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    Army Ranger Legend and Last Living Korean War Medal of Honor Recipient Ralph Puckett Dies at 97

    I sure hope they still make them like that.
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    FDNY 6 LODD'S - BRONX 4TH ALARM - 3RD AVENUE COLLAPSE- 4/4/1956

    Thanks for relating your own story of this tragedy. It's always tough for kids to learn that bad things happen in their lives and even their loving parents can't always stop them from happening. It is also a great demonstration of the Swiss cheese model of accident evaluation. This is often...
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    The old Bangor Ladders

    https://guardiansofthecity.org/sffd/events/65_ladder/index.html
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    Syracuse NY Police Officer & Sheriff's Deputy Killed

    https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2024/04/09/houston-officers-shoot-two-people-during-shootout-near-highway-290/
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    Syracuse NY Police Officer & Sheriff's Deputy Killed

    This is the second episode in the last week- same ending. https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2024/04/14/suspect-killed-in-police-shootout-near-fm-1960/
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    Franklin, VA Fire in Peanut Butter Factory 4/13/24

    There goes two minutes of your life you'll never get back.
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    Franklin, VA Fire in Peanut Butter Factory 4/13/24

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    Stop pretending you have a fire department.

    Reinforcements: Better to be looking at them, than looking for them.
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    Stop pretending you have a fire department.

    Automatic aid is the magic phrase for ISO ratings.
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    Stop pretending you have a fire department.

    This could happen anywhere, any time! Life can be cruel, and we can't always get what we want. I've been in life or death situations that were way over my head and the cavalry was NOT on the way. It's a miserable, humbling experience. All you can do is the best you can do. Say a prayer for...
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    Quints are majority of Aerial builds says manufacturer

    One more thing that make all aerials less cost effective is; Most buildings are one story Most fires are on the first story You can thank Benford's Law for this (which you need to keep in mind when you fill out your lottery numbers)! Mathematics is everything
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    Quints are majority of Aerial builds says manufacturer

    I completely agree and had already done the cocktail napkin calculation (like the engineers who designed the B-52). In 2023 FDNY had 23,487 structural fires (?) but 2057 serious (all-hands or greater) fires. Assume two aerials deployed per fire and 120 aerial devices available: The average...
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    Quints are majority of Aerial builds says manufacturer

    Thanks. To clarify the denominator then; how many structural fires does the average FDNY ladder operate at a year where the aerial/tower is used?
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    Quints are majority of Aerial builds says manufacturer

    Does the FDNY (or any other department) have any statistics on how often an aerial ladder is raised at a structural fire? Decades ago I seem to remember the number 8%.
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    Simple move.

    The late Mercury/Apollo astronaut Alan Shepard said the thing that scared him the most about being shot into outer space was that everything he was riding on was the lowest bidder.
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