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[Newfoundking]

Pretty good pictures... Where'd you find the car, was it at the station, or just one of those lucky finds ?

[Seluryar]

a few pics from this year:

[Newfoundking]

Are those form a parade?

[Seluryar]

yea, the top one was from the Cleveland Ohio St Patricks Day Parade, and the rest are from the Akron Ohio St Patricks Day Parade

[Newfoundking]

Duh! I should've figured that one out by the walls of people, and the lack of massive emergency that would warrant such big groups of spectators..

Thanks for answering!

[MikesPhotos]

UPDATED 6/11/2009: Whittier PD & LACoFD Open House

As many of you know, I've been hard at work on the new version of the website, but I thought I'd give you all a quick treat and upload 315 pics from the open house event in Whittier. This update includes photos of CHP's new Dodge Charger, Area E's Law Enforcement Command Center, Care Ambulance, LACoFD Truck 28 (Reserve) and an Extrication Demo by them, Santa Fe Springs FD Truck 811, Whittier PD's Crown Vics, new Dodge Chargers (used by the supervisors and corporals), Dodge Magnum K9 units, a K9 demo, Whittier PD Honda and Off Road Motor units, Public Safety Chevy Colorado, PD SUV, SWAT Armored Vehicle, Gear, and a SWAT/K9 demonstration including flash bang detonation! So as always, Enjoy!

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Just a quick note since many of you might be interested to find out the status of the Dodge Chargers in use by the CHP. I talked to a few of the officers, including one who is on the purchasing and evaluation committee (which is why he was driving it that day). Bassically, beyond the test subjects that are out and about now, you won't be seeing any other Chargers in CHP colors. There was a major foul up by someone at Dodge in regards to the ballistic panels not being included in the estimate and bid, even though they were spec'd, which caused the price to rise astronomicaly. Some of the cars delivered had them, others just had signs on the door saying they were there, but with nothing but empty space instead. Needless to say, this caused a huge uproar within the department, and Dodge handled it badly enough that CHP immediately cancelled the evaluation and committed to Ford until 2012.

Whittier PD purchased the Chargers but has relegated them to supervisors/corporals use only. They love the huge trunk space, but the rear area is just too cramped for suspects. They were having to get creative with some of their larger hook-ups, and ended up losing some back and side windows because of it.

LAPD is still testing theirs with no definitive word either way just yet. They've also purchased (from last budget) some new Crown Vics with various lighting packages, including their slicktops, to see how they will go with their next major purchase.

LAFD has basically run out of useable crown vic's for EMS Captains and has put a couple of them in former BC suburbans. The plan, per EMS 14, is to build custom built EMS supervisor SUV's, but with the budget cuts, they might just end up having to take hand me downs from the LAPD. The chiefs SUV's have to have heavy modifications done to them to remove all of the command and control radios, boxes, and equipment, to make way for the EMS gear that makes it almost prohibitive. So we'll see where that is headed.

[Newfoundking]

Wouldn't it make sense just to get them newer cars, not necessarily a Crown vic or Suburban either.. But I guess whatever works, doesn't LAPD retire units after like 60,000 miles or something?

[MikesPhotos]

I'm not sure I understand the question.

Wouldn't it make sense just to get them newer cars, not necessarily a Crown vic or Suburban either..

With 16 Battalions in the LAFD, the way to keep maintenance and purchasing costs down is to purchase in bulk fleet deals and keep all of the equipment as similar as possible. Are you asking why not just pick a cheaper model of vehicle? The answer is simply because nothing is cheaper then tagging onto the current city fleet deal in both the short term and long term (maintenance).

But I guess whatever works, doesn't LAPD retire units after like 60,000 miles or something?

Back in the 90's or such, it was 66k, or 2 years, now its 100k if you're lucky. There are still a lot of older CVPI's running around with close to 200k. For LAFD to take the hand me downs is also a major expenditure in converting them for fire use.

Either way you look at it, you end up spending money that just doesn't exist anywhere.

[Newfoundking]

I guess so, that makes a lot more sense

[MikesPhotos]

UPDATED 6/12/2009: FSD Home Depot Center


Just cranking out these pics left and right while getting the new site up and ready. This time its 238 shots from the Fire Service Day in Carson at the Home Depot Center. You'll find pics of the BP Refineries Quick Attack 4, Compton FD Engine 44 and Dodge Charger, County of Los Angeles Fire Museums Squad 51 and Engine 36 Restorations, LACoFD Foam 10, K9, Hazmat MIRV-171, HAZMAT Suits, Mobile Light Air 115, Water Tender 70, LASD Radio Car, SEB Bearcat and Firearms, LASD Unmarked SUV, Long Beach Fire Technical Rescue Paramedic Assessment Engine 6, County Dept of Public Health, LACoFD Lifeguards Ford Escapes, McCormick Ambulance Supervisor, Van, Box, Disaster Response Units, and OES/LACoFD E8133 from FS 125. It's a huge update with a lot of walk arounds that had been requested, so as always, Enjoy!

