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Did the troopers do the right thing? Sure.

Does the fire department need to make changes to ensure adequate staffing to avoid having to use civilians, state troopers, DPW workers, chefs, landscapers, soccer moms, etc. to man handlines? You betcha.

Nice job guys.

I can't really fathom how to answer this post. It just does not make any sense. Hopefully someone else can articulate it better than I.

Yes the rig parks on the roadway, yes it is used to advise traffic. Even if that purpose isn't served, it serves as an amber warning light.

We definitely do not have the training to fight large brush fires. County, battalion, or multi department agreements should purchase a cache of wildland rated coveralls in generic sizes as well as rakes, collapsible indian tanks, etc to be deployed from box trucks when needed. I'd say the $900,000 from the latest tower ladder quint should get us a good start.

I am opposed to any and all plans that do not include a mass transit feature. Whether it be specialty lanes for buses or lines for rail it really does not matter. However to not include mass transit features is to not plan for the future. What will this region look like in 50 years? If the next 50 years are going to look anything like the last 50 years, this region is going to look like LA with snow before I reach the age to retire. Therefore, it would be common sense to extend mass transit over the bridge into Rockland. Hell, if they could link up with NJ transit, we could have the start of a logical and connected mass transit system allowing anyone from New Haven to Trenton the ability to enter the NYC and Metro Area via mass transit without having to take 3 separate lines. If one could go from NJ to NY and then NY to CT without having to enter NYC, imagine the relief that would provide stations such as Penn or GCT.

I said the same thing from day 1. Between existing right of way and (possibly) following and paralleling 87, there's no reason the Pascack and even Port Jervis lines couldn't cross the Tappan Zee and meet the Hudson line in Tarrytown. Upstate NYers could get to Giants Stadium, Newark, etc....Or to Long Island through Penn...Or to New Haven through 125th Street. Instead it stays fragmented like everything else in the region.

Everything is fine! Stop playing word games by describing it word for word Nathan! Company is great success, yes?

Albany Mayday

1 Cuyler Street, Albany NY 2nd Alarm with Mayday transmitted. Mayday transmitted at 17:54 of audio. The mayday was transmitted after the roof collapsed during mop up operations in the attic. There were 4 injuries due to the collapse with 2 firefighters being transported to Albany Medical Center with minor injuries.

And how many times do you hear ICs releasing FAST after the fire is knocked and guys are doing overhaul

JFLYNN, this thread is mearly for interest sake, to see what certain fire departments dispatch to the scene of the fire. If it is a paid department, there is a certain staffing level in which it is obvious to tell how many personnel are o/s. If a career department staffs 3 per rig, adding together the number of rigs then multiplying by 3 gives you the number of personnel on scene. For volunteers, it varries.

However, that aside, this thread is not about manpower and it is not about assessing a department's capabilities in regards to manpower. It is solely to see what and how many pieces of fire apparatus are dispatched to the scene depending on the department. It is, again, for interest sake and not to make it look like fire trucks are in any way more important than the firefighters that ride and operate them.

Yes, firefighters put out fires and personnel on scene is important, but this thread is not meant to discuss manpower, but rather apparatus response to structure fires in Westchester County.

Hope this clears things up.

Kid, just listen to the chief.

I appreciate that you like fire trucks. I like fire trucks too. I like getting paid to ride on them and I like looking at pictures of them on Emtbravo. I also appreciate that you're new. I was once new as well, in fact it wasn't that long ago. Someday, you might be sitting in a fire truck and look around the cab of the big fancy engine they bought you and see a 65 year old man driving and a 80 year old fire police in the back. Or you might be fortunate enough to get on a paid job and have one other guy with you or you might even be by yourself. And you will not care how many red trucks are coming but rather what the hell are you going to do with what you've got.

move back to Yonkers.

Yeah that's genius.

If you read the somments, it links to a youtube vid that shows it takes a substantial amount of force to dislodge ot from the scabbard.

