11.10: Hour 1

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Colder. There's one with a witch in there. Oh wait,
oh well, yeah, I'm sorry, I didn't. I forgot that
that was the term. I apologize.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Replace the word, but in this next one with the
a word. Oh, it's coder than a weld diggers but yeah,
which one of my favorite comedians, yeah said that said
some people say it's colder than a whale. Digger's playing.
I don't want to know my well digger?

Speaker 3 (00:30):
That good?

Speaker 2 (00:33):
What's up Boston from A W A MZ. How do y'all?
How you doing? He's our producer today.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
I am hang on. I got to get the phrase
right now. I'm frustrated and I'm ashamed of myself that
I didn't, as a broadcaster have the right colder. It's
so cold it'll freeze the bolts off of iron steel.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
No, now you go screw me up? Ready, Yeah, coder
enough to freeze the us off an iron bridge. Okay,
that's it, Okay, I'll get it right before the show
is over. Well, you probably won't.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Dixie Highway is a sheet of ice. The only truck
that I need to get to my house for a
repair is is the truck that crashed off off Dixie of.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Course, of course it is. There's only one truck that
has that part on.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Ruse that we need.

Speaker 4 (01:31):
There's only one of them. It's the truck that you
just went off on Dixie Highway. The only one that's
little is I need. It's like I feel like Tom
Hanks in Money Pit.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
All right, the part where he loses it and just
starts laughing. Had he gotten there yet?

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Because I actually no, no, no, there's it's just nothing
but pain and oh my god, frustrating frustration. It is
cold this morning. Uh you know, wife, probably need to
grab a jacket.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Woman. I only know jacket.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
I'm a man. It's cold. I needed a jacket. I
needed a jacket, all right. IU and UK had amazing wins.
U l had an amazing loss.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Don't tell me I taped them all.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
I know you did. Andy. By the way, you got
a jury duty notice. So did Mark Pope, the coach
at UK. Really yeah, he got out of they They're
closed on Tuesday in Lexington's.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
So I had to get mine moved. Originally mine was
They said it to me the week I'm going to
be in Mexico in December. Yeah, you could push it off,
push it off, I tell you. I don't think the
judges down there are gonna be real happy about the
shirts I'm having made.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
Up to wear every day. But and by the way,
you are not disqualified for basically anything. Now you could
tell them you're a serial killer. They're like, yeah, we
don't care. We need more bodies. I said, sit down,
Oh okay, well the nady you just did jury duty
last year, right I did? I didn't. I went in
and it's like, you sure I didn't go in in
front of everybody? I called him and did all had
the conversation and they're like, yeah, those are the old days.

(03:02):
We pretty much need bodies. You're you're working.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
And I was like, oh, okay, use my opportunity is
like political commentary whenever the attorney's going mister Whitten, would
you ever find somebody guilty if blah blah, Well I would,
but your typical Louisville corrupt judge would not because you
just use this well it's just found off.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
And again they'll say nice, try sit down, all right, man.
So tomorrow, why do I say? Mark Pope says jury duty, uh,
which he's out of it for Tuesday because they're not
doing trials on Tuesday, Veterans Day today obviously, and tomorrow
is the UK U of L basketball game. It's the
earliest I can remember the basketball game in a very

(03:43):
long time.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yes, Susan asked me that it was last week. She said,
do you want to go to the ul UK game?
I said, do I have to? She said no. I said,
well when is it? I was getting ready to hear.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
Oh, you know, it's December Saturday, eight thirteenth.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
You know something like that, you know? And she told
me next Tuesday. Gay be kidding me?

Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah, No, it's Tuesday, Tuesday at what. Oh it's a
night game. I wish seven o'clock. You never know, never know.
Whoever runs college basketball is a bunch of morons. So yes,
UK what they say is the top five rivalry and
a college basketball is on a Tuesday, seven pm, November eleventh.

(04:25):
Where are they both ranked? Dad both in the top
twenty five. They're both got really good squads. It's gonna
be an interesting game.

