EdAngiolillo

Schenectady Police Department choosing the Dodge Charger as their replacement for the Crown Victoria PI.

Photos taken at a 2nd Alarm all companies fire on 10/09/2013. Was unable to get a good enough picture of Truck 1 but it was there as the 1st due truck in front of the fire building.
In order of pictures:
Engine 1
Car 22
Truck 2
Car 21
Engine 2
Car ?? (Arson Investigator) Ex-Rotterdam District 2
Rescue 1
Hazmat 2
Engine 4(Using Reserve Engine 10, Ex-Rotterdam District 2)
Engine 3
Department Pickup

The station of the original owner, Neffsville, PA is about a mile and a half from the Lancaster County Airport.

Hope I'm giving the right visual to help out your awesome description....

Yes, there is a valve.
I'll answer your questions in the order you've got listed.
1. The top three are flexible hard suction, for drafting. That's why they're stored higher up, in the less accessible position. The bottom, smaller length isn't really suction. We CALL it soft suction, but it isn't rigid. It's is our go to hydrant connection, at least here in the Bronx and the areas of Manhattan I'm familiar with. It's 10' long and is flexible and foldable. It's easy and quick for the engine chauffeur to hook up alone. Once the hydrant is open, that 4" diameter length will expand to maintain its shape regardless of how it's bent.
2. During high pressure ops, the chauffeur will use either the officer side discharge or the rear, whichever is more conducive to stretching to the Siamese. Never on the panel side, there is no HP discharge there.
3. This was answered, but again, it's just a meter showing the position of the valve. I find them to be useless. What does it matter what position the valve is in? You have the pressure gauge and the flow meter and the numbers they show are what determine whether you have to gate down or open up......or up the master on the pro-pressure governor.

Yes, it's an Engine.

10 replies......6 about lights......ugh. Guess what lights do? NOTHING! Blue. Green, pink.....2 of them14 of them, makes no difference.
Now, to respond to the very good question that matters:
Laautze gave a good answer. I'll just expand a bit. All standard FDNY engines have a 2 stage pump with a transfer valve. We operate in volume as standard practice. This means that the impellers operate in parallel and produce 50psi at idle. When the valve is switched to pressure, the impellers operate in series, one after the other. At idle, the pump generates 100psi(about). All engines are capable of pumping at high pressure (excess of 250psi) however with each additional stage the upper limit is raised and the engine doesn't have to work as hard. Additionally, engines assigned as high pressure units are outfitted with the discharges painted in white. They are a heavier build. They are meant to be mated to high pressure hose, red in color with white fittings. This hose also allows for a tether to be attached. The tethered line must be tied off to the engine and the standpipe Siamese. A 50' safety zone must be established. This is why there are no HP discharges on the pump panel side. Only a chief officer can order high pressure operations.

This is a pump that allows higher pressure discharges for high rise buildings. There are three impellers in the pump to boost the pressure 3 times allowing operators to overcome the elevation loss when crews are operating on upper floors of buildings that do not have fire pumps (or working fire pumps) on the standpipe system. This requires special high pressure hose to hook from the pumper into the FDC on the building but by the time the water gets to the fire floor you can use standard pressure hose since crews will experience normal pressures due to the elevation pressure loss. Without the ability to pump the proper pressure the crews will not have adequate pressure or flow to fight the fire. Think of how many buildings in Manhattan that are over 30 stories tall...
Most pumpers in the nation have either single or two stage pumps.
Hope this helps and its not too complicated.

FDNY's new Engine 34, a 2013 Seagrave with a three stage high pressure 2000GPM pump.

http://www.ferrarafire.com/FerraraCustom/Chassis/cinder/

Here are some photo from my trip to Ireland

it will be kept at the ESU building on yonkers avenue

I have that truck in model form.

Seen at local KME shop. Esopus Fire Department in Ulster County new tanker.

