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Booster lines are good for what you mentioned, but other than that, not much else.
even your trash can or rubbish fire doesn't justify the use of a booster line. You still need to put the rig in pump so why not stretch an attack line?
If a can cant knock it down you are better off stretching an 1 and 3/4 line. You are better having more line and water than less.
I have been an member of my fd for almost 6 years and I have never have used or have heard of a booster line being used for much of anything at all.

knock it down with a water can that is

Seth,
My FD has 100 ft more than the longest stretch in our response area. We roll 2 Engines to full alarms, so even with a bad hydrant, we would be able to relay pump with no issue whatsoever

Mount Vernon has a working commercial fire @ 302 South Fulton Ave. around 1100 -1300 Hrs. I was at work and didn't have enough information for an IA

Type of construction (3 story OMD, 1 story commercial, Ect)
What is showing upon arrival (smoke, fire, nothing)
360 of the structure if possible (some buildings are 2 stories in the front and 3 in the rear)
What your exposures are and how close to the fire building they are and if any exposures are in danger of extension
What additional resources are needed (2nd alarm or additional Ladder, ect)
What your current resources are doing (2 L/S/O and Ladderpipe in operation, ect)

Seth,
I have a pretty good amount of tattoos. (both arms half sleeved, both lower legs and my upper back.
1st, tattoos dont "wear out" from flexing that part of the body. Like SFRD said, just protect it with sun screen.
2nd, good work isn't cheap and cheap work isn't good. the normal rate for a good artist is 100-200 dollars an hour.
3rd, DO NOT walk in with a picture and say "i want this". The tattoo artist is an artist for a reason, they know what will look good and translate well as ink in your body. My best advice is to give the artist youre general ideas and themes and tell them to run wild and let their creativity take over. After all, they are the professionals.
I use Jason Eddington at Hard Knox Tattoo in Yonkers.
P.S. any tattooer that claims that they are good at every style is lying. Each has their niche and area of focus and expertise. You need to look at portfolios and see who specializes in the style you are interested in. (ex. Black and Grey or Traditional or Lettering or Japansese or Color Bomb.....ect)

Very nice photos. I see YFD was there, too.

Not that I have any more insight since we're in the same boat but you have to think that everyone had similar scores because some guys we're great In the strength events and slow in the running events plus some guys we're totally out of shape and obliviously we're not in shape. Also you don't know your written score so that may be the biggest deciding factor

I am very skeptical with this story. First of all, if you are documenting an unboxing it usually is a Youtube video so you can share product info with others. I have never seen an unboxing documented with photos before. Whats the purpose? And, if you were to photo document an unboxing, why take pictures of you cutting open the shipping box. Sounds like an elaborate scheme to try to get a free camera from Dell. I don't believe any of this story.

Here in Westchester county, 60 control dispatches up to a "Structure Fire". When in scene, a chief will transmitt a 10-75 or working fire to 60 which will strike our 1st alarm assignment (extra engine, extra ladder, FAST, and ambulance to the scene and our standby units in our quarters)

Seems like you got it right Chief. Kudos for putting saftey before pride and ego by pulling out to regroup. That gets lost in the fire service today. Two thumbs up for what seemed like a safe and efficent opperation.

