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Fairfield is a pretty squared away fire department and gives great service to it's residents, does about 9000 runs a year and if they don't catch work in Fairfield, they are mutual aid partners with Bridgeport' which sees plenty of action. Good Department with good guys. Chief Dunn will be a good fit and a great asset. ,

A few years back a major rock cliff collapse occurred in Pelham on Fifth Avenue and crushed several stores and actually totaled them. The rock formation was later braced by metal /cable net arrangement to prevent further collapse of this unstable formation. Again this was a winter situation of cold=warm -rain freezing and melting that caused this near disaster. Pelham, New Rochelle and Yonkers responded to mitigate the structual issues but little could be done for the cliff until this net arrangement was put in place, Could this method be of any use to Yonkers on Walsh Road perhaps not on the mudslides but brace that big old. wall ?????

New Ro and White Plains put a lot of planning and consideration into the safety of the high rises in their districts, However things happen and my favorite saying is " If things didn't happen that couldn't happen I would not have had a job "
Despite safeguards things happen, sprinkler failures, black outs. fire pump problems, explosions, high winids and remember the former Yankee pitcher learning to fly an airplane all of these things are unexpected and are just a couple that come to mind that could negate all the best plans, That is why a prepared fire department is paramount.
As 635 points out these structures exist here and both fore mentioned Departments would be hard pressed to place 30 men on the scene in a timely fashion, while the same fire in NYC would put about 164 members on the fire at it's onset, when first declared a high rise fire(1077),
These building would be a tough mutual aid problem .

New Ro and White Plains put a lot of planning and consideration into the safety of the high rises in their districts, However things happen and my favorite saying is " If things didn't happen that couldn't happen I would not have had a job "
Despite safeguards things happen, sprinkler failures, black outs. fire pump problems, explosions, high winids and remember the former Yankee pitcher learning to fly an airplane all of these things are unexpected and are just a couple that come to mind that could negate all the best plans, That is why a prepared fire department is paramount.
As 635 points out these structures exist here and both fore mentioned Departments would be hard pressed to place 30 men on the scene in a timely fashion, while the same fire in NYC would put about 164 members on the fire at it's onset, when first declared a high rise fire(1077),
These building would be a tough mutual aid problem .

Fairfield is a pretty squared away fire department and gives great service to it's residents, does about 9000 runs a year and if they don't catch work in Fairfield, they are mutual aid partners with Bridgeport' which sees plenty of action. Good Department with good guys. Chief Dunn will be a good fit and a great asset. ,

Fairfield is a pretty squared away fire department and gives great service to it's residents, does about 9000 runs a year and if they don't catch work in Fairfield, they are mutual aid partners with Bridgeport' which sees plenty of action. Good Department with good guys. Chief Dunn will be a good fit and a great asset. ,

Fairfield is a pretty squared away fire department and gives great service to it's residents, does about 9000 runs a year and if they don't catch work in Fairfield, they are mutual aid partners with Bridgeport' which sees plenty of action. Good Department with good guys. Chief Dunn will be a good fit and a great asset. ,

Fairfield is a pretty squared away fire department and gives great service to it's residents, does about 9000 runs a year and if they don't catch work in Fairfield, they are mutual aid partners with Bridgeport' which sees plenty of action. Good Department with good guys. Chief Dunn will be a good fit and a great asset. ,

New Ro and White Plains put a lot of planning and consideration into the safety of the high rises in their districts, However things happen and my favorite saying is " If things didn't happen that couldn't happen I would not have had a job "
Despite safeguards things happen, sprinkler failures, black outs. fire pump problems, explosions, high winids and remember the former Yankee pitcher learning to fly an airplane all of these things are unexpected and are just a couple that come to mind that could negate all the best plans, That is why a prepared fire department is paramount.
As 635 points out these structures exist here and both fore mentioned Departments would be hard pressed to place 30 men on the scene in a timely fashion, while the same fire in NYC would put about 164 members on the fire at it's onset, when first declared a high rise fire(1077),
These building would be a tough mutual aid problem .

This building had a sad history, in 1987 a fire occurred in the compactor chute killing seven people, some jumped from as high as the 23rd floor into the street. This fire resulted in changes in high rise procedures, where the dispatchers radios or MDT"s to responding or .on scene units the apartments number that called requesting assistance and that unit must be checked out. . At this fire folks in distress where assured that the FD was on scene not knowing the fire had jumped 20 floors over them, Heavy fire load in the compactor ,coupled with a missing chute door and inadequate fireproofing around the chute.too skimpy to prevent the fire .from extending to combustibles in dwelling units abutting the wall covering the chute.
The Schomberg Plaza fire in 1987 was one of the most important high rise incidents and produced many lessons learned and also a big lesson in Mitchell Llama construction

