Philadelphia, PA

[SOlsonBFDL14]

It's one thing when the folks who work on certain equipment have something negative to say about it. It's a damn near prerequisite in the fire service to be able to bitch and complain well, to an extent. Remarks made twenty and thirty years ago have a tendency to become gospel , retold and embellished along the way. What I do find quite strange is the buff that spews negative rhetoric about a company for many reasons.


The whole fdny thing for example . Kme seems to be working out pretty well for them. Yet people still stick with the comments made before purchase and use and how they'll blow up the first time you place them in pump. Boston seems to like theirs, seek to be working great . I believe a company deserves the right to fix the problems of the past and become a better company. Some of today's buffs don't seem to want took at it this way.

 

Yeah....about that.....we f'n hate them! The Department's looking to get rid of every single one of them. They spend 3x as long in the shop as they do in the field. On more than 1 occasion all 5 KME's assigned to D4 (E3, E7, E22, E33 & L17) were all OOS at the same time for an extended period. E41 just got theirs back at the end of last month after being gone for 3 months. We currently have 1 TL, 3 RM, 1 Rescue & 14 Pumps in frontline service with 1 Pump (E10) & 1 Rescue (R1) awaiting delivery & if we could figure out how to get rid of every single one of them without taking a bath, we would. We've already gone back to E\-One for our aerials (4 Metros on order), hopefully they'll get the rest of the future orders!