California Red

https://www.facebook.com/FalckSD/posts/366575781904029
For those with FB, they just had their ribbon cutter. I've not seen them around, yet, but I'm kind of a homebody. I'll need to check Squad 37's YouTube.
 

California Red: Thanks. Tip10 is the PERT kind of unit with trained trauma intervention psychologist, social worker. There were many people in that neighborhood traumatized by the crash/explosion/fire and likely seeing the UPS driver on the ground with fatal injuries. I've seen REDX list before on assignments, and don't know either what that is designated for. It looked to Alpine's chief/BC/division chief, was also on-scene. I am wondering if he just happened to be in the area at time of event.

I tried looking up REDX and Tip10. Got nothing. Interesting reading the apparatus listing, though. Sad event. 

It might be Light duty ship for Helicopter coordination. "HELCO"  I believe LA County has a Jet ranger for that purpose as well.

 

I like that old Dodge brush engine, though I'm not seeing any lights (unless those are the ones below the headlights). 
I used to canoe with my church youth group off of Blythe, and Ehrenberg was right across the river as I remember. I think t was them that had this old Kenworth or Peterbilt tanker. Maybe lime green with white rims. I wonder if that's still around. I always liked what I saw of it, though I've never seen a really good photo. Especially with the light setup.
ETA: nm, it's red with a white stripe. 4431. It's a Peterbilt. https://www.facebook.com/Ehrenberg-Fire-District-142635629732911/photos/365322770797528

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/san-diego/story/2019-12-03/san-diego-plans-to-switch-ambulance-providers-for-first-time-since-1997
 
Switching from AMR to Danish-based Falck comes after disputes with AMR over response times, staffing levels and fines
By DAVID GARRICK
DEC. 3, 2019
 
5 AM
SAN DIEGO —  
San Diego officials said Monday they plan to switch the city’s ambulance provider for the first time in more than two decades.
Fire-Rescue Chief Colin Stowell said the city has decided to engage in exclusive contract negotiations with Falck, a Danish-owned company that provides ambulance services in nine U.S. states including California.
City officials chose Falck over the city’s existing ambulance provider, American Medical Response, based on how the two companies responded to a 73-page “request for proposals” issued by the city in August.
The decision to switch comes after a series of disputes between AMR and city officials over response times, staffing levels and fines levied on the company for not meeting city goals.

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It moved back to 28.

 Thanks for the information California Red. I myself I am an avid follower of the the San Diego  fire department and I know that they have finally been expanding and adding  more stations which happen to be long overdue. When I was last there the fire apparatus was mainly white over red and believe it or not San Diego still owned 4 Tower Ladders of which 2 were fully manned Truck companies and the other 2 were "Jump companies" In case you don't know a Jump company is a fire company that shares it crew with another fire company located in the same station and when it is requested or needed the crew (usually from the Engine) "Jumps" on board the Truck or special unit and then they become the crew of the other company. When I was last in San DIego Trucks 28 and Trucks 10 were assigned Tower Ladders and according to what I had read there was a Tower Ladder at Station 41 which was a Jump Unit and there was also a Tower Ladder at Station 43 which was also supposed to be a Jump company and there was also a Seagrave rearmounted Aerial Ladder Truck at Station 5 which was also supposed to be a Jump company. There was no Truck 11 at that time either however Truck 14 was assigned a Snorkel as it's apparatus.
I  have been trying to keep up to date with what is happening in San Diego so can you tell me if there is an Ambulance 35 at Station 35 yet ? I have seen somewhere where it says that there is an Ambulance 35 but I have seen other things that don't say that. When I was last there Rural Metro had  just taken over the EMS service and there were somewhere around 27 or 28 Ambulances assigned to some fire stations while there was another 6 to 9 Ambulances that ran out of repair shops at Station 28 and they went on duty during the day and early evening and they would fan out across the city and be used to fill in where they were needed. They were also known as Flex units which meant that they were flexibly deployed during the busier hours. They are also known in some places as "dynamic deployment units"  or sometime called "power shift units". If I am correct only ALS ambulance were located at some of the fire stations while the BLS (basic life support ) Ambulances were either  stationed at Hospitals or out on the street somewhere.  Thanks.

