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OK. One more. You look like one of those Chiefs we used to be afraid of.

Ahah, a rekindle!

Play the video backwards...it will look like the fire is going out.

A Snotty quote from that Pelham Manor job; "A FDNY third alarm assignment, marching up Boston Post Road with pike poles reminded him of the movie Sparticus.

At home: Instead of waiting for your fireplace to completely go out, you can now clean out the coals while they are still hot. Just use your Electrolux. OR At work: Use Positive Pressure Attack at the front door, the Supervac in the attic and an Indirect Fog Attack complete with the Coriolis Effect spun clockwise in a window and you will be the next FDIC keynote speaker

Look at Virginia Beach, a premier Fire Department. VB was Princess Anne County with many volunteer departments, The city of Norfolk was attempting to acquire surrounding communities which did not sit well with those people. In 1963, Virginia Beach incorporated into a City/County and created the VBFD, taking all those smaller departments into one single department. I think Westchester could be the same but it would take a major consolidation of Cities, towns, villages prior to it happening it the 56 FD's. The Departments that consolidate would not lose officers or firefighters. There would be one Chief but other Chiefs of departments just would be re-titled and put in charge of districts or admin duties. A larger department needs a bigger staff. Just think...no duplication of services like Tech Rescue, Hazmat, etc. Sorry...just dreamin'

True. It is because Snotty had a proclivity for uncommon words or phrases that no one could equal.

Wrong kind of jacks, Barry, inside joke. However, yes, I have swung down, pinned and spinned outriggers. So I guess I am salty. REALLY salty: The ladder pipe was mounted on the running board. To mount it on the ladder, you had to lift that sucka over your head on the count of three, and the man at the ladder tip had to grab it and mount it on the rungs.

I was just wondering if they have bottle jacks on that rig.

No sprinklers, but the kicker is that to level the ceilings with sheetrock (which used to be thick lathe and plaster) they put a layer of furring strips over the warped lumber. This left a 3/4" void on every ceiling in the building. Sometime in the future, my fire may be known as the little job. Enjoying retirement. Just finished planning a 9/11 Memorial here in Chesapeake. along with a ceremony. It contains a 21'beam from the World Trade Center atop two mounds of rubble. A bigger memorial is planned. I used Chesapeake's FD to get it done: 2-Trucks, 1-Tech Rescue, 1- Collapse unit. They used it as a drill. Check Facebook: Chesapeake 9/11 Memorial,(scroll down, lots of pictures)

Well, my building is still standing, thanks to 150 good men, a good water supply (and knowing what you have available before the fire) and cooperation by Mutual aid departments. I can tell you it was difficult to IC because of communications problems. For every frequency operating on the fireground there had to be a man at the CP. Oh , and yes, I was using ICS, but had to sneak it in on some people.

I used a few gallons back in 1993 at a cockloft fire at 68 East Hartsdale Av, a tudor style ordinary multi family dwelling. It was T shaped 150x200, 6 stories in the front (A) and 8 stories in the rear (. Ladder access was only on Side A. We operated for 6 hours with 5 aerial pipes across the front and one in the rear, along with a deluge gun at the roof level fire escape on Exposure B. As we knocked down fire from the defensive operation, we had interior crews operating with 3- 2 1/2 and 6- 1 3/4 lines as needed. Add them up conservatively and the flow was about 8500gpm out of only 5 hydrants on 2 water mains. How is this possible, you might ask? First, the Greenburgh Water Dept. has the ability to open and close a series of valves to increase supply to the scene and lower other sections of the Town. For the big water supply, there is a 48in pipeline that runs from Kensico Reservoir to Hilltop reservoir in Yonkers. That pipeline happens to run down East Hartsdale Av. and has a series of blowoff hydrants in case the pipe needs repair, one of which was IFO 60 East Hartsdale. The static pressure is rather low, but it rarely gets lower even with large amounts of water flowing. Snotty will add any of the details that I left out.

No confusion if you are using ICS properly. The airport on-duty person is Airport Command until Command is assumed by another person. The original airport boss is assigned another duty such as Operations. Since airports are under the federal rulebook, you are supposed to go by ICS as a command system.

How does Airport Command sound? (or does it sound too much like we are using the ICS)

Mow that we have bickered this one to death, it is a "Working Fire" when the IC says it is. Now there's a concept. Here in the south, there are two: terms Working Fire and Working Incident. They are defined terms, with responses, notifications, etc. to go along with the declaration. (You can almost guess what hey mean and be right) We can't do that in Westchester because no one is in charge.

I got my white shirt dirty and lost my tie when supper was macaroni.

Good examples, Bob. Again, firefighting is an art, not necessarily a science. Analyzing what I used to say on arrival may help to define things. My Chief usually had a good idea of what I had, just by the wording of my arrival report. (Except as a new officer when I said I had a "little worker." On that one, he left his office, drove to the scene, told me he "had never heard of a "little worker," so he thought he would come see one." He just got in his car and left. I never used that term again) ANYWAY Ventilating smoke= "using all companies for ventilation" Big puffback= "all hands operating for a puffback, heavy smoke throughout with high CO readings"

LTNRFD, I know for sure that you remember back when the BFIRS used to differentiate between a "Structure Fire" and a "Fire within a structure." A "Structure Fire" had to actually damage the structure. Then, I guess people wanted to look like they had a lot of fires so they got things changed to "everything's structure fire." Malfunction/activation for steam from the shower? It's an activation...the detector didn't malfunction, it did what it's supposed to do. The only malfunction in this case is that the installer shouldn't have hung the detector outside the shower door. A run that was reported as a possible structure fire turns out to be steam from a dryer. The reporting party didn't malfunction. He did what he was supposed to do.

Right on! There is no such thing as a "working car fire." At most it's a fully involved car fire. Two or three cars really ripping in a shopping center parking lot? Working fire. Now let's put that fully involved car fire in an underground garage of a 6-story multiple dwelling. You might need a second alarm to evacuate the building because a fire door didn't close. Then, it might take you the rest of your shift just to find the car that's on fire out of a hundred cars. Your TIC helps, but it still takes you a while. Firefighting is more an art than a science.

At the minimum, it's a fire where you pull an 1 3/4 and use it

After the tire change is done,she would say "My father's a Chief" and somehow they don't want her number anymore.

Brotherhood Test: Here's how you test a firehouse to see if they are Brothers or not. Send your daughter to a firehouse at 0200 with a flat tire and explaining that her father is a firefighter and he is working tonight. If they point to a 24hr towing service down the street or give her the number for AAA, they are not Brothers. If they tell her to pull around back, change the flat, change the oil, rotate the tires, wash the windshield, and give her a cup of coffee and a piece of cake. Then they are Brothers.

My NIMS question was tongue in cheek. They have been to define "what's an engine, what's a truck" for years. Expect it to be many centuries before the answer to he RESCUE type finishes. It's political correctness that's holding things up. They need somebody that can say like it or not, this is what we are calling your little buggy.

Are they typed by NIMS?