Collapse Rescue Task Force

[tbendick 27]

FDNY has now placed in service a Collapse Rescue Task force in each Boro.

The Task forces are as follows.

1. Rescue 1, Collapse Rescue 1 with Ladder 25

2. Rescue 2, Collapse Rescue 2 with Ladder 132

3. Rescue 3, Collapse Rescue 3

4. Rescue 4, Collapse Rescue 4 with Ladder 116

5. Rescue 5, Collapse Rescue 5

One Task force will be assigned on the the initial report of structural Collapse and scaffold emergency. Two Task forces will respond to reports of Trench Cave-in, Major Structural Collapse, and 10-60's.

Note. The Ladder 25, 116 and 132 are assigned to transport the collapse unit as they are stationed in the same house. Rescue 3 and 5 have the collapse units in quarters.

Collapse Rescue 1, 2, and 4 are the new units from Ferrara.

Collapse Rescue 3 is the old tractor unit.

Collapse Rescue 5 is an old Rescue unit converted

[Guest]

What is a 10-60?

[Guest WolfEMT]

What is a 10-60?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

10-60 is a major emergency in FDNY 10 lingo.

[Guest]

i dont understand whats the diffrence between the task force and the regular team is it more men more equipment or nothing diffrent. and do u think u can get some pictures of the pods and the mack roll off units

[JBE 328]

They are just calling it a task force. It's really the Rescue, the Collapse Unit, and the Truck company taking the Collapse unit.(Unless it's R-3 or R-5)

As for the 10-60, it's FDNY lingo for a Major Emergency. Airplane Crash(except at the airports) Train Derailment, MCI, Building Collapse. It's usually followed by two words from the Dispatcher. Usually Holy $%&* or Ahhhhh $%&*!!!!!

Edited August 17, 2005 by JBE

[Pudge3311 5]

JBE,

Why those two words? Does a 10-60 make you hate your job because it means lots of movement?

[Guest]

wow just noticed it so stanten island is actually geting a collapse unit, and it the mack salsubury rescue that was originally assigned to collapse 1? what about a spare are they going to use the ryder trucks still?

[JBE 328]

Haven't heard anything about spares, but at least SI has the Roll off rig so if RC-5 goes OOS, they at least have something close.

Pudge, it's more of a serious "Holy $&*%!!!!" in the sense that 10-60's don't get dumped very often. I can count maybe 10 that have been transmitted in my 8 years in the job. It doesn't make me hate the job, there are plenty of other factors that cause me to dislike aspects of the job, but you are correct in there is a LOT of movement. I don't have the response policy for a 10-60 in front of me but there's a lot of movement just on the transmission of it. It's a lot of units going at one time and then the subsequent relocations/backfilling. It's some serious sharpening of skills.