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Saturday July 8th For Company 2 ‘s New Rescue  & 3 New Ambulances for the Ambulance Corps Off Facebook site https://www.facebook.com/groups/124477627581629/permalink/2020113684684671/ Will get more details as they come along for us

Ossining FD has taken delivery of a 2017 KME Severe Service pumper. The unit, designated as Engine 101, replaces a 1993 E-One Hurricane 1250/750. The Village of Ossining has also approved to accept bids to furnish and deliver a new 22 passenger command vehicle.
 
The new apparatus features (as per KME):
 
• Cummins ISX 500HP Engine
• Allison 4000 EVSR Transmission
• 1500gpm Hale Q2 Dual Stage Fire Pump
• 660 Gallon Water Tank
• 25 Gallon Foam Cell
• High Side Compartmentation

Date: 02/06/2018
Time: 10:01
Location: Greenwich Ave & South State St
District: SFD
Battalion: Southend
Channel: Tac 1
Weather: 28 & Mostly Cloudy
Units: SPD: 11630 (X/D), 2A53, 1A20, 1C19, 1D26, 4A31, 8S1 (Patrol Sergeant), TE1 (Traffic Sergeant)
          SFD: E2, R1
          SEMS: M1
Writer:  AFS1970

Description: Initially reported by SPD as a medical call with no details. This turned out to be a motor vehicle collision between a cement mixer and a bucket truck that had the boom in the air. Worker in bucket was ejected but was caught by his harness. Prolonged road closure due to investigation by OSHA.

 
SFD has Truck 1 which is a Seagrave Tower Ladder and Truck 2 which is a Sutphen Tower. T45 in Belltown  is a Mack Tower Ladder. 
 
Springdale used to run a Snorkel as T56 but that has been gone for years. For the real history buffs SFD used to have a Snorkel assigned as Truck 4 but that has not been a front line company for many years and the current reserve Truck 4 is not a Snorkel. 

The ladder has 3 also. The Assistant Chief is the tenth person on the shift. Currently, this is still our minimum. That fourth guy on each rig makes a huge difference.

https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/bergen/teaneck/2018/01/29/second-body-found-wake-devastating-teaneck-house-fire/1074903001/

Englewood Cliffs Fire Dept was dispatched for odor of burning electrical  in a home on my block this morning EC 9 & EC2 took in the Call  I was on the way out but snapped a quick picture The New Engine (EC 1 ) is almost ready to go in service Issue with a dishwasher was the outcome texting with one of the members is good thing : )

Here’s a few more pictures of Ambulance 2006  riding as 232 At the ER this afternoon This is the First ever Transport Unit Featuring Chevrons on the rear of the box Also features reflective striping along top & bottom of the box Quite the departure from the old look !!!

Arlington Fire District (Dutchess County) will be replacing its 32-11 and 32-14 with 2 twin E-one pumpers.  Final inspection was completed this past week.
 
http://www.e-oneinprocess.com/index.php/PUMPERS-01/140838
 
http://www.e-oneinprocess.com/index.php/PUMPERS-01/140839

Date: 01/14/2018
Time: 18:37
Location: 136 Woodside Green (Summer St side)
District: Stamford
Battalion: Woodside
Channel: Ground 1
Weather: 17 & Clear
Units: SFD: E5,E1,E9,E2 (RIT),T1,R1,U4 (Deputy Chief) U6 (Safety),U1 (Chief / IC),U11 (Assistant Chief),U122 (Mechanic/MSU),FM103 (C&O),FM101 (C&O)
          SEMS: M5,M901 (Supervisor)
          SPD: 2C42,2B24,2B35,1C291,1B14,3D16,4A58,8S2 (Sergeant)
Writer:  AFS1970

Description: Multiple calls for smoke coming from apartment, unknown if occupied, other residents self evacuating. Callers reported smoke on 1st, 2nd & 3rd floors. R1 declared working fire. U1 confirmed this as a basement fire. Police had to shut down Summer St near Ridgeway Shopping Center due to hose line across street. 

Vails Gate's (Orange) new Pierce engine has hit the assembly line.
 
This rig will replace the current E479, a 1995 Pierce and will be the Station-2 Engine.
 
Link to Firematic's page;
 
https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2277694225605556&id=102446966463637&set=a.2277693598938952.1073742115.102446966463637&source=49&refid=13&__tn__=%2B%3D

More like Elizabeth Engine 5, Pierce

 
http://newjersey.news12.com/story/37235338/1-person-hurt-in-3-alarm-lodi-house-fire

Nah... just on the wrong side of it!!!

My Photo Of Engine 125 Photo Taken Last Montrose Parade It Made

Now sitting next to a small ice cream shop in Bellmore, Long Island.
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Ex Montrose engine is done from it's 2nd life in upstate Summit New York

Thiells FD (Rockland County) Rescue. Spartan/Rescue 1 set to arrive May 2018

The nose looks like a '50's era Dodge Power Wagon.
...but the cab/roofline and doors look like it is from a '60s VW bus.
I do not know about the winch.

