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Date: 11/20/17
Time: 1020hrs
Location: 463 Temple Hill Rd
District: Vails Gate/Town of New Windsor
Battalion: 4
Channel:
Weather: 
Units: VGFD (Car-2 is IC), New Windsor, Washingtonville, Coldenham, Cornwall-on-Hudson, City of Newburgh, Air Guard, Castle Point, 36-1, 36-13, others 
Writer:  BFD1054
Description: Working Fire in a 300x200 Commercial structure 
1045hrs-3rd Alarm requested. 
 - Staging area will be the New York Life building across from the fire scene.
 
1057hrs-M/E Engine to set up an LZ at the Temple Hill School for an inbound Medevac.
 
1130hra-Command requesting tanker task force to the scene.
 
Numerous ambulances requested for multiple injuries 
 
**Im monitoring and only getting bits
and pieces

Check out this unusual color scheme on this  Ford F 350XLT (unknown manufacturer of box) unit ID 55-31 Believe they were doing Inter Hospital transport

At approximately 4:27 PM The Englewood Cliffs Fire Dept was Toned Out for a motor vehicle accident with Entrapment at Slyvan Ave(Route 9w) & Charlotte Place Also Dispatched was Englewood Hospital & Medical Center EMS 236 232 ALS 213 Tour Chief 294  Fire Dept unit’s on scene EC 2 (Rescue/Pumper)  & EC8 (Deputy Chief)  Unit’s found a 3 vehicle accident 1 car 1 SUV & An empty NJ Transit bus Driver of the SUV was extracted via door pop and he & the driver of the 2nd car were taken to Englewood Hospital ALS 213 triaged Driver at scene & released to the bls crew

Check out this unusual color scheme on this  Ford F 350XLT (unknown manufacturer of box) unit ID 55-31 Believe they were doing Inter Hospital transport

On November 10, 2017 Wallington Engine 202 took delivery of this 2017 Seagrave Attacker HD pumper 
 

E-One dishing out orders today...Paramus Company #3 for a Cyclone II top mount engine. Elmwood Park Company #3 Typhoon top mount engine. East Windsor Cyclone 100ft Tower And North Brunswick #3 for 105ft Cyclone II Tower.

Beautiful The Blacked Look  

Date: 11/10/17
Time: 1425hrs
Location: 205 Liberty St/Campbell St
District: City of Newburgh 
Battalion:
Channel: 
Weather: Cold/Windy 
Units: NFD C4 (IC), C3, E1, E3, T1, E10/T10 (call back), West Point (Truck), Air Guard (Engine), Castle Point (Engine)
Writer: BFD1054
Description: Working Fire 
1425hrs (approx)-OC911 alerting 2nd Alarm companies; West Point (Truck) & Air Guard (Engine) to the scene, Middlehope and Cronomer Valley to stand by Public Safety Building. 
 
1430hrs-Dispatch advising Command that E10 abd T10 have been re-hired, as well as an Assistant Chief.
 
1437hrs-Dispatch looking for a progress report. Command advising all hands working, (2) lines in operation, fire on the 3rd floor and into the cockloft, waiting for mutual aid to arrive with "plenty of work for them."
 
1448hrs-Command advising West Point and Air Guard working, companies checking exposures. 
 
1450hrs-E10 on scene.
 
1453hrs-Dispatch conducting status check. Command advising (1) line in the exposure building, crews still operating the 2nd and 3rd floor of the fire building.
 
1456hrs-West Point relieving T1's crew on the roof.
 
1457hrs-Command advising that the FAST is on scene. 
 
1459hrs-Command requesting Dispatch recall (1) member for Cause and Origin.
 
1505hrs-Command requesting Red Cross.
 
1510hrs-40 minute status check. Command advising interior fire in knocked down, crews working on exterior fire, all 2nd Alarm companies commited, 1st Alarm companies taking a breather.
 
1523hrs-Command placing the fire under control, all hands still working, holding all 1st & 2nd Alarm companies.
 
*All times are approximate 

Elmsford PD Car 37, a 2018 Tahoe sporting their new graphics package.
 
