Collapse PODS

[tbendick 27]

FDNY has placed in service 10 Collapse PODS (Portable on Demand Storage) with 2 Mack transport trucks.

The PODS contain shoring lumber, Metal and concert saw blades and a cutting table with templates. No tools are contained in the PODS.

Collapse PODS are deployed as follows.

POD 1 @ The rock with Roll-off 1.

POD 2 @ Engine 332

POD 3 @ Engine 92

POD 4 @ Fort Totten

POD 5 @ Ladder 79 with Roll-off 5.

POD 6 @ EMS Station 4

POD 7 @ Ladder 102

POD 8 @ EMS Station 18

POD 9 @ Squad 270

POD 10 @ EMS Station 22

The Mack trucks have been designate Roll-off 1 and Roll-off 5. Roll-off 1 located at the Rock and Roll-off 5 located at Ladder 79. The Mack trucks are the same trucks used by sanitation for transporting Dumpsters and can be used as needed.

[x635 4,066]

Thanks for the info! Are these the ones new and the ones the Granite chasis that I heard were being built a while back? Seen any photos yet??

I'm a big fan of the Granite chasis, and these must look hot painted and lettered for FDNY.

Besides the superficial reasons, it's a really neat concept. I wonder if there are any other POD plans beyond Collapse, like Hazmat? Also, who built the pods??

[tbendick 27]

I'm a big fan of the Granite chasis, and these must look hot painted and lettered for FDNY.

Seth,

The PODS look like a dumbster with a roof on it. There are ten around the city for deployment. There are only two macks in the city. One at the Rock and one in SI.

[mstrang1 213]

I remember reading in Fire Engineering or Firehouse a few years back about a FD somewhere that bought a bunch of these Pods and loaned them to homeowners after a fire to store all their salvagable properties. Was a good PR move, figure no one else does it because of cost.

Another Dept I saw had several boxes for different areas of special ops. ie 1 box for trench, 1 for high angle, 1 for collapse, etc. and depending on the call they put a different box on the truck and went. Makes it cost efficient bc you only maintain 1 vehicle and get 3 or 4 "different vehicles" out of it.