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Thanks Dan, stop up Saturday morning if you're available, we're doing some training with Firematic starting at 9am

and some random exterior shots, thanks to all that watched the build with us!

foam pail compartments that are on both sides under the speed lays, they hold two pails each and have the foam pail wrench in the compartment for easy access and the CAFS trash line/reel with 200' of hose under the rear cab step

front compartment, tools, electric PPV fan and electric cord reels and EZ foam fill

Over the wheel compartment tool board front and rear as well as rear wall of compartment with 36" hook and boxes for the SCBA masks

passengers side rear compartment combo cutter/spreader and slide out hydraulic pump and lines, fuel can and auto cribs Auto fill controls

Rear of Engine A tribute to 3 of our members that passed away during the construction of the vehicle and as always a tribute to them and the FDNY, Assistant Chief Jason Whaley, Life members and siblings Jill Caldarelli and Randy Ackerman. Ladder, hooks, shovels and small suction Generator and cord reel

and around we go on the drivers side Cab step compartment Speed lays of 2" and 2 1/2" and 1" dead lay of forestry hose on top Pullout steps they're the same on both sides of the Engine Front compartment with various NST and Storz fittings and adaptors as well as strainers and donut rolled hose Over the wheel well compartment, two saws, fuel, bar oil, broom and air hammer and hose in box Rear compartment, mini frig, cones, RAM mini monitor, Pro pac foam unit and small garbage can The blue beast and Engine # on both rear compartments

Here are the last I shall post, I did a walk around today of the compartments showing the mounting and placement of the items of the Engine and also a few inside shots of the console Front and rear console and dash The Navigation and backup camera 12" monitor for the TIC

looks like this one died out, thanks everyone for the input, it's greatly appreciated and welcomed

We have all our assignments setup in the CADS with Dutchess 911, which in most confirmed structure fire or larger type incidents, our station is automatically backfilled from a mutual aid company which obviously could depend on what department is available, as the normal relocation department is out on a run, or down an Engine, they then would be skipped over and we would get the next department and so on. Our OG for relocating or standby to another station is always no lights or siren, headlights only, that goes for any non emergency type calls that we may get (the old cat stuck in the tree) as well. Command in most cases will provide a progress report to the dispatch center as soon as they can to back down the response mode of the responding equipment. For several years our preplans/dispatches have been set-up with placing mutual aid on the initial dispatch with us for those larger scaled incidents or structures within our fire district, our entire Battalion (5 departments) is very rural and mostly without hydrants so obviously we have to do things differently, like having to lay 5" from a static water source and drafting to supply water to a scene or running tanker shuttles, thus having those resources on the road as soon as possible makes a huge difference, its a lot easier to return them if they are not needed.

It does not fit in the firehouse area where it is shown in the last photo, that is the original part of the firehouse and the doors there are only 9', we had a building built at the rear of the firehouse several years ago, you can see the building with the red siding in the back ground of the middle photo, this is where the new Engine is located, the fire district has started a fund with the intentions of one day building a new station, which is surely needed.

Took a few today, I need to do a compartment by compartment now that it's completed. President John Kelleher from last October when we went to see the chassis and today with the completed Engine. sitting on the pad outside the main older part of the fire station

Here is a photo of the crew at the Firematic BRAT shop that built the Engine, it's amazing how such a small crew working in a small shop can turn out such quality built vehicles as Seth can attest to. Bob, Jules, Tom, Dan, Dylan, Manny, David and Kevin

Got a few more from today.

Thanks it's much appreciated, it was a long process but the end result of seeing the rig pull into the station made it all worth it, shall the Blue Beast serve the Wassaic Fire District and our surrounding neighbors for many years to come.

and a short video, got a little blurry when I got to close on the passengers side http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orA4zsirDfQ

the old girl had to be moved to another bay, now located in the main part of the station in the front bays where she used to sit for many years

a few more of the Engine back at the station and one of the CAFS Boss compressor engage and monitoring panel

Got a few photos today doing some pumping at the DDSO and flowing some foam, pumped 3400 gallons of water through the pump and used about 4 gallons of foam when flowing the CAFS, more to follow tomorrow

Just got home from working with the new Engine, frozen and hungry, some pictures to follow a bit later, time to get something to eat and warm up

After all the waiting the engine is headed to Wassaic

Flowing foam with the CAFS system this afternoon at the shop, Engine has been now fully tested and will be headed to Wassaic in the morning and should arrive at our station around 12-1pm

We too will have walkers for Wassaic Fire Company Assistant Chief Jason Whaley, 36 who lost his battle with pancreatic cancer in early 2013.

Please read back a few posts and you will see that the rope has been there for one week and why is it there, the new engine is coming tomorrow and the rope will be placed back in its normal space where the PPV currently sits, things we moved around because of compartment space or better put lack of with the departure of the other engine. What is wrong with the rope being on a reel? It is used to attach to our cold water rescue suits for ice rescue operations. Thanks Ed for adding the link, much appreciated, in the photos the firefighters in the yellow gear are from Amenia and ours are in the blue gear