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Firefighters respond to fire at Seventh-day Adventist Church More photos here: Monroe County Fire Wire

It's hard to imagine what he's thinking with appointments like this! I think this quote from the article “We’re going into disasters, not a courthouse” sums it up pretty well.

I had to laugh at the picture of the Prius every vehicle for the Rescue Battalion! Why in the world was he ever assigned a vehicle like that to a chief officer?

There is good news coming out of all of this, latest reports here in Kentucky say that the candle factory in Mayfield Kentucky is that out of the 101 people in the candle factory 93 survived, a much higher number than was originally anticipated.

They spend that much on a truck and can afford to do training on it? Somebody at the top means you get their heads examined for stupid things like this.

Nice to see that 283 at least have a real siren, you can't beat a Q2 with anything electronic!

What other units have Purple-K?

It also amazes me the small number of apparatus that respond to a major fire like this was a one in Paris compared to how many would respond to the same type of incident in NYC.

Some good videos especially the interior shots. Compared to FDNY standards I wouldn't call this a huge fire however.

thank goodness! Hopefully none of the brothers nor the driver were seriously injured either.

That's true everywhere, members either love or hate being in a busy company and the likes and dislikes are not always younger members versus older members. Many of us who participate here are of the variety loved it being busy and hated just sitting around in the house no matter how big or small...

RIP, any firefighter death is tragic but when it happens during training it seems to be even worse.

You are showing your age, like me, back in the old days before the fancy enclosed cabins the seats were just open, no fall restraints or anything. I remember riding in them many times on an old Mack CF. Of course before that we just were on the tail boards!

I've always just heard it being called the "Cab" just like the front where the chauffeur and the officer sit. I don't see why you would call it anything else considering it is the same compartment.

I was thinking the same thing, in this case I don't know if going to the vehicle was the best approach although we can't see how it was connected to the engine. That may be why it was done this way. Like you, I don't have any sympathy for the car owner however!

Unfortunately, FDNY is finding out that the low bidder isn't always the best bidder! Many corporations have changed their buying systems to buy from the "best bidder" and not always buy from the lowest bidder. Maybe this is something that FDNY should consider especially based on the experience...

Unfortunately from what I've read the E-One and Ferrara rescue rigs are basically the same.

I'm not sure if that would be an issue if Seagrave would do the warranty backup for the entire piece of apparatus. It may be a technicality however.

I believe everything on order right now except the rescue type trucks (Rescues and HazMats) are Seagrave and I'm not really sure why Seagrave doesn't bid or at least hasn't won any of the bids for rescues. The slot used to be that they didn't make rescues with SS bodies but they do now.

Why are you thinking it's donated?