{"id":2044,"date":"2010-03-01T15:21:04","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T23:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/?p=2044"},"modified":"2010-03-01T16:02:01","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T00:02:01","slug":"long-beach-crash-units-plug-a-fuel-leak-on-a-c17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/?p=2044","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach Crash Units Plug A Fuel Leak On A C17"},"content":{"rendered":"ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>At 5:21 pm on the evening of February 19, 2010, Long Beach Fire Department units responded to a C-17 with a fuel leak from a malfunctioning fuel ditching valve.\u00a0 The plane was in flight at the time of the emergency although no fire was reported.\u00a0 The aircraft landed safely and all flight crewmembers were evacuated without injury.\u00a0 LBFD crash units, T7 and Boeing Fire units provided spill containment and plugged the fuel leak, utilizing highly specialized equipment, making it possible to tow the aircraft back to the Boeing facility for repairs.\u00a0 There was approximately 75-100 gallons of Jet-A Fuel that had leaked onto Taxiway Bravo at Delta.\u00a0 The scene was turned over to Boeing Fire and Airport Security for further cleanup of the spill area.\u00a0 Boeing Co. had their own private environmental company that was to perform the clean up.\u00a0 A total of 23 apparatus and 51 personnel initially responded to this call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 5:21 pm on the evening of February 19, 2010, Long Beach Fire Department units responded to a C-17 with a fuel leak from a malfunctioning fuel ditching valve.\u00a0 The plane was in flight at the time of the emergency although no fire was reported.\u00a0 The aircraft landed safely and all flight crewmembers were evacuated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2044"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2047,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044\/revisions\/2047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}