EdAngiolillo

I personally recognize a half-dozen names and I only looked at the first few pages.

Well, first, the big red sticker is from NJ OEMS, not Pennsylvania. That said, when Conshohocken (the Philly Division HQ) closed last August, all of our fleet went to Pittsburgh. However, it does look like a typical POS hand-me-down that we frequently received instead of new trucks.

Late to the game, but in my county, if an officer is responding to make up the apparatus crew, you will hear "Chester, ENGINE XX, with DEPUTY XX, responding, crew of 5." If that officer then assumes a role in the scene IC, he will make a similar notification.

As I understand the situation, confirmed by EX-PGH and EX-TCNY employees. TC dissolved as a corporate entity under Chapter 7 bankruptcy and incorporated as Transcendent Transit I & II. These corporations, in turn, ceased operations on Friday, 2/26/16, less than 36 hours after being formed. That said, to the best of my knowledge (again, for transparency, I was the ALS Coordinator/QA & Safety Manager for TCML/Philadelphia), ALL TC assets have ceased to operate. There are no functioning TC/TT divisions in NY, PA or MD. If I'm wrong, please comment with corrections. Additionally, please (PLEASE!!) give all the ex-TC employees all the support you can!

An old friend and former NS-LIJ medic indicated to me that may already be in the works.

As a former employee/supervisor in the Philly market, I can't say that I'm surprised. Once Patriarch got hung up by the SEC, the capital revenue disappeared. We lost about 100 employees, but this is devastating. Best of luck to everyone in TCNY.

God had a bigger purpose for him. RIP.

Simple and clean,..

I have one of the old CF models,...I'm sure if I put in the time, I can kitbash a replica of it.

Even worse, PA stipulates the SOL should be a certain size on ambulances, NJ wants another size, DE another,..etc,... My 2 cents - the symbol is arguably universal in identification, so I don't care if its fluorescent pink!

Funny, I'm the other way around. I think the new green graphics are cleaner and bigger, which is probably good for visibility.

FireMoose started this and I see a quote about putting the volunteers IN THE STATION. 100% absolutely true! Last year, Chester County (my home turf) enacted a dispatch change stipulating: Ambulance XX gets dispatched, if no response (I mean ON THE ROAD, not re-dispatch for driver, EMT, IV bag holder, etc), the next due gets dispatched. PERIOD. End of argument. There was a LOT of pushback in the rural western half of the county because, you guessed it, it takes at least 5 minutes to hop out of bed and drive to the station! I was at that meeting and I can tell you, those fire companies were told, in so many words "well, tear down your bar and/or your social hall and start building bunk rooms like the rest of us, or you'll be out of business in a year." While my squad is now mostly paid staff, we have a strong and active volunteer contingent that MUST be in-house for their 6 or 12 hours and in uniform (identical to the paid staff since we're all there to do the same thing, save lives). The only time we page out for additional help is when we need to roll our bariatric truck or certain occasions when the duty crews will be committed to an incident for an extended period of time.

Oo-o-ohm-m-m-m-m!

My vision must be failing me,.... Is that black or dark blue?

My apologies! I'm recovering from surgery and fell asleep during a lull in the incident. Incident was U/C about 20 minutes after I posted it. A propane tank blew and collapsed part of the structure.