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I just have to add the same $.02 here I posted on another site.
There's only one "CF" and it ain't a Pierce.

Compartment door are pinned closed. Indicator lights for the driver and officer. TR54 Photos

Here are some pictures of FDNY R5 taken Sunday at the LI Fire Expo

Front of R5.

Rear of R5.

Looking inside the rear box. Note the red reflective striping around the rear perimeter.

Side Company Emblem.

View of the top of the rig.

An "antenna bar" with eight antennas attached to the front of the rear box.

Very sturdy grab rails along both sides. This rig appears to be built of heavy duty materials. The white speaker on the left is the intercom to the front cab.

AirPak Brackets and seating in the rear box.

View of the front inside of the rear box.

Radios at the front of the rear box. There is a sliding window just above this on the front of the box.

Netting for compartments with roll up doors also.

Rear wall of the front cab.

Front console with two radios and door ajar indicators. To the rigth of these radios is another scanner.

View of the dashboard.

Sssshhh...it really is EFD's Rescue 5 making a comeback. At the last minute they're going to switch out the door decals. But at the apparatus show, who's going to bother looking at a new Rescue if it says Eastchester on the doors?
Here's how the conversation would go..
FF1 (name is Chester): "Woo wee...that sure is a pretty Rescue Vinny..."
FF2 (name is Vinny): "Chester, Eastchester..Where the hell is that?"
FF1: "It's up in Westchester."
FF2: "Run that by me one more time Chester..."
FF1: "It's only a few miles south of Port Chester.."
FF2: "And that's in Westchester Chester?"
FF1: "Yes. Port Chester and Eastchester are in Westchester."
FF2: "Where is the beer concession Chester?"
FF1: "THIRD BASE!"

Photo of Mount Kisco's new Tower Ladder 14

I have something that is worth posting here and is something I want all of you to read and really think about. This was forwarded to me by a friend. This was written by Meriden, CT, Battalion Chief Burdick.
These are words that I whole heartily beleive in and held true in my profession being a firefighter, from the time I started volunteering my service to my present career in the fire services. Next time when you use the term "Brotherhood" stop and think about it for a second and ask yourself how you use the term, live up to your actions, consider your self part of the Brotherhood. I see the term used often here, but are you truly in the brotherhood?
Just think.

Good to see FDNY is sticking with what has proven to be THE BEST aerial platform. No one else even comes close.

Photos of Thornwood's Engine 88 and Pleasantville's Tower Ladder 5

A few shots from the exposure.... exposure.... which side would you call this?
These shots don't do the LDH lays justice. There's a LOT of hose out there to be picked up. Glad everyone is OK!

A few shots from the north side of the fire building. Heard the sirens and saw the plume, but had to go to a stupid meeting. I cut it short, grabbed the work camera, and took a few shots. I had just eaten at Coyote Flaco a few doors up before the alarm went out.

Very close to the building's next door, only 18 inchs between them both side's

Ok I have a few, 304 midland ave 4th alarm still on going Eng 58 out front!

Photos By Beachbum

Photos By Beachbum


M/A Engine from Town Of Mamaroneck

Photos by Beachbum

Photos By Beachbum
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Village Of Port Chester NY - 3/1/2011 - 305 Midland Ave -2nd Alarm.

Many More to follow.

On scene:
PCFD: 2391, 2393, E59, E58, E60, E61, E62, E63, E64, TL2, L31, R40
RBFD: L30
VMFD: 2241, E38
TMFD: 2232, E36
PFD: 2411
HFD: 2163
LFD: 2229, R1
PCRRBEMS: 22-A-19, 22-1-20, Medic 19
WCDES: FC1, 2001, Bat 15
Beeline, Con Ed, PCPD, RPD, PCDPW

I got a lot more photos!

We all must maintain the ability to take a step back and laugh, especially at ourselves or a parody of ourselves. Humor can solve a lot of problems in this world....if only people would lighten up, and laugh a little more. Life's too short.....and I think it's a scientific fact that people who laugh more live longer....

The first of the five new Ferrara rescues being constructed for FDNY is finished and will be assigned to Rescue 5. Here are a few photos of it on display at the Long Island Fire, Rescue & EMS Mega Show, which is going on this weekend at Nassau Coliseum. My apologies for the "cluttered" and blurry shots. Was very difficult to get a good shot with all the people around, and a "point and shoot" job doesn't always get along with sub-par lighting situations. But, until the rig is delivered and the "experts" get access to it, these will have to do.

Peekskill OEM's Scene Support and Emergency Response Team.
This group has is multi-tiered team that is comprised of Operations Officers can operate as on site Emergency Managers and possess IC-100,200,300,400,700 & 800 along with various other trainings and disciplines.
Our Support Specialists are all trained in IC 100, 200, 700 & 800 and are capable of assisting in command post operations.
Our entire team is trained in in-house client services to assist fire victims in placement with either family members or working with the Red Cross, alternative housing.
Peekskill OEM has a modified BeeLine paratransit bus that has been transformed into a climate controlled mobile command center equipped with 2 low band radios, 1 VHF radio, 2 UHF radios, 1 marine band radio, a Uniden scanner, 2 Desktop PC equipped with ICS software, a pole mounted video camera equipped with telescopic, low light and VHS record capabilities, an on board 120 volt inverter and a separate gasoline generator.
We are called out through the Peekskill Police Department.