Speaker 5 (04:31):
Tucky's nine, Louisville is eleven.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
Wow, whoever hits her threes, That's what I think is
gonna happen. Basically, whoever hits their shots. I know, that's
as simple as you can get. But that's what it is,
all right. The update is they have identified all the
victims from the crash. Ups has grounded all of their
we called it first day. I bet you they ground
all those MD elevens. They certainly did not just at

(04:54):
UPS betit, but at FedEx because frankly, from what I understand,
you cannot they can't build planes fast enough for the
shipping industry, so they just take these older planes and
convert them from passengers to yeah, cargo, So it's it's
a cheaper way, not cheaper way, but better way to
do it because they could just simply can't find the planes.

(05:16):
They can't make them fast enough, so that's an issue.
We are going to have Jody Myman and the Okalona
fire chief in here in about twenty thirty minutes just
to sort of go over and figure out what's going
on now. And a lot of video from the site. Yeah,
it just looks like a to me again, it looks

(05:37):
like those aerial videos of after a tornado, like an
F four goes through an area and just you can
see the carve out of the earth as it went across.
That's what it looks like. And some of these stories
now are coming out of how individuals met their fate
are awful, and this is something that's going to take
a while before we get over it.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
I haven't found anything, but I'm hoping someone does something
for the families of you know, Grade A and those
that have lost their lives. But I don't know where
to live.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
Did you ever confirm your story we were gonna go with.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
They don't want to come on the air with it.
I got it. But but it was confirmed, It was
confirmed that somebody could have lost their life, but they
chose not to go to a certain place.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
Yeah, okay, all right, they don't want to talk about it.
I got it. I get that. One thousand. I totally do.
Do you think we uh, let's go back that. Do
you think there's gonna be a lot of survivors guilt? Oh,
there's no question. Yeah, there's no question. We have Zach
that called us, that said he was on the site

(06:40):
thirteen minutes before then. I think I don't know if
those guys will, those people will, but the ones that
were standing there from one I understand one of the
victims just had purchased something or doing something a transaction
at the counter walked out the double glass doors. Yeah,
and got got incinerated. And the guy that told him
that behind the counter not a scratch, wow, But they

(07:05):
did render aid from one understanding unconfirmed story is that
the person that was behind the counter picked him up,
put him on a forklift, and took him to the EMS.
That is an unconfirmed story. These are stories that you
hear because everyone everywhere you go, people are talking about it,
and people have a story. We said it at the beginning.
This is such a Louisville story because of ups and

(07:26):
Ford and Stooges and where it is in the airport.
It's just everybody's connected to this story in some way.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
I hope I got to find a way to find
out a legitimate source. If there's an entity out there,
like a GoFundMe for the Grade AA and all the
other victims, I'd like to support that somehow on the air.
But there's so many brooks.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
I was yesterday, I was at the open house at
Trinity High School in greeting potential kids that are going
to come to school at Trinity, and somebody was saying
that they were like they could not believe how many
fake sites were already up taking money from people that
think they're given it to the victims and or firefighters
or whatever. And I looked at him and said, well,
you don't listen to our show, because that's what we

(08:14):
talk about all the time. Is that almost one hundred
percent of charities online.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
So disgusting, man. But I'll tell you something else that
it was the very next day after this, and there's
no rhyme or reason why somebody would do this unless
they want to get shares on a post for whatever reason.
Because I was trying to I was trying to figure
out why would someone do this? And here it is.
I was scrolling and then you see a picture of
Kid Rock and some other guy goes one of the

(08:42):
members of the ups flight identified as Chris Rock's cousin,
such and such, this big long thing that you know,
and people were sharing it. And then I saw that
there was, you know, another celebrities cousin, Bruce Willis's cousin.
But my point was people were just making up stories
about this plane crash and putting them out and they're
getting circulated.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
Well, they're stupid people everywhere. Here's the deal. You don't
have to share it.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
But I'm just saying, but what's the point of even
writing this fake story?

