IzzyEng4

FD racing is a faster version of the midnight alarm runs done like at the Engine 260 muster. You ride the old trucks old style, gear up in turnouts and pull-up boots and pull the lines to hit a target as the pump op drafts from a tank. FD racing is a twist to this wearing protective gear, not turnouts, hooking to a hydrant to flow water or throwing a ladder up. I's a crazy fast sport in my opinion but it is a drill competition that been around since the 50's I think. You can't compare this to riding to a call. Its a speed thing. PS I'm not defending it, I have seen many competitions like this when visiting family in northern NY who participate in this.

Yep and there are teams upstate too in NY, look at Monroe County for one, but the memebers raise the money themselves, the do not use FD funds.

Couple of posters here brought this up awhile ago. I think the initial fidings were that two separate firehouse were cheeper to build than on large station for both companies. It had nothing to do with the two companies wanting separate firehouses but moreso for location purposes if I remember correctly about the thread.

Mutual aid call for a truck company with a pump by passing another truck comapny just because it has a pump?!?!?!!?! Not cool in my opinion. If you are calling for a truck, they get a truck reguardless of pump or no pump. I just don;t see why but that could be another discussion. Quints / Trucks with pumps are good but depend what a department needs. Rochester NY has several Quints in service and run side by side with a Midi-pumper (1000gpm pumps). I think it depends what a department's set up is. My department we have five engines in town so the new tower that came in had no pump. The department north of mine got a tower with a pump, they have four engines and they saw the need for a fifth "pumper". A department has to remember that whith a pump, should you carry water especially in a 100 ft aerial ladder or a tower and loos compartment space or ladder storage? I think quints are good and a very versital peice of equipment but depnding on a response area and what is best for a department.

I posted some from my camera phone in a previous post uncer incident updates.

Date: 10-07-06 Time: 1752 - dispatch Location: Woodbridge Fire Headquarters - Newton Road & Center Road Frequency: 451.7500 Units Operating: WFD: E-2, E-3, Sq-4, R-5, EQ-6, ET-7, Tank-8, ET-9, Bethany: Engine 81, Engine 82, Tanker 82, Rescue 86, 2-Lima-7(amb), Description Of Incident: Fire in a 2 story brick and wood structure firehouse, fire in attic and on second floor of original building and rear addition. First unit on scene reported smoke showing from building. All apparatus and equipment were removed from building. Orange Engine 35 also enroute to help. Writer: IzzyEng4

Ansonia, CT's old Engine 4 1981 ALF Century Bridgport, CT Tower Ladder 5 Pierce Dash and Rescue 5 Pierce Lance Trumbull Center Tower 104 Long Hill's Squad 209 Nichols FD Quint 303 and Truck 304 Hahn ("fresh air and sunshine") Waterbury Truck 2 (ALF midmount 95 ft. tower) and Both Engine 2 & 10's 1988 ALF Century 2000 pumpers Brewster Pierce Dash tower ladder (11-5-1?) Both Pleasentville Ferrara's Archville's Hahn Port Chester's Seagrave tiller New Haven FD any Pierce Quantum pumper, New truck 4 Seagrave tiller and Tower 1 Stuphen 100 foot tower Valley Cottage's ALF Telesquirt Harvestraw's Lady Warren Hose 5 (both the Hahn and KME) New Cannan's Engine 8 Ward LaFrance pumper tanker Boston's Tower 3 Pierec / Tower Unit E-One and any of the new Pierce ladders and pumpers.

Is the Lamborgini on the other side?

Which small dept?? L-176 or L-192? Hopefully not L176, on of the last S cab aerials around. Good luck!

This is about my good friend Melissa about her credit card information being stolen. I remember the day she told us on the day it happend. -- Joe Reprinted from the Hartford Courant. Computer Swindle Preyed On Prosecutor September 29, 2006 By TRACY GORDON FOX, Courant Staff Writer Raymond Clifford Dugan apparently picked the wrong victim. When police say Dugan used a state Department of Labor public computer to hack into a carpet store's on-line records, he did not know the credit card information he obtained belonged to Melissa Streeto Brechlin, a prosecutor with the chief state's attorney's office. "It's a cautionary tale, and it's comical it happened to someone who upholds the law for a living," Brechlin said Thursday, after Dugan was charged with attempted larceny and computer crimes. "My husband said, `this guy messed with the wrong person.' I said, `yes he did.'" Dugan, of Newington, who tried to conceal his identity using a public computer station, was tracked down by detectives from the Department of Public Safety's newly formed computer crime unit. Dugan, 40, who was recently incarcerated on an unrelated case, was charged with first-degree computer crime, illegal use of a credit card, identity theft, criminal attempt to commit third-degree larceny and third-degree larceny, police said. He is also suspected of defrauding numerous other customers of Galaxy Discount Carpet in Newington, where he used to work, police said. He was being held with bail set at $100,000 and is scheduled to appear in Superior Court in New Britain on Oct. 10. Brechlin had made an on-line purchase from Galaxy Carpet at the end of July. Brechlin said she just happened to check her bank account at the end of August, and noticed $1,100 was missing. She called the bank, and it said the charges, which had not yet been approved, were for online gift cards, including $500 for Nordstrom, $500 for Macy's, and the rest to another on-line store. According to the bank, the money had not been spent. But Brechlin informed the bank that it was still attempted larceny, and that she wanted to get to the bottom of it. She called Nordstrom's and Macy's, and they gave her the e-mail address of the person who purchased the on-line gift cards. Brechlin typed in the e-mail and Internet provider address, and was shocked to find they were registered to the state. "That just blew my mind," Brechlin said. "I'm an employee and I'm thinking another employee is ripping me off. I was just horrified." She fired off an e-mail to the Department of Information Technology, which oversees state computers, saying that someone using a state computer was attempting to steal from her bank account. Technicians there determined the computer was one of the labor department's public computers in Hartford or Wethersfield. The computers are there for the public to look for jobs on-line. Employees at information technology passed on the information to troopers, who traced the purchases back to Dugan. Nancy Steffens, a spokeswoman for the labor department, said it does not block many Internet sites, and must allow access to retail sites so people can find jobs. She said the department of labor was quickly able to help state police learn who used the computer. It turns out that Dugan had worked at Galaxy Discount Carpet as its computer systems administrator, and knew how to access the server by remote. He quit awhile ago, but continued to secretly access the customer credit card information and use it "to make unauthorized Internet purchases," police said. A manager at the store described Dugan as a "computer genius." She said they have had to rebuild the store's entire website, at a cost of more than $12,000. Brechlin said she hopes the labor department will put more security measures on its public computers. In the meantime, she said, she is a lot more careful where she uses her credit card. "I see those [identity theft] commercials now, and I think, that's me." Contact Tracy Gordon Fox at tfox@courant.com.