Graphics designed, printed, and installed in house by M Power Window Tint & Wrap of Elmsford.

The 2 East Bergen Dept’s  Ridgefield & Fairview Are specing Pumpers For Engine 4 (Ridgefield) & FV 3 (Fairview) Ridgefield’s waiting on 2018 Capital Budget (they were shot down for this year) Fairview is specing But believe almost ready for it to be put out for bid  Will be interesting to see 3 big Tower Ladder orders coming in the next 3 years in east bergen Edgewater Cliffside Park & Englewood Cliffs  All up there in age

Englewood Fire Dept (career) Does Group Recall When ever There's  working fire or a piece goes Mutual Aid out of town (for that its usually to staff an other aerial & engine)

Wasn't Lyndhurst getting a pumper or 2 as well?

Chester Fire District

Yes an engine and quint is on order for them. 

Good luck with getting an eta for KME trucks as of late.  They have been delayed with production by months.

A few other northern New Jersey rigs ordered late last year or earlier this year that I haven't heard anything about lately.   Should be almost done?  
-  KME pumper for Rochelle Park
-  KME ladder quint for Ho-Ho-Kus
-  Pierce Arrow XT 105' ladder for Maywood (referenced in same 1st Responder News column as two other engines that are recently completed)
-  Pierce Arrow XT PUC pumper-tanker for North Haledon
-  Pierce Impel 75' ladder (I assume quint) for Saddle Brook
-  Spartan ERV pumper for Mt. Freedom (Randolph Twp. - Morris Co.)
-  Spartan ERV mid-mount platform for Company 1 in Wayne
 
E-One pumpers for Hampton Township and Sparta (both in Sussex County) should be delivered soon.
 
In New York news, City of Middletown (Orange) seeking bids for a new rescue pumper, and Pine Bush is said to have acquired a 2005 American LaFrance/LTI mid-mount platform (ex-Summit, NJ) to replace their Mack Aerialscope.   
 
Woodbury's new Pierce Arrow XT engine should be delivered soon, if it isn't already.   
 
Kauneonga Lake (Sullivan Co.) recently placed into service a new Pierce Enforcer pumper.   

I heard Elmwood Park E-3 has or will have ordered a new Engine replacing the Darley.

Idk about E3, but the Tower is in talks of replacement. Thats I think the next piece to be replaced, E3 after that I can see happen.

I am not in Westchester County, however, where I am the following is the norm:
 
1) Most departments have minimal on-duty staff. Some have vollies to supplement but not all have vollies.
2) Every department has recalls. Members use either their personal cell phones to receive the request OR have a Minitor pager.
3) There is no requirement to come back for duty. Some members use recall as their 2nd job and come in a lot, others don't come in at all and may have their own business such as plumber or carpenter.
4) Many departments have no residency requirements and they work 24 on/ 24 off / 24 on / 5 days off. This leads to members living 45 minutes away in a different county and they are not even in a position for recall.
5) Most departments have a recall hierarchy. Example: If Group 1 is on-duty, then Group 2 may be the primary recall group. The first request goes to them. If no one calls in within 2 minutes, then Group 3 is the secondary recall group. They get paged out and if no one calls in within 2 minutes, then a recall for all groups is sent out. Usually these requests go out for a certain number of members. Example: 3 needed for station coverage and the first 3 to call in get the coverage.
6) Structure fire calls go to full-department recalls immediately and then it's a "you all come." Anybody and everybody can respond.
7) One disadvantage to the whole system is that there may be 2 or 3 calls for station coverage during the day and people are quick to jump on that. They get their hours in and then they turn off their phone/pager at night. Recalls for manpower after midnight and this includes structure fires will usually get very minimal recall. There was a nursing home fire (contained to one room) at 3 AM and a 2nd Alarm was struck. Only 2 off-duty members came in to help out. This department did not have vollies. Mutual Aid was used almost exclusively.
8) My only complaint is that many of the department members don't want more people hired because that would cut into their recalls. The more people on-duty, the less need for recalls. But then they cherry-pick their calls and you may have 10 off-duty members show up for a 2 pm fire and only 2 members show up to a 2 am fire. Unfortunately it's all about them and their bottom line. There seems to be less and less commitment to coming in when "the poop is hitting the fan." As for me, if a 2nd Alarm is struck, I feel a moral obligation to get up and respond no matter what time of day or night. It's the system that's been set up and some effort should be given in responding "for the good of the community." They seem to want it both ways, "If it's convenient for me and I'm short on funds I'll go. If it's not convenient then I won't go." In my area it's only a matter of time before the public becomes dissatisfied with the response to some pretty serious calls and manpower per shift will have to be increased. 
9) Departments in my area are staffed with anywhere from 3 on-duty to 12-on duty. The smaller departments will recall 3 for coverage once units are committed (car fire, MVA, etc.). The larger departments won't recall until available manpower falls below a certain number, 6 as an example.
10) Vollies only used for full-department recalls, not for station coverage and not to fill open shifts. 