If anyone has a link to where to purchase such a knife, please hook me up, I would like to do this to my light.

Exactly, we have these at work on our swiftwater gear and it is very unlikely to unintentionally release the knife.

Dan, I'm pretty sure we got this knife from this company:

Edit: this is a better link http://www.nrsweb.com/shop/product.asp?pfid=2755&pdeptid=960

I've said it before and Ill say it again the "Brotherhood" of the Job is a lost tradition

I think they call that a self fulfilling prophecy

Just as a (related) aside, what is Kingston FD's normal staffing, I know they are a combo department.

I ask because I was in Kingston the day after this drill, and I saw two trucks, an engine with a driver and officer, and it appeared no one else, and a tiller with the two drivers, but no one even in the officer's seat. Please tell me that they have members go to the scene if there trucks are rolling with just drivers or driver and officer.

I'm pretty sure it's either two or three engines with 2 guys each, but I know for a fact the tiller just has the driver and tillerman. Negligible volunteer response.

This is just part of the constant hate and criticism we receive from this paper.

Cool! This unit has been talked about for a long time and delayed. I wonder if this is the one built by Seagrave?

Seagrave built an MCI unit for PFD.

http://www.stylintrucks.com/parts/tailgate_pad_lock/23557.aspx

Already there. I like my tailgate

One thing from that era always amuses me is how the cars were marked. Some have "NYPD", "NYPD POLICE" NYCPD" and IIRC NYCPD Police"

You know, I always noticed that and thought I was just crazy.

I'm just gonna shut up from here on out.

Probably should have instituted that policy earlier

The vehicle discussed is part of the Department's Auxiliary Water System designed to replace damaged city water mains in major catastrophes. The system can also be used for large scale dewatering operations. The truck is a 2011 Kenworth T370 , equipped with a Stellar Industries Shuttle Hooklift system. The pumping unit is powered by a 200 hp Diesel engine and utilizes a floating hydraulic pump with output ranging from 1320 to 2905 GPM depending on pressure.

The system uses 8-inch hose leading to a wye with two six-inch Storz outlets to supply two 2000 GPM pumpers. Additional self-contained pumping systems are available and can be transported on Department hooklift trucks. Satellites and airport hose wagons have been issued six-inch LDH.

http://www.liquidtra.../hiflowpump.asp

I miss that light blue

That thing is a disaster, however...while the wheelbase is awful, it only covers an 80 mile stretch of highway with little to no chance of second due activity. And, while the transport engine is a terrible concept regardless, this is not the primary transport unit, there is an ambulance stationed with it and this is supposed to only be for secondary use.

The question I believe didn't really revolve around the 95ft vs 100ft ladder as it was meant to ask why Somers didn't choose the SPH100 which has a bucket that doesn't hang as low in the back and allows for ground ladders to be stored through the rig as apposed to on the officers side of the rig. The SP95 does not have those options. It is essentially a two man job to get a ladder off of the SP95 where as one man can remove and throw ground ladders from the SPH100 by them selves.

Thank you sir, that is 100% percent what I was getting at.

Does anyone remember that passage from Engine Co. 82 about the light water and how they dropped men from the engine because of it?

What a standup guy. In contrast to cowardly chiefs like LAFD's, who tell the media that "no compromise in safety" as they close 20 companies.

Can anyone provide a rundown of what apparatus was there? I heard a lot of dispatches and lost rrack of what was called. The pictures on the Poughkeepsie Journal website show a LTI Tower Ladder. Is this Beacon 32-45? I know PECO has a stick and Rombout has a Sutphen.

Beacon had the ALF/LTI tower ladder there.

Chief Schofield is a great guy and an even better fire officer and PECO is a top notch FD in this area.

5 days a week of training to become a firefighter is a good start. Now add another 12 weeks.

Any particular reason SFD went with the 95 instead of the 100? I think the 100 has better access to ladders and (yikes) hose bed where applicable