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Signal73

Signal73

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Fire Location: 3316 3rd Ave

Phone Alarm reporting fire on the 1st floor

Fire in a 1 story commercial auto repair shop

B-26 All Hands on Arrival

B-26 We have 1 L/S/O

D-6 Extra Engine & Truck above the All Hands

XCO we gave you L-27 if you need another Engine you need to transmit the next higher Alarm

D-6 hold off on that

D-6 AVFKD. Trucks still opening up. Primaries negative

D-6 PWH

E-50,92,71,73,82
L-19,44,31(Fast),55,27s/c
B-26,17
R-3
Sq-41
D-6
Rac-3

*L42 relocated to L136

Exposure:
1. Street
2. (5) Story Tenement
3. Unknown
4. (2) Story Commercial

Relocations:
Ladder 54 Act. Ladder 31

*Citizen App Photo*

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D-6 Extra Engine & Truck above the All Hands
XCO we gave you L-27 if you need another Engine you need to transmit the next higher Alarm

D-6 hold off on that (I needed another engine, but I'll just make what I already have work harder) This is heard more frequently over the radio. The unions should be all over this.
 
The Sixth Division probably wanted one engine as reserve just in case someone needed relief on a job he knew was contained. He also knew that transmitting a second alarm brings a total response that nearly rivals the wildebeest migration across the Serengeti Plain.

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Can someone with more insight fill me in on why this situation keeps happening?

Is it a pissing match between the chiefs and the dispatchers? Or chiefs with egos not wanting to call the next alarm?

In the end, it’s the members operating doing the grunt work getting caught in the middle of this.

Let another member go down due to a cardiac event and this is caught on the air during that incident, there’s going to be a lot of heads rolling.
 
Because you may want another engine and not need a full 2nd alarm assignment which brings an over abundance of resources that may not be necessary. Like 5 extra chiefs, drone unit, etc…
 
It's as simple as Dept policy vs. the judgement of the Incident Commander.

The IC was advised of the policy, and then made a judgement.

There is no indication that he overworked companies, doesn't care about FFs or has an ego problem. Sometimes a radio transmission is just a radio transmission.
 
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