firefighter7017
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Official "Whacker" or "Screwed Up Install" Thread
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Jarred J.
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Mattdecker
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I just wasted 4 minutes of my life watching that. I don't know about anyone else but I'd be embarrassed to have my captain find out I was responding pov on a bike. I love how he kept repeating shit through the whole thing. And banging his phone or whatever it was against his leg to stop the siren.
Quite the quintessential professional, what with forgetting the address and the four letter words here and there. Top it off with him never arriving at the scene and all I can say is
Well, sadly enough before I joined my volunteer department, approx 4-5 years ago...there was a rather large volunteer who literally would respond POV via bicycle. We have a major intersection which is a 6 lane highway, that he would cross "responding". Thank god nothing ever happened with him getting smacked off his bike or causing some sort of collision to occur. Luckily, I made my opinion known of the volunteer and he resigned shortly after I joined. Thankfully we no longer have any silly issues like this occurring. Around here, volunteers are looked down upon by the career staff (for the most part). Myself being both a career firefighter and a volunteer, I see both sides of it. But this kid in the video is just plain stupid.
I think I would've had a serious talk with the driver of the lead car. If he'd been hit because he didn't have his dash light on, he would've had a lot of serious explaining to do to his superiors, not to mention law enforcement! Rolling through an intersection....especially if you're allowed to go through the red lights....that can be tricky business.
If for some reason law enforcement were to cease providing escorts around here, I'm not sure what they'd do.
What you said about the hearse having HAWs reminded me of something I saw many years ago when I lived in Lubbock. South of Lubbock is a small town called Tahoka, and for many years White Funeral Home also provided the ambulance service. Their ambulance was a '65 Pontiac Consort and their coach was a '66 Superior Cadillac combo. The Consort had a red beacon on top and red grille lights with, if I remember correctly a 28 siren underhood.But the coach only had red grille lights and a tiny little siren. One Friday night the Consort had rolled into Lubbock from a serious MVA near a small town just N.E. of Tahoka, with Tahoka being the closest ambulance. My partner and I just happened to be in the E.R. having come in with a patient from the car races. We helped the Tahoka ambulance unload, as they 3 or 4 patients "stacked": into that little Pontiac. The owner of the funeral home, Martin White and his oldest son Richard, now a retired dentist, had made the run. We were visiting for a moment when the ER charge nurse informed Martin that their second ambulance was coming in from the same wreck. Martin almost turned pale and said "Oh my gosh, I'd bet that Billie is driving." And I asked who Billy was, and it turned out that Billie was Mrs. White, whom I had not met at that point. Now you gotta remember, women didn't drive ambulance back in those days! I almost freaked. I freaked even more so when they arrived at the E.R. and this little-bitty lady got out of the driver's seat. Billie just barely stood at 5'! So back to the hearse business, not too long after that I ws headed back to Lubbock from having been down home for the weekend, and as I approached Tahoka I could see a set of bright lights headed my way. It was a funeral procession, and the coach was in the lead with no escort, which was very unusual, but the red grille lights were clearly visible. And yes......Billie was driving!
SomeBloke
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Jarred J.
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Unfortunately I can only find this on Facebook, so no embedding. Thankfully you should be able to see it even if you don't have a Facebook account.
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1554346874776775&fref=nf
Wow, just wow. :duh:uke:
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1554346874776775&fref=nf
Wow, just wow. :duh:
uke:hi kids call me the seizure bus.Unfortunately I can only find this on Facebook, so no embedding. Thankfully you should be able to see it even if you don't have a Facebook account.
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1554346874776775&fref=nf
Wow, just wow. :duh:
Nice old bus.What is it being used for to require so much lighting?Unfortunately I can only find this on Facebook, so no embedding. Thankfully you should be able to see it even if you don't have a Facebook account.
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1554346874776775&fref=nf
Wow, just wow. :duh:
Maybe a new Police Academy movie. It looks like it still has all the seats, so no room for cool stuff, like, oh, I don't know, radio gear, incident command, etc....
No idea, maybe a prop for a twinkle twinkle little star movie?
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SomeBloke
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Sigh....
I know it's a legit fire vehicle...but....well....
I know it's a legit fire vehicle...but....well....
vonirkinshtine
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Are there seriously additional crew seats in the box as the door with the window would suggest?????
It isn't any dumber than the QRVs that run around US cities.
It isn't any dumber than the QRVs that run around US cities.
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Neat little rig: but what is it used for?Are there seriously additional crew seats in the box as the door with the window would suggest?????
