The fire department was positioned with hoses on ladder trucks to extinguish any fire and had already successfully tested their setup. The police commissioner told the fire commissioner to stand down from putting the fire out at the onset of flames. Mayor Goode saw it all live on TV and did nothing. A Wharton MBA disgrace for lack of leadership and backbone. He bears ultimate responsibility for not overriding the police commissioner. As well as the fire commissioner for not doing his duty to prevent the conflagration he knew would result.
The police had a 60 caliber machine gun setup in the commandeered house directly across from the MOVE house (which was fortified by large logs).
Fire ladder trucks were positioned on the street behind the MOVE house. The prepositioned fire hoses were set overlooking the MOVE roof. No firefighters were present on the ladders and were not in any line of gun fire.
There is no such thing at a 60 cal machine gun and no, they didn’t have a 50 cal either. And the firemen did put water on it when MOVE started shooting at them again.
Nice of you you side with the scrotes. 1985 cops were not the cops of today.
“The police had a 60 caliber machine gun setup...”
They had what?