yeah, and?
Highland Ct and Highland Ave are one block away from each other, both are dead ends, are exactly 449 feet apart. It's a working fire with multiple people trapped (just a little added stress there). And it's dark, 11:20pm, and everything is covered with snow.
you see a column of smoke, appearing directly at the end of the street, the street named Highland, i think it's perfectly understandable to mistakenly lay a supply line on your way in. Yes it was a mistake, but I can see how and why it happened. In fact, If I had been the officer of the engine, I would have started stretchinng attack lines through the backyard at the end of Highland Ct and started fighting the fire, if I thought It would make a difference (wouldn't be the first fire that was done at).
This part of the story is pure sensationism: " A tow truck was summoned and the engine arrived at the fire on Highland Avenue at 12:25 a.m., 65 minutes after it was dispatched." of course it took the 65 minutes, they had to wait for a tow truck!! And the second due truck (that made the turn down Highland Ct, not Highland ave) arrived at the fire in under 8 minutes.
By the end of the night, there were 40 Fire Rescue units on scene. Do you really think this was a small fire from the start?
Why beat up the ambulance crew? of course they followed the fire truck, one can logically assume the engine knows where it is going.
Yes, mistakes were made, but I sincerly doubt these mistakes cost the little girls their lives. In unit MDTs and GPS devices would probably be a lot more beneficial than punitive action against the firefighters or ambulance crew
