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If its below you need to use a standard hydrant because 1) the pressure may damage regular PVC dry hydrants, 2) more important you need the valve to allow you to hook it up, otherwise when you take the cap off its flowing.

When its ready

training on new ladder Both deck guns flowing Deck gun inlet: both side can feed the left or the right deck gun, or both. Or 2 lines can be used. This is independant of the ladder pipe. all 3 can flow 1,000gpm (total 3,000 gpm) if properly supplied. Double rescue roller (removable) using rescue roller and windless Windless

Wow. so many different incidents that were memorable. Lots of pain, loss and some wonderful life changing calls. I liked the upbeat one that LTNRFD posted, so no fire, no blood, no death, but I like this one and LTNRFD was there: Around 1982 or 83. LTNRFD, another EMT & myself at our VAC recieved a request for a nonemergency assist. We drove to the location and the women who called said her 75 year old father was just coming home from the hospital and she needed help caring him into the house. We got the stair chair and walked around the car LTNRFD & I approached him and we both instantly recognized him. But LTNRFD di not know him like I did. Sitting in the car was my boyhood idol; one of the finest sailors I had ever heard of. Arthur Knapp Jr. had won world championships, the America's Cup and almost every award there is in sailing. As a young teen I had memorized his book & writings on tactics. At 14 he coached me and helped me win a major regatta. At 15 I got to intern (school project) with him at Ratsey & Lapthorn Sailmakers and when I was 18 he asked me to crew with him and we won a major match racing series. I could not understand how he was so good and how he could manage because his health made it so he could barely move, but we did. That was only 2 or 3 years before this call. He saw me and said how glad he was that I was there. We placed him on the stair chair and carried him in through the garage and up the basement stairs. The garage and stairs and whole house were covered in sailing trophys, they were everywhere. We got him settled and said are goodbyes. About an hour later he called the VAC and asked for me. he wanted to thank me, "marvin" (thats who he thought LTNRFD was) and the "cute one" and did I think she would go out on a date with him (she was about 18 at the time). Thanks for asking for us to share, this was a lot better than many of the exciting calls. http://www.herreshoff.org/achof/arthur_knapp_jr.html http://library.mysticseaport.org/manuscripts/coll/coll357.cfm http://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/17/sports/arthur-knapp-jr-85-champion-in-international-yacht-racing.html

Do we really need both sides of the story? If the ff is operating in this fasion, it does not matter why, it is just wrong. The real question is 1) have his officers attempted to send it up the chian (since even if they tried to handle it in house and that did not work). 2) did higher ups just ignor it?

Carl sold Macks to NR in the early 1950's. He retired from Hendrickson (Spartan ERV) this spring. Their are rumors that he started selling horses to FD's, he was around that long. Nothing scarier than watching a 70-80 year old salesman climb a 100' ladder!

As others have said, this is not protected by affirmative action. Unfortunatly numbers of minorities hired does and often depts are unwilling to deal with issues like this because they do not want to upset the numbers. If the party is mandated to be an emt (or other level of state certified provider) to maintain employment. Sometimes the state can be called in as the heavy and let them push him out by suspending his cert.

I looked up tier 3 and I mist it. there was only a 27 week window that if you were hired FD/PD during that time. Was so small it was forgotten

Tier 1 was in place until the early 1980's Tier 2 was in place until Jan. 1 2010 Tier 3 & 4 were for teachers and other non uniform positions and did not affect FD/PD Tier 5 was in place from Jan. 1 2010 to March 31, 2012. Tier 6 was put in place to "save millions" on top of what tier 5 was to save. but for tier 5 to save what it was designed to do requires 20+ years according to the controller. While Tier 6 may save a little more, the politicians were able to claim multi millions each time.

I just wanted to state that my statements were very generic and I am not stating or implying that HFD is doing anything improper. I stand by my comment on time needed to get multiple bids

yes, its required for UASI funding & DES has one on order I believe

True, but tread lightly since that borders on bid rigging. idonot know about NYS stats, but a few years ago NJ had a sudy that showed something like 80& of rigs were purchased illegally by manipulating the bid process

How much faster would an investigation start if they responded lights and siren,10 minutes, 30, 45 ? Would it make that much of a difference in the investigation?

Thats a very short turn around time. Generally if you do not give 45-60 days you will only recive 1 or 2 bids unless what you are looking for is very generic. Particularly during the summer when factory support to the dealers is down for vacations.