Date: 10/10/12
Time: 03:46 hrs
Location: Alfredo's Foreign Cars (showroom/offices), 2050 [or 2030, conflicting reports] West Boston Post Road, Larchmont, NY 10538
Frequency: 46.26, Fire 15; 33.96 (EMS), EMS 15; 154.755, 155.250 (VoL PD).
Units Operating: appx. 100 FFs --
Larchmont FD: 2222; E-33, 34, 35; TL-7; R-1 (Cascade).
Town of Mamaroneck FD: 2231, 2232, 2233; E-37; R-6.
Village of Mamaroneck FD: 2241, 2242, 2243; E-40; L-21 (standby in own HQ).
New Rochelle FD: 2302; E-21 (FAST); L-12 (operating on exposure #2 side).
Pelham FD: E-5.
WCDES: Cause & Origin (Zone #2); Bat 15.
Relocate- Greenville FD: Squad 15 (covering Larchmont HQ).
Town of Mamaroneck Ambulance District: 66-A2 (VAC), 68-A1 (BLS) (MEMS), 66-12 (EMS command), 66-13, 66-22, 66-61, 66-66, 49-M1 (TMAD).
Village of Larchmont PD;
Village of Larchmont DPW;
ConEdison.
Weather Conditions: Rainy, chilly.
Description of Incident: Large, powerful, smokey commerical fire started in car dealership supply area/showroom. Building and most cars inside destroyed with collapsed roof on CD side of structure. Searches negative. Multiple L/S/O. Eventually pulled out to perform exterior attack. No reported injuries.
Reported by passerby who saw smoke. Boston Post Road was closed from Weaver Street to Chatsworth Avenue for long period of time. Locals were advised to avoid area due to toxic fumes. Cause determined to be electrical originating in faulty storage room air compressor.
Reporters: Larchmont_Boy (briefly o/s); firedude (for times, rundown corrections and info); grantnet10 (for EMS rundown); merchaldo (for VMFD info and time); JP59 (for PFD and some NRFD info); news articles (for description); 25truck26 and turk182 (for RFD correction); Bish140 (for TMFD correction); vwwh1 (for GFD correction); three anonymous reporters (for most info, times, rundown, and ops details at bottom).
Writer: Larchmont_Boy.
News Articles: Journal News (more photos); News 12 / Newsday #1, #2; theLoop; Larchmont-Mamaroneck Patch; Larchmont Daily Voice; CBS.
03:37 hrs: Larchmont PD Cars 424, 420 to 22 Cambridge Rd for an audible alarm.
03:38 hrs: LPD Car 424 requesting FD immediately to area of Boston Post Rd x Bonnett Ave for a smoke condition.
03:40 hrs: LPD Car 424 advises he has a smoke condition coming out of the Fiat Dealership on Boston Post Rd.
03:46 hrs: E-35, E-33, TL-7 dispatched to the area of 2050 Boston Post Rd for smoke from the structure.
04:01 hrs: Larchmont 10-75 Dispatched: TMFD 1 Engine & FAST, Bat 15, and EMS for a Commercial Structure Fire.
04:03 hrs: NRFD L-12 dispatched to scene.
04:03 hrs: Pelham dispatched to relocate 1 engine to LFD HQ.
04:25 hrs: 68-A1 on scene.
04:31 hrs: C&O Zone 2 dispatched to land line.
04:35 hrs: E-21 dispatched to scene as FAST.
04:46 hrs: VMFD dispatched. 2241 and E-40 on standby at LFD HQ [later called to lay in]. [L-21 standby in own HQ.]
04:50 hrs: C&O on scene.
05:30 hrs: Structure collapse on CD side.
06:37 hrs: Fire declared under control.
06:45 hrs: 66-12 handing over EMS Command to 66-13.
07:45 hrs: EMS released.
13:10 hrs: Larchmont FD cleared.
14:00 hrs: Boston Post Road and all other blocked streets opened.
Per a anonymous FF working o/s:
"EXCAVATOR BROUGHT IN DUE TO TRAPED POCKETS OF FIRE, BLOCKED OFF BY THE COLLAPSE. ONCE THE EXCAVATOR OPENED UP TL7 WENT INTO OPERATION WITH MASTER STREAMS AND 2 MONITORS WERE IN OPERATION AS WELL. WHEN THE MAJORITY OF THE POCKETS OF FIRE WERE K/D, TL7 E35 AND E34 RETURNED TO SERVICE. R1 WAS RECALLED TO THE SCENE AND LEFT ON FIRE WATCH WHILE OPERATING A MONITOR OFF THE HYDRANT TO WET DOWN SMOLDERING HOT SPOTS INSIDE OF THE COLLAPSE ZONE.
"lfd brought the first line into the building through a small door. shortly after lfd with tmfd assistance took the front windows and cut the roof up garage door with a partner saw. lfd brought a second line (2.5 inch) into the structure upon the door being cut. pelham fd brought a 2.5 as well and i believe tmfd was operating 2 handlines. we tried out best to make an aggressive interior push but it was too far ahead of us and we were met by intense heat and smoke, as well as, heavy fire conditions throughout. Smoke began rolling over and 2221 made the call to pull everyone out and go exterior. right call because the heat had warped a steel I beam and the 2/3 corner collapsed approx. 15-20 minutes after the building was evacuated. also rescue 1 cleared the scene around 2:30 (as it stayed on fire watch operating a monitor to soak hot spots."
On 10/12/12 morning:
"Larchmont responded to 2040 BPR on smoke from the rear this morning around 07:30. 2221 reported it was a hot spot in the fire building from the other day. E34 hit the hot spot and returned very shortly after"
Please PM me if you have any more information or corrections.

http://www.nydailynews.com/scores-blacks-hispanics-soar-newly-revamped-fdny-test-article-1.1168399?post_id=100000600302076_444228925628277
Actually, it is quite the opposite. Over 95% of the individuals who took the test passed. The 9,417 people who scored a 97% or above are likely to be considered for hiring.
Bottom line... They wanted everyone to pass the test, and thats what they got. In the article it is already clear that the next step for certain organizations is to attack the "post-test" process, i.e. interview/investigation, psyc test, and the CPAT. After that it will be the FDNY Academy itself, followed by the entire profession of firefighting.
JBJ

i'm not taking sides... im stating a fact.
ex #1 when pelham had a fire about 6-8 months back on Wolfes Ln. in a resteraunt, they called Yonkers, White Plains, Scarsdale, Hartsdale, Greenville, Mount Vernon, Eastchester, and New Rochelle.
there was a rediculous amount of aparatus at the scene. Reason being they needed manpower and wouldnt call voli depts. they got rigs with 2 men on them from career depts. You are taking aparatus out of service in your 1st due area, because you are using them as taxi cabs for 2 guys to the scene.

