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Congratulations. Keep up that positive attitude and never stop training.

It's no doubt these gloves are very comfortable. But there are a number of guys at my job that have been wearing them for about a year now, and have reported that while wearing them in fires, they weren't getting the thermal protection that they were expecting, compared to the old style leather gloves. A few of them have given them up for other brands. Since they ordered these a year ago, these may be the non-NFPA compliant models. I personally don't wear them but I figured I'd mention this for anyone looking to get a pair.

The following link from the Connecticut Fire Academy will give you all the info you need about the CPAT. Good luck. http://www.ct.gov/cfpc/cwp/view.asp?a=826&Q=246722

Congratulations. I was a VA fireman for almost 3 years before I got on the job in Danbury. You'll be working with a good bunch of guys.... especially B crew, my old crew. Just take my advice on this one point.... if they have you cook a meal, burn it...... otherwise you'll be cooking for the rest of your natural life. lol Stay safe.

Date: 10-8-07 Time:1345 Location: 64 Main St. Frequency: Units Operating: ENG. 21,22,23, Truck 1, Car 30, Car 51, Squad 6, Danbury EMS Description Of Incident: Working fire Writer: Fire at the Koinonia Pentecostal Church caused by a worker laying asphalt outside. Fire started on the back wall and spread into the interior. The church's pastor was the only one in the building and escaped without injury. The accidental fire was contained to the back of the building and caused minor damage.

Date: 10-1-07 Time: 1520 Location: 12 Irving Pl. Frequency: Units Operating: Eng. 22, 23, 25, 26, Truck 1, Car 30, Car 51, Squad 6, Danbury EMS Description Of Incident: Working fire in a private dwelling Writer:

Date: 9-22-07 Time: Location: 6 Rodline Rd. Frequency: Units Operating: Eng. 22, 25, 26, 21, Truck 1, Car 30, Car 51, Squad 6, Danbury Tanker Taskforce (4 tankers) Description Of Incident: Working fire w/ fatal. Writer: This was the second fire of the night for DFD. Story on both fires is below. http://www.1strespondernews.com/webpages/news/DisplayNews.aspx?PT=state&state=CT&ID=d2a83452-560d-42bf-86fd-b5281f30b577

Date: 9-22-07 Time: Location: 18 Highland Ave. Frequency: Units Operating: Eng. 21, 22, 26, Truck 1, Car 30 Volunteer Eng. 4, 6, 8 Description Of Incident: Working Fire Writer: Electrical fire in the basement.

New fire station called to action By John Pirro staff writer The new fire station on Kenosia Avenue in Danbury opened Tuesday, just one day before being called to fight the city�s largest fire in several years at nearby Danbury Municipal Airport. DANBURY -- When the city's newest fire station opened Tuesday, Mayor Mark Boughton said it came in "on time and on budget." Just in time, it turns out. One day after firefighters moved into the new Engine 26 on Kenosia Avenue, they were called to fight biggest fire in several years Wednesday night in a hangar at the Danbury Municipal Airport. The $1.6-million fire station, which had been talked about for years, is intended to reduce emergency response times to businesses and residences on the west side of the city, including the airport. VIDEO: http://newstimeslive.com/video/player.php?id=12740 Proving, however, the best-laid plans can still go awry, firefighters weren't in the station when the alarm came in. They were at headquarters on New Street, picking up equipment. But the extra few minutes it took to get to the airport made no difference, said Lt. John Gillotti, a 32-year veteran firefighter and one of the engine officers on duty at the time of the blaze. Even had they gotten there earlier, the building could not have been saved. "It didn't really (matter) in this case because of the volume of the fire," Gillotti said. "Once you get a fire that's so large in a building that it's being called in by aircraft, we pretty much knew what we were going up against going out the door." "We were looking almost immediately at backdraft conditions," Gillotti added. "It was drawing so much air. Our job is strange. We know that if we don't get inside, we're not going to put it out, we're going to surround and drown it." The building, which housed Reliant Air, a charter flight company, and McNally's Steak & Ale House, was a total loss. Gillotti said having a huge fire a day after the new station opened wasn't much of a surprise, given the volume of activity in that part of the city. "It wasn't shocking because we get fires on the west side," Gillotti said. "Coming out the door as soon as we opened(the station), in the first 24 hours we did seven runs. It's going to be a busy house." Contact John PIrro at jpirro@newstimes.com