It isn't any dumber than the QRVs that run around US cities.
And a stretcher too!
Look here
http://asap911.com/#medstattop
Places where it would be difficult to manuever full size rigs, ie offroad, large crowds etc.
vonirkinshtine
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Which is stupid because a Chevy S-10 or Ford Ranger would be smaller than one of those things.
That New Orleans MedStat unit is nice. Something like that would've been nice for some of the Motocross and Enduro races we worked years ago that gave us some difficulty in getting to the patients. We had a patient one time: a 58-yr.old guy who hit a tree and fractured a femur. We had to park the ambulance top side while a guy who had a Blazer took us down in the gully where the pt. was. We brought him out full packaged in the back of the Blazer to the ambulance.
justavillain
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We have a Kawasaki mule for the beach and a yamaha rhino for trails and water way areas.
An s10 wouldn't fit the bill for us. But that one above is rather large.
An s10 wouldn't fit the bill for us. But that one above is rather large.
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FFM19
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I have to disagree with you here, my old dept in SC used to have one of these and it actually turned out to be pretty useful. We got it due to having a very large fairgrounds/music venue in our first run area. We would team up with EMS and put a stretcher in the back and use it to transport people from the inside the grounds to the ambulance outside the gate, instead of having to walk the stretcher all around. I can distinctly remember using this on a stabbing victim we had and was able to get him to an ALS unit in under 5 minutes (from responding to transporting), which if we would've had to walk (no ambulance could fit due to the walkway size and the huge crowds) it would've easily taken us 15-20 min to get him to an ALS unit. It is actually smaller than an s-10 (especially narrower, which is important).Are there seriously additional crew seats in the box as the door with the window would suggest?????
It isn't any dumber than the QRVs that run around US cities.
Again I like these units a lot, but they do have a pretty limited area where they are useful. IMO
This isn't horrible but definitely needs some work! Check out the wiring job for the little light he has under the bed cover lol.
Steve0625
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At 00:43, check out the wiring in the door frame!
And running the Cummins while you shoot a video is just plain tacky.
And running the Cummins while you shoot a video is just plain tacky.
I'm still not sure what he was thinking mounting the bottom set of grille lights the way he did lol
SBFD-E-9
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Anyone else notice the LED dashlight mounted on top of the strobe dashlight?
Also, I agree the bottom grille lights look awful mounted like that.
Dan
Also, I agree the bottom grille lights look awful mounted like that.
Dan
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Basically pretty neat, except the wiring could be a lot better. Maybe that's why he has the "no smoking" sticker on the dash ( :crazy: ). What I find unusual is he has all amber and clear lights: no red or blue that I saw, but he has a nice, older Whelen siren.
wilsonbr90
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HILO
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The fail is bright with this one!
lafd55
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Saw this at a local Chevy Dealer in the lot. He has 2 or 3 mag mount antennas, cheesy knock-off grille lights, and he put a decal on his license plate that says fire investigator.
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lafd55
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Gotta love the added sticker on the license plate. That bugs me the most.
My friend who is fire chief in West Odessa has a Mule or something similar that he takes to the Coliseum in Odessa during Fair time and other special events, like the Oil Show that's coming up later this month. He has lights and siren on it and has a Ferno Model 28 cot I gave him several years ago. Works fine, but I like this other one better.
I seen Red/Clear to front and Amber/Red to rear, not counting the HAWS in the reverse lights. Other than the heads in the lower grille, I agree it's neat.
I wonder if DeNooyer Chevrolet in Albany has any association with DeNooyer Chevrolet dealerships in Kalamazoo and Holland MI.
lafd55
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I don't think so, I think it's just a coincidence. This dealership has been around since the 50s or earlier.
7d9_z28
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The DeNooyer here has been around since the 60s, and its 'Robert DeNooyer Chevrolet', probably just a coincidence
Actually, according to the Better Business Bureau, DeNooyer Chevrolet in Holland was incorporated in 1953 and Robert II is the current president. Interestingly, BBB says DeNooyer in Albany started in 1970 and that Joel DeNooyer is president. As for DeNooyer Chevrolet in Kazoo, BBB doesn't list details, but Manta says Bill DeNooyer is president and the business started in 1965.
I remember DeNooyer Chevrolet in Holland when I was growing up. I think they built their place at 8th and US-31 in the 60s; IIRC, they used to be at 9th and River. I also remember thinking either Barber Ford or DeNooyer copied the other's design for the dealerships on opposite sides of US-31 there at 8th St., but I can't remember which was first at that location now.