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City fire truck catches fire inside station
St Louis Post Dispatch ^
| 02/05/2007
| Harry Levins
Posted on 02/06/2007 12:40:37 PM PST by SubGeniusX
Four St. Louis firefighters struggled early Sunday with a blaze in their own firehouse, where their truck caught fire.
It happened about 4 a.m. at Engine House 24 in the 5200 block of Natural Bridge Avenue.
This morning, fire Capt. Steve Simpson gave this account:
The firehouse crew of four had returned an hour of two earlier from a call. Three were alseep, and the fourth -- Firefighter Darian Benford -- was on watch.
He smelled smoke, checked and found that the engine of the pumper was on fire. Benford rousted his three mates, and the four grabbed fire extinguishers to douse the flames.
But their air tanks were on the truck and unavailable, so all four suffered from smoke inhalation. Benford also hurt his back, Simpson said. They were treated and released.
(Excerpt) Read more at stltoday.com ...
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KEYWORDS: doh; irony
QUICK!!!
Sombody grab the Irony Extinguisher!!!
To: SubGeniusX
Wow! A fire at the fire station! Who'duv thunk it?
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posted on
02/06/2007 12:46:56 PM PST
by
Levante
To: SubGeniusX
don't you just HATE it when that happens?
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posted on
02/06/2007 12:50:53 PM PST
by
camle
(keep your mind open and somebody will fill it full of something for you)
To: SubGeniusX
This really happened.
A tar trailer was used to heat tar, the fire was turned up too high and caught the tar on fire.
There was no danger as it would not blow up and it was far enough from a building to catch it aflame.
A person grabbed a extinguisher, ran close to the burning tar trailer.
The fire blazed up and scared him, so he tossed the full fire extinguisher in the fire.
The next day they had everybody in the office pull out the pin and squirt the extinguisher.
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posted on
02/06/2007 12:55:46 PM PST
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
("Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto")
To: Levante
Our local firehouse burned down and two engines were lost. Tar being used to re-roof caught fire......
Soooo the good city 'fathers' (polite) rebuilt a Taj Mahal in it's place.
Us mere citizen are still thinking 'conspiracy'.
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posted on
02/06/2007 12:56:12 PM PST
by
GoldCountryRedneck
("God made liquor and God made brew, so ugly people could have sex too" - unknown)
To: SubGeniusX
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posted on
02/06/2007 12:59:35 PM PST
by
Spruce
To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
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posted on
02/06/2007 1:00:43 PM PST
by
b4its2late
(Liberalism is a hollow log and a mental disorder.)
To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
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posted on
02/06/2007 1:02:28 PM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: SubGeniusX
Hey, I saw Moe, Larry, and Curley do that once! They also totaled the fire chief's brand-new 36 Ford.
To: SubGeniusX; Slings and Arrows
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posted on
02/06/2007 1:03:03 PM PST
by
Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: SubGeniusX
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posted on
02/06/2007 1:27:57 PM PST
by
6SJ7
To: ShadowAce
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posted on
02/06/2007 1:31:45 PM PST
by
Hegemony Cricket
(Growing long hair and a scraggly beard is so easy, even a caveman could do it...)
To: SubGeniusX
"That's the same dance that used to be held at the Volunteer Fire Hall before it burned down." - Lester "Road Hog" Moran
To: ShadowAce
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posted on
02/06/2007 2:00:35 PM PST
by
Ladysmith
((NRA, SAS) "These lefties are terminally inebriated on dishonesty." The Nuge)
To: SubGeniusX
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posted on
02/06/2007 6:17:56 PM PST
by
Kevmo
(Duncan Hunter just needs one jump-the-shark Verrücktenfreude moment by Hillary Clinton in 2007)
To: MotleyGirl70; Cagey; Mr. Brightside; Rb ver. 2.0
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