22-12 Responds to Mechanicstown FD Wetdown 8-30-08

[trainglen22]

Cool. Never seen a wetdown before!

[cwjones0322]

It's bad enough when seniors drive, but you let him drive the engine!?!?!

[Moontrucker113]

which engine is yalls

[ProudVolunteer19]

It's not a crime to take your foot off the Q.

[oOAlyshaOo16]

hgthtyggvaggrf r5r4r4h6

[MettaFireRescue]

What's in the "Technical Rescue Unit"? Is it a confined space, collapse, trench unit? STAY SAFE!

[cutiger3115]

@MettaFireRescue Probably all of the above.

[1996atm]

engine 2

[firemanweav]

got to see that new fire police truck at the fire police convention in syracuse this weekend 4/30-5/3/09. Awesome truck guys.

[HighwayHank1]

We're from Monticello FD. Monticello New York

Cross Roads of the Catskills.

[XxrotorayxX]

how many new trucks did yall get in 08'?

[miraget3549]

i can attest to this....I don't work in fire no police no even EMTor EMS...but everytime i buy a new car or sell it i douse it with a cold one. I don't drink and drive nor the sort but i pray over it and then douse it. So far so Good

[MettaFireRescue]

That is bt far the most elaborate/unusual fire police unit I've ever seen. What's with the body design? What does this unit carry - traffic control equipment, right (cones, signage, etc.)?

[HighwayHank1]

Hi Joe,

A Wetdown symbolises the truck being Officially welcomed into the department. In most cases the trucks are already in service, as it would be a shame to have an expensive truck sitting around waiting to organize a Wetdown. But the Wetdown is the little Welcome onto service party and a chance to show them to your neiboring departments and of course your own resisdents and taxpayers.

Hank aka Fotofreddie

PS: Highwayhank1 is one of my other accounts.

[huppypuppy]

Hank,

The two Mechanicstown trucks look smick, don't they? What does the wetdown symbolise - the trucks entering service for the first time or something else?

Joe