All Of The Brush Fires: Discussion Thread

[ac316scu 31]

I'm fascinated by that statistic. What exactly did 109 departments do at this fire? How much did they each send? Did they all actually operate or is that back-fill and coverage?

Without knowing exactly what resources were committed/operating, that's a very hollow stat for me.

There are right around 109 different departments in Suffolk County and almost every dept in Suffolk has a brush truck, so they all sent them to the Suffolk County Fire Academy to stage once a disaster was called by IC. I believe every unit that went was used. Some depts sent tankers and engines too.My coworker drove by the academy while the units were staging and he said that he never saw anything like it, so many trucks.

[peterose313 345]

There are right around 109 different departments in Suffolk County and almost every dept in Suffolk has a brush truck, so they all sent them to the Suffolk County Fire Academy to stage once a disaster was called by IC. I believe every unit that went was used. Some depts sent tankers and engines too.My coworker drove by the academy while the units were staging and he said that he never saw anything like it, so many trucks.

Some companies sent an engine and a ladder instead of a tanker or brush truck. Earlier on a lot of companies were being requested for 1 and 1. I think it was some in the immediate vicinity of Ridge though. I'm not too familiar with Long Island so I'm not entirely sure where a lot of these companies are from in comparison to Ridge or Manorville.

[Disaster_Guy 96]

http://www.lohud.com/article/20120410/NEWS/304100111/Park-blaze-nearly-contained

[x4093k 654]

All brush fires in the area are now all contained and under control I believe, can anyone confirm that?

[FF398 45]

Apparently, there's a 3-alarm brush fire going on near Metlife stadium in the Meadowlands.

[peterose313 345]

Apparently, there's a 3-alarm brush fire going on near Metlife stadium in the Meadowlands.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/04/large_brush_fire_burning_near.html

[JM15 386]

According to an internet article on FIrerescue1.com the fire on LI used 200 firefighters, 20 brush trucks, 10 tankers, 10 engines, and 35 departments assisted...

[x4093k 654]

According to an internet article on FIrerescue1.com the fire on LI used 200 firefighters, 20 brush trucks, 10 tankers, 10 engines, and 35 departments assisted...

I heard similar to that too, I heard more firefighters though, but I never rely on articles written by the media( simple way to put it)

[spin_the_wheel 460]

Nassau County sent 1 Stump Jumper (the heavy duty military looking rigs, there are only 2 in Nassau 1 was OOS) to Deer Park prior to the Ridge mutual aid call.

Sent to Ridge (staging at Suffolk County Fire Academy) were 6 brush trucks (all the brush trucks in Nassau) 2 tankers and 5 Engine companies from a total of 12 different Dept.s.