TRANSCRIPT

It was what nine years after the last train had gone over, I believe, so you can see that most of the actual railroad ties were still on there but the rails had been removed. So, as you can see from the way that the hose is stretched out over there (picture) it was very difficult because the hose kept looping down through the voids or the spaces between the structural members.

So when I first got out on that trestle I am thinking to myself well this will be easy, we can just buck off the timbers and, you know, let the burning ones fall down to the bottom and put the rest out. And then I quickly thought probably not a good idea because it would weaken the structural integrity of the bridge and it could be a domino effect and just collapse on us.