I am currently undertaking a huge apparatus roster project and was needing some help from Firepics members. If you know of any former Charlotte, NC fire trucks in your area, would you mind replying or email me at mjbodford@gmail.com? I've scouted the boards, FAJ and several other resources but haven't asked the members here yet. Thanks in advance!
Talk about badly needed, it's finally happening. I read that Pierce was in town several months ago with demos, so I really wouldn't be surprised if they go that route.
Just browsing around and noticed that Nate DeMarse hasn't been on here in quite some time... Hope he's doing ok and miss some of his pics and comments..
This, is exactly why I don't like the idea of drones on the fire scene, because there's going to be that one guy who gets in the way with it. When I saw the pictures of the guy in Highland Park with the drone I immediately thought "this is going to end up being a bad idea". People can get in the way just as easily on the ground, it does, and will continue to happen, because some people just don't know where to draw the line for "that shot", but I feel like this is really going the extra mile to get in the way.
Canada's capital has been on a major apparatus upgrade over the past few years.
A quick lowdown, there are 45 stations, 29 staffed with career members (4 of those outlying stations also have a volunteer contingent) and 16 volunteer stations. Additional stations are in the planning stages, for rapidly growing areas of the city. There are about 950 career members and 400 volunteers. The city has a population of about 1,000,000, that grows significantly during the week. EMS is run by a separate city service, however, fire does respond to medical emergencies.
There are a number of stations that are part of the Special Operations Division, including water/ice, high angle, technical, collapse, trench, and confined space rescue, and a level 3 hazmat team.
There are 9 districts, and the stations are numbered accordingly, eg. District 1 has station 11, 12, and 13, District 2 has stations 21, 22, 23, 24, and 25.
Pump 21 is one of 12 new KME 1250/600 pumpers recently purchased in 2013. These pumpers were the first to be designed by a new apparatus committee, and are a major change from previous apparatus. Station 21 is one of 2 stations that provide hazmat services.
On Saturday, 4 members of Firepics (and 1 son) joined together and photographed the Syracuse Fire Department.
The hospitality shown was absolutely tremendous, with every member at each station coming to the apparatus floor. We had prearranged the tour with official permission of the on duty deputy chief. We had every rig in the stations pulled out, and when possible, turned into the sun, with no issues whatsoever.
The sun was out full force for the morning, and by lunch time the clouds rolled in, however they cleared out again mid afternoon.
Many thanks to the on duty shift for their assistance.
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