CHIEFPHIL

The next class will be starting February 5th at the Brookfield Fire Headquarters. Just a cross the lake. Your dept should be getting a notice right after the 1st of the year. This is a well run class with a good mix of instructors . If you do not see or hear anything pm me around the middle of January and I'll register you. As you might have guessed, I'm one of the instuctors. This class is usually followed up with a firefighter 2 class the following September. Look forward to seeing you in class.

Attack engine: Engine 5 100' - 1.75" front bumper line with TFT 200' - 1.75" crosslays with TFT x 2 200' - 2.50" crosslay with Akron turbojet 200' - 2.50" rear preconnect with Akron turbojet 250' - 1.75" rear preconnect with Akron mid-matic 400' - 3" with waterthief 1000' - 5" supply Supply / Hosewagon : Engine 6 100' - 1.75" trash line in pass. side running board w TFT 200' - 1.75" crosslays with TFT 2x 150' - 2.5" rear preconnect with Akron turbojet 2000' - 5" supply

Yes... continally for awhile. It usually times out and cannot find server.

The Bethel Vol Fire Dept has begun it's annual Christmas tree sale. we are open every day from 3 p.m. to 10p.m. and weekends 10 a.m. to ...... whenever. All trees priced to sell... 38 South Street

May God bless his soul and rest in peace. My prayers as well as those of the Bethel Fire Dept go out to his family.

I'll submit tonite !!!

Yep, I saw the Sutphen last week when I was at the plant inspecting our new tower. In fact it is sitting right in front of our old tower.

Bethel Ct, new Sutphen Tower. Going to factory next Friday for final inspection, to be delivered week after tgiving. Lots of fingers crossed, it is about 3 months late. Replacing our 1977 with a 2007.

Negative

Sox in seven. I hope, my buddy has two tickets to game 7.

Two Engines. Other equipment as requested. usually once in the general area, the rigs will stage while officers on scene in thier pov or dept vehicles start to search.

Any pre-lim info on rig capabilites ?

Date: 9/12/07 Time:21:54 Location: 1 Wibling Road, Danbury Airport, Reliant Air Frequency: 46.24 Units Operating: E13,E21,22,25,26 T1,T2,Sq6...possibly other units, Description Of Incident: Heavy Fire on Arrival... Writer:CHIEFPHIL

Congradulation and good luck Eng 26 on going into service today.

Rest in Peace and may God look over your family.

We used 100" rubber lengths in the mid 80' .....all gone by the 90's. It was a pain to store as rolls. We never saw any advantage and phased out.

In Connecticut, the light program is as follows: red /white & siren for chief officers, 3 permits issued by DMV for each fire dept for thier pov's. Many FD's in Ct do not have chiefs vehicles. blue - volunteer firefighters green - vac red lights may be used by duly sworn firepolice officers while thier pov is used to block traffic, direct traffic and only when the vehicle is NOT in motion.

I've read the book. It makes you think about a lot of stuff. In as much as they operate outside the US, they were heavily involved in New Orleans as well. What is scary, that a mercenery army can operqate inside our borders.

Bethel Ct - longest distance

My wife dragged me to it, I thought I was not going to enjoy it, BUT It was good and worth seeing. Not to give any of the movie away, but the UK part, I can attest to it as I once benefited from thier care as well.

Rest in Pease

We have a pretty good written plan for tanker shuttles. Although it can and has been modified by the incident commander. Our non hydrant area was divided up into 7 water supply points, each area having a primary water supply and back up watersupply. Careful consideration was made to include that each district had no more then a 3 mile turn around and that a well laid out route was in place that kept the tankers moving in a loop. water supply is mainly from hydrants and some in-ground tanks [10@ 15,000 gallons each]. we do not rely on ponds, streams or other natural water sources. initial response Eng-5 [1000 gallon]to the scene, if knoing a worker, lays a supply line from nearest intersection or driveway to scene Tanker 1 [2500 gallon]goes to nearest intersection and drops fold-a-tank and proceeds to scene to nurse e-5, once emptied it goes for water and becomes part of the shuttle eng-6 [1000 gallon] sets up the folding tank and prepares for a draft eng-2 [2000 gallon] dumps into the tank and proceeds for water eng-1 [750 gallon] stages with e-6 in the event of a failure - crew assist with suppresion Once it is determined that a tanker shuttle is needed, a specific mutual aid run card is used, calling 4 tankers to the scene and one to cover. It also calls for 3 engines, 1 to a pre determined water source to fill tankers and 2 to cover. If we do not need to go into a tanker shuttle, then tanker 1 and eng 2 nurse engine 5. Usually we call in one tanker to back them up . All of our mutual aid tankers are 2500 gallons or more.

First, lets hope and think about the firefighter.... lets hope he makes a speedy recovery Then.... what about the brakes..?? were the maxi's engaged ? Doesnt sound like it . As for E-one, we dont know for sure if it was. remember everything under the body was built by some-one else. Since it popped out of gear, why dont we bash the tranny or pump maker ? If the brakes failed why dont we bash bendix ? By the way, my dept has an E-one and we would by another one.

I went through the airport as well yesterday, saw them there early in the morning and then they were still there when I left around 1 p.m. ... Made me think as well. One of them was actually in the travel portion of the road. Any thing could have touched them off.

Our Engines are pretty much set up the same.. each has a primary role in town as well as mutual aid: Eng 5 first run engine in our district, attack engine. Eng 6 our second due engine in our district is set up as a hose wagon. It is 3rd due across town . Hence we call it the "cross town express" Each has a 50 gallon foam tank with thru the pump capability. Each carries 2 PPV fans Each has its own comb/gas meter Each has 7 air pakc and 7 spare bottles Each has its own TIC Each carries the NFPA 1901 standard for firefighting equipment . the main difference is that Eng 6 has 2000' of 5" the other differernce is the amount of pre connects 6 vs 4 the first due carries a chain saw, the 2nd due[mutual aid] does not. When this rig is called for, it is usaully needed for supply. In the few times it is used in a cover situation, it has enough equipment to perform the role of a first due engine.