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Here's a similar link to the story: http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=679902

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Hey, How about having a Chief's Car Show at the BBQ? Bring your Department's Command Vehicles, and have prizes for different categories, like best layout, best Light package, Best Appearance... farthest distance traveled..><..stuff like that?..

Sorry, als, your response must be in the form of a question..... That is one heck of a water-thief.

Anyone else have election results to share? Thanks!

Happy Easter Everyone!

Rest in peace, John. It was a pleasure knowing you. My condolences to the Deems' family, John's friends, and colleagues.

Great article, and Congratulations, Chuck and DA. I am glad to have known Chuck since the day he joined Briarcliff FD. He's a true gentleman and wonderful person. I've never met DA, but I'm sure he is equally honorable. As for both of these guys, I admire their inspiration and can appreciate their enthusiasm.

I'd like to know how you would get electric outlets on any exterior walls. Surface-mount raceways? Ugg.... If you look closely at the last photo there is a gas can inside. Is that a "house-warming-gift" ?

In order to make a gear change the two transmission gears have to be rotating at the same speed. Large truck manual transmission gears are typically too heavy to have synchronization rings. In transmissions that do have them, these gear-mounted rings rub together during the shift to bring the gears to the same speed so they can mesh cleanly for a gear change. Double clutching is done to release the load on the gears to be able to move the actuator and get the input and output gears turning at the same speed so they can mesh. On an up-shift, the input gear shaft is spinning faster than the output gear, so the input shaft from the engine has to slow down in order to move to the next speed. The opposite is true for a downshift, you have to rev the engine to get the input shaft spinning faster.

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There ought to be a law...... for identifying locations of buildings of truss or other lightweight component / engineered materials construction. This way responders/rescuers don't become victims themselves when these fail.

Mmmmmmm.......Pancakes.....

Were you guys able to shut off the gas or was it necessary to wait for the utility co?

Those old Suburban's were great trucks! I like the address card-file system. I bet that took a bit of effort to compile.

I believe Nelsonville FD was officially dissolved in July 2001, the reason being a lack of volunteers to effectively man the department. The Cold Spring Fire Company was subsequently contracted to provide fire protection services to the Village of Nelsonville.

A couple of CO factoids: Fatal CO poisoning occurs long before reaching the flammability/lower explosive limit LEL of 12.5%= (125,000 PPM) of CO gas in air. 0.32 % =(3200PPM) is fatal for humans in 30 minutes, 1.28% =(12,800 PPM) is fatal in 3 minutes.

This Tuesday evening, March 17th (St Paddy's day!) around 7:40 PM (depending on your location) the International Space Station AND the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-119) will be visible passing overhead, provided weather conditions permit a sighting. The space station/shuttle is visible to the naked eye, and can be easily seen moving across the sky at over 17,200 MPH! For exact sighting times, check out the NASA satellite sighting information webpage: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sight...y=United+States I saw the space station alone pass over a little while ago, It's amazing to watch! http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/tracking/index.html

Reminder to look up in the sky tonight!

You guys almost had one that looks just like your avatar, Mark!

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The EOC was not necessarily activated for the typical storm that produced areas of "wires down" unless it was extreme. ConEd's Emergency Management Group (a separate management entity) would then send someone to the EOC if that was mobilized. The idea behind this was to have a liaison at 60 to assist their dispatchers with expediting crews to priority locations. Communities not served by 60 are on their own, where their dispatchers would call in their own jobs to ConEd through normal channels.

As far as I know, it's still an ongoing, active project. I was a part of that original "volunteer" team from ConEd, up until I retired last July. Several ConEd employees were selected, having knowledge of the electric distribution system as well as fire department operations familiarity. We were given access to a ConEd owned laptop kept in a secured supply locker provided by 60. In the event of a widespread overhead electric system emergency, team members would mobilize and we would staff a desk by the Lieutenants area in the radio room at 60. Each team member was given security clearance to log-in to ConEd's Mainframe Emergency Control System via an encrypted VPN connection over the laptop. We would be able to generate trouble tickets electronically and monitor status of existing jobs progress in the system, in real time. We also had a special hotline number to the Electric Operations Dispatch Center to expedite crews to those locations classified as priority jobs. In the three, some odd years I was "active" on the team, I think we were mobilized only once or twice for widespread storm damage response. I never got the opportunity to man the post at 60 due to my work schedule during those events (I was already involved with other emergencies on my own regular rotating shift). I firmly believe it is a great idea to have this inter-agency cooperation to facilitate communications between 60 Control and ConEd's Emergency Control Center during storm related events. Fortunately there were only a very few times the "task force" was activated since it's inception.

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