lad45der

Nice truck. Good luck with her.

Maybe someday the Chevrons on all these rigs will go to the wayside. What a shame to have such nice apparatus and then to place chevrons on the back of them.....YUCK. Let's hope they stop the madness someday. I've said it before Fire trucks are still gonna get hit from behind Chevrons are not gonna reduce accidents. Stupid drivers will never stop.....

We have two trackers one is in the deputy chief's car for the RIT team and the other unit is on the Rescue. We found the unit works well in a wood frame building. The unit does not work as well in non-combustible buildings or fire resistive buildings.

I would prefer it worked better in a larger building not a wood frame building with doors and windows in close proximity to one another. It would be nice in a say a 70,000 square foot building your means of egress for firefighter removal are a lot more challenging and time consuming.

@ Lad45der you use a vacuum to flatten the hose? As I'm sure it works, is this done for the parades

We don't pack hose for parades. The hose we use packs very crappy. The hose sits on the next layer to high due to all the air in the hose. So the hose wants to sit higher than the dividers.

My company prides itself in neat hose to furnish a kink free deployment. We use 2" hose with smooth bore nozzles with a 1" tip.

Our company always rotates the hose from the bottom layer To the top layer when we repack the hose.

When you do replace your hose carefully pay attention to the outside and inside diameter's. Each manufacture is slightly different. You get slightly different flows. I don' t wanna devulge the name of the hose we use other than it packs in the mattidale like ----. It kinks it' s heavy and we ( my company only) use a vacuum to suck all the air out of the hose to get it to lay flat.

I did some testing we used the task force digital flow meters it was interesting to see the change in flows from one brand to the other. Nothing earth shattering but none the less.

The way the hose is made with different materials changes the inside diameter.

I have the Pro-Tech Gloves they are black in color and are Gauntlet style. The model I can't recall. They are the middle of the line gloves in the Protech lineup. I just cant afford the $100 gloves the city of Stamford does not replace those type of gloves. The city hands out the Blue older FDNY style glove (the name escapes me).

I have put them thru lots of calls so far, And they didn't break the bank.

The biggest thing I like the best about them is when they are wet they still go on easy.

All of our rigs have roll up doors. I would say that unpainted doors are better. The problem is that the doors take a beating in the rolled up position, when your moving tools about the inside of the compartment.The door when rolled up on the drum tends to get scratched from the tools. In a busy company you can tell which compartments are opened the most by the scratches. Example ems compartment or the compartment with the irons and can ect. Also I notice we tend to over wash the rigs and leave a lot of swirl marks from the brush. We wax the rigs once a year. Boy do I wish we had non painted Doors then. Cleaning wax between the slats blows!! Big time.

For the Life of me I cant figure out what happended to the Ashfault??? Can someone explain that

If you have Cablevision there is 40 mins of extended footage of the fire. The brothers did a outstanding job at keeping this fire to the orignal area of origin. Fantastic truck work you guys did a great great job.

Church Fires at that stage of Heavy Fire are so hard to control. Again you guys did a outstanding job.

Mark Kuhar

SFRD Rescue Co.1

86,000 Pounds 43 Tons. We couldn't even run that rig up here in the Northeast. Lets see that rig in 3 Years.When your running that heavy down the Road that's gonna take a toll on Major Components. Unless they do only 1000 calls a year.

DRM.. Dragon Rescue Management For Elevator Rescue he also teaches other Tecnical classes as well. He has a Website and a lot of our readres here have been in his classes. I have the pleasure to work with Mike everyday in the Firehouse.

4 Years ago me and my buddy's were in Datona Florida at bike week, We were waiting in Hooters to get seated for dinner, when in walks Vinny behind us in line. He was by himself we were bullshitting with him in the line when our table was called we asked him if he wanted to sit with us so he said yes. We were all talking about the show and he did say in so many words without dissing senior that the Guy is impossible to be around. Most not all of the fighting you see on TV was for real. Vinny is as down to earth as you can get just a normal guy happy to be working on a cool show not caught up in the drama.

Well here in the city of Stamford In Rescue 1 we felt the shaken but once again in Group 4 nothing happended except one guy fell out of bed!!!

Bridgeport must have 7 fires by now!!!

I have over 200 of these models including every single FDNY piece. These rigs really dropped off in detail in recent years. I saw this coming I wished they made a Tower Ladder like 10 truck. Good Riddens

I know I read somewhere that it was recommended to use a smaller nozzle on the stacked tip for taxpayer fires. If it wasn't in the Norman book it may have been in the FDNY operating manual for tower ladders that we happen to have a copy of at Belltown.

That would be Firefighting Procedures and Taxpayer Fires Section 8.1 General 8.1.20. Regarding Storefront operations.

Ladder Co Operations Stream Operations 6.2.6 page 32 Minimum size 1-1/2" Tip shall be used.

Positioning Bucket 6.3.3 page 33

Love... Rainman

Mark,

I do recall one exception to your thinking, I don't have the book right in front of me, but I do beleive John Norman promotes the use of the smallest tip when using a tower ladder master stream in the "taxpayer" mode, this gives the stream the ability to tear into the building as you try to expose fire in void spaces hydraulically.

