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Where is it stationed at? Company A?

In the paper today, the lawyer that was assaulted is quoted that he is not seeking to press charges. And also the accusations about the improper "lawyer / client privilege" were not true. FF Kennedy was bailed out yesterday ($50,000 bond) on the charged of violating the 150 foot protective order set by his wife. He is expected to be in the chief's office sometime soon and the lawyer involved does not want to see him fired or removed from his job. Here's today's article link: http://www.nhregister.com/WebApp/appmanage...t_Story_1787146 New Haven Register Lets face it, though it was very unprofessional in what he did while on the job, he could have done this regardless of what his job was and we might have never heard about it. Hopefully for the sake of his family the issues will be resolved during their stressful period.

Shouldn't this go under the "New Deliveries" section? LOL Congratulations Dan!

I was a baby then!! LOL Actually I remember what you are talking about.

He was in trouble either last year or the year before do to an incident with another firefighter at his firehouse as the article stated. NHFD's chief is not happy at all about the situation.

Windsor Locks FD in upstate CT has a Stuphen "top side-mount" pumper and they have had good success with it. Though personally I do not like to be elevated on an engine when pumping, there are some good advantages to it.

Great show and these guys got steel ones, or should I say wooden ones!

As a former CSP dispatcher, the "cruise lights" are used for when patroling an area so the vehicle is technically marked. These lights can be turned on or off to show if the cruiser is "on duty" or "off duty" and for going "stealth". Many PDs in CT operate the marker lights and in the days of old lightbars, many departments had the old "lollipop" green lights mounted on the top of the bars. Also when CSP had the old blue "gumball machine" rotator and later strobe set up, they were also had the curise light moutned in there.

I was able to sign on ans check it throughout. Nothing so far. I'll try posing something later on.

Well I don't think the errant "Girl Scout Cookie" would have been a much better excuse either.

Yep they are, since Smeal supply's their ladders.

Guy and Gals, its just plain ignorance and very disgusting.

Every catastrophic failure of an aerial device over the years has resulted in the total failure of the aerial device, ie. breaking, bending, ect. With this hazardous condition in place, why would you want to attempt to climb down the aerial device, wouldn't a person's weight shifting cause more problems or repelling down from the basket ad more of a tip load as the weight distribution / gravity is forcing it down? I would rather have another aerial, cherry picker or even a crane basket be set up so I can get off the darn thing before it goes kaput! I wouldn't want to even attempt to climb down he thing. Now mind you I'm not a truckie or operated one (I haven't started learning how to operate our tower at work yet). So I might have some misconceptions here. I know the theory "when you have to bail, then bail" but if their is a safer way to get out of a failed tower, then I would chose that if time permitted. But of course I'm looking through lack of experience with truck operations. As for some of the "scopes" that were posted from LI, I think Valley Stream's truck had a height requirement problem with their firehouse and that is why they didn't have the escape ladder on it or it was damaged or something. I can't remember the others why they didn't.

http://cms.firehouse.com/content/article/a...mp;sectionId=46

That it the Electronic Q speaker designed by Whelen a few years ago.

Since I recently purchased a new truck and I'm gonna install a new scanner in it. Has any used the coupler that makes your scanner connect to your car antenna. Here's the link to one I'm looking at: http://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/scanants/4534.html I'm looking for pro and cons, how well it works and if its worth the $$$ to buy one. I really want to keep my truck "low key" with the installation.

Thanks all. I'm trying to get a few suggestions. My initial plan was to use a Comet two pint antennna mount on the rear hatch of my Mountaineer. I have an Austin antenna which I had it cowl mounted on my old truck and the antenna performed very well, despite some electical interference. I wanted to try and go for a "undercover" sleek look. All suggestions and ideas are welcome. Steve, I sent a PM to you.

I might be mixing up my Boston terms with FDNY.

HOLY GREEN BATMAN!!!! GL woth the new rig.

In another thread, fellow member FD828 posted a concern about departments allowing members wearing 3/4 and long coats as opposed to full turnouts. While my personal belief for any interior firefighting and / or protection from a hazardous environment is wearing full turnouts, a study was conducted by the Boston Fire Department in 2000 about this concern. It mainly had to do with over heating firefighters in bunker gear and the effects being totally encapsulated in turnouts. Below is the link to the study as posted on the U. S. Fire Administration's website. Take the time to read it. http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/downloads/pdf/tr_02dm.pdf This was an interesting study conducted and pointed out many valid points about the gear that was being made in the 1990 and early 2000. Also before we have any nay-sayers here, this study had nothing, repeat nothing to do with trying to hang on to old traditions. It was in fact based on the stresses on the body due to overheating while performing firefighting operations.

Are you sure that he didn't mean an "attack feeder" aka pumper to the fire hose streach. It seems like a few people might be misunderstanding between a hydrant line and an attack feeder line to a gated wye. I didn't hear the call online, I'm only going by what is being written here.

I forgot about St. Joseph's Day!

FD828 I share the same opinion as you. This report is interesting and also in the eight years that the report has been out, it interesting even how turnouts have changed since this and other aspects as well have come about.

The infamous "K" Does anyone know the true background of saying "K" after a transmission in FDNY? Well K is a Morse code signal used to tell the receiver that the transmitter's message has ended. It's kinda like typing "GA" over a TDD machine when communication over the phone to someone who is deaf or has impaired hearing. The letter K was signaled over the telegraph alarm system (the days before two-way radios) when messages were sent to the box from fire alarm or vice-versa. As for FDNY I am not sure if this was a hold over from the old telegraph days or if it was short for Okay. Our friendly neighborhood FDNY dispatchers should tell us the true story.

"Hitting the plug" A common term used not only by FDNY guys but also all New England Jakes. In the days of old wooden water mains, firemen would drill into the water main and insert a "plug" so that a hose line could be attached to it. And when they were done with it, used an "block plug" to close it up. Eventually with the invention of the hydrant, it adopted the nickname of a "plug" since it was connected to the water main.