jfmuller

Great shots, lots of interesting vehicles and apparatus.

The Gap distribution warehouse in Fishkill had them intermixed in the their warehouse racks. The thought being if a fire started at the bottom of the rack, the sprinkler above it would trip before reaching the top of the rack and destroying all of the product. They also do not use wooden pallets, all items are stored on solid 1" thick Oak boards. All fork trucks/lifts were battery powered. They also had two 250,000 Gallon water tanks with both electric and diesel pumps.

I've been busy working on getting our new website together so today I took advantage of the nice weather. (Of course it was overcast and starting to drizzle a little as I took most of the photos) Here is all of our apparatus except one of the Chiefs cars. Photos by me, thanks to Paul T. for helping me shuffle these around. Chiefs command vehicle 2004 Ford Expedition 1st Assistant Chiefs command Vehicle 2006 Ford Expedition 2nd Assistant Chiefs command vehicle 2008 Ford Expedition 2006 Sutphen Custom Pumper 1994 Sutphen Custom Pumper 2000 American Lafrance 1986 Pierce Arrow 2006 Sutphen Ladder Tower 1990 Marion Heavy Rescue (International Cab) 2000 Ford F-450 Brush (One of kind pump/tank) 2001 Chevy 15 Pass 2008 Achilles (Not in Service Yet) HazMat Trailer, Booms, Speedy Dri.

Being in agreement with Photounit, In the past I've decoded the Dutchess Frequencies and gave them to Dave NF2G. There are huge benefits to being able to monitor other departments. With Pagers and Radios being able to decode more than two sets of tones, it's great to be able to be alerted to other departments. Especially when you live outside your district you can monitor the homefront. For those that photograph scenes the county coordinators tone is a godsend. For those that know they are second alarm, they can get a head start to group at the firehouse (Saving lives and time). I wish the county would have one tone to alert the entire county for disasters. Hopefully this will come in the future as the county does not have time to tone out the entire county that there is a reported tornado or other disaster threatening departments, eventually they may have one tone to keep us all in the know. As they do now they tone out the county coordinators that there is a weather advisory for Dutchess County, unless we have pagers and scanners on monitor it falls upon deaf ears. As they state further weather bulletins will be broadcast as time permits. As for those that are out there to prank and cause trouble, the tools are there whether the information is known, or can be obtained, that will not stop them, what needs to be done is education that the penalties far outweigh the prank and to deter them. Anyone with a computer and tone DSP software can figure out the tones.

HazMat trailer is currently out of station 1, at one time it was housed at station 2 and pulled by 62-62 if needed. Boat is at station 1, but is not in service, it was recently purchased and is a new endeavor for this company so training is needed. As noted in the original post, I still need to get a picture of the second chief's car which looks almost exactly like the first one.

New Rescue is in the works with a committee, it don't believe it will be as large as "Huge"sonvilles (j/k). Response District for RFD is 14.3 miles, with two stations on each side of town, Route 9 divides the district areas. 6214 (1986 Pierce) was replaced with 6211 (2006 Sutphen). It never got put on the market and has been serving as a spare/reserve/driver training. Without getting too much into response details: Station 1 contains: 6211 1500gpm/1000 gallons First due for structure fires First due for Commercial Alarms (station 1 area)6212 2000gpm/750 gallons Base Pumper 2nd due First due for Car Fires and Auto accidents (station 1 area)6214 1500gpm/1000 gallons Reserve Station 2 6213 2000gpm/1000 gallons First Due for structure fires in station 2 area First Due Commercial Alarms in Station 2 area First Due for Car Fires and Auto Accidents (station 2 area)

Newer cameras come with image stabilization that helps out tremendously. Also if you have a view finder use that with the camera anchored against your face, the less movement the better. Sometimes leaning on a building or against a pole will help you keep it steady. Tripods are ideal, but hard to store in the back pocket. Some cameras have a delay you can use that will allow you to depress the button and then hold the camera steady before the picture is taken. Pushing that button moves it a little adding some shake.

I once came across a website recording of Dutchess County overseas, I think Germany, it was 46.36, dispatch for Arlington, car fire or something like that. Now that's impressive.

I couldn't agree more, sometimes I wish everyone would realize that this is a public website and as such anyone can come across these posts such as the media, victims, etc.. We always try to hold the media to a higher level in their reporting and somehow we fail miserably at trying to keep our standard higher.

