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Alarm levels, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc. were originally established to dispatch a predetermined number of specific companies to a specific location, and to make predetermined relocations, all by sending one telegraph signal. Each additional alarm essentially multiplied the 1st alarm response...

If you don't have any agreement beforehand, you cannot expect, guaranty, or even know what you'll get, if anything at all.

Some mutual aid agreements include provisions for reimbursement of expenses and for insurance liability.

Great engineering estimate. Cost effectiveness as measured by purchase cost divided by number of times used is just one method of determining value. The easiest way to make aerials more cost effective by this approach is to have more fires. Many devices have a specific, critical utility. Some...

In an AVL system, an available unit is assigned based on its actual location. In a non-AVL system, an available unit is assigned (and becomes unavailable) and replaces another unit, making that unit available. The unavailability of the relocator is concurrent with the availability of the...

Most GPS based CAD programs give companies that are on the air a 20 to 60 second response time advantage because their turn out time is zero. This translates to approximately 1/2 mile less travel time. If the CAD sees two companies, one in the firehouse and the other sitting outside on the...

Although Baltimore County has a combined fire department, career stations and volunteer stations are separate. In 1992, the County established career Medic 58 on the Back River Neck peninsula, already served by 3 volunteer fire companies, so 58, a career unit, was placed in its own quarters.

Engine 10 was disbanded in 1986 when they were combined with Ladder 28 as Aerial Tower 128, later as Engine 128. 128 was disbanded in 2000 and the house was closed. Bethlehem Steel Corp had its own fire department until 1987, numbered as Company 51 in Baltimore County. Baltimore County...

Start on page 186 of this thread. The 8 pages that follow contain loads of information and articles about E15, E17, & L18 and its members from the earliest days. https://www.nycfire.net/forums/threads/fdny-and-nyc-firehouses-and-fire-companies-2nd-section.50639/page-186

Dinner with Bernie (r) and his traveling companion Dan McCarthy at the IFBA Convention in Milwaukee 2023 as they attended as delegates for NYCFire.net. Bernie was first spotted attending IFBA Conventions in the late 1950's, when they began. He was 93.

Just out, the Winter Spring 2024 issue of Turn Out. https://ifba.org/turnout-magazine/

Here is 2023 Milwaukee Convention Issue of Turn Out. https://ifba.org/turnout-magazine/

There was no report of 254/153 moving through the 15th. Did they just move in the last few days?

Medic 80 has also been added.

February 13, 1975, North Tower 'A', 11th floor, electrical, Box 67 at 2358. Yearbook, pub. 2000, by Paul Hashagen