My point was that NFPA considered raising them above the almost nonexisting current. However, many manufactures are already getting UL to certify that their cabs meet SAE-J2420, SAE-J2422, and ECE R29SAE crush standards, Some custom cabs can support 120,000 pounds or more. There are Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) for lighter vehicles #216 Roof Crush Resistance: GVW < 6,000 lbs: 3x vehicle weight GVW 6,001 - 10,000 lbs: 1.5x vehicle weight (including ambulances)

In a frontal crash, the motor in front would be safer, but the overwhelming majority of tanker accidents are rollovers and in almost every tanker LODD it was a rollover with either ejection (no seatbelts) or roof crush. NFPA was actually considering this in there last update and was debating outlawing any chassis that didnot meet roof crush standards (many of the commercial chassis wouldnot meet this). Yes and the foot print (wheelbase) on cab overs are almost always 24-48" shorter.

You may need to define "custom". While I agree that there are "tankers" that are really pumpers with a big booster and are way more than is needed or can be handled. Cab over designes (which are often considered custom, but do not need to be) out perform the others because of their manuverability. The real issue with tankers is always what is its gpm delivery rate per mile? Almost every dept without municipal hydrants that has moved from ISO 9 to 4, 5 or 6 had three things in common; 1) high performance tankers - faster fill and dump times, better manuverability and the ability to fill and dump with a maximum of 2 people, with the driver staying in the cab. Many of the "standard" commercil units saved money, but did not perform well. 2) Standardization of all tankers. Same amount of water, same dump & fill times. 3) Training, Training, preplaning, and more training

But it will. Small boats running into "stationary" objects particularly at night is not uncommon. Factors (in general, thatmay or may not be specific to this case) include: Operator lack of experience, trainingOperator overconfidence in his/her abilitiesSpeedAlcohol, drugsLack of visability / plus lack of radar (depth perception on the water at night is very difficult)Lack of local knowledge (moring areas, marked & unmarked hazards to navigation, etc.)While in this case the operator may not have "seen" the barge, he should have been very aware of its existance as it has been there for a long time. It was there when he went in and it was attached to a barge moring bouy.

I believe they switched to about ayear ago

Its $100K for the bus Its $224k (back in 2008) for the Star of Life and other decals required

Title 33: Navigation and Navigable Waters CHAPTER I: COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY SUBCHAPTER E: INLAND NAVIGATION RULES PART 88: ANNEX V: PILOT RULES 88.13 - Lights on moored barges. (a) The following barges shall display at night and if practicable in periods of restricted visibility the lights described in paragraph ( of this section: (1) Every barge projecting into a buoyed or restricted channel. (2) Every barge so moored that it reduces the available navigable width of any channel to less than 80 meters. (3) Barges moored in groups more than two barges wide or to a maximum width of over 25 meters. (4) Every barge not moored parallel to the bank or dock. ( Barges described in paragraph (a) of this section shall carry two unobstructed all-round white lights of an intensity to be visible for at least 1 nautical mile and meeting the technical requirements as prescribed in ? 84.15 of this chapter. © A barge or group of barges at anchor or made fast to one or more mooring buoys or other similar device, in lieu of the provisions of Inland Navigation Rule 30, may carry unobstructed all-round white lights of an intensity to be visible for at least 1 nautical mile that meet the requirements of ? 84.15 of this chapter and shall be arranged as follows: (1) Any barge that projects from a group formation, shall be lighted on its outboard corners. (2) On a single barge moored in water where other vessels normally navigate on both sides of the barge, lights shall be placed to mark the corner extremities of the barge. (3) On barges moored in group formation, moored in water where other vessels normally navigate on both sides of the group, lights shall be placed to mark the corner extremities of the group. (d) The following are exempt from the requirements of this section: (1) A barge or group of barges moored in a slip or slough used primarily for mooring purposes. (2) A barge or group of barges moored behind a pierhead. (3) A barge less than 20 meters in length when moored in a special anchorage area designated in accordance with ? 109.10 of this chapter. Note: there are some rivers that have an exemption and no lighting is required, (the Chicago Sanitary Ship Canal & others) but that does not apply to the Hudson.

If they do, I suspect they would lose the customer. Not a good way to stay in biz.

On my wifes honda the alarm is activated by simply locking the doors (and it does a multiple beep to let you know). I do not know if you can lock the doors and bypass the alarm, but why would you? Also can they actually fine you in a private lot?

Like this?

A few others: I have seen a few that got 2 reels and 100' trashline, but most do not have the space.