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Circuit Breaker on fire upon arrival. View from outside
the fence, near the gate. |
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Closer view from outside fence. Atlantic City Electric
employees de-energized the affected circuit breaker area prior to MFD crews
entering the fenced area of the substation. |
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Fire crews in full Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
prepare to extinguish the fire. |
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Circuit Breaker containing approximately 40 gallons of oil on
fire. |
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Firefighters Daniel Doerr and Wayne
Chatten attempt to extinguish the fire using a dry chemical fire |
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Career Firefighter Mike
Lippincott and Lt. Ric Tucker
use PRO/pak
foam application to apply a blanket of foam over the flaming oil inside
the circuit breaker. |
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Foam is applied to the circuit breaker using a lofted arc to
allow the foam blanket to settle on top of the oil. |
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Another view of using the PRO/pak
to apply foam in a lofted arc on to the oil. |
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After the flames have been extinguished the de-energized
outside of the circuit breaker is cooled from two sides using a hose line
(left) and the PRO/pak
(right). Both lines used fog patterns. At this point the
PRO/pak
is used without foam.
L/R FF Wayne Chatten, Daniel
Doerr on regular hose line; Mike
Lippincott, Lt. Ric Tucker
using the PRO/pak,
while FF Chris Pittinger, and FF Bill
Stadnick act as backup with dry chemical extinguisher. |
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Firefighters observe the circuit breaker to insure there are no
flare ups. |
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Personal Accountability board used by Deputy Chief Steve
Alcorn to manage the scene. Accountability tags have been
removed for clarity. |
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Personal Accountability board close up |
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Personal Accountability board showing Accountability
Officer' s notes. |
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| Pictures by Career Firefighter Dave
Smith, Deputy Chief Steve Alcorn
& Chief Kurt Hess |
