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    Posted: 11 January 2010 at 10:31am
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.

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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. Wink)

I'm bummed on two different levels here.

1. I know all these guys, and this sucks.
2. I missed the friggin fire. Angry



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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.
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That does indeed suck. Hopefully they'll get back on their feet and running again soon.

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Originally posted by DeTrevni DeTrevni wrote:

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.


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.
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Someone forgot to unplug the Alamo Beer sign
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Originally posted by Eville Eville wrote:

Someone forgot to unplug the Alamo Beer sign


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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.
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Originally posted by God God wrote:

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.


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"
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Do fire houses carry fire insurance? I hope they do.
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Just noticed the name is Ashland too. It's like double irony.
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now they have character. they look like post-judgment day firetrucks
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Originally posted by slackerr26 slackerr26 wrote:

now they have character. they look like post-judgment day firetrucks


A look we often try to avoid. LOL
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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?
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How does that even happen?
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Originally posted by GI JOES SON GI JOES SON wrote:

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?


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.
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Originally posted by Eville Eville wrote:

Someone forgot to unplug the Alamo Beer sign
made me lol hard. Thank you
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Thanks. I was trying to find a picture.
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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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Poor ambulance.

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