Sage, you pretty much said it all. The station was officially opened this morning and D Group put Engine 26 in service this evening at 5pm. The HAZMAT rig is also over there, but the crash truck is still at the airport. Whether it goes in the firehouse or not has not been decided.... there are FAA regulations regarding this. 8 new firefighters graduated the academy last Fri. and will be divided among the crews. 5 more recruits entered the CT. Fire Academy yesterday.

Good thing she didn't mess up the fries also.... they may have called in the SWAT team.

At this time the plans for the Hazmat rig are not finalized, so anything mentioned here is purely speculation.

Actually you don't even need to pay a fee. I did this about a year and a half ago. The link below will take you to the EMT cert. pdf. on the CT Dept. of Health website. Scroll down to pages 11-13 which are forms # 202 and 203. All you need to do is fill those out and fax to the number on the bottom of the forms. My advice is to call the phone number on the form and speak to the EMT cert. division just to make sure nothing has changed. You will get a 2 year CT. cert in about a month. http://www.dph.state.ct.us/Licensure/apps/emsapp2.pdf

This story was just on Fox 5 news at 10. Must be a very slow news day.

There's one Captain on each crew and he rides Truck 1 at headquarters. The Lt.s run the houses for Engines 23,24,25 and soon 26.

Date: 7-27-07 Time:0730 Location: 86 Driftway Rd. Frequency: Units Operating: Engines 21,22,24,25, Truck 1, Car 30, Car 45, Danbury EMS, Tankers from various Danbury Volunteer Fire Co.'s Description Of Incident: Working Fire In Attached Garage And Car Fire Writer: DFD801 Shortly after shift change, DFD was dispatched to this fire. Due to lack of hydrants in this area, the Brothers knocked down the garage, the car and protected the house using only the 1500 gallons of tank water from the first three arriving engines. Tankers arrived soon afterwards. The following story is from the News Times. Use the link for pictures. http://www.newstimeslive.com/news/story.php?id=1060131&source=big_barker#tt DANBURY -- Mousa Mityas wandered dazed and stunned Friday around his yard after a fire destroyed his two-car garage and the furnishings stored there as well as his car that morning. The rest of the two-bedroom home at 86 Driftway Road was heavily damaged by smoke. Mityas wandered through the house, putting belongings in plastic yard bags and trying to comprehend the morning's events. His wife, Adele, waited patiently while friends cut plywood to cover windows where glass was broken. "I feel so bad for them," said neighbor Roger Bertalovitz. "Mousa was in the kitchen making a cup of coffee. He had just returned from his morning walk. The doorbell by the garage end of the house rang and he went to answer it. That's when he saw the flames." Bertalovitz first became aware of the blaze when he saw Mityas running across his yard yelling "Fire! Fire!" "At that point, flames were about 40 feet up in the air," Bertalovitz said, pointing to a tree that stood where the end of the garage had been. Bark was burned off the tree, as were leaves all the way to its top. Bertalovitz called the Danbury Fire Department at 7:30 a.m. He was told a call about the fire had just come in. "The fire department was fast on the scene," said Bertalovitz. "They did an amazing job. They really deserve recognition." Adele Mityas got a call at her job at Boehringer Ingelheim that her house was on fire. Badly shaken, she had her boss drive her home. "You don't want to get that call," Adele Mityas said. "That was our two-car garage. We lost everything that was in it -- a woodchipper, a stove, the freezer, a refrigerator. Everything." The remains of a couch smoldered, charred black with some plaid of the fabric showing through. Her husband's car was severely burned. It had been parked in front of the garage doors. Fire Capt. Dave Easter said firefighters knocked the fire down quickly after arriving. Three fire engines and one fire truck went to the scene. "Lt. Kevin Plank and firefighter Doug Zaniewski did a textbook job, making an entry through the door on the right-hand side of the house, the opposite end from the garage," Easter said. "They made their way down the hallway and held the fire to the attached garage." With only the 1,500 gallons of water that was carried in the three fire engines to work with, the firefighters tried to keep the fire at the end of the garage attached to the house under control and let the rest of the garage burn, Easter said. "The garage was pretty much gone when we got there. Engine 22 was the first on the scene and the garage was fully engulfed" in flames, he said. "A very, very good stop was made." The Mityas family lived in the house for 26 years, raising two daughters there. The fire appeared to be electrical, Bertalovitz said. The fire marshal and insurance inspector are still making an official determination. Adele Mityas is staying with her cousin, Sally Connolly, who lives three houses up the street from the Mityas' house. Mousa Mityas is staying with his sister. Their two daughters live in West Virginia and Oklahoma.

