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House fire in Amelia National, Fernandina Beach Florida. 4/20/2022 A mile up the road from my house Nassau County FL fire department responded. Cause lithium battery in garage Two dogs killed and one cat missing. You will need to scroll to the top of the post to see the video...

Not your usual FDNY "Keep Back 200 Feet"

Burmont Road and Bloomfield Avenue Four people, including an infant, were injured when a medical helicopter crashed near a church in the Drexel Hill section Three adults including the pilot and crew members were aboard the chopper in route to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)

Regarding the KME pumpers -- How do they do on the job? Do they work well? Do the members like them? I have seen very few negative comments. When Ferrara was producing the rear mounts there were negative comments week after week

South side    200 block of W 58 St. ABC 7 Chicago chopper is over the fire.  Multiple story wood frame home is burning. The chopper turns to the right and goes a few blocks over and another building is fully involved looks like a commercial...

Not far from my house to the south of airport https://www.news-press.com/picture-gallery/news/2020/04/04/fire-airport-fort-myers-smoke-southwest-florida-international-rsw/2946234001/ Check under NATIONAL for more information

Get those sticks up!! Boston FD surrounds building with for sticks and one tower ladder https://twitter.com/BostonFire/status/1231569763861700608 Click on the first picture  ;)

3-11 8500 Vincennes https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/1/14/21066693/sunrise-transportation-gresham-fire-hazmat-vincennes-no-injuries

https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2018/12/21/fire-crews-respond-to-building-collapse-in-north-philadelphia/

Found this information in an article in Fire/Rescue written by Bob Vaccaro in 2008. Maybe someone has more updated info  :) FDNY Fleet Services More than 2,100 vehicles 5 repair facilities ? 280 personnel $100 million budget $3 million parts inventory $6.5 million in repair parts issued...

Again according to Jack Lerch, KME has been awarded a contract to build one 2000 GPM high pressure pumper to replace a 2008 Seagrave Maurader in service at Engine 8. The other High Pressure pumpers are all Seagraves. Four are 2013(s) and 3 are 2014 according to Lerch.

As reported by Jack Lerch in the  July-August 2018 edition of Fire Apparatus Journal  KME has been awarded three separate purchase orders  for 82 new 2000 GPM pumpers. 2019    10 units 2020    47 units 2021    25 units Let's follow the deliveries as they come to NYC

I am finishing up making a wooden fire truck for the grand kids.  I  am lettering it for E274 our childhood fire company.  I am looking for FDNY logos about 1" tall    Any suggestions where I could get some ? ThanksI

I am finishing up making a wooden fire truck for the grand kids.  I  am lettering it for E274 our childhood fire company.  I am looking for FDNY logos about 1" tall    Any suggestions where I could get some ? Thanks

A small aircraft crashed into the woods in Bonita Springs Florida late this morning.  The crash site is in the southern  and eastern most part of Lee County, along the Collier County border. The area is about 1000 feet north of the eighth hole of the Bonita National Golf and Country Club...

Building fire in Chicago using the new snorkel of Squad 5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ--HT4g7NA Snorkel arrives around 7:50

Fire truck/ambulance combo Some departments around the world are using a fire truck and ambulance hybrids. The apparatus come equipped with a built-in ambulance in the middle, allowing crews to use just one vehcile to be prepared for a scene. The catch-all vehicle also comes with a special lift...

Southwest Florida  east of Naples The is a major fire burning in Collier County for the last two days.  I can see the smoke from my street 20 miles north. The fire is outh of the I 75 portion called Alligator Alley We saw crews travelling in batallions on I 75 south to Naples from Punta Gorda...

We certainly need rain in southwest Florida.  Sunday we had three major brush/wildfires in Lee.  Two were in Leigh Acres east of Fort Myers and the interstate 75. Some homes were scorched on the outside.  Plastic siding really curls from the heat.  No injuries from the fires. The other fire was...