Saw this today. A new FDNY Seagrave Aerialscope with Federal Signal Vision SLRs.... Looks sweet, a little better then Aerodynamic Pods.
New FDNY Mid-mount with new lights!
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nerdly_dood said:
No that's the new thing. They're going to start building trucks and tilted floors, lol... No that's just a tilt table, checks the vehicles center of gravity.
I like the Vision SLR on the truck, only thing I would question is, with the low height of the pods, and high up mounting and high roof, how much of it do you see?
I'm sure it's visible enough... The truck might just be a test vehicle too. We'll have to wait for a video...
I would hope that there were safety straps or chains, otherwise if it started to roll over during the test... 
Nope, test truck was Hazmat 1, they just added the colored pods to the final version. The bars are also all raised to compensate for being lower profile.7d9_z28 said:
Here was the truck- FerraraFire.com
FDNY also has had SLR around about as long the NYPD, its testing on a few of the GMC trucks, all red/white with the extra flashing takedowns and alleys. I think division 11 or battalion 1 on tillary has one.
HAZMAT 1 got a new truck already!?!?!? They just got one not too long ago...
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It appears the FDNY finally got what it wanted- rotators and LEDs mixed, a Federal Signal product, and it's the most expensive light out there!
I was gonna say about the "new lights" on HM-1. Cause i was at FRI in Atlanta (my home town) and i dont recall it having the new vision bar on there. I love it though.
lafd55 said: "Hazmat 1 got a new truck already?! They just got one not too long ago...."
FDNY wears out rigs like a mofo. That and an unlimited budget. If I had the cash they do I'd buy new trucks all day long too.
FDNY wears out rigs like a mofo. That and an unlimited budget. If I had the cash they do I'd buy new trucks all day long too.
They don't have an unlimited budget, actually Mayor Bloomberg is thinking of cutting 20 companies... If they did, their FOAMs, squads, SOC units, etc would all be newer but FDNY still has a lot of older rigs out there depending on where in the city you are. I always thought the life for apparatus in NYC is usually 10 years. With HAZMAT 1 only six years old and not something that makes numerous runs a day is making me believe they had something wrong with it.
7d9_z28 said:
If I'm not mistaken, the LEDS are in the pod base facing up and the rotating reflectors are angled to reflect the signal horizontaly, possibly in 2 different directions simultaniously.
Storm4200 said:
Back in the late 90s my steady RMP had the all-light streethawk lightbar, working late tours (midnights) I mounted a GO LIGHT on the top of the center dome, was a fantastic asset.
lafd55 said:
From what I was told, Hazmat rigs carry equipment that needs updating the most often, and that to spec out a new truck was cheaper and safer than retro fitting the old one, since there is no spare for the spare. Other city agency Hazmat units are generally also replaced every 5-6 years too.
I was also told that they wanted to bring it up to be more uniform with the current rescue fleet with custom cabs as the, now spare, Hazmat company 1 was built on a stock Inferno cab. That it spent a lot of hour OOS and they need a decent spare rig for Hazmat.lightsrus said: