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Another advantage of the Blitzfire and its Elkhart equivalent, is they also oscialte. You can set them up in a hallway, big box store, warehouse, haz mat enviroment etc, set it to oscialte, and walk away from it.

Dont think they have any concerns on spare parts. It's kind of like taking your personal car into the shop. They get to it when they get to it. My old dept had a EOne 100' rearmount. The main hydraulic swivel, that supplies the turntable for the lift and extension cylinders failed. Drove it to...

I believe Paul is no longer with them, according to his Facebook page. Or at least active. I seem to remember him posting his last trip on the tiller.

California can't catch a break.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/14/us/la-fire-department-resourses-understaffed-invs/index.html

I remember back in the 80s, when Dinkins got.in office and he closed a bunch of houses. Including E294. They hadn't even taken the engine back to the shops yet, and 7 people were dead within a 2 week time frame from when the doors closed. All within a roughly 5 block circle around the station.

It's an air ride suspension, and with the suspension bags full, the unit is taller then the bay door. So they have to empty the suspension bags so the unit fits in the building.

I worked in Fl, and had 2 sets of gear. 1 structural set and a brush set. The brush set is more of a light jacket and pants made out of like nomex or similar. Very similar to what they are wearing in the picture.

In other news, the Cali gov accepted help from Mexico. LA mayor allegedly turned down FDNY help. Jetblue offered to pay for FDNY crews flights...

Some video from a M/A unit https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1EyT56iSGS/

Could be. It has the drone community up in arms. There pi*****. It gives the rest of us responsible operators a bad name.

1 of the 2 super scoopers was grounded. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1KEV8mXUoM/

Right. That's what I was referring to. On paper when they say ohh the FD budget is higher now then before, but in reality its not.

Ahh. The media sources. On the brightside at least they got the location correct.

I saw a report yesterday I think, where they were saying that the FD budget actually increased because the ff union was still negotiating at the beginning of the budget year but finalized after the fact. At that point the budget went up to negotiated raises etc. HOWEVER The telling numbers...

Ahh. Makes sense.

Under the 5th alarm, what's TA 76?

What probably hurts even more, is the personal items at the stations the crews had in their lockers. Like pictures, religious items... and that doesn't even count personal vehicles etc

When you look at the numbers of engines deployed, 297, compared to FDNYs Frontline units, it's about double the number of engines FDNY fields on the average day. Just to this 1 fire.

Firewire Facebook page around noonish had audio of someone requesting manpower for looters. Click on the picture https://www.facebook.com/share/v/19rQVLtZRD/