Yonkers Engine 306, a 1992 Mack CF, the actual last one to be produced by Mack, has returned to Yonkers after a spa treatment, and it's looking good! It currently holds the designation Engine 298, and is a reserve piece.
For those Mack fans keeping track, it is chasis # CF688FC 1460. Delivered August 1992 from Mack's Allentown, PA plant.
Photo by me, taken this morning. A very special thanks to ALL those on duty at YFD Station 8.

Photo by Mike Messar @ OTJNY.

Good luck with the new rig Esopus!

County: Ulster
City/Town/Municipality/Dept: Esopus Fire District
Unit designation/identifier: Tanker 27-11
Chassis & Body (or Aerial) Manufacturer and model: Freightliner MS 112 with 2 Door Cab KME
Pump size, tank size (water/foam), aerial type & length: Hale DSD-125, 12500 GPM Single Stage Pump
Intakes: Driver Side: 6" & 2 1/2" : Officer Side: 6" & 2 1/2"
Discharges: Driver Side: (1) 2 1/2", Officer Side: (1) 3" & (1) 2 1/2" Rear: (1) 2 1/2" OS Sleeved, Other (2) 1 3/4" Crosslays
Side Mount Pump Panel
3000 Gallon Poly Tank
(3) Newton Dump
(1) 2 1/2" and (1) 4" At Rear
Estimated delivery date: Finished,Displayed at Baltimore Fire Show 2013
Status:
Notes: PHOTO BY KME

Town of Blooming Grove Police in Orange County, NY New 2013 Police Interceptor

The "Rescue" eventually became sort of a "field com unit" at one point so I was told and was station at The Hill Station (Engine 11 & Truck 2 at the time). It was moved out of there just after the current Emergency 2 (medic unit) was placed into service there. Also at the same time, NHFD had a tractor trailer tanker unit at The Hill as well, that was disposed of during the late 1990s.
The 1988 Seagrave TDA (which was Truck 2 I believe) is being disposed of, Truck 4A (old Truck 4) is remaining in service as the spare. Also Truck 3's old ALF and the old rear mount Seagrave are still at the "graveyard" awaiting disposal, their aerial devices have been cut so they cannot be used.
New Truck 1, a Sutphen SHP100, has been delivered which will replace the current Truck 1 Sutphen, which will be traded in or sold off. The current spare Truck 1A will remain the spare.
Engines 5, 6 & 11 I believe are the next engines to be replaced which are in the bidding process. Engine 5 will not be a quint like their current Sutphen rig, but will still be a foam unit for the tank farm. It does not sound like it will have any elevated master stream device on that rig.
As for the Emergency units, its a storied history. First off, New Haven FD members, EMS units, area dispatchers and buffs have called the present day Emergency units "E" followed by its number (Engines are Engines). The first Emergency unit was an ambulance type rig that carried specialized equipment and was operated by Engine 12 out of the old Crown Street station (now a restaurant / bar). It continued to operate as a "rescue type unit" and eventually evolved into a combined unit with Engine 12.
The next incarnation of the Emergency units were two step vans for Emergency 1 & 2 during the 1960s / 70s staffed with EMTs. By the 1980s there were 4 emergency units, E-1 (The Hill), E-2 (Ellsworth Station) & E-4 (Whitney Ave) were BLS response units and E-3 (HQ - Grand Ave) was the paramedic unit. Now all of the units were non transporting units, just first responder units though E-3 had transport capabilities if they had to and they would transport any FD member if injured. By 2000 the city disbanded the BLS units and the Engines became the BLS first responder units with E-3 remaining a medic unit remaining out of HQ. About a year or 2 later, it was realized they needed two medic units, E-3 was re-designated E-1 and moved to Woodward Ave (Engine 5) in The Annex and E-2 was re-organized as a medic unit and station at The Hill Station, both beign transport capable units. There was talk throughout the years of re-organizing E-3 and E-4 as medic units. The "E-units" and the Tactical Units were separate entities always.
The Tactical Units replaced what the original Emergency / Engine 12 unit was (and Rescue). The operated a GMC Topkick / Ranger walk in rescue body rig. Engine 7 which shared quarters at Fair Haven station with Engine 10 and Truck 3 became Tac 2 and Tac 1 was at Dixwell / Goffe if I remember correctly and was formed out of either Engine 12 or Engine 14 (14's was with Engine 8 on Whitney Avenue which also had Truck 6 until it was disbanded in the 1980s).
And so by the 1990s, Tac 2 was disbanded and Tac 1 was moved into Engine 8 on Whitney Avenue, thus becoming the extrication unit for the city along with Truck 2 (which covered 95 and the Hill area). In the late 1990s Engine 8 received the first Pierce Lance rescue engine and Tac 1 pretty much became the HazMat unit, operating as a two piece company when necessary. The Rescue pumper still retained its first due area but would go citywide for extrication and rescue calls. The last incarnation of Tac 1 (an International rescue body rig which is now the MASK air unit) was the hazmat piece.
Around 2002, Squad 1 and Squad 2 were organized out of the way Engine 8 was set up as a rescue unit with the intentions of taking over where the old Tac units left off and also adding two much needed pumpers to the department roster (went from 10 engines to technically 12 engines). Also the Squads are the only rigs in New Haven staffed with an officer and 4 firefighters, the other engines and trucks are staffed with 1 and 3. Engine 8 once again became a straight pumper, Squad 1 took over Engine 8's rescue pumper and Squad 2 was issued Engine 6's old Pierce Arrow pumper which was modified by the shops (by Tony "the Truck Magician") becoming what was lovingly called the "Franken-Squad". Squad 1 remained at Engine 8 and took over the Hazmat rig and Squad 2 was placed into service at with Engine 9. Squad 1 received a new Pierce Lance rescue pumpers (one of the last Lance cab and chassis) around 2005 and Squad 2 got old Squad 1. About 2 or 3 years ago Squad 2 finally got its own new piece, exactly the same body as Squad 1's rig but on a Pierce Arrow XT cab and chassis, the original Pierce Lance rescue pumper is now the spare squad.
Also Alex, you should know who I mean by "Smiling CTMike". He has a lot of pictures of the New Haven rigs. Also Joe C. from EHFD has a lot of those pictures too. Al;so going to http://www.box22.org/ there are a lot of old pics of NHFD rigs through the years (even pictures of old Engine 1 and Engine 2). The only number not used by and engine in NH was "13".
Hopefully I got all the above right, I'm only going off memory and not through my books.

