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Wasn’t ALF using freightliner parts?

FDNY gives the low bidder the specs on how they want the rig built and with what. The Seagrave fdny gets is not the Seagrave everyone else gets. They all have their fair share of issues. It all comes down to spec’.

It was down at the school behind the burn building last time I was down there

Engine 8 is basically a squad, they have squad 2’s old rig and all the equiptment without the name. They run out of whitney station with rescue 1 so they are all pretty much crossed trained. There is a trench/technical trailer but it was not needed for this incident

https://www.newhavenindependent.org/article/building_collapses_6_hospitalized?fbclid=IwAR1r-3pu93Z38_OoyIQh0dy1pt2qnhWZf59w_qiZHYyoh7T-9y1yq0NKUJ8

Credit to photographer

Engine 11, 6, 8, 4, 9 Truck 2, 1 Rescue 1 SOC 1 Emergency 3, 2, 1 Cars 34 (West Battalion), 32 (Deputy Chief), 83 (Assistant Drillmaster), 81 (Drillmaster), 39 (Assistant Chief-Operations), 31 (COD), 42 (Director of Emergency Management) Multiple AMR ambulances + AMR Supervisor Per car 32...

Some loser lol

https://www.allhandsworking.net/NewHavenCTFires/New-Haven-2nd-alarm-52-Ann-St-dwelling-fire/

Few fires in Those complexes over the years. Cheap light weight construction and minimal fire stops

Seagrave has always recommended the plates being down and they should always be down

Hamden and Milford have unique situations requiring the quints. Hamden went back to the quint at engine 5 in 2017. From 1991- around 1999 they ran a 100ft Pierce quint as “Truck 5” serving primarily as an engine and then a standard engine until they got the 2017 quint. For those that don’t...

11s relocates to 9s on the 3rd alarm 5s relocates to 10s on the 3rd alarm 17s responded on the 3rd alarm from 6s where they relocated to on the 2nd alarm 16s responded on the 3rd from 10s where they relocated to on the 2nd alarm 11’s very rarely leaves the Hill

Satellites have 6inch hose. High ladders were demo’d but I believe FDNY passed on them as the jack spread was so large it was not very practical

T-2 on the 23. Initial box was 607, updated to 606 when the address was confirmed

Anything below grade usually requires air monitoring

Now a 5th alarm, reports that multiple commercial, residential and boats burning

I was told the single jack towers all originally came with the straight bumper. They were catching a lot of things backing up and modified them to the angled bumpers

In New Haven our rescue is a Seagrave Cab & chassis with a rescue 1 body. I believe it was considerably cheaper than having Seagrave build the body