IzzyEng4

Then ask the Corrigan Brothers.

cough....I'm sick....cough

YOU GOT 'EM!!!!!! Cool, I still have to take a ride upstate to see the rigs. Congrats!

Bnechis, Hope you all have good luck with the new rig. I want to pass something on to you all. I don't know if nay of your current rigs have them but it seems to look like you have the push button throttle pad. We have a rig at work with the same system and it takes a little time to get use to. Its definately not like the knob or position switch throttles used previously. Response time has a slight delay as well. Just make sure the MPOs get to spend a lot of time using the new system. Some may like it others may not. Again good luck with the new pumper.

I'm just glad they are going back to red. Hope they have good luck with the trucks.

Date: 1/24/09 Time: 0923 Location: Area of 319 Pendlton Hill Road Frequency: 33.90 / ITAC 2 Units Operating: Voluntown FD, Preston City FD, CERRIT HazMat Team (Mohegan Tribal FD, Mashantucket Pequot FD Norwich FD, Sub Base, ect.), DEP, CSP Description Of Incident: Propane tanker roll over, product leaking Writer: IzzyEng4

This was sent to me recently and I had to share it because its a good laugh. The call is over the CT Police radio hotline between Hartford and East Hartford. I remember this transmission the day I heard it an nearly fell out of my dispatch chair laughing! Play the file with Windows Media Player and not with iTunes (for some reason the file hangs up with iTunes). hartford_hotline.wav

If I remember right I was working still at CSP in Bethany when this transmission happened, it was 5 by 5 over the statewide hotline!

Date: 1/23/09 Time:16:44 Location: 222 Mary Ellen Drive Frequency: 154.3400 Units Operating: E-1, E-6, E-7, E-3, E-5, T-1, R-1, R-2, C-4, C-6 Description Of Incident: Confirmed working house fire, 1 1/2 story structure, smoke showing from Milford HQ area while units were responding from an ice rescue drill. West Shore E-32 requested for coverage at MFD HQ. Rear addition fully involved, heavy fire in the attic, partial roof collapse. Writer: IzzyEng4

Great story. Goes to show that people should stand up and do something instead of cowering away.

Allen only thing I have to say is, you got to love odd years in the Valley!!!! LOL

If he wasn't a fire chief, all this would have been is another shyster business owner stiffing his / her clients. Some people will never learn that the smallest thing you do wrong will cause great scrutiny against you. If Mohegan Lake doesn't do anything then the whole department would look bad. They have to react to this especially using a department vehicles to conduct his business in.

I was working when the fires happened. The firefighter who bailed was our 2nd Assistant Chief and he received minor burns to his neck. He is doing okay and is back on his feet. I took a swing by to the Howard Avenue fire after I got home from work. Despite the cold conditions, everyone did an excellent job trying to stop the blaze but unfortunately it had a good headway prior to any unit arriving. The cause was determined to be a malfunctioning television set on the first floor. The response for Howard Avenue was Engines 1, 4, Truck 7, Squad 9 and Ansonia Rescue ambulance and rehab units, I'm not sure who the RIT unit was but I believe it came from Derby. The other fires in town were minor and quickly put out by the remainder of Ansonia engine companies and units from Derby and Seymour like Allen had stated. Allen did you make it to any of the calls????

Looks sweet!!!! Where is it stationed?

He didn't kill himself, he's only an honorable mention for the Darwins. Any who another case of some one not using their noggin again. Unfortunately its never going to end.

The Charters Hose Company No. 4 of the Ansonia, CT Fire Department will be celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the organization throughout 2009. Below is a link to an article from Sunday's Connecticut Post about our company. http://www.connpost.com/ci_11454077

I like it, plain simple and effective!

Just like Stephen Tyler said, CT has 5 C-MED (Centralized Medical Emergency Dispatch) regions. I worked for C-MED New Haven both full and part time over the past 9 years. Each region coordinates all ambulance service, calls and mutual aid responses. The reason is to cut down on the "I want this service to respond instead to that one" though sometimes it still exists. The main function of a C-MED is ambulance to hospital communications and mutual aid. Also each region watched over a time limit which is basically the same throughout the state. Having a regional system, though it has some flaws, is the way to go. First off, a regional system such as a C-MED has the oversight to make sure that response times at dispatch are met and also to provide automatic mutual aid when necessary. Here is an example; the City of New Haven receives a 911 for a cardiac arrest. They dispatch the closes engine company and their paramedic unit to the scene, these two units when en-route sign on MED channel 10 with C-MED New Haven, the call is now ours to handle. New Haven ERS contacts C-MED New Haven to order an ambulance from AMR and we in return give ARM the information. AMR's ambulance signs on with us. Any updates from the scene are either given over MED 10 (no unit can by pass the dispatcher without asking permission for going car to car, kinda how FDNY operates on their dispatch frequencies) or if they want to got car to car a MED channel (1 - 8) is assigned depending which radio MED tower is the closest top the area. When the ambulance goes en-rout to the hospital, a MED channel is also assigned for their patch to the hospital and they let us know if the FD has anyone assisting into the hospital as well. Now say the ambulance from AMR did not sign on with C-MED after 3 minutes from the time they were ordered, it is the C-MED dispatcher's responsibility to check on the ambulance's status. If they do not sign on a minute after this check, a mutual aid ambulance is dispatch. This ambulance may come from another private service in the region, from a fire department ambulance or an ambulance corps close to the city. There are also special instances where a fire department that has a contract with a private service to perform transports may have a transport capable unit and will transport the patient to the hospital instead of a mutual aid unit. The same rules apply for a VAC in the region. When a "second tone" is dropped for a call, they have 1 minute to fill that response, if they can't the next closest ambulance service is dispatched, either another town's or private service depending who is closer. The same applies for paramedics. There have been times were an ambulance from Ansonia (western New Haven County) has responded into New Haven depending where the call is, the same with Branford (a shoreline town along the I-95 corridor) and also a New Haven paramedic unit going to North Haven, we control it and make sure no service gets stripped. The system, though not flawless, does work and has been around since 1973 (yes the same time paramedics came into the picture). Its not about who is responding, its about getting an ambulance to a patient in ample time.

SkyFox live feed ending. The heli is going back to the pad do to the weather.

Thanks I got that dang Runaway song in my head now!!!

You would be surprised about what a bird flying through a jet engine can do. The military has had a lot of incidents over the years like this.

Anyone know what New Jersey units are working as well?

WNBC reporting 25 to 50 patients at St. Luke's for exposure. Unconfirmed number.

FDNY SCUBA truck enroute with 5 divers.