CHIEFOPS said:That's not an aerial??
StEaLtH2 said::salivate: :jawdrop:
City of Orange FR in California. It's on a Seagrave.firefighter7017 said:I second this.
Seriously, that is an amazing truck. I knew there was a tiller Rescue somewhere in California, but I thought that was the only one.
zackvv said:
Snibsey said:John Q Taxpayer certainly gets ripped-off when it comes to paying for fire protection. Thirty fire stations to serve a city of about half a million: ridiculous. This side of The Pond fire stations have been closed and the number of fire appliances reduced because there has been a huge decrease in the number of fires over the past twenty years. I guess it's an attitude difference. In the USA you spend all your time worrying about the gold leaf and chrome on your "Parade Queens". In the UK we concentrate on preventing fires.
Snibsey said:John Q Taxpayer certainly gets ripped-off when it comes to paying for fire protection. Thirty fire stations to serve a city of about half a million: ridiculous. This side of The Pond fire stations have been closed and the number of fire appliances reduced because there has been a huge decrease in the number of fires over the past twenty years. I guess it's an attitude difference. In the USA you spend all your time worrying about the gold leaf and chrome on your "Parade Queens". In the UK we concentrate on preventing fires.
Give it another few years when all the cheap building materials and electronics start to fail. You live in plastic. Have fun.Snibsey said:John Q Taxpayer certainly gets ripped-off when it comes to paying for fire protection. Thirty fire stations to serve a city of about half a million: ridiculous. This side of The Pond fire stations have been closed and the number of fire appliances reduced because there has been a huge decrease in the number of fires over the past twenty years. I guess it's an attitude difference. In the USA you spend all your time worrying about the gold leaf and chrome on your "Parade Queens". In the UK we concentrate on preventing fires.
Snibsey said:In the USA you spend all your time worrying about the gold leaf and chrome on your "Parade Queens".
Snibsey said:John Q Taxpayer certainly gets ripped-off when it comes to paying for fire protection. Thirty fire stations to serve a city of about half a million: ridiculous. This side of The Pond fire stations have been closed and the number of fire appliances reduced because there has been a huge decrease in the number of fires over the past twenty years. I guess it's an attitude difference. In the USA you spend all your time worrying about the gold leaf and chrome on your "Parade Queens". In the UK we concentrate on preventing fires.
Snibsey said:John Q Taxpayer certainly gets ripped-off when it comes to paying for fire protection. Thirty fire stations to serve a city of about half a million: ridiculous. This side of The Pond fire stations have been closed and the number of fire appliances reduced because there has been a huge decrease in the number of fires over the past twenty years. I guess it's an attitude difference. In the USA you spend all your time worrying about the gold leaf and chrome on your "Parade Queens". In the UK we concentrate on preventing fires.
Why do people from outside the US think they know exactly how the fire departments are here? And they say it with so much confidence, they have no clue...timlinson said:You think we don't try to prevent fires? The FD here hands out a fire extinguisher to anyone who requests one, stocks and refills them for ambulances and our sheriff's office. They visit schools to talk about fire prevention and safety, hand out documents supporting prevention, plus prevent MORE fire by putting what is already there. They also mutual aid as we're in a grassland with high winds and dry conditions.
If your going to state stuff like that, do your homework. Your from the UK, you have no clue what we focus on out here. We all have different tactics and methods, but known are really wrong. Keep posting like that and you'll look like a wanker(british term?).
And if this is your mentality for everything, and you think your right, I'd hop off this forum now. (Just saying, since you have 6 posts - obviously new)
Snibsey said:In the USA you spend all your time worrying about the gold leaf and chrome on your "Parade Queens".