E-38VMFD

100% agreement. Westchester's 911 system is very ALS dependent, whether its the utilization of ALS because its pretty much always available or if it is poor instruction to begin with Nothing like a serious call with no ALS available... BLS save!!

The avalanche has plates that say ESU (Emergency Services Unit?)

Any idea how many departments were there? from the looks of it, it took a little more than scarsdale fd

Troop 2 Mamaroneck, NY 2007

its the same as the "Q", Electronic "Q" and the air horn at the same time. I dont know if it confuses drivers but it makes a lot of noise

the steamlight fire vulcan has my vote, great light intensity with the tail lights and easy to use with bulky gloves

bailout rope could of helped

the real problem is that is doesn't suprise me

Whats the cigar cutter and lighter for, do you smoke on scene

Our department just conducted a drill, stressing seatbelts, full PPE and Haz-Mat and the fact is not many of us do use a seatbelt and we get dressed in the cab while responding. In relation to this car fire i read a story in a magazine about a FF who was assesing and sizing up a car fire with a chief waiting for the first due engine, he was in front of the car and without warning the hood strut exploded, traveled through the hood and clean through the FF's leg and PPE pants. Another instance: a senior man in my department was telling me about a car fire in a garage and the same incident occured, only the strut went through a concrete wall and continued down the street whizzing by our guys outside and coming to rest down the street

our ladder has a 45' bangor ladder just because of the sheer amount of power lines that prevent raising the stick

coat= ems gloves, dikes(wirecutters), knife, knit wool hat for winter, regluar structural gloves pants= 35' bailout rope w/ carabiner on the right, nomex hood and hand warmers on the left

Joke: What do you call a 1,000 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? A damn good start! Why won't a shark eat a lawyer? Professional courtesy. Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all week. What do you call a lawyer up to his neck in sand?> not enough sand

The other day at a drill, i was using one of those masks even though i don't like them, an i couldn't get a good seal on the mask, in a sense i was loosing more than using and that probably why. The other model is the greatest mask ever.