Brockton FAO received several calls and Street Box 1515 for a reported building fire @ Montello & Arch Sts. Engine 4,2,5, Tower 1 and Car 56 responded with Engine 4 arriving and reported a warehouse with heavy fire showing. This complex comprised of 5 interconnected buildings, the fire was contained to the middle, rear and right side building Deputy Kenney arrived and transmitted a 2nd Alarm bringing Squad A, Engine 7 and Ladder 2 to the scene. Companies protected exposure buildings as the fire building became fully involved. A 3rd Alarm was transmitted with Engine 3, Stoughton Engine 4 and Ladder 1 responding. Master streams were set up to contain the fire and protect exposures. Chief Francis transmitted a 4th Alarm and West Bridgewater Engine 1, Whitman Engine 1 took in the fire. Chief Francis requested a 5th Alarm to help with water supply and Avon Engine 1, Holbrook Engine along with East Bridgewater Tower 1. It took about 90 minutes to contain the blaze.

 

Rear of building with 1st due engine co.

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First SPAAMFA (Society for the Preservation and Appreciation of Antique Motor Fire Apparatus in America) convention or muster I ever attended.  It was held at Cooper River Park in Pennsauken, NJ last Saturday and despite a few showers and no sun, I managed to get a few pics (about 88 of them!).  I will post a few of them here; the rest are on my Smugmug site.

 

First up is West Side HC of Steelton, PA X-Eng 3 - 1925 Mack Bulldog.

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Anyone have any photos from the SPAAMFAA summer convention in Lancaster PA?

Buffalo firefighters responded August 6, 2013 to a structure fire at 38 Macamley on Buffalo's south side. Arriving crews reported an occupied two and one half story wood frame with heavy smoke showing from the first floor. Several hose lines were deployed in an aggressive interior attack. A young child with unknown injuries was reportedly transported to the hospital by a civilian vehicle prior to the fire departments arrival. A firefighter was also transported to the hospital with possible heat exhaustion. Crews brought the fire under control in just under thirty minutes. Damage was listed as $75,000 to the building and $15,000 to the contents. The next door home also sustained $1,000 in damage. The cause is under investigation. 

 

Shot of first in Engine 25 and Ladder 10



 

Stretching some hose



 

Knocking out the attic windows



 

Last one, more on my site, thanks for looking!



 

At approximately 6:20pm a box came in for a personal watercraft that exploded in the driveway of a house and extended to a vehicle as well as the garage.

Firefighters did an excellent job stopping the fire before it extended into the living spaces of the house. 

 

 

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Anybody say what is the dept they have 4 2007 Pierce 105' Quint for sale on braindlee and what type of truck is for due for replacement.


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Yonkers Engine 306, a 1992 Mack CF, the actual last one to be produced by Mack, has returned to Yonkers after a spa treatment, and it's looking good! It currently holds the designation Engine 298, and is a reserve piece.

 

For those Mack fans keeping track, it is chasis # CF688FC 1460. Delivered August 1992 from Mack's Allentown, PA plant.

 

Photo by me, taken this morning. A very special thanks to ALL those on duty at YFD Station 8.

 

   

<div>I had just left the FAO and was at Irving Park rd...hadda turn around and got back in pretty quick, but missed some heavy fire blowing out the overhead doors and a collapse. This was a double truss building
Most of the occupancy was a car detailer with several autos inside, the other part was some kinda hair care place. Supposedly spilled gasoline and a dropped trouble light caused this fast moving fire. When I arrived outside operations were in full swing, TL5 and Squad 1 working and most of the back wall had already collapsed giving credence to the adage of early and sudden failures of bow string struss assemblies. This happened right at sunset and was on the frontage road to the Eisenhower expressway making photography pretty challenging.</div>
More to follow....

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Minneapolis Fire was dispatched to a reported house fire at 5049 Dupont Avenue N. at approximately 11:15 PM on Friday. The first alarm assignment consisted of E20, E14, E4, L10, L4, R9, C4, C5, Mobile Command, and Salvage. 


Crews arrived to find fire showing from a very small house. The fire was quickly controlled using a single hand line off of E20. This appeared to be a room and contents fire.

 

Nothing spectacular here, but these represents some of the "bread and butter" calls that occur across the country.

 

I've included some of the EXIF data for those interested. The first two shots were lit with flash, the rest are available light. 

 

 

Manual mode - 1/25s @ f5.6

ISO 6400

 

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New subject matter- looking for pictures of truck innovations that show outside the box thinking.

 

To start, I've included a picture of Ottawa,Ontario Canada's 2013 KME. This truck features Reflexite over the entire bottom half of an all white truck. Our research showed that the truck should be outlined in reflective, the wheelwells should be outlined to show that its a vehicle, and large blocks of reflective are more effective that "cut up" or strips of material. We used Reflexite as compared with 3M because when cut it does not break a seal which holds dirt.

 

We refused to use lime yellow on the back chevrons because our firefighter wear lime for striping on their bunker gear (in our view, the same colour striping as your gear may take away from the visibility of a firefighter . We put the chevrons high so any firefighter that walks behind the truck will be sillouetted instead of camouflaged.

 

Lets see other innovations!

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