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  1. Posted

    5 hours ago, FF Buff One said:

    SacMetro Fire District has 3 new Enforcer pumpers from Pierce.

    They usually have engines Quantum cabs and Federal Q2B Mechanical sirens.

    (From watching various YT Videos responding with lights & siren) .

    New engines doesnt have Q2B

    (EQ2B perhaps? HMM)

    Nice looking none the less.

    Pierce, Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District, CA, 34278-1

    They have Q2B's. They appear to be behind the bumper with an electronic style siren cover. Few departments have gone that route.

    Sac Metro I believe went from Dash, to some Velocity, to mainly Quantum, to now Enforcers for their Engines.

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    11 hours ago, e5911 said:

     Can someone explain Heartland fire? My impression was that El Cajon, Lakeside and Santee all merged...

    So there is Heartland JPA/Dispatch and Heartland Fire Rescue. Heartland JPA/Dispatch is made up of Alpine, Barona, Bonita, Campo Reservation, El Cajon, Lakeside, La Mesa, Lemon Grove, San Miguel, Santee, Sycuan, and Viejas. All of these departments are dispatched by "Heartland" and most participate jointly within the JPA for trainings.

    Heartland Fire Rescue is El Cajon, La Mesa, and Lemon Grove who came together to kind of form one department.

  3. Posted · Edited by lkseng3

    On 4/7/2020 at 11:25 PM, Rescue51 said:

    Great post, nice looking rig, and thank you to lkseng3.  Question, what is going to happen to the current WT you have had there which I think was on loan from the San Diego County Fire Authority?   Since I believe you are in Lakeside FD and have some good insights, will Lakeside FD get a truck, quint or squirt anytime soon to replace E202S (the older KME)???

    WT7251 has been gone for awhile. WT25 from Viejas and WT27 from Barona were the closest in the area before WT2 arrived. Supposed to be getting a new Type 3 soon as well.

    The Smeal/Spartan WUI Engines are the new path forward. 

  5. Posted

    If you look at the top portion of the grill, it looks like a light where the light projected runs side to side along the bar.  Will be interesting and unique to San Diego if this is true.

     

    Example:

    Their light is green and is in the middle of their grill. 

     

  6. Posted · Edited by lkseng3

    WT2 will run in tandem with E2 like they previously did with WT7251 as well as extra staffing during Red Flags.

    From Lakeside's Facebook:

    Lakeside Fire Protection District has a great new tool being added to our line of fire apparatus for the approaching fire season. Our new Water Tander (WT2) is ready to be put in service. It is a Spartan US tanker. Specs are: Freightliner chassis, 196 inch wheel base, Cummins L9 350 hp engine, 750 GPM Hale water pump, 2000 gallon water tank and a 2100 gallon foldable porta tank. It will serve Lakeside for many years to come. Welcome WT2!

     

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  9. Posted

    San Miguel got OES 297 when they went back to being independent from Cal Fire. When they went to Cal Fire, they lost both of their OES engines. OES 305 went to Lakeside at Station 26 and OES 307 went to Chula Vista Station 52 last I saw. 

    As Dloemt stated, the rig/equipment and personnel double as a Type 3 USAR company.  If you remember the Kern County Earthquake around 4th of July, there were several OES strike teams that were sent.

    It would be nice if some of the larger departments (6-10 stations) got more OES equipment to be used on large scale events/strike team deployments. Often times, OES apparatus are used as reserves if the department's frontlines are out of service. The only caveat is if the OES apparatus is out of service at the time of an OES strike team deployment, the host department has to send their own apparatus on the strike team. Hence why LAFD had to get their own Type 3's to assist with OES Type 3 strike teams if an OES Type 3 was out of service.

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    On 6/26/2019 at 4:04 PM, Rescue51 said:

    Thanks '619Emergencys'.  I am surprised the rig bound for Fs14 is not going to 22's, as E-22 has much more run volume than 14's (I believe).  E-16's may be similar in run volume as 22's.  Wonder when the new Truck-15, Pierce, will be delivered, and if that will be the primary district rescue...noticed R-46, Ferrara Fire Appartus (once was R-15, and prior to that the old East County Fire's R-18 Crest] ) has been at shops for a while.  L&A-46, E-One (which once was R-15 and R-22 (if I have my memory still going good), seems to be sitting idle over at shops too.  Back in the day, San Miguel FR was considered a progressive fire agency, as was Santee FD.