Here is one for you

Here’s Pearl River VAC 33B2 at the ER  this am It’s a Ford E 350 Unsure of year  Horton 

LOL!!!!!

Thanks guys, just what I was looking for. A lot easier when listening to the scanner.

I will try, but I am not the best expert in some of these subjects.
Organization largely depends on who you talk to and what source you use. However per the city charger there is one fire department. This despite the fact that there are still six fire departments. 
 
Stamford has 1 Chief, 2 Assistant Chiefs (one being selected at least partially by the VFD's and serving as Chief of Volunteers), Then various line and staff officers. There is 1 Deputy Chief on each shift & either a Captain or Lieutenant on every SFD apparatus all of which have 4 man crews.
The five existing SFD stations all remain as is, although over the years some redeployments have been made. 
 
Station 1 (Central) houses Engine 1 & Truck 1 
Station 2 (South End) houses Engine 2, Truck 2 & Haz Mat 1 & 2
Station 3 (West Side) houses Engine 3 & Truck 3, as well as SEMS Medic 1
Station 4 (East Side) houses Engine 4
Station 5 (Woodside) houses Engine 5 & Rescue 1 (formerly at Station 1)
 
The five VFD stations are all still there although with various staffing solutions, currently Belltown is the only fully volunteer station. Long Ridge still has career firefighters who work for the company and are not part of SFD.
 
Glenbrook houses SFD Engine 6 (formerly at Station 1), then Engine 32, Engine 34, Truck 31 & Utility 35 as well as SEMS Medic 2 (Day shift only)
Belltown houses Engine 41, Engine 42, Truck 45, Rescue 44 & Utility 40
Springdale houses SFD Engine 7, Engine 52, Rescue 54 & Utility 55
Turn of River Station 1 houses SFD Engine 8, Engine 62, Engine 64, Truck 67, Rescue 66, Tanker 68, Utility 60, Utility 61 & Utility 69
Turn of River Station 2 houses SFD Engine 9, Engine 63 (temporarily relocated to Long Ridge #2)
Long Ridge Station 1 houses Engine 71, Engine 73, Rescue 77, Tanker 78 & Utility 75
Long Ridge Station 2 houses Engine 74 (currently using E63) & Engine 72 (Reserve)
 
SFD sends some type of response on the initial alarm in all districts, VFD's can cancel these units if they have staffed & equipped apparatus responding, although I have only heard this done on still alarms. On full boxes it is common to respond with any extra apparatus and wait for someone on scene to adjust incoming response. SFD recently adjusted several responses to better deploy and utilize their rigs, which applies citywide. There are some slight differences in the VFD stations but for the most part the VFD is dispatched along with the standard SFD response for the call type. 
 
There seem to be Utilities responding on a lot of calls, but most of those are medicals where the utility can do the same thing as an Engine or Truck. I know that one challenge to getting larger apparatus on the road is driver training. For quite a while in what were the combination houses there was no urgency for volunteers to become drivers because the career members would drive. Ultimately this has proven to be a problem as stations have transitioned to fully staffed SFD rigs as well as irregularly staffed volunteer rigs. 
 
There is what can be called a pilot program that so far is only running in Belltown, where volunteers can staff a rig with a full crew and they will be listed as staffed & equipped at the dispatch center and we will dispatch them citywide based on location. This has so far not been extended to any of the other VFD's, although it seems to have proven to be a success in Belltown. 
 
I hope this helped. Although it is hard to discuss the current state of any fire department without at least some elements of both the past and the future. 

Date: 12/16/2017
Time: 20:58
Location: 33 Grenhart Rd (Between I95 S/B off ramp and on ramps for Exit 6)
District: Stamford
Battalion: Westside
Channel: Ground 1
Weather: Cloudy & 33
Units: SFD: E3,E5,E1,E2 (RIT),T3,R1,U4(IC),U8(Safety),E9(2nd Alarm/Water Supply),U121 (Mechanic), C1 (Chief), FM107 (C&O),FM110 (C&O)
          SEMS: M1, M901 (Supervisor)
          SPD: 8S1 (Sergeant),1A20,1B27,2A21,2A32,2B35,2C42,3B22
          RELOCATIONS: E6 (From Glenbrook FD to Stamford 1Co), E8 (From Turn of River Station 1 to Stamford 5Co)
Writer:  AFS1970

Description: Initial calls for smoke coming from a house, multiple calls received while units were en route. E3 arrived on scene and confirmed heavy smoke condition and declared a working fire. U4 special called E9 above the 1st alarm for water supply. C1 arrived on scene and reported fire was in a welding shop with multiple acetylene cylinders involved in the fire. Stamford police blocking streets in area. State Police notified due to proximity to I95.
 
A short time later an automatic alarm in a high rise hotel a few blocks away took more units. A second call giving a different address for the hotel briefly became a third incident and reported smoke on a higher floor. Even when these were confirmed as the same location units were still tied up investigating the odor of smoke which was determined to be from the original fire.