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Old 11-14-2010, 08:11 PM
 
Location: San Antonio
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4 firefighters injured when fire truck flips

Looks like it was mostly minor. Hope that they are all well.
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Old 11-14-2010, 08:14 PM
 
Location: San Antonio, TX, USA
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Wow; hope the firefighters involved are ok.
How does one flip a fire truck; maybe they were avoiding something?
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Old 11-14-2010, 08:14 PM
 
Location: San Antonio, Tx
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I wondered what all the hub-bub was over there. We saw a boatload of police cars at Culebra and Potranco.
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Old 11-14-2010, 08:19 PM
 
Location: San Antonio
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from the article it sounded like it happened when they were turning. going too fast maybe?
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Old 11-14-2010, 08:24 PM
 
Location: San Quilmas, Tx
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The intersection was closed for about three hours. No traffic was allowed from Potranco to IH-410. How do you flip a ladder truck ?? Easy when you're going too fast into a turn. They have a high center of gravity. I believe the police call it "too fast for conditions". Traffic at the time was moderate to heavy.
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Old 11-14-2010, 08:48 PM
 
Location: Austin
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We saw a boatload of police cars at Culebra and Potranco.
The police cars were loaded onto boats?
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Old 11-14-2010, 10:21 PM
 
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I posted this not too long ago.

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I once saw a fire truck, I don't know what kind exactly, but it was merging onto 281 going north coming from 35 going south. It jackknifed across all the lanes before correcting itself, if anyone had been next to it on any of those lanes they would have got swept away easily, it was a surreal moment just this year.
Hope they are OK too but they should be more careful since others could severely be hurt by such large vehicles. Two incidents so soon? Perhaps they need to retrain all the drivers.
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Old 11-14-2010, 10:35 PM
 
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It was stated on one of the TV news reports that the fire truck is a total loss.

I believe ladder trucks like that one run about $750,000 new!
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Old 11-15-2010, 01:59 AM
 
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It was stated on one of the TV news reports that the fire truck is a total loss.

I believe ladder trucks like that one run about $750,000 new!
This certainly is the most important point, especially when we still have one fire fighter in the hospital.
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Old 11-15-2010, 02:07 AM
 
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I thought public safety and safety in general were the most important points and not how much something costs? Though that is interesting.
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