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One of the 500 series. They tend to move around for 1 reson or another. I'll see if I can find it. Eta as of 2025 they may not have 1 anymore. When I looked at FDNYtrucks.com which is usually a pretty good indicator where the reserve engines are at least, there's no pictures of 1 there. Though...

Isn't there a Squad 800 now also?

A guess would be the admin district. Once you start with acting bcs, relocated bcs, it becomes complicated quick.

Thanks. I knew the basics of what colors belonged to what type of unit. Didnt realize the capts were a little different either. I wasn't sure when they adopted the specific colors for the specific units. Just got me thinking when I saw that scene in the movie. But then again 8 truck was shown as...

They got that wrong. The 3rd thing they got wrong is they showed 8 truck as a single house. The 2nd bay came down in 1913. 5 years later.

When did the current color version of helmet shields go into effect? For example white over black is an engine, red over black is ladder etc. I was watching Ghostbusters Frozen Empire, and they showed what allegedly is L8 responding in a horse drawn steamer, but the front pieces for 1908 were...

Oh I know. My uncle worked for Jamaica water, moved to the city when they were merged.or bought out or whatever, retired and still does pt work for city water. It doesn't stop in NY. Years ago we sent our ladder mutual aid to the next city south of us for a fire that ended up burning down...

Reason i ask is 5 inch soft supply maxes out at about between 1000 and 1250 gpms. Depends on what pressure is coming from the hydrant. Its what we use for our supply. The 6 inch hard suction, comes in at about 1500 gpms. The advantage on the hard suction is that you could pull water out of a...

Out of curiosity, what size is the 35' yellow hose? Looks like 5 inch to me. But I could be wrong.

I wouldn't preconnect it. Sounds good in theory but over time the gate in the intakes will leak and cause problems. Especially with city water. Our 5 inch gated intakes on the sides of our rigs, I could take the cap off drain it, grease it, replace the cap and by noon the dry side would be full...

Im assuming when you say hydrant connection, you mean hard suction? A lot of crews use the soft supply( the yellow 35 foot section) as personal preference. You dont have to be accurate on spotting and if done right is a lot faster then the hard suction. In this case, I would have run the 5 inch...

I would assume that if they knew it would have been removed. I vaguely remember something similar with the real q sirens back in the 90s when they were removed from the trucks.

Kind of surprised the shops are ok with the street sign over the grill. I can't swear to it but the reason the company numbers are on all the rigs now is for airflow. Too many companies added personalized numbers that apparently was restricting airflow and causing problems. So now there factory...

I've seen a few different videos from this fire. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/17BG2zJJMP/

According to FDNYTRUCKS.COM, there previous units have been 95s. Sorry duplicate answer