IzzyEng4

That style of not having fold down steps was actually started by New Haven FD when they had a problem with the flip down steps up on the highway with the jersey barriers (I think they were using a demo). When they ordered their first Quantum, they had the fold downs replaced with traditional barrier doors and steps. me personally, while fold down steps are nice, they are really not that functional.

This thread is a beaner!

Date: 4/29/07 Time: 20:25 Location: Area of Hollister Street on the Metro North Train tracks Frequency: 154.31 Units Operating: E-1, E-5, Car 3 SEMS Description Of Incident: Person struck on the train tracks, Stratford dispatch reporting possible DOA Writer: IzzyEng4

You and those darn roto-rays!!!!!!!!

How many threads can a thread killer kill, if a thread killer could kill threads?????

WHY WON'T THIS THREAD DIE!?!?!?!?!!? Oh yah I posted again, DUH!

Good luck with starting the chapter. I'm join CT Chapter 4 out of East Haven soon.

Yes. This one

They have been around for a while. You need a lot of training on them to get used to them. Me personally I don't like them since its a combination of both and I found myself messing up on the bail for a fog stream and getting the smooth bore.

They have to change the grill and nose. I do like the larger windows for better visibility but they have to go back to the drawing board for the grill. Is it me or apparatus makers like this one and Pierce in the the running for the ugliest and unappealing looking trucks????? I rather buy a frigin' Yugo

You should update every six months to a year or as soon as you hear there is a change and then make an amendment to the run books.

I had posted on another forum that this concept, yet a good idea is not saving any compartment space at all. The only thing that it is doing is shortening the wheel base and having the pump panel, though protected in the first driver side compartment is taking up half of that compartment space! How can it be saving space?????? If you look at the concept drawing were the piping an wiring goes to the panel in the compartment, there is a lot of dead space behind the pump panel like in a pump housing. I think its just bad advertising stating there is more compartment space than there actually is. Take that pump panel out of the body and imagine the space that would be freed up it that was a standard set up, though the wheel base is longer. I do like the fact that the pump panel controls area away from the preconnects, discharges and intakes and makes for a safe walking area for the MPO. It just a rear mount pumper, just located in the front body section with the piping instead of off the rear, keeping it at the traditional midship area. I like Pierce but it think the advertising about compartment space is wrong and having designed and speced out a pumper recently looking at different models this is misleading. Just my 2 cents.

Date: 4/21/07 Time: 16:50 (as being reported) Location: Beaufort, S.C. Departments: N/A Description: Reported on F/A-18 from the Navy Blue Angels Drill squad crashed during an airshow into a residential area. It is being reported by CNN that there are possible homes on fire both residential and military house, more information will be posted as they become available. Links: www.cnn.com Writer: IzzyEng4 17:00 - Pilot may still be alive though unconfirmed and possibly crash is not near any homes, all information unconfirmed at this time. 17:29 - County coroner's officer confirming one death in this incident, unknown if pilot or civilian.

In all my years with the fire service and also currently with CSP as a dispatcher, I've never had a problem with any trooper or even local officer about closing a lane or the road down, obviously depending on the situation. Let alone never heard of anything like this through out CT. There are a lot of factors obviously what warrants a road / highway lane(s) to be shut down and making sure traffic either halts or flows through slowly. All the troopers that I have dealt with have always said the same thing, anyone working on the highway, safety is a major factor and everyone is on the same team. Heck I've seen FDs from towns on I-91 close a lane down and when CSP arrives, will close a second for them until it is deemed safe for cars to pass and obviously crews work quickly to elevate the hazard and get the road back open. I can't understand the mentality in other states were people in FD's, PD's, EMS, DOT, or what ever don;t think were all on the same team. Unbelievable.

Boston never really left E-one. The former commissioner liked Pierce and that is why they got those pumpers, towers and aerials the last time. No it looks like Seagrave may be making a come back in Boston with the BFD looking to purchase two TDA's. You'll see E-One remain in Boston for a long time and new purchases made.

I know its a big pond but do we really have to to that?!?!?!?!?! LOL

This is why CT has the C-MED centers where all first responders can contact the ambulance through c-med directly to the unit responding. A typical C-MED radio transmission in New Haven County over the MED 10 radio One-Alpha-14 (New Haven Engine 4) to C-MED can we have an ETA on the "Charlie" unit coming?" C-MED to 5 Charlie 10 (AMR Paramedic Ambulance #10) your ETA? 5 Charlie 10's ETA is 5 to 7 minutes out. We are at the intersection of Grand and Ferry Streets, what do they need on the inside? 1 Alpha 14 we copied, have them bring the stretcher to the front door and board up stairs. Using a C-MED radio center elevates a lot fo problems with the old telephone chain.

Hey if anyone is interested, my neighbors have a new indoor swimming pool and invited everyone to come over to take a dip. Uggggg, thank God they didn't have anything in the basement of value and have a good sense of humor.

I think my friend is still a medic up in N. B., I'll find out.

It just raining a lot up here and I'm gonna go out side and do my Lieutenant Dan impersonation.

There is only one true C-MED In CT! NEW HAVEN BABY!!!! LOL

Well for me, I am called Izzy around the firehouse. I got the name when I first came into the company and back when we had a softball team. At the time, my hair was long. One of the guys kept busting them on me calling me "Axle Rose" since I always showed up with my hat on backwards and music from my car blasting. At a company picnic, the guys found out that I played guitar and we began a night of jamming and having a few beverages. The following game, the guys were calling me Axle when my buddy stated " DUDE! He has black hair and plays guitar, so he should be called Izzy Straddlin'!" And the name Izzy stuck. When I signed onto AOL I needed a screen name and chose Izzy obviously and added "Eng4" to it since i was assigned to Engine Company 4, and used this name for every fire forum or site I am a member of.

Well Henry Ford had his way with cars and apparatus. "You can have it any color, as long as its black!"

If you look at NYC, Boston and Yonkers for example (I'm more familiar with NYC & Boston) It depends how they use their aerials. For many years before Smeal and other companies came out with the pinnable water way and now the motorized retractable, the pre-pipes were connected permanently to one fly of an aerial and this cause problems with access to the tip of the ladder. If you look at pictures from the 80's and 90's where the old style ladder pipes were still in use, you can see the problems when putting an aerial up to a roof on a steep angle and the gap between the aerial and side of the building. Also look at trying to place the tip of an aerial with the older devices into a window, plus it was on less thing to get in the way, like spotlights at the tips of the aerials. Since aerial ladders in these towns were utilized more for rescue and egress situation and "water tower" operation were secondary then I can see them not being purchased. With pinnable and movable waterways now, I think it is feasible to purchase them on aerial since they area much safer than running a hose and clamping down the nozzle on the aerial. I was a witness back in 1995 to a catastrophic failure to a clamp down pipe an nozzle where a member of my department was thrown from the aerial, so I'm a firm believer in pre-pipes.

Seems like every time a good topic comes up, those bashers come out and ruin everything, sometimes I wonder why I still post and have to worry about them. Just ruins a good thing. Sorry I'm just getting disgusted.