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I remember as a young lad riding the school bus that EVERY student thought that the fire drills were a waste of time (and, secretly the bus drivers would take bets on who could evacuate their buses the fastest!).  But, in all seriousness, those plastic seats will take off once there's enough heat energy in that bus.  One of the suggested videos at the end this one was a 12 minute video; it starts right after ignition (in the middle of the bus) and is fully involved by the 4 minute mark.  6 minutes in the situation is no longer tenable to life inside.  6 minutes is the mark that NFPA suggests that we arrive on scene.  Though the video above shows a bus fire where the point of origin is probably the engine compartment, depending on the situation we have to come up with a different plan of attack.  Pertaining to a bus fire, I would like to say that those fire drills pay off and everyone is off the bus and accounted for, that way we can just put the fire out like it was a shed or a sedan on fire.
 
LayTheLine, I understand what you're saying from a structural point of view.  I want to point out that NIST, the ATF, and FDNY have done complex studies with each other to identify the strengths and weakness for different attacks, including the semi-controversial transitional attack, for structure fires.  The studies, from what I've seen, don't really touch on vehicles fires, let alone mass transport.  The point I'm getting at here is that this is a vehicle fire, where we expect the vehicle to be totaled and cannot be saved, very much unlike a house or apartment building where we can save property.  Vehicle fires tend to be a complete loss of property, and we just put out the fire.  As for bus fires, we have to treat it as if someone is inside, but there are two important questions that have to be asked before we conduct an interior attack on a bus fire:  We have to ask the bus driver if everyone is off the bus, and is everyone accounted for.  If the answer to both questions is yes, then we attack the fire in a manner that is safest for us.  If either answer is no, then we take the calculated risk of saving a life (but keep it in the back of your mind of how fast that fire has spread and the toxic environment those victims have been exposed to prior to your arrival).
 
Bus fires are always going to be tricky, just as any vehicle fire.  Just remember that we, as firefighters, have three priorities: LIFE safety, PROPERTY loss prevention, and scene STABILITY, in that order!

It's a Rockland county thing calling them Tankers : o) beautiful fleet up there in New City went to 9 Towers & 9 Tanker 's Wetdowns 

45 Medics  Medic 1 Armonk, Banksville, Chappaqua, Millwood, Mt Kisco, Bedford, Bedford Hills up to harris rd 
                  Medic 2 Katonah, Somers, Bedford Hills North of Harris Rd North Salem West of RTE 22
                  Medic 3 South Salem, North Salem East of 22, Vista, and Pound Ridge.
Katonah is central for them so when its one medic in service that medic reposts to katonah 
When medic 1 goes out medic 2 goes to mt kisco medic 3 goes central
when medic 2 or 3 goes out the other medic either 2 or 3 goes central. 
40Bravo1 a bls unit that picks up 911 calls from majority of the nursing homes in the 45 response area as first due.  also back fills for when a volunteer crew can not be mustered. 
 
               

34 is Yorktown
36 is Ossining/Croton/Briarcliff
35 & 39 is Cortlandt/Peekskill
37 is Mount Pleasant

 
http://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/white-plains/2017/09/30/white-plains-fire-dept-hose-donation-remade-into-toys-zoo-animals/720060001/

Fort Lee Rescue 2 was delivered today 2017 Spartan Gladiator 6 person Chassis Rescue 1 Walk Around Body here are some pics I shot of it tonight more to come

Unit it's replacing 1990 Spartan Gladiator 10 person cab /Saulsbury Walk in Box Heavy Rescue 

400 strong , I mean ?
 

Englewood Hospital & Medical Center  took delivery of a 2017 Ford Explorer SUV for use as a Tour Chiefs unit  Unit delivered  by First Priority 

We did with our first one and had no issues with it. We changed to FireAde 2000 due to a vendor change and significant price increase. We have 5 Husky 3's, a 2013 and (4) 2016s. We also have a Husky 12 that is a 2009. The 12 had some issues over the years so we tried the 3. The only negative I have about the 3 is it won't flow a large gpm of foam product. We have busy interstates 95 & 16 and are just outside the port of Savannah so we have a tremendous amount of truck traffic. We flow "foam" on any fire, our engines have 50 gallon tanks. The FireAde has been great and does wonders with reducing the amount of overhaul required and assists with fire suppression. Our 2 crosslays are 200' of 1.75" that is really 2 1/16". We will be swapping to the true 1.75" hose. We run a 15/16" smoothbore and a low psi combination nozzle on them and we have issues with kinking. 
 

