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For all my bravo bretheren. I proposed to my girlfriend this morning, and she said yes.....

Its supposed to be a tiger paw. Auburn University's mascot is the Tigers. (as in my display pic). Also Auburn's colors are Blue and Orange, and our home uniforms are white, hence the color and striping of the truck.

Because more often than not, when I see a piece of apparatus parked somewhere other than an Incident, the wheels are never chocked. And I was amazed to see that Auburn did. However they run a tight department, and I'm sure its something that gets drilled into them.

Just to add (since I meant to in the original post) I found it an interesting location for a booster reel. Also, I was interested to see that they chocked the wheels.

This Is Auburn's engine 3, a KME Commerical cab (unknown year). I took these in the Walmart parking lot; hence only the driver's side view. I hope to make it to one of their stations in the coming weeks to get more of Auburn's apparatus, and will also take pictures of the apparatus in my department soon since I finally got a digital camera. (An Olympus Stylus 790 SW)

Just to add on...

In NYS you cannot take any fire training if you are an explorer. Only if you are a "junior firefighter" and that isn't by title alone you must be covered by the NYS VFBL insurance and have parental/guardian permission.

Rye took moves toward this problem; I was the first person in a program in which if you are an explorer, at 17 you can become a member of the department. You still have the limited privileges as an explorer, but you are able to get into training at 17 so when you turn 18 you can become a full member of the department right away. It is a way to be an explorer and be allowed to take training classes. I took Rescue Airbags and then FF1 while 17 (I turned 18 during FF1).

I'm not speaking from knowledge, but I can see how the inability to get an initial status report can compromise the safety of a responder in certain situations. Especially in departments where members respond POV.

To further clarify the Port Chester/ Rye Explorer situation; as already stated, the explorers cannot respond to anything except to fire calls. Working fires mostly, but they have been known to come to some general alarms. Secondly, the explorers cannot ride on apparatus to any call, and can only ride apparatus otherwise with permission from the chief of the department, and this is a very rare occurrence (happened with PCFD a couple times when I was in the Post, never in Rye). If responding to a call, the explorers are not allowed blue lights, and must park at least 1 block away from the incident if they are driving themselves. I hope all this helps.

I was also wondering how he was allowed to get so close to a burning vehicle in street clothes, and with a garden hose...

Prelim. reports say he was found with over the counter sleep aids...

Ok, so even having been around the department for quite a while I never realized we had and engine 195 and no ladder 25 at any point

Rest in Peace Brother...

Did anyone else see the 2007 world's strongest man in Anaheim with the fire engine pull...looks like fun

There used to be a neighborhood in White Plains off of Mamaroneck Ave. Almost every house on the street would do a great lights display. However, I haven't been over there in a few years and don't know if they still do it, I'm sure someone else will know.

Mine is pretty easy... Rye FD is my department and 192 is the company I am in

I think mistakes like these need to be fixed somehow. Obviously it is a problem that can happen anywhere in the country; and I understand it happening once, or twice. However, in the frequency I have witnessed it, and it appears JBE has witnessed it, there is no excuses. As the previous post states, there must be some way to give landmarks an address. I also believe there must be a way to get the most information possible, because as noted it can mess things up. I think this can be seen everywhere in the country, not just big cities. In Alabama I responded to an alarm where we were toned out twice, and I was the only one able to respond, and took the "command car" from our FD, and would advise upon arrival as to mutual aid need and whatnot. The dispatch came through as Lee Road 10 near Good Ol' Boys restaurant (yes we have a restaurant called Good Ol' Boys). So anyway, we got toned to a sizable brush fire in a field at the previously mentioned location. I responded and made a loop that covered L.R. 10 for about a mile past where the fire was reported. I called back into dispatch and told them I found nothing, it was at that point I was advised that A. the fire was encroaching on a structure, and B. the neighboring district was already on scene. I turned around and found the fire to be almost two miles past where it was reported. It was at this point I wondered, first, why the dispatch had not notified me of the proximity to the structure, and also why they did not get a positive ID on the location when the other department arrived. I think this was both the callers fault, in that they confessed that they used the nearest landmark, even though they are two miles down the road, and also the dispatcher for not getting all the information across to me as the only responding unit. Luckily, this fire was able to be knocked down with the assistance of two mutual aid departments, and the eventual response of one engine from my department.

I think that handling this situation takes action on the part of those who realize the magnitude of the mistakes. These people, who witness the mistakes must take steps to insure that they don't happen. Even if that means getting back to a different supervisor four hours later. That one phone call, or the series of phone calls from every time it happens could make the difference in the future between getting to the call and saving a life, or a house, or someones livelihood; and losing anyone of these things.

The operation was done on the carrier, apparently its a common occurrence as the ships doc had done one for a sailor a few weeks earlier.

Ive been playing drums for 12 year, guitar and bass for about 7, and I sing. Ive played all three instruments in various bands. I'm also in the concert choir here at Auburn and sang with a band in High school. O, and I also played the baritone horn and then the tuba/sousaphone in HS band. I have a Pearl 6 piece drum kit with mix and match cymbals. I used to also have a Maxx kit that was my first kit, but sadly it got lost to the floods of this past spring in a friend's basement. I have two acoustic guitars of crappy brands, I have an ovation acoustic electric, a Jackson Kelly body electric guitar, and an Ibanez bass.

Well played by all, the Garnets were the stronger team in the end.

Forks has been able to get past the Rye defense rather efficiently. However, Forks unable to contain the Rye running game.

Funny story, my girlfriend got me the two Hess trucks I was missing from my collection (from i think 94 to present). When they came all my friends at school were like what are those, and I was like what do you mean what are those, they're Hess trucks. After a multitude of blank stares I realized that Hess was a regional thing, which I did not know before I came to the south.

An unnamed department in my area at school has a 75' quint which now, due to the breakdown of their rescue, also houses their extrication equipment. This department has I believe 5 or 6 stations with numerous pieces of apparatus, some which are known to sit in the station and barely ever go anywhere. It is known that they have the manpower to be able to make another piece of apparatus serve purpose as a rescue. My question is, when do you look at your situation and decide that you will take a truck that already has two possible functions and add a third, when you have multiple other rigs that are more than capable of taking on the duty?

I also got a 90 and am ranked 61, I know one other person who got a 90 who is ranked 100th

Does anyone know how they do the rankings, because I got the same score as someone I know and I am ranked 40 places higher??

Auburn FD has recently taken delivery of a 95' Sutphen Aerial Platform titled Ladder 1. The truck is painted the traditional Auburn white with blue and orange striping. I will try to post pictures of the truck if given the opportunity to take them

P.S. The guys at the FD have mixed feelings about the truck; due to the lack of a tiller, the length of the truck prohibits it from easily making many of the turns around the city streets of Auburn. Also, the truck only fits in the far right (left from street view) stall at Auburn station 1 as it is the only stall long enough; therefore the truck cannot easily make the right turn out of the station. It is joked that the truck should be kept on campus because the only reason it was bought was because all other in service ladders are 75' quints which are not tall enough to reach the tallest buildings on campus.