Fire tones,house siren,East Coast floods brings marine rescues by the hour.wmv

Fire station Fire Alert is sounded as Delaware Valley area storm brings heavy rain late Thursday into early Friday.Structural collapses flooded ground level entrances,basements,wires and trees down and of course...stranded motorists.This one of several boat runs.

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• boat
• river
• rain
• hurricane
• gale
• force
• fmartinjr
• Delaware
• rescue
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[joemagliari]

Omg... You can alyaws count on sth-10 our co.s got the same siren and when i hear the tones drop and that siren go off then i know get your ass to the fire house.....

[fmartinjr]

@joemagliari It's a good feeling ain't it.Especially on a humid low cloud ceiling day.

[oxlab]

Have you guys introduce a paging system like we have hear in Australia?

[fmartinjr]

@oxlab We have it all

[fmartinjr]

@Quickcall I'll have to sneak in there one day(the security room) to find out because I have no idea.That room is off limits to fmartinjr because they know I'll set that siren to blast for 10 minutes.

[fmartinjr]

@GayBoyRunning No offense taken.The siren on the Marine Rescue truck is beat as dirt.This vehicle was a medic ambulance,a HazMat Squad,and now a Marine Rescue truck.And it's from the early 1990's.

And for a volunteer fire station in the United States,thats surrounded by 6 other different companies within 1 to 3 miles away.So this is big enough for around here..,..matter of fact, too big.

[DFF711]

@oxlab Yes. Most volunteer departments have a fire pager that tones out and gives a vocal discription of the location and call type.

[joek0617]

@fmartinjr set it for hi-lo too...

[timberland1108]

good response guys nice and fast

[EnjoyFirefighting]

@usarmyboy8 we cover a city area of 32 sq mi / 81 km².

It is the only career / full time station in the city (there are 7 small stations from the volunteer fire departments + 3 factory dire departments, but they normally don't run the average calls, just when we need support)

Besides the city we sometimes respond to support Volunteer FD in the County, e.g. when they need another Aerial Ladder or an Heights Rescue Truck

[usarmyboy8]

@EnjoyFirefighting i have nothing against that but why do you have so many engines and trucks. do you guys just cover more miliage? but that is pretty sick to have so many different apperatus

[EnjoyFirefighting]

@TheJNix22 well that's a big difference between the US and Germany: In the US there are many smaller stations around the city, here are quite few but big stations. That big station in my city is the only full-time station, and in case of bigger call they get supported by the volunteer FD (4 departments with 11 stations, normally with (Rescue-) Engine and group carrier), and also the three factory FD (BMW, Infineon and Continental). Last but not least there's also a fire-fighting school

[TheJNix22]

@EnjoyFirefighting

You sir must work in heaven! :) lol my city has seven stations with different aparatus in each one. Station 1 has rescue 1, engine 1, and the ladder. Station 2 has two engines, station 3 has rescue 2, an engine, and the hazmat unit, and so on. I only live in a town of 55,000 so we dont get too many toys lol but we recently got 2 brand new rescue trucks. Beautiful.

[EnjoyFirefighting]

@TheJNix22 quite an average size station for us :)

You must know our station isn't the biggest here, but we have 4 Engines, 2 Tankers, 3 Aerial Ladders (each 100ft.), 1 Heavy Rescue, 1 Technical Rescue, 1 Water/Heights Rescue, 1 Command, 6 Chief cars, 6 transport vans and trucks, and also 3 container trucks with 14 contaienrs with all the specialized equipment (like radiation protection or frozen CO²). This year we get another new Tanker, and in 2013 2 new Rescue Engines