp is Atwood Hose HT-196 setup at a hydrant supply Moosup, Norwich Foam Trailer, and Plainfield.
Scotland HT-116 (1000gpm, 5000' 5") was sent to Erin Drive, a trailer park adjacent the Plainfield fire station and near the incident. AFAIK they didn't lay a line; they could've either laid 1/2 mile to the Exit 88 SB on ramp, or hand-jacked through the woods to the rear of the trailer park.
Trivia: Mortlake has pumped to a Willington unit before. Fall '92 or Spring '93 there was a charcoal kiln fire in Union, CT that DEP Air Quality insisted be extinguished. Mortlake, the two Willingtons, and maybe Muddy Brook teamed up, under the coordination of the Muddy Brook Chief, to make an 8,500' hose lay with a 200' in elevation increase. Mortlake pumped from the source pond, with Willington Hill and Willington No. 1 relay pumping.
Laurel Hill (Norwich, CT) Hose Tender 61 backing up after having finished it's lay. This unit formerly served Old Lyme and was purchased by Norwich in the summer, 2008 to improve their water supply capabilities following a couple major apartment complex fires. 1250gpm, 2500' 5".
1400' of Laurel Hill 5" was between EGP & Mortlake Engine 190. 1500gpm/700gwt/4,000+' 5"
I suspect this photo op doesn't come along too often.
It's all off. We ended up having 3,900' on the reel today, there should be another 400' in a small hose bed under the diamond plate cover. While the reel holds 4,600', it seems as fast as we get capital to replace old hose, more hose fails annual service testing. Needs are also changing as LDH is now very common, and long lays in our town are rarer. It's likely the replacement to this engine will be a radically smaller vehicle (say a 4x4 F550 equipped with a 1000gpm pump and 2,500' 5" which will meet our current needs).
There's an incident down there somewhere. Guess I don't have to feel guilty about not going on the treadmill tonite.
There was 500' of Laurel Hill and 500' of Mortlake 5" between Engine 190 & HT 61.
The 2.5" line is to allow them to relieve pressure without blowing it onto the highway.
Static water source (a fancy word for a pond). So close, so far away.
Another 1500' of 5" and a phantom pumper. Not really sure why this here, sometimes we drop a Humat 4-way valve for a later arriving engine to tie into. Here we just seem to be marking the place an engine could be put in if necessary.
Voluntown ET 253, 1250gpm/1000gwt/1500' 5". I suspect this may have originally been supposed to go in where the phantom pumper was, however more the adequate water was being moved. It was assigned to standby in case there was a problem with hose or apparatus along the lay.
Hmmm, over zealous diking?
1700' of Mortlake 5", then Yantic (Norwich, CT) Engine 33 2000gpm/500gwt
1000' of Yantic 5" to Willington's Foam Trailer. (plus 200' of Mortlake 5" laying unused)
Southbound Side:
Willington Foam Trailer. The State of Connecticut maintains 8 of these trailers with 500 gallons of 1%/3% AFFF and a 500gpm master stream.
Green apparatus are Plainfield. Black over Red is Central Village. The precariously tipping van belongs to a TV station.
Northbound Side:
Norwich, CT "Prime Mover" and foam trailer.
Moosup ET-194
At the bottom of the off ramp is Atwood Hose HT-196 setup at a hydrant supply Moosup, Norwich Foam Trailer, and Plainfield.
Scotland HT-116 (1000gpm, 5000' 5") was sent to Erin Drive, a trailer park adjacent the Plainfield fire station and near the incident. AFAIK they didn't lay a line; they could've either laid 1/2 mile to the Exit 88 SB on ramp, or hand-jacked through the woods to the rear of the trailer park.
Trivia: Mortlake has pumped to a Willington unit before. Fall '92 or Spring '93 there was a charcoal kiln fire in Union, CT that DEP Air Quality insisted be extinguished. Mortlake, the two Willingtons, and maybe Muddy Brook teamed up, under the coordination of the Muddy Brook Chief, to make an 8,500' hose lay with a 200' in elevation increase. Mortlake pumped from the source pond, with Willington Hill and Willington No. 1 relay pumping.
