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You know I forgot he was at Wiffle. Damn 5 minutes away from me. Who needs some????? Spring is around the corner LOL

Some one up there like him a lot!!! WOW thankfully he's ok

Thanks guys on the Danbury Co. 9 question. A few more, Bridgeport old Squad 5 was a Ford C (the yellow one) East Brooklyn ran one as a engine. Baltic FD in Sprague has two as pumpers

My bad I missed it. I have to stop working these midnights!!

Working 911 for 6 years I could have told you that. Even with the e-911 the information comes from the phone company and they are not right 100% of the time. Another problem is cellphone calls. Until Phase 3 is done withe the GPS in the phones, you cannot pinpoint an excat location on every phone. Only a few providers actually have this feature in the current Phase 2. Verison, Cingular and Sprint are the only ones that can give a GPS reading. Verison thoug is a pain because they are sending the GPS signal through the same frequency as the talk out on the phone. This cuts out the voice when your tring to talk to the caller and have to keep asking questions over. This last usually win the first 15 seconds of the call or transfer. I have made some bad mistakes in the past on wrong location because of the information provided by the caller. It happens but fellow dispatchers don not get complacent! Thank god no one got hurt during my incident. The dispatcher has to make sure he / she has the right answer. Computers are not perfect and neither are humans when they are excited during an emergency. Have to stay on top of things and notiy the phone company when there are problems with the Ani / Ali information.

I work at Troop I here is the truths and untruths 1. All Cars are not retired at 60,000 miles. Many troopers are using cars up until 80,000 to 90,000 miles now or even more in some cases. When a car gets retired, they are placed into the spare pool. If there is a major mechanical problem, IE transmission is going, they are removed from service and lately have not been getting fixed. 2. New cars usually go to senior troopers first and those with high miles. 3. New recruits get hand me downs. These cars can have anywhere from 35,000 miles or up. Recruits do not get brand new cars. A lot of them come from the spare pool. 4. All light bars, LED and strobe have cruise lights (the out board running marker lights) that can be turned off an on. This is helpfull for when running radar. CSP has always had running / cruise lights dating back to the old big blue strobe "gumball" style light in the 80's. It had nothing to do with a complaint about police presence on the highways. It was done to make them more visible to the public. All most all CT police departments have cruise lights on there bars. 5. The amber "STATE POLICE" in the center can also be turned off with the marker switch. This is the only identification mark on the car. All curisers are unmarked and the troopers take them home. Troopers are technically on duty in there cruiser / "soft car" wether working or not. 6. When a trooper is off duty, they must remove the light bar. All cruisers have disconnects including the new LED bars. The new quick connects don't have the old box, they are more like a weather proof twisting connection. 7. Any car with markings on the side of the cars are enforcement cars or used for special details. These are usually stored at the troops, the academy, headquarters of at one of the 3 district HQ's. This depends who is using it. 8. The cruisers are ordered mainly in dark blue, brown, green or silver by the Fleet Offices. Other colors do exist but rarely. 9. Right now they are also using Intrepids and Impalas as soft cars for traffic division (these troopers also have a cruiser assinged to them as well), major crime detectives or other soft cars. 10. Master Seargents, Lieutenants, Capatains, Majors, ect have Crown Vics with out light bars. If they are reassigned to a trooper or spare pool, lightbar equipment is installed. Any other questions I will be happy to answer. If I do not have one, I will find out for you.

They filmed a show in John Ratzenberg's home town of Bridgeport,CT fairly recently but I forget what factory they filmed at. I know the company builds machines to build heavy production and assembly equipment.

They forgot the word orange does not rhyme with any other word.

Maybe he should have put it's hind legs in some bunker boots and held it near the edge of the hose bed. I wonder what Shirley would say if she saw Lambchop like this? There! I said it! I'm sick! LOL Should we Continue????? This is so Baaaaad.

