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There area many more studies over the years as well, this is not the first.

Use the MSPP help menue. that is where I founding for a presentation. in the help answer search, type interting sound for presentation, it should come up. The options are in the slide show pull down menu.

Greenwich is goinf to the APCO25 digital trucking system, as rumors have it. Get one of the new Bearcat Trucnk Tracker IV's or newer Radio Shacks (GRE). However, if the poice department is using encryption to bloack thier transmissions, you will not be able to listen to any of those transmissions and it is illegal to. By spending the money for a newer scanner, you will be able to program in the new 800MHz frequencies that will be relocated due to the NEXTEL fiasco and unblock the newer frequencies that were blocked out (old cell frequencies) The newer scanners will be either pre-programed or software will be able to program in the newly relocated public saftey frequencies. See Radioreference.com or Strongsignals.net for a better explaination.

Anyone want to do a rendition of Gene Autrey's "Singing in the Rain"??

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I'll take the Riptide Summer Ale Rush please

Then what are we going to use to mix with the malt, barley and hops???????????

Had a real bad squall in the Route 34 area of Orange and Derby in Western New Haven County (1/2 mile south of my house). Multipple trees down and it was a mess, though at my house there was nothing except heavy rain.

If you have any software like Cyber Nanny or other blocking software, check to see if is blocking the sites. Also check your internet options under the computeer's control panel. Do this after adlere21's instructions and you area getting the same results.

Yes they can, but adhearing to it an making people use a standard script verbatium (word for word) is nearly impossible in the non-military setting. Its the issue of training the mind to say something in the old 3 words of less mentality. People tend not to use plain english the way they should and really is no dicipline behind it either. Having a nation set of codes with each one having a specific exact statement attached to them can eliminate deviation. But whether using plain english or codes, the powers that be will think of something so complicated where they should be using the KISS method instead. NIMS will take years for it to actually work if using plain english right now.

What is trying to be don is set a standard nation wide for all emergency services. The problem I think is the brevity issue what 10-codes offer versus the ease of plain English, which both can get lost in translation. My department used plain english but there is not set script for it. Some people sa "XXX is responding" where others say "on the air" and that's it and you can't change these people. At least with a set code such 10-4, we know it mean message received. With codes there is one set of words for each code where as plain english people have a rendency to not use the correct statements they should or hesitate when talking on the radio. When I listen to New Haven and hear "Engine X signal 75, give me a 22 and start a 26 and the 29's." With the codes, this quick statement in plain english would read "Engine X on scene working fire, give me a second alarm assignment and start an ambulance and the police." I think a set standard of codes such as the Standard APCO 10-Codes should be used with all agencies. Just my opinion.

DITTO, DITTO, DITTO Parades are for fun.

But Jet, I really think that the 10-codes suspension was a "foot in the door" to the biger suspension too. I don't really think that a person should be suspended just for one incident of using this instead of the NIMS standard if it was out of habit. However if it was a vendictive and habitual thing then that suppension was warented. I still don't think we area getting the whole story.

I Agree with you there Chris. A lot of people have forgotten. But like the rest of the posters here, we get to inundated with it sometimes.

In my company if you are issued a Class A uniform, you are required to attend 3 parades a year which are in order New Haven's St. Patrick's Day Parade, Memorial Day Parade in our city and the Connecticut State Firefighters Convention parade. If you do not atten with out being excused from our 2nd Lieutenant and Drill Master, then you are fined. If the company decideds to attend other parades, then those who don't attend do get a fine for those. Many members go away for Memorial Day weekend and that's not a problem as long as you tell the parade committee, also work relatedt issues, family commitments, ect. Our company does not let parades interfer with our training at all nort do we drill for parades often, maybe a marching refresher on a Sunday morningearly in the season. Parades are for fund and enjoyment in our company and many members march or ride on the trucks. There are some companies that overdue it but that is because what I am used to. Having to march in three parades is not bad. If a member misses all three parades unexcused, two consecutive yeas in a row, then thier Class A uniform is pulled from thier posession and fines are levied. We simply state, you don'w want to make the committment to march, then don't. If a uniform is needed for an event, then then unifom committee keeps it at the firehouse and will issue it out on a need basis.