Not to be a Monday morning quarterback, but I keep thinking this would have been a help at 947 Hope Street.

Hello Pat: In the Current Third edition of Norman's Handbook of Tactics on page 320 Store Fires. The Chief states "The main body of fire must be may be attacked with a Pre connected deck gun or another master stream type.

A heavy body of fire in a store can require 800-900GPM to darken it down. Placing the tower ladder bucket down at the sidewalk, directly in front of the store window, you put in place the most highly mobile 1,000GPM plus master stream avaible. Goes on to say that if the 2 inch tip at more than 100PSI can't open ceilings than you wont be able to do it with hooks eithier.

Stacked Tips SHOULD be the Prefered method of extinguishing a large volume of Fire. IT'S MY OPINION that I belive the problem of Smoothbore vs Fog streams starts in the Firehouse from the top of the food chain. Some of.. Not all Senior Firefighters and Chief officers that were crawling down hallways of the past say 30 years ago (cir 1981) have not yet FULLY UNDERSTOOD the Fire Today is not the same Fire they fought "back in the day". Today were fighting Fires in Several types of Construction that are not able to withstand a fire. Buildings basically are built on a Concrete Footing and then Doused in Gasoline (Synthetics)

Fighting Fires was never Rocket Science but we do have to change with the times.

Remember "KISS"... Keep it Simple Stupid

We could debate this all day. The Leadership has to FULLY UNDERSTAND the Fire behavior changes.

Some examples of light reading among MANY others would come from the Following:

Brannigan Building Construction.

ANY of the Reading's from the "Great" Late Andrew Fredericks (RIP)

How to read Smoke by Dave Dobson (great seminar).... fund raiser idea

FDNY Lt.Ray McCormack.

FDNY Lt.Timm Klett.

Lt.Chip Chapman Milford CT FD.

Wind Driven 7 story Building Experiments Fire Study by NIST.

Just some of these readings alone should (I hope) open up some eyes.

Back to those Masterstream nozzles.

The Tip sizes starting from the largest size to the smallest are as follows. 2inch, 1-3/4inches 1-1/2inches 1-3/8inches.

I see no reason but to use only the 2inch or the 1-3/4inch MAYBE the 1-1/2 size.

I hear it sometimes and it drives me nuts "We use the smaller tip size to get the reach of the stream??"

Move the Master Stream device closer to the Fire (Respect your Collapse zones). Dont use a smaller tip on the nozzle your waisting precious time..Your making the Large GPM Master Stream a Useless low GPM Handline on a Million dollar Ladder truck.

Another "Myph".. We need the Fog Nozzle for Exposure Protection by forming a Water curtain???.

Put the BIG GPM on the Fire FAST as possible and you wont have Exposures.

Look at Buff Pictures of the past ..What do you see 15 Handlines flowing low GPM results. Use bigger lines with matching Tips and you will use less hose. Great idea for the up and coming 3 man Firefighting team in a Chevy Tahoe idea coming out of Townhall.

That topside coffin compartment clears by a "you know what hair "

Chief Car's, Police cars, And firetrucks are being lit up like Christmas tree's. Enough with the lights already I aggree with the rest of the guys. When do we call it a day with these lights?. I just came from Virginia Beach VA. The police cars there have 1 light bar, Maybe a hideaway in the brake light's that's it.

I work in a two piece house when we follow our Engine You cant see because the LED lights and the traffic stick are plain too brite. The LED's were powered down so they dont show as brite. They still blind you.

Im thinking when were operating on the highway that we cause the other side of the highway's traffic problems at night. Because you can see the accident for about 4 miles. There are apparatus with lights coming out of the woodwork in places I never thought possible, No wonder the apparatus is a electrical nightmare when the apparatus is 3 years old. (Except Stamford cause our stuff is the best...better than Pierce?? thats an actual quote)

Yes you have to abide by the NFPA Standard (INDUSTRY DRIVEN OF COURSE.. DONT KID YOURSELF)

Block the lane Boys and girls... Close the Street at the next Fire. Save the budget! Buy things like Rex tools and Eight Pound axes and 24 tooth chopper blades for your roof saw.

ok thanks for the information about the saw.

This Plumbers pipe cuting tool that you speak of I'm drawing a blank as to what that looks like? Does anybody have a picture of one?.

Sqd47bfd Dont you charter that Boat called Captain Stabbin????

I think the apparatus looks terrible. Do I think the Chevrons are helping?? Lets see My Engine 1 got hit by a Tractor trailer, Then there was Stratford shortly (2 rigs) therafter so I'm gonna go with no on this one. as for the vest we have to don they get a BIG thumbs down.

Lets stick with two rigs taking the lane of traffic and leave the striping and the vest back in the store where they belong.

Try the thin Morning Pride hood that has the Ventilation on the top. It's a bib style hood.

I Prefer the thin hood myself so i can monitor the heat since the rest of our gear these day's is so good you can crawl into trouble real easy.

Nice Command Board New Rochelle! You guys sure have your "stuff" in order.

What kind of Bunker gear do you wear over there???. I'm sweating just thinking about what answer your gonna give me.

I'll send a Colony pie over to you...I bet you don't want Hot peppers or Hot Oil!!! C'mon 130 degrees that's child play!!!!