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(Oh god...here we go again!!!) First it was mets and yanks...now its my rangers. GOOOOOO RANGERS!!!!!!! Devils???? Yah right!!!! Flyers??? LOL LOL Let the abuse begin!! Have a great night all. Jonesy

I used to work with restaurant fire suppression systems and extinguishers. A class "K" would be the best due to the chemical called "Karbaloy". This chemical causes a reaction in the grease and turns it to fire resistive soap. This would put a layer of this soap in the dumpster there-by smothering the fire as if you used foam. Foam and CO2 would also work but it would take more time and chemical to extinguish. Ive seen video and live demos where a 5'x5'x3'deep grease fire was extinguished with one class "K" in less than one minute. You are instructed to use the entire extinguisher to create that layer of fire resistive soap to smother it. The fire systems in kitchen hood assemblies use the same types of chemical, just different names, and use different types of nozzles for each appliance. I'm sorry, I trailed off there. Yes; A class "K" unit would be the best for those types of dumpsters. Jonesy

I know our dept was told that grant monies would not be granted to depts without NIMS compliance. We sent our officers out for the NIMS training locally, and a few of us who take training seriously have since taken it through FEMA. I have 100 200 and 700. But we dont have any SOP's set up for that yet.

Ok, all of my fellow METS fans have abandoned me to fend for myself with all of these blood sucking yankees fans!!! This group is tough! GO METS!!!

Thanks everyone for your input, I think I can definately get our dept to go ahead and outfit atleast our first due engine with one of these...than hopefully ALL of our engines after they see it at our first drill! Thanks again. Jonesy PS- any more info would still be appreciated, thanks

Oh yah? Well.......the mets have better looking uniforms!!! Just curious...how long did it take you to look up all that info? lol

The portable deck gun we have now on our new engine is totaly worthless. I saw them try to set it up at a drill once and it took several ff's and 2 chiefs to try and figure it out. I did some research and found the Blitz-fire deck guns. Their light, portable, and easily deployed by one ff. I believe they are decently priced also. Does anyone have these units? Has anyone worked with them before? Any pros and cons about them? Im bringing this up at our next monthly meeting (1st Wed of month) and would like any info about them. Thanks, Jonesy PS- METS RULE!!!!!!

Heyyy...who the hell let HIM into the conversation! lol... Mets are playin good Baseball and yankees fans are gettin nervous...i LOVE it.

Thats what Im talkin' 'bout!!!! Keep it coming METS fans! World Series Champs 2006-07!

OK Mets fans, sound off like you got a pair!!! TOO many yankees fans out there! I think its about time we have a Mets team to be proud of. This team isnt just a bunch of high priced talent who sits for a month with every blister they get, the whole team is balanced and they have ALL stepped up at one point or the other and got the job done. Im proud and excited this season. GO METS!!! Jonesy

I agree with the piercing nozzles...safest way to get the job done with todays shock absorbing bumpers, and shock and strutt assemblies. No need for us to be in front of these dangerous missiles when they go off, its a car fire, and if no life is in jeopardy the car is going to be a total loss anyway, so approach from the side with a piercing nozzle. If you dont have one make a hole with the halligan and drop a cellar nozzle in or a small handline on fog. Cool everything off and then gain access to extinguish. Trunk...I find the removal of the lock cylinder the easiest and quickest. Knock it out with the halligan and work the mechanism with a screw driver. Hood...If you cant pop the cable, pry up the hood near the catch and cut catch with a sawsall. Or cut around catch with a few quick cuts from K-12. Usually a quick "V" cut. Everyone that gets off truck should have some type of tool in hand and ready to use it. Jonesy

My prayers go out to ff Apuzzio and all of his family; both home and firehouse. May everyone take comfort in knowing he gave all trying to save a life. RIP Brother.

When I took my Safety Officer class we were made aware of the 1521 standard but I was the only one from my dept. We were also told that Building Construction; Combustible was part of the requirement of Safety Officer and I cant get that across our Safety Officers head. ( Id like to get something else across his head too though! ) Everytime I showed him the standard he would say that it doesnt apply to our dept. Im glad you brought that standard up, I was beginning to think I was delusional! Thanks. Jonesy

Does everybody out there have Safety Officers in their dept? Are they elected or appointed? What requirements do you have in order to be one? Just curious to find out, Im begining to believe our dept appoints anyone to this spot just to cover its a#@. Id like any input at all about this, its a sensitive subject with me. Thanks in advance! Jonesy

Just defending us "New Members". There are a lot of topics that I enjoy debating on, and I never realy entered the older ones for your reason exactly. But you need to understand...this is a forum for ALL of us to openly discuss these topics. I noticed a lot of newer members digging into these old posts immediately followed by people like you who have been here longer telling them that the topic has been beat to death, and please leave the topic alone. Well, the fact is, you dont have to join the discussion every time. If you see an old topic and have had enough of it...DONT RESPOND. Dont read it. Let those of us who havnt yet had a chance to add our opinions do so without being molested. Everyone has a chance to express themselves, right? Just let them do it. By the way, how would I shut down a post that I had started? Is it in our control panel or somewhere in the posting itself? There were a few posts I had started and wanted to close after a while but wasnt sure how to. Thanks.