    14's is busier than 22's, even though 22's call volume has seemingly gone up in the recent years.  16's is by far busier than 22's and is the busiest in the district.  Last I heard, T15 is still being discussed in the apparatus committee. I haven't heard if it has been awarded any manufacturer yet.  L&A 46 (E-One) is going to be excessed and will be out of service soon.

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  11. Posted

    BR46 belongs to San Miguel.  Since BR14 is out of the county, they are utilizing a reserve Brush out of 14's.  San Miguel's Ferrara Rescue (Old R18) is lettered as R46 and the E-One Rescue/Light and Air is now LA46.  The reason why they went with 46, is because it can be housed at any station in the district without changing the numbering. And if you know the Central Zone's numbering, 46 belongs to San Miguel. 

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    Santee's Chief wanted to see red.  And red was supposedly cheaper than yellow paint.  They will not paint the current yellow apparatus; they will retire out staying yellow.  I heard this Engine purchase was because they were going to build a third station.  Probably not put this Engine there, but rather 4's current rig so Station 4 will become all red (with the new truck and moving the brush to the new station).

     

    Sad to see the yellow buses go.

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  19. Posted

    I have not heard of this happening.  Seems like a good operational plan, but good luck trying to get agencies to turn over their station numbering who have had the same numbers for decades.  It has a purpose, but is not worth the finances that will go into changing everything.  Nothing is wrong with the current system because if there are duplicates, those duplicate units state what city/operational zone they are from when getting a hold of dispatch.  For example when HRT E10 runs into San Diego, they come up on the radio stating "Metro, Heartland E10".  Same with SND E10 running into Heartland "Heartland, San Diego E10".  

     

    When San Miguel goes back, word is they will run using their old numbers.

     

    And what may have caused the idea of new numbering, was the County is currently undergoing a numbering change with their stations and apparatus to go to two-digit.  Nothing will change for Cal Fire stations.  

  20. Posted

    T36 is the new truck running out of Jamul.  It was bought for the new casino going in across the street.  The County is converting to the 2-digit identifiers for all of County apparatus.  Cal Fire will remain 4 digit.

  21. Posted

    I think this makes good $ense.  I think years ago the city should have implemented a triage system through dispatch at Heartland to downgrade calls of which they assigned private ambulance services (on rotation, or a contract with a primary good EMS company), to keep ALS rigs from FD available.  The other thing that makes sense is stop using the truck (T6 or T11) on all the code runs for first-responders where someone needs a taxi service for a headache.  And then figure out how not to use all the FD assets for psych calls (5150's).

    Maybe with AMR now in El Cajon, maybe we will see a triage system put into place through Heartland because AMR units will come cover El Cajon when those AMR units aren't available.  El Cajon used to downgrade calls only when the Medic unit felt like they could handle it alone. 

     

    I believe there is still an agreement with Santee, El Cajon, and Lakeside to still use the closest Medic unit.  Because it would not make sense to wait for an AMR unit to come from Chula Vista to El Cajon for a transport when the CSA Medics are available.  

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  23. Posted

    I'm kinda surprised why E206 isn't in service. El Cajon has plenty of Reserve Engines available at 9's the last time I was there.  I know they have been running with the Brush out of 8's but haven't heard the reason. Figured it was because E206 was out of service.  

     

    619Emergencys I think you mean San Miguel E7611 from Mt. Helix that is responding into El Cajon.  I have heard them running into El Cajon a little bit more.  And I second the talk about the care facilities.  Those facilities are care facilities so you would think that the people who reside there would be receiving CARE.  But that's not the case.  And I do believe that there should be BLS rigs there that would transport those patients to the hospital given that there is not a need for ALS. 

     

    AMR M436 has 2 medics. All AMR Medic rigs have 2 medics on board.

  24. Posted

    AMR M436 is dispatched by Heartland.  AMR supplies the rig and the personnel that staff it.  And you are correct it does run out of Station 6.  I believe that call it was on, M8 was already on another call so with M436 in the system, it was pulled as the closet Medic.  The CSA 69 Medic units (2,3,4,5) don't run into El Cajon unless all of the El Cajon boxes (6 (436),8,9) are already committed on calls in the city.  Most of the time if a CSA Medic unit is running into the City and an El Cajon Medic unit becomes available, they will cancel the CSA Medic and respond to the call in the City.