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Mount Kisco Mutuals have to have one of the nicest cf macks around....All original never been restored. The truck is close to being mint and is still in service behind there new pierce and early 90's pierce. One sharp rig!

paratech=Easy to use and learn. trained on them a bunch and not one complaint. The only down side is storage. we have a large plastic chest for them. they work great otherwise!

send a pm to sagevigiles he prolly will know tell him chris sent you.

Probably the same owner of the SRT8 charger and the hummer from Pound Ridge. He uses it to protect them.

i agree!!!!

Put into service within the past two weeks

I know horton while going through specs explained to us things we needed to be nfpa but that was never one of them maybe it is one of the recomendations but not required...........i'm not saying your wrong

Yes, this is the new company a ambulance Yes, it is a horton Not sure of the reson but def puts out some light Get away with it?!? they are functional

RIP Officer Morelli

bigfitz2004 & WHFD318 thank you for the response very good use of normally dead space!!! i like it

what is that compartment above main compartment on rear of truck?

4 chiefs in dept. 2281=head chief 2282-1st asst 2283=2nd asst 2284=3rd asst each company has a chief has one so they rotate.

Sounds like a good option if all works out well. I wouldn;t mind seeing on in each engine and each cheifs car. In my department it would be benifit us by allowing us to comunicate to public works and fire police which operate on a low band freq. while our firegound is all high band, makeing life much easier on our incident comanders.

The only experience i have with flags on hydrants are the spring ones. They are outta your way untill you need to charge it and at that time you would fold it over under you and open it up. In danbury,ct i was told if a hydrant was O.O.S. a black steamer cap was put on. Also every year when they do testing for it they will paint the top of it a different color.( for 2007 the color was purple) so if you cam accross a hydrant painted otherwise it would be very possible it was never test and could be outta service.

RIP brother

oh boy...

RIP to the two fallen brothers. Thoughts and prayers are with their familes and friends. My thoughts and prayers also go out to the injured firefighters

I'm not sure if this topic came up in discussion once before but i could not find any information on it. Our department recently bought a few of the latest model Scott brand SCBA. We went from the old wire framed packs which we donated to the state to the newer i believe all lightweight metel frames. now these new ones we just got seem to be mostly comprised of composit plastic material. They are extremly heavy. There are a few new features which in some cases are useless addons just to make the packs more expensive. but back to the reason for the thread, they weigh aproxx...5-10 lbs more then the last model scott made. I wore it for a class I was taking last sunday and after about 10min it was putting a noticible strain on my back and shoulders. Anyone used these packs yet?

I agree with you 100% however i would be one of the ones complaining about shoulder stress wih the new pack. throughout the day i was wearing it we were doing some Minor confined space training. where i would have to unbuckle the waste straps and in the given environment was not able to tighten back up to ideal tightness. But i would like to repeat what mfc2257 said by stateing DON'T FORGET TO TRAIN ON THE BASICS. THEY ARE KEY

May I add say again....waste of money....give me an old pack and I will be much more comfortable (I'll take being comfortable and confident over style anyday)

i origanlly posted the nexgen

Alex i believe our new gear has zipper and velcro...personally i would like to have a zipper and the old style hooks. personal experience being a "larger then average" guy the velcro just dosen't cut but can get by.......bets are for the show they put all three just to show all the things they can put on so they wouldn't have to do several different coats. Along the lines of turnout gear what does everyone think about built in harness they are putting in the coats now.?

Our chiefs car is not to leave a 13 mile radius of our town!!!! only exception is going to an event fire department invloved

2nd time in a row these weathermen have been right....scary!