Just remember: Don't park a $600,000 fire truck on railroad tracks

This really happened today in Detroit. Really. Firefighters were washing down gas after a car crash. They parked the rig on railroad tracks. Along came an Amtrak train and totaled the rig.

How stupid are these people? And, I'm saying this as the son of a retired firefighter (a suburban Detroit department).

http://www.freep.com/article/20100301/NEWS01/100301028/1318/Fire-fighter-slammed-for-parking-rig-on-train-track

 

Jim Carey needs to teach these guys a fire safety course.

 

Hey, sometimes you've got to learn by trial and error. Who knew that a train might drive down a railroad track?

Some things are just totally unpredictable.

 

Let me show you something!

 

Shouldn't the fire department have called Amtrak and said, "Hey, we've got a wreck here. Please slow down at such and such a point?"

 

From the story:

And Dan, I suspect the people of Detroit wish the commissioner would kick you squarely in the nuts.

 

Does the Detroit Fire Depratment's insurance cover stupidity?

 

For that kind of money, you could buy 6000 houses in Detroit, or two Silverdomes.

 

Well, shit, I guess I won't be arguing that fire trucks > trains anymore!

 

Yes, but being self-insured for something like this means nothing.

 

Only in Detroit.

 

Ladder 13, really.

(Now Truck 6.5).