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The engines are purchased by the California Office of Emergency Services and given to local fire departments as a spare engine. It can be used by the local department as a back up engine  By receiving this engine, the local fire department is required to staff and respond to emergencies around the state. Most of the time, it is wild land fires but can be any emergency like flooding or earthquakes etc. 

JULIAN AND CUYAMACA TO LOSE PARAMEDIC ENGINE STARTING JAUNARY 1

On 12/16/2017 at 11:05 AM, Rescue51 said:

 As a side note, it is interesting in the procession, the lead fire truck behind the hearse, appeared to be Mack (circa 1995 +/- ??).  I did not know Cal Fire was still running those. 

It is probably a hand me down from CAL FIRE as it is Fresno County Fire Brush 77.

These are not LAFD bought type 3 engines. They are CAL OES engines supplied to LAFD. They can be used by LAFD for free for day to day use (restrictions apply) but must be staffed by LAFD for strike team assignments when called upon by OES.

edit: maybe I am wrong but if I had to guess, I still think they are CAL OES engines.

On 3/13/2017 at 11:26 AM, 41engine41 said:

Secondly, it seems on Broadcastify.com LACoFD Blue 3 has been removed ot taken down or not monitored. Is this permenant or just temporary? Is Blue 3 still in operation?

I am almost certain this broadcaster provided the feed for Blue-3  especially since he provides other LACoFD feeds. He may have family or friends from around the county providing the feeds for him to broadcast and for whatever reason, the person for Blue-3 can no longer provide the feed. That is just a guess. Try contacting him and ask. 

http://www.radioreference.com/apps/user/?uid=357135

Back in the 1990s, the California Fire Chiefs Association decided to reduced miscommunication by having city/county FDs renumber apparatus  so there are no same numbered apparatus in the whole county. They wanted to reduce the miscommunication on larger incidents where you may have 2 or 3 Engine 1s and etc.. This would also help on strike teams. I know of different counties that renumbered to 2, 3 or 4 digit numbering. Sometimes this stuck. Other times it did not stick. There are still remnants of this in Riverside County. Idyllwild fire has engine 621 and etc.. Murrieta fire used to be 631, 632 etc. before abandoning it along with other cities. I am not really familiar with San Diego county but I am guessing that is how the 4 digit numbering came about. Someone finally decided to implement it. Another chief decided to abandon it. I have never been a fan of digit apparatus numbering (except for CAL FIRE where it is needed). It seemed to be more complicated than it had to be. 2 and 3 digit numbering is fine by me.

An email was sent out to registered members stating that due to the growth of the website, they couldn't keep up with the costs associated with the website. They have decided to go to a pay model. With this model, they plan on rolling out services where information on fires will be closer to real time. 

I was under the impression this website already covers all of California. There was a recent thread on SFFD green lights and a couple of threads. It just seems most of the posters are interested in Southern California (especially Los Angeles and San Diego counties). IMO, it is up to the owner if he wants to expand out. It wouldn't bother me either way.

It is the new truck out of Jumal and I don't know why it is a 2 digit number. The recently acquired patrols also have a 2 digit number from the picture I saw online.

The truck is on the SDCFA website.

http://www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/sdc/sdcfa.html

Things could change.

http://www.sbsun.com/general-news/20160229/san-bernardino-fire-annexation-delay-hint-of-reversal-monday

Engine 264 has been moved to Station 86 - Glendora. Quint 86 has been moved to Station 64 - San Dimas.

I believe the city council has already voted to outsource the fire dept to the county. It just has to go through all the regulatory things now. Expected start date is July 1st. All properties within the city will be assessed an additional $148 a year for the county fire dept.

http://www.sbsun.com/government-and-politics/20160127/san-bernardino-gets-148-parcel-tax-fire-outsourcing

CHP has 1 flight officer/paramedic on each of their helicopters. Their primary purpose is law enforcement but do respond traffic collisions and rescue type situations in rural areas. Usually, medical helicopters are the primary transport of all patients but CHP can and are used when needed.

Blythe apparently has a strong volunteer fire department. I don't think the city asked for a formal bid from the county but I think they got a rough estimate and the city said they could not afford it.

http://www.emtbravowest.com/index.php?/topic/328-lacofd-airship/

I have heard information that I have not seen reported. It is still hearsay so consider this to still be rumor. I don't know if the accident was north or southbound so let's assume northbound. The engine where the engineer was detained had parked in the number 1 lane of the southbound 805. It was not apart of the accident scene but was causing a hazard on the southbound side. The CHP officer asked the engineer 3 times to move the engine because it was a hazard to the southbound traffic. I don't know why the engineer did not comply. I can still see egos involved and it never should have escalated to the point of the engineer being detained but it happened. I can at least somewhat understand the officer's frustration.

Which department are you referring to? There are many fire departments with those designations.

And SDFD cannot bid on it because they helped craft the RFP.

Well, they could if they threw out this RFP and have a third party make up a new RFP.

It was a medical problem related to the job. His name was Shawn Bayer.

Due to California law, SDFR may not be able to just take over the ambulance service. They would have to bid like all of the other ambulance companies.

Section 1797.201 of the Health and Safety Code states: "Upon the request of a city or fire district that contracted for or provided, as of June 1, 1980, prehospital emergency medical services, a county shall enter into a written agreement with the city or fire district regarding the provision of prehospital emergency medical services for that city or fire district. Until such time that an agreement is reached, prehospital emergency medical services shall be continued at not less than the existing level, and the administration of prehospital EMS by cities and fire districts presently providing such services shall be retained by those cities and fire districts, except the level of prehospital EMS may be reduced where the city council, or the governing body of a fire district, pursuant to a public hearing, determines that the reduction is necessary."

Hence, fire departments who have provided a level of EMS service since June 1, 1980 can continue to provide that same level of service until such time the fire department enters into a formal agreement with the county of a defined level of service.

It has been reported that one of the events that led to the deaths of these firefighters were their radios. Is this a digital radio system ?

They were using analog conventional radios. One of the problems was that some radios were not programmed with the correct tone guard. Apparently, they did have some workarounds.

Here is a investigative video review of the incident. There is a lot that is known but a lot that is not known due to no survivors.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSxSqjRmxIE#t=0