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Very nice! Is that a wooden extension ladder?

Excellent article!! Very good points about the media missing a lot of the good. And we all know that bad/shocking news sells, but a saves like these certainly should have enough shock-value to sell papers and air time.

I will email you the same, but I wanted to thank you for your time and energy you've put into this site. I'm a newbie here for sure but have gotten a lot out of the site in the 6 months or so I've been a member. It provides a great distraction at work and has increased my knowledge about emergency services as a whole. I am a long-time (8 year) moderator and memeber on a car website, and know well the financial and time requirements of running a popular site. Combine that with the heated politics of emergency services and I can see why it's too much. Where to go now?

It would be like vollies trying to run the FDNY, haha.

I thought any person qualified to administer oxygen (minimum first-reponder level) and work for a first responder agency could carry oxygen.

Great saves and great video. However, I can't figure out what a jake is. I guess I'm a bad buff. It was referenced in the first posted article initially but it looks like they changed it. Maybe because no one knows what a jake is, haha.

Everything works well for me and I do notice pages loading faster. Thanks!

That's very sad.

In CT, FAST (what we call RIT) is part of FF1. Is that not the case in NY? Is there a separate class for FAST/RIT? If certain companies cannot get manpower for FAST, is it possible that their memebers don't think it's a big deal? Would they turn out for a fire in their district? I don't know what's worse: not having enough manpower period, or the members now wanting to drop what they were doing and respond for "just a FAST call." I know in my department if there is a fire in a neighboring department, a text page goes out before any tones to man the station "just in case"

Condolances to her family and all who knew her.

Very glad everyone was Ok. The scary thing to think about is that if the tractor trailer were a little farther to the right it the outcome would have been much worse. A 40,000 rig is no match for an 80,000 tractor trailer. That's the scary thing about operating on I-95 I guess. However, as Efdcapt115 mentioned, the angle played a big role in the members' safety. I think the first inclination would be to pull up to the car, then nose away from the scene towards the middle of the road to create the larger safety zone and it naturally deflects cars away from the truck instead of pushing the truck into the scene. This is what state troopers have been doing at traffic stops, including turning their wheels full lock to the left so if they are hit from the rear, the cruiser has a greater chance of being pushed away from the scene to the left. HOWEVER, with an engine at a car fire, as E1 demonstrated, it's far more important to pull in at an opposite angle and protect the pump panel!!

This is certainly a terrible, arcane situation, but I believe the guilt lies in the hands of Obion County, not the South Fulton FD. This FD is put in a very tough position that they shouldn't be in. Simply put, it's not their district; it's nobody's district. To me, it sounds like like are offering fire protection outside their district as a bonus and make all attempts to tell the residents about the fee, including a personal reminder via phone call. I honestly believe this department is doing all they can to deal with a sh1tty situation handed to them by the county. That being said, would you still respond? I would. But then when the paying residences see this, they stop paying the fee, and South Fulton FD has shot themselves in the foot. Lose-lose situation.

antiquefirelt from Maine?

While we are off-topic, I'd like to propose that a dock is human-made structure or group of structures involved in the handling of boats or ships, a pier is a structure that extends into the water for pedestrian traffic or boat access, and a slip is the area of water where the boat goes.

If I were him, I wouldn't worry until the *actually* sue. When companies want something that they can't legally have, they routinely send out these letters as a scare tactic. If he ignores it, it will probably go away.

Awesome! Is that on a pier or dock? I saw one maybe 3 feet long when I was in Key West a few months ago.

Sad thing is the corrections officers can't really do any harm to him. The people that can are his fellow inmates, and they will praise him for injuring a cop.

Because it's a story reprinted from the AP, not FAUX News.

You make many good points. But the fact that it was an open book test is NOT a mitigating factor at all. The purpose of an open book test is generally to test one's ability to find reference information. I.E. they need to look up a law. Do you know where to look it up and how to interpret it? The article states that they were collaborating and had obtained copies of the answer key. I'm not going to make any more judgements or conclusions than that, because as you said, it shouldn't affect their ability to do the job, and they still have to get the job done.

3 firehouses over 4.5 square miles. No wonder they have the best response time in the county! I don't mean it in a bad way, either... it's great!

Be sure to shorten the yellow, and to move the trigger line past the white line!!! It will work great

There was a case many years ago in South Norwalk where a delivery truck had gone under a bridge many times before, but one time there was a train going over the bridge and it made it sag juuuuust enough...

FB app is down.

This article sums up the options the judge gave to the city pretty well. The city chose 'neither of the above' because they all mandated racial discrimination (ironically): http://www.firehouse.com/news/top-headlines/fdny-given-go-ahead-new-recruits

Good for the city for sure! However, I have a somewhat related question that I was hoping someone would be able to help me with. I saw on the last application that for the last FDNY test date of Jan 2007, NYC residency had to be established from March 2007 - March 2008. So you can move to the city AFTER you take the test? Is this expected to be the same for the 2011 test?