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    A Gift from NYCFire.net

    A blast from the past! Good to see you post, Catry!
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    Los Angeles Brush Fire 1/7/25

    I've done several ride along's with LA City in the past, 1990's to 2000, and they wear the brush jackets a lot. They issued me a brush jackets when rode with them but I also had my structural gear. For the most part, they are hitting it hard from the yard on most of these incidents. Once it...
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    LA Mayor rejects FDNY help

    Put outside resources in LA firehouses and let the locals fight the brushfires.
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    Los Angeles Brush Fire 1/7/25

    400 series are reserve engines. 200's are active companies that have one driver and are attached to truck companies to create the light force or add an engine to create a task force. The 200's they will add officer and two firefighters to beef up resources.
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    Los Angeles Brush Fire 1/7/25

    They have been closing companies since 2008. Task Force houses cut to engine company only or Light Force only. Systematic reduction of service while the volume of calls for service increase.
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    Houston FD members came close to death as SCBA and gear began to melt in Flashover

    Does anyone have any info on that ReHire program they mentioned.
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    Philadelphia Engine #6 Back in Service 1/9/25

    Love to see closed companies reopen!
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    Los Angeles Brush Fire 1/7/25

    A little bit about the financial and insurance side of this calamity. The responsibility of this disaster lies in the lap of Gavin Newsom and Ricardo Lara who happens to be the commissioner of Insurance for the state of California. For the past 8 years the top 20 companies doing business in the...
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    1/5/25 Manhattan All Hands 10-77 Box 0797

    Big Fire, Send Both Trucks! Heard it with my own ears 1977!
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    Merry Christmas

    Merry Christmas all! Elwood aka CFDMarshal
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    Chicago apparatus

    The problem with Chicago can be boiled down to one person, Brandon Johnson. An absolute poor excuse of a mayor. He has surrounded himself with characters of similar quality. What you see is what you get with such a defunct administration. Years of robbing Peter to pay Paul and focusing on...
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    NYPD.

    I hear he wants to study computers...........
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    Notre Dame to Reopen After Fire

    I was fortunate enough to visit in July 2014! Massive and I wondered then, as I normally do, how they would fight a fire in such a massive open structure that also had difficult access.
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    NYPD.

    Never ceases to amaze me!
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    Pittston Township, Luzerne County PA , Unusual Incident 11/29/24

    Agree, I would not have operated unless the scene was secure.
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    Pittston Township, Luzerne County PA , Unusual Incident 11/29/24

    What was the reason for cutting the male out? Deceased?
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    FDNY Training Tips 2024-97: Vehicle Explosion in Queens

    Can anyone post the doorbell link? The one highlighted cannot open.
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    Knoxville TN Fire Destroys Administration Building at Knoxville College 11/4/24

    It was a run down large building. My guess was KFD was defensive from arrival. vacant and not currently in use.
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    Norwich, Ct 3rd Alarm House Fire 11/5/24

    Great little video, good stop on what looks like a balloon frame.
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    Two departments plan to leave North Bergen Regional Fire

    Consolidation is a good thing when the politics and ego's are kept out of the equation. If consolidation is not an option then a good automatic aid agreement is the next best thing. Most areas are starved of staffing so extra companies are having to respond just to get a proper initial fire...
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