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eyes00only said:papaelk / Great picture quality / size / presentation!
Jerry
Jerry Thank you but i cant take the credit for those pics Have to Give all of the Credit to 9 news
eyes00only said:papaelk / Great picture quality / size / presentation!
Jerry
cstockmyer said:Do the dispatchers know where EMS rigs are other then when they are posted? I remember along time ago there was something on the news about I think Ambulances having GPS "snitches" on them, that put their location on a big board in dispatch.
Cool, I knew channel 9 news had the hottest gal on TV (Kathy Sabine), but good pics too !papaelk said:Jerry Thank you but i cant take the credit for those pics Have to Give all of the Credit to 9 news
jimmnn said:Yes most system use an AVL system of sorts, including DG.
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cstockmyer said:So every pumper has the abliity to use foam? Not just specialty designed ones?
How many actual fires come from alarm system activations? Or is that more likely caught by people seeing smoke?
Are all of DFD's fire stations on all the time? Except when the rig or equipment is out of service? Or are some stations on during the day, and then some at night..does that make any since?
MrSpeakEZJr said:Any pumper can use foam, it's just a matter of how you use it. Every DFD pumper either has an on board foam system, or an eductor that goes on a hand line. A very last resort is to dump the foam buckets right into the water tank and "batch" mix it. It's a royal pain in the ... to clean and it has to be cleaned very well so it doen't gum up and corrode parts. But it can be done.
Not sure how many fires come from alarms...not very many in comparison to called in fires.
DFD has almost 1000 FFs either online or in support services thoughout the dept. All stations are manned 24 hrs with 4 FFs on every piece of (front line) apparatus. The dept runs approx. 98000 calls a year.
Yeah, It was my understanding that that's one of the reasons DTRS was implimented. Am I wrong??cstockmyer said:So why is not the employees and or state leaning on everyone to get to a point where they can talk or listen to everyone?
cstockmyer said:Those alarms that Fire Fighter wear, are they smoke activated? I know they come on when a fire fighter does not move for so many seconds. Also who thought those up? Or did something happen that made an alarm like that a necessity.
Actually, the NFPA made them automatic. The SCBA makers wouldn't do squat unless the NFPA made them do it!BoxAlarm187 said:turned on. The older packs required a seperate device which had to be manually turned on ... which didn't happen as often as it should have, so the manufacturers made them automatic.
cstockmyer said:So do the firefighters that fight forest fires or brush fires wear these too?
firescannerbob said:Actually, the NFPA made them automatic. The SCBA makers wouldn't do squat unless the NFPA made them do it!