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Once upon a time, marked police cars with overhead light bars mounted the sirens in the center of the light bar. Police officers had the same volume complaint...including that they could not hear the dispatcher over the police radio. The solution for police cars was to mount the sirens on the push bars in the front of the cars. Being a police officer and not a firefighter, I'm not familiar with fire apparatus so I don't know if such a solution would work for FFs.

I'd say "it depends." While buying American is certainly admirable, it can be amost impossible in many cases. There are almost NO electronics made in the U.S. anymore. No TVs, no radios. The last of these were so inferior to the Japanese products that value-conscious Americans stopped buying them. The Japanese basically STOLE the designs from American companies....and them improved on them. Which brings up another issue: is buying American more important than quality? Once upon a time NO ONE could beat American quality. Sadly, that's just not always the case anymore. For example, data indicates that the highest quality automobile you can buy today is the Honda Accord. Sad, but true. Cars, generators, even pressure washers now have Japanese engines in them. Lastly, many companies claim their products to be "American made", but they are assembled using off-shore components, despite the requirements of the FTC. I don't know how they get away with it....maybe no one has reported them. I'm aware of a number of large emergency products companies in this category. Police and Fire Store, LLC manufactures emergency lighting equipment under the Dash Flash® brand. We strive to utilize as many American workers as possible. Our products are engineered in the U.S. We use as many American components as we can, such as Cree LEDs. But we simply have no choice but to use many off-shore components because they are simply not available in the U.S. What we do is to ensure that those components are manufactured to our specifications and are only the highest quality. Dash Flash® products have a failure rate of only .1%. That's 1/10 of one percent. I would like nothing better than for the American electronics industry to come back!

I don't see any other forum for posting this, so I'll put it here unless advised that it belongs elsewhere: From now until November 15, 2014, we will give EMT Bravo members a 10% discount off any item in our stock. That means 10% off our already factory-direct prices on LED scene illumination worklights, off the Stealth Flash lightbars, even off the already-discounted firefighter bundle. This is a way for us to test the effectiveness of our advertising on this site. If you wish to take advantage of this offer, just go to www.dash-flash.com and using the "Contact Us" link, state the product(s) you want, your zip code, and that you are an EMT Bravo member. We will then email you an invoice for the item(s) minus the 10% discount. Unless you're in Arizona, there's also no sales tax. This is a great oppotunity to get some excellent emergency vehicle products for unmatchable prices.

That Bearcat would be a hoot to drive around in.

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Firefighters,. EMTs, police officer, and even Boy Scouts rushed into the towers to rescue people.No one expected the towers to collapse on them. But we are the people who run TOWARD danger when everyone else is running AWAY. It's more than just "our job." It's our calling. Like most of us, I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when I first heard the news. The 2nd plane had not hit yet...and we were riveted to the television watching in horror as it unfolded. No, I will never forget...and I deeply resent the people who HAVE forgotten. You know who I mean - the people who yap about "Bush's unnecessary wars" or "Bush lied about WMDs." The #1 reason for the war was never WMDs. It was a War on TERROR...and Saddam Hussein was one of the chief exporters of international terrorism. He was even offering cash rewards to anyone who would murder Americans or Israelis. If it was a suicide attack, he said he would pay the reward to the murderer's family.