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161 is 4th due to all the Park Hill Ave buildings.......

So like it or not....FDNY is just like any other FD.....EMS, Smells and Bells and an All Hazards response agency that occasionally goes to fires......Actual structural, non structural and All Hands or greater account for roughly 8-15% of an FDNY units work. The numbers don't lie.......

The list is pretty dynamic and constantly changing as people retire and get promoted and the job expands or changes roles etc......Most people on the job have no idea who does what anymore or who and what Car ## is.....so for buffs to try to keep up is even more ridiculous.....

Despite what you see posted here.....which is all rumor and gossip for the most part despite what certain people think......there is no official response policy or guidelines for use of this rig.......It will end up being utilized less then the original Superpumper......

210 is still 1st due .....still the augmented response with 207 2nd due taking the Sattelite and R2 still on box but that may change since the yard comes in daily now and the move to the new quarters.

Unfortunately things are not progressive like that in NYC for a multitude of reasons too numerous to list here......just because an organization is the biggest and busiest does not make them the best or most progressive.......

Well considering there are only about 50 EMS members trained as part of the MHAT or whatever they are calling the program and cannot run a daily complement of units for 911 and there are 200+ OOS trucks daily awaiting repairs who knows what is really going on.....Nobody here that is for sure.

And once you cross Clove and Howard 78 and 79 are in the mix also

The 2nd piece responds behind the primary......The blue lights are a major distraction and that is most likely why no blue on back.....

The barge was off of Great Beds Light which is basically where the Raritan River, Raritan Bay and the Arthur Kill meet. between South Amboy, Perth Amboy and Staten Island.....FDNY assistance was requested when Perth Amboy Marine 5 had mechanical issues.....

Numbers game....straight up.....90-95% of incidents are mitigated by the HMTU Engine or Squad Company. It was brought up numerous times over the years to allow HMTU's to operate independently and HM Ops always said no.....

it should have been a 10-18.......ridiculous

The TF is only dispatched upon direction of a Staff Chief. Smaller details are used for pre planned events.

Latest name is someone from FDNY Foundation......

Within a roughly 1/2 mile radius of the intersection of Clove and Victory you can have 5 different engines and 4 different trucks 1st due to boxes and not be on 1st alarm 3 blocks away. Just the nature of the geography and responses around there.

There have been several incidents over the last few years where buffs and members on the job have posted things in real time on social media sites, group me app and other places about injured members, maydays and other sensitive information on incidents and evolving incidents that were taken...

yea Marine 9 and Marine Battalion

The department has known for a while they needed to replace the foam tender. One of the ideas was for all 6 of the new sattelites to be industrial pumpers. to give a more robust foam capability. That was around the time they were introducing the AFFF gold as the replacement foam job wide. But...

The other half of this policy is no more alarms above a 5-5.......back to old days of S/C above the 5-5 if additional units are needed. Feelings areound 7th and 8th floor are we cannot put out fires anymore and 7-7, 8-8 ans 9-9 are negative connotations....

161, 214 and 16 all arrived simultaneously within 6 seconds of each other which is the same as 159, 165 and 161 normally down there.....it was rush hour and raining. Does it really matter who got there in what order?