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Apparatus Architects at Firehouse Expo

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Live from Firehouse Expo, Apparatus Architects Mike Wilbur and Tom Shand talk about some hot apparatus topics. They go over the pros and cons of quints, including the lack of ground ladders available on most models on the market and making sure you have SOPs to go with your new quint. The architects also answer one of the most common questions asked of them: apparatus warranties. While new deliveries come with a warranty, make sure you listen to all of the options to get what fits your needs most.

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Join Apparatus Architects Tom Shand and Mike Wilbur as they tour the exhibit hall floor at Firehouse Expo in Baltimore. The architects stop by all of the fire apparatus booths to see what’s available this year. From low hosebeds and cross lays to master streams that can not be easily accessed and erial apparatus with just the minimum amounts of ground ladders to well-positioned outriggers. The design and placement of items throughout the apparatus seemed to be focused on new safety standards including hose covers can cab design.

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FDNY Rescue Company, USAR and Beyond

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It’s been a tough time-again-for FDNY and there is not a firefighter in the nation that doesn’t feel it. The recent tragic line of duty deaths of Firefighters Lt. Howard Carpluk and Probationary Michael Reilly numbed a Department that is also preparing for the 5th Anniversary of 9/11. FDNY BC Fred LaFamina has responded to numerous tragic events….including 9/11, Hurricane Katrina as well as most recently, the tragic fire in The Bronx. In addition, he is the Team Leader of NYTF-1’s USAR Team and has years of civilian and firefighter rescue operations experience…both in NYC and across the USA.

Join Chief Fred Lafamina with Chief Billy Goldfeder this week for a preliminary discussion on the recent tragic FDNY events as well as a full discussion on “Rescue Company Operations” the FEMA USAR TEAM System…..who are they…how did they get started and a question some firefighters ask “Why do THEY (USAR) get to go on the bad runs ” ?

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IAFC Launches National Mutual Aid Strategic Plan

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Listen to the Podcast to the Right: Firehouse.com’s Lon Slepicka Interviews Bill Bullock, former Battalion Chief for Fairfax (Va.) Fire Department and currently a liason with the Mutual Aid System Task Force for IAFC. (18 Minute Interview: Listen in Player or 16MB Download MP3)

DALLAS — The International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) held a press conference at Fire-Rescue International at the Dallas Convention Center, Dallas, Texas, Friday, to announce the launch of a new publication, A National Mutual Aid System for the Fire Service: A Strategic Vision (MASTF). The strategic plan was developed by the IAFC Mutual Aid System Task Force and is a first-of-its-kind resource for the fire service.

Chief William D. “Bill” Killen, CFO, IAFC President 2005-2006, spoke at the press conference of the underlying reason for this system; “In the aftermath of Katrina and Rita, the IAFC recognized the need to do a better job of organizing and deploying our resources in disasters.”

One could ask the question, why bring equipment and responders from New York City to New Orleans days after they were initially needed when a national mutual aid system with an inventory database, if it had been in place, could dispatch the same from neighboring states in hours?

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