dadbo46

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    From Defense Industry Daily:

    US Military Contracts for Fire and Emergency Gear

    Most people think “defense procurement” and think “weapons,” but the truth is that infrastructure and associated services consumes at least as much money. In December 2007 (FY 2008), the Defense Supply Center Philadelphia (DSCP, now the US Defense Logistics Agency’s Troop Support group) in Philadelphia, PA issued awards by region for “tailored logistics support” involving fire and emergency equipment on behalf of US military installations, other federal agencies and departments, and other approved customers. In practice, all of the contracts below may involve the US Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, federal civilian agencies, or even state and local governments as end customers.

    http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/us-military-contracts-for-fire-and-emergency-services-04508/#more-4508

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    From today's NY Times:

    Batteries in Electric Cars Examined After Chevy Volt Fire

    By NICK BUNKLEY

    DETROIT — Federal safety regulators said Friday that they were examining lithium-ion batteries used in electric cars because a Chevrolet Volt ignited three weeks after it underwent a crash test.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/12/business/energy-environment/regulators-examine-electric-car-batteries-after-fire.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha25

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    "County Fire Control" initiated the term "Mini-Attack" in the mid-70's when there was a growing number of non-rated pumpers that were being used for quick-out, mimimum manning (generally 2 or 4 max)apparatus used for minor incidents such as car, brush, dumpster fires as well as wires down, etc.

    It was inappropriate to call them pumpers (engines) because their pumping capacity was less than 750 GPM (they were generally in the range of 250 GPM)and the term "utility" was not accurate (I always thought the term "utility" were vehicles/apparatus that didn't fit into any other catergory.......I suppose they could have been called "Miscellaneous Vehicles.").

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    BTW. one of the biggest thing that holds the the 24 depts. with ISO 9 or splits with a 9 is the fact that we have too many local depts. Standardized tankers and standardized response make a huge difference in getting away from the 9. They must manuver the same, dump and fill the same and the same dump and fill times and volume. The also must be designed to dump and fill fast with fewer personnel than we use. Watching an ISO 4 dept fill tankers with only the tanker driver and not an extra engine company at the fill site works.

    What he said !

  10. Posted · Edited by dadbo46

    Cleaning the river is a good thing to do. Building burms along the river so that low lying areas immediately adjacent to the river is wise. Constructing concrete river botoms and embankments certainly made a difference in flooding along the Saw Mill in Ardsley and Yonkers.

    However, the root cause of all the flooding, now ocurring on a regular basis, is the overdevelopment and the establishment of impervious surfaces.

    Impervious services prevent the absorbtion of runoff into the ground. Instead, water runs down and around the impervious surfaces, dumps into a storm drain (and sometimes a sanitary sewer.....but that's a discussion for another day) and into a river. The river fills up with silt and debris, the river slows and flooding ocurrs.

    When development is proposed, municipal planners generally are able to detect and identify the "water" impact of the development. However, in the end, the almighty short term $$ euphoria always, always trumps logical environmental planning.

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    This is why the airport can't expand, for people like this.

    Neighbor: Renovations Will Bring More Traffic, Noise to County Airport (Full Article)

    This is what is planned for construction:

    Nothing here seams like it would attract Larger and louder planes.

    This is David Gelfarb's response to the above article:

    Does anybody know if the construction at HPN has been stoped due to budget issues?

    No construction has been stopped.

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    Although these new planes are awesome, and I want to see what new markets they open us, jetBlue has lost me as a loyal customer and fans

    They are no different then any other airline now. They constantly have performance problems, the customer service sucks, planes are filthy, and most of the time friends, family, and I have flown- the TV's didn't work or worked poorly. Since that's one of their main selling points, you'd think they would do something about that-especially since they own the company who installs and repairs these TV's! And the "free snacks"...you used to get a large portion of snacks and a full can of a beverage...now the snacks sizes are minicule, and they give you this tiny can for beverages.

    They also don't have any plans to offfer Wi-Fi on board anytime soon.

    We'll see how this pans out.....hopefully they will become the jetBlue I knew and loved once again. Not that I'm planning to travel anytime soon, but whenever I do,it will probaly be whoever has the direct flight at the lowest cost.

    What is the weight of the A321 ? That will probably determine if it can utilize HPN.

    As for me, my frequent trips between HPN and MCO have mostly been with Air Tran. While they have only one direct flight a day, I agree with Seth, Jet Blue is starting to look like all of the legacy airlines......especially their prices !