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I believe Orange, CT had an 80's Mack Telesquirt. Not sure if it is still around though.

I know at one time Connecticut also had snorkels. As posted above, I believe there was one in Stamford.
 
Also Bridgeport, Stratford, Groton, and I believe Cheshire also had one.
 
 My brother worked Bridgeports Snorkel out of fire headquarters as both a firefighter and as a Lt. If anybody knows where fire headquarters is, there is a railroad overpass just to the right of that firehouse. Because of the height of that snorkel truck, if it snowed and they needed to put chains on, that truck would NOT fit under that railroad over pass. It would require them to turn in the opposite direction and take a much longer route to the incident.
 
 In addition, although the bucket is able to go over wires and tree branches, "for every action there is a reaction". Sometimes it might not have been able to make the swing because of where the lower and upper boom section met. Like folding your arm trying to get through a small hole with your elbow extended.
 
 In addition, many snorkels had a long overhang extending beyond the front of the cab. Making it very difficult to turn onto many streets if light poles etc were in the way. I remember Jersey City's Snorkel and that must have had at east a six foot overhang of the resting boom in front of that cab.

Jersey City's long gone ALF snorkel had 2 incidents where it turned over while operating at fire After the 2nd incident at a huge pier fire on the Hoboken Jersey City border it was retired Time for new history It replacement ? 1  of the longest front line serving pieces  Tower  Ladder 6 's 75 foot aerialscope 

Thanks for the info. Only having been up in one (Springdale T56) once, and that was at a muster, I know next to nothing about Snorkels. I have heard of the advantages being that they can go up and over fences and power lines. I am not so sure how much I would want to be in a metal box that was attached to a boom with power lines running through the middle. What are some of the disadvantages? I know Chicago is using 55 ft units, so I assume height/reach to be a limiting factor. 
 
As an aside, on that LA roll over incident, was the rig driving or operating the boom? It looked like the snorkel boom was not a major factor if it rolled while driving. As cool as open cabs are, I can see the lack of a roof being more of a factor in an LODD. 
 
Also what is HU3? Saw it in one of the LA pics, just curious.
 

Chicago's taken delivery of their new snorkels (run as one half of a two piece "squad").  Here's some pictures from another site with some information on them

http://chicagoareafire.com/blog/2016/11/chicago-orders-new-squads-more-16/
 
http://chicagoareafire.com/blog/2016/12/chicago-orders-new-squads-more-19/
 

Philly's in the process of exploring replacements to both of their remaining snorkels  as is Baltimore 

I believe Philadelphia runs two assigned as truck companies. Baltimore used to have one assigned as frontline truck company but it is now a special call piece. I think it's designated truck 51 and is special called as a water tower for large defensive fires. 
 
My department in michigan used to have a 1980 spartan/pierce 85 ft. We replaced it in 2010 with a smeal 100 ft tower. I learned you could do some neat things but it had more disadvantages in our environment. I learned it's not the ideal truck for a single truck company department.

Smeal now part of Spartan ERV is now producing  snorkels Tele squirts &  the articulated  boom squirt I am sure they'll be popping up  all over the place soon Frankfort Illinois got one of their new snorkels 

Looking for some information on Snorkels. I am only somewhat familiar with them and have never used one. I know that Stamford's now disbanded Truck 4 used one but that was before my time. Springdale had one and it was old and rarely used when they got rid of it. I remember Noroton Heights having one until they replaced it with a quint.
 
I have read that ALF bought Snorkel then shut down that division and stopped making them.
 
I know Chicago still uses them but I am not sure who makes them. I had heard possibly Pierce or Rosenbauer.
 
Any major cities / counties other than Chicago use them? I remember seeing historical pictures of LA using them, but nothing current.
 
I know Springdale's was 85 ft & Chicago uses 55 ft. Anyone know if other sizes were made or are available?
 
Are there any still in service in NY or CT?

 
Okay, thank you. I wasn't sure.

 
Willy, this is an older story and was pre-KME. 

 
By all accounts, KME could be an excellent company. They have plenty of talented workers, who have the ability to produce a product that could rival any of the other more reputable manufacturers.
 
KME has suffered from years of mismanagement by a ruling family that had failed to invest in their people or infrastructure. Many of their senior managers were relatives or buddies and did not possess the ability to follow the industry trends. 
 
The REV group may have temporarily saved the company from financial ruin and has removed many of the management problems, but the company has a big hill to climb in being retrained and retooled to compete with the likes of other products. 
 