Meth-Labs...we have a bunch of them We responded to a mutual aid structure once where upon our arrival the initial attack crews were beating feet out the front door. We couldnt for the life of us see why. It was a working fire on the exposure "C" side first floor of a 2 1/2 story wood frame. We thought pump problems or something else we obviously didnt see but then the chief of their dept shouted over to us to stay clear of the building, mask up and start hitting it from the outside. Then they started de-con on their guys and we started feeling a little nervous! Turned out they had a meth-lb on the entire first floor, and the crews from Sharon Springs crawled into the front door and saw it almost immediately and backed right out. Thank god we had a rash of Meth-Lab classes from the State Troopers the previous year. Cobleskill Stone Products. We have 2 large quarries in our area loaded with stone slurry and more methylethylbadsh#@ than you can imagine and large, crumbling buidings that have been there for 50+ years that they are re-furbing. Eden Park Nursing home, Cobleskill Hospital, 4-5 ARC homes, but I have to agree with ALS also, every building has its hazards. Other than those beauties...we have a large factory building at least 2-3 city blocks long and 1-2 blocks wide that USED to house a company called "Interknitting" but now is 3/4 empty. It is mostly storage for Wal-Mart now and is loaded floor to ceiling with combustibles. The flammable liquid storage tanks are still on premises and the utilities are still on. It is a problem because the teenagers like to hang out there on weekends. Just waiting for the call..... So I can man the firehouse and make coffee. Jonesy

We cover I-88 in our district and it is an elevated highway so it ices over very easy and very frequent. We respond our eng 3 (equiped with TNT tool) and rescue to the scene and our brush truck to the nearest turn-around so we can shut down the interstate if we have too. There was one MVA when the Interstate had an inch of ice, we put our eng in a buffer position and went to set up the tool when all of a sudden we hear yelling and screaming from our pump op. I look up in time to see THREE cars spinning and sliding right at the car I was near. I "slid" out of the way and watched a 2 car MVA turn into a 5 car. We found out that the drivers tried to stop when they saw the trooper setting up flares but it wasnt enough time and they lost controll. One woman was crying hysterically at the thought that she almost ran us over. Now it is SOP to shut down the Interstate when we have an MVA and re-route the traffic to route 7 which runs parallel to I-88. Since then we have also received an old village police car from the PD to use as a utility vehicle and now that responds also to assist with the shut down.

Cobleskill village police are dispatched to all village calls with us. They are CFR's and carry AED and jump bags with O2. This way if we need any police assistance with combative PT's or other sensitive calls they are always there before us and the scene is secure. They are a great group and help us all the time.

LOL! And how would you have fared? Jonesy

I had a II for 11 years and was given a V in cobleskill....I miss my II...I loved my II...I NEED my II...the V's are big, bulky and mine has terrible reception. The battery lasts a lot longer though. I can charge it overnight and it will last 2 or three days before it dies. Just about the only good thing about them! Jonesy PS- the III's and IV's are pieces of s#@%! I dont know why they took something good and tried to make it better.

MAN, watch out for those druggies. No one was hurt? Close call man, watch your back and stay safe down there!

We fight a lot of brush fires up here and I never realy thought of FAST at them. It is a good idea that I would now like to see our team do. We could acquire a 4 or 6 wheeler from some dept and use it as the FAST Four Wheeler and load it with stokes, rope, burn blanket, indian tanks and some hand tools. Exhaustion is definately a factor at those fires, the last big one we had last summer sent 3 ff's to the hospital with heat exhaustion. They had to be carried out on our 6 wheeler a mile to the ambulance. Had we had FAST there it would have been easier to remove these ff's because those of us who did take them out were already beat ourselves. Good Post. Jonesy

I agree!!! ANd on top of that, you pay $5 for those sandwhiches and hardly get any meat, a small processed egg, and oily cheese. YUMMY!!! Home-cooked is the way to go; 2 eggs, ham, bacon, extra cheese on an onion bagel lightly toasted. Now Im hungry!!!

Well, we do 800 a year, an avge of 70 a month, and we respond from home, and our avge time to get a rig enroute with atleast a crew of 3 is 5 minutes. We run two rigs with ALS coming from county medics who are both paid and provided with fly-cars that respond from different parts of the county. Their avg response time is 3 minutes. So I guess we do pretty well than.