Consolidated Hose Engine 77 is getting a Cyclone IIX with a 1500 GPM Hale QMax Pump, 750 Gallon Tank, 30A Foam. Phenix Hose Engine 76 is getting a Cyclone II with a 2000 GPM Pump, 750 Gallon Tank, and 30 Foam. 

Frankly a dues paying member not getting the recognition he deserves is pretty disgraceful in my book. Rest assured FP Roma is remembered by this fireman

Date: 07/21/2017
Time: 19:02
Location: Aproximately 1 mile south-southwest of Shippan Point
District: SFD 4
Battalion: Eastside
Channel: Tac 1
Weather: 86, Partly cloudy
Units: SFD: FB236, E4, E5 (Relocate for fireboat), R1 (Relocate for fireboat), U4 (DC)
          SPD: 3B28, TE2, 1C54, 8S3 (Sergeant)
          SEMS: M3
          Greenwich PD: Marine 139
          Noroton FD: Marine 34
          Norwalk PD: Marine Unit (Unit # Unknown) crew called back to staff boat
          Norwalk FD: Fireboat 238
          USCG: Unk Vessel from Eatons Neck
Writer:  AFS1970
Description: Multiple phone calls from people on a 12 person fishing boat, reporting male & child overboard, no qualified operators on board. Due to language barrier with callers no vessel location other than Connecticut and no vessel name were able to be obtained. GPS/ALI location for 1 caller showed well inland (likely tower) and one showed location in water. Due to this, the call was broadcast to neighboring towns for any available public safety boat to respond. Siren from Noroton Marine 34 was heard over phone, assisting in locating vessel. Stamford Fireboat 236 located boat and found nobody overboard and all subjects accounted for. Vessel was escorted into marina, EMS transported a child with a minor laceration. Coast Guard responded to pier to meet with vessel operator. 

If your staffed properly and everyone does their job you should be able to put the fire out and move before the ticket officer nabs you! Of course you'll have to leave all the overhaul to the truckies.

The Danbury Police Explorers are currently raising money to fund a new van. Their program is one of the largest in New England, when I aged out we had 75 Explorers; now they are up to about 100 members; however, they only have two 15-passenger vans at their disposal. These young men and women do an incredible amount of work to support DPD and the entire Danbury community; including supporting the Patrol Division with traffic, parking, and/or security details for special events, conducting land searches to support missing persons and other Detective Bureau cases, performing Honor Guard duties at ceremonies, among other duties. On average they support about six events per month, and the program receives very little in terms of funding from the City.

Please consider donating to help these guys get a new vehicle so they can continue to support events in the western CT area:
https://www.gofundme.com/danbury-cadets-need-a-new-van

Ray Pfeifer passed away on May 28 2017 after battling 9/11 cancer.  Ray was a huge player in extending the zadroga act along with other FDNY and Nypd members    Ray never gave up even while battling cancer.  RIP Ray.   We'll take it from here.  

 

Interesting story from the city I used to reside in. The city of Round Rock Texas is very progressive and proactive.
 
 
FULL STORY: http://www.kvue.com/news/local/family-home-turned-into-fire-station/435744706

Here are a ton of photos from the expo floor at FDIC taken by adelaidefire   
 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pobox448/albums/72157683256976726/page2

 
Photos have been restored at the first post of this thread

I love the color scheme!

Well the wait is over Finally got a chance to get pictures of the new FLA 3 It's one of 2 totally new units Built by PL Custom  2nd one is assigned to FLA 4  The 3 rd unit will be a remount of  FLA1's box on to a Ford F450 4WD Chassis   FLA 3 & 4 Feature White out privaticy window treatments new warning light set up plus Push Bar strip LED warning lighting These units mark a return to Pick up truck style chassised units since the late 70's when they operated 3 Chevy chassised  units

Los Angeles City is currently all tillers.  They used various snorkel products (squirt, telesquirt, and snorkels in 50ft & 85ft) back in the 60's & 70's in addition to the tillers.  Also LAFD occasionally demos other ladders and so far prefers their tillers.
 
Los Angeles County is currently mostly tiller quints but have one or two front line rear mount quints.  They have had an assortment of ladders types over the years with some coming from their acquisition of other fire districts.

Definitely interesting, especially with the tandem axle on the Ford F550. Never seen something like that before.
 
 
MORE INFORMATION:
http://skeeterbrushtrucks.com/6x6-firewalker/
 

 
MORE INFORMATION:
http://skeeterbrushtrucks.com/6x6-firewalker/

 
Although I cannot speak to the fire side at all, Edgemont could easily continue using Greenburgh Town PD. Many villages in New York have agreements with the Towns that encompass them.