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Numbers game....straight up.....90-95% of incidents are mitigated by the HMTU Engine or Squad Company. It was brought up numerous times over the years to allow HMTU's to operate independently and HM Ops always said no.....

it should have been a 10-18.......ridiculous

The TF is only dispatched upon direction of a Staff Chief. Smaller details are used for pre planned events.

Latest name is someone from FDNY Foundation......

Within a roughly 1/2 mile radius of the intersection of Clove and Victory you can have 5 different engines and 4 different trucks 1st due to boxes and not be on 1st alarm 3 blocks away. Just the nature of the geography and responses around there.

There have been several incidents over the last few years where buffs and members on the job have posted things in real time on social media sites, group me app and other places about injured members, maydays and other sensitive information on incidents and evolving incidents that were taken...

yea Marine 9 and Marine Battalion

The department has known for a while they needed to replace the foam tender. One of the ideas was for all 6 of the new sattelites to be industrial pumpers. to give a more robust foam capability. That was around the time they were introducing the AFFF gold as the replacement foam job wide. But...

The other half of this policy is no more alarms above a 5-5.......back to old days of S/C above the 5-5 if additional units are needed. Feelings areound 7th and 8th floor are we cannot put out fires anymore and 7-7, 8-8 ans 9-9 are negative connotations....

161, 214 and 16 all arrived simultaneously within 6 seconds of each other which is the same as 159, 165 and 161 normally down there.....it was rush hour and raining. Does it really matter who got there in what order?

161 was 1st due and gave 10-75

There is a minimum of 1 cockloft/highrise nozzle in each battalion.

More then likely yes. Some divisions are testing encryption now and an update is being put out into the APX radios so yes. Who knows exact timeline though.

Hi Axle 2, 3 and 4 are only units in service as of now. Who knows if and when additional units will be staffed. Different priorities nowadays.

Well there was not a 10-75 transmitted. After being 84 for about 10 minutes the battalion transmitted the All hands and within 60 seconds an engine was relocated into 219. Why let the facts get in the way of a good internet story.

There has been little to no official info on this rigs intended use, function or responses or location....anything you see here is pure speculation and internet folklore......

The stats are really inflated. It is not really a good barometer of the work. The amount of All hands Under Control that normally would be a 10-18 or a 2+2 is up exponentially the last 2-3 years. All these stats do is promote internet folklore and hypothetical buff scenarios. Unfortunately that...

The new standards from NFPA or whoever dictate that PPE needs to be stored separate from passenger compartment unless a rather cost prohibitive filtration system is installed in command and 1st response vehicles hence the reason for capped pickups and Sq51 type vehicles.

This rig has been in the works for several years and the new sattelites were supposed to be of a similar design but a change of staff chiefs and changing priorities saw this rig as a result. The DX of FT01 was not the reason for this rig. Also NYC has the most robust municipal water system in...

Before 87 was established, 82 was 2nd due from the SI mall area to Huguenot Ave give or take a few blocks. 87 took boxes from 82, 83, 84, 85, 86 and 76.....but traffic and the amount of houses and population in the area was a fraction of what it is today.