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Here in Boston
Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2017 10:13 pm
by ghostjmf
we've got a gas main fire they're letting keep burning because to just turn off the gas would put 8,200 homes without heat in sub-zero temps.
So they're throwing sand on it & trying to somehow route around it.
Re: Here in Boston
Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2017 10:45 pm
by Bob Juch
ghostjmf wrote:we've got a gas main fire they're letting keep burning because to just turn off the gas would put 8,200 homes without heat in sub-zero temps.
So they're throwing sand on it & trying to somehow route around it.
They can't turn it off, put out the fire, then quickly fix it?
Re: Here in Boston
Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2017 10:59 pm
by ghostjmf
BJ:
If they could, they would.
Re: Here in Boston
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 10:47 am
by triviawayne
i wonder how long the gas would have to be off to stop the fire or at least get it away from the leak, then turn the gas back on and make the fire easier to fight
Re: Here in Boston
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2018 5:31 pm
by Spock
triviawayne wrote:i wonder how long the gas would have to be off to stop the fire or at least get it away from the leak, then turn the gas back on and make the fire easier to fight
Obviously, they did what they did as best as they figured to fight the fire.
Given the cold and the holiday, it would probably be a last choice to turn off gas lines and thus de-pressurize gas lines and put out thousands of furnaces.
Also, with the holiday. furnace repair guys would be harder and more expensive to get to deal with individual furnace problems in the area-those available would likely be swamped as problems arose.