COH Bulldog

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  1. Posted

    11 hours ago, 201/65 said:

     

    My best understanding is that two of their pumpers were significantly damaged in accidents in 2017 (1 totaled and 1 totaled to them). The Freightliner was an emergency purchase to place an engine back in service at Station 3 and a used former Mount Hope & Goodwill Pumper was purchased to put a true pumper back in service at Station 1. 

     

    They have triplet Pierce pumpers on order to replace the engine at each firehouse. The Freightliner will then replace the 4x4 Urban Interface Pumper as the spare. 

     

    The Tanker in production is a replacement of the Station 2 Tanker. 

    Lots going on there in Chester!

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    12 hours ago, antiquefirelt said:

    A 110 ft. RM tower with a single set of outriggers, no other stabilization required? Will be interested to see the rating charts.

    The brochure has the outriggers out to 18' and the single jack in the middle rear for the single axle. They also have it on a tandem axle with a 16' spread, but 2 Jack's in the rear.

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    On 4/9/2017 at 7:53 PM, x635 said:

     

    Yup. 19 years old that truck, and in immaculate shape. Being replaced with a Pierce TDA at some point this year (timeline described in an above post), and most likely will be assigned for training or a spare, if not going to another station as a first due.

    Makes it easier when they don't have to face the winter or the notoriously deplorable road conditions of the American northeast!

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  9. Posted

    On 2/27/2017 at 0:29 AM, SECTMB said:

     

    I think this is one of the more significant reasons for loss of volunteers, especially in the more affluent communities. The median home price in Pleasantville is over $500K, Briarcliff Manor is over $700K, in Chappaqua and Katonah it is over $800K.  So you lose the younger members who followed their childhood desire or their parents/family into the service because at some point most need to move on. Those who are moving into town and buying homes of these values aren't necessarily inclined to become volunteer firefighters.

     

    You just have to listen to the scanner to know that, especially day time, many of the volunteer departments are lucky to get one piece of apparatus on the road and it is usually inadequately staffed.  Sooner or later many of these departments will be forced to go combination.  In some of the more rural departments, the lack of volunteers will undoubtedly affect response times as fewer members to make up a crew need to travel further to make the apparatus.

     

    Fifteen years ago when my nephews came into the service as our families fourth generation of volunteers I said they would probably be the last.  I believe I will be correct in that prediction.

    This is a big issue where I live. Even rent for a crappy, rathole apartment is too high and pushes the younger members out of the community.

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    2 minutes ago, v85 said:

    TBTA is the Triboro Bridge and Tunnel Authority. They are a part of the MTA that maintains several crossings including the RFK bridge, Brooklyn Battery Tunnel and Midtown Tunnel

     

    there is a rumor that their law enforcement was to be absorbed into the NYSP but given the truck, they may try to split them off from MTA into their own agency, hence why no agency markings 

    Thanks!

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    There's a documentary about the DFD that was done in 2012 called "Burn". I think it's still on Netflix. It details a lot of the hardships these firefighters have to work with. But I think the department is trying to improve its operations to make things better for them since it was released. I highly recommend watching it. This to is mind blowing.