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Is this for fires or for their SCBA tech to go from station to station to service and inspect BAs?

Both. He's able to carry bottles in this also while out on road,without having to get the big truck.

One way to look at it...the other could be that a building had to fall apart for the city to replace it...literally.

Exactly.

What a shame they let our 88-year old FH fall apart. It was built to last, but......you have to maintain it!

Still can not believe these trucks are not finished. Its been about two years for the pumpers and over a year for the aerial.

I heard since Ferrara was trying to crank out FDNYs rearmounts, they pushed us back in line.

How come the TL is not on an Ultra cab like the engines?

It has something to do with fitting the largest motor in the truck. The TL cab is wider to accommodate the biggest motor in it.

Was that the crash on CPA under the Thruway near the old Ground Round? Remember that one.

Yup, fatal accident under the thruway overpass of CPA.

Here is a photo (from a long time ago) of the Con Ed Transformer Fire (up alongside Tuckahoe Road/Ridge Hill Complex) in Yonkers, New York, where YFD used the Foam Unit as part of its attack of the fire

We did not have the Foam Unit then (pic is from around 1995). All the foam cans used off the rigs, then FDNY was called in for foam. Our Master Stream Foam equipment was purchased after this incident, and used about a week later on the gasoline tanker crash/fire on CPA by Thruway.

Were those the initial conditions? Guess that was a suspicious one in a vacant building, huh?

Yes. Looked like that when we pulled up, this is the first minutes. The building has been vacant since a job in 2008 in it.

Here is the Hme, I hear the alf isnt suitable for the road when there is snow on the ground so the hme still gets used alot

The ALF not for snow? Why?

Is Yonkers using that Excursion as their M.S.U. on a permanent basis as opposed to their ALF air cascade unit, or is it just temporary?

It's a second piece assigned to MSU. (Ex-Safety Battalion rig). The bigger truck still responds to the jobs.

When is YONKERS F.D. taking delivery of their 2 New Ferrara Pumpers to replace current rigs at Engine Co. 303 and Engine Co. 313? (PS - Does anyone know who won the bid for the Replacement of the current ALF/LTI Tower Ladder 71 at The Big House?)

New TL will be a Ferrara also.

This looks like a cool project. Any pictures of the original floating around? It seems like a unique rig.

Is that job on Elliot ave?

Elliot & Post

I know its a small picture but I believe this is the Supertrain on the lower left. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

It's the yellow one on the right. L-73.

Yonkers second alarm Post St and Elliot Ave Mid '80's Fire escape rescue

This job happened as another multiple alarm was going on in the city. Companies not usually due on that box became first due. I recall DC Ed Dunn made a grab of a little girl from an apt. Lt. EK (Good boss! My first Lt.) and FF CO with the woman, in window is JP, now Capt. Of R-1.

YFD Truck 4 ladder pipe set up probably on Caryl Ave unknown date

This looks like 58 Caryl around 1989. JT on the Ladderpipe.

I don't necessarily think your post was in response to mine, but I did want to put it out that I was speaking generically about ALF rigs being serviceable in light of the corporate failure... Not per se the YFD's struggle to maintain the fleet.

Sorry, no...was reply to 61macks post.

3-Engine was going on a run when it occurred. The guys jumped out and starting extinguishing it. Shop said its repairable. We are not in as great shape as you think with apparatus or spares.

How did he change the way Yonkers fights fire?

Yea?

The rig is R-3's 1971 Mack/Providence rescue. The next one was the 1979 Mack/Pierce.

Prior Station-8.

RIP Officer Guerra

RIP, Prayers to his Family and the PFD.

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I have always wanted to say something about the b line drivers and this seems like a good place.

I been doing Yonkers EMS for 25 years. These guys always seem to have their eyes and ears open for our trucks. They always move over for us. I can imagine the extra 40 feet of bus between them and us and the ambient noise on board would make hearing us much harder, but they yield right away, consistantly.

I once had a female b-line driver having excrutiating abdomenal pain. She WOULD NOT leave that seat until a b-line supervisor arrived to take control of her bus.

My hat is off to these drivers for their skills in sharing the crowded roads of Yonkers.

I'm gonna chime in too. I always comment, on how the BeeLine drivers are the only drivers on the road that do what they are supposed to do for an emergency vehicle! They always put on their hazard lights, yield, and then stop for approaching Fire apparatus. A big Thank You to the drivers for that!

The assignment to the bus into the deli was:

E-312. TL-75. Battalion-2. Rescue-1. S/C E-314 W/Collapse rig (SQ-11 was out) S/C E-310 for additional manpower, shoring operations underway.