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

Can ic/fc or who ever call for a nearby box to be transmitted once they hit 5 alarms? I've heard that happen once or twice many years ago.

Apparently the US Senate has taken notice From Fire Rescue 1 https://www.firerescue1.com/fire-apparatus/apparatus-manufacturers-on-defense-at-senate-hearing

107 in a 75 foot spare? There normal unit is a 95.

The only real difference between a 2000 gpm pump and a 1000 is the number of intakes/discharges and the size of the intakes, along with the size/number of impellers. Everything else is still the same. Same size pump panel, pump compartment etc. If I had to guess it would have more to do with...

AFAIK it's real. It was posted by NYCFirewire on both Twitter and Facebook within the last 24 hours. The caption with it reads time to fix the potholes.

The post didnt have any details on what exactly happend. Not sure of they were at a call, returning etc when the ground opened up under them. But yeah, gravity doesn't take time off.

Sorry forgot the caption didnt come with the picrure. Apparently the rig fell into a sinkhole or a pothole.

Speaking of 170 ( courtesy of Firewires fb page)

I think and I could be wrong it was a R2 Capt or Lt that had some help from the Mayors office. Going on memory from a book I read. I remember that the officers spots in the rescues aren't taken lightly but dont remember the details off hand.

Ive seen videos before of chafeurs doing similar things on fores. Not sure how many 5 gallon pails or conatiners of foam FDNY engs carry but what they may have done was take the remaing foam from a used bucket or 2 and dump it into a fresh bucket to use it up. The foam pails we carried as spares...

They've been busy in the rm.

According to fdnytrucks.com website, there is a 85 Mack Baker 95 numbered as TL 12 on E3/Tl 12s page so a guess would be pretty 1985.

I think that what may play into FDNYs decisions on units, is the physical size of a given unit. Some tl companies that are in 75s for example can't go to 95s because the physical size won't fit in the bay or blocks the engine with it, (302/155) or can't make the turns coming out of qtrs...