Last night, while I was working on finalizing plans for our Firefighter Netcasts at FDIC next week, a strange even occurred. The evening sky lit up from what is claimed to have been a meteor about the size of a soccer ball headed straight for the area of Lone Rock (oh, the irony) in southwest Wisconsin.
Here is a police cruiser’s dashcam video
From Pat Curry at WGN News:
Over in Avoca, 55 miles due west of Madison, where rumors of treetop fires spread, volunteer Adam Lins said he didn’t hear of any such fires. But he did see the blazing fiery object overhead while his wife and he drove home from a meeting.
“It started out small, then got bigger and bigger,” Lins said. “It was going from northwest to southeast and looked like it was headed somewhere around Highland or Lone Rock, about 8 miles away. It was going very fast. My wife saw it better than I though.”
And then something happened, Lins said.
“We stopped to talk to people in the street. About a minute afterward we heard what sounded like a sonic boom. You could feel it.”
My thoughts turned to those of the poor company officer, who, when dispatched to a call of a fully-engulfed meteor fire, would begin pre-planning his attack.
Does your department have a SOP/SOG on mitigating this event? Go ahead, look.
If none exists, then you are in luck. If you are a firefighter looking for a bugle, or a bugle looking for a band, here’s golden opportunity to prove you are a self-starter, a problem solver, a go-getter.
Prepare a draft SOP/SOG for meteor fires (you may also want to include asteroids, depending on what they made you for dinner that night). Specifically, you may wish to address the following points:
What level of response should be assigned?
What size line should be used?
Is this a HazMat incident?
Are there any government agencies that should be notified?
Should we wake up the Chief?
Submit your suggestions in the comments section below.
Today is the beginning of the rest of your career!
Or not.
Also on Fire Daily…
- THE PLACE TO BE- Friday night at FDIC. – April 6, 2010
- Firefighter Storytellers Wednesday Night: “My dad was a Chief at the Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire.” – July 12, 2010
- 360 Burn Around The Fire Web – October 29, 2009
- 360 Burn Size Up of the Fire Webs for 8/20/2010 – August 20, 2010
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