triforcharity
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Tell that to all the firemen in the Naudet movie who allege that the odor-of-gas call was no big deal. Several of them are quoted directly in Les Raphael's rticle which is the original subject of this thread. Typical remarks went like
"pretty simple," "just routine" (Chief Joseph Pfeifer)
"you don't think much of it" (Joe Casaliggi)
"just odor of gas, Lispenard & Church" (Capt. Dennis Tardio)
"the call was for a gas leak in the street, or an odor of gas, I think it was" (Nick Borrillo)
I submit that the reason they pretended gas leaks are no big deal is that the whole alleged odor of alleged gas was a complete fiction, a scripted invention, a call that never actually came in, and most importantly, a CATALYST type plot device, something which ENABLES an important plot point (their ability to film the 1st Hit) without undergoing any change in and of itself. That is, we are not supposed to actually wonder what became of the reported odor of gas. They never tell us. We are just supposed to go Oh My God Look At That Tower On Fire and totally forget what enabled the filming of it in the first place.
Ray Ubinger
Argument from personal ignorance.
A smell of gas is classified as a non-fire emergency.
In FY 05, FDNY ran 180,284 Non-fire Emergencies. Even if ONLY 1% of them are for the smell of gas, that is still 1802.84 per year.
FY 06, 199,690 1%=1,996.90
FY 07 211,459 1%=2,114.59
FY 08 197,245 1%=1,972.45
FY 09 193,709 1%=1,937.09
1% is most likely a very low estimate, as there are gas is just about every single building in the entire city.
These numbers come from here.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/fdny/pdf/publications/annual_reports/2008_2009/2008_2009_annual_report.pdf
2008-2009 Annual Report, page 24 pdf.
So, no, a gas leak, or even the smell of gas is not a major incident, and is actually quite common.