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Fire in the basement of a large 3 story commercial building (possibly being used as a school) heavy smoke conditions throughout. 2 lines stretched and operating. Monsey, Suffern, Thiels, Spring Valley, South Spring Valley, Hillcrest, and Orangeburg FD’s on responding. 161 Remsen Avenue

From Project MayDay report

Ahhhhh. Excellent. Explains a lot !

Very nice!

This is no different than a majority of other EMS systems throughout the country. As the costs of medical supplies, price of ambulances, fuel and salaries rise so too must transport fees. Transport fees only offset the costs of running an EMS system. They come nowhere near paying for the total...

0850. Working Fire on the roof of the main building at Nyack Hospital. 160 N midland Ave . Fire burning under roof membrane. Hospital on lockdown and ambulances are on diversion. Nyack, West Nyack, Central Nyack and Piermont FD’s on scene. Two lines stretched and in operation.

My bad. It wasn’t the HR nozzles. It was the cockloft nozzles that I heard were going to be placed on all engines. Maybe it’s a near future plan. Thanks for the clarification. Hope you are doing well.

I have used these - one should be on every FDNY Engine company. Just like the cock loft nozzles have migrated to all engines

Thanks Willy. I also have called it the sixth boro for decades now. Hope all is well.

While Yonkers is always good for fire duty they seem to be catching some good jobs lately

Yes. Agree with you and the hydraulics. Remember pump ratings are at a draft. When connected to a good main with 60 psi, and double or triple tapping the hydrant a 1500 GPM pump can produce 2300 GPM at a max pressure of about 90-100 psi. Now take that GPM into a second engine alongside to...

Nice work Skyler. Had me sitting here doing friction loss calculations. So my question is this Standard Large Diameter Hose (LDH) has a maximum Working Pressure of 185pi. Can be pushed to 200 psi. You can buy LDH with max working pressures of 300 or even more. Many of the high volume industrial...

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Great Photo, the colors, angle, action, etc. Magazine cover quality

Stay well brother.

It was obtained on a grant. There are several locations around the city where high volume foam application would be required in the event of an incident. I alluded to some of them in an earlier post. So if the Feds are providing the right free of charge - why not. The real issue was the choice...

Look at the name of the arsonist arrested in California Kimberly Clark warehouse fire last week. Iranian Sleeper cells ?

Happy Birthday Captain John.