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Can't possibly be all of those Departments and apparatus for a 30x60 2 story residence?

Letters were mailed out, the test is still scheduled as planned. Your entrance letter will tell you your arrival time.
If you plan on coming into the Department focused on rumors, promoting them, or a general bad attitude towards the City, hopefully your entrance letter arrives sometime in the next few weeks.
Best wishes to everyone else.

Just to clarify, the Stamford Engines (8 and 9) have been responding from within the Turn of River District for more than 6 years.
Dispatch protocol is to send a career response to all incidents. Ex: medicals get an engine, Vehicle collisions get a career engine and rescue and structural runs will get 3-4 Engines, Truck, Rescue, and Shift Commander. The district volunteer department (Turn of River) is also dispatched on the initial assignment and may respond. However, the percentage of responses by them is quite low in comparison to many other VFDs and often with only 2 or 3 personnel.
Belltown VFDs Truck is also added to structural response into Turn of River's response area.

The City appears to be trying to move on hiring in the very near future.
I would expect those that passed and scored at the top of the list will receive notification shortly.

K, I must have been confused when I read this.........

Letters were mailed out, the test is still scheduled as planned. Your entrance letter will tell you your arrival time.
If you plan on coming into the Department focused on rumors, promoting them, or a general bad attitude towards the City, hopefully your entrance letter arrives sometime in the next few weeks.
Best wishes to everyone else.

Letters were mailed out, the test is still scheduled as planned. Your entrance letter will tell you your arrival time.
If you plan on coming into the Department focused on rumors, promoting them, or a general bad attitude towards the City, hopefully your entrance letter arrives sometime in the next few weeks.
Best wishes to everyone else.

Letters were mailed out, the test is still scheduled as planned. Your entrance letter will tell you your arrival time.
If you plan on coming into the Department focused on rumors, promoting them, or a general bad attitude towards the City, hopefully your entrance letter arrives sometime in the next few weeks.
Best wishes to everyone else.

Is there a difference?
I am sure that someone from that Company could tack-on a Seagrave logo on the front of the rig to make you feel better.

Yet, the people that have been hired off the last list have mostly come from communities other than Stamford.....

As this is a proprietary component of Oshkosh/Pierce, it will be quite hard for any other vendor to supply this:
"Front Oshkosh TAK-4TM independent suspension shall be provided with a minimum ground rating of 24,000 lb."
Perhaps they should also include:
"All name plates must be oval and include a six letter manufacturers name that begins with a capital "P" and ends with an "e". Also, the vehicle must only be fabricated and assembled within the City of Appleton, Wisconsin."

As this is a proprietary component of Oshkosh/Pierce, it will be quite hard for any other vendor to supply this:
"Front Oshkosh TAK-4TM independent suspension shall be provided with a minimum ground rating of 24,000 lb."
Perhaps they should also include:
"All name plates must be oval and include a six letter manufacturers name that begins with a capital "P" and ends with an "e". Also, the vehicle must only be fabricated and assembled within the City of Appleton, Wisconsin."

That's right, it's just a machine. That one happens to have a mural on the side. Last time I worked in L10, they had a spare. It was an old rusty bucket and I PROMISE you, there wasnt any less pride among the members.There's plenty of pride in that rig......because we have pride in our TOOLS. When we start our tour or after a job, we wash our rig, we take a wire wheel to our hooks, haligans and brass nozzles.....because they're tools that we have pride in.

No, it is a tool.
Those that choose to elevate to something other than a tool, are usually the same tools that believe that racing around town with sirens and lights blaring while squirting water at each other is an acceptable way to demonstrate or use a tool.

The Sutphen SPH 100 at Truck 1 is one of the rigs affected by the recall. The new scope will most likely go there, but we plan on keeping the SPH and assigning it to another Truck once Sutphen has a suitable repair plan for their 5 section aerials.

The Sutphen SPH 100 at Truck 1 is one of the rigs affected by the recall. The new scope will most likely go there, but we plan on keeping the SPH and assigning it to another Truck once Sutphen has a suitable repair plan for their 5 section aerials.

The Sutphen SPH 100 at Truck 1 is one of the rigs affected by the recall. The new scope will most likely go there, but we plan on keeping the SPH and assigning it to another Truck once Sutphen has a suitable repair plan for their 5 section aerials.

Stamford's new Engine 8 KME (1500 gpm/1000 tank) entered service last Monday evening.
The other new KME for Engine 1 (1500 gpm/750 tank) is in the process of being outfitted and will hopefully be ready for mid-September.
Both rigs are similar to the new KME at Engine 9 that went into service in the fall of 2013.

Just to clarify, the Stamford Engines (8 and 9) have been responding from within the Turn of River District for more than 6 years.
Dispatch protocol is to send a career response to all incidents. Ex: medicals get an engine, Vehicle collisions get a career engine and rescue and structural runs will get 3-4 Engines, Truck, Rescue, and Shift Commander. The district volunteer department (Turn of River) is also dispatched on the initial assignment and may respond. However, the percentage of responses by them is quite low in comparison to many other VFDs and often with only 2 or 3 personnel.
Belltown VFDs Truck is also added to structural response into Turn of River's response area.

Just to clarify, the Stamford Engines (8 and 9) have been responding from within the Turn of River District for more than 6 years.
Dispatch protocol is to send a career response to all incidents. Ex: medicals get an engine, Vehicle collisions get a career engine and rescue and structural runs will get 3-4 Engines, Truck, Rescue, and Shift Commander. The district volunteer department (Turn of River) is also dispatched on the initial assignment and may respond. However, the percentage of responses by them is quite low in comparison to many other VFDs and often with only 2 or 3 personnel.
Belltown VFDs Truck is also added to structural response into Turn of River's response area.

Just to clarify, the Stamford Engines (8 and 9) have been responding from within the Turn of River District for more than 6 years.
Dispatch protocol is to send a career response to all incidents. Ex: medicals get an engine, Vehicle collisions get a career engine and rescue and structural runs will get 3-4 Engines, Truck, Rescue, and Shift Commander. The district volunteer department (Turn of River) is also dispatched on the initial assignment and may respond. However, the percentage of responses by them is quite low in comparison to many other VFDs and often with only 2 or 3 personnel.
Belltown VFDs Truck is also added to structural response into Turn of River's response area.

How bout this suggestion.....
Save your silly helmet cam for your next family trip and spend more time focused on getting water on the fire.
All of our new wonders in the service are more focused on crafting the next big fire/rock video for the annual banquet (which probably consumes 50% of the Depts annual budget), than learning the fundamentals of their trade.

How bout this suggestion.....
Save your silly helmet cam for your next family trip and spend more time focused on getting water on the fire.
All of our new wonders in the service are more focused on crafting the next big fire/rock video for the annual banquet (which probably consumes 50% of the Depts annual budget), than learning the fundamentals of their trade.

How bout this suggestion.....
Save your silly helmet cam for your next family trip and spend more time focused on getting water on the fire.
All of our new wonders in the service are more focused on crafting the next big fire/rock video for the annual banquet (which probably consumes 50% of the Depts annual budget), than learning the fundamentals of their trade.

Barry:
Thank for your insight, but it has everything to do with being seated.
Perhaps in your part of the world, Firefighters always follow signage, directives, or you ride looking backwards, but my opinion is that a large open “cathedral” like cab encourages movement.
If we are intent on trying to reduce the “responding and returning” numbers with policies, we should also try to create environments that support the same policies.
I am fairly certain that we can still get there and do the job, without the cathedral.
If you need them or want them, great.
And let us not be so naive to believe that industry does not push the service, rather than the service pushing the industry.