md2347

Just wanted to make a few comments on the topic at hand here. First, putting all feeders underground would be a tremendous endeavor to say the least. That would require any utility company to get easements from the general public (towns, property owners, etc) to allow utility companies to run these feeders under ground. There are many technologies that are out there, but you are running feeders (13KV, primary or secondary) that are in large diameter underground. I am pretty confident that the general public would not be to happy having trenches or excavations through out their neighborhoods. There were a few posts that mentioned salt or water causing problems, underground feeders are buried at certain depths that take this into effect. Meaning, that most lines are buried deep enough that this issue is not an issue (usually). All the outages were caused by down trees, so one topic that I did not see on previous posts was tree maintenance. Now, this can be a very touchy topic because of the fact that there are so many different cities, townships, boroughs etc... The question sometimes arises, who is responsible, I personally do not know, but someone is, right? Now this passed weekend, we had a very freak storm at this time of the year. Most of the southern region of New York State and northern New Jersey foliage was still on the trees, mixed with the snow and we all know what happened. Would this topic be an issue if the storm happened during the winter, when there was no foliage, probably not. For most of the general public power in Westchester power was restored by Wednesday/Thursday, far ahead of neighboring communities. Now there might be some areas still with out power, but it seems to be going on as accounts from tri-state new agencies. The tri-state area has a vast, intricate power grid and unfortunately when events happen the events have devastating.

I was wondering how often FDNY or any fire department for that matter brings their units in for servicing. Is it a set time, meaning for example every 4 months or is it more complicated then that? The reason I am asking is the local FDNY fire company near me, Engine 253 in Brooklyn, has one of the new engines being introduced into the fleet. Over the weekend I saw that they were running a spare engine. I was wondering if someone on the site might know the reason that it is not in service or if just standard maintenance. Thanks!

You would think that a Seagrave dealers/shops would be quick to turn around repairs especially when there are contracts going out from the city and other areas. Even though the make a great product people always remember the quality of service.

I think it is been out of service for a few weeks. I live not to far from their quarters and I have not heard the electronic Federal Q in a while. Anyways, thanks for the info.

I am not in the industry, but am a buff. I remember reading about this topic sometime ago and was keeping my eyes peeled to see if there was any update. I am surprised that Ferrara was awarded the contract. Was it stricktly a numbers reason, or has Seagrave quality gone down? Was Ferrara award just the 20 rigs? I guess it is going to be interesting to see Ferrara ladders speeding around the city in the next few years.

I think departments/brigades through-out Europe use similiar PODS in their fleets, but I think that they might be on large chassis.