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Our mechanics are really looking forward to the KME's. I think they all bought brand new cars in preparation for the delivery.

Yes, it's an Engine.

10 replies......6 about lights......ugh. Guess what lights do? NOTHING! Blue. Green, pink.....2 of them14 of them, makes no difference.
Now, to respond to the very good question that matters:
Laautze gave a good answer. I'll just expand a bit. All standard FDNY engines have a 2 stage pump with a transfer valve. We operate in volume as standard practice. This means that the impellers operate in parallel and produce 50psi at idle. When the valve is switched to pressure, the impellers operate in series, one after the other. At idle, the pump generates 100psi(about). All engines are capable of pumping at high pressure (excess of 250psi) however with each additional stage the upper limit is raised and the engine doesn't have to work as hard. Additionally, engines assigned as high pressure units are outfitted with the discharges painted in white. They are a heavier build. They are meant to be mated to high pressure hose, red in color with white fittings. This hose also allows for a tether to be attached. The tethered line must be tied off to the engine and the standpipe Siamese. A 50' safety zone must be established. This is why there are no HP discharges on the pump panel side. Only a chief officer can order high pressure operations.

This is a pump that allows higher pressure discharges for high rise buildings. There are three impellers in the pump to boost the pressure 3 times allowing operators to overcome the elevation loss when crews are operating on upper floors of buildings that do not have fire pumps (or working fire pumps) on the standpipe system. This requires special high pressure hose to hook from the pumper into the FDC on the building but by the time the water gets to the fire floor you can use standard pressure hose since crews will experience normal pressures due to the elevation pressure loss. Without the ability to pump the proper pressure the crews will not have adequate pressure or flow to fight the fire. Think of how many buildings in Manhattan that are over 30 stories tall...
Most pumpers in the nation have either single or two stage pumps.
Hope this helps and its not too complicated.

Anybody ?

Went for a ride today to Sleepy Hollow and saw this beautiful Pierce sitting outside in front of the fire station.

Things must be pretty quite around EMTBRAVO land to throw that hand granade!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1994 Smeal/LTI out of Redmond OR.

This is not meddling, its called contract law.
The NYC fire officers contract for decades has said 10 years max.The city apparently has not been maintaining the agreement and the union took them to court. The judge agreed that the city was violating a contract that the city (not FDNY) signed.

Date:9-18-2013
Time:1015hrs
Location:MAPLE AVE AND GALLOWAY LN CORTLANDT MANOR
Units:MOHEGAN ENGINE 255, 252 L 35, BUCHANAN U-12, BAT 17, MONTROSE ENG 121, CROTON FAST E119, MVAC, C&O ZONE 4

Description: MOHEGAN DISPATCHED ON A POSS. STRUCTURE FIRE IAO MAPLE AVE AND GALLOWAY LN. UNITS ARRIVING REQUESTED 10-75. PEEKSKILL FAST YORKTOWN AND BUCHANAN ALONG WITH BAT 17 DISPATCHED
PEEKSKILL UNABLE TO FULFILL CROTON FD REQUESTED. MONTROSE ENGINE 121 REQUESTED TO THE SCENE AND GRAB A HYDRANT AND LAY IN TO THE SCENE.
BAT 17 REQUESTING CONED FOR MOHEGAN COMMAND
1404 ASSEMBELING WILL BE RESPONDING
2273, 121, 119 ON SCENE
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=maple+ave+and+galloway+ln+mohegan+ny&ie=UTF-8&ei=CsI5UqW1Bo7u8AS9kYDgAQ&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAg
BIRDES EYE VIEW OF THE AREA. NOT SURE WHAT HOUSE IT IS.
TRYING TO UPDATE AS FAST AS I CAN...IF I MISSED ANYTHING PLEASE LET PM AND LET ME KNOW.

New Photos of E-105 2013 Seagrave -Photos by E106MKFD

Not Westchester but close enough....plus a neat rig. Mahopac LTI Oshkosh Ladder East Meadow and Lynbrook in my neck of the woods had one of these.

As it sits today !

Ossining Mack CF Neil Van Deusen photo.

