cas2383

Yeah all the times theyre on the other side of the road looks like they were blocked by the island in the middle of the road. They seem to have a lot out that way. Great video.

Cool site, great non-conventional rigs in the pictures.

In some cases where the highways are far enough away from a CSP station some local police also cover the highways, as I have seen many times in Greenwich and Stamford assisting the responding state pd. Up north more towards the troop in Bridgeport it is less likely to see a municipal car up on the highways due to the accessibility of the state cars to respond to calls.

My friend used to get rides to high school in his nieghbors state pd car... lol

Check out Squad 14 of Southport FD. It has a 700 gpm pump, 500 gallon tank, couple of crosslays, locking rear diff, trailer hitch for their zodiack, 2 30 ft light towers, stokes basket as well as some other misc. tools. www.southportvfd.com

FD Should have disabled the plug via the breaker and always check the walls as a precaution, maybe with a heat gun thermal imager or the back of your hand. On top of that maybe just pop up in the attic to make sure theres no visible smoke to at least cover your bases...wasn't there dont know if any of that was done or not but it is for sure a good thing to keep in mind.

Good to know, they too bad theres no real way to get notified of these kind of changes. Guess everyones got to keep their eyes open.

Utterly ridculous, what was going through their heads, i mean really come on here.

Date: 3/2/06 Time:10:49 Location: Route 58 @ 1/4 mile N. of Hemlock Road Frequency: 460.600 Units Operating: Engine 1, Amr, FPD Description Of Incident: 1 Vehicle rollover with all occupants outside of vehicle and apparantly walking around. Writer: cas2383

Date: 3/2/06 Time: 0932 Location: Merritt Parkway NB prior to exit 44 Frequency: 460.600 Units Operating: FFD E4, E1, L2, R1,C3, Westport units also responding, AMR Description Of Incident: Multi vehicle accident with vehicles off the road way, one serious accident car vs. tree requiring involved extrication, however patient inside stable. State PD may not be responding due to other accidents. Writer: cas2383

ems - I've never noticed any popups on this site, and Im here alot. Sounds like Maybe you have some spyware or adware running in your background. Some these days are so tricky to get rid of the only way is to reformat your computer. Try either downloading some free spyware/adware tools or maybe going out and purchasing some first before doing anything drastic like reformatting. Make sure you back up your important info too before doing anything. Good luck.

Down in PC on E-60 we use a 2 1/2 in. highrise kit with a smoothe bore nozzle with an 1 3/8in bore, puts out a lot of water...

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For those of you intrested CT fire 1 programs are nationally certified. However you can start at 17 but must be 18 and on insurance by the time practicals start. Not much you can do w/out insurance. I am almost postive you must be affiliated with a CT dept. to take the fire 1 course.

Perhaps maybe it is just problems near or dealing with big cities, i.e. too much use compiled with other factors steering their decisions away from e-one.... only the people using the units can say for sure what turned their decision away from e-one, a company some like and some don't as we have seen here in this forum.

Date: 2/26/06 Time: approx 19:45 Location: 79 Brookridge Ave Frequency: 460.600 Units Operating: Fairfield FD Engines 3, 2,1,5 Ladder 2, Rescue 1, Car 3, Stratfield FD Rescue 15, Fairfield PD Description Of Incident: Resident called for a malfunctioning dryer. Upon arrival E3 noted heavy smoke condition throughout the house, and heavy fire in rear of basement due to dryer. E2 secured a hydrant. L2 Ventilated. C3 assumed command. FM1 was notified and would not be responding. Upon report E5 was added then later dropped and relocated to Sta2. Just after arrival E1 was released and sent on a medical call on Philemon St, a few blocks away. R15 was later special called for mop up operations and was last unit to clear at 21:00hrs. Writer: Cas2383

Its not their features that bring down e-one, its the extended downtime many of them have due to mech. malfunctions...

Any idea were 61 is on maixm's site?

Don't forget, any situation involving train tracks increases the hazards 100 fold. Don't just plan for the worse i.e. train derailment, plan for minor things as well, wires down, fire on or near engergized tracks, stuck train cars(with passengers on board),trees down,cars stuck near crossings etc. the better you plan with metro north (they know your procedures, you know thiers) the better and safer we all are.

In many cases of cold water rescue, boats are not always necessary. Usually if someone fell through the ice it is on some body of water stable enough to form ice. This usually means the person walked there from shore and it would be close enough to approach slowly with a cold water survival suit make a grab with perhaps just a long (noodle) rescue ring and then be towed back to shore by your shore crew. Some things to keep in mind if your boat does not wind up responding. However if the victim is perhaps too far out for rescue ropes and shore personnell to reach, then the boat is obviously a viable tool.

Out of my station in Fairfield Engine 3 is usually o/s mechanically and out of all the replacements there this is my favorite. A 1991 Seagrave 1500/500 pumper. In the picture it is E5 but last year was replaced and made a spare due to a new pierce engine added to the fleet. http://fdfairfield.com/engine5.htm

With the final implementiaton of the new system, will the UHF 46.26 (i.e. mohegan, poundridge, katonah) repeaters be useless or are they an integral part of the system somehow somewhere?

I know in PC and Fairfield we try to keep an operator with the rig as much as possible, which in reality is suprisingly good, i'd say 99 % of the time. As for the fire stations, we keep them locked with a key at all times in PC; and FFld is accesible through a punch-in code lock. All though the locks are very innefective in thwarting vandalism and theives if the bay doors are open... lol. I guess there are trade offs. As for fire scenes: I say Police presences can never be enough. Whether it is slowing down that speeding motorist going by an accident to a fire alarm with a door open to a working fire. Immediate PD presence obviously stops theives if not on the spot a block away as we saw in Mt Vernon today. That is much better than finding your apparatus wrecked down the road or finding out theres tools missing or even worse: it was used to commit other crimes.

Today's events in Mt. Vernon raise a good question. What does your Dept. do to keep the scene safe? Being that someone stole a firetruck and could have easily killed one of a number of people if they weren't trained to operate that equipment, not to mention the effect it has on the fire outcome, it does seem pretty important to consider scene security. Granted Mt. Vernon isnt the only place its happend some places I've read about even have had their rigs stolen from the firehouse. Just wonder again what everyone does for scene security as well as maybe perhaps security at the station, maybe someone out there can offer up some good tips on the situation from personal experience...?

Sorry bout that I thought there were newer pictures of it. I like what appears to be little flood lights between the back wheels they will def come in handy backing up at night. Not too many people think of lighting that area.