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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

The New Haven application is supposed to come out on the 28th. Does anyone know what their residency preference policy is? Do they hire off a residency list first? Or give bonus points to residents? I'm trying to figure out if it's worth moving there so any insight would be appreciated!

Being I'm not from the area and haven't even heard of this town, I'm curious as well.

I've seen it change quite a bit. The 2006/7 FDNY test you could move AFTER taking the test. This round they made it retroactive to the announcement as you're saying. Many cities (Bridgeport) also just require that your start of residency has to be before the date of the announcement of the exam, so in New Haven's case, I don't think the exam has been officially announced.

The flow of prisoners is actually TO Zuccotti park, not from. While the rumors of NYC DOC dumping released prisoners from Rikers at Zucotti are not true, the actual dump site is Canal and Centre, which is an easy walk to Zuccotti. Whether the COs tell them to go there, or they just know, it's a pretty good place to be for released prisoners looking for shelter, food, and drugs.

That system makes more sense. Although for FDNY those 5 points make all the difference in the world due to the hireable scores (unadjusted) being between 95 and 100. I think giving a similar number of points for residency to someone who has FF1/2 is fair. Greenwich seems to have a good deal going on: 1.5 points for residency OR FF1, 0.5 pts for EMT, 0.5 for Q... something like that. It gives someone from out of town, with certs, a fair shot.

For our wire down calls, we usually wait until CL-P gets there. However, in the case of storms, where we will have 10-20 wires calls pending, that's not possible. Most departments caution-tape and leave, and the next car to come through will invariable drive though the caution tape. In the legal system, if this first person gets injured, they will be liable, since the knowingly drove into the hazard. However, if a second person comes, now there is no caution tape. If they get injured I'm sure the liability could be put on the FD. Lawyers will say, "You may have caution taped initially, but it obviously wasn't enough because there was no warning for my client, and he got injured. end of story" I'm sure the liability could be put on the person who drove through the tape, but you won't find them. This is a very tricky scenario because the alternative is to babysit the first 5 wires calls (or however many apparatus you have) and not respond to the others. Is it still your liability if you don't respond to the a wires calls at all in a resonable amount of time? I mean you weren't there so how could you be responsible for protecting the scene? I have to imagine there is some sort of protection in the legal system for emergency responders because it's impossible to positively secure all wires down calls during a storm.

Very helpful info. Thank you!

Epic fail on what medium? Radio?

Can you post a link to the exam notice? I can't find it on yfd.org, yonkersfire.org, or yonkersny.gov

A better measure of response time (with respect to manpower) would be dispatch to en route. We only know dispatch to on scene, which does appear to be 16 minutes. If it was 12 minutes from dispatch to responding and 4 minutes from responding to "on scene", it would tell a much different story than if those numbers were reversed. This isn't to say that consolidation isn't necessary, just that the response time, along with the number units required for water supply, aren't necessarily indicative of a problem at this job.