PCFD ENG58

My hands are still shaking over this . I was at Gulliver's and as you all know to well that it is the early stages of the fire that are the most critical and that night we through firefighters after firefighters at the rescue side of it and saved over 100 but that was when Engine 58 had a 2 man crew and Engine 59 had a 2 man crew because there where 16 on the job and the Volunteer side had men hanging off the rigs because there where no seats left to sit in. Port Chester is a very busy dept and the call volume will burn out the volunteers going to the small calls like CO ,trash, brush, car, and what ever in the middle of the night . One of the Chiefs is a member on here .

Don't worry about where I came from , NOBODY AND I MEAN NOBODY spoke to the board about the jobs but firefighters . The pubic does not care about the jobs and that is my point , all they care about is tax's going up and that's what I meant by not to focus on the guys because they [ pubic don't care ] about the guy's

As a member of local 1971 [ retired ] and a 44 year member of the PCFD . It's not about the firefighters it's about the community we live in and the safety of the residents that now are at risk . Most of you guys know me and know that during my career I had my share of fires over the years many and I mean many that I pulled up to by myself. Many voll pulled lines off my rig and started to attack the fire before the rest of the rigs got there . Now that element is lost We worked together well and that my fellow firefighters is what made our dept work .

It is true and has been coming about for some time . Do any of you guys remember the time when North White Plains had there trouble with there chief , well guess who's chief in Port Chester . Said day for my brothers in local 1971. We are a busy dept with no room for this and if anyone has driven in Port Chester lately you can see the village is booming with new housing

Not a rumor , shut down already and sent the guys home , by vote of the Board of trustees of the village

Deck gun on the body goes back a long way in NRFD, even longer then Nechis !

$12,000.00 to $15,000.00 tops and that if all parts work.

Like what was already said , when I started we had only 2 packs per rig and maybe 20 firefighters to each rig [vol ] and nobody died from lock jaw. As long as they are taken care of and don't share the snot go for it !

When and if we had wet down's [dry, never water ] in Port Chester the rig was blessed. show to the dept and the tax payer had some food then went home . What a joke this is.

I owned the 1949 American Lafrance that was engine 29 still running the J-12 gas engine in the early 90's

Like I said last year the show has become a joke same stuff every year. They need to update the show for it to return and no there is nothing for this year.

Anybody know any updates on the 2nd test how many made to the oral part ?

Upstate news out of Albany showed a crew of 2 from Cairo [Green County ] with brush truck

E-one are they still alive ?

First off Andy you got that right it is Oceanic's 1978 Mack CF ex FDNY fire academy chauffeur training rig It now belongs to my friend Chuck Buschardt in Houston TX . I brokered the deal for him, also in the garage is the 1950's Maxim from Hola Hose from Ossining.

Remember what Bnechis said about two year's ago about the cap. FD's and PD's are going to fail and fall by the wayside

Maybe Peekskill did like Port Chester, they hired the same that where ready for the last class but got screwed day's before it started.

Port Chester has 3 in this class with a new mayor last Tuesday,they got hired on Friday.

Senior man on Eng 58 answered the fire phone as I was listening in on the bedroom phone. Where's the fire, caller the fire is in Detroit, Senior man, we don't go to Detroit call Detroit fire dept. Has we hung up I said to him lets go that's our's Detroit night club on the post road with a 10-75 no less

Go once go twice you won't go back same crap every year

Working the streets of Port Chester for 46 years. Check out the street across from Fire HQ , no snow as it was done the day before. EMTBravo's Res40cue on lunch break from long days running Taz the snow fighter.

The Siccard that Port Chester uses like most has 2 stages. When used to fill trucks it is used in first stage and cannot throw no more then 15 feet.But like the one used in Boston that was used by a pissed off operator that was not using it right at all, and yes sucked up a few shopping carriages along the way

dwcfireman , the S iccard was bought from the saleman from Siccard after the county turned down the unit. It was bought by the county for the airport [HPN]. Port Chester picked it up at the county garage on Brockway place in White Plains.

The Autocar 1985 ex vacall truck rebuild by the great staff at the DPW

Boom is from 1970 GMC refitted onto the 1987 Ford 600