Boston Fire Department

[Guest]

anybody know why they removed tl2 from east boston and where it went too ???????

[Guest]

[quote name='commander' post='282289' date='Feb 15 2009, 23:49 ']anybody know why they removed tl2 from east boston and where it went too ???????[/quote]



It's been at Tower Ladder 3 for about two years.

[Guest]

[quote name='Skip Olson BFD L14' post='282232' date='Feb 15 2009, 21:20 ']Quite a few. Believe both Brush Trucks are now out of frontline service. Ladder 25 is using ST16 (Spare Truck 16) for long-term and Ladder 26 has ST28. Tower Ladder 3 is running a straight stick spare and Ladder 21 has a spare as well. I believe 3 has ST9 and 21 has ST29, which is an open-cab.[/quote]





Are there any new rigs on the table, or are you hearing the famous line "Sorry, but due to our financial situation..." Waterbury (CT) had a similar tradgedy quite a few years ago resulting in 2 LODD's. Most of the fleet got "red-tagged" and they ended up borrowing rigs on a long term basis from New Haven and FDNY. They ended up purchasing a bunch of demos just to put a fleet on the road.

[SOlsonBFDL14]

[quote name='commander' post='282289' date='Feb 15 2009, 23:49 ']anybody know why they removed tl2 from east boston and where it went too ???????[/quote]



The E\-One rearmount tower that TL3 had been assigned was damaged in an MVA and it wasn't cost effective to repair it (major damage to the bucket). It was decided to reassign TL2's Pierce Mid-Mount TL to TL3 and give L2 a new 2008 E\-One 110' Rearmount. Basically the figured it wouldn't take much longer for TL3 to get to Eastie if needed so that's why they moved it.

[SOlsonBFDL14]

[quote name='firetrucknut' post='282319' date='Feb 16 2009, 07:42 ']Are there any new rigs on the table, or are you hearing the famous line "Sorry, but due to our financial situation..." Waterbury (CT) had a similar tradgedy quite a few years ago resulting in 2 LODD's. Most of the fleet got "red-tagged" and they ended up borrowing rigs on a long term basis from New Haven and FDNY. They ended up purchasing a bunch of demos just to put a fleet on the road.[/quote]



We have a new Rescue 2 (KME), W12 (Air Supply, KME) and Rearmount Ladder (E\-One) all due the first week of July. Bids are still pending on two new pumpers and a new TDA.

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[quote name='Skip Olson BFD L14' post='282357' date='Feb 16 2009, 11:00 ']We have a new Rescue 2 (KME), W12 (Air Supply, KME) and Rearmount Ladder (E\-One) all due the first week of July. Bids are still pending on two new pumpers and a new TDA.[/quote]

A new TDA? Is there anyone left on the job who knows how to tiller?

[edburke]

[quote name='FiremanJoe' post='282091' date='Feb 15 2009, 13:32 ']Anyone know the name of the font that the BFD used to use on their rigs? I always liked it and its a shame to see them go away from it.[/quote]



In my version of Word, it's called "Excess", but I've seen it called "Army" and "Boston Black" as well.



You can download it [url="http://www.musicaecomputer.com/fonts/excess/english.htm"]here[/url]

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Engine 56 from Eastie pictured here out of town at a fire in Revere



   

[crapgame79]

[quote name='edburke' post='282366' date='Feb 16 2009, 11:32 ']In my version of Word, it's called "Excess", but I've seen it called "Army" and "Boston Black" as well.



You can download it [url="http://www.musicaecomputer.com/fonts/excess/english.htm"]here[/url][/quote]



Thank you kindly sir

[SOlsonBFDL14]

[quote name='hawkins point' post='282359' date='Feb 16 2009, 11:04 ']A new TDA? Is there anyone left on the job who knows how to tiller?[/quote]



There's quite a few. The last TDA's didn't leave frontline service until 1989 and then were in the spare pool until the mid-1990's. There's a rumor that the city would prefer to purchase two so that they could train two companies on how to tiller to cut down on OT.

[jim kay]

Skip

That's not much for new or pending apparatus with the state that the BFD apparatus are in.It's a shame as you guys went from having a good fleet over the years to one that is now in dis-repair...Good Luck to the Boston Brothers.

[Reliance]

[quote name='edburke' post='282366' date='Feb 16 2009, 12:32 ']In my version of Word, it's called "Excess", but I've seen it called "Army" and "Boston Black" as well.



You can download it [url="http://www.musicaecomputer.com/fonts/excess/english.htm"]here[/url][/quote]

I tried to download and it won't load. I have MS word and windows XP

[Reliance]

[quote name='Reliance' post='282458' date='Feb 16 2009, 16:28 ']I tried to download and it won't load. I have MS word and windows XP[/quote]

Disregard this notice it's working.

[Truckman]

[quote name='Reliance' post='282459' date='Feb 16 2009, 15:39 ']Disregard this notice it's working.[/quote]



Going to say, I run XP Pro and it came right in..





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[ffemtwakeman]

[quote name='Truckman' post='282462' date='Feb 16 2009, 15:53 ']Going to say, I run XP Pro and it came right in..





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I tried too but cant get it <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mad.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' /> Seems to unzip fine but doesnt show up in the Fonts folder or in Word. What am I missing?

[Reliance]

[quote name='ffemtwakeman' post='282469' date='Feb 16 2009, 17:24 ']I tried too but cant get it <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mad.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' /> Seems to unzip fine but doesnt show up in the Fonts folder or in Word. What am I missing?[/quote]

My came up as a separtate file in the windows font folder after unzipping it, I had to manually transfer it to the mail font folder.

[msm618]

[quote name='Reliance' post='282507' date='Feb 16 2009, 18:25 ']My came up as a separtate file in the windows font folder after unzipping it, I had to manually transfer it to the mail font folder.[/quote]



A typographer told me, a very long time ago, that the font was Futura Black.

[ffemtwakeman]

[quote name='Reliance' post='282507' date='Feb 16 2009, 18:25 ']My came up as a separtate file in the windows font folder after unzipping it, I had to manually transfer it to the mail font folder.[/quote]



Got it now, for some reason my computer isn't unzipping files via the "extract all" option, I had to manually do it. It's doing the same thing with all zipped files.

[yelrowekim]

In my word software it is known as "Braggadocio"

[Guest]

[quote name='Skip Olson BFD L14' post='233118' date='Jul 27 2008, 09:50 ']At the time that was the only Tower in the city, and E\-One only built TL's with pumps. Since then we've replaced that piece with 2 Pierce 95' MidMount TL's & a Pierce 85' Rearmount TL, none of which has a pump. None of our rearmounts have ever had pumps or prepiped ladderpipes. We don't run Quints at all. We're an Interior Department, I could count on one hand the number of times we've gone into defensive ops over the past few years and needed to set up the ladder pipes.[/quote]

What about Engine 20.....Growing up I remember it having a stick.