My Last Two Calls with Shaker Road

Truck 9 responding to an alarm drop at the Albany County Nursing home.

Truck 9 responding to a reported oven fire in Menands.

I’ll miss ya Shaker Road.

The Importance of the Engineer

One of my department buddies sent me a video of a collision between E-10 and E-122 from St. Louis. It got me thinking of the importance of the engineer, and how everything can change in seconds.

The incident at St. Louis, E-122 is driving towards you:

It makes me angry. The majority of firefighter injuries and fatalities occur en route to the scene, these are preventable by making small changes to your SOGs. Just because you’re responding priority 1, you can’t assume others will yield the right ow way. Remember the pledge to start wearing seat belts in apparatus? It’s time for a pledge to stop at red lights. Take a second, wind up the Q, lay on the air horn, look and go. 

Red Light plus Red Lights does not equal Green Light.

 Stay safe, stay low.

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