In any event, we don’t have the full story and so critcism of the fire fighters is a little unfair at this stage, I’d say. We dont know anything of the ground conditions, or access arrangements to the field which might even have been across a culvert for example.
Well said, I know the airfield fire fighters here, and they have strict directives about where their vehicles can or cannot go and they have to follow them, which also applies to when they drive civil fire service vehicles.
Dealing with an emergency on an airfield is a whole different situation than out in open land or fields, airfields have a certain proportion of land smoothed out as much as possible and usually have good drainage for a start.
At the end of the day at least some of those fireman will have felt worse about what they had to witness happening in front of them than most us do sat at a computor.
I also think the intensity of that fire was something else when you look at the picture of what is left in the front spar fuselage frame area.
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