EdAngiolillo

I personally recognize a half-dozen names and I only looked at the first few pages.

Well, first, the big red sticker is from NJ OEMS, not Pennsylvania. That said, when Conshohocken (the Philly Division HQ) closed last August, all of our fleet went to Pittsburgh. However, it does look like a typical POS hand-me-down that we frequently received instead of new trucks.

Late to the game, but in my county, if an officer is responding to make up the apparatus crew, you will hear "Chester, ENGINE XX, with DEPUTY XX, responding, crew of 5." If that officer then assumes a role in the scene IC, he will make a similar notification.

As I understand the situation, confirmed by EX-PGH and EX-TCNY employees. TC dissolved as a corporate entity under Chapter 7 bankruptcy and incorporated as Transcendent Transit I & II. These corporations, in turn, ceased operations on Friday, 2/26/16, less than 36 hours after being formed. That said, to the best of my knowledge (again, for transparency, I was the ALS Coordinator/QA & Safety Manager for TCML/Philadelphia), ALL TC assets have ceased to operate. There are no functioning TC/TT divisions in NY, PA or MD. If I'm wrong, please comment with corrections. Additionally, please (PLEASE!!) give all the ex-TC employees all the support you can!

An old friend and former NS-LIJ medic indicated to me that may already be in the works.

As a former employee/supervisor in the Philly market, I can't say that I'm surprised. Once Patriarch got hung up by the SEC, the capital revenue disappeared. We lost about 100 employees, but this is devastating. Best of luck to everyone in TCNY.

God had a bigger purpose for him. RIP.

Simple and clean,..

I have one of the old CF models,...I'm sure if I put in the time, I can kitbash a replica of it.

Even worse, PA stipulates the SOL should be a certain size on ambulances, NJ wants another size, DE another,..etc,... My 2 cents - the symbol is arguably universal in identification, so I don't care if its fluorescent pink!

Funny, I'm the other way around. I think the new green graphics are cleaner and bigger, which is probably good for visibility.

FireMoose started this and I see a quote about putting the volunteers IN THE STATION. 100% absolutely true! Last year, Chester County (my home turf) enacted a dispatch change stipulating: Ambulance XX gets dispatched, if no response (I mean ON THE ROAD, not re-dispatch for driver, EMT, IV bag holder, etc), the next due gets dispatched. PERIOD. End of argument. There was a LOT of pushback in the rural western half of the county because, you guessed it, it takes at least 5 minutes to hop out of bed and drive to the station! I was at that meeting and I can tell you, those fire companies were told, in so many words "well, tear down your bar and/or your social hall and start building bunk rooms like the rest of us, or you'll be out of business in a year." While my squad is now mostly paid staff, we have a strong and active volunteer contingent that MUST be in-house for their 6 or 12 hours and in uniform (identical to the paid staff since we're all there to do the same thing, save lives). The only time we page out for additional help is when we need to roll our bariatric truck or certain occasions when the duty crews will be committed to an incident for an extended period of time.

Oo-o-ohm-m-m-m-m!

My vision must be failing me,.... Is that black or dark blue?

Date: 6/6/13 Time: 2145 Location: 2530 Creek Rd, Caln Twp Box 38-06 Units responding: Thorndale (FD 38), Downingtown Alert (TWR45), Downingtown Minqas (E461, 462, AMB461, AIR46, MEDIC46), West Brandywine (Pumper Tanker 49-5), Lionville (RESCUE47 as RIT) Conditions: Dark, warm, raining Initial reports: Fire and collapse of commercial building. Multiple reports of propane tanks in building. First-in OIC reported heavy smoke and collapse of 2-story portion of multi-level commercial building. Civilians reported explosion before collapse, now no visible fire. LWH.

My apologies! I'm recovering from surgery and fell asleep during a lull in the incident. Incident was U/C about 20 minutes after I posted it. A propane tank blew and collapsed part of the structure.

A whole lot of stupid caused this. It should never have happened. Other contractors working the area questioned the demolition techniques for weeks but never said anything because the city's Licenses and Inspections people approved it.

Ho-ho-ho! Look what Santa delivered this week! Engines 6-1 and 6-2 are twin Spartan/Marion pumpers with 2000gpm QMAX pumps, 500 gallon tank and 30 gal Class "A" foam. The lettering and goldleaf will be completed "in the next few weeks" since some of the extra parts have not yet arrived. The members were working on ENG6-1, so most of the pics are ENG6-2

I was being sarcastic. He's a professional photographer. I just take a few pics now and then and post them here. I'm not a member of the company. My squad posts an ambulance at their station during the day.

Not quite up to "my" standards , but here's the official pic: http://www.westwhitelandfire.org/apparatus/NEW/Large/mem%204%20-%20Copy.JPG The "Twins" went into service 12/10/12. Both are 2000 gpm/750/30 A&B foam.

Awesome pics. Y'know,...if they weren't obviously Euro-looking apparatus, you wouldn't know its not somewhere in North America. Travelling to Melbourne is on my lottery/bucket list!

I listened on Radioreference for awhile. Unbelievable. Gov. Christie ordered mandatory evacuations, AC Mayor said "no stay in town, go to shelters." Did ANYONE learn from Katrina??

Keeping them ALL in my thoughts and prayers.

Adapt, improvise, overcome! Here's a few pics of how North Wildwood NJ firefighters handled the storm! http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=366155010137034&set=a.182878065131397.47319.179464705472733&type=1&permPage=1 http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=366941626725039&set=a.182878065131397.47319.179464705472733&type=1&permPage=1 http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=366941543391714&set=a.182878065131397.47319.179464705472733&type=1&permPage=1

The Cat size relates to winds, not barometric pressure.