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FDNY specs for all their apparatus have recessed lights and also hand rails. This style started with the first Seagraves that were delivered in the 90's were mainly designed for both the stations and also the tight streets, ect.

FIREFIGHTERS DON'T PULL METERS!!!! WE THROW MAIN BREAKERS ONLY!! - That is the rule I learned in Firefighter I and in house training many moons ago. Just like my previous post about the cat up the electrical pole, you don't try to cut power as a firefighter or bring your self near any potential danger. Just like CO, you can't see electricity until its too late. Even if you area a licensed electrician and area a firefighter operating as such, leave that to the power company.

Our department 's four assistant chiefs' POV's area equipped with red / white lights and sirens and are covered under our insurance policy as such when responding to alarms with the waring devices activated. CT law allows this.

Where are the blue and lime streamers off the bars?????? Well at leat the cross members now match the tennis balls!!

Here's the correct link now, Car 11 that link is dead now, it was changed recently I think. http://www.fdnytrucks.com/files/html/other...ew%20Canaan.htm

So when are they gonna strech the Oscar Myer Weiner Mobile?????

There is???? what's that green stuff in my back yard.... oh wait I live on the Hilltop!!!

LED lights do burn out, it is a misnomer that they do not. The great advantage is that is one diode burns out, it is not that noticeable do to the candlepower of the diodes combined. Also too LED area a directional beam of light, so its intensity when viewed at angles are not as powerful looking when looking straight on. Having all LED's is a great advantage in the sense of low power drain of a vehicle's electrical system but at the same token, having too much of the same style "flash patters" won't be captured by the eye or have the brain process the difference. Remember the original strobes with at one single flash pattern? Think the same way. Breaking up they type of lights help helps people recognize the "flash difference" of warning lights. Do get me wrong LED is great and they will be taking the place of strobes I think, but using a good combination does make a visual difference. Or new pumper has a Federal Aero Hawk front lightbar and two rear fast rotaters for th etop line of the vehicle and the perimeter zones are Federal LED's with an 3 flash per head alternating / 3 flash all light head pattern that really catches the eye, simple but effective and we just hae a standard 1901 package.

The one thing that my department's operations state is that out trucks do not leave the pavement. That is one thing in the picture to me that I find operationally wrong but by not reading the article, I don't know what the situation was calling for. Sometimes aggressive truck positioning is warranted but the apparatus operator and officers must think before positioning any apparatus off a road way.

I don't think so, I think this would be for the two small boats they use during the boating season. The two surface effect boats are already in production I thought.

Ummm, that's what his character is supposed to be like.

He must have been saying "Roads??? Where we're going we don't need any roads."

I remember watching a show about British and Irish fire brigades where they were talking about structure tactics. Since most of their buildings are masonry construction and frame work and less wood, there tactics towards buildings are more room and content compared to our structure fires in wood frame houses. I' see if I can find the show, I think it was on the Discovery channel and they had a whole explanation of why their apparatus was set up that way. Plus too all the trucks have smaller wheelbases since the streets area very tight in the major cites.

I though the second piece was a straight chassis box not a TT?

This should be a good discussion. What do you think? Do you think this might be abused or do you think this will finally help all services in protection of their members? Reposted from Firehouse.com

I had heard it was one of those new underwater firefighting submarines!

That was a riding accident. What happened was Engine 11 was in a spare piece and 1970's / 80's Hahn pumper and the breaks failed. You have the driver and the officer up front, a rider sitting in the left jump seat and one rider sitting in the right jump seat and if memory serves me right a firefighter standing in the jump seat open cab access. But also it may have been the third firefighter was sitting in the middle seat up front. They were coming down the hill, the truck lost it breaks and the driver maneuvered the pumper into a parking lot to miss traffic. The truck hit a tree and threw the standing firefighter from the truck and I can't remember if the officer of the right side jump seat firefighter died, due to the truck hitting the tree at that point. I believe it was the right jump seat rider who passed. I'll have to see if I can find an archive of the story. The incident had nothing to do with loose tools. But a the next town over from me, their old rescue truck rolled over back in the early 90's when going to a call. I forget the whole story but what I do know is that there were a driver and rider up front in the cab and there were originally 2 firefighters in the back walk in portion of the truck, but when a driver came for an engine at that house, they got off the truck and rode the engine in. When the rescue rolled, even tough the equipment was secured, the inertia from the roll threw everything around (irons, hand tools, SCBA's, ect.) and if some one was in the back of the truck would have definitely been seriously hurt and possibly killed in the accident just from the equipment being thrown around. Thankfully the two guys in the front of the truck were not hurt.

