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These days? Sunny Buffalo on NY's west coast. Prior to 2010, born and raised in Southern Westchester to a Theriot Ave Father and a fine lady from Bayside. Lived in Manhattan 6 years on W106th and spent 2 years working in Port Elizabeth as a 24/7 port agent for several shipping lines.

So I suppose the question has to be asked, there are tiller "heavy rescues" on the market and obviously FDNY has not sought them out but does anyone think there a chance of those making entry into the fleet in the future? The current rigs are just about as big as I would think they could be and...

I would have figured thats just the generic Bridgeport smell, but I would have been wrong I guess. Sorta like the Jersey Smell over by the Pulaski when you cross over from Kearny into Newark

So with the new reality of city streets, particularly those in Manhattan and Brooklyn cores being increasingly subdivided and blocked out for bus/bike lanes, it would seem Tillers are prime for a resurgence no? It already sounds hard enough for the units with 95ft towers to leave quarters, let...

I doubt it too, and the Fire Museum is not "affiliated" with FDNY as its a standalone operation and a 501c3, so FDNY has little official say in what happens to their operation.

I can see this working oh so well. Hopefully it dies in committee before even seeing the light of day. This is a country of law and order and deputizing random citizens, no matter how "well trained" is going to lead to very ugly results.

Ah NYC development, profit at any price. I hope the museum and the city go after the developer and their contractors for operating in a way that is causing adjacent buildings to be at risk of collapse

The 6th and final missing victim was recovered last week, also in their vehicle in the wreckage. https://www.keybridgeresponse2024.com/post/update-20-authorities-identify-sixth-victim-recovered-in-the-collapse-of-the-francis-scott-key-brid The large portion of the bridge draped over the bow of...

Towards the end of their run Code3 was turning out some very detailed models for their size. My brother had quite a collection at one time, he's been selling them off recently. I still have the Super Pumper set, they sit alongside my Revell Fire Fighter model. Thats in 1/87 but the scale...

1954-built C-54 Skymaster, military version of the DC-4. Sad to hear both pilots were lost in the crash, takes some real stones to fly 70 year old aircraft loaded to the brim with fuel into and out of remote Alaskan airfields.

A large portion of the remaining structure and scaffolding collapsed today, thankfully no injuries. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68850576

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68824189

Victim #4 was confirmed recovered today, hopefully the remaining 2 victims can be recovered soon

https://westchester.news12.com/fire-engulfs-3-cars-at-port-chesters-the-waterfront-shopping-complex

Interesting to see the inner workings of the rig. Its certainly very well designed for its purpose, I can't imagine it has many miles/hours on it. Is this one of the units being spec'd out in the next big rescue-style body order from Seagrave?

Its no small feat to untie a ship the size of the Harvey by yourself and still be able to jump aboard, I guess ya gotta give him credit for that I suppose. Hopefully the grounding didn't damage her

Quints are a sensible platform for smaller departments with fewer crews and tighter budgets. There's plenty that could be said about being the Jack of all trades, but the master of none when it comes to quints, but having a quint in many cases means that departments can cut down the overall...

We had a 3.8 here in Buffalo last year in the middle of the night. Didn't amount to much other than an unwelcome wake-up call, but I'll say with 100% certainty I'll never forget the sound of it. It was so loud it woke me up a second or two before it rattled our house as it rolled in from the SW...

USGS reporting it as a 4.8, centered 7km North of Whitehouse Station NJ https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma74/executive

In my own opinion, in this situatuion specifically above the special operations units there really isnt much else land based units could do other in the initial response beyond providing manpower. Once the SAR and initial fire prevention/structural concerns were addressed its become a plan and...