Ladder44

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  4. Posted

    This is a question not a criticism or monday morning quarterbacking!

    One of the first things I thought when I started playing the video and doing my sizeup was 'OK, that's quite a steep driveway. The gasoline is running is running down the hill. What happens if the brakes burn through and the whole damn car starts rolling down the hill?'

    What's the best tactic for that? Chock it if possible? Park a 'sacrificial' piece of apparatus in front of it so, if the worst happens, it doesn't end up in the house across the street?

    Mike

    Not that it really answered your question but across the street is all woods.

  5. Posted

    Is it the new system that detects gun shots? Either Hartford Bridgeport or New Haven started using it....it can tell the PD dispatcher on a screen the location of the shooting and type bullet fired....the system can detect the difference between a gun shot and a car back fire.

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    For the most part, it has it's own saws, ladders, hooks and forcible entry stuff. We would take the critical things off of the in-service tower ladder when we went out training on the ALF just in case we happened upon something or were put on a run.

    The critical items are the EMS gear, the RIT stuff and our SCBA's. I would also take officer stuff like elevator keys, map books, thermal imaging camera and my beloved rex tool. It has worked well, but now we are exclusively driver training with the new rig. It is being outfitted with more and more stuff as the days go on. It will be in service within the next few weeks I imagine.

    Thats what i figured, where light bar go?? LOL....so are those ladders on the officers side towards the rear above the compartments? Its hard to tell, I know gear bags were hubng there for when it was in service in H-O-H..

  10. Posted

    Anyone ever see The Other Guys.....if you have there's a part in the movie there's an explosion and following that there's a yellow engien with blue stripping with 169 on the side...hartadale? With firefighters with tan gear with orange reflective....hartadale? Is it me or is it what I thought it is...?

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    Dräger X-am 5000 the ideal companion for personal protection.

    Used by FD's here in the county attached to portable radio straps...on all calls.

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    As far as calling it CO2 instead of CO that could be a training issue. PD's quite often dispatch calls as CO2 activations.

    Glad the OVAC crew is recovering. This could happen to anyone of us !

    http://www.draeger.com/US/en_US/

    If its worn on all calls then wouldn't it go off in fire conditions with all the off product of a fire??

  17. Posted

    Its a really good fair, the BVFD puts on the fair every year as all the proceeds go to the depts budget. Im 95% sure that the town does not give them a yearly budget and they rely solely on this fair.

  22. Posted · Edited by Ladder44

    I forgot the scanner for the scan-tron sheets is racist. I wonder if that judge or every other judge or committee or human resources dept. realize maybe minorities just simply don't wanna be firefighters. I just recently took a FD test, outta 202 test takers there was 1 black male and 2 female testers, I guess I should just get my hopes up on that test and throw it away... <_<