I agree with that. M/A in voli depts should be a list of qualified guys with a certain level of trainning. The question is, how do you police the guys responding to m/a jobs? there is a huge grey area

i'm not taking sides... im stating a fact.
ex #1 when pelham had a fire about 6-8 months back on Wolfes Ln. in a resteraunt, they called Yonkers, White Plains, Scarsdale, Hartsdale, Greenville, Mount Vernon, Eastchester, and New Rochelle.
there was a rediculous amount of aparatus at the scene. Reason being they needed manpower and wouldnt call voli depts. they got rigs with 2 men on them from career depts. You are taking aparatus out of service in your 1st due area, because you are using them as taxi cabs for 2 guys to the scene.

In lower westchester county, career depts. only request m/a from other career depts, many times skipping over several neighboring volunteer depts in the process. If all the career depts are exhausted, it is also not uncommon for career depts to request combo depts m/a with only the career staff and no volunteers.

there is a bigger issue then. the administration of these depts are flawed. the chief or commissioner should require a certain level of training for their members. Either way there are other reasons volis arent called to assist career depts. I'd be nieve to say otherwise

there is a bigger issue then. the administration of these depts are flawed. the chief or commissioner should require a certain level of training for their members. Either way there are other reasons volis arent called to assist career depts. I'd be nieve to say otherwise

there is a bigger issue then. the administration of these depts are flawed. the chief or commissioner should require a certain level of training for their members. Either way there are other reasons volis arent called to assist career depts. I'd be nieve to say otherwise

My question is; what are Junior members doing on apparatus responding to a mutual aid call in the first place?

I see the same issues being a LT. in my mid-20s. I had older members refuse to come to monthly training, live fire training, walk throughs, ect., and not come to the residential alarms, CO alarms, and service calls, but be the first one on the scene ready to go to work when the dispatch "sounds good".
As much as we need manpower and can use all the hands we can get, that member was told to do exterior support work or leave the scene.
Now I'm viewed as the hardass on a powertrip with no respect for all of the years of service 15-20 + year members put in, but at the end of the day, I know that the guys, who's ability I know and who I've trained side by side with, can be given tasks that will be completed efficiantly and more importantly, safely. At the end of the day, I cannot jepordize peoples safety by sending the 20 year guy, who has been in 50 + fires, but hasn't kept up with training, into a fire and hope he remembers what to do from his last worker 5 years ago.
Maybe I'm the a******, but at least I know safety will not be compromised

I see the same issues being a LT. in my mid-20s. I had older members refuse to come to monthly training, live fire training, walk throughs, ect., and not come to the residential alarms, CO alarms, and service calls, but be the first one on the scene ready to go to work when the dispatch "sounds good".
As much as we need manpower and can use all the hands we can get, that member was told to do exterior support work or leave the scene.
Now I'm viewed as the hardass on a powertrip with no respect for all of the years of service 15-20 + year members put in, but at the end of the day, I know that the guys, who's ability I know and who I've trained side by side with, can be given tasks that will be completed efficiantly and more importantly, safely. At the end of the day, I cannot jepordize peoples safety by sending the 20 year guy, who has been in 50 + fires, but hasn't kept up with training, into a fire and hope he remembers what to do from his last worker 5 years ago.
Maybe I'm the a******, but at least I know safety will not be compromised

I see the same issues being a LT. in my mid-20s. I had older members refuse to come to monthly training, live fire training, walk throughs, ect., and not come to the residential alarms, CO alarms, and service calls, but be the first one on the scene ready to go to work when the dispatch "sounds good".
As much as we need manpower and can use all the hands we can get, that member was told to do exterior support work or leave the scene.
Now I'm viewed as the hardass on a powertrip with no respect for all of the years of service 15-20 + year members put in, but at the end of the day, I know that the guys, who's ability I know and who I've trained side by side with, can be given tasks that will be completed efficiantly and more importantly, safely. At the end of the day, I cannot jepordize peoples safety by sending the 20 year guy, who has been in 50 + fires, but hasn't kept up with training, into a fire and hope he remembers what to do from his last worker 5 years ago.
Maybe I'm the a******, but at least I know safety will not be compromised

I see the same issues being a LT. in my mid-20s. I had older members refuse to come to monthly training, live fire training, walk throughs, ect., and not come to the residential alarms, CO alarms, and service calls, but be the first one on the scene ready to go to work when the dispatch "sounds good".
As much as we need manpower and can use all the hands we can get, that member was told to do exterior support work or leave the scene.
Now I'm viewed as the hardass on a powertrip with no respect for all of the years of service 15-20 + year members put in, but at the end of the day, I know that the guys, who's ability I know and who I've trained side by side with, can be given tasks that will be completed efficiantly and more importantly, safely. At the end of the day, I cannot jepordize peoples safety by sending the 20 year guy, who has been in 50 + fires, but hasn't kept up with training, into a fire and hope he remembers what to do from his last worker 5 years ago.
Maybe I'm the a******, but at least I know safety will not be compromised