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They originally had a 86 Mack/Aerialscope which they sent to Pierce last year or late 2011 for remounting and refurbishing of the boom. Here is the almost final product, just missing some decals.

Wow. Hits close to home.
I know exactly where West is, and lived aout an hour south of it in Austin. VERY small rural Texas town.
To add to what TXCHIEF said,
For geographical context, People often confuse (and now the media) West (name of the town in Central Texas where this happened), with "West Texas",which is NOT the region where this occured. It's about a 1/2 hour from Fort Hood, 2 hours south of Dallas/Fort Worth, and about an hour 1/2 north of Austin. I-35, which runs from Mexico to the Candian Border, and is a major interstate, runs through West. Many people stop there along the way for the "Czech Stop" a Czech bakery. The town is known most locally for "WestFest", a festival celebrating the towns Czech geritage.
The EMS service and hospital I worked for down there provided EMS to a portion of Mclennan County, and sent numerous resources to this incident. Mclennan Community College has a strong Paramedic program. West has one of the stonger EMS systems in the area. My mom actually works at the hospital where most of the critical patients (several children) were transferred to (Scott and White Level I Trauma Center). Two other hospitals recieving critical patients was Scott And White Hillcrest in a Waco and Parkland Hospital in Dallas, which has a world renowed burn center (the Parkland formula), also known for the hospital JFK was taken to. Seton Brackenridge and St Davis Austin also recieved pts. I have heard that some other hosptials in San Antonio and Fort Hood also recieved pts, but cannot confirm.
On a side note, the "Waco" incident occured on April 19th, 1993. Waco, the largest "city" in the are besides Temple, is home to Baylor University.
Thoughts and Prayers.

Montgomery Engine 219 "In Production" pictures: http://www.ferrarafire.com/CustomerSupport/InProduction/InProduction.html
Montgomery Engine 223 "In Production" pictures: http://www.ferrarafire.com/CustomerSupport/InProduction/InProduction.html
Washingtonville Engine 582 "In Production" pictures: http://www.ferrarafire.com/CustomerSupport/InProduction/InProduction.html
Looks like Washingtonville is going with a new black over red paint scheme with their new engine

CNN is reporting an arrest has been made...report is preliminary at this point

Interesting story about a Rescue truck.
http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/dallas/Irving-fire-fighters-unveil-its-one-of-a-kind-rescue-truck-202927301.html

Here is a better picture that I took on the Garden State Parkway on my way to Atlantic City back in February.

Took this picture about two weeks ago from the upper parking lot at WCDES. It's not my best picture, but here it is for a test shot.

As sick as all this is if you watch the video it is imediatly apparent that this is an intentional terrorist act and instead of everyone running away you see both the professional and citizen rescurers taking immediate action to save lives in the face of extreme danger. It is without a doubt the immediate care on scene by bystanders an the rapid and professional care provided by Boston's EMS system and the excellent hospitals saved lives. Be vigilant.

The was one explosion at the fishing line, the second occurred ifo the Lenox Hotel up the street. There is beleived to be and being reported that two more unexplored devices found and being dismantled - this last bit is not confirmed as if yet but sounding like on the scanners.
Also a friend of mine who was up there at the finish line area is okay and accounted for.

http://www.cnn.com/
Around the 13 second mark you can see the second explosion in the background. Numerous reports of amputations and serious injuries

Battalion Chief* He was posthumously promoted, since he was currently sitting on the B/C list with a decent chance of getting made.

Godspeed Chief.

Date: 04/12/13
Time: 1930hrs
District: City of Newburgh
Location: Courtney Ave in the Hts
Units: City of Newburgh Police, Orange County Sheriff's Deputies, MLSS
Frequency: NPD
Weather Conditions: Rain
Reporters: ace84
Description: (1) Person Shot

More grist from the ED doc at Phelps: Per him, the BLS cannot do RX, like epi-pen, albuterol and ASA. But they can do plain BLS work. Which is what we all did before the damn medics with their tubes and needles and wires came along.

Mark if your seeing the place holder click on that it should come up.

I started a new topic as it appears the old one is now lost. Wassaic's new pumper to replace the 1989 Pierce Dash is under construction at Firematic on LI. Here are some of the specifications regarding the vehicle.
2013 International 7400 4 Door 4x4 Maxxforce 9, 330 hp Diesel Engine Super Single Aluminum Wheels and Goodyear Tires Firematic Aluminum Compartment Body 750 Gallon Integrated Water Tank / 30 Gallon Foam Cell 1250 Hale Front Mount Pump with custom pump panel, fully colored coded Fire Research Pump Boss Governor Fire Research Water and Foam Level Gauges Fire Research Flow Meter for 5" Discharge CAFS foam using a Boss Rotary air compressor FoamPro 2002 Class A Foam Injection System Trident Air primers Elkhart Electric Valves Two 2.0" Speedlays behind the cab with 200 Ft. Each of 2" Hose One 2.5" Speedlay behind the cab with 200 Ft. Each of 2 1/2" Hose 5" Large Diameter Discharge Off Right Front Bumper Two Front 2.5" Direct Discharges Booster Reel with 200 Ft of 1" Booster Hose, CAFS capable Hale AutoFill tank valve Hale EZ Fill Foam system 1000 Feet of 5" Deadlay Custom area under hose bed to hold, 25' 3 Section Aluminum Ladder, 20' roof ladder, 10" folding ladder, little giant ladder, 4 pike poles, chimney poles Custom area to hold 3 - 12' sections of 6" suction fitted with 6" storz couplings and 3 - 10' sections of 2 1/2" suction NFPA LED Lighting Package with all light recessed into body and bumper Sound off signal 12 head LED rear traffic advisor Sound off singal inner Pinnacle split light bar Three (3) - 12 Volt Whelen PFP2 LED scene lighting including Brow light PIAA 520 ATP Xtreme off road driving lights installed in the old headlights blanks Total of 4 USSC SCBA Seats in the Cab Backstop rear bumper with transmission lock-up GPS system intregrated with the backup camera with a 7" dash mounted monitor Scott wireless remote receiver for the TIC camera with 10" flip down monitor Scott vehicle mount charger center for the TIC camera Custom tool board mounting On board mini refrigerator Amkus hydraulic pump and combo cutter.spreader Federal Q2 siren and Federal electronic Q2 with 200 watt speaker Tripp Lite 3000 watt invertor 6600 watt on board portable generator with quic connct electric cord reel with 200' reel of 10/3 wire, also three recessed in body, 20 amp twist lock outlets Vehicle data recorder with seat belt monitors for all seating positions