Speaker 1 (09:11):
There's sick, crazy people all day long that want to
get views in all that. But here's the thing, Joe
Q Public. You don't have to share it unless you
confirm it. Then don't And it's hard to do that.
I get that part, But just don't share it, win
and doubt, leave it out.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
I was got ready to say that. That's why I
went out. Before I share something, I researched it for
make sure it's being reported by a legitimate news source.
But it's twenty twenty five. What's a legitimate news source.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
I'm not a good sharer. No, Tony, would you like
to share?

Speaker 2 (09:51):
What about in group? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (09:52):
No, you know Tony, you haven't talked in this group yet.
You wouldn't like to share.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
Na, Doctor Henderson, I would like to speak on Tony's behalf.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
No, I don't want DWIGHTE speaking for me. Mister Henderson,
you're not sharing for me. I'm not sharing. You're not
sharing you experiences that. Uh, I'm not a good sharer.
Are you sure you don't want to share it? No,
I'm good. Listen to all your stories. I know that
you reference the Farmer's Almanac all the time.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
Yes, I live by it. Yes, listen, because you know
what planting time. I do not make one move with
our spending money in the stock market until I find
out what that wooly worm is going to do.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
First, I guarantee it.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
The banker called me and said, mister Winton, do you
want to continue this six month ced Beth? I want
to miss what was what was mister Drysdale's uh secretary.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
Uh, mister Dryswell was, Oh, come on, whoever, I'll have.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
To call you back, Helen. I got to see where
this wooly worm does before I.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
Uh, the facts are and there were plenty of farmers
away this hathaway.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (11:09):
There are plenty of farmers that still use it as gospel,
that the Farmer's Armanac there it apparently it says.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
What's an armarac almanac? Apparently it is way more accurate
than local that's sitting the bar meteorologist sitting the bar.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
Okay, eighty percent accuracy for weather forecasts in the that's
what it touts. It touts that it's eighty percent accurate
weather forecast.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
Hey you see that donkey there? Yeah, ooh that means
a bad fall, lots of rain. Hy Susan, go get
our wooly worms out. I want to see what next
May's wedding day is going to look like for Elli.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
How many years has the Farmer's Almanac been been publishing?
I would say one hundred and fifty years. That's cute.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
Two hundred and fifty.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
Here you're standing up. My producer is standing.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
Man, you're creeping us out? What's why? Because I like
it looks like you're like ready to leave working over
us and loarding over us. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (12:18):
How many years has the Almanac been publishing? Austin?

Speaker 5 (12:24):
I mean, White wasn't right with one hundred and fifty.
Let me go like it's been around a while. Let
me go two hundred and fifty.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
Years, two hundred and thirty four years. Oh hey, hey hey,
it actually started during President Washington's time in office. What
on does it tell? I mean, you know everything?

Speaker 2 (12:44):
Order one?

Speaker 3 (12:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (12:45):
Got you?

Speaker 2 (12:45):
Yes, okay, I'm order one on Amazon as we go
to break yeah.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
And here, yeah, I'm with you?

Speaker 2 (12:53):
Is it just weather stuff?

Speaker 1 (12:54):
Like you know? It tells you?

Speaker 2 (12:56):
Is all I hear? Is you it's gonna be a
bad winner? Why because blah blah.

Speaker 5 (13:00):
Because a farmer two hundred and thirty four years ago said, so.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
I will tell you it with great accuracy. People with
bum knees, my knees.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
Bothered, had knee surgery, and it will ache and then
it'll rain. Yeah that's not bad. But put a very
special Doppler knee in. Oh you got that one? That
yell in that next less a Doppler echo knee.

Speaker 5 (13:27):
When I worked at UPS, every uh, we always reference
the Almanact. I don't know like if we actually knew,
but that was just always a word. Almanac says it's
going to be a bad winner, so we just always
took that for what it was. Yeah, I don't know
if anyone actually had it open written down. I don't
even think I've ever seen a Farmer's amiss.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
I have the yellow because the Witting family used to
keep the Farmer's Almanact.

