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MOST EXTREME Weather Events Caught On Video (Original Post) YoshidaYui Feb 2024 OP
CLICKBAIT thumbnail image!!! Photoshopped version of a similar (but not so bad) event. Oopsie Daisy Feb 2024 #1
In the mid-1960s, I was in the USAF and stationed on a base that used the "organic" foam to suppress fire during a crash usaf-vet Feb 2024 #2
Sandstorm 37 miles high? Easterncedar Feb 2024 #3

Oopsie Daisy

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1. CLICKBAIT thumbnail image!!! Photoshopped version of a similar (but not so bad) event.
Sun Feb 4, 2024, 07:41 AM
Feb 2024

This isn't science. It's fake.

usaf-vet

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2. In the mid-1960s, I was in the USAF and stationed on a base that used the "organic" foam to suppress fire during a crash
Sun Feb 4, 2024, 08:26 AM
Feb 2024

..... landing. As I remember it, the fire department on base had a truck that could foam the runway before the plane approached to land.

Although I was not a member of the fire crew and had no direct involvement with the foam and its source, I was a medic who would respond to the flight line to offer medical care if necessary.

We were told it was based on organic material from slaughterhouses. It definitely had an obnoxious smell.

Any former airport fire personnel in the DU audience to confirm or refute my memories of the foam?

The scene in this video of people wading chest-deep in this foam was precisely what I remember seeing on those rare occasions that I would see this on a runway.

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