VistaFD126

volunteering as a firemen is like joining the Army, you only volunteer once, after that you have a commitment

PLEASE NOTE: I couldn't post on my account (nomp3s4u) so my friend let me use his account and these views are soley mine. I am currently a junior at UNH, i just transfered here and was excited to join a fire dept just like you are. So a communter who was on West Haven told me i should join. So i joined West Haven North End Station and quit a month after. Now don't get me wrong its not that its a bad fire dept its just wasen't for me, i have alot respect for West Fire Dept. Here are my reasons for quitting: No shifts, they are like most fire depts they are all call which is ok if you had a car (which you won't being a freshmen and forget about your soph year you have to park at north campus which is a 5 min walk) and then the drive is about 7 blocks in traffic and considering many memebers live very close to the firehouse you will not be making the truck at the North End station, i know memebers that love the Arllington station(which has a ladder truck) but supposly they don't get as many calls as north end but i can't tell you anything about them because i don't know. My 2nd reason was they couldn't get me gear for probaly a year i would think, not there fault im a college student who is there for half the year what is the point? They had a community pair of gear but if you trust your life in that then your a braver firefighter then ill ever be. Those are my only reasons for quitting, North End only had a 1989 pumper with 4 seats so not only would i not make the truck i would get bumped off. To join a West Haven firehouse this is what you have to do, an aglitty test (easy and fun), a fat percent test and of coure fill out the forms, which is pretty extensive you need 3 people to reccomend you but good for them, very progessive. Please take a look at arllington, many people who are in the fire sci club are on it. I joined North Branford EMS company 4 which has shifts and am very happy with it. If you are an EMT i highly reccomend it, you get paid for calls you go on and they have two brand new 2006 gmc buses which are great. let me know you have question ill be happy to ansewer them and i hope i haven't offended anyone i just wanted to tell you my views on it. EDIT 1 Oh and by the way a really cool thing about West Haven Dept is if you join one station you can ride at any station you want to. So yes i can join allinton but im sticking with ems right now thank you

it might just be because its hard to fit the rig into the firehouse and couldnt mount them too much higher on the back so just mounted them on the roof, I dunno just my guess

yes they are a good company we sent our tanker (tanker 4) to get refurbed by them

Unfortunatly due to budget cuts and a vote from the town, a citizen tradgecly gets killed when her house a mile from a staffed firehouse recenly got shot down story from firehouse.com news http://cms.firehouse.com/content/article/a...nId=12&id=51423

I was talking to my father an ex Lieutenant of 94 Engine outta Hunts Point in the South Bronx and he was telling me some good stories during the war years does any one have any good stories they were involved with or heard of please share then with us thanks

just one ambulance, since we were right next door and out engine was about 3 minutes from our sistrict we jsut had an engine crew assigned with gear to cover our calls

Vista's goin we are dumping our firehouse of 2 Engines, a Tanker, a Rescue, and 1 Ambulance

yeah I agree that's a good one

one of my biggest pet peves is having personal veichles at the scene of an fire or EMS calls, I have a hard time trying to get this across to many of the members of our department as to why this is such a bad idea, now we all know the dangers in, but can anyone tell me any stories of why personal veichles at the scene was a hinderance, so I can realte to real stories as oppsed to what I can pretict happen, any other supporting or non supporting ideas out there I would liek to hear too, thanks

hey guys i'm actually the foreman of this rig, this is actually called the Quick Attack 2, before this truck there was another rig that members gave an unofficial name of quick attack, however this is our rescue truck it is a light rescue, 500 gallons with 250 gpm pump, it does have a brand new set of holmatros as you said it it the first rig to go on extrication calls and 2nd after the ambulance on MVA's, however because it is so small and we have alot more quilified people Rescue 13 rolls to just about every call it can other then EMS runs

ok thanks

2401 - 2003 Ford Superduty Crew Cab Chiefs Car Engine 111 - 1978 Ford/Pierce Engine 112 - 1998 Gowans Knight International - Source Pumper - it's pretty bad @$$ for what it is Engine 113 - 2003 Gowans Knight Spartain Front Line Pumper - also real nice this engine can do w/e u want to with it Mini Attack 21 - 1993 Ford F-450/Saulsbury Tanker 3 - 1993 Spartan/S and S - it's a pretty nice tanker Rescue 2? - 1988 Chevrolet/Pierce 4x4 Rescue/Pumper as far as that utility goes it was an old chiefs car that they still use I believe tey se it as an unofficial 2nd Asst Chiefs car anything else u wanna know just ask me i'm next town over from them

whats up with new (and old) ladder trucks having preconnects? such as yorktowns new one doesnt that mean it's a quint? if someone can please help me understand this whole thing thanks

I believe somers is also specing out a new seagrave ladder truck but not sure if thats just a rumor