What happens at shift change if the company is out on a fire?

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What happens at shift change if the company is out on a fire? Does it matter if it is a short call or a prolonged incident? If the rig has to stay at the scene how do the members travel back and forth? Thanks!
 
If it is a prolonged ongoing operation w/lines stretched or Tower operating or just the particular Rig blocked in by others & a relief Company is sent they can switch Rigs & the Unit being relieved can take the relieving Units Rig back to their own Qtrs ......or DV vans can be used to shuttle Members.....these are the two most common scenarios.
 
Chief, I'm sure that you and some other members here remember when the incoming platoon piled into a guy's station wagon, drove to the scene and the off going platoon brought the car back to quarters. Another scenario was if the house was lucky enough to have a 'CD' rig in the house everyone piled on and the same thing applied, incoming took the rig to the box and off going brought it back.
 
memory master said:
Chief, I'm sure that you and some other members here remember when the incoming platoon piled into a guy's station wagon, drove to the scene and the off going platoon brought the car back to quarters. Another scenario was if the house was lucky enough to have a 'CD' rig in the house everyone piled on and the same thing applied, incoming took the rig to the box and off going brought it back.
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'CD Rig' -- Were those the old Diamond Reo rescue trucks?  We had one of them for years in our volunteer station north of Wilmington DE.  I trained with one in a structural rescue course back when Civil Defense was run by the Defense Civil Preparedness Agency.  Guess that dates me...  I was a CD volunteer and Delaware RADEF Officer for quite a few years. :)
 
jks19714 said:
'CD Rig' -- Were those the old Diamond Reo rescue trucks?  We had one of them for years in our volunteer station north of Wilmington DE.  I trained with one in a structural rescue course back when Civil Defense was run by the Defense Civil Preparedness Agency.  Guess that dates me...  I was a CD volunteer and Delaware RADEF Officer for quite a few years. :)
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No, they weren't the REO's, which were common in smaller towns.  They were mostly (if not all) early to mid 1950's Ward LaFrance pumpers, and were almost exactly the same specs as the Wards that the city was buying at the time, but paid for by the Office of Civil Defense (similar to the program that Homeland Security has now, which paid for the Res1cue Pierce).  The office also did training for Auxiliary Firefighters. They were kept as spares at a number of engine companies.  Several of the members of this site were Auxiliaries, and can tell you a great deal more than I can.

Here's what one looked like (photo courtesy usfirepolice.net), with one of the REO's below it:

 

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MM yes back in the old days someones car was used......as far as the CD pumpers they were to be used in the event of a major attack here in NYC but as the threat seemed to wind down they became used as Spares until they wore out.....they were hearty Rigs & since they were not used that often they lasted a long time....well into the early '70s that i can remember ......in the late '50s there was a storm that hit Danbury Conn & all the CD Pumpers were sent up there to be used to dewater flooded bldgs there were pictures & a story in an old WNYF.
 
Thanks, that picture of CD-61 is the spitting image of our old CD rescue.  We also had a Mack MB rescue-engine.  We rode 4 on the back steps then - the MB didn't have any bucket seats; which was good in that it made the rescue more maneuverable, but not much fun in the winter. The CD rescue was great for warming up in the winter though!  All of our other apparatus were Mack CFs, including our Aerialscope. 

Thanks for the picture!

john
Formerly Delaware CD-16 (CD volunteer, formerly RADEF Officer, then Deputy Ops for Delaware -- and one of three state hazmat coordinators back in the day)
 
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MM yes back in the old days someones car was used......as far as the CD pumpers they were to be used in the event of a major attack here in NYC but as the threat seemed to wind down they became used as Spares until they wore out.....they were hearty Rigs & since they were not used that often they lasted a long time....well into the early '70s that i can remember ......in the late '50s there was a storm that hit Danbury Conn & all the CD Pumpers were sent up there to be used to dewater flooded bldgs there were pictures & a story in an old WNYF.
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WNYF 1/56

 
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