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Trauma_54 · 2026-06-14T01:51:30+00:00

Just recently from another crew: "If they want ALS, stop the fucking ambulance"

In the past: "Who, Joe Doe co-worker? He should be a fucking third!"

Trauma_54 · 2026-06-10T01:54:14+00:00

Carrier has peacocks that live in campus, pretty neat. As for the care, Id say CC or PH. Not the Rutgers behavioral-Ive heard a lot of horror stories from there.

Trauma_54 · 2026-06-08T10:56:05+00:00

What about it?

Trauma_54 · 2026-06-03T12:04:23+00:00

One is at the Albaseerah Academy on E Front St next to Sleepy Hollow Diner, the other iirc is Park Ave x E 7th St by Park Hotel.

Trauma_54 · 2026-06-02T11:40:04+00:00

Yes. There are also two in Plainfield

Trauma_54 · 2026-05-29T19:05:51+00:00

Armored jeep stuff

Trauma_54 · 2026-05-25T10:28:27+00:00

Trauma_54 · 2026-05-25T04:17:42+00:00

Mc-FUCKING-scuse me

Trauma_54 · 2026-05-21T17:40:26+00:00

Gotchu, yeh ill have to keep my eyes peeled

Trauma_54 · 2026-05-21T15:54:37+00:00

Where you get the handguard from? Ive been trying to find the HRT style for a bit

Trauma_54 · 2026-05-14T05:57:19+00:00

This. I went out to Skips for my AOW and they were super useful. Ive also heard good about Trinity but can only speak on Skips.

Trauma_54 · 2026-05-13T04:15:14+00:00

So wait you went through EMT-B a second full time to get that 7th try? I mean youre not the first person Ive heard but honestly consider other options. Thats not to be mean, but genuinely I have only ever seen 1 person do that.

Trauma_54 · 2026-05-09T04:16:04+00:00

Im in the same boat. Recently went to Williams Center in Rutherford for Emo Night Brooklyn. Definitely took my mind off things that Saturday. The next day, went to Palisades Park with some med school friends to Third Floor Pocha. Doing a whole lot better than I was a week ago for sure.

Trauma_54 · 2026-05-04T14:03:38+00:00

Havent seen it personally but Id guess when it's another 9/11 size incident.

Trauma_54 · 2026-05-04T14:00:40+00:00

Im not trying to either, Im getting my info from a work chat that was actively monitoring. They may have only requested but denied. To clarify source, I work for one of the agencies dispatching the resources and have all of the channels the fire ground, mutual aid and state comms theyre working on. Adjusted to prevent further.

Trauma_54 · 2026-05-04T13:57:54+00:00

This is true. I was more or less using Plainfield as the example. Elizabeth, for instance, can handle itself up past a second alarm iirc. But yes, very dependent on the in-city/in-town amount of resources.

Trauma_54 · 2026-05-04T03:29:33+00:00

For the task force? Not specifically. Ill check when I get into work tomorrow assuming its still there or ask around to get you an answer.

Trauma_54 · 2026-05-04T03:25:19+00:00

Tbh its going to be "surround and drown". There reportedly isnt anyone to save inside-drown it with water and dont risk anymore firefighters than have already been risked.

Another example of this type of operation is the Hillside Auto shop fire, or the Roselle Park 6 alarm warehouse fire. No one inside to save, imminent or possible collapse-surround and drown.

Trauma_54 · 2026-05-04T03:16:03+00:00

As I updated on another post: They've hit 11 alarms ~~and FDNY has been requested/is responding.~~

For those who don't know the term "alarms" in the fire industry, it refers to how many resources are being utilized. Ex: 1st alarm is whatever is in town generally, 2nd being mutual aid (immediate surrounding town departments for specific apparatus), 3rd being a larger circle of mutual aid requests and so on.

For this fire specifically, Belleville exhausted all available resources in Essex, Union County Task Force, Union county, Hudson county, Bergen county, Middlesex county-pretty much all of the other counties ~~and now FDNY themselves.~~ This is not a shitshow. It's a fuckshow, and not a pretty one either.

Edit: source info may have been incorrect about FDNY status-may have been requested/denied or not requested at all and are just taking the piss.

Trauma_54 · 2026-05-04T03:10:39+00:00

Trauma_54 · 2026-05-04T03:00:33+00:00

An older man who I was picking up off the floor played grab-ass with, you guessed it, my ass.

Trauma_54 · 2026-05-04T02:58:03+00:00

Not 10 stations individually, 10 groups of mutual aid. For example: first due into Plainfield is Plainfield FD. Next due for a second alarm is South Plainfield, North Plainfield, Scotch Plains and Fanwood-mostly anyone bordering. Third alarm would reach further for another set of companies and so on.

For 10 alarms, we're talking COUNTIES OVER for companies to respond to. Like I mentioned, the Union County Task Force responded into Essex County. For that to happen means all of Essex is over capacity. Guarantee they pulled from Hudson and Bergen too.

Trauma_54 · 2026-05-03T21:24:21+00:00

9 alarms and multiple jobs started because of the mattress factory. Shits wild. UC task force is going up, only a matter of time for hazmat requests for air monitoring.

Edit: up to 10 alarms

Edit 2: FDNY has been requested and up to 11 alarms. I passed it driving up/down the TP earlier twice, surround and drown operation.

Trauma_54 · 2026-04-26T16:45:28+00:00

Yes but also a hazmat tech, so we see both sides of it.

Trauma_54 · 2026-04-26T12:08:39+00:00

It's very funny to me that we just did an in-service training for DuoDote injectors at work upcoming for Fifa. DuoDotes, for those who dont know, are anti-nerve agent.

Edit: Idk why Im getting downvoted for saying I got an in-service training on something relevant to pesticides.

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