From STATter911.com http://www.STATter911.com: These are Wayne E. Ray's photos of New Eagle VFD's Ladder 14 on the fireground in Monangahela, Pennsylvania on Septermber 6, 2009. The series of pictures shows the ladder truck before & after the aerial ladder collapsed injuring a firefighter. More from Wayne Ray http://www.snapshot47photos.com/snapshot_47_photo.html
More details on the ladder collapse can be found here http://tinyurl.com/lyjdnq
I was Fighting that fire With station 62 and that one thing i will never forget since I quite the fire department .it was a really bad fire and we heard the mayday come over the radio.those words I do not ever want to hear aging .
Metalfireman62 2 months ago
it was 4" hose there was only one guy on it and way back in the day when they had it built it was desiged to have a portable monitor . so it was ment to have it on there. the ladder had reguler inspection on it. and it was just a freak accedent.
farmerjon007 7 months ago
Luckily the ladder was extended over the cab, had it been turned to the side when it failed the truck may have tipped over
arohn2007 8 months ago
@troybuzzell Point well taken! Have a nice Memorial Day!
billeybop 9 months ago
Well, I think you are on track, but when was the last time you saw 5" hoes suppying the monitor on a ladder??? hint: never. It's usually 3". 100' of 5" Hose holds how many pounds of H2O future DE's? add that to the nozzle reaction of the monitor, and the low angle and this ladder and I'll bet they tripled the tip load for the rated angle, elevation, and application. Stay safe, train hard.
troybuzzell 9 months ago
Sorry to see it was a classic Maxim. Hope you can at least replace the main and the rest of the rig is still in fine shape.
SeagraveRules 2 years ago
This has nothing to do with the aerial. Low angle, ladder pipe and two people on it. Simply overloaded. Guys are lucky that this wasn't worse. Hope everyone a speedy recovery
bcofire14 2 years ago
Good question and especially when times are tough. I've never seen one twist like that.
billeybop 2 years ago
Im wondering if this ladder origionaly had a monitor on it or if it was added to the truck later. I see in the pictures the LDH going up the ladder like maybe this was just a ladder and not ment to be used as as arial. Just wondering if this ladder was rated to have the pressures that a monitor puts on an apparatus.
findunhot 2 years ago