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Liverpool, NY
26' SVI Fire boat
3300gpm

Liverpool, NY
Engine 1
2013 Sutphen
1500/750/30
#HS-5189

Choconut Center, NY
2012 International 7400/Sutphen
1250/500/30F
#HS-5057

Town of Batavia, NY
2013 Spartan ERV Gladiator Star Series
2000/300 - RP100 Aerial 100' TL
#212120-01/HD 1041

Suffolk County, NY
MERV-1
2013 Medical Ambulance Bus (Sartin Services)

Union Springs, NY
Lake Assault Boat
1500+ gpm

Eastham, MA
2013 E-One Typhoon eMax
1500/1000/30F
#137871

North Collins Emergency Squad
2013 Ford E-450/Marque

Altamont Rescue Squad
Rescue 5
2013 Chevy G4500 (Gasoline)/Horton

Arlington, NY
2013 Ford E-450/Horton
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Purchase FD Quad 8 (retired from active duty)
1957 Seagrave Quad
Quad=Pump, Tank, Hose, Ground Ladders
One of my favorite antiques, and she shines like they just delivered it.

1 Dead, 121 Injured in Train Crash in Mount Vernon
By chiefhac
And so read the headlines in all the newspapers the morning after the trains collided in Mount Vernon on the evening of June 8, 1973, forty years ago.
The train collision would spark 10 days busy activity for the Mount Vernon Fire Department (MVFD) using all of its resources and with neighboring communities responding to the incident(s) or relocating to staff fire stations.
It was 40 years ago on Friday evening June 8, 1973 at approximately 7:30 PM on a warm spring evening that 2 trains collided on the east bound express track on the New Haven line near Brookdale Place and East First Street. The relocated Mount Vernon East station platform was still under construction and the local track was temporarily out of service, thereby both local and express trains were operating through Mount Vernon on the express track. The local was in the station to disembark passengers when the express train, failing to stop for a red signal, ran head on into the rear of the stopped train.
The fire department was dispatched and upon arrival was met by a thousand or so of people wondering about and attempting to exit both trains. Additional alarms were transmitted and additional manpower was readily available as it was the evening of the volunteer firefighter’s annual inspection and they responded in force. Almost all responding personnel were used in assisting passengers off the train and to those requiring medical assistance, to an aid station and then transported to the local hospitals.
In the rear car of the local train 2 victims were trapped, one dead on arrival, and the other, seriously injured, was pinned in the lavatory of the last car. Rescue 1 and Ladder 1 were assigned to extricate these individuals. The individual in the lavatory was an Australian Consulate to the UN. The extrication required cutting through the floor under where he was located and then smashing the toilet and letting it drop through the opening made in the floor, allowing for his safe removal. A sloppy and time consuming job it was, ask me!
Mutual aid companies responded for a variety of reasons, scene lighting being a major issue, and some companies self dispatched, adding to scene confusion when everyone wants to help. Most of the passengers requiring medical treatment were transported within the first hour or so. For each injured passenger there had to be 10 other passengers whose sole interest was in how they were going to complete their journey to Connecticut and home.
Somewhere in the middle of the week there was a third alarm fire on South Thirteenth or Fourteenth Avenue which consumed 3 attached row apartments.
On Saturday evening June 16 at approximately 7 PM a fire was reported in the Pioneer super market located on Park Avenue and Elm Avenue, just over the Park Avenue Bridge over the New Haven rail line and 2/10ths of a mile from the train crash. The fire would require a general alarm with all MVFD companies operating at the fire scene until after midnight.
On Sunday morning, June 17, around 8 AM fire alarm box 1231 was pulled by a passerby for a fire in the A & P super market located on East First Street and First Avenue, on the other side of the Park Avenue Bridge from the previous night’s fire and 2/10ths of a mile from the train crash. This fire would also require all MVFD companies to bring it under control, with the last units picking up at 4 PM.
I was the assigned driver of the rescue company for the train crash and, back working days, the A & P fire. At approximately 7:45 AM Sunday morning we were dispatched to meet Con Edison at a gas leak at Ninth Avenue and West First Street and en route passed the A & P and did not notice any sign of smoke or fire. When we were called by dispatch to respond on the initial alarm, we couldn’t believe the column of smoke in the air as we headed back down First Street.
Each of these incidents required the full complement of MVFD companies and surrounding mutual aid companies to backfill in Mount Vernon fire stations.
The good news was no fire station commissary was in need of coffee, condiments, etc. for at least 6 months.
And so it was 40 years ago!
chiefhac
6/7/2013
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Schuyler Heights Fire (Colonie, NY)
Ladder 8
2013 Spartan ERV Gladiator Evolution Star Series
2000/350 - 103'
#212057-01
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South Schodack NY
2013 KME Predator
1500/1000/20
GSO #8828

Cairo, NY
2012 Spatan Gladiator/SVI
#836 #S79573191

Brier Hill, NY
2013 Kenworth T300/Toyne (VRS Sales)
750/2000
#TID 1156

Rensselaer, NY
Engine 4
2013 Spartan Metro Star/Toyne
1500/500
#TID 1168

Ottawa, Canada
2013 KME
1500/600/20F
GSO #8816

Wrights Corners, NY
2013 Pierce Velocity
1500/1000
#26604

Margaretville, NY
1912
2012 International 4300 SBA/Custom Fab & Body Works/WildeFire Fire Equipment
1250/1000
#EV1152
4x4

FDNY
Ladder 59
2013 Ferrara Ultra
100'
#H-5071

Minoa, NY
2012 E-One Typhoon
1500/1500/30F
#137360

Town of Watertown, NY
46-1-1
2013 Spartan Gladiator/Marion
1500/1000

Ithaca, NY
2013 Pierce Dash CF PUC
1500/430 105'
#25762
First Dash CF Quint