Mark Z

Sweet Looking Mack!

NOTHING! Now go ride your dinosaur.

This was a bittersweet image to see, I recognized to many of those names but I hope it serves the district for many years and is as good a truck as she looks right now!

Here is where passing on what you have learned to the people coming in behind you is important. TRAIN THE JUNIOR EMT'S on what you have learned is expected. One of the things that drove me crazy was when I asked a question or wanted you improve I got answers like "you f@#$ed it up! That doesn't help anybody

You should be happy with the Lifeline, Waterford where I was a volunteer before becoming disabled, has had quite a few of them over the years and currently has all six of the units in service from Lifeline.

Mark, Looks good and I hope it serves you well and best of all, I am not around to put a scratch on it!

One Word! YUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCKKKYYYYYYY!

Because protest just for the sake of protest is silly and now Dangerous! The OWS crowd is doing nothing but costing the city money and can you sensibly articulate what they want to accomplish in order to end the occupation? I can't for the life of me understand what they want or want to see happen!

Thanks! As I said i am going on a cruise 10/21 and will see if i can get any pics to update the thread!

I don't think it's stupid, I like it!

"Mark Z, the last post of this topic is over 90 days and a new post will now be considered as flood!" What does this mean? BTW, I'm just about to leave for a cruise next week, so this was good timing!

I enjoyed both the pictures and your website, I hope to see much more of both!

The question is will they stay an ISO class 1 department? I realize that the rating won't change but would they still receive the same rating if the evaluation was done after the layoffs, I doubt it!

{Firefighter Luis Simon, who was dismissed and rehired in May along with 15 others after an arbitrator's ruling, said it cost the city $800,000 "to dismiss people last December."}Read more: http://www.miamihera...l#ixzz1ZN1roYYB It seems the City of Hialeah has had problems before and didn't learn from the situation. The city is making another stupid mistake and will probably pay for it in the long run. I just hope nobody dies as a result.

I am not fond of the medium duty or whatever you want to call the ambulances on the international or freightliner chassis and don't think they work well as an ambulance so adding a cafs unit just adds something else they don't do well. I have seen too many meetings where politicians want to buy one of those monsters with a CAFS unit so as to cut another truck "Because it can do both" I have worked in that type of unit and find them horrible due to nothing being close at hand and everybody wanting to throw more on the truck because we have the cabinet space. You are entitled to your opinion as am I, time will tell if the idea works for Broward, I won't bet on it working! In my limited experience it isn't an idea that works very well and it may work for them, time will tell and I will reserve judgement until the units are in service for a while.

I don't know that this is such a good idea, I believe it has been tried before and found to be a bad idea! I don't know that I would want to do a transport in one1 OTOH, is it any dumber an idea than a CAFS unit on an ambulance? You end up with a vehicle that doesn't do either job well! Time will tell if it works out the way Broward wants it to! But what do you expect from a sheriffs dept that runs the fire side?

Neat! I love stuff like this!

Sorry to hear this, any back up plan?

There is also a huge amount of difference in things like dept location, size, district and other factors to not allow a "grey area" such as this. Many rural areas need much more flexibility in allowing younger (or older) members to do things that would and never should be allowed in other places. We cannot regulate everything to the point that nothing is allowed to happen! I am sorry but the only way to avoid all accidents from happening is to park the apparatus shut the doors and tell everyone that we might get hurt so we aren't going to respond anymore. I am not saying that training or safety awareness isn't needed but accidents can and will happen and age may or may not have been a factor, but anyone who has ever driven any kind of emergency vehicle has made a mistake that could have caused a serious accident and didn't, if only by the grace of God. This kid had an accident and so have many older drivers so lets not jump on his or her age as the only factor that was involved. In my mind it needs to be left up to the chief of the dept and their training to decide and if that means 18 for a particular dept then so be it! I know WAY TOO MANY older drivers that scare the daylights out of me that I will not ride an apparatus with than I do 18 year old's that I don't trust with an ambulance.

I think he just DID!

Sharp Looking as always! ATCEMS has good looking stuff and you get good shots of them. Thanks Seth.

Nice! Any in service yet?

I AGREE!

Can I get one TOO! Nice looking truck and I wish them the best with it!

Ok, that makes sense, it sounds like they have developed a system that works for them!