I too came from the old school ways and at one point in time never used the flap on my helmet either. Stupid me. I was working inside a structure and got that good ol' tingle, little did I know that my skin was bubbling. I had blisters on my ears for weeks but thankfully I still have my ears and never gain will I be that stupid. I may take out the flap in my helmet but I'll never go without a hood again. (I had long hair when I was younger and lost a good chunk of it in the middle-back section but that's another funny story )

Everyone in my family who works for Kodak have taught me both the photographer and a good camera (and film) make the picture. I can attest to that!

Yes I have, every electrical device does have capacitors which their purpose is to store energy and regulate it through the electrical system of the device. Because the jack is still pluged into the cig lighter, the capacitors still will retain power and even some time after they are unpluged. Also the hard time I have about this like everyone else says is the feedback into the car's system. It plausible but more than likely will not happen unless the plug / device's regulator fails. I can see if the device is a 12v to 110v converter as a possibility or something larger like those little portable refrigerators. But as a person who cautions around electricity, regardless of the source, I wouldn't even take the chance and if I could try an remove the device. Though it may be low volts, the amps some of these devices can really wake you up when you get jolted. The thing I would be most worried about though are the capacitors used in car to power stereo amplifiers, those suckers pack a punch and they would be a more likely cause for back feed if they are not disconnected from the battery and their positive and negative wires separated from the electrical system (aka cut them too).

Hate to say it but you have to give the female watchers some "eye candy" too. But i don;t watch the show often anyway.

It depends on the situation. How bad it the MVA compared to the structure fire? Are there occupants trapped in the car or at the structure? Rule of thumb, the call you were assigned to first is the one you respond to. In this case, if you are the first due unit, you need to keep responding to the structure call. Radio in the MVA to the dispatch center and have the next due engine company go to the MVA and have another engine respond to the structure fire in the 2nd due's place. If there is a rescue assigned to the first alarm structure call, reroute it to the MVA is necessary. Regardless, the first due pump has to get to the structure call. As a dispatcher I have came across the same scenario many times and running rules are running rules, either way you can get knee deep in crap. A dispatcher has to adjust the response to fit the assignments. It really is a judgment call on the crew when it boils down to it.

That's an old stabilizer design from Maxim if memory serves me right. Maxims had that style in the 40's and 50's and maybe later on depending on the size of the ladder. I think if it was more that 85 feet then you needed the old down-and-out screw downs or hydraulics. I'll have to look it up.

The guy in CT that does this lives down the road in the next town over from me. Its pretty cool to see the bears get made. I also saw him so do a "Cigar Chief" once. Talk about talent, wow.

Just like Roofsopen said, your pager is tuned to to 46.26 specifically, the older minitors operate with crystals and transistors but you can't compare one to another. A scanner like your 350A is basically a low end "communications receiver". If its an old crystal controlled unit or the later transistor bases scanners, a scanner is made obviously to listen to several frequencies and gos through many "processors" so to speak to get from the electrical impulses of radio waves to intelligible audio. Scanners are also prone to electrical interference such as from TVs, computers and other electronics, just like your pager. Another problem why your 350A isn't picking up great is more than likely your antenna. If you have the antenna that came with the unit, make sure that it is fully extended all the way. Also try another antenna or purchase one that you can get outside. Here's a test for you, when the weather gets better, take your scanner outside as is, plug it into an out let and see if the reception is better or worse than when you had it inside. Then try different locations in the house also and see if there is a difference. With radios its location, location, location for the best reception. Check RadioReference.com for some more stuff on this.