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And thats why we went with just the rear intake. The hump over the rear axle requires a second prime when drafting that takes some practice to get use to but the friction loss is far less severe. But if a front intake is so important to a depts operation, I'd think it'd be a better option rather than placing the whole pump pannel out front.

If people are inside, how did they get in? Often they get in through a adjoining vacant that isn't as well secured. Windows are often not as well secured as doors since they're harder to access without ladders. While the door is locked into the wall, the window plates will be most likely locked to each other. Ladder between the window and door. Cut the hinges on one side and the whole thing should swing wide open away from the door. Now you can either make that your entry point or you cut the door from the inside. If they're anchored properly you will spend all day working with a maul or trying to pry. K12 with metal blade is going to be your fastest option unless you regularly operate a cutting torch.

It was described to me as a pet project of one of the higher ups of the IMT. Similar vehicles are used out west to expand the reach of their mobile comm units, so say all of SI were on on fire these would be scattered around the incident to facilitate a more comprehensive image f the incident. They allegedly have direct access to streaming video from media helicopters and NYPD Aviation up over incidents all accessible through OEM. Plus the BC up with aviation. How does a 20' camera mast compare?

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Future Fire got it. Front and rear intakes are a simple solution to several of the problems that have been posted here. Rear intake on 91 for that same reason.

Cogs you nailed it. This isn't as simple as kids today have changed. Everything has changed. When I joined, there were 5 different parents with a child in the dept just in my company. Each of those kids brought in their friends along with guys who just always wanted to be firemen. Now all of the young guys coming in have no connection to the dept. The working class guys who made up the soul of the FD can no longer afford to live in these towns so we're losing them and their children. Recruitment wasn't an issue because people use to beat down the door to get in. Our companies have limits on how many members can be on the roster and not too long ago there were waiting lists of guys trying to get in. I don't see it as a lack of connect to the community. Helping my community was the furthest thing from my mind when me or any of my friends joined up. We wanted to be firefighters and to hang with each other. The social draw of the FD is what we've really lost.

JBE was there another 75 towards the latter half of this fire?

I thought kid taking a shot gun to the face was pretty disturbing at my secular school. The hanging in the administration building 2 years earlier was also pretty rough on people.

TL5 is currently enjoying a long stay in limbo. Most if not all of the truck is enjoying a stay on the sound shore after its long vacation on the other side of the river.

So because there's a surplus of ladders in Mt. Pleasnt, Westchetser and all of LI now Pleasantville should pick up a cascade? Ladders are needed on scene at the start of an incident if they are going to be of any use. Between all of the apparatus coming to the party there are plenty of SCBA and spare cylinders to keep you going until the cascade gets there. Cascades are also not used nearly as often as a ladder. Now could you put a mutual aid ladder on you initial assignment and forgo the purchase of your own, sure but that opens up a slew of issues that aren't the subject of this thread.

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Watch that rollover video again. The unrestrained dummy lands right in the belted dummy's face. If you're belted in and the guy next too you is packed up without a belt he could very well kill you.

Its not often, but once in a while a FDNY bus still gets tagged when the crew is away from the vehicle. The dept is quick to get the vehicle out of service and cleaned up.

Originally they were required to be within the 5 boroughs, but I believe in the early 60's the UFA negotiated a change as part of their contract negotiations that loosened the rules allowing the current nearby counties. I'm sure if they give up a few points on the next contract the city would suddenly be comfortable with ff's living further away.

Then we can save a few bucks and remove seat belts, airbags, and the expenses surrounding special alloys and construction used to enhance crash protection. A simple steel box is much cheaper to make. Safest driver in the world can still get popped by some idiot who ran the light, intox, wrong way, swerved, lost control in bad weather, suffering a medical emergency, and on and on. There are many causes for vehicle accidents far and beyond reckless driving. POV tags one of these by the rear wheels and over it goes. So, no its not something an EVOC class can prevent.

I'm pretty sure the residency requirement is not tied to civil service status. There was no mention of it in any of the exam notices or in the paperwork I signed. I believe its job specific. Many members of EMS live in Pa, Jersey, and way upstate. Hell, chief of EMS lives in Jersey. There are many that are so far out there that they chip in on crash apts or just sleep at the station on the hours between their shifts. FDNY has repeatedly enforced the residency requirement and has always won in court. The crux of their argument is that you knew about it before you were hired. As long as they insist that its necessary for a potential recall its not going to change until its negotiated by the union. Pension laws have no restrictions on your residence. The only restrictions there are once you earn a pension in NY your next pension needs to be in another state or federal.

