Terry A de C Foley said:
That's very sad all-round. But a couple of things in the comments and Fox news bother me..
- ‘Locked-in students’ in a nearby univerosty?
WTH? Why?
- After a civil airliner crashes - Quarantine of an entire neighbourhood with inhabitants having to be fed ‘over the wire’?
Never heard of anything like that in my life. You get people OUT - you do not confine them IN. I was part of a safety and emergency management team for a number of years where we exercised the scenario of a fully-laden C-5 Galaxy crashing short of the main runway at our local base, or shortly after take-off, into the local township. I tell you that a whole lot of time was spent clearing the area of inabitants, NOT confining them to their homes.
tac
The school lock down is standard now when theres an emergency, its to keep student “safe” inside the school. the concept was mostly developed post-Columbine shootings to keep kids from being exposed to possible danger outdoors and is now standard practice, the kids are kept at the school until a parent can pick them up. Of course this has never been put through a major disaster like an earthquake or major fire yet.
When AeroMexico crashed into my sisters neighborhood, the crash site was wide open for about an hour with emergency crews running around a several street area, along with neighbors, TV crews and lookie lue a-holes come to gawk at the wreckage, it was complete chaos. Police finally cordened off and evacuated the immediate crash site about an hour after, I was at my sis’s house which was a couple streets away for a few hours after, then we got word that the FAA ordered the suburban block area (about a 1/4 mile square along major streets) be blocked off, quarentined, to keep gawkers out and to prevent people from carrying off souveneers and potential evidence. Everyone who left was then checked and not permitted to return. Because the wreckage was over such a large area and in the middle of a suburban area, the word was spread that people who lived outside the evacuation zone but inside the quarentine zone could be allowed to stay in there homes but with the understanding that if they left the blocked area they would not be able to return until the quarentine was lifted, so when I left I was questioned shortly about why I had been in the area, the fact that I lived very close by and that I was checking on my sister’s safety after ment I didnt get much scrutiny, I hope the sick idiot gawkers from outside the city had to answer some serious questions why they were there before being let out. So for about a week my sis would call with a list of groceries they needed I went to the store, then parked on the block, walked over to where the street was blocked with only plastic barrier tape, and handed the groceries over the tape to my sisters kids. I think I did this twice. There were several others doing this as well. It only lasted about a week while FAA investigators combed the area for wreckage and body parts, once they were certain they had retrieved or documented everything, they lifted the blockade, but they were in the immediate crash zone for months which remained blocked off.
The homes were eventually rebuilt and people moved back in, but one home lot where an entire family having a birthday party was killed, was turned into a small memorial park.