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Posted: 4/24/2016 1:47:40 AM EDT
Started a few hours ago, enormous fire that keeps spreading in Gilbert, right outside of Phoenix.

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Link Posted: 4/24/2016 1:49:26 AM EDT
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Holy hell!
Link Posted: 4/24/2016 1:54:35 AM EDT
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Insurance scam
Link Posted: 4/24/2016 1:55:56 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 4/24/2016 1:56:37 AM EDT
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Is it under construction? I see scaffolding and stuff.
Link Posted: 4/24/2016 1:57:43 AM EDT
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Yeah. The main site of the fire was an unfinished building site.
Link Posted: 4/24/2016 2:02:45 AM EDT
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Wow.... What can a firefighter even do to manage something like that?
Link Posted: 4/24/2016 2:04:56 AM EDT
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Containment is about all they will be shooting for on this one.
Link Posted: 4/24/2016 2:07:39 AM EDT
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Sit back on top of the 4" hose and throw water at it from a long distance.  Manage any spread as best you can and wait for it to burn out.

I wonder what their water supply situation is out there.
Link Posted: 4/24/2016 2:12:43 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 4/24/2016 2:42:54 AM EDT
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Back off, set a defensive line.
Link Posted: 4/24/2016 2:53:30 AM EDT
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Wasn't on duty, but got a look at it from the top of a parking garage several miles southeast of the fire. It was simply incredible! The fire occurred next to a complex that is home to the local government buildings including the main police station. Unreal.
Link Posted: 4/24/2016 3:55:39 AM EDT
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sounds like they are wrapping up now..  bunch of sticks dont take too long to burn
Link Posted: 4/24/2016 4:49:37 AM EDT
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Eco terrorists love to burn buildings still under construction.
Link Posted: 4/24/2016 5:20:46 AM EDT
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Unfinished structures like that go up crazy fast. Basically a large scale version of the wooden UL test crib.

YT video of one from LA

Link Posted: 4/24/2016 6:14:12 AM EDT
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... Down the road, a few miles from me
Link Posted: 4/24/2016 6:31:54 AM EDT
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An inferno
Link Posted: 4/24/2016 6:36:41 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 4/24/2016 7:03:52 AM EDT
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Saw the smoke when I was in my way to work. Was wondering wtf is was coming from
Link Posted: 4/24/2016 7:53:05 AM EDT
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Eco terrorists love to burn buildings still under construction.
Yeah, they torched a complex under construction in San Diego back in 2003.  Caused $50 million in damages as I recall and was traced back to the "Earth Liberation Front" or some such load of bull.

 
Link Posted: 4/24/2016 9:15:35 AM EDT
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The UL  has burned more shit than every war in history.
Link Posted: 4/24/2016 9:26:07 AM EDT
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Unskilled immigrant work force.
Link Posted: 4/24/2016 10:21:14 PM EDT
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Damn! The wife and I were at a Taste of Tempe food festival at Tempe Diablo Stadium yesterday afternoon and I saw the gigantic smoke plume off to the east. Didn't see the news or open the laptop at all yesterday so I knew nothing about this!!


We've always got a pallet factory or chemical yard going up in flames it seems.
Link Posted: 4/24/2016 10:24:30 PM EDT
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Wow that looks real bad.
Link Posted: 4/24/2016 10:31:38 PM EDT
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Any updates?
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