Massive Fire Engulfs Plainfield Township Industrial Building 8-2-11

[rsn071]

Thats one sexy tanker at 3:30

[lehighsbravest]

Pictures of the incident lehighvalleysbravest.smugmug.c­om Look under Northampton County,Pa Plainfield Township

[lehighsbravest]

@lehighsbravest Page 10 in the pictures has aerial shots from the bucket insane looks like a war zone.

[UtahMike41]

How does one even begin to put out a fire such as ths?

[lehighsbravest]

@UtahMike41 All in all they were back and forth for a week.

[UtahMike41]

@lehighsbravest Sheesh. I am not a firefighter but is the correct term here "surround and drown"? Obviously the building was going to be a complete loss so just keep the fire in check until it burns itself out. That sound correct?

[lehighsbravest]

@UtahMike41 Yes there was a large fire load in the building plus sprinkler system was not working.

[dmartz13]

what box # was this?

[lehighsbravest]

@dmartz13 no boxes for this county.

[smokeyburnout69]

Na it's pa not open fields around here and it was fun for us st the call

[anthony77791]

couple air drops of foam from a plane and ya woulda been set

[Paramedicpr835]

That is one hell of a fire. Any fire that involves a facility producing either tires or plastics you know it's going to be a bad one.

[greg33770]

WOW !!! what more can I say?

[mr771Fireboy]

wat state was this in

[smokeyburnout69]

Ya dude it was hot I am on the blitz fire

[thecazman100]

man you know its hot when the fince starts to melt it has to be over 1500 degrees Fahrenheit

[smokeyburnout69]

Ya there was over 3.24 mill in damage WTF

[2007muggs]

When I was Chief of my department my alarm structure was 5 alarms and an "oh shit" alarm. This was definitely an "oh shit." Looks like it had a hell of a head start.

[ffjsb]

There's some nice looking tankers in this vid., I like how they used the construction tanker. Not much you can do on a fire this size with all that plastic burning.

[smokeyburnout69]

Funny part is the Palmer one is the same company

[mutualaidsupplies]

@smokeyburnout69 Its the easiest way to get new buildings courtesy of the insurance company :)

[army4lifeAlways]

Station 36 representing!!!! Thanks guys and gals for everything.. and this video is amazing.

[alyssamae1166]

Second indutrial fire in the lehigh valley in less then a month.....