June 6, 2024, around 14:00 Fire near the central poultry farm in
Aikawa Town, Aiko District, Kanagawa Prefecture - translation of the
title from Japanese
1404 - siren
1500 - 2 streams downwind
2024 - 2 lines at far left doing nothing
2230 - 2nd line
2750 - fire truck down wind
2900 - skid pump on forklift
3500 - fire coat walks into electric wire
https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1mh_maSxUpcMIKtMS7XAYEJzmQfNZZaQ-&usp=sharing
- click on the last listing in the top layer / first layer /
prefecture wide layer - that is the approximate fire location - seems
like within 5 road miles are 25 volunteer stations and 3 paid stations
(each paid station having maybe 1 engine and 1 ambulance) - each
volunteer station having maybe 1 small pumper - maybe was a week day
and all the vols were at work in Tokyo - you can turn off a couple of
map layers to see exactly which fire departments might have been
involved - would be 3 of them maybe
maybe a blitz gun or two might have knocked down the fire quicker -
but it seems that the FD was mostly irrelevant here - even if FDNY
pulled into the alley there with a tower ladder - nothing would have
changed really
all of these guys might have been local FD volunteers - especially the
2 guys with the white boots - maybe they had 1 small pumper connected
to a cistern or hydrant - seems that they were not an industrial fire
brigade - although maybe they were technically - they might have all
worked for the chicken coop company
on the good side - maybe that hose stream did keep the fire out of the
near exposure building - but they were barely getting any water into
that gap
too much wind - too much fire - too much of a delayed alarm apparently