markmets415

You know what I mean bro, if you have an issue sort it out at work, not bring it home. And yes, no leaving dead animals anywhere - that's just nasty.

We are still looking for anybody that wants to bring their rigs new or old !!!! We are trying to preserve the history of firefighting here in Dutchess County.
Come out support this worthy cause, There is a Raffle to win a picnic for 50 people !!!!!!!!

May the new ladder serve the City of New Rochelle for many years, very nice and as always great job Barry and your committee.

Looks awesome! Great job Mark!

What are we, The Mafia? How about, "Don't leave dead animals in boxes on peoples cars"?
I gotta say.....this is a fishy story and clearly a lot is not being told to the paper (which is the way is should be). Senior guys, guys with a lot of experience are usually encouraged to stay, especially with a younger force on a lot of jobs. His son was fired? For what? That's gotta be some story too.
I can't imagine a situation that would warrant dead animals and threatening messages, but there is more to this story than a Capt. who was pushing for safety enhancements with many years experience.
Id say, that's all we'll ever know for sure.

May the new ladder serve the City of New Rochelle for many years, very nice and as always great job Barry and your committee.

I'm surprised that anyone would have any issues when it comes to safety and health, especially in the firehouse where people might spend a majority of their time. There might be more to this story then what we know.

FULL ARTICLE: http://www.lohud.com/article/20131010/NEWS02/310100060/Dead-reckoning-Greenville-fire-capt-finds-raccoon-carcass-car-hood?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|Frontpage|s

That is horrible!

Is this the way a 27 year career should end? I hope they find the person (firefighter) responsible, charge him and dismiss him. I hope his son finds another paid job with another department that appreciates the family tradition inherent in the fire service.

The oval gauges actually are to display the position of the valve to let the operator know if it is open, closed, or where in between those positions. Most of the valves are hand crank operated not a lever.

Badass!
Text me when it gets there so I can come down.

Sent from the shop, out flowing some water today, I must say it is one nice looking Engine now that you can actually see the entire rig at once, they have a few things to finish up, if everything goes as planned, pump test is Tuesday and delivery will be Wednesday late morning, hopefully that is. The programming issue at International was a bad connection which was finally found. I am liking the fact that we moved the booster tank side level gauges to the B post instead of the C post area, it was going to be obstructed from the side rear, in the first photo you can see it at 3/4. There are also smaller slave foam and water gauges in the cab as the Engine can pump and roll and flow both foam and water in doing so, another advantage of the front mounted pump.

Sent from the shop, out flowing some water today, I must say it is one nice looking Engine now that you can actually see the entire rig at once, they have a few things to finish up, if everything goes as planned, pump test is Tuesday and delivery will be Wednesday late morning, hopefully that is. The programming issue at International was a bad connection which was finally found. I am liking the fact that we moved the booster tank side level gauges to the B post instead of the C post area, it was going to be obstructed from the side rear, in the first photo you can see it at 3/4. There are also smaller slave foam and water gauges in the cab as the Engine can pump and roll and flow both foam and water in doing so, another advantage of the front mounted pump.

Sent from the shop, out flowing some water today, I must say it is one nice looking Engine now that you can actually see the entire rig at once, they have a few things to finish up, if everything goes as planned, pump test is Tuesday and delivery will be Wednesday late morning, hopefully that is. The programming issue at International was a bad connection which was finally found. I am liking the fact that we moved the booster tank side level gauges to the B post instead of the C post area, it was going to be obstructed from the side rear, in the first photo you can see it at 3/4. There are also smaller slave foam and water gauges in the cab as the Engine can pump and roll and flow both foam and water in doing so, another advantage of the front mounted pump.

New Rig Ladder Company # 12 is now in service.
Here is a photo. I did not take this photo and photo credit to Greg Rigos.

Data Sheet: http://www.gamewell-fci.com/datasheets/CS-2261.pdf

This has nothing to do with them not having experience, this is just them being stupid.
You do not need to be a mechanic to understand that your car has a flat tire, but if you do not know how to fix it you might need one.

I think it all boils down to the people themselves on the board. My board/Chief/dept works together, and the district keeps the needs of the dept and the taxpayers in a healthy state.

Photos taken at a 2nd Alarm all companies fire on 10/09/2013. Was unable to get a good enough picture of Truck 1 but it was there as the 1st due truck in front of the fire building.
In order of pictures:
Engine 1
Car 22
Truck 2
Car 21
Engine 2
Car ?? (Arson Investigator) Ex-Rotterdam District 2
Rescue 1
Hazmat 2
Engine 4(Using Reserve Engine 10, Ex-Rotterdam District 2)
Engine 3
Department Pickup

FDNY High Water Evacuation Truck
2013 International 4x4/Ferrara
Shop # IM13006
Note these are not only used for evacuation purposes, but to get firefighters and equipment to and from scenes in flood situations.

Schenectady Police Department choosing the Dodge Charger as their replacement for the Crown Victoria PI.

Fire Apparatus are not considered "vehicles" by NYS DMV. You may register them, but it is not required. Up till about 15 years ago a drivers licences was not required by NYS to drive them because they were not considered a motor vehicle....Only NYS could they come up with this stuff.

End of the day and week shots sent from the shop, the guys are working tomorrow to complete the punch list from our last visit.
Hose bed lighting supplied are 4- Whelan 3" round White/Red LED installed at each end of the bed in each partitioned area, the partitions are adjustable as well, under the photos of the lights installed is a link to show what these lights are like, it will be nice to be able to change the lights to red or red/white at night so they are not so bright when packing hose and the lights are shining directly in your eyes. Yes I see the bolt sticking up in the second photo for the hose bed divider, we'll get that corrected, don't want any hose getting hung-up


http://www.sirennet.com/wh3s.html
The cab brow light bracket was painted flat black from the aluminum at our request to help reduce flash back from the inner light bar, the light bar was also tilted down, these two items eliminated the flash back

Looking down past the CAFS air compressor fan you can see some of the components for the CAFS systems as well as the vents placed at the ends of the 3 suction compartments to help keeping this area vented.

Fire extinguisher placed and rubber wheel well opening installed, we went with the rubber to match the cab.

Meetings are open to the public and you do not have to be a taxpayer to vote on items such as resolutions, all you have to be is a registered voter within that fire district to be heard. Our district adopted a public comment section to their monthly meetings just for that very reason "public comments". Sadly it is the same people that attend monthly, the fire commissioners and a few officers, even when we went through the purchasing of the new engine that failed on the first vote, no one from the public attended a meeting, once in a while we get a "hot" topic and a few individuals show up. I personally would like more people from the public to be on the board, instead of just members or past members, I've found that many times some of our own members that haven't seen a fire or been an active member for a great length of time really have no idea what is going on in today's emergency services either so are they really an "asset"? I think not. I would like to have five members that a are financially responsible and not "yes" members to the Chief. As always like you did above, do your homework ahead of time, be prepared, justify your expenditures and make a presentation to the members that have been voted in to over see how the taxes are spent, as well as the public, chances are if you are prepared, you should have no problem with getting approval for items, at least that's been my experience sitting at the other side of the table.