Got a real camera finally, Canon Rebel T3 (refurbished), so no more point and shoot for me. I've been playing around with the settings and features, so I took a ride out with a friend to Ellsworth Ave in New Haven, home of the West Battalion.
Car 34 (West Battalion Chief) - 2012 Ford F-350

Squad Company 2 - 2011 Pierce Arrow XT Rescue Pumper

Messing around with angles, tight fit so I wasn't able to get everything I wanted in the shot.

Used a "cheater" HDR editing software for this one, just playing around with different stuff. Emergency 2 is no longer at this station, they're at Howard Avenue with E11 and T2. Has been for years they just never updated the sign. Engine 9 was out while I was there.

Any advice or tips would be welcome, I'm new to the hobby.

Even worse, PA stipulates the SOL should be a certain size on ambulances, NJ wants another size, DE another,..etc,...
My 2 cents - the symbol is arguably universal in identification, so I don't care if its fluorescent pink!

Hey Everyone,
Was down in Sarasota the last week visiting some family and managed to grab some shots while out and about. I only had my phone to take them with, so I hope they came out alright (just dont mind that guy in the door reflection...)

Funny that you dont see any EMS logos on the side....

Saw This At Firehouse Expo in baltamore

You have reached 911, press 1 for English, 2 for Spanish, 3 for JUST CONNECT ME ALEADY!!!!
After reading this topic last night I tuned into Wake County and caught a structure fire, it was interesting something that would take time to get used to but it does take away any sense of urgency to a call with no emotion given during the dispatch.