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I like how when TC folded the Commissioner came out and said that FDNY had foreseen this scenario and made plans for it; in reality their plan was just to work their existing crews to death for as long as needed until someone came up with another idea.

TC's hiring standards are only low for the "Core" side of the business (interfacility transport). In order to work on the 911 side of the business you have to be at the company for at least 6 months with no disciplinary or performance issues and then you're put on a waiting list to move over. Then you have to interview again with one of the 911 supervisors and take a skills/scenario test before they'll give you a 911 spot. MetroCare

Similar to the ones the city has for flooding?

The bid is 'only' $1.4M for the apparatus so I'd guess they're only replacing one at this time.

Hope they work out better for the troopers than they have for Syracuse PD. The ones here are all squeaking, rattling, and clanging their way around the city after only a few years on the road.

Between FF1, FF2, and AVET along with my experience on the job I do have an understanding of crumple zones and their function. To illustrate my point, here is a picture I took at my last job: This was a sub-30mph offset collision in which the front driver's side wheel intruded into the passenger compartment and caused injuries to the driver's legs.

If I'm driving down the road and witness an accident where I can potentially render aid, then I would certainly stop if safe to do so. If I'm driving down the road and see local emergency crews on the scene of an accident, I'm going to keep on driving. I find it hard to believe that the IC was so desperate that they abandoned everything they know about ICS, department guidelines, state laws, and insurance liability and just threw two unknown people from out of state who claimed to be firefighters on a rig. This was a vehicle fire, not a Russian invasion.

You keep saying this but it's not accurate. Currently 21 states operate a State Guard or State Defense Force which are independent from the National Guard and classified by the federal government as State Militias. They are administered by their state's AG and cannot be called upon to serve as federal troops. These units are volunteer and require you to purchase your own uniforms and equipment and take training on your own time; if that isn't a militia I don't know what is. http://www.dmna.state.ny.us/nyg/

So basically the chief is admitting that he's purposely designed a schedule that will make life so difficult for his members that many of them will just say "screw it" and quit... and that's his genius plan to save money? Someone tell me how he ended up in this job.

It's not about what we believe in, unless someone is planning to use it as a $400 flower pot or an office decoration we have to worry about what our chiefs and/or safety officers believe in.

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I wonder why they put so many of the lights in the grille and lower grille and not in the headliner. If you're driving a pickup truck you probably wouldn't even be able to see it unless it was 5 car-lengths behind you when it lit up. Sometimes I think it might be good for the person spec'ing lights for vehicles to have at least a basic knowledge of what utility each light has and where to place it for the desired effect rather than the "Well they said I have $10,000 for equipment, so that means I can but X amount of lights!" mentality. There's a small town near me who's radio cars have a full-size red/blue Freedom lightbar on the roof, a full size red/blue interior bar in the rear headliner, and then two double-head red/blue units on the rear parcel shelf in addition to taillight flashers and strobes. At night it looks more like an alien abduction than a traffic stop.

There were some rumblings about getting a tanker but the priority last I knew was to sell R23 and replace it with a Rescue/Engine. The whole issue is complicated by the endless wrangling about buying the property next door to the Bedford Rd. firehouse for a planned expansion. If they purchase any new apparatus now it will have to be housed in the shallow, low-ceilinged upper bays and serious design compromises would have to be made.

The few 4x4 E-Series ambulances I've seen had a pretty high rear load height, maybe that was a consideration?

Will this get a standard Stiloski's paint job at some point? Being camouflaged is usually less than desirable on an accident scene.