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Any vehicle with a pump whether it's an engine or truck is required to be tested annually to maintain the applicable the ISO credit. EKUColonelFF is right, replacing an existing apparatus with a quint will typically effect your ISO rating. ISO will rate a quint as either one of two things. 1 engine and 1/2 ladder OR 1 ladder and 1/2 engine. For anyone interested, more information on ISO can be found at http://www.isomitigation.com/ or http://www.isoslayer.com/.

This is also the reason that most of the Westchester designations are "7". IE: Tanker 7, Rescue 7 & and Ladder 77 (an old Glenville ladder truck) aka GFD Station 4.

BMFD get's it!

What three Westchester County Departments respond to other counties as part of their primary response area (not under mutual or automatic aid)? For bonus points, what are the other town(s) within these counties they cover? All three are assigned Westchester department and vehicle ID's.

While I'm not disagreeing with this statement, just playing devil's advocate. It is also proven that an electronic siren on wail produces the widest spread of sound on the audio spectrum. This could also be argued in court for the same reasons described. I personally think that anything with a Q should also have an electric as a backup as anything mechanical is more prone to fail thn electric. Case in point, you just get finish washing the engine and get sent out on another run. The outside air temperture is below freezing. It's very possible that the moisture in the Q will freezw up rendering the siren useless. It happened to us twice this season so far. Again, I'm not saying I'm an opponent of the Q. Just playing devil's advocate.

What are we all complaining about??? Winter is still eight days away.

The county should supply what type of utility? Somers for example has 3 designated utility numbers all used for different purposes: Utility 5 - Ford F350 with a utility body used for fire police. Also carries portable pumps trash pumps, a generator and can carry equipment back from a fire scene so it can be washed down in (this time of year) warmer environments. Utility 34 - E350 Mini bus. SCUBA vehicle. Carries all scuba equipment and (in this time of year) ice rescue equiptment. Utility 35 - Chevy Astro van to transport people to and from classes. Somers also has an EMS utility (80U4) GMC Yukon, for use as a first responder vehicle as it exceeds the New York State Department of Health guidelines for an EMS vehicle.

PD requested us also, as they do every time a tree falls down or a traffic light is out. I do understand these were extreme circumstances but, it's not fair either when we're out there for hours on end being taken advantage of and not getting paid for it.

Isn't that what the cops are for? They always claim that they're in charge of the road.

Lalli Dr. incident was a chimney fire w/ heavy fire load. Apparatus response: ENG 181, 18 TRUCK, ENG 180, ENG 188, ENG 186, ENG 183, 80B2, Car 2442. ENG 186, ENG 186 diverted to Heritage Hills job with auto aid from Croton Falls FD ENG 148.

DFFD, if that button isn't there that CG describes, don't be alarmed. The playback feature is an option on the Minitor pagers. Yours may not have it.

Buchanan received $22,160

If it wasn't for you we wouldn't have been there. Or was it your sidekick? :roll:

The moral of this story is Lincoln Navigators and trees don't get along. Tree 1, Lincoln Navigator 0.

The other departments that received grants earlier this year were: White Plains for $62,069, Yonkers for $161,677, Mount Kisco for $85,500 and Village of Mamaroneck for $129,145. All were awarded the grants for the catagory of "fire operations and firefighter safety".

At approximately 1000Hrs this morning, Yorktown Heights FD was dispatched to (2727?) Evergreen Street w/ c/s of Wheat Ln for a smoke condition inside the structure. Yorktown PD later reported fire outside the structure. Upon arrival of Car 2533 a 10-75 was trasmitted. Mutual aid responses were Bedford Hills Ladder 57 (FAST), Somers Engine 186 to work, County Car (Bat. 17), C&O 1404 and Yorktown EMS

It was purchased from Larchmont FD. Over the 25 years own by Somers it had a roof added to the cab. It was repowered from an aging gasoline powered engine to a diesel and power steering was added. With the purchase of the current ladder 18 in 2001, the ALF was traded in for use in a private collection.

Case in point: The Town of Mount Pleasant which consists of Pleasantville, Thornwood, Hawthorne and Valhalla Fire Dept's. Each has a tower ladder. I'm sure they all have their reasons for having a tower. With out getting into the straight stick vs tower battle, I don't understand the logic when there might be circumstances that you want that stick and there are none to be found in the immediate area. We're going to be getting a rescue truck soon. I've heard many opinions that a cascade should be on there. Would we use it if we had it, yes. Is it justified when 5 of your mutual aid departments have one and chances are one of them will be there if there's on incident that large? I'd say no free up that room for other equiptment, something that you might be able to give back to your mutual aid depts.

In 1976, Somers FD purchased a 1950 ALF 700 ladder truck. What department, also in Westchester County, was it purchased from?

I can vouch for the problems RES20CUE speaks of. The backward pump valves cause the pump on a brush truck to blow apart. When the Seagrave rep was told about the A/C wired into the emergency lighting master switch, the reply was it's supposed to be that way so it goes through the load manager. Other problems include the trendle valves needing to be replaced on both engines. It's not intentional bashing, just relaying the problems experienced.

Hard to tell by the size of the avitar but looks like a Maxim.

I personally use this one. It's easy to use and take high quality pictures. My only recomendation would be to get a larger memory card. The OEM is only 32 MB. By jumping up to a 256MB you can get 99 pictures on the card at the highest resolution. I would definately shop around regardless of what you get. On the Canon S50 I saved about $100 by going to the city as opposed to one of the "big box" stores.

As you may have seen here in other threads, Somers is far from happy with Seagrave in recent endeavors. So to answer your question, it will not be a Seagrave.