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Here is the link of our rescue pumper's pdf drawings fromm Smeal. http://smeal.com/imageuploads/DeliveriesFile149.pdf Though the unit does not have extrication equipment on it, we do have room if the department ever expands to it (our ambulance / rescue squad takes care of extrication currently) If you have any questions, like shelving, contact me.

Just a question, is it worth the trip for a CT guy to take the test?

Mike, who made the tough boxes on the truck?

I wonder if the person who designed the shirts did it vendictively or though that having paid guys with the circle and slash was supposed to mean they were 100% volunteer and had no paid personnel. But by looking at the shirt..... HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO FRIKIN' KNOW!!! Another stupid thing that may or may not have had a little innocent meaning and never thought through! This is why som animosity is created, even amongs carrer and vols internally. STUPID STUPID STUPID Hmm Semi Rural CT, Must a be Fairfield or New Haven County Department. I have my guesses and I can't agree more of bad taste. Hopefully I won't see those shirts at the convention in the next few weeks.

HOLY ANTENNA'S BATMAN!

I know you get Middlesex County, CT on 46.18 and Danbury too. When my ex used to live in Valley Cottage it was weird hearing departments close to my home in CT out that way.

You want a good hand crank radio with everything, spend the money and get a Grunden.

I had thought the trucks out of HQ had 3 (engine & tower) I'm not 100% sure. I think you may be right.

Welcome to the wonderful world of low band skip.

http://www.ct.gov/cfpc/lib/cfpc/HARTFORD_F...HTER_8-2-06.pdf

Don;t bother applying. You need to be a Hartford resident at the time of filing your application. People have been fighting this for years up here. Unless you can change your address by the filing date, they will not accept your application. I checked.

That's illegal, there is no fire department in the US that can fail you wearing corrective lenses, however they can prohibit you from wearing contacts on the job but not glasses. Plus they can not force you to go for corrective surgery either just to get a job. Check on this, not saying you don't know your sources but this is definately a discriminatory action and a major leagal battle can come out of this and the department will lose too.

New Britain CT firefighters have been order by the city to cease collecting in the annual IAFF Fill the Boot Donation drive for Muscular Dystrophy. http://www.wfsb.com/video/9678669/index.html?taf=hart

You mean that you have to take a patient to a specific hostipat if there is a difference for replants, heart, stroke, ect.????????? That is kinda messed up, and I say this because I am looking from a different set of rules and regulations. Yes we have specific hospitals that specialized in acute care but transports to these facilities (with the exception of traumas) are done after a patient has been stablized unless transportation to Bridgeport's Burn Unit, for example, is with in a reasonable time either by Lifestar or ground. Otherwise the burn patient is transported to a trauma center and stableized before going to a specific acute care hospital. I've always had a hard time understanding NY's protocols.

Football season?!?!?!?! You know what this means???? HOCKEY SEASON IS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER!!!!!!!!!

"Up on the roof top quick quick quick, hearing the chainsaw of good old Rick!"

I agree too and it could have been improperly shut and lached door as well and yes you should be seatbelted (this comming from an old standup canopy jump seat rider and i have since changed my ways). Hopefully he will recovover fully.

Up here in the New Haven CT area, we have specific protocols set up by our C-MEDS wich are basically all the same. All patients may be brought to one of the area hospitals of thier choice under no life threatening circumstances however it must a resonable driver. Anotherwords a patient can't be transported from a Scene in Greenwich to Yale-New Haven hospital in New Haven. If you are say in Ansonia, which is off Route 8 north of Bridgeport, a patient instead of going to Griffin Hospital in neighboring Derby, may choose to go to one of the hospitals in Milford, Bridgeport, New Haven or Waterbury or if they are a veteran, the VA in West Haven. Now the protocols change alittle bit. If the person is having a MI, in full arrest (the term code or code 100 for us) or suffereing from a stroke, they are to go to the closest hospital reguardless and pach in to medical control at that hospital. Traumas are a little different. If there is any question that a patient might not need a trauma facility, then the crew may patch to the closest no trauma center hospital with medical direction. The doctor will determine a trauma hospital is needed and divert the unit or not. Any major trauma, aka mva extriacations, amputations, go to the closest trauma hospital. If the trauma is a tramatic arrest (for us a Code 200) then the patient is brought to the closest hospital, reguardless of being a trama canter or not to stablize the patient prior to going to a trauma center. Where I live I am luck to have 8 hopitals plus the VA in West Haven with in a 20 mile radius. Out of those 8 hospitals, we have one level 1 trauma center(Yale- New Haven) and 7 Level 2 (St. Ray's in NEw Haven, Bridgeport and St. Vincent's in Bridgeport, and St. Mary's and Waterbury Hospital in Waterbury) The two others, non trauma are Milford Hospital and Griffin in Derby.

Reposted from Firehouse.com A Prince George's County firefighter was hospitalized Saturday afternoon after falling from a fire truck. At about 4 p.m. Saturday, Engine 72 of the Prince George's County Fire Department was responding to a fire call. As the fire engine was traveling in the 6300 block of Baltimore Avenue in Hyattsville, a firefighter fell out of the vehicle and sustained significant head injuries. The firefighter was airlifted to Suburban Hospital in serious condition. Engine 72 is out of Riverdale VFD. Seems like more and more we are seeing apparatus door failures. 72 is a 1992 Seagrave pumper that was rehabed, though it was a fully enclosed cab to begin with.

It's an FRC 120v browlight, and it is bright during the day too. A little sunshine for ya LOL. We run a 2 to 3 mile section of Route 8 in CT so its good for incidents up thier since we are first due on the Northbound side and second due for Southbound.

Here's our 2006 Smeal / Spartan Gladiator LFD pumper, black over dark red.

Here's our 2006 Smeal custom midmount / Spartan Gladiator Classis LFD 1500 gpm pumper.

IF you were refering to my post, I was only giving my two cents about what is a good or bad truck and don't worry I'm not offended. I don't think you were bashing a brand either, you were asking a ligitmate question about quality and I was trying not to be subjective in my answer, just trying to give a broad view of the topic. We have a Smeal on a Spartan Gladiator Chassis at my company and love it. However, one company in my departmet has a KME / Freightlner and had a lot of problems with it afterwards, mainly because of the dealer's slow progress of fixing the unit. The truck body was built very well but the components added on had a lot of problems as well as the elecctrical system with the Frieghtliner chass, all of which were worked out and fixed as warrenty items. The next town over has two KME engines and one tower and they have had some minor problems. We looked at the problems our brother company had and decided not to go with KME due to the service level in this area that was given.

APCO25 is the digital transmission standard for certan systems. Say you lived in CT and wanted to listen to the CSP, you would need a digial receiveing scanner to listen to this type of system. Check out radioreference.com and strongsignals.net for more info.

Just remember, Boar's Head trucks have a white roof! Anyone who worked at a grocery store should know that the very top of those truck roofs are white and not all black. Little trivia for ya.