Former FDNY commissioner Sal Cassano explains why – Latest News
Safety ideas from the highest flooring
Talking to Sal Cassano, former FDNY commissioner. 2010 till 2014. So inform me what’s on a fire truck?
“A pumper pumps from hydrant to pumper to the hose to the fire. There’s first help tools. Firefighters prepare at probate faculty 18 weeks. Drilled ceaselessly how to repack vehicles, the place you put tools, how you clean instruments.
“Fires have modified. Now plastics burn hotter, sooner, more poisonous. Once we had wood-burning stuff. Now even bedding has modified.
“If you’re not scared, one thing’s improper with you. The Red Devil we known as it.
“Things occur. Once there was a steam explosion, one thing gave, and we bought hit with this burst of steam. If you ever burnt your finger on a little scorching water — think about getting hit with a burst of steam. A scary state of affairs.
“But there was nothing just like the World Trade Center. I used to be listening to our radio with six colleagues when this report happened a aircraft hitting the World Trade Center. An hour and a half later, three of these six had been lifeless. Unprecedented the quantity of people we misplaced there, unprecedented the quantity of expertise we misplaced, and the quantity of people which have died since that day as a result of of sicknesses that they contracted on the World Trade.
“Listen, I might stroll into a firehouse now and nonetheless slide down a pole like I did 50 years in the past. A firefighter by no means forgets how to slip down a pole. Great feeling.
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“I used to be born in Brooklyn. I stay in Staten Island. I’ll keep there ceaselessly. But, wherever you reside, it’s best to have a signal on the back of your door. If there’s a fire: It could also be safer to remain in your condominium. Going down a stairway will be dangerous. You additionally ought to have any individual in charge of your building who’re skilled in case of an emergency.
“Listen to them. They probably should be drilling with you, and I know people will say, ‘Oh, my God, I gotta go and do a drill?’ Yes, because if the real thing happens, you wanna know what to do. These people are trained, they’re paid to do it. So listen to the instructions you get: A, from either the person in charge of evacuation; and B, from the dispatch operator that you call.”
This planet’s gone luney
We’re going to the moon? Great. A real mazel tov. Half the time we are able to’t get to Rockville Center. Listen, the moon is as high — above the elephant’s eye — because the price of milk or the associated fee of a cheapo airline ticket.
Going to the moon? Please. Situations in Ukraine, Israel, North Korea, Syria, Russia. We can’t get alongside on Earth! We bought Venezuela, Taiwan, Iran, Staten Island, wherever MeMeMeMeghan schleps, cranky Canada, Afghanistan, the Teachers Union, Sudan, Pakistan. Also Elon what’s-his-face, who has already constructed himself a cavern on the downtown moon. With, naturally, a mirror.
He goes there weekends in his gasless rocket that makes a stop on Jupiter long enough to fill up on no matter free change would possibly go to help the aged, animals, the sick, poverty-stricken, our ailing roads, CBS News, healthcare, climate change, El Niño, border security, immigration and a personal potty for Biden.
Summertime. Pretty quickly the drive-in theaters will reopen — and people will begin watching films again. That is, for many who don’t already own Lunar Lounges. An actual moonzel-tov.
Not in New York, youngsters, undoubtedly not in New York.