Speaker 1 (13:53):
I'm sure, But I think they also tell you how
much rain you're gonna get and all that kind of stuff,
how dry it will be, and all that stuff in
month by one, week by week.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
Yeah, so is it is it published with like every state?

Speaker 1 (14:08):
Because how are they doing this two hundred and thirty four.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
Years they know What we need to do is we
need to gather up everybody that's involved in publishing this
thing and burn them because they're witches.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
Right okay, and well hang on right Green.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
We need to bite their hands, in their feet, throw
them in the Ohio River. See if they float or not.

Speaker 1 (14:26):
I'm agreen with you. And if they flow, we got
to burn them. Man, I'm agreeing with you. Look, how
did they do it two hundred and thirty four years ago?
And what you're telling raft and what you're witch craft
and what you're telling me is that before all this technology,
they were more accurate.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
Yes, exactly, it.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
That they were better. They were better at this job
before they got the Doppler and the super viper radar.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
See. People want to know why the UFOs were coming
down this way.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
Yeah, it's for the almanac, and the almanac people were
got out on the universe.

Speaker 2 (14:59):
Yeah, they want to learn that.

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(17:38):
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Speaker 1 (18:21):
Hi, folks News Radio eight forty WHA. Yes, it is
a Monday tomorrow today is actually Veterans Day. Did you
get to any parades this weekend? Uh?

Speaker 2 (18:33):
We got to one?

Speaker 1 (18:34):
Okay, good deal? Did you cheer? What'd you do? I
know you were?

Speaker 3 (18:38):
You weren't dressed up like that. You weren't dressed up
like uncle Sam, No, I didn't do it this year,
Sam Outfittings as whole. You said it was stupid I
and tomorrow so stupid on you. And tomorrow yeah, no,
tomorrow we have Body McGrath coming on from a Daughters
of the of the Revolution. Yeah, I'm gonna be talking

(18:59):
about how we get Reese on a veteran's grave.

Speaker 1 (19:02):
You tried to join the Daughters of the Revolution, but
they didn't confirm your lineage. It's one week ago today,
people going around their normal days and did not know
within twenty four hours what was going to happen to
the city and involve so many people. I've always said that,
you know, Louisville is one percent connecting or one way.

Speaker 2 (19:24):
That's it.

Speaker 1 (19:24):
Every way. It's not six degrees. It is one degree.
Everybody is connected to everybody in this town. And certainly
after the events last Tuesday night or afternoon, we all
found that out. And we were lucky enough today to
get the folks that were on the ground at the site. First,
we have Okalona Fire Department give around an applause for
Alcoholma Fire Department, God love them. First on the scene, Dwight,

(19:49):
and let's go around and make sure we get everybody's name.

Speaker 2 (19:51):
Go ahead, and everybody step up and say let's do
Okahona first, go ahead, say your name.

Speaker 8 (19:55):
My name is Mark Littell Okalona Fire Chief. I'm Kenny Imbickham,
the Deputy Fire Chief of Oklahoma.

Speaker 9 (20:04):
Jeffrey Carlson, Assistant Chief Okahoma Fire Department.

Speaker 1 (20:07):
Rickey Carlson, a battalion chief.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
All right, Chief, let's go with you first. You can
train for a lot of things. You know, you can
go out to the training facility out of Old Henry.
But I'm guessing until you roll up on a situation
the cargo jet crashing, you really don't know what to think.

(20:30):
But you all acted and from what I understand, getting
a lot of praise federally as well. Talk about rolling
up to the scene of that, it's got to be overwhelming, right.

Speaker 8 (20:39):
Yes, we trained for these situations, but training is different
than reality. About two weeks ago we had a training
with the Louisville Airport and we do some simulations. We
do a whole bunch of different things, mashed casualties ems

(21:01):
is there multiple agencies, but not to this scale. So, yes,
this is so much different. It's like a large semi
this is even greater than that, So.

