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    Anyone know if "Hunter" ambulance has anything to do with the storm? I passed one on 684 in Katonah today, it had lots of people in the back of it (no patient or anything, looked like it was being used to transport a bunch of people) Any info would be appreciated.

    Hunter's Ambulance is based out of Meriden, CT and have a white and maroon color scheme. I beleive they are part of the CAG (Certified Ambualnce Group) and I know through the CT forum they have been asked to help out with coverage to the affected areas.

    As for photos, you also have to look at it from a historical and research point of view. Yah we all may be taking ome shot down there and it may look like "photo ops" per-se but on the flip side, those photos are documenting everthing that happened to all the affected areas. In do time, researchers are going to look at these photos and try to come up with a plan what to do to help prevent this disaster or worse from happening again. Its also a documantation of the fact others travled so far to help other out in thier time of need.

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    All the vollie departments took a Hit down in Queens. Broad Channel lost bot ambulances due to the flooding and the Hahn pumper they got from Malverne during a fire in their district (as i was told). Breezy Point I think was okay but Far Rockaway lost a couple rigs I think too. I think FDNY also lost a few rigs during the storm too or had to abandon them.

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    Last night, the Easton FD suffered an LODD. Reports are a truck was responding to an alarm when a tree struck it. The firefighter suffered major head trauma. No other information is available at the time. Information will be and should be posted here when official word has been released.

    Please pray for the family and the members of Easton in their time of need.

    (*)

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    You can always tell a system with diaphones / sirens verses a system without. Systems with "horns" run slower so it can pronounce the "blasts" where as a fast running system like in the first video would be utilized at a manned firestation with a watch desk.

    I love to see that there are people who collect the boxes and accessories and get them up and running. It may be an antiquated system but it is STILL THE MOST RELIABLE ALERTING SYSTEM OUT THERE! :D

    Now if I can only find a 477 cog or a 292 number plate for my boxes!

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    Have you always wondered who Mark Twain (aka Samuel Clemens) modeled his tough little boy character Tom Sawyer after?

    Please met the real Tom Sawyer: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/The-Adventures-of-the-Real-Tom-Sawyer-169773916.html

    On a rainy afternoon in June 1863, Mark Twain was nursing a bad hangover inside Ed Stahle’s fashionable Montgomery Street steam rooms, halfway through a two-month visit to San Francisco that would ultimately stretch to three years. At the baths he played penny ante with Stahle, the proprietor, and Tom Sawyer, the recently appointed customs inspector, volunteer fireman, special policeman and bona fide local hero.

    In contrast to the lanky Twain, Sawyer, three years older, was stocky and round-faced. Just returned from firefighting duties, he was covered in soot. Twain slumped as he played poker, studying his cards, hefting a bottle of dark beer and chain-smoking cigars, to which he had become addicted during his stint as a pilot for steamboats on the Mississippi River from 1859 until the Civil War disrupted river traffic in April 1861. It was his career on the Mississippi, of course, that led Samuel Clemens to his pen name, “mark twain” being the minimum river depth of two fathoms, or roughly 12 feet, that a steamboat needed under its keel.

    Sawyer, 32, who was born in Brooklyn, had been a torch boy in New York for Columbia Hook and Ladder Company Number 14, and in San Francisco he had battled fire for Broderick 1, the city’s first volunteer fire company, under Chief David Broderick, the first fire chief. Twain perked up when Sawyer mentioned that he had also toiled as a steamboat engineer plying the Mexican sea trade. Twain well knew that an engineer typically stood between two rows of furnaces that “glare like the fires of hell” and “shovels coal for four hours at a stretch in an unvarying temperature of 148 degrees Fahrenheit!”.....................

    Read more: http://www.smithsoni...l#ixzz28TblpEXx

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    I'll have to check a second source, but in Philly a "Pipeline" Engine must have

    • 1500 gpm pump
    • Minimum 500 gallon water tank (that's PFD standard,..)
    • Minimum 15' 5" soft suction
    • Minimum 1500' 5" supply line (Most PFD pumpers have 3" supply they dump to deluge guns or other pumpers)
    Correct. A pipeline is a engine comapny with 5 inch hose on it. If it ran with only 3 inch, then it would be classified as and "Engine" insetad of a "Pipeline". One of my co-worker's father was a Philly firefighters for over 25 years, I checked with him.
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    I visited DCFDEMS and thier museum at "Columbia" Engine 3 last summer. They run 33 engines (sequential numbers), 16 trucks (numbered 2 through 17), three rescue squads, a hazmat unit with 2 hazmat suppoirt units, a air unit, brush fire unit, 2 fireboats, 2 foam units, 2 tacs, a command rig, the heavy crane wrecker, a canteen and a rehab unit as their "front line" fire apparatus. EMS has 39 ambulances.

    Engine 52 is a hose wagon and carries thier five inch hose. If I remember correctly its about 2000 feet carried. It is station at "Columbia" Engine 3 which is across the street from the "Billy Goat" (great little bar) and not far from the Capitol Building. Now there are six "water supply hose wagons" with one assigned to each of the six battalions. They were manned by the engine company where they are housed in but they can be picked up by another company if the assigned engine company is out on another call. They are the standard DCFD engines just with five inch hose on them. There was talk of fully staffing them 24 / 7 after some pretty significant incidents over the years or at least runing them as a two-piece engine company to all alarms in thier districts. Here are the locations;

    Battalion 1 - Engine 12 has WS Engine 51

    Battalion 2 - Enigne 3 has WS Engine 52

    Battalion 3 - Enigne 19 has WS Engine 53

    Battalion 4 - Engine 11 has WS Engine 54

    Battalion 5 - Engine 21 has WS Engine 55

    Battalion 6 - Engine 16 has WS Engine 56

    (Notice the last number of the WSE co-insides with the Battalion number)

    DCFD/EMS was traditionally a two-piece engine company (the engine and the hose wagon) due to the lay out of the city. Many of the residential and commercial structures have rear alleyways between the blocks. So when responding, the Engine Comapny hose wagon would lay into the ally way with the engine taking the hydrant while the next due engine and hose wagon would take the front of the building. This was done because of access problems. Though they do not have the traditional two-piece engine companies of yesteryear, they still operate this way by sending an engine into the alleyway and an engine to the front. I think the alleyway engine also has a engine at the hydrant to feed it.

    I though I had posted some pictures from my visit to "Columbia" Engine 3 and the fire museumb here on the forum but the thread may be archived. I have to search for it again.

    Also the reason I call Engine 3 "Columbia" is because the company traces its roots back to the original "Columbia Engine Company No. 3" of the old volunteer days. this comapny was in charge of protecting the Captiol area. Engine 3 is one of three original fire comanies in DC that have transitioned from the volunteer force into the current career force. The fourth was Truck 1 which was housed at Engine 3 until it was disbanded during the 1980s / 1990s. Also there is talk of erecting a new firehouse for Columbia Engine 3 and giving thier current firehouse over to the fire museum which currently occupies the third floor of the building.

    DCFD/EMS website:http://www.dcfd.com/stations.php

    IAFF Local 36 Website: http://www.iaff36.org

    Friendship Fire Association website (museum): http://www.friendshipfire.org/

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