This building had a sad history, in 1987 a fire occurred in the compactor chute killing seven people, some jumped from as high as the 23rd floor into the street. This fire resulted in changes in high rise procedures, where the dispatchers radios or MDT"s to responding or .on scene units the apartments number that called requesting assistance and that unit must be checked out. . At this fire folks in distress where assured that the FD was on scene not knowing the fire had jumped 20 floors over them, Heavy fire load in the compactor ,coupled with a missing chute door and inadequate fireproofing around the chute.too skimpy to prevent the fire .from extending to combustibles in dwelling units abutting the wall covering the chute.
The Schomberg Plaza fire in 1987 was one of the most important high rise incidents and produced many lessons learned and also a big lesson in Mitchell Llama construction

This building had a sad history, in 1987 a fire occurred in the compactor chute killing seven people, some jumped from as high as the 23rd floor into the street. This fire resulted in changes in high rise procedures, where the dispatchers radios or MDT"s to responding or .on scene units the apartments number that called requesting assistance and that unit must be checked out. . At this fire folks in distress where assured that the FD was on scene not knowing the fire had jumped 20 floors over them, Heavy fire load in the compactor ,coupled with a missing chute door and inadequate fireproofing around the chute.too skimpy to prevent the fire .from extending to combustibles in dwelling units abutting the wall covering the chute.
The Schomberg Plaza fire in 1987 was one of the most important high rise incidents and produced many lessons learned and also a big lesson in Mitchell Llama construction

This building had a sad history, in 1987 a fire occurred in the compactor chute killing seven people, some jumped from as high as the 23rd floor into the street. This fire resulted in changes in high rise procedures, where the dispatchers radios or MDT"s to responding or .on scene units the apartments number that called requesting assistance and that unit must be checked out. . At this fire folks in distress where assured that the FD was on scene not knowing the fire had jumped 20 floors over them, Heavy fire load in the compactor ,coupled with a missing chute door and inadequate fireproofing around the chute.too skimpy to prevent the fire .from extending to combustibles in dwelling units abutting the wall covering the chute.
The Schomberg Plaza fire in 1987 was one of the most important high rise incidents and produced many lessons learned and also a big lesson in Mitchell Llama construction

I would apply again and start from the bottom if they agreed to time me with a calendar on the agility

Went last year ad it was great

These are the same trains that pass thru some of our Hudson Valley Counties , thru the downtown of villages and West Point grounds but a dangerous feature is when the tracks are on ridges above some river towns, which could turn them into instant Pompeii"s, when this volatile liquids flow

I would apply again and start from the bottom if they agreed to time me with a calendar on the agility

I would apply again and start from the bottom if they agreed to time me with a calendar on the agility

I would apply again and start from the bottom if they agreed to time me with a calendar on the agility

With all the investigations going on by local, state ad federal investigatiors, it seems handy to me that a huge record storage structure holding perhaps damaging files should be completely consumed. A small fire was started at about 0430 was extinguished by the sprinkler system and FD responded , now perhaps at 0430 the system could not be restored. and the sprinkler system shut off .fully or in part, Now at 0600 the FD returns to a heavy involved structure the size of several football fields. I think this is more sinister then a rekindle. just my two cents

Good lesson on flushing the standpipe before hooking up, at a fire when this wasn't done, saw a Hostess Tweekie wrapper cause havoc at a standpipe operation

Good lesson on flushing the standpipe before hooking up, at a fire when this wasn't done, saw a Hostess Tweekie wrapper cause havoc at a standpipe operation

Some outfits have gone to 2in. hose with 2 1/2 in coupling. Interesting concept less friction loss and no need for reducers at valve. However the most important feature is the 15/16 straight tip nozzle, it was shocking to see how many Departments had some sort of fog nozzle which required 100psi to operate correctly on standpipe lengths ( A major issue in Philly Meridian Plaza fire, when standpipe pre set reducer valves were put on wrong floors coupled with fog nozzles, thus causing a pressure disaster, as I recall three firefighters died and fire operations were stopped and the building abandoned as they were afraid this high rise would collapse into downtown Philly.
Straight tip nozzles would have used the available pressure and developed some sort of fire stream, maybe not perfect but at least a stream not the dribble from the fog nozzle. Sadly, they ended up stretching 5in supply hose up something like 22 floors, could you imagine ??

Some outfits have gone to 2in. hose with 2 1/2 in coupling. Interesting concept less friction loss and no need for reducers at valve. However the most important feature is the 15/16 straight tip nozzle, it was shocking to see how many Departments had some sort of fog nozzle which required 100psi to operate correctly on standpipe lengths ( A major issue in Philly Meridian Plaza fire, when standpipe pre set reducer valves were put on wrong floors coupled with fog nozzles, thus causing a pressure disaster, as I recall three firefighters died and fire operations were stopped and the building abandoned as they were afraid this high rise would collapse into downtown Philly.
Straight tip nozzles would have used the available pressure and developed some sort of fire stream, maybe not perfect but at least a stream not the dribble from the fog nozzle. Sadly, they ended up stretching 5in supply hose up something like 22 floors, could you imagine ??

Boston can dump the snow in the same body of water, that they dumped the tea. --------If of course that isn't a violation