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The true definition of a Good Stop is summed up in the following;

Good Firefighting + Timing + Good Old Well Built Construction = "A GOOD STOP"

Pictures of the Rosenbauer 2009 Navistar Lonestar chassis on one of their tanker/pumpers from at the FDIC 2009 Show in Indy last week.

Nice looking rig, good luck with it... Hope to catch some action shots of it someday...

What, you didn't go buff this one Bill??

Bad day, had the kids at denist for check-up... By time I got to meet with other half and turn over the kids, they reported the fire knocked down, under control, so figured nothing worth riding through rush hour traffic to go too... Darn it...

Figures and I got my new camera and waiting to try it out too..

Did anyone get any Pictures???

Awesome pictures as always Bill, nice job...

Sorry for not posting these sooner but I have been real busy between work and shooting weddings that I have had no free time.......

These are photo's of Beekman's fire that occurred last Thursday morning at #162 Gold Rd. They had heavy fire upon arrival with the two neighboring residences as exposures. Beekman was assisted by East Fishkill, Union Vale, and Pawling Fire Departments. The Dutchess County OOER Fire Investigation Division and DCSO investigated the incident.

First in shot.......

A little closer.....

One of two serious exposure issues....... The fire burned fast and furious and both neighboring residences were at risk......

Firefighters hit what's left of the residence.....

Exposure problem.......

This is the suit right here!!!

Hey Mark,

I think you should have gotten the Flouresent Orange one instead of the Lime green one...

Great pics, looks like it was a great drill...

I have been trying to get my local fire department a website with e-mail capabilities, I have 2 proposals from 911.webs and firehousesolutions.com. which I think are both great options. Anyone have any others that I should be looking into before I narrow it down to 2 possibilites. I'd like to keep my options open and get the best bang for my buck so to speak. I want peoples opinion from an end users point of view not a sales pitch. thanks

You may want to try www.yourfirstdue.com, they have a very interactive and simple website program that you can maintain and control your website yourself from. They also offer a e-mail portion in their site for all to have a simple e-mail address that you can put every member into your website. It also offers you a place to make a very inexpensive and simple great looking website for your department, let's face it if you not on the web in this day and age, your most likely not getting the best visible chance of promoting your department.

Great shots Mark.... Sorry I missed the event, but work I guess might be a good excuse...

Bill

can't wait to see it in action

The way that this county is having fires lately, might not be long before you catch it at a fire someplace...

Nice pics, thanks for sharing. What is the make of the pumper that has the hydrant?

2007 Marion on a Spartan Evolution Cab

1500 gpm pump, 500 gallon water

20 gallon Foam

All LED Warning light system

Anything else you want to know, just ask, I will gladly get an answer for you.

2009 Chevy Tahoe Custom First Response Vehicle professionally customized by Admiral Specialty Vehicles of Spencer, NY (www.admiralvehicles.com).

Custom Command Center in rear of vehicle.

Custom Radio Console between front drivers and passenger seats

Whelen Liberty LED Bar Light on Front of Vehicle.

LED Chameleon RED/AMBER on Rear of Vehicle.

Multiple LED light Heads around rest of vehicle

Here are a few shots from the structure fire in the City of Poughkeepsie that several departments are operating at right now.

City Engines 1, 2, 3, Ladder 1, Tower Ladder 2, Rescue 1 along with several staff officers operating presently at a large commercial building fire off Smith Street at the Modern Cabinet Company.

Mutual aid assistance on scene consist of Fairview 41-11, Arlington 32-14, Roosevelt 63-14 and Highland 31-10 with engines supplying water from several locations. Units on stand-by in city stations are Roosevelt 63-12 & 63-45 at Main St., Hyde Park 46-11 at Clover St. and Arlington 32-15 at Hooker Ave.

Again great pics and great quality... Thanks for sharing.

Exceptionally great pics.. Thansk for posting..

Once again FDPhotounit grabs some very interested and very nice shots... The shot of the drafting with the reflections is a fabulous shot..

I would have thought the Westchester team made up of Yonkers, New Rochelle, etc. Or the technical rescue team in Orange County with Goshen and a few other departments.

Danger you are exactly right, I would try for the teams either from Westchester or Orange County, NY... Heck given the scenario that x129 gave I would call both and even maybe get the FDNY Rescue 3 Collapse Unit rolling also... Remember, can never have enough when it comes to tech rescue and if nothing else can always return any one unit if the job is done before their arrival..

The two other places I would look toward for assistance would be into Ct. at Danbury and of course if large enough you might want to get the NYS OFPC USAR team out of Albany started down also.

The resources are out there and available, just need to summon them.

Thank god, finally some pictures... I heard of this fire while I was at the National Fire Academy, from my son and he said "Dad there is a fire in Pawling and they are calling everyone, it's big".

Of course I said to myself not to worry there will be a article and pictures in the PoJo the next day... Yeah was I so wrong, but you guys never disappoint me, long behold here are some very nice shots here and no doubt when PhotoUnit gets the rest up we'll see some awesome shots too.

Anyway thanks guys, wish I was home and would have been there myself snapping off a few shots to have and share...

I hope someone is getting some good pics, I am out of town my self or I would have taken the ride to get them...

This post I made has done exactly what I wanted it to do, invoke interesting comments.

Thanks for all the replies and keep them coming folks.

Everyone,

Here is a great article to prove the need to educate and be aware of what your district has in it... It is obvious that this fire department does not know their fire district very well after they spent precious time trying to hook to a fire hydrant in the story and then had to disconnect and shift to a water shuttle operations to make water available to put out the fire... Or are they just looking for reasons why they lost the entire structure in this fire???

The issue in this article is not the Fake Fire Hydrant or the Attempted Insurance Fraud the Chief mentions, but that he didn't or for that fact apparently nobody in the district knew their district well enough to not realize this was not a real hydrant.

Knowing your district is important... Obviously this district didn't know theirs very well...

Click the link below to read the entire story;

http://cms.firehouse.com/content/article/a...46&id=62775

What do you all think???

Nice job guys, looks like a lot of fire in pics...

So how did the FIT-5 preform???

What was reason for deployment and did it help with making the fire fight easier??

Just curious, trying to get some info on it's true meaning of need... Afterall it does cost around 1500 dollars per canister, right???

Thanks. I was looking at the photos and those exposures on the B & D sides we tight, especially the D exposure. I'd like to know more about the attack and the exposure protection, if anyone can share it.

I'm a huge buff like that, thanks.

I can sum it up in a simple easy statement.... "PFD along with the assistance of Fairview and Arlington on scene did some good solid firefighting, under good leadership, along with good water supplies, and of course attack lines in the proper places..."

This was not no Taylor Ave. 2001 fire, but very easily could have been if some of those key ingredients above didn't fall into place....

Good Job to the City of Poughkeepsie firefighters on well done job...

Very nice pics... Looks like you may have a nice start into the world of fire photography.