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[myRGV] Firefighters held from SpaceX explosion due to potential ‘catastrophic loss of life’
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That night, Brownsville received “an astonishing 123 calls for service, a major surge in activity for any period, let alone overnight.”
The calls came from Brownsville “and surrounding cities, with citizens reporting explosions, structural shaking, visible flames, and glowing skies.”
The result was more than an explosion. There was another impact.
“The explosion and resulting fire delivered a devastating dual impact to Brownsville’s emergency services: it demanded a high-risk, sustained field response while simultaneously flooding dispatch with an overwhelming volume of 911 calls.”
The report said dispatchers had to “rapid-fire triage, making split-second decisions to prioritize life-threatening emergencies.”
“At the same time, public panic rippled across the region, and command staff had to rapidly reallocate emergency resources across the city, doing everything possible to maintain critical response levels under intense and mounting pressure, compounding the demands (placed) on an already strained emergency response system.”
The report describes the explosion as “one of the most logistically demanding and tactically complex incidents in recent memory.”
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