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Westport was not a low bid option. Better service and technology support. Michael Kronick

How about a 35’ ladder?

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1. Needs to be a truck you are willing to drive into the woods, its going to be scratched, dented, smashed, and broken. If it’s a parade unit and stays on the road it dose you no good. May be something in the used category. 2. I like the skid units on a 4X4 pickup or flat bed 1 ton or larger, if the truck is scratched, dented, smashed, and broken and not going to be a brush truck any more, move the skid to a new truck. I like the State of New Jersey Type 6 Engines (Brush Truck) not quite a skid but close, brush guard around the whole truck, separate engine driven pump for pump and roll or if you are just parked there for hours, hose and hand tools, it’s a brush truck keep it simple and cheap. I like the BRATs, but a 100k, it’s not leaving the road and if it dose, I would not want to be the guy who puts the first dent in it. And it needs a booster reel!

Old Mack engine with the tank removed, 5000 +or – of 5” with inline relay valves, hard suction, turbo drafts, and 3000 gallon portable pond. I think it is at headquarters and responds to none hydrant areas and special call. Part of an ongoing effort to improve rural water supply in Stamford and the county.

Historically Significant Wildland Fires Date Name Location Acres Significance October 1804 Fire recorded by Lewis and Clark North Dakota NA A prairie was set on fire which resulted in 2 lives lost and 3 injuries. A mother saved her son by covering him with a green buffalo skin which acted like a fire shelter. March 1805 Fire recorded by Lewis and Clark undetermined undetermined It was common for the Native Americans to ignite fires on the plains every spring to benefit the horses and buffalo. October 1825 Miramichi and Maine Fires New Brunswick and Maine 3,000,000 160 lives lost Large amount of acreage burned 1845 Great Fire Oregon 1,500,000 Large amount of acreage burned 1853 Yaquina Oregon 450,000 Large amount of acreage burned 1868 Coos Oregon 300,000 Large amount of acreage burned October 1871 Peshtigo Wisconsin and Michigan 3,780,000 1,500 lives lost in Wisconsin 1871 Great Chicago Illinois undetermined 250 lives lost 17,400 structures destroyed September 1881 Lower Michigan Michigan 2,500,000 169 lives lost 3,000 structures destroyed September 1894 Hinckley Minnesota 160,000 418 lives lost September 1894 Wisconsin Wisconsin Several Million Undetermined, some lives lost February 1898 Series of South Carolina fires South Carolina 3,000,000 Unconfirmed reports indicate 14 lives lost and numerous structures and sawmills destroyed September 1902 Yacoult Washington and Oregon 1,000,000 + 38 lives lost April 1903 Adirondack New York 637,000 Large amount of acreage burned August 1910 Great Idaho Idaho and Montana 3,000,000 85 lives lost October 1918 Cloquet-Moose Lake Minnesota 1,200,000 450 lives lost 38 communities destroyed September 1923 Giant Berkley California undetermined 624 structures destroyed and 50 city blocks were leveled August 1933 Tillamook Oregon 311,000 1 life lost Same area burned again in 1939 October 1933 Griffith Park California undetermined 29 lives lost and 150 injured people August 1937 Blackwater Wyoming undetermined 15 lives lost and 38 injured people July 1939 Northern Nevada Nevada undetermined 5 lives lost First recorded firefighting fatality in a sage brush fuel type October 1943 Hauser Creek California 10,000 11 US Marines killed and 72 injuries Fire was started by a gunnery practice October 1947 Maine Maine 205,678 16 lives lost 1949 Mann Gulch Montana 4,339 13 smokejumpers killed July 1953 Rattlesnake California undetermined 15 lives lost 1956 Inaja California 43,000 11 lives lost November 1966 Loop California undetermined 13 El Cariso Hotshots lost their lives 1967 Sundance Idaho 56,000 Burned 50,000 acres in just nine hours September 1970 Laguna California 175,425 382 structures destroyed July 1972 Moccasin Mesa New Mexico 2,680 Fire suppression activities destroyed many archeological sites, which resulted in a national policy to include cultural resource oversight in wildland fires on federal lands July 1976 Battlement Creek Colorado undetermined 5 lives lost July 1977 Sycamore California 805 234 structures destroyed November 1980 Panorama California 23,600 325 structures destroyed 1985 Butte Idaho undetermined 72 firefighters deployed fire shelters for 1 to 2 hours 1987 Siege of 87' California 640,000 Valuable timber lost on the Klamath and Stanislaus National Forests 1988 Yellowstone Montana and Idaho 1,585,000 Large amount of acreage burned September 1988 Canyon Creek Montana 250,000 Large amount of acreage burned June 1990 Painted Cave California 4,900 641 structures destroyed June 1990 Dude Fire Arizona 24,174 6 lives lost 63 homes destroyed October 1991 Oakland Hills California 1,500 25 lives lost and 2,900 structures destroyed August 1992 Foothills Fire Idaho 257,000 1 life lost 1993 Laguna Hills California 17,000 366 structures destroyed in 6 hours July 1994 South Canyon Fire Colorado 1,856 14 lives lost July 1994 Idaho City Complex Idaho 154,000 1 life lost August 1995 Sunrise Long Island 5,000 This fire woke up many to the fact that the East can have fires similar to the West. August 1996 Cox Wells Idaho 219,000 Largest fire of the year June 1996 Millers Reach Alaska 37,336 344 structures destroyed July 1997 Inowak Alaska 610,000 Threatened 3 villages 1998 Volusia Complex Florida 111,130 Thousands of people evacuated from several counties 1998 Flagler/St. John Florida 94,656 Forced the evacuation of thousands of residents August 1999 Dunn Glen Complex Nevada 288,220 Largest fire of the year August - November 1999 Big Bar Complex California 140,947 Series of fires caused several evacuations during a 3 1/2 month period September - November 1999 Kirk Complex California 86,700 Hundreds of people were evacuated by this complex of fires that burned for almost 3 months May 2000 Cerro Grande New Mexico 47,650 Originally a prescribed fire, 235 structures destroyed and Los Alamos National Laboratory damaged July 2001 Thirtymile Washington 9,300 14 fire shelters were deployed4 lives lost June 2002 Hayman Colorado 136,000 600 structures destroyed June 2002 Rodeo-Chediski Arizona 462,000 426 structures destroyed July 2003 Cramer Idaho 13,845 2 lives lost October 2003 Cedar California 275,000 2,400 structures destroyed15 lives lost 2004 Taylor Complex Alaska 1,305,592 Alaska fires during 2004 burned over 6.38 million acres June 2005 Cave Creek Complex Arizona 248,310 11 structures destroyed largest fire ever recorded in the Sonoran Desert March 2006 East Amarillo Complex Texas 907,245 80 structures destroyed12 lives lost Largest fire during 2006 fire season April 2007 Big Turnaround Complex Georgia 388,017 Largest fire for the US Fish & Wildlife Service outside of Alaska July 2007 Murphy Complex Idaho 652,016 One of the largest fires in Idaho Fire Information - Wildland Fire Statistics http://www.nifc.gov/fire_info/fire_stats.htm

