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Busy few days for 50th Battalion!

Oh wow is that place still there? I remember driving by whenever we were heading to see family who lived about a mile away. Always wild to see it in mid-summer still all done up.

My brother always had his scanner on local PD frequencies in Westchester since they'd be first onscene to any 911 or similar call. Id say a good 80% of the time he'd be out the door and in his car rolling to the station or the incident site before 60 Control toned out the department.

I'd much prefer to hear that than anything nefarious.

A bunch of major metro areas and interurban rail carriers, primarily in Japan/Europe use the "open car" passthru design. My experience has been that MUs are capped at 4 or 6 car consists between hard stop endpoints. Max consist is usually 8 cars in this format in Europe but is much longer in...

Better the rig than the members or occupants!

Interesting, I didn't know about that location. Wild to see just how much apparatus FDNY keeps on ice "just in case", that many rigs is a fleet larger than most cities on its own! Streetview from June 2022 also shows an old Mack Searchlight rig hiding in there as well

Sad to see, hopefully the skipper has good insurance. Yard time is the most dangerous time for fires

Pretty tight fit thru the door!

Apologies for the necropost but after doing a deep dive into the cast and crew of The Right Stuff I was very surprised and saddened to hear that Jane Dornacker, the hardassed nurse in the early training sequences of the film met her end in the East River this way. Well done to the members who...

Got it right into the driveway while also being considerate and laying out the line for the guys inside. 10/10 execution! Hope that department wears brown bunker gear pants.

Yep back in the big "Snowvember" storm when the southern burbs got 8ft of lake effect snow a few years ago. That was a wild thing to witness, my front yard got about 4 inches while less than 2 miles away they were getting feet upon feet

Coulda used one of those rigs driving back and forth from from Buffalo to scenic Ashatbula, OH today. Pennsyltucky was a nightmare from border to border as usual.

Awful to read

https://www.nycfire.net/forums/threads/1-9-22-bronx-5th-alarm-10-77-box-3162.68759/

Where is the Port Authority in all this too? They have more than enough $$ to buy all sorts of fancy rigs for the bridges and tunnels, why do they only provide a police presence at their largest property? Or require terminal operators to maintain their own firefighting fleet? Newark FD was...

Grifters gonna grift I guess....

Pierce seems the odd man out in the last bunch of years, did they stop bidding altogether or just stop with super-individual spec rescues like FDNY requires? Obviously if R1's old rig is/was working as R6 they built a quality product

Hope the worker is ok, but if there are no stairs how do you know how many flights he fell? If there are no stairs, are there flights? Sorta sounds like a fortune cookie