California Red I agree that it would be nice if Chicago had a message board however when ever there is a new posting on the Chicago Area fire departments website is there is an open "Comments" section that you are allowed to post observations and opinions on and the comment section does end up being a message board  as long as the message is related more or less to the article or the photo that was posted. The FDNY does have an excellent "Forum Board" where not only can you post questions but  the there are many forums on that board that allows to you categorize the  your question or statement as to what it is related to on the FDNY. 
I don't really know if you are into the New York City Fire Department or not but if you are here's the link https://www.nycfire.net/forums/.
Getting back to Chicago's Jump Bag Units, as someone else mentioned here  the Jump Bags that they are talking about are these large inflatable "Cushion" type bags for Jumpers or people threatening to Jump. They are  what have replaced the the old time lifenets that Truck companies used carry as standard equipment. 
Chicago unit 562 was unfortunately taken out of service  3 years ago on September 5th 2017. I really don't understand why it was taken out of service because it was an unmanned unit and when it would be needed the Truck or Engine company that it was quartered with would drive the Van to the scene if requested. Chicago  was running with 3 Jump Bag Units and they were designated 561,562 and 563. 561 was located more or less in the Center of City at Engine 4 and Tower Ladder 10's house on the near north side,562 was located on the northside at Engine 124 and Truck 38's quarters and 563 was located on the southside at Engine 47 and Truck 30's quarters. As far as I know units 561 and 563 are still in service but the North Side Jump bag unit 562 is not in service. When the jump bag units were initially put in service around the late 80s they were colocated with Chicago's Squad companies of which there were  and still are 4 of them in service. Three of them are in the City Proper  and a 4th one is located at O"Hare International Airport which is on City Property but is actually beyond the City Limits. Since the around 2000 the Air Bag Units were relocated else where.
Since you are from Los Angeles, I presume, I have a question for you. I know that several of  your Truck companies (Light Forces) have been equipped with Jump Bags and I was wondering if the Jump Bags are actually  carried on the Ladder Trucks or is there seperate vehicle or Van that goes with the Light Force when the Jump Bags are needed.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
On the subject of Lifting Airbags I know that the Ladder units in Los Angeles carry alot of equipment on them. Chicago's Trucks do  carry Hurst tools on them however the Truck companies here don't carry any Airbags for lifting and only our Squads carry the Lifting bags. I think that it would be a good idea if some of Chicago's Truck companies would carry Lifting bags like they do in Los Angeles so that we wouldn't always have to wait for a Squad company to show up in order to use the bags.
 
 
 
 

likely a MCI unit or something of that nature.  We have a unit with 5 fully stocked jump bags with 10 backboards and associated supplies  for large patient Traffic Accidents.
Not sure but the pic might be a dedicated dept transport for fighters or a MCI supply unit

Battalion 51 is one of Chula Vista's two duty BC's, Battalion 53 is Coronado and Battalion 57 is National City. Battalion 33 is a special duty Battalion Chief for San Diego Fire 

Maybe those are from National City and Chula Vista?

Construction 4 responds with the Dozer Team, i believe it's manned by two and carries equipment for the dozer.

It could be “Construction 4” which is with a dozer unit. 

The Mount Charleston Fire Protection District of Clark County runs this 2015 International/Spartan 1250/1000/25f 4WD engine from the Volunteer station.

Really any of those areas would be of interest to me. I went to college in Northern California (not SF but Sacramento, FWIW). So, any of those areas: SF Bay, Sac, Chico/Redding, etc. What about the Central Valley, from say, Fresno to Bakersfield, and the coastal areas of Santa Barbara, SLO, Monterey/Santa Cruz? Honestly, the forum says "California - Arizona - Nevada". Shouldn't these areas automatically be covered by somebody who takes interest in those areas?
 
I am somewhat less interested in the other areas, but if they are covered, should it be on a completely different board? I thought EMTBW had a counterpart in the NYC tri-state.

That was a great video! Maybe just me, but it looks weird to me to have the only main rotator light be amber. They had some interesting apparatus back then, though. I was born in '75. It'd be interesting timewarping back to that year and being my actual age now.

In a dramatic show of just how fractured the relationship is between the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department and the San Diego Lifeguard Association, 76 of 102 permanent lifeguards voted to form their own department called the “Marine Safety Department,” and leave the Fire-Rescue Department.
https://ivn.us/2017/12/06/san-diego-lifeguards-vote-to-leave-fire-rescue-department/
What would this do regarding, say, the Toyota arrangement? And overall, is it better for a lifeguard service to be attached to a fair department or does it depend? Anybody follow this situation closely?

Very nice unit. I like water tenders in general. I can't make out the apparatus category over the number, though. Would it be "Water 44" or "Tender 44" (I like the unit numbers to be plain and big and bold. Like "WT44")?

These are Mercy medics who serve the Zone 2 Rural area of East County, there is not much info about them online. There is some info on them though in this article that the East County Magazine did when the county changed from AMR to Mercy in Zone 2 a few years ago.
http://www.eastcountymagazine.org/county-changes-ambulance-service-without-public-notice-public-safety-advocates-voice-alarm
 
"Photo Credits Squad 37 on Flickr"

I saw an ambulance the other day here in San Diego (maybe Adams Ave. or near it) that actually had a red and blue strobe bar on the front (white ambulance with orange striping). I think I made reference to it in an earlier post, but chalked it up to seeing it in a screen on a bus.
Not sure if that's technically legal, but it should be. A combo of blue and amber is always good for rear-facing lighting.

To 'California Red':  Sounds almost like some LE vehicle, or maybe an ambulance from Arizona?   There have been some SWAT teams around the country that have bought either new or used medic type rigs to actually serve as a storage vehicle for all their gear.   Do you remember when the SDSO was providing medic rigs in our East County rural/mountain areas like Julian, Cuyamacas, and Mt. Laguna?  I believe the deputies manning those rigs were only EMT's  (maybe they had medics but I do not think so).  But wanna really age us, go back to when SDPD and La Mesa PD had Ford Econo vans as their ambulances for our city coverage (I believe they were called "Henry" units).  They had the single rotating beacon emergency lights, originally all red, then they went with blue rotating beacons with the single steady red forward lense. 
I too think blue emergency light would be great on fire/medic rigs, since blue is better seen at night, but I doubt the State of California is going to allow that.  The attitude is only law enforcement may have any blue.  In light of that (excuse the pun), I have stated I think in the front and side, the combo of red and white lights works best for recognition by motorists, and in the rear, a combo of red and amber. 

were did you get the ifo on that