shot it a couple of days ago.

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Does any have any photos of the refurbed Mack KME tower ladder from Keasbey Nj?

<span>Fire Service Inc. is pleased to announce a multi-year contract with the City of Chicago for airport pumpers. The initial order is for three units. The new units will be E\-One Cyclone custom chassis with 2000 GPM Hale pump, Fecon foam system, 1000 gallon water tank and 250 gallon foam tanks with Salisbury Stainless Steel bodies. We look forward to bringing back the E\-One product family to the third largest city in the United States.</span>

The LAFD is sadden to announce the Line of Duty Death of Captain Matthew G. McKnight, Captain McKnight was assigned as the Floor Captain for the department's Metro Communications Dispatch center Captain McKnight, age 51 - and a 31 year veteran of the LAFD, was last seen at 12:55 AM near the conclusion of a busy five hour watch, where he directly supervised eleven Firefighter/Dispatchers in overseeing the life safety needs of America's second-largest city.


Despite an exhaustive effort by colleagues who immediately performed CPR, applied a defibrillator and instituted advanced life support measures, Captain McKnight proved beyond medical help and was declared deceased.

 

Captain McKnight is survived by two brothers also active duty LAFD

Anyone have anything nice from the Hinckley Illinois FPD- DeKalb County???

Today, 2386 Blue island Ave. Roof fire on a commercial building. It appears roofers were working with torches, I assume on some kinda multi-ply roofing. Some moderate smoke for a bit, lots of roof work. TL 5 reported making something like 7 or 8 vent holes in the roof. The building was sprinklered and as you can see in the photos the siamese was charged, early in the incident. Several handlines were used interior from what I could tell. An interesting job, and pretty tough on the members doing the work.

 

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Hi Guys,

 

Sorry this is a couple of months out of date, but during the summer months I try and get out buffing and photographing as much as possible.

 

Anyway, in April this year a few buddies and I flew over to the Netherlands to spend four days travelling around shooting apparatus. Two of the days were pre-arranged by The Fire Brigade Society - a UK-based buffing club which I belong to, the other days were a mixture of knocking on doors and as a result of a making emails prior to travel.

 

We flew out from the UK on the Thursday evening and after the most hair-raising landing of my life (gale force winds were battering Amsterdam at the time), we landed at Schiphol Airport. Fortunately we had found a hotel near the airport which just happened to have a fire station next to it - that's a coincidence hey!

 

The Fire Brigade in the Netherlands is run at municipal level but controlled at a regional level, so although they have a national livery for all fire vehicles, each brigade has completely different chassis and bodybuilders.

 

Hoofddorp was a huge station and I had previously emailed them to arrange a visit, the guys here were fantastic and very helpful (as with every single station we visited).

 

First up, a Mercedes Atego pump (engine) - they are known as 'tankautospuits' in Holland.

 

 

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Feel free to add any older law enforcement units, either still in use, or in private ownership

 

Dutchess County Sheriff (Dutchess County, NY)

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Around 11:30 am this morning, a plane with only the pilot on board crashed into two houses killing himself and two children located in 64 Charter Oak Avenue.  This was reportedly the pilots second career crash. The first crash occurred on the Columbia River.  The plane was on its second attempted landing in heavy rain and fog.

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Seems both the Catskill Fire Cats and Fairchester Hose Haulers are the same day. Anyone planning to attend and hook up for a cold one, even if its soda? lol Wanna do both before i head back for a 24. Let me know.

 

 

Stay safe, Brothers.