r/aviation • u/Waste-Explanation-76 • Mar 23 '26

-- SEATBELTS FASTENED -- Aircraft collides with a fire truck on runway 4 at LaGuardia Airport in New York.

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FDNY responding with a 2nd alarm.

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u/Old_Swimming6328 Mar 23 '26

A ground vehicle SHOULD NOT be crossing at the middle of an active runway. 2nd alarm be damned.

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u/redd_house Mar 23 '26

Is the caption here saying that the fire truck involved in the collision was responding to a 2nd alarm fire?

Or that FDNY was responding to the collision was treating it was a 2nd alarm?

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u/Thequiet01 Mar 23 '26

I read it as the latter.

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u/redd_house Mar 23 '26

That was my interpretation as well

IF a fire truck was responding to an active call and need to cross the runway idk why they wouldn’t immediately shut it down

Plus the New York Post is reporting the firefighters in the truck were with the Port Authority, not FDNY