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My guess is something in the torque-box is snapped. It's caused by the chassis twisting. If it did it on both sides it could be that you're just overloading it based on weight/height, and the frame is just not stiff enough. It could also mean it's snapped in such a way that if affects both twisting directions equally. What I'm trying to say is that overall frame stiffness should be largely symmetrical, if it's not, something in the torque-box probably snapped. I would take it to a shop other than Pierce.

This is unreal. Who was the email from? NYC or Vulcans? I will make every effort to show up to this. I hope I'm the only white person there.

That's what I'm thinking. It appears the site has something more advanced that a cookie-system. My guess is it logs your IP address and only lets that IP vote once per day. It's a little more difficult than deleting a cookie, but there are definitely people that know how to mask/change their IP address and vote as many times as they want. The less cynical way of thinking about it is that they might just be better at reaching out to their community. This forum alone really isn't that big.

Bump. Let's keep this at the top.

I know Angelflight is a volunteer organization. My friend did it for a long time and quite the oposite of a job, it's expensive! You don't get reimbursed for fuel and engine-run time, so while noble and generous of you, it will cost you. I'm not sure about other fixed-wing patient transport operations.

This makes sense cases where the patient called 911, got an evaluation, then refused transport. It seems there is always a push by ambulance services to transport since that is the only way they get paid. They should get paid if they provide evaluation or treatment on scene, since that is where their skills and equipment are used. They aren't trained as a taxi service so that shouldn't be the stipulation for billing. It should reduce the strain on hospitals by cutting down on unnecessary patients, too.

I don't see where the article says the round didn't fully fire... but if that's the case, I wouldn't be surprised. I was recently talking with an NYPD officer who was talking about all the guns he gets off people and he said most are in terrible condition: rusted and never cleaned. Thank god. Hopefully this guy rots for life in prison.

I thought the pack tracker was more than an identifier system and that it was supposed to be more like "firefighter lo-jack". We have it on all our packs and have played wit the wand, which gives your direction and intensity of the signal from the PASS-activated pack.

Mayor's plan: Create separate department for the 4 consolidated volunteer departments. Hire career firefighters to man 2 TRFD stations, 2 LRFC stations, Springdale, and Belltown, and 1 Chief. 3 FFs per station during the day 2 at night. Chief Brown's plan: Keep all as is (2 city engines in TRFD district, 1 in Springdale, 0 in Belltown, all with 3-4 FFs), but decomission 1 engine and 1 truck from the SFRD district and move those crews to cover the two stations of LRFC, therefore not adding any personnel or costs. (I don't know what the plan is for the current LRFC FFs). 1 SFRD DC to cover entire city. That's as simple and unbiased as I can put it.

Mayor names new fire chief, public safety director STAMFORD -- Mayor Michael Pavia on Wednesday appointed a long-time Stamford fire service veteran to head the city's fire department and chose a retired New York City Fire Department deputy chief to the cabinet-level position of public safety director. Stamford Advocate http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Mayor-names-new-fire-chief-public-safety-director-2470841.php

My co-worker transferred to Vestas and he was telling me these things are only meant to operate at a certain wind speed. If they start spinning too fast, the utility (or maybe it does it automatically) backfeeds the grid into the turbine and the very generator that it turns, turns into a brake, with the output being heat. Too high winds for too long and they will burn.

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Wasn't another municipality looking at doing this for one of its engines that primarily ran medicals in its first due? I'm assuming this is the Chief's reasoning for doing it, right or wrong. It might be better compromise have them keep the engine to take to fire in their first due area, and use the SUV for medicals.

Great pics. I was wondering what that first wrecker's plan was, haha.

RIP and thank you for your service