Engine Co. 26 is scheduled to open in Sept. The engine, a 2007 Pierce, was recieved in March and is currently being fitted w/ radios and other equipment. We also currently have 8 recruits in the academy that will help with the additional need for manning as well as fill in for recent retirements. More recruits may enter the next academy class in the fall. This engine co., which will cover the west side, has been talked about for well over 20 years and has finally become reality as the west side has seen tremendous growth. Its also the first time in over 40 years the Danbury FD has added manpower. An additional 4 LT.'s and 8 FF's will man the station. Here's a link to a picture of Eng. 26. http://dfdagroup.tripod.com/imagelib/siteb...;target=tlx_new

Sterling is a company that makes some of the best rescue ropes and they have several bailout ropes made specifically for the fire service. But, more important than the rope is the proper training on how to use it. Get yourself into a firefighter survival class and all your questions will be answered.

Another quick and easy way to get used to sliding the pole is to put on a harness and have some other guys run a belay line from the top. This way you can have total control of yourself all the way down but will be backed up by the rope if you lose control. My Dept. started training probies like this after we had some serious injuries including one guy breaking both ankles.

Partyrock.... leaving your gear in the rig while out on a detail is not a problem, that's just like being at the firehouse. My point was about trying to put on bunker pants in the apparatus while in motion. I just think the smart thing to do is wear your pants while riding and put your coat on if you need to respond somewhere, trying to stay strapped in as much as you can. That Captain getting killed so close by 2 weeks ago changed my attitude toward seatbelts after 18 years of never, ever wearing one in an apparatus..... it's a pain in the a$$ but maybe one day it'll save my a$$.

x710, personally I wear my gear, or atleast my pants everytime I leave the house, call or not. There isnt much room in the back of an apparatus to try and get dressed, stopping to get dressed for a call is an unnecessary delay, plus after attending the funeral of a brother up in Waterbury Ct who died from his injuries after being ejected in an apparatus accident, I believe the safest and smartest thing for all of us to be doing is wearing our seatbelts. I agree that on days like today is does get a bit warm and sticky in the gear, but it's all part of the job.

Our uniform regs name two specific brand/model of shorts we're allowed to wear on duty, however, while wearing shorts, we are required to wear our bunker pants on all calls, EMS included. But now that I think about it, I have yet to see any medics on the street wearing shorts. Not sure what they're rules are.

I think antiquefirelt said it best.... the FAST/RIT should be proactive in making the scene safe: removing bars/locks, clearing exit points, ensuring additional means of egress off the roof and upper floors, doing whatever they can to protect the brothers inside. But while doing this, they always remain ready to respond to an emergency. However, I do know of instances where the FAST has been put to work on the line, and it was done basically out of necessity. An all volunteer department had a daytime fire, and on this particular day their manpower just wasn't making it to the scene. So when the initial attack crew had to come out, there was noone to back them up, except the FASTeam standing on the lawn. So they took over fire attack while another team was called in. Im just hoping that departments out there that have manpower issues are anticipating problems like this and are getting mutual aid on the road quickly, for their own protection.

check out the video of this mess: http://newstimes.com/news/updates.php?id=1031522

I agree with 20y2, it is pathetic that it's the biggest story on every news report. Three more Marines lost their lives today in Iraq....... anyone hear about that? Probably not.