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First crash truck on scene, fire's already out when this pic was taken.


Once we got our hose line into the plane and were able to ventilate we saw the full tank of fuel that this C130 uses to refuel other aircraft mid-flight. That made me nervous!


The interior was gutted. Probably a total loss, but at least the crew of 10 Canadian Airmen were able to get out and to safety. The fire started after they were about 50 in air from takeoff. Pilot said when they stopped there was zero visibility.


At the top of the plane you see that hole? The fire burned it out and made a perfect place to direct our roof turret streams to knock the fire down from the outside before making the interior attack with handlines. Yes, the douche standing like a douche is me. Not the guys in the white shirts, those are my bosses.


We don't get many good fires so this was pretty cool. I mean, NO fires is best, but if they happen it's always cool if I'm working when they do.

On a different note. Saw this bumper sticker on the way to drop my kid off at school this morning. Looks like Dan is running for State's Attorney.

If God meant for Canadians to fly, he would have given them tickets.

Rack you and the PET!

Any ideas on the cause? Did the crew open any hatches or windows to try to vent some of the smoke?

WOAH.

The inside of that plane looked like smackaholic's backyard.

They were doing touch and go's which is just taking off, coming in, touching wheels to the ground and taking off again. They had just touched and were about 50 ft off the ground when a hydraulic pump in the back of the plane exploded. The crew said a wall of fire just went up and everyone rushed to the front of the aircraft yelling "abort!" "fire!' and the pilot landed. If they had been even a few hundred more feet down the runway or in the air I'm pretty sure we would've been collecting body parts. Lucky frickin guys. They were all in this giddy overjoyed mood I assume from realizing just how close they came to cashing in their chips! Like I said, we don't get this kind of thing much, certainly not an engulfed C130, so it was pretty exciting.

*Sorry LS. No, they didn't open anything until they landed and then they all bailed out of a forward door.

R-Jack wrote:The inside of that plane looked like smackaholic's backyard.

Can't really see any piano keys, but based on that first photo it looks really wide there so assuming a turnoff at the far end of the runway. How much concrete did they have in front of them when they got it stopped?

hard to tell from the low camera angle, but look like the airplane might be sitting on the numbers