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Ha! Talking people in to going? Let's just say that if I have twenty minutes to argue with you over it then you can't be in that bad of shape. I'm not opposed to RMAs when appropriate which is, lets face, it a lot. 25 year old male with stomach ache, "my wife will follow us up in my car". Nope, she can drive you then. I'm an EMT-B, I don't have any wonder drugs or therapy to give you, just air and stare. When there is a stubborn patient that I'm concerned about I usually go to the husband/wife/mother etc. and appeal to them to convince them.

I tend to agree with you, I don't know how other departments operate but for us an AFA brings out full turnouts, SCBA, tools, standing by FDC, hydrant, etc. If we disregard the alarm to the point that we don't really care to send out apparatus, then why bother at all? Don't even page the vollys, landline the chief/shift command and have him take his $30,000 car over instead. I always heard the same thing about complacency and treating everything as true until proven otherwise. Captain Nechis, I am not doubting your experience and statistics, I know you know what you're talking about and I haven't been in this business that long. However, in the short time that I have been, I've seen more than a handful of "routine" alarms to the senior citizen apartments and the colleges turn out to be working incidents. I don't think you need five engines and two trucks screaming code 3 to everything either. My department sends only the first two apparatus lights and sirens. I also think a lot of things FDs go code 3 for are ridiculous, i.e brush fires, elevator emergencies, 95% of EMS calls, etc. We all know dumb the public can be especially at reporting incidents and I won't be the guy who took the elevator to the "false alarm" floor and got thrown on his a** for it, I'll have the high rise pack on the stairs.

I never realized you could drive up Mt. Beacon, I thought that was closed to the public. I've hiked the highlands a lot down there by Breakneck, beautiful views.

Trust me, you do NOT want a Trailblazer as a Chief's car. They are glorified Chevy Cavaliers. Maybe Archville isn't that busy, I'm not familiar with the Dept but put any amount of stress on that car and you'll wish you spent the extra $$ on the Tahoe.

Wow. Hope the member is ok. Also hope they nail this jackass to the wall.

Rockland Haz-Mat has their own engine?

I'm pretty sure he was simply referring to the color, not the usefulness or budget of the fire department.

This is gospel to me right now. You couldn't be more right.

The Beekman unit sitting at the town highway garage?

Maybe he should sue his father for signing him up. Or Bic for manufacturing the pen he signed the injury waiver with. Or maybe he should realize that as sad as his case is, tragedies happen. I guess as a Little League coach I should retain an attorney just in case.

Pay me enough to live and I'd do it. A report released by the Journal of Emergency Services last year found that basic EMTs across the country earned between $18,354 to $65,840. That doesn't mean you should pay the median either...

Brand new construction next to existing church.

There is a golf cart shop on Taft Ave by the bowling alley.

What I was trying to express is what antiquefirelt said to a T. You can paint class one all over your rigs but it doesn't necessarily mean you're doing everything right. What happened in Charleston could feasibly happen anywhere. I'm not putting that fire or those poor guys on trial.

ISO standards include water supply, staffing, etc. My point is that is that if you can use booster lines and 2.5" supply hose and be a class one, then I'm not really impressed by that credential. I'm very new at this pump operator stuff, but I can not even fathom laying in to a fire of that size (that late) with 2.5". I would have an impending doom feeling in my stomach.

Tragic. For everyone out there who swears by ISO...You can take your class one dept with your 1" rubber booster "attack" lines and keep it, I'd rather be a part of a class 10 department that offers hoods, 5" supply and 2.5" attack.

32-96 is the MTO (Training Captain) car, GMC Suburban, looks like this: http://www.arlingtonpffa.org/PICS/RIGS/3289%20(Medium).jpg 32-91 is the fire inspector, 32-97 is the mechanic/fuel truck.

No better pictures I know of. Courtesy of http://www.arlingtonpffa.org

What's a brush truck?

Yeah, IIRC we had 3 BLS w/4 or 5 medics, Lagrange 47-72, PV 56-79 to the scene. PV rerouted to standby at HQ. Alamo and Transcare on standby.

Really? We called a Level One last week and got 5 ambulances, with two on standby in our stations. Unless they upgraded to a two and it wasn't in the CAD.

I heard school bus w/ 4 cars, 32-5 on scene requesting level one MCI, AFD 32-73,72,71,86,87,85,88,89,17,52,13, Lagrange 47-72. Pleasant Valley relocate one ambulance to AFD HQ. That was last i heard before I stopped listening.

Does Empire have ANYTHING going on for them besides Putnam?

It's terrible what these guys have to go through, hopefully the feds leave them alone. God knows the civil suit from The Rev and his cronies will be bad enough as well as probably losing their jobs. It's a shame how cops are treated like criminals for doing their jobs.

Everything that can be invented has been invented. Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. patent office, 1899 (attributed) Not to be closed minded but doesn't it seem like most of the new fire service tools are uncreative rehashes of things we already use? And most don't catch on? Or am I as short sighted as Mr. Duell? I guess for every cheap plastic multi tool that flops there's a Denver tool or even going back a Halligan.