Now THIS sucks. (with pics)
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Topic: Now THIS sucks. (with pics)
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Subject: Now THIS sucks. (with pics)
Date Posted: 11 January 2010 at 10:31am
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Yesterday morning I got a text message from a friend of mine, both of us are volunteer firefighters, and had been members of neighboring departments. He went away to college and joined a new department, and I moved to the Albany area and am looking for a new home myself. Anyway, we're both pretty much in touch with the old departments, we've got a lot of friends and family back home. In fact, leaving the old dept was the toughest part of having to move...worse than leaving my family. Anyway, he sends me a message, one of our other neighboring departments suffered a huge tragedy.....a fire in their own station. They lost everything. Apparatus, gear, you name it- its gone. Since the area is a bunch of small towns, we'd both done a lot of mutual aid work with these guys, many a frozen night was spent at a house fire with these people, we'd done drills together, etc. Now, they're out on their ear without even a helmet of their own. I didn't make the fire, (obviously) but one of the county guys put up a bunch of photos on facebook, and without a few of them, this thread sort of sucks. So:      Anyway, the effort is being made by all kinds of people to get gear donated to these guys so they have something to work with. (Read: if anyone can put me in contact with a dept. with some spare gear, you know how the PM system works.  )I'm bummed on two different levels here. 1. I know all these guys, and this sucks. 2. I missed the friggin fire.  ------------- ? |
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Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 11 January 2010 at 10:37am
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You know, as much as this sucks, there's a certain irony in all this that amuses me... However, I still wish them the best and hope they get back on their feet soon. The town needs them. Glad no one was hurt. ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell" 
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Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 11 January 2010 at 10:41am
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That does indeed suck. Hopefully they'll get back on their feet and running again soon.
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Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 11 January 2010 at 10:41am
This is the second time inside of a week that I'd heard of a fire at a fire station. The first one was up near me in the Albany area, and I couldn't help but chuckle at it, since there wasn't any major damage. It isn't quite so funny this time, though I know what you mean. The fire actually started in the back of the building, which is (was) the town offices, then spread to the Firehouse and bays. ------------- ? |
DeTrevni wrote:Posted By: Eville
Date Posted: 11 January 2010 at 11:01am
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Someone forgot to unplug the Alamo Beer sign
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Posted By: usafpilot07
Date Posted: 11 January 2010 at 12:17pm
:tup: ------------- Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo |
Posted By: God
Date Posted: 11 January 2010 at 12:56pm
| Sounds like your FD's should paint their trucks and gear all black instead of red to hide the burn damage, that way no one will ever notice. |
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 11 January 2010 at 1:07pm
Heh, their fleet used to be white. Our dept has a blue truck and a Green one. We bore the distinction of having the only "Green truck in Greene County" ------------- ? |
Posted By: High Voltage
Date Posted: 11 January 2010 at 1:08pm
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Oh the iron knee.
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Posted By: Kayback
Date Posted: 11 January 2010 at 4:49pm
| Do fire houses carry fire insurance? I hope they do. |
Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 11 January 2010 at 5:57pm
| Just noticed the name is Ashland too. It's like double irony. |
Posted By: slackerr26
Date Posted: 11 January 2010 at 7:20pm
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now they have character. they look like post-judgment day firetrucks
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Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 11 January 2010 at 7:23pm
A look we often try to avoid.  ------------- ? |
Posted By: GI JOES SON
Date Posted: 11 January 2010 at 7:50pm
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how is the district going to be divided up among the surrounding VFD's? im assuming that's what they'd do until they can get back into operation? also, are any of the surrounding FD's able to loan any gear or anything in the mean time to help them out? |
Posted By: scotchyscotch
Date Posted: 11 January 2010 at 7:57pm
| How does that even happen? |
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 11 January 2010 at 8:16pm
They've actually gotten people to offer them trucks to replace the ones that were lost. There's actually a pretty extensive donation program for fire apparatus. The town next to me was going to get a ladder truck from Long Island.....for nothing. For now, the surrounding departments are taking turns standing by for these guys while they're down and out, and everyone is trying to pitch in spare gear for them to use. I know my old dept has a tun of old stuff that they'll donate, before I left we'd gotten a $50K grant to buy brand new turnout gear- from head to toe, so all of our interior guys got new stuff, shelving the old. ------------- ? |
Posted By: Tical3.0
Date Posted: 11 January 2010 at 9:51pm
made me lol hard. Thank you ------------- I ♣ hippies. |
Posted By: Eville
Date Posted: 11 January 2010 at 10:26pm
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Thanks. I was trying to find a picture.
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Posted By: TinMan
Date Posted: 11 January 2010 at 10:41pm
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I noticed a lot of the stations in the U.S. we in very old buildings when I travel south.
Is it like that in a lot of places?
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Posted By: Linus
Date Posted: 11 January 2010 at 11:07pm
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Poor ambulance. ------------- 
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Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 12 January 2010 at 7:26am
In rural or suburban areas, yes. The reason for it is that most communities would rather convert existing buildings for emergency services rather than completely build new facilities. Where I came from, there wasn't a single department around whose facilities were newer than 20 years, and many of them serve dual purposes- like the one that burned up. ------------- ? |
Posted By: jmac3
Date Posted: 12 January 2010 at 11:27am
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My town has a fire station connected to what used to be the library. New library got built and old one got turned into town offices. We also had a new fire station built on my side of town. We have 2 fire stations and 1 volunteer station ------------- Que pasa? 
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 12 January 2010 at 12:09pm
| Yeah we're getting a TON of new stuff in Whitehorse, some of which is emergency crew stuff. |
Posted By: scotchyscotch
Date Posted: 12 January 2010 at 1:18pm
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Posted By: Flurry
Date Posted: 12 January 2010 at 5:18pm
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As was said, Most public services are put into existing buildings that the local gov. can get on the cheap. The old LEC here was in an old Hospital. The fire hall is in a building that was made for a fire hall, but is falling apart.
Its too bad about all of that gear. God knows its all low in cost. At least they are getting some used stuff and a lot of help from other agencies in the area. Good luck to them. ------------- It sucks being antisocial alone. |