From press release at EmpressEMS.com:

A view of the fire tower on Mount Beacon. Taken April 9, 2013

Not really but you have to remember fire apparatus age doesn't really go by "road miles". We are more concerned with "engine hours of operation". Since all apparatus have some sort of power take off from the engine to operate a ladder's components, a fire pump, or a generator, those engine hours can translate into road miles for the engine and transmission.
For example my old pumper at my vollie house, a 1981 American LaFrance Century 1250 pumper had only 9800 road miles on it when it went out of service in 2006 (25 years of operation). Its engine hours was up over 20,000 and the pump hours of running was about 18,000. So if you do some calculations, basically you have a truck that ran an equivilant of 20,000+ road miles just by figuring in the pump and engine hours. I know this is not the best explination but I hope it somewhat makes sense.

Date: 04/09/13
Time: 2115
Incident Type: PIAA Rollover
District: Brewster
Location: I-684 Northbound (just south of Exit 9)
Units: Brewster Fire and EMS, Putnam County BLS 4, Medic 4, NYSP
Frequency:
Weather Conditions: Clear and Warm
Reporters: GrumpyFF

Description: One car traveling northbound left the roadway and rolled over. Unsure of the number of patients, as I drove by.

Date: 4/8/13
Time: aprox. 20:15
Location: 6 Eagleton Drive
On Scene: Chester FD (Full Department), Monroe FD (E-543, E-537, T-538), Warwick FD (E-634, TA-639), Greenwood Lake FD (E-619), Town of Chester PD, Chester EMS (312, 313, 316), Warwick EMS (204 rehab unit), Mobile Life Support (S.O.R.Team)
Stand-bys: Greenwood Lake E-620? -> Chester Station 3
Coordinators; EMS 15, EMS 16
Weather Conditions: Warm, clear
Reporters: EMT111
Description: Fire in a row on condos. Fire managed to get over the fire walls and damage 5 condos before being brought under control.
This was just what I saw on scene. If anyone has any additional info as to what units were where, let me know.

It is with great sadness that the Lake Carmel Fire Dept announces the passing of former Lieutenant Marcus Sorbellini (39 y/o). Marcus was involved in a one car motor vehicle accident in Beekman early Sunday morning where he died instantly. The passenger was air lifted to St. Frances in Dutchess with non life threatening injuries.
While I am on the web site to post about our member and the loss his four daughters now have I am here to extend my sincere gratitude to the men and women of the Beekman Fire dept and Ambulance as well as the Troopers and Medics that were on scene. From what I have gathered talking to a few of you that were on scene it was horrific and there is nothing in the world anybody can say to take those images away. All I can say is keep your head up and keep moving forward your brothers and sisters in Lake Carmel are thinking about you too and we are here if you need us.
Arrangements are as follows: Thursday 2-4pm and 7-9pm at Cargain Funeral Home, Fowler Ave, Carmel. Fire Dept will be paying their respects to the family at 7pm in uniform. The Funeral will be at St James on Rt 52 in Carmel on Friday beginning at 11am internment to follow at Raymond Hill Cemetery on Rt 52 in Carmel.
Chief Shawn Madsen
Lake Carmel FD
www.lcfd.com

All the time and money wasted putting these in is what's getting to me. It would be nice if the federal government (or any government for that matter) learned to think things through before acting. How could they not see this coming?

Seth: Glad you are feeling better and are out of the hospital, and sorry that you had to find your creation in disarray. We will be patient. Keep getting healthier, and take your time with the restore process, so you do not rush to do the fixes and create immense stress for yourself. We keep checking the site, just in case, and will be there when it comes back on full. Just wish there was some way to donate besides PayPal - unable to do that, but maybe in future......Good luck.
Hey, just thought of this - Huge internet virus hit internet, you get sick about the same time, and so does your "child" the website - Hmmmmmm - always thought you were extremely connected and seem to be everywhere at once to get us great pictures and posing interesting questions for discussion, but did not realize you were so "plugged in" to get the virus, too!
Get better soon.

God forbid anyone mention MERGERS, everyone wants their own piece of the pie...
Sound familiar???

Buchanan FD, Montrose FD Tower Ladder, Montrose VA FAST, Croton FD FAST, C&O Zone 4, Battalion 10. Verplanck FD Engine relocate to Buchanan