Again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How much did it cost?

When did White Plains become and ISO class 1 department?

http://firefighterclosecalls.com/fullstory.php?84846 This is why you need the proper PPE for the situation.

You can’t pick which standards you are and are not going to follow. May be a little less chrome on the next engine, wildland gear is about $350.00 a firefighter, a little cheaper than a stay in the hospital for heat stoke or burns. Buy a few sets and keep them on your brush truck. $5000 will get you a lot of wildland PPE, but only two sets of structural gear. Been a structural firefighter for about 18 years now and doing wildland firefighting for about 8 years now, I do my best not to use structural gear at a brush fire. http://www.wildlandwarehouse.com/index.cfm http://www.firecache.com/ Just because you can start a chain saw, you’re not a lumber jack!

I had the chance last summer to work with some California Office of Emergency Service (OES) Type 3 Engines Rosenbauer built on International chassis from San Diego area fire departments. There were new trucks on there first deployment, all the firefighters and officers talked highly of the units. After two weeks of use in the mountains on dirt roads protect homes and holding fire line, they had no brake downs. This is photo I took the first day these engines arrived at the fire, they were not so clean the next day. From the Basin Fire July 6 2008. 500gpm pump/500 gallon water/25 class A foam

The fire department needs to get a GSA account number, most of time you get that through your state forest fire agency. As far as what is on GSA contract, cleaning supplies to Type I engines. Some things have big savings 20-30% off list price, others you can bid cheaper your self. I know of one department in Connecticut that got a brush engine of GSA for about 30% off what was being bid. One word of caution, you're buying a truck the manufacture sells direct to you, not one you spec, and the local dealers are not going to service or do warranty work for you.

Buy a vest and wear it, how hard is that.