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Anyone else notice how well kept those rigs look?? Here's to TF-7, a guy who gets around as much, if not more than me!!!

I've seen this on a few rigs. Point Pleasant Beach in NJ has it on their new engine, and there's an aerial out there with the black canopy and black aerial. Not too fond of it.

Looking forward to better weather as well. I need to get out and about in Westchester.

95 footers in the city are, (Off the top of my head) 9,12,14,44,51,58,107(presently operating 75 foot spare, 95 footer was wrecked in 09),117,119,121,152,161,163,172.

Amuck in America, anyone?? Hip Clip of the Week?? That guy from Lake Carmel who won the pick up truck?? I even remember the original VJ's. Jeeze, I'm 37 and really showing my age. Anyways, for a while I refused to watch B n B when they first came out because of the giggling. It just started to bug me. Then I slowly got converted. I watched it more for the videos they goofed on. That was probably the best part of it for me. Looking forward to seeing what Mike Judge has cooked up. PS, we were talking a little bit about this at work last night and I had my tour in stitches with my impersonation fo the Great Cornholio.

Dropped off my application Monday.

I heard the page go out for Winona Lake on my pals pager, then turned it off to keep from disturbing his house guests. Maybe I shoulda kept it on a little longer and went buffing.

I wouldn't necessarily say this is a battle, inasmuch as it's a disagreement that ended up with a summons being written. Hopefully this gets resolved and everyone walks away happy. In my experience on this side of the radio, I can't count how many times I've gotten calls from PD Traffic Control asking, or actually demanding me to tell my units to move so a lane can be opened. There are a number of times I have told them no, because I know why the lanes are blocked. Civilians also are a little clueless on this one, as well. I had a rollover wreck on the Deegan in front of the chateau one night, 3 or 4 cars involved. NYPD ESU Truck 4 was facing south in the northbound lane on a diagonal angle in front of the rolled over car. 81 Engine and 46 Truck pull up, the Engine gets in the center lane, while 46 Truck pulls in at an angle to reduce the traffic flow to one lane. One of my neighbors says, "Oh there go the firemen blocking traffic again" (Edited for content by me) I looked at the guy and said, "Do you know why they're doing that??" He looked at me kinda funny, and said no. I explained to him that it was done so that the Firefighters, Cops, and EMT's that operating don't get hit by someone trying to come through. It's unfortunate that a situation like this had to come down to a summons being written, but, safety is paramount above keeping the traffic moving.

5th man=5th FF

I am DEFINITELY taking this test.

It is very well taken care of. I got a chance to shoot it a couple of years ago. If memory serves me right, it's in a little office parking lot about a quarter mile from Mahopac's main house on Rt. 6 on the left hand side if you're heading towards Carmel. And, for the hair splitters in this thread, it is a very nice piece of apparatus.

Arrangments are as follows: Wake: Greenwich Village Funeral Home 199 Bleecker Street off of MacDougal Street Thursday 1400-1700/1900-2100 Funeral: St. Josephs RC Church 6th Avenue and Waverly Place Friday 1000

They share. The houses are connected.

Tempting, very tempting...

Am I that transparent??

I will be going out there in July. I'll be donating as well.

As a side note to this. Her sister can't afford the funeral. Chief Jonas(Ex Cap.t L-6) is working out arrangments, and one of the local funeral homes called today to offer free services for Miss Harris.

Lookin to do another bash, Steve??

Sidetracked, thread derailed. Can we get back on topic please?? NWFD, play nice.

It'll never happen. The city won't spend the money. And, as far as demonizing, that's usually what happens. I know this from personal experience.

Nice work on the refurbs.

IIRR, it goes, EMT, Medic, LT(Promotion, but I believe you must be a Medic now to be made LT). Anything above that, Captain, Chief, etc. is appointment only. Funny how things work out, wasn't Nahmod Chief Perrugia's partner at one time?? Their dispatchers answer to their chief of communications, who in turn answers to our director of dispatch operations, who answers to chief of communications(a 3 star Fire Chief). This means probably Napoli is going to get Chief of EMS communications. Lovely. My brother knows Chief Perrugia and has nothing but great things to say about the guy. I do sympathize with him and I figure he's been scapegoated as well.

I do have to say I'm happy to see nobody getting shut down at night. What may have gotten mentioned, but swept under the rug is how many companies are taken out of service citywide during the day. I would say an average of 15-25 per day. That includes companies out for all day training, partial day training classes like extrication, or rope training, or Medical exams while the rig is being sent in for routine maintenance. That's a gamble we take every day, and in a few cases I can think of in my experience, have led to fatal consequences. Never mind when E-70, L-53, E-52, L-52, or one of the Midtown companies goes out, and they have to be filled. Anyone here from 92 Engine can relate to what I'm saying. 92 to 52 for the afternoon, and 92 misses a first due job that ended up going to a 3rd alarm. First due engine coming from a distance because 92 is up in Riverdale. Robbing one to pay the other. NWFD, 8 minutes is a very long time. In my opinion, the city needs a few more firehouses built and opened, not less. Every time a company is taken out of service, regardless of time of day, a gamble is taken by the city. I could go on about other factors affecting response times, like companies being way out of their first due area doing Building Inspections. Fallback is where we modify responses to reported fires and emergencies because we're trying to conserve units. With the amount of fire duty the city has had over the past few months, we have gone to Fallback more times than I care to count, and, at least once or twice, we went to fallback citywide. Nighttime, statistically is when most fatal fires occur. I would rather have all my "toys in the toybox" ready to go at 0200, than be missing a first or second due company because they are out of service for the night. In places like Queens and Staten Island, where the companies are spread a little further apart, waiting for that second due company can be like an eternity because the run for them is sometimes 8 minutes, sometimes longer.

I miss Vegas..I like the blue aerial.

I'm not saying I wanted those additional charges thrown in. I'd like to see the guy hang for murder as well. I've seen those charges thrown in on murder cases before, at least manslaughter. It seems at times the prosecutors say, well, we may not get him for this, but we can get him for this.