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[Unit 42]

Normal? Like it happens often? I guess maybe once every two three weeks if it's a big enough fire. Not too realistic to do that all of the time though because that creates many gaps in NYC and for some reason when that happens, call volume increases.....weird. It's like robbers robbing a liquor store when a bunch of cops are at a bank robbery.

[rafaelmfernandez]

In 1969 there was a 19 alarm fire in brooklyn and in 2006 a 10 alarm. 9/11 was the largest and was estimated to have risen to up to 20 alarms. After all my research 9/11 was so huge they just quit counting. From battalion 1 transmitting 2nd and 3rd alarm assignments to the end up to 20 alarms that was deffinately the largest fire in fdny history along with the largest rescue operation.

[Unit 42]

Yeah after they said five for each tower they just kept asking for more units! 19 alarms though....imagine seeing that. I know it probably wasn't that much space to park the fdny trucks so they had to be lined up for BLOCKS. Wonder how many charged lines went up in there. anyway, do you think you guys can make enough units for a good five alarm fire without having all of the units say 10, 9, 6, 1 over and over since they're the same model if you get what I mean. maybe not in this version of course but in a later one.

[rafaelmfernandez]

We currently have now

Engines 1,3,6,7,9,10,54
Ladders 1,4,6,10,12,24
Battalions 1,7,9
Sattelite 1
Rescue 1
Squad 18
Thats enough for a good 5 alarm

[HalfEatenCookie]

Well I guess technically no charged lines were inside the towers because they never got to the fire floors. The only person that made it to the fire floor in the towers was Battalion Chief Orio Palmer who made it there only minutes before the catastrophic failure that occurred in the South Tower.

On another note...if you cant put out a fire in EM4 with 7 engines, 6 ladders, 3 battalions, a rescue, squad, and satellite then you probably shouldn't be playing EM4. That would have to be one HUGE fire.

[rettungstier]

@raf

that's for sp freeplay too right? you guys been talkin so much bout mp (where i didn't take part yet) that i barely know what news are not multiplayer related

greetz

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[Dyson]

SP and MP are almost identical,
The fifth alarm issue. Look, if you're balls deep in fire, coupla men down, you can call it up to a fifth, obviously we haven't made 20 engine and 16 ladders, what's the point, would fill the map.
Our fifth alarms (relative to tha game) are:

7 Engine
6 Ladders

That's more than enough to sort any situation out, and by the time they're dispatched the fire will be under control.

[aitor]

Finally what have you done for tech? Only the ConEd van?

[mariuswww]

Well I guess technically no charged lines were inside the towers because they never got to the fire floors. The only person that made it to the fire floor in the towers was Battalion Chief Orio Palmer who made it there only minutes before the catastrophic failure that occurred in the South Tower.

Actually Ladder 15 and battalion 7 (Orio) Reached 78th floor and reported that they had several pockets of fire and that they was able to put them out with two lines. But that was less than 5 min before collapse

[lemon]

How about a series of Gas explosions in a sequence?

[HalfEatenCookie]

Well..I thought Orio said they think they could knock them down with two lines...i didnt think they actually got those lines in service before the towers came down.

[mariuswww]

Well..I thought Orio said they think they could knock them down with two lines...i didnt think they actually got those lines in service before the towers came down.

Oh that might be

[HalfEatenCookie]

You gotta think about it. They have standpipe system in the stairwells and I am not sure if those stand pipes are already wet or if they were a dry stand pipe system meaning that there is no water already flowing through the system and if they needed to pump water up to that point it would take a lot of time to get water flowing up to the floors in the 70 or 80 story range.

[squamishfire]

I am 99.9 % sure that it would have been a wet system. Even if it was dry the system would have already been set off. Because of the amount of time it would have taken them a lot of time.

[rettungstier]

might be possible that these systems (especially in larger buildings) are connected to the casual freshwater system.
it has to transport a huge volume of water with an acceptable pressure to the highesz floors too.

and in the case of a fire on upper floors the water could be exclusively be provided for fire fighting.
seriously... who would take a shower on 56th floor if floor 57 to 62 were on fire?

at least my two cents on that ^^


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[BrentMIC]

Hey, i was wondering is there going to be any hazmat incidents in free play ?

[Dyson]

Yes and multiplayer, the only hazmat unit we have is Squad 18, (not the hazmat van just the regular rig) it can hold Hazmat FF and deploy the tent. However the incidents sure are hard work! Lots of peds

[BrentMIC]

Yes and multiplayer, the only hazmat unit we have is Squad 18, (not the hazmat van just the regular rig) it can hold Hazmat FF and deploy the tent. However the incidents sure are hard work! Lots of peds

Sounds challanging looking forward to it ;D

[rafaelmfernandez]

Hey all check out Lt. John Allen's 15 minute commentaries on his livestream where many times you can watch as he broadcasts live! Here are 2 15 minute videos of freeplay commentary of the beta! Enjoy!!


http://livestre.am/1dd6p


http://livestre.am/1dd2z

We have fixed and changed alot since!

[MrMitch]

Guys, are you going to be putting the rescue the the Brooklyn mod team released? It shouldn't be that hard to reskin.