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Baltimore MD- August 5th: On Thursday August 5, 2010 Cabin John Park VFD’s Airboat 730 running out of station 30 with Sandy Spring VFD’s Airboat 740 were dispatched to Baltimore City to assist with an incident. Air boats are the boats that you seen in the everglades that have large propellers on the back of the boat. This makes the boats capable of running in very little water, on ice, or though terrain not negotiable with a standard prop. When still on the trailer, air boats make excellent fans that can be used to ventilate smoke and other hazardous gases in large scale. Baltimore City contacted the two air boats for this purpose. Baltimore needed assistance in ventilating a railroad tunnel after a CSX freight train apparently derailed. Transportation officials were concerned that track workers were possibly being exposed to hazardous materials during the clean up operations. Thankfully there were no injuries or a release of toxic chemicals. Units operated on the scene for approximately 2 hours. before being released for service by Baltimore City F.D.

Photos by MFF Brubacher, FF Smet & provided compliments of www.ssvfd.com