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I remember reading about one city department that had the scaling ladder at the end of the academy. It seemed more of a right of passage than actual training.
If memory serves me I believe if you wanna go from a Ffop to a Jake (Boston FD) ya gotta scale the pompier.
The best Chief Gander story that I have was back in like '95 we had him for dept ops one night and a week later there was a 8th alarm at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Jon Ielpi and I went and being he was an officer and we run in with the city I was wearing a radio with the city truck to truck on me (this was before every member in the city had a radio I believe and Jon didnt want anyone to see him wearing it). Chief Gander looks over at the two of us about 2 feet outside the building in shorts and t shirts and says I dont even want to know what the #### you two are doing and walked away shaking his head.
I hope you 2 had on your proper socks on . When he was in the 32 he used to hose the rigs wheels off while the rig was backing in. Excellent firefighter.
Chief Gander was as knowledgeable as they come. That man loved the fire service, been retired now for like 10 years. I remember when he used to do the pump tests at the FSA, He used to jump up and down in the booth like a little kid.
I have been to several fire acadamies throughout the country and I can tell you there are none better than Nassau's. Down here in Fla it's pitiful what they train on. You should be proud of what you have.
I have been to several fire academies throughout the country and I can tell you there are none better than Nassau's. Down here in Fla it's pitiful what they train on. You should be proud of what you have.
I was just about to post this. I recently went to one in upstate NY and I was shocked to see that they only had one ROOM they can burn in, let alone multiple buildings. They had a tower but it wasn't able to be lit up, I think it was steel.
It's amazing how many great resources NCFSA provides us.
A lot of really rural departments build their old buildings and burn them, or have homes in an area for live burn. Where I went to school for a short time they did live burns at one of the old hay barns.
The Boston Fire Dept uses the ladders at the end of there academy It Starts 3 minutes into it. <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="<A href="http://www.youtube.com/v/dkZpcOczTv4&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param">http://www.youtube.com/v/dkZpcOczTv4&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dkZpcOczTv4&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
Playing in the old toewr was great . tHE OBJECT WAS WHEN YOU DONE TRUCK WAS TO GET AHEAD OF THE ENGINE AND TAKE THE FIRE OUT WITH A CAN. THEY WER THE DAYS AND WE WERE ABLE TO DO IT BUT THE INSTRUCTORS GOT REAL MAD.. THE OLD DAYS
In the tower we (the truck co) would take an extra can with us to put out the fire before the engine got up to the fire floor, but i sure don't miss climbing the aerial ladder up to the roof carrying all of our gear and then having to climb onto the oil slicked parapet , it might have only been a training fire but that fall was NOT , that was no joke. we would always take the fire escape down . LOL
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