Date: 7/27/08 Time: 15:24 -15:45 Location: Rt 9 by DOT Frequency: 453.900 (114.8) Dispatch, 453.800 (114.8) Command, 453.925 (114.8) Response, Rombout 19/20, 462.125 (114.8) Units Operating: 62-12, 62-55, 62-98, 62-62 Description Of Incident: Rollover ATV accident with person pinned, difficulty breathing Writer: jfmuller 15:24 Dispatch 15:27 Alamo on scene 15:31 62-98 Responding 15:45 Rombout Command, all equipment clear of incident

The Pro-94 is made by Uniden for Radio Shack, the others are mostly made by GRE, that being said it takes different software to program it. I typically program it by hand since it does not support alpha tags and PL tones. In getting software to program it you only have one choice that I know of and that is Scancat lite plus. Here is the Radio Ref wiki page with info about the scanner. http://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Pro-94

As it is newsworthy in another post, and many others are posting new chief vehicles, Rombout is on a 6 year replacement cycle for chiefs cars. This one replaces a 2002 Ford F-150, It was purchased from Warnock and not sure whom did the lights, siren, striping. Was able to get some new photos for the Webpage last night. The homegrown, command center for the rear is in the works by one of our members.

I used my NY Drivers license # and it worked, I am not a state employee. http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/gate/remotedb.htm From the site:

Never noticed this, however this is a great service: http://www.dos.state.ny.us/fire/pdfs/staff/StaffNYSL.pdf Using your NYS Drivers license you can read Firehouse magazine and the other trade magazines online. Fixed link

Town of Fishkill Includes: Dutchess Junction (Red Engine, and White Engine (From Oyster Bay Long Island) Glenham (Red) Chelsea (Red) Rombout (Lotus Creme) Village of Fishkill (Red w/Black) As for the history of the color, Rombout was formed in 1971 and such we did not have any tradition on colors to stick with, at the time there were studies done suggesting that Red was not the most visible color for Fire Trucks. One of our charter members was from the Albany area and liked the color from the Town of Colonie fire department that was using Lotus Creme. www.coloniefire.com

I'm not a member nor do I know much about them, but they do have a website: Exempts.org

Don't get confused in that New Hyde Park is located on Long Island, Hyde Park, is located upstate which you will find members on this forum.

My Photos from the scene, by the amount of cameras around I would venture to guess there will be more. Around the corner from the fire a few weeks ago. The old church suffered some heat damage. Edit: Had a dupe and missed photo of 6245, also added one more heavy fire.

The photo before I saw you and after I passed you were stamped at 05:41 and 05:45, (6812 from the same angle as your first shot, and the other the house from a few weeks ago above) looking at my camera I'm 2 minutes shy of an atomic clock and also my computer, so I'd venture to guess you're off by about 5 minutes. Also I stand corrected it was OSB not Plywood.

Arlington (Dutchess)-Apartment Fire 7 Jones St -05/12/08 Date: 5/11/08 Times: 13:08 Dispatch, 1528 Cleared Location: 7 Jones St, Apt 3 Frequency: 453.050 FG-5/6, 453.900 Disp, 453.800 Command, 453.925 Respnse Units Operating: Arlington 32-11, 14, 46, 52, 71, 89, Pleasant Valley (Fast), City of Poughkeepsie Ladder 2, Engine 2, Farview 41-11 Standby HQ Description Of Incident: reported fire in Wall, On scene with Fire out window. 1308 Arlington Dispatched for structure fire 7 Jones St, Apt 3 possible fire in wall. 1309 3211 on scene 1310 3211 fire out the back 1312 Cmd fire out window, req second alarm 1312 Cmd Req City of Poughkeepsie Eng 2, Lad2 1313 Second Alarm, 3252, 71, 89, Pleasant Valley (Fast) , City of Poughkeepsie, E2, L2 1314 Cmd req FG 5-6 1317 Fairview relocate 1 eng to HQ for standby 1320 CMD reporting fire under control looking for extension 1350 Cmd req Ambulance, 3272 for evaluation 1353 Cmd 14, 46 returning, Fairview 41-11 released from standby 1430 3211 back in Service 1528 Cmd All Personnel cleared from scene Writer: Jfmuller

Village of Wappingers(Dutchess)-Commercial Structure Fire-05/11/08 Date: 5/11/08 Times: 05:30? Location: Bethel Missionary Baptist Church, 2611 South Ave, Corner of Prospect (Church under construction across the street from old) Frequency: 453.050 FG-5, 453.900 Disp, 453.800 Command Units Operating: Village of Wappingers, 68-45, 68-11, 68-12, 68-55, Hughsonville, New Hamburg 53-11, 53-13, Rombout 62-45, Fishkill 42-12 (Fast), Arlington, (May have missed others) Description Of Incident: Commercial Structure Fire in Massive Church under Construction, Exterior covered with exposed plywood. Writer: Jfmuller

Federal Protective Service (FPS) United States Federal Protective Service It's amazing what agencies are out there: Photo from Poughkeepsie Journal, Last photo in series.

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I'd take out a window and use a Roof ladder, tied off to reach him, He's got a harness on already, Tie him off and bring em in. Lifts also have Hydraulic overrides that may be used to bring them down to a safe level to get him.

Putting aside the fact that the Journal has the worst editing staff in the world, Does this Mean Alamo will become NDP?