Extra One & One

Did they do away with the one week battalion aid course?

I agree with what you wrote. Automatic aid/line responses to a reported fire are very helpful. A county run department may be able to...

That’s a perfect explanation! I don’t believe FDNY has AVL active in dispatch; hence you hear the dispatchers asking units their exact...

Hang in there JA290. It’s times like this that I am happy to be retired. There are chiefs on the fire ground, chiefs (bosses) in your...

The whole “who should respond to a call?” will come to a rest once AVL is installed on the apparatus. Then dispatchers will be able to...

Good for you! It’s time to call out these blatant statements. Being a retired dispatcher I know how difficult it can be. Many moving...

Really ignorant statement! Do you really believe the dispatchers just assign who they wish? Do you think the FDNY as a whole would allow...

aren’t there a total of 4 ladders? 6 times 4 = 24. Not 36. What am I missing?

Perhaps I said that wrong. Only 1 Special Call engine but no limit on Special Call ladders.

On a side note, I believe the total manpower on a 10-75/All-Hands will be 68 members.

Thanks, I figured that was the case. I assume they will still be able to Special Call as many ladders as needed on the All Hands.

I’ve been following your replies. I am not clear on one thing, as for your understanding. A 10-75 signal will get 5 & 3. Will they...

I am familiar with everything you speak of. I remember doing all those evolutions in pump school! I will admit that it would take a lot...

On a main that size with 60 psi, a 2000 GPM pumper can pump 2500 to 2700 GPM albeit without a discharge pressure of more than about 100...