well the hook in indy is gone

I already answered this in a previous post.

Figuring out how to help is what I said. That might simply be setting up a safety barrier and avoiding congestion for the professionals to safely do their jobs.

 

I didn't see any firefighters tripping over the videographers... People have always stopped to watch fires and tragedy... Think of any traffic tie ups on the other side of the interstate when the accident didn't impact their flow of traffic on their side.

My father was a volunteer fire fighter so our phone would always ring prior to the siren being set off. Many of us would go out to see the fire, from a safe distance and out of the way of the other volunteer firemen.

I certainly agree about the safety aspect but I am fairly certain the pumps and tanks would have been safe and/or shut off from any ground level fires.

And if not for those videoing it, we would not see it for our selves.

Totally agree with seeing a bunch of truckers offering to piss out the flames... Only to discover that it was an electrical fire... LOL

 

Didn't see any firemen tripping over those recording the events unfolding... lol

 

They would have a safety check valve that would keep the tanks from being exposed to heat/flame and being underground I would highly doubt there was any risk of having them blow.

But dang that would have been awesome to see... From those recording it, not first hand... LOL

 

Perhaps I was a bit hasty in my assessment. I don't desire to take a stand on this one.

You also reminded me of a time when my grandfather, a retired volunteer firefighter, took me to a barn fire. However, even as a kid of about 6, I thought there was something just plain wrong with going there to gawk. The family was in tears. A girl, not much older than me, went into the burning barn to rescue her horse.

Perhaps that memory of that crying family is what prompted me to make that post. Or perhaps it was just interesting how nearly everything gets captured on someone's phone these days.

 

Yep... The more things change the more they stay the same... {shrug}

Hindenburg???

Just a bunch of stupid people with no common sense recording the events that occurred before their new fangled thingy that makes those silly moving pictures.


JFK Shooting???

Didn't those silly people know they would be in the way when the Secret Service sped away?


World Trade Center on 9/11???

Just more ignorant people standing around watching people falling out of Windows.


Yep, back in the day no one would have done anything like those people with the new fangled phones that take moving pictures.

 

I am not meaning to be at odds with you as I do certainly understand your point.

To me, that barn fire was a learning opportunity not many would have the opportunity to experience.

Yes, cameras every where... Big Brother is alive and well and he is us...

 

Could be worse. You could be in the U.K. And they use cameras a hell of a lot more than we do here in the States.
And on that note with the J officially OOS, property values around that part of Indy are probably gonna go up now. Lmao

 

How many times has a PFJ truck stop burned down in the past 16 years? I think it's around 6. Pilots only, before the merger. If I was their insurance company, I'd start wondering why TAs, Petros, and Love's don't seem to burn down like things owned by the Haslems.

Warning to anyone living near the Cleveland Browns offices, huh?

 

Better check stuff out in TN as well. Lol