Speaker 1 (21:16):
How do you assess that? On look, the de refield
in the fire was how long? Did we think this was?

Speaker 8 (21:21):
Half a mile?

Speaker 1 (21:22):
Half a mile? So how do you choose what to
fight first?

Speaker 8 (21:26):
When we first got there, you could not see the
aircraft itself. The main concern was the old field that
was there. So that's where you saw a large amount
of fire, heavy black smoke.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
Now do you all just stink to me? You know,
I guess or maybe just knowing that area and you
knew that that was an explosive situation.

Speaker 1 (21:48):
But you don't know what's in any of those tanks.

Speaker 2 (21:51):
We do figure you would since it's your territory, but
so you know, as soon as you all come on
the scene, hey, all of this can blow up too.

Speaker 8 (21:58):
Yes, we've made multiple incidents in that area. We go
out and we do action plans, we do property inspections,
building inspections, so we knew the area.

Speaker 1 (22:12):
So you all were first on site, and then now
other firehouses are showing up, Yes, and you sort of
you take control.

Speaker 8 (22:20):
Yes, our agency took control. There's multiple agencies and fire
departments that come out there, the airport authority, they had
two crash trucks out there, National Guard had a crash
truck out there, and then all of our neighboring departments
start us sending.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
Is there a thought of we're gonna let a portion
of this burn out like during the fight? Now, look,
I saw what I was in here live on the air,
and the video of the helicopter video was unbelievable. It
looked like you had at least three ladder trucks with
those cannons on the end, and what were you spewing out?
It wasn't water.

Speaker 8 (22:55):
Initially some of those apparatus were a flowing foam and
then at a point we ran out of foam and
we had to switch straight to water.

Speaker 1 (23:05):
It looks like you were keeping those three similar like
it looked like tanks, like you would store whatever in it.
You were concerned about.

Speaker 8 (23:12):
That, yes, yes, so, like I said, those were primarily
all this is a recycle place that you take your
oil and that's been used and they store it there
and then they clean it and it can be resold.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
Members of the Oklahona Fire Department joined the show. They
were first on the scene on Tuesday's tragic events with
the ups when a situation like this happens fire department
firemen and women, they're a special breed. I mean you
all demonstrate that Tuesday by showing up and going right in,
no hesitation whatsoever. That's been documented. But when you get

(23:54):
there are the people that are off. They're off like
there is their day off. Yes, to say, hey, we're
coming in, we're gonna help. I gotta think that that's
the mental hands on deck of a firefighter. Is that
the mentality of a firefighter? I'm not leaving.

Speaker 8 (24:10):
Yes. Uh, this is something that we live for. This
is the highlight of our day. This builds, you know,
for us, it's exciting. Uh, that's why we got into
the business.

Speaker 5 (24:22):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (24:23):
We want to be there when something bad happens. We
don't wish for something bad, but we want to be
there be a part of it when it does.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
It's going to feel pretty damn good knowing that you
all were a huge part of the solution.

Speaker 8 (24:37):
I'm very proud of everybody that should have been there.
It should be our community. U. I cannot tell you
the outpouring support that we've had, the local businesses, the
donations and stuff that we've received. It's been overwhelming.

Speaker 1 (24:53):
I think you know. It reminds me of the bank
shooting where LMPD nationally was was slated when a a
lot of other agencies didn't do the right way and
they were touting LMPD as boy. They went in and
took care of business. It sounds like you all were
doing how much what's going over the chief? How much
did you feel? Look when you're I would compare it

(25:14):
to combat, you're assessing a level of danger for you
when you first got there, you all were pretty darn
close to a lot of stuff that could explode.

Speaker 2 (25:24):
As a matter of fact, you were first unseen, right.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
Yes, sir? And how much you knew while you were
doing it? Or is just training over and you're doing
your thing or you're assessing how much danger you're in.