Without knowing the specifics, the Horry County story is probably the results of the old mentality toward the product. The new owner has big plans and made big promises. Only time will tell if they can deliver on those promises.
 
I for one, would be very reluctant to recommend their product until the product and culture improves.
 
 
 
 

That HME Rescue has split flooring jezzz rechassis it if they can't fix it

Here is a story about how things are going with the KMEs in Stamford. However, this article states HMEs.
 
www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Firefighters-concerned-about-fleet-4433913.php

Brother , how they working out in Stamford ?

Almost any recent KME customer could have ran the exact same story. 
 
Spot on exactly the type of experience that one faces when purchasing from KME.
 
 
 
 

Horry County getting ready to take KME to court for the crap they sold them lest year . Engines and tower ladders o/s more then in  and no end in site . Trucks out of service for weeks at a time and a few parked for the time that they got here .  This is my winter home and Sta #7 is right out my door . The firefighters are very unhappy with this order because they waited a long time to get good front line rigs. It aired yesterday
 
http://wbtw.com/2017/01/19/mechanical-issues-force-2m-worth-of-hcfr-fire-trucks-off-the-street/
 

I am sure one or two will end up in teterboro airport  in nj

I saw this article a little while ago, and this reminded that I saw a bunch of the PAPD firefighters not so long ago (a bunch of them came to Westchester to tour the airport).  They're pretty excited about this purchase.  The Strikers they have now are definitely starting to show their age, as the PANYNJ received the first large batch of Strikers when the product unveiled (HPN's Airport 17, a 2003 4x4 was built in the midst of this order as well).

I heard awhile back port authority 's GWB Operations looking at a foam pumper similar to the massive Pierce Velocity Jack Daniels has down in Lynchburg distillery    This was about 7 months ago 

Photos are now posted, www.emtbravo.com
Photos by HFD211 and DFFD227
More photos are expected and will be posted as they are recieved.

WPFD currently runs with 8 companies - (5) Engines Companies - 65,66,67,70,71. (2) Truck Companies - 32 is a Stick and Tower Ladder 6. (1) Rescue Company 88. Ladder 34 (the 9th Company) is BROWNED out due to budget cuts. WPFD went from 170 men to 150 men when the economy went south. L34 is staffed when the manpower allows. WPFD rides with 3 men per company, when manpower allows they put a 4th man L32, TL6, and R88.
Current staffing is: 8 Companies x 3 per Co.= 24 men + Car 2512 (which is the Deputy Chief and the Aide) 2 men= 26 men per tour. (If/when L34 is in service that would add 3 men to the total, it would be 29)
I LOVE HOW ALL THE EXPERTS CAN COMMENT ON THINGS THEY HAVE NO IDEA ABOUT!!!!

Members,

Today (Nov.14) marks the 12th year that EMTBravo.net (Forums) has been online. EMTBravo.com, which is what these forums were born from, will celebrate it's 14th year this upcoming January.

(The name, "EMTBravo", originated from my AOL screen name which I had for years). Here's a little about me. I started at 14 years old, in 1993, as an Explorer with the Ardsley Fire Department in Ardsley NY where I Explorer Post Captain for almost the duration of my time there. I then continued on as a volunteer firefighter and Explorer post advisor with Ardsley FD when I turned 18. I took my EMT class at Irvington VAC, and went to work as an EMT for Empress EMS, which helped shape me and gave me a solid foundation for the rest of my career. I also worked part time in the ER of Stamford Hospital as an ER tech. I was lucky enough to get hired by 60 Control, where I worked as a Dispatcher. My dispatcher ID was 635, which is why I'm also known as "x635". During that time, I loved working for 60 Control and loved the people I worked with and the job I did. However, during the course of my employment there, my father was tragically killed and my Grandmother died a year later after a long battle with cancer, leading me to re-evaluate what I was doing and where I wanted to be in life.

In 2003, I decided to go to college, and moved to Woburn, MA and attended Paramedic school at Northeastern University in Boston. After graduating in 2004, I moved back to Hartsdale and went to work for Westchester EMS, and worked the "45 Medics" flycar system, and dispatcher. In September of 2005, my dream of being a career firefighter came true, and I got hired by the Hartsdale Fire District. I was blessed to have academy instructors who served as great role models for me, and I did things I never thought I could do. To this day, I still use the lessons they taught me.