Whoa boy! Also does this mean that Dumont Squad 1 and Engine 1 ehich are run by the same comapny is being disbanded or does this mean that Squad 1 would be eliminated and Engine 1 would just run? Also this sheds the light on the engine returning the block to the chief. Not good at all.

My company havs very rarely done a parade drill and when we have, they were always held separately from training drills. We mainly go out and have fun at parades. If the parade is local, then our in service pumper may go, and we just wash and wax it. Most parades we try to take our 1962 ALF pumper, still in its original service state. In previous years we have one many awards at the CT State convention inlcuding best drilled and best in parade. More recently we win awards at the New Haven St. Patrick's Day parade for best volunteer fire department and also best color guard. We just go hand have fun and try to look our best but mainly to have fun. Our attitude is if we win we win, if not we had a blast. Just a look from the other side for ya.

Gotta keep the doors closed, sorry to say but you can't trust anyone today.

Betcha they have a Hugger Orange truck with the number 01 on it LOL Just kidding!

There was a discussion abouth this last year I beleive if memory serves me correctly. antiquefirelt is correct with the turnout setup. Boston did a two to three year study with full turnouts and 3/4 boots and long coats. If I can find the link again for the explaination of thier turnout policy I'll post it here. They study came about witht he overheating and exahustion of firefighters wearing full turnout gear. Many members of Boston wear leathers and the helmet fronts are made by their apparatus shop and a few other people in the Boston area. I have purchased a Boston style fron from Donald Powers at the New England FIre Chief's show two years ago and have wore it since. Boston is a very agressive FD especially when it comes to ladders. They'll put a truck anywhere and use it anyway to get to a building. You have to go up there ad buff when a triple decker is going (a typical New England style three story flat roof building built one floor onto of another) They you can truly appreciate the tactics. Very different for those of use used to the FDNY way of tactics though many are similar. Plus too, winter firefighting up there is a challenge in it self.

Well if you look at the truck it is a conventional 2 person cab, so where does the crew go, want them ride the back??? Maybe this truck was the department's nuisance rig. As for turnout gear, I'm against wearing full structure gear for brush fires. Wearing pants no problem but if you look at all the styles of brush gear out there, it like wearing jeans. Nothing is worse than wearing bunker or 3/4 boots and trucking in a mile to get to a brush fire. When we used to have serious brush fires, we were allowed a choice of brush gear, turnout pants, 3/4 boots or workboots and jeans. No jacket, but had to have our helmet with us, and most of us carried hard hats. Yes stomping out the fire with your boots is wrong I give you that but you don;t need full structure PPE and an airpack to fight a brush fire, you'll go down faster than you would at a structure fire.

Bridgeport will never by a Quantum again. I found this out when they were specing new Engine 15 and trucks 5 and 11, which are Dashes. The guys were not impressed with them. I think though this decision had something to due when Engine 6's Quantum was in an accident an basically totalled the unit. It was only in sevrvice for a few months when it was wrecked. I think they ended up rebuilding it too. Of course I'm only going by 3 person knowledge here.

New Haven, CT was the first to have barrier doors (Engine 4) and stuck with that design. Besides, I don't particularly like Quantums but the all white ones are nice!!! http://fdnytrucks.com/files/html/otherstat...New%20Haven.htm

A wye with two feeders and an adapter with one wye with a nozzle. I can make one of those at my house.

You know, as I was looking at thier web site, since the rescue / truck comapny is on one side of the train tracks and the squad is on the other, don't you think that there should be 2 sets of tools?????? If this was the argument case so to speak. Hmmmmm. But then again I'm an outsider looking in.