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looks like they found a chevy cab and attach a boat to it.
 

looks like they found a chevy cab and attach a boat to it.
 

looks like they found a chevy cab and attach a boat to it.
 

looks like they found a chevy cab and attach a boat to it.
 

What's the name of your mom's village??

What's the name of your mom's village??

Shot this ambulance  in my mom's village it was on a call It's a Cittron Jumper unsure of year They run 2 person crews This rig is out of Sparti & traveled 25 minutes to get to the village

Of course everyone is certainly free to express their opinion on this subject. No one is obligated to write to any web sites either. That is entirely their own choice.
 
I have been a resident of this city for 40 years. 30 of which was a firefighter, including an officer. Prior to that I was a volunteer firefighter in Fairfield, Ct, a combination dept. At that time among a large group of young volunteer firefighters all hoping to become career firefighters. After taking six firefighters test, I finally get the job in a place I knew very little about. I very quickly learn that I have entered into what I refer to as a "War Zone". I am hated by many for the sole purpose of being a career firefighter. I just could not believe how different things were here in comparison to where I came from just about 75 miles away.
 
 In one of the incidents I had mentioned to this newspaper reporter, one volunteer department responding to a house fire drove right by Norwich Fire headquarters while the members were training in the rear parking lot. The Norwich Firehouse was only 1.8 miles away. They could have walked to that fire.
 
  It should also be known that after the first incident involving a grease fire at a nursing home around January, 2015, I personally met, one on one, with the Norwich Fire Chief. He advises me to talk to the city manager. I do and that city manager declines to do anything about it. I also later find out that he is a member of one of the volunteer depts. I advise the Chief I plan to go to the newspapers. He asked me NOT to do that, apparently hoping for some comprise. I also went to the Norwich President of IAFF 892 as well. A Captain at the time, who also asked me NOT to push this hoping things could work out. I respectfully complied with their wish.
 
  Three more serious incidents go on and I advise the chief, the union president, as well as that city manager, that I have written documents involving each incident and how dangerous this is for both civilians as well as members of the fire dept. I tell them that I now plan to go to the newspaper about this. The Chief and Union President still is not in favor of me doing this. But the Acting City Manager, with only four more DAYS in office tells me "Go ahead and go to the paper". I had then told the Chief and Union President that as a 40 year resident and a retired firefighter, I was in the perfect position to tell this story. I owed no one and I was fed up with the total lack of concern for people of this city. "I really didn't care if people liked me or they didn't". I already knew that many already didn't for the sole purpose of just being a city firefighter. In fact, I never put any IAFF Union decal in my 2011 Nisson car window because of that.
 
  As word spreads that I plan to go tell this story, I am WRONGLY ACCUSED of being "Coached" into doing this. That is absolutely UNTRUE. Not one Norwich Firefighter pushed me into doing this. Most just assumed nothing could be done. "I was on my own the entire time" and that is a fact.
 
  I met with that reporter several times. A few times she had questions for me which she uncovered that were never brought up in the article. They could be headline stories in themselves.
 
  In 2009, there was a fatal fire only a few houses from the Norwich FD response area. In that fire mutual aid was called from much farther away from all volunteer departments. At that time, I should have gotten involved and I regret that I didn't.
 
 All I had asked was to have the Norwich FD respond if they were closer than other departments. If that had taken place, there would have been no Front Page story of a "Norwich's Fractured Fire Service".
 
 If any member of this site wishes to send any questions or comments to anyone involved, that is their every right to do so. I can also tell you that throughout the State of Connecticut, as well as Va, Fla, NY, and RI, after the release of this newspaper article, many friends of mine, both career and volunteer, retired and active, from firefighter to chief officers, just can NOT believe that any fire dept would operate under these conditions today.  
 
 Willy D
 Retired Norwich FD
 

on the way back from an antique show my friend wanted shots together.

on the way back from an antique show my friend wanted shots together.

from some help i found out its actally a   Rosenbauer Commander chassis with a Minnesota Division extruded body,and its just a wrap for the paint scheme.
 

Glad you guys got the shot! Nice seeing ya today.
 

on the way back from an antique show my friend wanted shots together.

also Field comm battalion may ride in the Field comm 

also Field comm battalion may ride in the Field comm 

SPY SHOT
Stamford, CT
Truck 1
2015 Seagrave/Aerialscope II 95'
Sold by Hudson Valley Fire Equipment

The DEC is putting into service new Dodge Durangos (pictured below) and Ram pickups (not pictured).

I know fdny ordred 4 new fire Marshall units from them.

Croton FD's Former Tanker 10, a 1990 International/EEI and refurbished by Texron in 2004, was retired in 2012. The chassis, refitted with a Beau-Roc dump body, now serves as a dump truck for the Village Of Croton DPW.
Now:

Then:

Its a GMC never got the year

Its a GMC never got the year