a dealership? most likely resell for around 300k+. well thought out rig, too bad the decisions at pcfd haven't been as well thought out.

Sold for 236,000 worth 350,000  Brindle Mountain  in Alabama 

Caught this  Ford E 350 (unknown year& Manufacturer)  At the hospital today

Date: October 30, 2017 
Time: 13:00 
Location: 303 Heritage Hills Dr - Heritage Hills Security HQ Building 
District: Somers- #224 
Battalion: 13 (All Units Are operating on Fire 13 in the county trunked system) 
Channel: Somers District Wide (154.22), Fire 13 (Trunked) (151.1225), 60 control dispatch (46.26) (453.5625), Lewisboro EMS (151.535), County Fireground 1 (453.0375)
Weather: 53 Degrees F, Partly Cloudy, Humidity: 53%, Wind: 12-15 MPH, Storm Just Passed, Power Outages town wide
Units On Scene: C2442 (Command) ,C2445 ,E183, E185, TL18, A80B1, A80B2 (Somers) & 45M3 & TL57, U6 (Bedford Hills F.A.S.T) & C2531, E272 (F.A.S.T) (Yorktown) & C2261 (Mohegan) & Bat 17 & Cause and Origin Zone 4 
Units In Standby in Somers HQ: C2075, E148 (Croton Falls) & C2211, L39 (Katonah) & E140 (Goldens Bridge) & A40B5 (WEMS)
Writer:  TheNickyp0

Description:
10-75 Transmitted @ 13:00. Working structure fire @ 303 Heritage Hills- Heritage Hills Security Building (HQ). Car 2442 had command at  the scene.  Fire was approx. 100x100 and has reached to the roof within several minutes of dispatch. The fire was extinguished within 20 mins. 
The Call was initially reported as a generator fire by fire personnel on scene and then was upgraded to a 10-75 (Working Structure Fire) by C2445 later on. Within Several mins the fire reached the roof and the ceiling collapsed. Multiple other agency's responded to the 10-75 scene and also stoodby in Somers Fire HQ. Multiple Ambulances transported civilians to Northern Wes. Hospital and one firefighter injured when the roof collapsed (Minor Injuries) . Heritage Command had reported that the Fire was knocked down @ 14:35 . An additional Wires down with a small brush fire had been reported at the scene @ 14:42. The brush fire was cleared @ 15:00. After the small brush fire was knocked down the remaining units were in the process of raping up and clearing the scene. 
Somers IC (Incident Command) had begun releasing units from the scene and from Somers HQ. C2442 reported himself and all other Somers units in service with command terminated @ 16:12 and the scene was turned over to Heritage Hills Personnel. 
 
Units In Service: C2442 (Command) ,C2445 ,E183,E185, TL18, A80B1, A80B2, A80B3 (Somers) & 45M2, 45M3 & TL57, U6 (Bedford Hills F.A.S.T) & C2531, 272 (F.A.S.T) (Yorktown) & C2261 (Mohegan) & Bat 17 & Cause and Origin Zone 4 & C2075, E148 (Croton Falls) & C2211, L39 (Katonah) & E140 (Goldens Bridge) & A40B5 (WEMS)