Well, after metioning it a few times here, our new Smeal pumper is done. I was out at Smeal last week and saw the final product. All I could say is WOW!. The new engine is built on a Spartan chassis with a Gladiator Classic LFD raised cab, with seating for 8 (driver, Officer SCBA, 4 rear SCBA and two fold downs). It is equiped with a 1500 gpm Waterous two-stage pump with Foam Pro system. It has a 500 gallon water, 40 gallon Class B and 20 gallon Class A tanks. Two 1 3/4 and one 2 1/2 crosslay, one rear 1 3/4 preconnect, and a fron bumper 2 inch discharge. Ididn't get to drive it out there, but the ride was incredible. I just submitted a photo to the EMTBravo.com main page and hopefully it should be up there. The truck is in CT now at NEFEA in North Haven awaiting mounting of tools, radios and other equipment. Hopefully we will have it in service by April. Also while at the factory I found out that Yonkers new trucks are not on the line yet. Izzy

I wich we had room to put our bell on our bumper. Good luck with the new Ferrara's PFD!! Our Engine 1 is a 2001 model and Company one likes it!

Massachussetts is holding theier 2006 Civil Service exams for firefighter state wide. You can pick 4 towns / cities you want to apply for if you are not claming residency in one town. Click the link below for further information. www.mass.gov/civilservice Also the deadline is April 24, 2005. They will accept applications up to May 15th for an additional fee for $25. There is an age restiction for some departments. These departments will only accept firefighters at a maximum age of 32 (similar to FDNY's 29 y.o.a. restriction) so if you take the test, check before you apply to the towns. Boston is one of the departments with the age restriction. There are several that do not have an age restriction

I Have buffed Boston many times in the past and can't beleive what they can do with ther aerials. I guess having to fight fires since the 1650's they know a thing or two about tight spaces! I know since the newer trucks are comming in that some of the tactics are changing abit especially with the department now having a total of 6 towers (correct me if I have that wrong) But this is good since the old Tower Unit (aka Tower Ladder 3) and its spare were the only ones in the department for years and would go to all second / third alarms in town. I think with the new heavy duty Pierces they will be able to make up for the tight spaces with the extention lenght of the ladder, in some spaces, though the advantages of the E-Ones manuverability are better. The sissor style jacks are great for small streets. The last I know it was still the SOP to have the first ladder set up and ready to go. I'm heading up there for St. Patricks Day so hopefully I'll get to see a job and see how they are woking the new trucks. They are definately one of the most if the most agressive truck departments in the country.

This sounds like it could be a classic case of "blame the FD for my messup." It sounds like the story is not the whole one. Hopefully the FD that responded saw the problem and cut the power to this plug by shutting off the breaker and giving the owner the proper instructions to get it repaired and not to use the circuit untill it was fixed. If the fire started again, well that could only mean only this, they didn't call an electrician to fix the problem and turned the breaker back on after the FD left. I've seen this too may times. Hopefully the FD didn't overlook anything and documented everything they did. If the FD didn't do their jobs as well like nutty1 said, then they are to blame also. The whole story should come out soon. Either way it is bad.

I know Gowans-Knight makes a decent mini pumper and Pierce did for a big name company. ALF does make some but I think they got that from when they took over Becker. I think Seagrave also has a decent one. I'm only familiar with Gowans-Knight units since there are several around me for mini attack / brush rigs (my department does not have one) I'm only going but what I have seen used by area departments.

To Jason to answer your question about why we have 2 guys on a line. It usually depends on what time of day, manpower is the issue since my department is a vollie department. So that would be a major consideration. Plus the fact that our running rules are a bit different than some. We have 5 engine companies, 3 are single engines company an the other two have the ladder at one house and the squad/rescude at the other engine company house. So if it is in the middle of the day, we try to split up the companies but that sometimes dowsn;t work for us. This issue is being addressed now since this is becoming more of a problem in the last few months. If it is a night, like most volunteer fd's we get too many people and we can assign them to specific assignments. 2 inch might work for us, but we'll obviously have to train a lot on it. Also to ALS, just to let you know, I wasn't comparing the 1 3/4 water to a 2.5. I was comparing the discussion how 1.5" and the 1 3/4 comparison is like the 2" to 2.5" discussion. That's all. Sorry if I confused you on that.

