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D'oh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

EXACTLY what i used to do....'scopes kinda grossed me out...

Me thinks u right

Word Up...I ended up borrowing an 8 foot steel hook from the Brewster Brothers...Soooooo much better.

Thanks Bill!

Yeah....4 out of 5 windows took a few blows to break....but the one I really, REALLY wound up for...broke VERRRRRRRY easy...Twadell from pawling there grabbed me from falling into the moat... Keep posting Bill...I am here mandated on the midnight tour....watching the clock...

Depth guage...I like that....they must have come from a firepoliceman. Regarding the moat...it only held the water that we were pumping onto the house...in a few of Bill's photos you can see the ends were really open, but in the front, where we were operating, it was a good 4 foot drop down...you'll see when he posts the video of me attempting to vent a window with a long fiberglass I-beam hook...that flexed...a Little!

Doh! MY BAD!

"No water' NOpe...and a 129k looking for some!

http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pb...ONTPAGECAROUSEL

Bill has some more pics up on his site... www.fdphotounit.com

http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/article...ONTPAGECAROUSEL With some renovations, this would be an IDEAL spot for a fire station! A driveway through could easily dump the apparatus out onto Route 343 or Route 22 just as easy! I know there was some talk about erecting a new station, but this may be cheaper and in a better location.

2 stations?

I agree! How the * can we be sending money out of this country to help others when we are drowining ourselves!?!? I REALLY feel for our kids....I dont know how they are going to do it....

Where?

Me too....gonna trek out there with BOPH my chid'rens....this could be interesting!

hell - I'd run nekked through the Square for fun!

Which completly makes sense, but there must be room there for the apparatus....Amenia outgrew their current house years ago!

The initial wave of Anthrax letters and the fallout from that tied up huge amounts of manpower and resources here!

Ohhhh boy!

No way...no thanks.

It appeared to have a foam board layer under it, then wood...it was hard to tell because it burnt off first, then the thatch....

I have been researching these roofs since this fire..they are very popular over in the UK...a buddy of mine and fireman from Millbrook sent me a text...apparentrly what they do over in the UK is to soak the thacth with a heavy coat of foam to slow the burn, then work off an aerial to scrape away the straw material (which comes in 4, 12, or 18 inch thickness depending on the pitch of the roof - here we were confronted with a 12 inch layer) to the roof material itself, then proceed to vent. This is obviously a time and manpower intensive operation. I have never been a fan of the CAFS engines that are gaining popularity around here, always preferred to "do it the old, snotty way with water", but this would have been a great incident for CAFS application early ii, based on that research.

Be patient...he has a very busy work schedule this week...and he took a ton of pics to process and upload....put it this way, it was the first time ever that he filled his memory up....and Bill has a "big hard drive"

This guy found it.....