Speaker 10 (25:35):
There are absolutely no thinking, just acting on your training.

Speaker 6 (25:40):
There was no.

Speaker 10 (25:42):
Sitting back in your mind thinking of what we need
to do. Just everybody was just accents that they rehearsed
over the years.

Speaker 1 (25:49):
I can't imagine. I'm trying to think of a more
dangerous situation to be in as a firefighter, and this is.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
Outside of nine to eleven. I can't think of one.
Oh no, I can't either can't. But that's another great
example firefighters running in ultimate knowing. So you show up
and there's zero hesitation, how do you articulate to the
others when you're on the radio just how massive and
how overwhelming this is, or can you for that matter.

Speaker 10 (26:17):
Well, the first thing is to stay calm, and you
don't want to get hyper and getting everybody pumped up.
And so they have their head about them and they're
watching for their safety and just trying to paint a
picture of the scene. Originally, when we got there, we
really couldn't tell that there was a plane. No time
did we ever see a plane. We just saw lots

(26:39):
of fire and lots of smoke. Just trying to find
out truly is it a plane, is it part of
a plane? And what can we do about getting people out?

Speaker 1 (26:48):
Who's in your headset at that moment, Like, here's got
to be information coming in from everybody that's all around
the fire, Right, So you have a communication device, right,
how many people are talking to you and how many
people are you talking to?

Speaker 10 (27:01):
I would say hundreds were listening and twenty to thirty
people reporting back every It's kind of hierarchy, it's.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
An overdose of information, yes, yes, and.

Speaker 9 (27:15):
A struggle not to miss things.

Speaker 10 (27:17):
So we farmed that out to where we have multiple
divisions or branches, to where they concentrate on a small
group of people.

Speaker 1 (27:28):
Let's be honest, the firehouses have a lot of competition,
you guys during the crusade. This is let's get after it,
you guys for fun. The military is the same way
the Marines talk about the army, and you already talked
about the Air Force and all that named some of
these other outfits that showed up that backed you all
up and back and became one big team.

Speaker 8 (27:47):
So we had Fairdale, PRP, farn Creek, Jaytown, Anchorage, Middle Town,
Saint Matthew's. Just about every local fire department was there.
But I'd also like to mention and that Lexington was there. Wow,
Lexington Crash Rescue they came in as well. They signed
on Crash Truy, Covington, Utica, uh So Bardstown, Uh, Shepherdsville.

(28:16):
I know I will forget some, but yes, there were
multiple multiple uh ems across the county. Just about every
fire department has an EMS service, so all of those
were there. Louisville Metro Uh, Little fire was there. Uh.

Speaker 1 (28:35):
We are trying not to forget everybody anybody that that
because I want to get their names out too, for sure. Yeah,
So let me ask you a question. So we're sitting there,
and how much of the the oilry manufacturing place involved
in why this was a sustained fire, Like if that
plane just crashes with the whatever pounds. We were trying

(28:57):
to figure that out. No one really knew a new
right answer at that at that night, and they nor
should they when they're trying to figure it out. But
if it's just the plane and it's an empty parking lot,
how does that fire kind of burn out itself? Because
I was sitting here and it was ours and I
was like this thing and it looked like on television.
I don't know if it's accurate, like it was white
like it was white hot for hours. That had a

(29:21):
lot to do with it. Where they crashed into is
why it was such a sustained fire.

Speaker 8 (29:26):
That's correct. The jet fuel would burn quickly. It probably
would have burnt itself out, but some of the oil
like you brought up, intensified the smoke and the fire.
We were very fortunate, uh one, that this was a
cargo ship or aircraft and it wasn't in it a

(29:48):
residential area. So sorry, uh, you know, our hearts go
out to all of those that lost their lives, but
we are grateful, uh, and very fortunate that it could
have been worse.

Speaker 1 (30:03):
When when is what a final report from the fire
department in the city here for all you guys. When
will you have the minute to minute events that as
accurate as you can portray or remember right to get down?
When will that sort of report be out.

