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Ossining Truck 42 as well... My link

Roto-Ray... Either you love them or hate them. Personally I think a roto-ray in the center with a pair of Mars 888's on the outer edge of the windshield make for a great looking rig... At the same time though, flashing lights don't put out fires so I wouldn't break the budget for the several grand that a setup like that costs if the rig is lacking in other equipment...

They're not on the horns on purpose. Just the officer stepping on the switch as he is busy preparing to go to work.

I'm not familiar with FDNY SOP/SOG, but I would have to assume that the officer is outside and has established command until a B/C arrives.... M'Ave, if my guess is correct, who does the officer fall in with when the B/C arrives and assumes command? The B/C has an aide, so does the engine officer join their crew? Become the division officer for the fire floor?

Seth - Are these blackouts being done to avoid catastrophe similar to what happened on the east coast during the summer of '02 or '03?

Was just on the phone with an associate in Houston and the land line (office phone network with a server that requires 120v power) went dead with a rolling blackout...

With regard to concern over the flexible design vs. rigid insofar as ability to hold high pressures, strength, and heat resistance.... Since synthetics have been used for decades for airbags (high and low pressure) which are capable of lifting multi ton loads, I would suspect that there are absolutely materials available that would be suitable for a synthetic SCBA. As far as heat resistance is concerned, much of our protective gear currently is made of synthetic material that is heat resistant, just look at the low pressure hoses that have been used for years to supply our SCBA regulators. While the potential exists for these to be available by 2012, and they are intriguing, I would suspect that deployment of such a radical redesign will take years to implement even if the fire service immediately embraces the technology. Apparatus storage of spare units alone will represent a challenge. No more neatly stacked rows of SCBA cylinders, no more wheel well storage, and of course... The redesign, retrofit, or other modification to jump seats on existing apparatus. Great move forward but it's going to take a while until its practical.

Two dead LEO's plus a canine dead and a federal marshal in surgery.

The difference is in the equipment and materials. No disc brakes, less advanced steering, only one engine option, limited wheelbase options, limited axle and GVWR options, only seating for six, etc.

My wife had a grooms cake made which was cut right after the wedding cake and a different flavor. It was a perfect copy of Millwood's Maltese cross. The 5 or so guys from the FD and I took a pic with it and it was over. 5 min max. Totally didn't buff the wedding, but my wife included a major partn of my life in an easy way

They shipped the truck to WI to have the boom removed and then shipped the chassis back to CT?

On the floor laughing!!!!

It could be an independent power source to the box which allows the box to fully function without having to run the motor. Helps out at scenes with prolonged duration incidents where a unit like this might be doing RAC duties so long as there is a unit on scene that can provide power from their onboard generator.... R-36 in Millwood has this function.... It allows the unit to run the heat and air, as well as lights, 120v outlets, pre wired rechargeable devices, etc.... Lets the rig serve as a mobile command post if it doesn't need to operate the hurst tool....

Fire happened in the laundry on the left. Source = Google Maps Street View Prayers to all brothers involved. Departed brothers rest easy.

FDNY shops will perform the vast majority of the work on these rigs. They already have a good number of Ferrara rigs in service with Hazmat a few engines and other various support vehicles. I think they have a pretty good feel for how the relationship will work with regard to warrantee work etc.

Spot on..... Chief Flynn has it right. These guys do a good job of promoting what the FD is doing so that the public can appreciate their work. Everywhere else the public might say "4 helos to fight building fires sounds expensive..." But a department like LA that does a good PR job the folks might say "I feel much safer because the FD uses helos to help us when a building is on fire" On a smaller side note of PR, I used to have the guys open the bay doors whenever we were working on the apparatus floor so that the public could see what they were paying for and that there were people attending to it (volunteer or career, it doesn't matter)... Even if I was in the station alone, I'd open the two bay doors closest to the officers room while I was doing paperwork (weather permitting). With cuts due to the economy and other financial drama effecting every aspect of emergency services, PR of any kind is great. This service has become one of a million that are competing for the public's dollars. Market your department like it was a Fortune 500 company so that the public will have you on their mind frequently. There are only so many times that the press is going to show our guys saving lives amidst all the other negative news that is out there.... Make sure your department is taking advantage of every opportunity they can for the public to know that you're there.

Dodge missed out on years of sales by not offering a straight chassis version of their vehicles like Ford and GM have which is why they haven't been in this market.. They've been missing out on the van market for years as well. I've owned Chevy, Ford, and currently a Dodge truck and I am confident that the Ram will hold up fine under emergency service conditions in the most demanding of cities. It is the toughest, most solid truck I've owned or driven. It's not smooth and quiet like a GM Duramax, it doesn't have the awesome interior or raw power of the Ford Super Duty with the new diesel, but its Cummins Built 6.7L 350/650 diesel runs like hell, the interior is tough, and nothing on the rig shakes. I live on rough cobble stoned streets in Winter Park, FL that chew up and spit out other vehicles, and with the 60k miles I've got on my rig, I haven't had to replace and suspension bits or realign the truck.