The issue of being allowed to live in Jersey or in farther flung counties has been ongoing but I haven't heard of anything that could be considered progress. They're allowed to take mass transit, but unless you work in Manhattan or along the train line its usually much faster to drive. Also, depending on when you get off there may not be a train going north for several hours. They really make it hard to commute with mass transit unless you work 9 to 5.

I know I'm just repeating what was said a year ago, but I think this point keeps getting missed. What good is an EMT without an ambulance? To go with the shared resource idea, instead of staffing a fly car why don't the agencies rotate responsibility for an a staffed ambulance? You example of what if a family member were having an MI, is an excellent example of how useless an EMT is without an ambulance. Time is muscle. The longer it takes to get that patient to definitive care the more damage to the heart. How about the chronic asthmatic with their own home albuterol nebulizer and O2 concentrator, what do you have to offer them? How about the CVA, the OD, arrhythmia, etc. The list goes on and on for medical problems that an EMT's greatest tool is their ability to recognize the problem and efficiently get them to more advanced care. Everyone that an EMT can help on scene dosen't NEED the EMT in the first place unless your talking cardiac arrest. So your going to put an EMT flycar in service for a group of people who best case scenario are looking at a 4% survival rate. You do more good for more people by making sure that EMT is on a staffed vehicle.

A couple of things here, first the problems with TL-5 were specific to that model. Nearly every one that was produced suffered a similar failure, in fact ours was amongst the last still going without a major overhaul. It isn't an Aerialscope quality control problem as it was a design flaw that has long since been eliminated. The hydraulics on the boom are trashed. At one point the options being evaluated were rebuilding the boom with new guts, mounting a new boom on the truck, or replacing the entire truck. I'm not involved with the truck committee, nor am I a member of the Hook and Ladder so I don't know the specifics of where they're at our any decisions that have been made. What I do know is... the current rust bucket is more than just a people mover. It is currently a 25' (somewhere there about) elevated master stream. That ladder is unsafe to operate off of, but the single fly water way is still in service. There are people that want sticks, tower ladders and ladder towers. As we all know each have their positives and negatives. The major concerns I have heard voiced are as follows. While sticks are rare, who is willing and able to climb them? Sticks are cheaper and more maneuverable. Towers offer a safer work platform and more flexibility. Tower ladders are much stronger and durable. Ladder towers are easier an easier to set up and cheaper than tower ladders. This isn't the be all and end all of the argument, just to point out that all options are being considered. I personally don't see a boom coming to Pleasantville any time soon mainly because we don't often use our ladder as a waterway. We make a concerted effort to get our truck to the front of the building so we can get the ladder to the roof for ventilation. While it is at the bottom of my "no one cares but me" list I'll bet a ladder tower will be Pleasantville's next big purchase.

The description given by the witness is of a loud bang. No mention of screeching tires. If mom was distracted and didn't see the wall, a 4' stone wall could be enough to stop that vehicle dead in its tracks. Unless the child was strapped in like he was prepared for a space launch a little bit of slack goes a long way towards exacerbating an injury. Combined with a large head to body ratio its increasingly likely that impact could cause a spinal fracture. In a somewhat related train of thought, in an incident like this were you have a traumatic cardiac arrest without penetrating trauma who here puts on the defib or therapy cables?

Worst case you're looking at failure to act.

Do any 911 centers around here have wireless enhanced 911 and the ability to locate callers via map and GPS coordinates?

How about if you Taze someone call a medic to come evaluate the idiot. Keep on Tazing, its effective, safer than a beating, and safer for the officer.

I got a lot of cop friends and almost always have to give them the benefit of doubt, but that video is so damn far from his statement as excerpted by the paper. What an maroon.

SOP's and reality are two very different things. In every report I've ever read after a fatality communications issues are an issue, and its usually pretty simple. I really do hate to keep throwing FDNY out there but its what I know, in an effort to improve radio operations involving roll calls after a building is evacuated or a lost or missing ff is discovered roll calls were being practiced at minor alarms and a specific day of training at the rock is dedicated to them. Its an ongoing problem in all fire depts.