What do your alerts sound like? Great rigs

hey brother do u guys sell shirts and hats juat wondering from a brother in Milwaukee wisconson

@@geoffg8840 thanks man! Each truck has a different alert sound

@@geoffg8840 I'll be posting a KZfaq short with all the sounds and the units associated with them.

Thank you for welcoming me in, being such excellent hosts and wheeling that pumper like a boss.

Such an incredible moment!!!

Julian is a legend and always about the team!

“Tell me more about quiet shifts,” said the camera man.

@@WorkingFirePIO "I'd like to hear more about how you slept through the night."

Thank you for watching and sharing your perspective as an elected official!

My pleasure. Emergency services is so so important. Not many constituents/tax payers/citizens think about emergency services until they are in need.

I loved visiting AFR, too! I got to visit Station 5 while I was there and maybe I'll get to ride along with them down the road.

We met you on Engine 5 at the Dog House eating lunch and gave you a shirt!

@@bunker108 yup thanks so much It was great meeting thanks again

Much appreciated!

Absolutely.

Thanks for showing me around your top notch organization!

Hi! Thanks for watching!

Thank you!

Thank you!

That's awesome! Best of luck with your training!

Thank you!

Much appreciated and I'm happy you're enjoying my work!

For sure, excellent people!

Thanks for watching! Do you know of any good Scotland fire channels?

@@WorkingFirePIO sadly not

@@WorkingFirePIO I'm in the UK and can say that these forms of Videos don't exist in the UK. There are the odd few of Ride Along types but that's all. Over here, the Fire and Ambulance Services are totally separate. Fire Service provision is operated by Regional Fire services across England, usually in County or Regional divisions. Some major cities, such as London will have their own dedicated Fire Service operation. Plus in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, each of those has its own countrywide Fire Service. Fire Services across the UK are funded by Central and Regional governments and individual residential and business taxes raised at local level too. Emergency Ambulance cover is broken down to different Service provision as follows. In Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, each country has its own Ambulance Service. However, in England, Emergency Ambulance cover is managed via 11 separate Regional Authorities, each wholly responsible for Emergency callouts in their control. Most will involve territories covering 100's of square miles in size, especially with some having major towns and cities located within them. The whole of London is covered by one of those 11 authorities, operating with almost 600 Emergency ambulances 24/7. Hospitals can also have separately individual fleets of vehicles, each carrying out the transfer of non emergency patients to and from hospitals, to and from patients homes, clinics and specialist centres. These authorities are funded by relevant Government funding, through the National Health Service. Hope this helps you see how it's covered over in the UK.

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Glad you enjoyed it

Really!? Yours is the first FD that I've heard of that skipped the number 13. By comparison, there are 5 different Station 13's in the Denver metro area.

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Come back any time

Doesn't make a bit of sense that you staff an ambulance to do somebody else's job that's already contracted

@@RINEYMOTORSPORTS do some more research. Not all calls get both agencies responding. Response models are data driven and either agency can transport. Built in redundancy makes sense in emergency response.

I agree. In my fire dept all our Rescues (ambulances) transport. All BLS and ALS calls. No private ambulance contracted.

Thanks for those suggestions!

@@WorkingFirePIOyou’re welcome! Also don’t forget our neighbors over at DCFD and PGFD

Thanks for the suggestion!

What fire department is that?

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@@WorkingFirePIO Is there a way you could do a Alabama Fire Department?

I gotta go with green. 505 or 303 is the big question ;-)

@@WorkingFirePIO Excellent answer! I'm kinda' a Christmas guy myself.

Thanks for the offer! The best way to connect is email - eric@firepio.com

Thank you! I was only in Abq for a few days.

The big orange truck was public works. I wasn't able to ask but I'm assuming the operator was removing garbage from the arroyo. Albuquerque Police have a "Public Service Aide" or PSA personnel. Their job description says, "Provide police service that otherwise would be lost or delayed because of workload saturation on sworn officers, relieve sworn officer of non-related or low priority police service so that they may pursue anti-crime activities more effectively. Collect and preserve physical evidence in the field; ensure the preservation of all items taken into evidence and testify in court regarding the chain of custody and integrity of evidence."

Interesting, thanks... I am, always looking for things my small city could incorporate into there emergency services and or things I could send to devs of a game I play with relations to emergency and hopefully soon public services. @@WorkingFirePIO Also saw HND visited you, can not wait to see those videos (on there end) I have wanted to see the two of you together. I probably need to get back to watching your SMFR videos.

"We get down" by Nite Owl.

@@WorkingFirePIO Thanks Eric! Really been enjoying your ride along videos.

The very first response scene was from inside Engine 13

Overtime or Support division fills spot

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There's usually an online staffing system and list of firefighters who signed up to work overtime that day, if they're needed. If no one signed up to potentially work, usually there's a mandatory overtime list that starts with personnel who haven't volunteered for overtime in a while. Some departments hard staff every seat and others may drop from 4 personnel to 3 personnel and not mandatory someone in.

I had the same thought when I first heard the tones! My understanding is they took the original Zetron tones that had been used for decades and incorporated them into MachAlert. They still have the Model 26's in the firehouse, but I watched them and they don't activate when a call is dispatched.

@@WorkingFirePIO I never understood why the old school guys would reset the boxes until I got to the alarm room and watched those lights blink all nights. I never would have understood otherwise.

We just got the new system. The zetron is now there just to look pretty. Ha!

@@mbreeswinecurions... what do your display boards show when no call is actively coming in?

Yes indeed, 48/96.