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Take special notice of the HAZMAT suits and realize the dangers that manning a hose in one of those would entail. Between the danger of tearing it, they're simply sealed plastic membranes with, at best, minimal flash fire protection. Radiant and sustained heat would melt them in seconds. Ask a HAZMAT Tech or Spec, and they'll tell you that with many of Hazardous chemicals, fire is the best tool to just let it burn off safely. Spraying water causes all sorts of issues with runoff and spread of the chemical, beyond any reaction or interaction.

[MikesPhotos]

UPDATED 6/14/2009: Chatsworth Emergency Preparedness Expo


First off, I'd like to thank each and every one of you for voting and so far it looks like it's a pretty big majority for choice #2. But, and this is a big but, I am going to see if I will be able to keep this page up as well as the new page for a brief period of time. All hotlinked images and such will be broken though. And now for the latest update! This time it's 115 pictures from the Chatsworth Emergency Preparedness Expo that featured apparatus and members from the LASD Malibu Search and Rescue Team, LASD Metro Transit Authority, LAFD Engine 107s new Seagrave, LAFD Recruitment van, LAPD Supervisors Crown Vic with the new led's in the turn signals, Community Mobile Sub-Station, and the new LAPD ANSI-107 compliant vest which was given to officers that day. LASD still has not received theirs or any memos on it yet. As always, Enjoy!

[martijntjuh]

Engine:


Ambulance:


Batt. Chief:


Rescue:


Hose truck:


arial truck:

[Newfoundking]

I present one picture, I was testing out the camera on my dads phone, and this is the picture I took, from left to right you'll see:

Very far left you will see the back of a transport van used for transporting FFs when trucks can not be used, such as in the old part of town and the battery (some areas over 300 years old)

Behind that, you'll see the back of a subaru used by one of our inspectors, it has no emergency lighting, as it is just for him to get from station to various buildings to inspect.

In front of the station, you will see the Chief Pickup, which is relatively new, only 1 or 2 years old, and the first unit to my knowledge to get LED lights
Next to that is our Pumper, we have 3 or 4 that look the exact same as this one, and the unit number isn't on front, and they aren't assigned at just one station, they rotate units at stations occasionally, however will almost always have at least one ladder, and one pumper. Next to that you will see the Ladder parked in the ladder bay. The next bay over is not empty, but just dark.. There is a hovercraft parked there, and behind that our tower unit, which is the giant unit I have pictures of a few (from september) pages back.

The #4 (dark) bay used to have the Tower, and sometimes the ladder, but since the hovercraft was bought, I think they rearranged the station bays, as the Rescue truck was where the ladder is and the Chief pickup is actually where they keep the pickup fire trucks (I think 2 at this station, and a transport van)

[Stan]

Gotta share:

175 Year - Volunteer Fire Department of Vaals

At the same time the Fire Deps of the German and Belgian border region came over to make a big day fo it.



And the second:

(wasn't sure if the forum liked 2 youtube videos in 1 post)

This one shows more btw

[Newfoundking]

Dont forget to yield for the poor guy on the bike... I wonder what he did to get stuck with the bicycle while everyone else got real emergency vehicles

Did that tow truck have a siren, or was that something behind it?

How come the sirens were all short blasts, instead of longer ones, and how come the ARFF (or whatever) truck was NATO?

Thats it for me

[Stan]

Dont forget to yield for the poor guy on the bike... I wonder what he did to get stuck with the bicycle while everyone else got real emergency vehicles

Did that tow truck have a siren, or was that something behind it?

How come the sirens were all short blasts, instead of longer ones, and how come the ARFF (or whatever) truck was NATO?

Thats it for me

The bike was an old fire dep. bike and well since it was the 175st year of the dept. they took it out again and left him drive in front haha.

The tow truck had no siren, it was an vehicle behind it indeed.

About the sirens, well they didn't leave em on for all the time and only put it on and off all the time and the NATO truck is a truck from the NATO airbase of Gelsenkirchen (Germanny) it's just over the border so

[Newfoundking]

Oh okay, makes sense, thanks

[MikesPhotos]

UPDATED 7/28/09: LAFD / LACoFD Grass Fire in Sepulveda Basin (flickr only)

LAFD, LACoFD, Park Rangers, General Services Police, and CHP responded to a small grass fire on both sides of Burbank blvd at the Sepulveda Rec Basin. 163 shots are posted to my flickr account as I finish the remaining touches on the new website.