Guest guest Posted September 11, 2001 Report Share Posted September 11, 2001 On Tue, 11 Sep 2001 at 18:40:31, R J Greenwood wrote: > > The sky is full of military and MedEvac helicopters > Both of the medivac services that we use (Orlando Regional Medical Center's Aircare and Orange Co Sheriff's Office FireStar) were grounded pursuant to the FAA order grounding all non-military aircraft. > Falls Church answered Arlington County calls back when I was at Arlington County 9-1-1, all 9-1-1 calls from Falls Church rang into the Arlington Center. Police calls we transferred to the Falls Church police dispatch office. Medical and fire calls were dispatched by us since Arlington Fire-Rescue ran those calls for Falls Church. Kind of a reverse of history working there. -jackie Jackie McElroy y Creek Fire Dept. Walt Disney World, Florida (I speak for me and only me.) http://www.reedycreekdispatch.webservepro.com http://sites.netscape.net/mcjackietron/ mailto:mcjackietron@... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 12, 2001 Report Share Posted September 12, 2001 Just spoke to some Arlington County firefighters who were trying to get home for some rest. They responded POV to augment units already at the scene yesterday morning and now can't get back to their cars. They're car pooling or hitching rides with some who could get to their cars. They describe the scene inside the Pentagon as 'weird.' Some of it is totally destroyed. Just a short distance from the part that collapsed, they say it looks 'completely normal.' In some places, desks were blasted through walls by the plane's impact without disturbing a paper on other desks in the same big room. They said that a large section of the plane's fuselage is intact with passengers still belted in scorched seats. News cameras should show big pieces of airplane once rescuers move the parts of the collapsed structural members that are hiding the plane. Firefighters have had a tough time fighting Pentagon fires. Many years ago, the largest tunnel into the inner courtyard was bricked up... as an anti-terrorist measure... so that a truck loaded with explosives couldn't get under a section of the Pentagon and blow it up. The same constricted entrance has kept modern firefighting equipment from accessing the back side of the fire for the whole day. The dog tired and filthy folks who just came by (at 0300) said that they finally found some older equipment that would fit including a ladder belonging to a volunteer company in land. They're finally getting the fires under control. Rescue workers went in even with fires still burning in the hope that survivors might be found (a limited scratch search and placement of sensors/detectors). Radio traffic is so sparse that it's spooky being in here with all these radios that rarely even crackle. I'm sure it's busy on the fire ground but I hear very little traffic between command and on-scene units or command and Arlington Co ECC. Always take good care of yourself and yours, R J 'Tree' Greenwood Falls Church & Catlett VA doctree@... doctree@... on 911-Talk rgreenwood@... Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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