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For the 2nd time this year that I know of of, the 18 mile stretch of Overseas Highway and Card Island Sound Road has been closed in both directions due to a brush fire. Over 350 acres were burning as of 2300 on The 8th. Fire is considered 25% contained. Drivers are being warned of intermittent...

At somepoint on May 6th a man was found lying on the ground appearing to have a seizure. The DS who arrived first, asked the man if he was OK, and the man got up and pointed a syringe at the Deputy. The Deputy ordered the man to drop the syringe which he eventually did, but charged the Deputy...

Going back to a Tiller would be a better description.

I did some quick math. A 6000lpm engine, is roughly 1500 gpm. The 1 thing that did catch my eye, other then donated units, is the age. The youngest unit i saw was roughly 19. I volunteered in Polk County Fl on a similar engine to the Freightliners M2 106. It was a lot of things, comfortable...

I'm not sure which fire it was, but Nassau was soliciting firefighting help from the cruise ships. BTW I did find this. Hopetown has a boat at least.

From talking to people that deal with building in the Bahamas, apparently its not the easiest thing in the world. Contracts are written in pencil and invisible ink and the bureaucracy is worse than some cities here. Every body has their hand in anything. I read an article where the tourism head...

I would agree. I was in Nassau one time on a cruise and 1 of their engines went by while we were looking around. Had 2 people on it. Didn't look like they had too much on the rig from what I remember. Not knocking them, just an observation. I don't think they have a governing body for the fire...

A Fire broke out about 1900 several blocks from the cruise port last night. The fire spread thru several residential blogs. Witness reported several booms as the fire jumped from 1 bldg to the next. The Nassau FD, was short handed as several units had been sent to Freeport to battle the brush...

I dont know specifics, but I do know after the issues with Aviation, a lot has changed. I think a lot also has to do with the specifics of that call. Like I mentioned before, was there a rescue to be made and the 1st due vollies never pulled a line, or is the line in place but needs to be...

Pretty much. It also depends on a lot of things like man power, is the fire going according to plan( is there more fire then there 1 line can handle and need to be backed up or can they move to next position....)

Typically the volunteer company will fall into the FDNY flow. So in this case BCVFD was first due, they pull a line and go work. When I think 331 was next due they pulled their line and went to work. When the 39 or 47 showed up, they can direct the vollies as needed. If they showed up later in...

Broad Channel Engines 201 and 203 as well as there ambulances 308 and 310 are onscene. Just adding specific unit numbers

Broad Channel is finally moving foward with there new firehouse. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1AJ24spsVE/

There is a common spec for each type of unit manufacturers offer. There's actually a government bid page where the major makers have a basic unit for a given price. And all of the makers, had very similar units.and very similar prices. And you couldn't change much on the spec. For example...

Nope. The 13 has a fire out off 133 and 214 street at the same time. Box 5825 i think

I can honestly say I worked a fire similar to this once. And the fire Marshall who was a very religious woman investigated it.

L173 to ladder 80? That's a pretty good haul.

Just a thought, if the politicians let them do their job and stood behind them when fingers start pointing, instead of throwing them under a bus, might make a little bit of a difference

Good portion of the relocators had their own fire at 1 am. 331,325, 142 and 143.