Plain English is good an d bad in my opinin but somethings will get lost in translation, no pun intended. They have to come out with a written script for each statement and a definition hen, where and howe to use it like for signals and codes.

Actually I have been thinking about it, hit me on myspace for my number.

Morons

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Hey Eck, Great job, and you got my "good" side of me crawing into Engine 4 at the Downing's fire LOL Joe

Wrong move.

Ah fond memories of the old "yellowbird" Ward running out of 14's. I remember the last day it ran out of there before being disbanded. Also I think Eng / Lad 10 is the oldest firehouse still in existance, with the exception of several older volunteer houses around, built for horse drawn purposes. Great old looking building hater to see it go but it would be nice so the engine MPO guys don't have to get up in the middle of the night to move the pump out so Ladder 10 can respond.

Eck, nice job. Joe (ex AFD401)

Helmet Comms????? Like that is going to change anything with any team. Noise is part of the game, deal with it. Next thing there going to do is put LED on hockey pucks and LOJACK on golf balls. PLAY THE GAME THEY WAY IT WAS INTENDED!! ok my 15 seconds on the soap box.... next.

And what is bad about it, he has been confirmed by FDNY as a member of their department for three years. Not good, another black eye for NYC. Courtesy of WABC-TV Eyewitness News has learned the fire burned through a spa in the Closter Commons, a strip mall on Piermont Road, just after 11:45 p.m. When he heard of the blaze, the off-duty suspect rushed to the the Rockleigh Fire Station in Rockleigh, N.J. and swiped a fire truck. Police say 33-year-old Raymond Oprey, of Palisades, N.Y., then drove the fire truck to respond to the Closter blaze. Apparently when he arrived, Oprey was clearly intoxicated and refused a breathalizer test. He was charged with driving under the influence. Oprey was arraigned this morning in municipal court and posted $25,000 bail. The suspect has been a member of the FDNY for the past three years. He is assigned to Ladder 50 in the Bronx. The FDNY would only say the matter is under investigation. Copyright 2006 WABC-TV.

Not for nothing, anything do do with the sound seems to me to always to benifit Long Island, not Connecticut. For years our legislature has battled with the NY legislature to help us clean up the sound and more times that so, it gets bogged down, but better in recent years. This is our main waterway and our coast line too. Yes I do think a LNG facility is a good thing but not in the sound. Its way too close to both coast lines and also it will effect a lot of shipping traffic. Group Long Island Sound in New Haven, which protects these waters will eventually have to beef up their forces especially with security threats. Now what to protect this I can't go to my favorite fishing spot in the sound? What about traffic from the sub base in Groton??? Did they thing of this as well? The subs do operate in the sound down to the Harlem and East Rivers, its thier way to the old Brooklyn Navy Yard and when 9-11 happened the subs traveled to NYC this way. Not this could potetially hinder thier operations. I know that there is a proposed 1.5 mile no sail zone but that is not enough and also the fact that marine fire suppression operations in the Sound, with the exception of the Coast Guard, is nil. What community has a fire boat that can handle such an operation? New Haven decommissioned the Sally Lee (Marine 1) years ago after it fell into disrepair and they could fund it and it was the bigewst fire boat I can remember in this area since it was berrthed at the tank fam at the mouth of the Quinnipiac River and New Haven Bay. I'm all for alternative energies but the location of this storage facility is the wrong place for both CT and NY. The Sound is not hurricane proof and the waters can get down right nasty sometimes. I think more research for a better location is needed.

I highly doubt it until we can actually find it. Besides I beleive we should have done to him what his county's justice system does, "an eye for an eye."

In CT, all emergency telecommunicators / dispatchers no matter who you work for must be certified EMD (it doesn't matter wich brand you use). The last I had heard was that there is a push to make this a national standard for all communication centers that have 911 capabilities. The main reason was to cut down on the plethera of 911 transfers and / or if a caller needed immediate help you can provide the information to help the patient.

It is and its a similar stick to East Haven CT's Engine 1 (HME 75' RK)