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Can you add the response guideline for Battery Energy Storage sites (BESS) ?

Anyone have a copy of the response guidelines they can post ?

Sad because there are interim options: Vendors with ready to go new engines and tower ladders as well as vendors that make rentals.

According to article in NY Post, the fire started on a rear deck, extended inside house, and extended to nearby rear decks. Propane tanks exploding also fed the fire. Also appears from pictures that there was very heavy fire condition when FDNY arrived on the scene...

https://www.silive.com/news/2024/08/nyc-official-outlines-highly-regulated-protocols-for-battery-energy-storage-sites-on-staten-island.html

https://www.silive.com/crime-safety/2024/07/fdny-commissioner-laura-kavanagh-announces-august-resignation-date.html

No wonder they made it a second alarm.

If the 800 Mhz frequency is encrypted how are members able to post about fires in Queens ? Do they used FDNY radios which decrypt the encrypted communications ?

https://www.silive.com/news/2024/07/large-fdny-response-for-report-of-fire-in-port-richmond.html

Anyone have a picture of 65 Slosson Ave ?

Thanks. Great explanation !

Instead of using Staten Island Box numbers they should assign box numbers to surrounding cities so that the box number could better identify the location of the mutual aid.

I thought that several years ago the FDNY tested digital radios and rejected them because of problems receiving the signal in basements and High Rise buildings. Why are they resurrecting a technology that they previously rejected ?

But can they refill bottles at a fire scene ? Do they have mobile cascade systems ?

I have seen the MSU trucks going to firehouses to change air bottles but do the MSU vehicles also have the capacity to respond to fires and charge air bottles on site ?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/24/world/asia/lithium-battery-fire-south-korea.html

Thanks.

How much of the back of the house was dammaged ?

Why we still need street fire boxes: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/19/us/emergency-911-outages.html

09:26 hours A few minutes ago I heard a department message that all units in Queens were to switch to the "800 mhz backup frequency " What system are they referring to and can it be monitored or is it encrypted ?