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Friday, June 13, 2008

Colchester Multi alarm. 06-13-08

COLCHESTER, CT - Around 10:30 a.m. on June 13, 2008 A explosion and fire rocked M&J Salvage on Rt-85 in Colchester. This started one of the biggest movements of fire apparatus in recent years. The following plans were placed into use, strike teams, foam trailers and an incident management team.

The strike teams brought companies together that had never worked together before (Hartford, New London,Windhan and Toland
Counties ).

The scrapyard was full of hundreds of autos and thousands of tires were ablaze with in minutes of the explosion. Several workers were taken to area hospitals, one with burns. Fire crews had difficulties extinguishing the fire as water had to be shuttled from several miles away until a line was laid over a mile to a local pond and several foam trailers were placed into service.

After about five hours the main body of the fire was knocked down and crews with heavy equipment added firefighters with the overhaul. The fire is under investigation by local and State FMO's office.

I will be posting more photos laterThis photo is about two years old, The fire area was a lot more congested today About 10 mins into the fireOne of the worker's being transported By CHFD-EMS
Ladder 128 Chief Cox and FF Brown Colchesters new Flash over trainer Norwich's Foam trailer gets a helping hand NLC incident Management TeamWillinton's foam trailer Hartford and Norwich a event that does not happen every day

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