Recent content by entropychaser

I'll bet EMS has tougher runs then that. Last week in Houston...1400hrs in the afternoon...school day....102 degrees out...HFD had 87 active incidents in progress...couple of building fires winding down, 8-10 still alarms; everything else EMS. The most recent on the list was an EMS call in far...

I vaguely remember that FDNY released a review of ERS-no contact response policy history from years ago. And I vaguely remember that over "thousands" of no contact alarms, there were five (5) actual fires; all of which were reported by telephone within 200 seconds after receipt of the ERS signal.

Heaven knows why, but Chicago purchased a 135' Morita aerial on a Hendrickson chassis in 1975 (Shop# E-197). It was quartered at Truck Company One on S. Wells St. in the Loop. They got rid of it in 1987 due to unsafe riding positions. Shortly after they got the rig the Captain of Truck One...

Is it too late to get on the bus (and I'll even pay the fare)? Asking for a friend.

Did the bus driver lock the doors and get a head count first?

Before WWII, the London Fire Brigade had living quarters for families and a bar- obviously modeled on Royal Navy traditions. In WWII the Eighth Air Force (and likely others) had "medicinal" alcohol rations for bomber crews after a mission. My father didn't drink so he gave his issue to his...

That elk hunting camp is getting crowded. Hope they don't run out of whiskey........

Up and around the corner on W. 151st St, on the right, almost to Amsterdam Av.....Fitzpatrick and Frisby LODD...46 years ago.

Sure...that's one way to tilt the playing field in someone's favor; or against another. You think Scott's electrical and systems engineers are incapable of producing a DC electrical circuit with a different power source?

Lol! As I described, the specs can be written in such a way so as to get one or more vendors off the playing field: and the earlier in the process, the better. In the event this is being done, it looks like it is working to perfection.

Perhaps the correct thought is: will FDNY regret not getting Scott equipment? How do we know if the specs on the scba request for proposal weren't written in a way to freeze Scott out? It's a classic technique to "direct" the winning bid to a desired vendor. There's a million ways to do it and...

There's a rattlesnake under every rock. https://forum.pakira.com/t/what-we-know-about-the-12-burn-victims-in-the-midcoast-lumber-mill-fire/6183 https://www.penbaypilot.com/article/line-duty-death-report-firefighters-finalized-regarding-robbins-lumber-explosion/273189

Analysis of data reveals that the highest swimmer fatality rate in the Rockaways happens at the beach area opposite TA stations. All of those dopes coming out from the City must think that the Atlantic Ocean is kinda like the shallow end of the pool down at the "Y".