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After attending the NYSAFC seminar, featuring Mike Dugan, last week I stating thinking about what speakers I enjoyed and learned from. So I was wondering who have you learned from or enjoyed? Is it a national name like: Mike Dugan, Bob Pressler, John Salka, Butch Cobb, Tim Sendelbach or is it a local name? Please support your post if you wish to contribute.

As per the Scott Eagle 1. I wouldn't even consider it. Its heavy, small screen, okay field of view, not ergonomic, and most of all a BST sensor. With that sensor it just can't hang anymore. Plus there are so many microbolometer TICs that you can get for approximately the same $. My personal opinion is that the MSA Evolution 5200 is the best TIC on the market. Don't get me wrong the Bullard is a good TIC but I don't think its the best. I will support this statement, the MSA has a bigger field of view, extra safety features, larger display (actually measure the T3Max its not 3.5"), instant on, wider range in high sense mode and higher low sense mode all in package of the same weight. I took the Safe IR class and was able to compare them side by side. From all the research I've done I can say that there are alot of great features offered by alot of different TIC manufactures so my camera of choice may not be for you but I feel it fits the bill best for all around use.

My dept which is out of Westchester does the following: Chiefs = white; line officers = yellow; firefighters = black; new member probationary & <18 yr probationary = orange; we have also implented that all black helmet FFs have large colored triangles on the back of their helmets. Red triangle = interior & Yellow triangle = extrication. With these large 4"w x 6"h scotchlite triangles you see who is where they don't belong from a great distance.

Any natural color fiber is the way to go whether its Pbi, Pbi Matrix, Pbi Plus, Fusion, or Milenia. (Gold advance is dyed so its not a natural fiber also because its dyed it has poor color fastness & UV rays attack it easily because if all the kevlar in the mix) These materials are great because they do show wear and as for the cleaning I'll agree with everyone about biohazards but also the soot and dirt does not allow the gear to work as a system like its designed. The liner is meant to breath so soiled gear's THL (total heat loss) is reduced and it adds stress to the wearer. A soiled or contaminated moisture or thermal barrier can also pose a problem because of liquid getting through to the user. I have personally used black my whole life so the heat thing is kinda a moot point because it you'vr never known better, kinda like FD that still have steel & aluminum cylinders. But here's something to think about dept that are progressive and use a nice pbi shell or something but still put leather reinforcement on the gear. Leather is a pain to decon, absorbs moisture and increases working weight. Oh and LA uses yellow material and those stupid little hard hat helmets but thats another thread.

Har Rob is out of East Syracuse and its not the most pleasing looking of places. They are a Smeal dealership and some second rate tanker dealership. They do have at least one or two salesmen in the Monroe area. For the number of trucks that Woodbury has thats totally reasonable and common to send a tech 4 hours away and have him stay over night and do a whole fleet in the course of a week.

Guys actually RD Murray will become one of the primary facilities it sounds like they will be going down to 3 facilities RD, Casper and LTI. The offices sound like they will go to LTI since they have the room. The Charleston facility in the current market is worth alot more as an over the road assembly line. No one spends millions and millions of dollars to close down a business. And remember Pierce has been bought and sold plenty of times and it is still around strong.

The easy answer is no. The two reasons are insurance and agency status/affiliation. When I say status I mean federal ID # etc. There is a large unitarian (or what ever they are) compound by my district and they have a "fire brigade" teh county coordinater tried to push them through to get them into a class but the insurance thing became a huge deal. The only way would be to lie cheat and steal.

private I believe because what has has trickled down have been told that the new owners do not have pre existing distribution/dealerships and do not sell fire apparatus. So that would lead to beleive it is a totally private company not in the business at the moment. So Hebe is a possibility becaus esince they bailed from Seagrave there are no in the apparatus business but there are some other companies out there. Example the company that purchased Hackney they were an outsider to trucks until they purchased them. Guys even the "insiders" are being left guessing at the moment.

its just not ALF that was sold it was also the Condor cab/chassis, which is the cab over truck that is used for alot of trash trucks, see FDNY's "Spirit of Oklahoma" collapse rescue that chassis. A little more from whats floating out there. Also the same players are staying with ALF and just transfering to under this new owner. This is just another case of a company changing hands like Pierce I think they were sold and bought like 3 times in the last 10 years, its all business.

FYI to anyone that maybe waiting for a letter I just spoke with FDNY BHS this morning and they (the head nurse) said the letters are going to start going out Monday to notify guys that they are to report for this month's class. Best of luck to anyone waiting on their mailman.

Are you talking just about "stump jumpers" as what was shown on that web page or any off road wildland/brush/forestry truck? As for stump jumpers as a further upstate guy I haven't seen any in my travels except on LI. Even those are being down sized because less need and bigger restrictions on usage in protected areas. In my areas of travel (Orange to Montgomery counties) I have seen alot of different styles of vehicles but no deuce and a halfs as brush trucks or stump jumpers. One or two old raised old willy's style rigs, but mostly Ford 450s & 550s to the best of my recollections.

I believe they have canvased through like #2350, I'm #1432 and have gone through the "interview", psyc, and doctor's physical. I'm actually stuck at the dr. physical, medical hold, due to an injury I had as a kid. What I have heard is that the letters for the Sept class should have gone out or be going out soon. Then another class in Jan. of 250. There was also a promotional exam that will be adding about a hundred into the pool also. I guess the simple answer is anyone too far above 3000 will most likely have to test again. Sorry I can't help you anymore, in fact I wish I knew more.

Sorry I guess its still too early on a monday didn't see the link posted.

I can remember who's post it was I think someone from Pleasantville pertaining to their new truck anyways it was a link to under construction Ferrara's on that link you could see all the new satellites in progress. Try finding that post to see them.

Has anyone taken the time to look at the www.firefighternearmiss.com and if so what is your opinion? In fact do you think you have something worth posting there? I've taken a few minutes since it was on firehouse.com just to see what guys are posting and do some searching to see if guys share any close calls to see if anyone has had similar experiences to myself. I've read a bunch of them and I think this has merit but I don't think everyone posting should be posting or maybe are not posting what they should be posting. Example there is one about a guy who didn't have his mask on so he slowed the team down and that was reported as a possible cause for a possible fatality I'm not buying it. There is a great one about a guy that the floor collapsed and the RIT rescued him, great near miss story, but in the lessons learned it was only told what went right to safe him. Not the truly helpful part that should have talked about what he did wrong to have gotten trapped or what decisions led him to that problem. I know its new so I'm trying not to be critical but I'd like your honest opinion on this and your near miss stories! No BS stories I don't have time for it.

Not too sure about it other than a few things: its a class A engine, its an open spec (as close as you can get) custom cab, 1250 pump, 500 water and that they are trying to keep it small in size.

I'm alot further north than you guy so I know what my fd does doesn't apply but here's my two cents. My dept on all apparatus has your standard 1000w push up style lights on all the trucks but what we have incorporated in the last few years is a portable Wacker Light tower trailer (6kW, 60 hr run, lights up to 7 acres). The unit has its pros and cons we can get it places were the rescue with command light can't get, lets say to the backside of a structure but the primary con being is that you have to go get it and then have 5+ guys push it over all the hose lines to get it into place. So it is very useful to us most of the time and it is frequently used by mutual aid request. The truly largest problem with the unit is the Fire Commissioners. They want us to bring it to all mutual aid requests however it must be manned by our guys at all times, so when the neighbors call us to light up a fatal MVA no one is rushing to sit for 6 hours. Proper lighting is essential to every scene. So any ways I believe that command light style lights should be on all rigs also.

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can I ask what newspaper it was in?