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Awesome Photos!!! Here are my photos….

Hope you enjoyed them. All the photos I took from today's fire can be viewed on my flickr page (Link below). I'll post a short video latter.

Started off as a tanker shuttle with the water source on Mt Ebo Road. Tankers from Brewster (x2), Patterson, Putnam Lake, Carmel, Lake Carmel, Croton Falls, and Mill Plain, CT. Latter, Brewster was able to lay a 5 inch line from the ponds on Mt Ebo to the scene with their hose reel 11-8-1, with the tankers still in use. The five inch line Supplied by South Salem Engine 168 pumped to Patterson 22-4-2, which in turn pumped to Brewster 11-2-3 and 11-5-1.
The Tanker shuttle was continued to feed Carmel 12-5-1 with Putnam Lake 23-2-5 as the source engine at the scene. Tankers were being filled by a Ball Pond Engine. The source that Ball Pond was drafting out of looked like it had been lower at least 2 feet, if not more. Croton Falls Engine laid 5 inch to rear of building from Putnam Lake 23-2-5 and supplied Carmel 12-5-1
Lake Carmel 17-6-1 brought their FAST team. Mahopac and later Somers Engine 180 brought manpower to scene. Patterson 22-5-1 brought to scene and later returned as unneeded. Numerous fire police vehicles as both the Putnam and Dutchess Fire Police teams were activated. Sate Police were also a huge help with traffic, especially early on during the tanker shuttle Route 22 was still open. Not sure who else I saw there, it was a very busy day. Heritage Fuel also came at one point to supply diesel fuel to engines and tankers.

FINALLY getting to the OFD parade. I'm currently about 70 images in to my editing with over 300 images shot so it'll be a while yet. But in the meantime, here's a few teasers. None of these images are uploaded to the 'net yet.
Edit: 100 images down, 237 to go!
Edit 6/17: 200 images down 136 to go!

Those of you who either grew up in the Greenburgh area or who worked ther most likely knew Good Humor Joe he just passed monday night he waas one of the nicest people who i have ever met & i think the oldest & longest ice cream route person. RIP Joe you will be dearly missed

I was platooned to the South Station today. Fortunately, they had a public appearance event scheduled, so I was able to catch some of the trucks before they left.
Top to bottom:
MICU 87-6, safely hiding from the public,....
Engine 6-2 (along with its twin, Engine 6-1, they are due for replacement later this year with Spartan/Marion pumpers)
Rescue 6
Utility 6 (lettered Squad 6, but Chester County is now assigning the "Squad" label to rescue-pumpers)

Couple shots I took at the Airport Open House from last week. The gem of the trip was to see the new Crash Truck they acquired last year!

Apologies for the constant adjusting early on in the first few clips. I was trying to find the right height and angle since I was on a hill and all. The remainder of the videos can be seen on youtube and follow them since there's a total of 26. I also don't know how to post video on here anymore.
http://youtu.be/LzfLw0pVyTc?hd=1
http://youtu.be/iOZPUQaY2NA?hd=1
http://youtu.be/09jT5r5S9Ks?hd=1
http://youtu.be/niNpKvB3N6w?hd=1
http://youtu.be/v_Ms59Ou4ow?hd=1
Edit: Update the number of clips to the final number of 26.

Specialty Warning Systems, in Danbury CT, recently delivered a 2012 Tahoe Chief’s vehicle to the New Hackensack Fire District, located in the Dutchess County Town of Wappinger.
The warning system is almost exclusively Whelen including a Freedom lightbar, 700 series lightheads in the lower grille, Mirror Beams on each side mirror, split color M4s on each corner, split color Slimlighters in each rear side cargo window, LAW HideAways in the tailights and split color M4s on the rear cargo door. A linear traffic advisor above the cargo door provides supplemental rear warning as well as standard arrow direction. System control is by way of the CenCom system
The custom cargo compartment command cabinet provides for tool and equipment storage, scene command, turnout gear, SCBA and rear communications.
The center console is a 24” Havis which contains department communications, CenCom control head, storage box, dual cup holders, armrest, map light and scanner.
In addition to the unique two tone paint (which New Hackensack incorporates into all their Chief’s vehicles) the exterior graphics include gold leaf, white reflective and black accent elements.
This is the second Chiefs vehicle we’ve built for the NHFD, the first being an in service 2008 Tahoe. We have enjoyed working with the New Hackensack FD on both of them and look forward to working with them on additional projects in the future
Look for the NHFD video on our You Tube channel in the upcoming weeks.

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My Video of the STAT Flight landing:

Here are my photos from Somers

Hope you enjoyed them. You can see the rest of them here. Special Thanks for rfdu39 for coming along!

Today, The Somers VFD’s hosted an open house in honor of EMS Week 2012. The event was held at SVFD’s Lincolndale fire house. Here are my shots:








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Hey guys. We finally got our new med truck back from striping. New design if anyone has seen the other truck pics I've posted. 2012 Expedition all Whelen Lighting.

Sorry for the delay folks, I had a big problem transferring them over to the computer, but it's fixed now. (All who PMed and asked to see photos, I am uploading them and will be sending them to you shortly.)
Somers FD MA-14

Somers FD Ladder 48

The Detroit Firemen's Fund member started this ambitious project several years ago to restore the former Detroit Engine 13 rig to be used as funeral caisson throughout the state. The body of the 37 Seagrave was removed from the Seagrave chassis and retrofitted to the chassis of a late model Freightliner that is powered by a Mercedes Benz 4 cylinder turbo charged engine and an automatic transmission, enabling the rig to travel long distances under its own power at highway speeds. I think the pictures below will give you a good idea of the great job that was done as it would be hard for the average person to know that this is not the original chassis without opening the hood or crawling under the rig. And yes, it still has (limited) pumping ability.