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Welcome to the EMTBravo Staff team, Joe! You have been a long-time valuable member and site supporter, the EMTBravo community stands to gain tremendously from your continued participation and professionalism. Glad to have you on-board! Jack

Almost every "working fire" out here on The Cape routinely gets a mutual-aid response in addition to the Call-in's. This goes for the bread and butter "room-and-contents" jobs, it might have something to do with how many responders are required on the scene to adequately meet minimum interior attack safety guidelines. All the towns up here are hurting as far as staffing goes, and unfortunately it's not going to get better any time soon.

If you're in Philly, the Fireman's Hall Museum is a nice stop. Of course you'll have to go down to East Passyhunk Avenue and visit either Pat's or Geno's. WIT! You can also see where I got my avatar photo.

Glad your pooch got out in the nick of time! At least it wasn't an AFA: Aromatic false alarm....

Hey, we could use that for all the forum paid vs vollie / Cop vs Fireman threads!

Oftentimes we've had the pleasure of hearing directly from some of those people involved in an incident or photo we have been discussing come on here and enlighten everyone as to what was happening on the scene or behind the scenes when the image was captured, including the good, the bad and the ugly. We're fortunate to hear "their side" because as we all know, unless we were there, that split-second frozen in time might not always be the whole story or even part of the story, and we have already made up our collective minds as to what it is we're seeing.

OK, I guess I misunderstood and assumed your comments were directed entirely to Ed's remarks. We can agree there have been previous occasions where some members, who for whatever reason(s), present an anti-law enforcement face. Fortunately those are very few and far between, and whenever possible the staff tries to ensure public posts meet site guidelines. We appreciate the forum contributions from all of our valuable LEO members and hope the negative voices of the minority few who badmouth anyone they have an agenda with are duly ignored.

CC, I'm sorry if I'm missing something here, but I cannot see how anyone can come to a blanket conclusion like that based on reading Ed's post, even though he is someone that obviously comes from a fire background. I fail to read "anti-cop" anywhere into the above remarks.

While the speeds might not have been excessive under ideal conditions, at the time of the accident due to the wet roads even going under the speed limit may have been excessive, contributing to a loss of control.

Using water on any energized electrical wiring that is on fire is a bad idea and I don't think any line officer would instruct his men to do so, but it has been done, however, if it's a live13,800 volt primary feeder cable, then chances are very good one won't live to tell about it. More importantly, let's remember not to get overconfident on when water is acceptable to use on any class C fire.

From my experience Con Ed electric line workers would not climb on top of any vehicle to extinguish burning cable insulation, plus they don't wear short sleeved shirts, white fire helmets, or that style hi-vis vest, particularly one that says CHIEF.:-)

Identifying markings have been further retouched to avoid bashing of a particular department. Some of you may know who is involved, please let's keep that information to ourselves. They know who they are.

I wonder if the sagging and blackened lead shielded 13,800 volt feeder cable had anything to do with this incident?

We just sat through a riveting performance of The Guys at our local theater group. What a powerful and touching story!

Town of Orleans (Mass) Police Dept. has an antique patrol car on display outside their HQ on Rte 28. The interior could use some restoration work, but it is clean, 76,000 miles! Gotta love the combo-light/sireen, and whip antenna!

While we don't generally publicly discuss site administrative actions and behind the scenes decisions, once again, EMTBravo staff were left with little choice other than to remove an interesting topic that started with much good and constructive commentary and offered a platform as a valuable learning experience, but had nonetheless degenerated into individuals hurling personal insults and cross-profession (PD / FD) attacks. We don't appreciate it when certain members find it impossible to temper their remarks and causes us to take down what subsequently had become a controversial topic, in order to maintain civility. We are not a rant-board, and don't want to become a rant-board. There are plenty of those out there. We encourage our members to continue to share relevant current event news articles and general interest stories, and also to report topics containing postings that they feel violate forum posting rules, such as bashing Paid vs Vollie, Cops vs Fire, or portray those professions in a derogatory tone, or for any other issues. Those reports are reviewed by our staff and offending postings will be moderated or removed as deemed necessary.

I should add, the site staff are currently discussing the feasibility of "pruning" the topic and possibly restoring it after a cooling-off period, strictly because of the educational potential. However I can't offer any guarantees that will in fact occur.

...I never could understand emergency services rescuing "aerial-tendency cats" Cats don't need "saving" from trees. Otherwise our treetops would be littered with cat corpses.

Cinder block exterior walls in buildings with self supporting steel truss flat roofs sometimes fail as a result of the heat from a fire causes the trusses to sag which shifts the downward roof load from a vertical to a horizontal plane, and the weight bearing wall columns can't sustain that thrust.

I'm going to go out on a limb, here, and while I condemn the rescue attempt technique used, I seriously doubt that the guy would have lived, regardless. It's not like the vehicle dropped "four feet" onto the guy, it's more like inches...the car slid to the left immediately after the rear tires lost contact with the ground. The City just made the dead guy's estate rich beyond anyone's wildest dreams.

Video shows why it's critical to wear ALL your PPE for that "routine" call. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/44287205#44287205

It's looking more like New England is in the sights of this one... Might have to stock up on french toast!

http://360vr.com/2011/06/22-discovery-flight-deck-opf_6236/index.html 360 view of the Space Shuttle Discovery's flight deck during decommissioning in the Orbiter Processing Facility. It looks it should be pretty easy to drive this rig!! (after a few short years of training, of course)

Ten-codes are being replaced with plain English communication in many areas, and have already begun being phased out to eliminate confusion, partially because they are not standardized across a majority of departments.