Highway response unit

[Buzzman]

What does the highway response carry?

 

[BCR]

It carries a hurst tool setup, air bag set, other extrication Equiptment / forcible entry Equiptment, I think they have a couple extinguishers, SCBA for 3, some cribbing. I can't remember the highway(s) that they were designed for but the short story is the truck company's were to heavy for the bridge. The officer and two ff's respond to the incident and the chauffeur and remaining ff's stage off the highway in the truck. I'm not sure if there are any highway support units still in service

 

[MP1234]

L159 still uses it on the belt parkway

 

[69 METS]

I believe L 170 also uses one for the Belt Pkwy. and hwy response units also were used on the FDR Dr. I don't know if that's still the case.

 

[memory master]

Wasn't there a unit quartered at E16/L7 for the East River Drive (or FDR Drive)?

 

[STAjo]

So far, All I Can Find is This:

http://www.fdnytrucks.com/images/manhattan/e16/FDNYFDR1.jpg


Hmmm... And This - Newer Unit ?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jag9889/6848925131/in/photostream/

(It's the pic. After BFU 6, and Before The S.I 'Golf Cart'.)

If anyone has anything else... ?

 

[raybrag]

There's these pics on Mike Martinelli's site:

http://www.fdnytrucks.com/images/brooklyn/e309/FDNYHRU159.jpg

http://www.fdnytrucks.com/images/brooklyn/e257/FDNYHRU170.jpg

If they're still in service, they're gettin' kinda long in the tooth.

 

[Bulldog]

There's these pics on Mike Martinelli's site:

http://www.fdnytrucks.com/images/brooklyn/e309/FDNYHRU159.jpg

http://www.fdnytrucks.com/images/brooklyn/e257/FDNYHRU170.jpg

If they're still in service, they're gettin' kinda long in the tooth.

While they are certainly older I bet they don't have a lot of mileage on them considering they aren't used that often.  Probably pretty low on the priority list for replacement.

 

[fdny1075k]

Wasn't there a unit quartered at E16/L7 for the East River Drive (or FDR Drive)?

There used to be two FDR Response Units, now there's only one running out of the quarters of E22/TL13/B10 on the Upper East Side.

 

[raybrag]

And here's Mike M.'s pic of it (even older than the other 2 . . . 1075k has a point):

http://www.fdnytrucks.com/images/manhattan/e22/FDNYFDR2.jpg

 

[MP1234]

Bulldog they are actually used a lot. I would probably say on average a few times a week.

 

[BCR]

One of those gmc units was transferred to SOC and is labeled as a Special Operations Command Support Unit. Fdr 1&2 are different than the highway support units, the highway support units are on the truck for the truck company's I believe the fdr units are geared toward the engine side ??

 

[Bulldog]

Bulldog they are actually used a lot. I would probably say on average a few times a week.

That's not very much compared to the Engines, Rescues and Trucks which run upwards of 10 or more runs per day on average.

 

[FDNYBuff97]

A friend of mine who is a dispatcher told me the BFU is now a FDR unit.

 

[MP1234]

Yes def not as much as the regular units. Just compared to other units 2nd pieces these are used quite a bit. Also it's usually the boss and one firefighter in the HRU and the other truck firefighter rides in the engine. That's how one of the units does it because of the tight space in the HRU.

 

[BCR]

So I checked out my operational reference guide. Info as follows
FDR Drive - because of weight limitations a light weight vehicle is used in place of an Engine Company to respond to fires and emergencies on portions of the FDR in manhattan. The FDR response vehicle at Engine 22 is a Ford F-450 flatbed with a removable Salsbury brush fire module. A second unit at engine 16 was de-activated in April of 2001. No backup company is designated.

Belt Parkway - Highway Response Vehicles (HRV) are in service with TL 159 and TL 170 because of weight restrictions on the Belt PKWY at the Paerdegat Bridge. The company officer and two firefighters respond with the HRV, the ladder does not enter the PKWY. Each utility type truck is equipped with Hurst and Rabbit Tools, Sawzall and Air chisel, partner saw, forceable entry tools, extinguishers, air bags and cribbing, stokes basket, 5kw generator and lights and three SCBA masks.

FDR Response Vehicle is a 1995 Ford F-450 with a Salsbury Brush Fire Module with a Shop Number of FM 9535 the unit retired in 2001 was identical.

The HRV's were originally 2000 GMC Sierra 3500HD's with Reading Body's, One is still serving as a SOC support unit, I am not sure if only HRV 159 is the only one in service or if HRV 170 was replaced by a Ford F-450 same set up as a SSL or CPC type vehicle. HRV 170 shop number GM 00020 is the one that was transferred to SOC to serve as  support unit.

 

[STAjo]

Excellent Stuff, BCR!  TY  8)

 

[Bulldog]

A friend of mine who is a dispatcher told me the BFU is now a FDR unit.

With the shortage of BFU's it's certainly surprising they would pull one of them for this duty or did you mean it the other way around in that one of the FDR units is now operating as a BFU?

 

[baileyjeff]

What highway response units are still in service?

 

[Buzzman]

Bailey read what BCR put up and that will tell you which ones are in operations?