Welp - this was last night…
The article neglects to mention Jamestown Rural Fire Dept, the *First* responding fire units, and the ones who called the City Hazmat team… but the firetruck in the picture is ours (can’t see it but I am riding shotgun running radio, lights, and sirens) (Yea we were also out there two hours as opposed to their one… first fire on scene, last unit to leave… city boys I tell ya) (Note, that’s friendly ribbing… we were quite happy to have the Hazmat team out there. 10,000 gallons of fuel certainly falls under that!)
Unfortunately they only put in the one pic… Larry got a bunch of good ones it looked like. What you don’t see here is a half mile up the other semi, in pretty good shape, except for diesel streaming out of the back of the 10,000 gallon tanker. (Watching the two empty tanker semi’s hop the median was interesting as well…) Diesel has a pretty high ignition point, so we weren’t too worried - though right after the pic you see in the article was taken, we turned that truck around and ran out a hose line just in case. Foam was available as well if it was needed, though we didn’t end up having to put any down. (The batt on that truck was sparking pretty good till it was disconnected… though not a whole lot of fuel was leaking from it.)
After they got it towed out of the way, we managed to get one lane of traffic open, so we were helping direct traffic with Highway Patrol and Stutsman County Sheriff till they got marks noted down. Then we got to charge the hose line and start trying to wash some of the diesel off of the road. (Kinda worked, but after rolling up the hose my gloves reeked of diesel fuel.) All in all - made for an interesting evening. All departments worked quite well with each other. (City, HP, County, and two Fire Departments.) Another good thing was nobody was seriously hurt that I saw.
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