Speaker 8 (30:21):
For this type of incident. It's a catastrophic, it's a
major incident. It's going to take us time to gather
times and so we're truly looking at probably a.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
Year a year.

Speaker 2 (30:33):
So many risk factors when you firefighters went on the scene,
chief including smoke inhalation, chemical inhalation, but also heat. Does
jet fuel burn hotter than a normal fuel? Because some
woods I know burn higher heat. I got to think
that's probably about as hot as it gets with a

(30:55):
jet fuel. What am I wrong on this? I don't know.

Speaker 8 (30:57):
Know you're correct, Jeff, fuel does burn faster and at
a higher rate. But like we talked about a few
seconds ago, it can burn off quickly. Are you amazed
that there was no lives lost when it came to
the firefighters, because I kind of am. We've been very fortunate.
We've only had one injury and it was a minor injury,

(31:22):
so we've been very fortunate. And thank God, everybody was
watching out and for each other.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
God bless you men and women as well.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
When when was the first time that you got to
sit down and think about what happened? Because you're in
the fight for this, and then your press conferences and
all this is going on, you're talking to everybody, making
sure everybody's safe and doing all this. When was the
first time you individually got to sit down on your
couch at home and kind of go what just happened?

Speaker 8 (31:50):
What's home to begin with? Right, it's been quite a while.
I've spent thirty six hours out there and then I
go home for a few hours. Probably truthfully that that
first night never seen anything like this. We've trained for it,
I've worked years ago. I used to work for the

(32:11):
airport crash rescue as well. So putting all that together, and.

Speaker 2 (32:17):
You say you go home for a few hours and rest,
but I gotta think chief thirty six hours, you're out
there and you're literally fighting for others' lives, fighting for
your lives. I think you're adrenalines up. How do you
even get any rest? Are you just fatigued from the
thirty six hours?

Speaker 8 (32:33):
You're fatigued from the thirty six hours. And you know,
for us, we still have to do the documentation as well.

Speaker 1 (32:41):
So oh, fill out the reports. Yes, and your families, Yes,
trying to your families. Understand you're not calling them or
texting them back anytime soon? Right, they know you're safe, right, yes? Yeah,
and those families, they know what they're signing up for
when they marry or have a brother that's a fireman.

Speaker 8 (32:59):
Yeah, everybody in this room's been doing this for over
twenty years. So when they get married and they have kids, uh,
most of our families know what they've signed up for
as well.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
Yeah. It's one thing to know that that could happen,
but when reality hits it's quite different.

Speaker 1 (33:16):
Yes, very tax Yeah, I know there's a video out
of the two kids.

Speaker 3 (33:21):
Was that you.

Speaker 2 (33:24):
So your kid? Something else? Go ahead?

Speaker 1 (33:29):
The two you come in, you're loaded with a quick
and you just drop your stuff and your two kids
come off the couch. Looks like two toddlers your own
a three year old.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
Oh what was that like?

Speaker 9 (33:40):
It was good saying on I also have a seven
month old son, so my wife was was holding him
when all that was going on. But it was it
was good saying on them. Of course, you get the
FaceTime now so we can, you know, see each other
and things like that. But every night I went home,
they were already in bed and outly before they would
get up, So.

Speaker 1 (33:58):
It was really good.

Speaker 2 (34:00):
Videos got to be precious to you, like a family treasure, right, Yes,
I bet after that got such great response, you went
down to the local bar and you told Norm and
the rest of the crew that, oh, wait, I thought
was Woody Harrelson for a second. No, no, you must
have got something, h no.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
And then your wife said, baby number two needs a
diver change in the garbage now. Yet I did have
a list of stuff to We're all married, man, we
understand that. But that's that's every firefighters like that. I'm
sure Chief Chief Anback's got two little kids. I'm sure
that's the same exact way for him when he gets home.