We use vest for those positions, we do not have just one specific person certified for those positions. We used to have jackets with so many titles, company names ect it just got too out of hand. KISS method was implimented

Orange CT runs a Ford / Pierce as spare Engine 31 Oxford has 2 in reserve status (unknown body manufacturer) one is in Oxfrod Center and one is in Riverside. Monroe FD runs a Ford C chassis for Rescue 220 Stepney Has Engine 103(?) Ford C spare pumper Avon Engine 11 " The Ugly Duckling", pictures are on Gowans-Kinght's webs site Bethlehem did have one but I thik it is retired. Cos Cob Patrol 2 was a Ford C rescue / salvage Hamden's Mix District Vol Engine 7 is a Ford C / FMC Didn't Danbury Engine 9 run a Ford-C pumper that was replaced by the HME / Toney? There are a couple more in CT in service but I have to research them.

We just finished inspecting out new Smeal midmount rescue pumper and it's pretty much the same as or faithful 1981 ALF Century with updates. Obviously an enclosed cab is better especially for rehab since all trucks come with heat and AC. I'll miss standing in the jump seats though a saftey hazard, feeling the air horn "hit you in the chest" when they are working. Ever since Waterbury CT lost 2 guys in a horrible crash back in the late 80's, one guy was thrown from the jumpseat area standing, a lot of guys up here eventually stopped the practice. Closed cabs were a good manditory change. The old ALF had a federal twinsonic light bar, electronic siren in the bar and of course a 2QB. The rear rotators were removed (the old Whelen three "bubble glass" rotators, and replaced with strobes. Also there were no front warning lights so two strobes with a pack were added in the late 80's. The new truck has front and rear rotators and LED for pirimiter lights. We still have air horns, electronic siren and a 2QB. I think the way electrical loads are handled now are extremely better thatn those from old trucks, but at the same token, not much was needed back then compared to NFPA 1901 now. The only thing that I cannot stand is the new multiplexing sytems. So far everyone who has it, no matter what truck manufacturer has had problems with them.

Sounds like the difference between a 1 1/2 and 1 3/4 debate they had years back. For us I don;t think running all 2's would help us cause of man power. We usually only have 2 guys per line. Can 2 handle a 2" ok?

The Best Wings?!?!?!?!?!? OK Come to CT and I only have to say one place - ARCHIE MOORES The original is in New Haven on Willow Street. Easy to get to. Take I-95 Noprth to I-91 North and get off exit 6 (left exit) Take a right at the end of the ramp and it is on the left side about a 1/2 mile up the road. Therer is another in Fairfield in downtown not far from the Metro North train station, Milford near the town docks and Wallingford on North Main Street. You all will be happy with them. Try them out if you are up this way. And TK's are good too, We have one in New Haven. haven't been to Danbury yet.

They just aquired TAC-9 which had really good coverage of New England and New York.

I agree with the name and if a tile has to be put on the back of the coat, leave it for the chiefs only. Capts and lou's are recognized by the yellow helmet (The belevolent order of Bannana-heads!!!)

FireCapt, though I am at a young age now I hope I remember your words when I get old and pass the torch on to the next generation. I do agree with you and I was also trying to show the other side that I sometimes see. I respect your thoughts and would back you if you needed it.

Another game that is cool and addictive is one called Blocker. Go to www.strongfireco.com and click on BLOCKER on the left side of the screen. Its a reverse tetris game. You need the of the same colored blocks connecting to clear them out. Not a firefighter game though, but histed by a PA fire company. Tetris fans should like it.