Boston FD sent 1 Eng + 1 Ldr to a central station alarm on Victory Road in Dorchester. I suspect that is at the 150 foot tall LNG tank. What kind of response would be needed if that tank exploded? I have no idea how much damage would be caused. Lets assume that everything within 1 mile would be flattened and burning. Maybe the distance would be just 1/2 mile.
1. If it was a windy day - you could have a conflagration burn into Dorchester or Roxbury or South Boston. 2, Squantum in Quincy and UMass Boston could be devastated also. 3. I wonder if there could be some sort of tsunami affecting waterfront properties? 4. Presntly - it is Sunday afternoon in the summer - probably 75% of all doctors, nurses, police and fire are at their vacation homes - maybe 100 to 300 hundred miles from Boston. Very few private ambulances are probably staffed today. 5. If there are people trapped in burning buildings, it would be very difficult to rescue any of them. That is very labor intensive work. Especially if the building is structurally compromised. 6. Has anyone gone from the City of Boston to Tianjin China to see how they handled their disaster? 7. If the hydrant system is damaged in Boston - what can be done? The Boston area does not have any hose trucks which could operate with fireboats to bring water inland for firefighting. 8. How could you possibly get any victims from Quincy to a Boston trauma center? Imagine if 25 ambulances responded from Cape Cod and picked up 50 patients in Dorchester. Where the heck could they take them? Back to Cape Cod with its TWO hospitals? (Actually - that is probably the right move) 9. There would be no response from the military or National Guard. They probably have at most 5 people on duty on a Sunday afternoon. It would take them hours to mobilize. 10. Maybe you could get a bunch of medevac planes to land at Logan, Bedford, Plymouth, Norwood, etc - bringing in a bunch of medical staff and medicine. 11. Anyone ever do drills like this? I know they dont do field drills like this - but maybe someone does a paper drill once every 5 years. ????? ---------------------------- Medevac planes could start arriving within 1 hour - if they were mobilized quickly. Maybe 20 medevac helos could reach Boston in 2 hours - if they were mobilized quickly. Mutual aid fire and police and ambulances would probably arrive in 2 waves. On duty units from eastern Mass could arrive in 1 hour. Off duty staffed units could arrive with rural units in 2 hours. Then you would need to start finding available hospital beds. Lets hope that someone at FEMA HQ is on top of this 24/7. (are they?) OK I am done -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "massfire" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/massfire. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