(Photo credits to Matt Myers)

I guess I'll start.
Yorktown Heights Fire Department's Special Operations Division is comprised of 2 teams, the FASTeam and Water Rescue and Recovery Team:
The FASTeam consists of members who pride themselves on being extremely aggressive firemen who go above and beyond general firefighting skills, and prove to have exemplary knowledge of fire ground operations and a driven attitude of everyone goes home. The team trains twice a month in all aspects of firefighter rescue from simple firefighter packaging and removal, to collapse simulation with firefighter entrapment, under live fire situations in a live fire training center. We train on everything from 2:1 removal out 2nd and 3rd story windows, large area search, removal through holes in floors, to firefighters who have become entangled and cannot remove themselves. Some of our duties upon arrival on scene will include building 360 and scene size up, a team leader stationed with the IC, develop a rescue plan prior to a mayday being transmitted, pre-assigned tasks depending on residential or commercial style occupancies, setting up multiple points of egress (during an active interior operation) if not already accomplished and standing ready for the unfortunate case of a mayday situation. Our minimum manpower for response is 4 members, and regularly respond with 6-8. Engine 270 is our designated FAST apparatus with Rescue 16 as a reserve/backup.
Our other specialized unit is the Water Rescue and Recovery Unit (no longer classified only as a Dive Team) and our members are trained in mulitple area's of water rescue and recovery. Our services include dive rescue/recovery in open water, lakes, flood water and ice diving as well as ice rescue and swift water rescue. Our team is trained to the stringent standards of Dive Rescue International, and follows the strict NFPA guidelines for a water rescue/recovery team (NFPA 1006, 1670). Our Dive Captain and Lieutenant have also gone on to become trainers in multiple areas of water rescue. Our equipment includes a 12' zodiak, and an 18' heavy duty inflatable capable of supporting 5-6 men and all their equipment, all of the ropes and rigging for a technical swift water operation, and a full compliment of diving and swift water PPE for each of its members. The team is completely self contained on Rescue 55 with the boats in tow behind the truck. This style of response allows our team members to be fully geared up and ready for in water deployment almost immediately upon arriving on the scene.
The team refreshes their training yearly, as well as trains twice a month in all areas. Currently we are seeking SEMO and FEMA certifications to become the first certified volunteer water rescue team to be call upon during state or federally declared disaster sites. Minimum response for any water rescue call will be 5 members (a water rescue IC, primary tech, back up tech, 90% diver and rope tender) and we typically respond with 6-10 members.
Both teams have been called all over the county and the lower Hudson Valley for their services, and will continue to respond to any department who asks for our assistance. We are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and have one of the quickest assembling and response times for both teams due to coordination immediately after dispatch through wireless communications between team members (those blackberry texting groups are much more useful then just finding out who wants to go surfing, and 90% of our members personally own a blackberry and are involved in the group).
Edit: To request for either of our teams, contact 60-control and ask for Yorktown's FAST or Yorktown's dive/ice/swift water team.

Multi alarm fire at the A&P lower King st in downtown Port Chester in 1958 or so. Engine 58 [1944 Mack L-85], Engine 63 [1952 American Lafrance 700], and Ladder 31 [1954 American Lafrance 700 100 ft tiller] attack it from the side ! note the famous Texas lunch is across the street in the back ground .

The 1960 Mack Quad was assigned to Station #5 on Stratton Rd.
Was staffed with a driver, officer, 2 engine men and 2 ladder men the 4 "backstep men" road 2 on each side.

1962 Mack Engine #5 assigned to Station #2

1962 Mack Engine #2 assigned to Station #2
Note this is the same unit as #5 above after the city renumbered all of the rigs.

1965 Mack Engine #6 assigned as the Squad
Note this unit carries Puple K in the jump seats.

1969 Ward LaFrance assigned to station #3. Was referbished in the mid 1980's adding a roof. Sold in 1989 to Eastchester FD.
Distroyed in MVA shortly after sale.
Photo Credits to the Midnight Voice of KEF 934 John P. Maguire

I'm asking everyone on EMTBravo to boycott ALL Blackbear Saloons's and Wicked Wolf Tavern's where ever you go. A CT career firefighter was denied entry to their establishment in New Haven last night because he is of Asian decent and they used a derogatory term when referring to him!!!!
He was denied entry because "he had baggy jeans on" and was called a racist name. A great majority of the firefighters and his co-workers inside heard about this and came to his side. After all he was still denied entry and he went on his way.
TELL THEM WE WILL NOT STAND FOR THIS!!!!
Thank you - Joe

Photo of Fire Hq in the summer of 75 with the 1964 Mack C-95 Engine 58 at the ready,. During this time 1968 threw the 1980's this was the busiest Engine in Westchester County !

City Of White Plains Fire Headquarters , Mamaroneck Ave in the 1950's. Protection from the Past.