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Do you know what year it was refurbished with the Century cab?

Hey folks, Can anyone tell me where the begining / line up area of Brewester parade on July 22nd? I was asked by someone who was looking for this information. Thanks in advance.

Thank you EJS, I will pass the information on.

I'm going to miss the white trucks when they are all gone. Good luck with the new rescue!

Ecky, Roof & House were supposed to be at my b-day party but went to the call instead!!!! LOL Heck if I knew that this was the "birthday candel" I would have come buffed it out and blow it out! LOL By watching the video, talking to the guys after and looking at the pictures, talk about a hand-full.

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I know Alderman Lenart personally and this is a great ordinance that should be implemented in my opinion. With the dangers modern truss construction making us aware of the potential danger of this during a working structure fire is a must in my opinion. I've known Dave since were were kids and he was active as firefighter and EMT in Derby and now is a career firefighter in Bridgeport.

I'm not a big fan of Lime fire trucks but this paint job with the black cab roof and striping is definitely eye catching and looks great. Haven't been to Esopus in a long time and I hope they have great luck with thier new rig!

Looks like it, can see the "Massachusett" partially on the front plate. Never though I see a chief's truck with a Roto on it.

Yep that is Bolton, CT "Department 34" old rig. http://www.boltonfd.org/equipment/s134600.JPG

Now we need is a new Denny's in the mix!!

What whacker or department had that?????

I wish they would open up again in CT.

nfd2040 first I want to say I'm not picking on you personally, I just want to make a point here to everyone with your quote. This is not scabing! How can they be considered a scab (also know as a strikebreaker and a knobstick) when 1. they are not on strike which is where the term originates from, 2. fighting illegal brownouts as outlined under labor relations with the city, and 3. trying to defeat the problems the Mayor Mumbles office has caused over the years with the BFD union. He has been trying to bust them while favoring other unions in the city and giving them what they want. Has anyone every heard of using this as a tactic to keep those houses open. Union locals will used tactics to benefit the workers they represent so that their jobs are safe. Boston's local is very strong and has been fighting cuts the mayor knows that would cause problems in providing protection. They just lost two district chiefs and those areas had to be re-aligned with other districts. Last night Skip who is on the boards let everyone know on his facebook account that Engine Company 51 in the Oak Square section of Brighton and Engine Company 30 in West Roxbury will be closed until 6:00PM tonight. The other night they had three of 4 fire companies closed overnight also, in a highly populated and dense area of the city!!!! What is next, closing these companies in highly populated and busy areas of a city like Bloomberg did in NYC last time and tried to do this time??? One problem is Boston's tabloids love to pick on all the firefighters in the metro area and manipulated it so bad. But unfortunately for all of Massachusetts, the media is very critical of the firefighters. I'm sorry guys to put it like this, you all seem to have the "FDNY Kool-aid" in this area and don't understand what Boston does and criticize everything they do. You need to know the history of the area first to understand their tactics when it comes to their jobs and the history of labor relations in Mass in general (it hasn't been pretty with any of the union locals regardless of what union it is). We all (including me) need to do our research before making a comment on a certain tactic against "City Hall". If you remember the VFIS special about firefighters, there was this one section about a fire in Ipswich, MA where there was 1 firefighter on duty (an IAFF Local) and he had to respond with the ladder truck and three peopled died. The engine was coming from another station with 2 guys farther out. Needless to say there was nothing this guy could do because the rest of his crew was laid off just a few weeks before and the city only had one person per shift in this firehouse. Can anyone down here imagine that happening at their local FD????? Sick huh??? This happens far to often in MA and the locals see this and this is why they don't want any more cuts and will do anything to stop it, even working for "free". Go to Capecodfd.com or firenews.org for example check out the department rosters for the career departments in Mass and check out how many stations versus "permanent" and "on-call" personnel are on some of these departments (some have been career for many years while other have converted from volunteers in recent years). You will be shocked. DEFINITION OF SCAB: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strikebreaker

Ummm simple...There are no volunteer fire departments in that area of Mass so none of them volunteer.

As an added reference to the Capt. here and something that I am sort-of familiar with is the merging of the Vernon Fire Department and the Rockville Fire Department, both located in the Town of Vernon, CT. The departments merged to creat teh Town of Vernon Volunteer Fire Department back in the 1980s when the city of Rockville and the Town of Vernon merged thier governments together and both departments still operated independently (basically two separate districts sponsored by each of the former governments). When they mergeged the volunteer companies from both departments now operated under the same Board of Fire Commissioners, one chief, two assistancts and one deputy and each company has thier own line officers (captains and lieutenants). Thier stations are spread our quite conisderably in the old "town district" section (Vernon Center, Talcotville and Dobsonville) while the two stations in Rockville are a closer together so to speak. EMS is also a division of the fire department as well with its own officers and operates from a sixth station (public saftey headquarters). Having buffed them a few times, they are a good example and efficient combined volunteer fire department that pre-existed as two spearate volunteer departments. It can be done. http://www.vernonfire.com/

Should be an interesting read. As for any consideration for a service consolidation regardless of emergency services, schools, ect. it would take time, money and effort to it to happen successfully. What ay have to be paid up front may in the long run be more benificial to the residents of that particular town / area.

When we get our Local 4746 shirts made up, wanna trade 1 for 1?

Come on the only thing they would be arguing about today is what they always argue about in the firehouse..............what's for lunch. The NH Register had that quote in it this morning's edition and stated they guys and gals barley talk about the case in the firehouses.

She died April 25th..............could count.

Who's that??? Never heard of him.

Hey Mark question for you...... New Haven's TDA, was that Truck 2 (the new Seagrave they got this past year) or was that another (possibly new) TDA?? I was surprised to see it up there in your pics.

Now lets see here, will we have another this month to make it 6????? This might sadly be a 3 x 3 if you think of the old wives' tale.............. David Carradine Ed McMahon Farrah Fawcett Michael Jackson Billy Mays {place the next celebrity here}

TMZ is reporting Michael Jackson has died. That is the thrid celeb this week.

I'm looking for information different shift schedules from different departments. Also if anyone has the basic layout of FDNY's schedule, could you please post it. I tried to seach this on the site but have not been successful to find it. Thanks.