Over the next five hours, as flames and smoke enveloped the building and turned the surrounding neighborhood into a surreal cloud city, firefighters used tower and aerial ladders to pour cataracts of water into the building.
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Some people had managed to climb out onto ledges, and a few were able to lower themselves from floor to floor, and were then able to climb down the aerial ladders, while being protected from heat, smoke, and flames.
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Then, in a play area of Bellevue Hospital Center, he spotted Edwin Espinosa, the 4-year-old boy whom he had tucked under his arm the week before and tried to protect as an aerial ladder collapsed and they tumbled six stories.
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But until Sunday-- when a fully extended ladder buckled and then careened six stories to the ground, killing one person and seriously injuring four others-- no aerial ladder had ever collapsed in New York, city fire and union officials said.
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Some parts of the dockyard are considered a very high risk-therefore attract a high attendance-sometimes as many as four pumping appliances and the aerial ladder platform are mobilised to a fire alarm actuating; in contrast to one pumping appliance to a town dwelling.
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Its address was originally listed as 1340 Brentwood Road NE, but later changed to 1340 Rhode Island Ave ., NE . The original equipment was a 1919 American LaFrance 85'aerial ladder truck, which was soon replaced with a 1923 American LaFrance 75'aerial ladder truck.
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Its address was originally listed as 1340 Brentwood Road NE, but later changed to 1340 Rhode Island Ave ., NE . The original equipment was a 1919 American LaFrance 85'aerial ladder truck, which was soon replaced with a 1923 American LaFrance 75'aerial ladder truck.
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In 1998 Cursor 8 was launched, followed the next year by Cursor 10, the first diesel engine with a variable geometry turbine and the first common rail diesel engine for heavy industrial vehicles . was celebrated together with the delivery of the five-thousandth Magirus aerial ladder produced since the Second World War.
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The Heathrow FRS also operates two Mitsubishi Shogun command vehicles out of the main fire station, a Scania hose-layer, several auxiliary vehicles ( such as a personnel carrier ) along with a couple of reserve foam tenders and, to meet category 10 requirements, a Scania 42 m aerial ladder platform to reach the upper deck of the A380.
