FightingIrish

Date:4-1-2012
Time: Aprox 00:30
Location:Silvernail Road west of Maple lane
Units Operating: Pine Plains fire, NDP, Milan (1 engine) & Stanford (1 engine)
Description Of Incident:
-Pine Plains & NDP dispatched for a priority 1 rollover auto accident with entrapment
-Command on scene confirming entrapment and requesting an engine from Milan
-Stanford requested one engine to set up a landing zone
- 00:43 Stanford to stand down, no helicopter available
Reporter:FightingIrish

I've heard several times that either NFPA or OSHA is trying to make seat-mounted SCBA brackets a thing of the past, because of the danger of packing up urging a response. I've seen the crew portion of the LAFD Seagraves and they lack seat brackets. Their SCBA's are mounted facing the seat instead. Is this rumor true? I was thinking that's the reason why the brackets have been manufactured now to lock the SCBA in place. Can anyone who's involved with manufacturing or drawing specifications shed some light on this, or anyone else who knows?

Love the powercall.

Fairview (dutchess) 10-2 OCT. 22nd
258 violet ave Poughkeepsie NY

If only they still made rigs as they did the old macks

If only they still made rigs as they did the old macks

Fairview (dutchess) 10-2 OCT. 22nd
258 violet ave Poughkeepsie NY

Lynbrooks new command unit.Sterling Chassis Onan 40kW PTO driven generator, five 1,500 watt Focus lights recess mounted in sides and rear of body, and two Will-Burt 9,000 Powerlite light towers. The chassis is a Sterling Acterra with a Caterpillar C7 300 HP engine and an Allison automatic transmission. That is one fine looking rescue engine

The other day, the snowy commute proved horrendous. At the rollover between Peekskill Hollow and Bryant Pond Roads, so many Good Samaritans intervened and helped a hurt, scared lady who skidded off the road in her minivan and came to a stop on the vehicle's side against a tree.
Thank you to the off-duty EMT I saw running into the woods toward her vehicle. Thanks to the guy trained as a first-responder who also was a life-long Boy Scout who just wanted to help if he could. Thanks especially to the several off-duty NYSTroopers who stopped, provided invaluable scene safety (with loaned flares- ahem) and helped to speed up the BLS response. And thanks, George the medic, for getting there to relieve me and allow me to get to work in the local ER (looking and feeling much like a wet, half-drowned rat).
Evereytime I start to think that people in general just suck and don't care about anyone but themselves, Good Samaritans like the ones I met the other day prove me wrong and restore my faith in mankind.
Thanks, all of you, for that.

Hey guys, figured this would provoke some intrest. It will suprise you with the age of some of the apparatus that is still in use in my old home county.
http://greenefireapparatus.net/id5.html