In January 2007, I was injured severely. After several months, I was declared unfit to be a firefighter due to a traumatic brain injury and a spinal cord injury. My department did not have any light duty positions, so I was out of a job and couldn't work as a firefighter again. I loved being a firefighter in Hartsdale and the loss of that career was devastating, and still bothers me to this day. I decided to move to Round Rock, just north of Austin, in the central part of Texas to try and start a new life. I worked as a Police Dispatcher for the busiest sector of a large urban police department, and as a Paramedic for a busy rural/urban EMS service. However, a divorce dealt me another devastating blow in my life, but gave me my greatest gift, my beautiful daughter. I also had some health issues along the way. I moved back to NY for a job and other personal reasons, and I went through some more adversity which included a brief period of homelessness. A very generous person and great supportive friend went above and beyond, to say the least, took me in and got me back on my feet which was key. Another great, generous, supportive and understanding friend and mentor gave me a chance after all this, a job, another friend prepped me for the role I am in, and, for the first time in a long time, I am happy in my life and love my career (and my work family) with the leading firefighting equipment company in the area.
Why am I giving you my bio? Because I feel that many people on here don't know me and there are some misconceptions. This site is an extension of me.

Getting back on topic, the idea for a forums portion of the site sparked from the very successful "News" section of EMTBravo.com, in which people sent me news and photos and I posted on, what at the time was my personal small website (this is WAY before Facebook, etc even existed). From my apartment in Boston while attending Paramedic school at Northeastern University, the idea sparked and I pulled an all-nighter to get the forum going. It was meant to create an online community where those and those with an interest in the emergency services community could come together and communicate. And every day I log on, I am amazed that the snowball of this forum that keeps growing and has such a great, knowledgeable membership . We also have another EMTBravo forum, EMTBravoWest.com (Los Angeles, Phoenix, San Francisco, etc)

Of course, there's been negativity and controversy on and about this site over the years, but the good FAR outweighs the bad. There have been members who wish to cause trouble or spread rumors or don't accept modern social media, but I believe that we have been on the forefront of trying to keep this site positive and on the right path. Before this site, nothing like this existed for the emergency services communities in the areas we serve. A lot of valuable information has been spread on these forum, friendships forged and reignited, and all the other benefits a website such as this provides. We will continue to spearhead a new path and become an even better resource for our members, using our member's knowledge and feedback as our fuel. We will bounce back from the past couple of years of, for lack of a better word, quietness. There are a lot of copycats out there with tons upon tons of different Facebook groups, but EMTBravo offers something unique and special, And we're proud that we don't depend on someone else's homogenized software and servers to run our site, we can define it however we'd like.

I'd like to thank all the dedicated and loyal members of this site, who post, contribute, and read the site and make it what it is. Many have been with us since day 1. I'd also like to thank those that generously donate funds or advertise on the site, so I am able to afford to pay for this forum.
And most especially, the active members of this forum who post and make use of this forum, and share their knowledge and opinions, for which if they didn't, this forum wouldn't be.

Once again, THANK YOU to all the members and staff that make this site possible for the past 12 years, and I, with the EMTBravo team, look foward to making sure this forum is the best it can be for our EMTBravo members!!

If you have any questions about EMTBravo.net's history, please do ask on this thread, and I'd be more then happy to tell!! And please check out our new logo below (and read the other new thread about it)

Seth Granville AKA "EMTBravo" aka "x635"
Here are some quick stats 12 years later:
-1,000 member and guest visits a day
-8,000 registrations
-45,334 topics
-266,665 posts
-47,446,021 topic views
-39,500 personal messages sent
-Members from over 16 countries, and visitors from over 30 countries
and still growing

Paul R. Gerardi, "LTFIREPRG" (retired Deputy Chief Fairview FD), came up with this amazing design for the site, almost instantaneously. I feel it really reflects the theme of this site, and carries the "Work Together Win Together" message. The details take into account what this site is for, who it is for, and ties it all together. There are a lot of little subtle details that make it even more awesome.

I thank him so much for making this dream that I've had over the years and making it a reality. And I never knew talented artist was one of his many, many skillsets! He is a generous and frequent donor to the site, and this contribution to the site is just another way he has helped to make this site better. Thanks Chief for everything you've done for this site, for this, and for me.
Another member, who wishes to remain anonymous and is a tremendous support, took this logo to the next level and digitized it and made it bolder. It was a craft that took him many hours I truly appreciate his dedication and talent in bringing this logo to the next level. Thanks you (you know who you are!)