Classic Millwood Kenworth

The opposite of an unemployed one?

The brotherhood is still there. However social media outlets where guys can go and cry about mundane immature stuff that should be kept in house and worked out has ruined a lot of it.
And - no disrespect to this website - places like this where everyone climbs on to their high horses and points fingers PUBLICLY instead of manning up and shooting a brother a private message, calling them or dropping in to their firehouse to talk to them man to man has ruined a lot of what we all used to know.
I appreciate the things I have learned here and on other websites. I have made great friends and taken what I picked up here and put it to good use. However, there has been more drama for me and my department because of sites like this, Facebook and Myspace when it was still around. I have been accused of doing things I didn't. My department and members of it have been falsely or inaccurately implicated in things they didn't do. Friendships and professional relationships with neighboring departments have been tested, strained or ruined when someone sees/hears something and reacts to it before knowing the facts.
We live in the information age. Everyone can hide behind a keyboard and be an expert on everything. They can call someone out for something with little to no facts, denouncing them to their easily impressionable audience.
Let this be a lesson to all of you up and coming members of the fire service - WORK YOUR PROBLEMS OUT WITHIN THE CONFINES OF YOUR FIREHOUSE! If you can't say something to someone face to face, DON'T SAY IT!
And to be "politically correct," we're not a brotherhood anymore. Many females have joined our ranks and proven to be exceptional parts of our department families. I like to say that the fire department is a family, and like the families we've been born into, we don't always agree, we don't even always like each other, but at the end of the day - we are (or should be) there for one another when the chips are down.
I'm done. Thanks for listening.
EDIT: I forgot to mention that I am not always liked, and often say things that offend people. It comes with a deep sense of pride in what I do and the department I am proud to be a part of. But, at the end of the day, I can sleep knowing I do what is best for my people and what's in the best interest of keeping our department going strong for years to come.

Exactly what we were going for, glad you picked up on that! Thank you for your input...

Yet westchester has the highest taxes in the country and pay nearly $7k a year more on taxes on average but every highway shuts down every rain storm. Time for westchester to rethink some things.

training on new ladder


Both deck guns flowing

Deck gun inlet: both side can feed the left or the right deck gun, or both. Or 2 lines can be used. This is independant of the ladder pipe. all 3 can flow 1,000gpm (total 3,000 gpm) if properly supplied.

Double rescue roller (removable)

using rescue roller and windless

Windless

Date:8/9/13
Time:11:26
Location:64 Charter Oak Avenue
Units: East Haven FD - Branford FD additional M/A units enroute

Description: Twin Engine plane down into houses. Reporting multiple structure fires at this time with entrapment's.
Very active scene: http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/689/web
East Haven FD - Engine's 1,4,6 Truck 3, R1, Sq 2,5 - multi command units
Branford FD - Engine 1,4 Rescue 1 ,Med 1 multi command units
Branford E1,9 to East Haven FD for cover
New Haven FD - Eng 15,5,17 Tr1, Sq1, Sq2 w/ LDH wagon, C33 (East Side Battalion) FYI NHFD Squads are Rescue Engines.
INITIAL REPORT - 8 passenger twin engine took off from Tweed/New Haven airport. Unkown # of souls on plane.
Live coverage on WTNH
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3 people involved. 1 person in the plane and 3 people in 1 house. Mother, 13 year old and 1 year old. Other house was vacant. Both structures fully involved upon arrival.

Chief acted as if it were 2 structure fires with a fuel filled vehicle. Partial collapse on both homes. Nobody has been recovered from house or plane yet. Fire was k/d in less than 30 minutes.

Plane is a twin commander twin engine turboprop plane that took off from Teterboro at 10:49 am and was using instrument landing and communicated to tower to land at runway 2. Plane missed its approach. Clouds were at 900 feet.
Additional info provided by peterose313

Very early response to the World Trade Center, nothing will ever compare to that

Hey Everyone,
Was down in Sarasota the last week visiting some family and managed to grab some shots while out and about. I only had my phone to take them with, so I hope they came out alright (just dont mind that guy in the door reflection...)