Speaker 2 (34:36):
Can I ask you a question, though, because and it's
a serious question when you when you're there and you're
fighting this fire like you've never fought before. Let's just
be honest and quite frankly, most people haven't quite dangerous.
Are they in the back of your mind, your daughters,
because if so, could that be problematic? Or so do
you just kick in and there's muscle memory and experience.

Speaker 9 (34:58):
You know, everybody's got safety number one, sure, you know,
and property are a safety of ourselves and the people.
So those are in the back of our heads if
we don't want to do anything stupid and you know,
and try and be safe and all that. But you know,
Ricky's my brother who was in commander right at the
very beginning, so I knew he had handled and you know,
looking out for each other on everything.

Speaker 1 (35:19):
So what did we learn from this? Did we any
firefighting techniques? Or I guess that this will come out
in the future, or I guess maybe you learned that
what you have trained for is the right training that
you're doing. What have you learned as a fireman?

Speaker 10 (35:39):
Well, we've learned that that we are on the right path,
we're doing great things, and so important to have all
your resources to make contact with those people before this happens,
to know everyone, so when you're not walking up it's
a hod face to have a good relationship with all
your people and all your resources. Like has been our

(36:04):
best friend during this They've took good care of us
and uh and sent us in the right direction.

Speaker 2 (36:10):
I got one more question for the Chief chief your department.
Actually he's first on scene and then your department first
on scene. But then I guess your tasked with the
burden of command at that point for all the other
agencies to show up? Or am I incorrect? Because I
gotta think that's pandemonium when all these other agencies, I mean,
it's a laundry list starts showing up. I got to

(36:33):
think that's difficult to orchestrate.

Speaker 8 (36:35):
In or is it well, Ricky remained in command. There's
so many other things that are going and taking place,
multiple agencies coming in, and we do a unified command. Uh,
the Airport Chief Crimes Uh, he was there. Uh, l MPD,
l mp EMS is there. We start getting hasmat teams

(36:58):
that are there.

Speaker 5 (36:59):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (36:59):
So we have to do a unified command and we
get everybody together and we start breaking up the task
and assignments.

Speaker 1 (37:07):
So do you have a list of most dangerous places
in Louisville that could be an issue? And you sort
of run through. Is that a terrible question or no?

Speaker 8 (37:19):
Most fire departments have one for their district. So I
don't know everything that's going to be out in PRP,
but I'm aware of because we do train together, and
we do go to some of these businesses and train
and practice at those.

Speaker 1 (37:36):
Business What can we all do to help you all
do your jobs?

Speaker 8 (37:40):
Continue giving the support. If you see a firefighter, ems
police officer, anyone out there, just say thank you.

Speaker 1 (37:49):
Well, we're pretty darn proud of you.

Speaker 2 (37:50):
But yeah, no kidding. I think the whole nation is
pretty guard fired of all the little firefighters.

Speaker 8 (37:56):
Thank you, thank you. All the support has been tremendous.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
We love you all for sure. Thank you.

Speaker 2 (38:01):
Yeah, go ahead, what are your else?

Speaker 8 (38:03):
I appreciate that.

Speaker 9 (38:05):
One thing that I think our command staff would like
to thank is everybody that can all the agencies that
came together, uh for this event. Everybody has been super
professional and working together. Uh there's been It's not been
ego driven by any means. So everybody has seen eye
to eye. Little disagreements, but everything's been worked out and
we've moved on and the next task and the next task,

(38:27):
and you know from Oakland's command staff. We like to
thank all those agencies that came out and thank for
their help.

Speaker 1 (38:34):
All right, well, listen, know when it all settles down
so we can send a kegabir over to the to
the firehouse. Is that okay? Oh yeah, Tody mim is
in the coiler room going, I got that. Don't worry,
we'll we'll handle that as it goes. Gentlemen, again, thank you.
We are so proud of what you all have done.
We appreciate what you do every single day, and we're
so proud of how how you handle the entire situation.

(38:54):
And thank you from the City of Louisville. Thank you
so much.

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