Ram is still very much a Dodge product but marketed as its own line. Sterling was a division of Daimler Trucks North America. Daimler (think Mercedes) purchased Ford's heavy truck division (think AeroMax and L-9000 chassis) in the 1990's and created the Sterling name so that the production of the existing lines could continue even though they didn't have the right to badge them as Fords. With regard to Chrysler, Daimler sold its interest in Chrysler some two years ago and Daimler-Chrysler no longer exists. The vehicle that appears to be a RAM sold with the Sterling branding is in fact just a rebadged RAM 4500 or 5500. It could be ordered until 2009 under the Sterling Bullet moniker when DTNA decided to discontinue all production of Sterling products including their medium duty and heavy duty over the road chassis which was an evolution of the Ford Heavy Truck line. As of 2010 production of all Sterling products had ceased. DTNA continues to produce several profitable and popular lines of commercial equipment including Detroit Diesel (although the marine division was sold to become MTU) Freightliner, Western Star, and Thomas Buses.

Orange County Fire Rescue (FL) has gone away from their extensive fleet of commercial chassis Rescues (ambulances) and Medics to Dodge chassis as well. Not sure who is making the box.

8 people killed on the Taconic State Parkway in Mt. Pleasant. 2004 2 people killed and a pregnant mother with 2yr old infant injured when wrong way driver on the TSP made it all the way from I-84 to Rt100 heading SB in the NB lane. Shortly thereafter another wreck involving an elderly couple (not at fault if I recall) and a tremendous MVA with fire involving a wrong way driver on the TSP I/A/O Rt100.

Millwood has two. E-247 is a 1998 or so with a 3D body. It looks awesome. Rescue body with a continuous roofline from windshield to tailboard. Myself and John Lembke designed E-248 but two ex chiefs that dont know the difference between fire and ice bamboozled the chairman of the commishioners into ordering a bucket of changes that left it with goofy headlights a chunky pump section and a split at the dunnage compartment, as well as difficult placement of hydraulic rescue tools (which may gave been somewhat mitigated since i moved south) It has a Sutphen body. Photos from www.millwoodfire.org, by FF. J.T. Camp

Date: 12/08/2010 Time: 2030hrs Location: Orlando, Florida I/A/O I-4 and South OBT Departments: OCSO, FSP, OPD, OCSO Aviation, OCFR, FDLE, other LE agencies Description: OCSO LODD - Deputy shot in head while making traffic stop. Links: Stories available at: www.wesh.com, www.local6.com, www.myfoxorlando.com Writer: mfc2257 OCSO Deputy executing traffic stop was shot in the head by one of two perps in vehicle which fled to local apartment complex. One suspect found deceased from self inflected gunshot wound, other suspect contained within complex by 100+ LEO's and over 75 RMP's. Units going door to door A/T/T Orange County Sheriff Demmings confirms Deputy has passed. He was 27yrs old. 4-5 years on the job and married to another Deputy of similar tenure and age. They have no children.

A BLS (preferably ALS) unit should be at every fire regardless of how large it is. Plenty of room and contents fires have flashed before, plenty of guys have had MI's at bread & butter jobs, plenty of guys have been burned and seemingly benign calls. A rehab unit or a second BLS unit to assist with rehabbing should be added above the second and WHENEVER the IC feels like he needs it... If it's 100+ degrees out and you've got a room and contents at the back of a SFD with Colliers conditions, it may be over quickly, but you'll have a hell of a time overhauling and the IC may think that a rehab unit for his guys is appropriate even if the second was never struck.

I wasn't talking about Yorktown per se otherwise I would have referenced them specifically. Yes P-Ville to the Heights is a haul. Your department may have done preplanning or box assignments with regard to resource management, but most hadn't when I moved out-of-county 6 years ago, and to this day many continue to operate on the fly... Not just my old department. I'm referencing a county-wide issue (worse north of WP for sure) not any specific department or member posting on this board.

Pleasantville VAC just placed a rehab unit in service. If no rehab unit is available, detail an extra BLS unit and if there is a ladies or other auxiliary unit available get them mobilized. The extra BLS unit can handle the health/medical aspect of rehab while the auxiliary can provide hydration, nourishment. Rehab or extra BLS unit should be detailed when the second alarm is struck. BLS transport for victims or FF's should be on the road as soon as a fire is confirmed if not before... either as part of the first alarm or as an automatic add-on prior to striking the second. Unless specific alarm instructions, preplans, automatic mutual aid, or box cards have been given to 60 control.... All you're getting in Westchester, for MANY departments is a simple dispatch for a fire that includes the first due department ONLY. The responding department has to ASK 60control to add resources. I hear it all the time... "gimme an engine from Yorktown, and the FAST from Croton and the Truck from Ossining. Start me tankers from Somers, Croton, Millwood, and Yorktown...." Some departments have done some primitive apparatus preplanning but very few have gone to the extent of detailing out for 60 control exactly which units are due on specific incidents and at what alarm level. When I was an officer in Westchester, I knew (for the most part) each of the surrounding departments apparatus and which capabilities they had. I created a box card plan for 4 distinct zones in the district (boxes) and alarm assignments for fire, mva, hazmat, etc through the 4th alarm with specific apparatus requests (ie; on the second alarm I want E146 from Chappaqua b/c its an LDH rig instead of E145 which had the 3in hose reel)...... It was completely disregarded by an old chief who didn't know which end of the hose water came out of and whom the other officers were too afraid to stand up to. EMS needs to be included into such preplanning so that when an officer rolls up to a job and tells 60 control to strike the second, he/she doesn't need to waste valuable time thinking about who's ego he's going to stroke today with a M/A call.... Probably forgetting to ask for EMS coverage while he's at it.