Has your department gotten creative about fund raising? Perhaps putting a company’s logo or two on your fleet? Well, the Middle River Volunteer Fire Company in Baltimore County, Maryland has taken it to a whole new level with large ads on its units, WMAR reported — and is making a good living doing so. The department recently contracted with a local HVAC company to put its name two units, including the sign boards on the aerial of department’s ladder truck and atop the pumper.

Mobile users? Having trouble with the video? View it on the WMAR-TV site here.

Want more? Watch a video report from WBAL here or Read the full story at the Baltimore Sun. There’s also an editorial on the Baltimore Sun’s web site What’s at stake with advertising on fire trucks? which makes for an interesting read.

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Video shows passengers and crew at Montreal’s airport yesterday escaping in quick fashion after a conveyor belt caught fire just after the plane landed. No serious injuries were reported.

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More information is also available at the Daily Mail.

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Space between buildings at 80 Lafayette St, in Manhattan, where man fell. Wall breached by FDNY firefighters, reported as ten inches wide. Photo via FDNY Twitter

FDNY crews tackled a unique rescue Sunday when a New York University student found himself wedged between two buildings on Lafayette Street in Manhattan.

On Monday, the FDNY posted a summary of how the unique rescue was tackled, detailed below.

FDNY Statement: FDNY members worked carefully, but quickly, on Nov. 3 to save the life of a 19-year-old man who fell between two buildings.

“Everyone did a tremendous job,” Rescue Battalion Chief Richard Blatus said. “The [victim] is alive today because of what they did.”

Fire and EMS members received a call at around 5 p.m. for a confined space rescue at 80 Lafayette St. in Manhattan.

When they arrived, they located the victim wedged in an approximately 10 inch alleyway between a New York University dorm building and a garage.

The man was lying on the ground on his left side and could not move his head. His foot was twisted and those responding said the force of the fall wedged him tightly in the space.

Firefighters from Rescue 1 and Squad 18 worked to lower a line from about 25 feet above to the victim, and others went into the garage and drilled tiny holes in the wall.

“We wanted to see where the line was to make sure that we didn’t take the wall down and hit the victim,” Chief Blatus said.

Within 30 minutes, firefighters began the precise extrication process.

The wall was made of two layers of cinderblock, separated by foam. The outer layer of blocks, which was next to the victim, was filled with concrete and rebar.

They used a refined concrete breaker to begin to slowly open the wall in a triangular shape. They worked from the bottom up, bringing in the bricks as they went to ensure they did not strike the victim and maintained the wall’s stability.

“It was a painstaking process,” Chief Blatus said. “It was an extremely unusual and technical rescue. It’s something we train for all the time, but we don’t get to do in practice often.”

Once they had opened up a large-enough space, FDNY Rescue Paramedics were able to begin assessing the patient. They said he was lethargic, but responded to simple commands – like squeezing a hand.

They began to administer confined space medicine and were concerned about crush syndrome, so they gave him an IV with several drugs that would keep his body from going into shock and renal failure when he was freed.

“Circumstances with this young man were unsual,” Dr. Doug Isaacs, FDNY Medical Director, said. “We’ve had jobs similar to this before, but this one was unique.”

Firefighters continued opening the wall and once they had enough space available, slowly removed the man to a backboard, where EMS members continued care as they transported him to Bellevue Hospital in serious condition.

From start to finish, the extrication took about two hours.

“This really exemplifies how Fire and EMS work together as a team,” Dr. Isaacs said. “It can be chaotic, but we’ll keep working until we rescue someone.”

He added that he visited the victim in the hospital hours after the rescue and spoke with the man’s family, noting, “They said he equated us to the Navy Seals, because we’re so efficient in our teamwork.”

Related Coverage

• NYU News: FDNY rescues LS sophomore from between buildings
• NY Daily News: NYU student rescued after falling, getting caught between building, garage
• CBS NY: NYU Student Rescued From Between Pair Of Buildings
• Fire Department of New York – Official Site | FDNY Twitter | Facebook

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The Kickstarter campaign underway seeks to raise $200,000 to help turn this into a full feature film next year. A few weeks into the campaign, over $20,000 had been raised with a month to go.

The filmmakers are offering lots of swag for those who contribute, from t-shirts to boot koozies to patches that will show you are a member (or even chief) of Effingwoods Fire & Rescue. You can even pledge enough, like some already have, to become an extra in the film. It is a chance to have fun laughing at ourselves.

The Movie Plot

In a small town where you can pick your friends but not your heroes, an underachieving volunteer firefighter played by Gary Valentine (Cousin Danny King of Queens), gets an unexpected shot at his dream.

Smitty was supposed to be 4th generation Boston Firefighter. When it didn’t happen, his only dream in life of becoming a full time firefighter was gone. No one was more disappointed than his father Richard (played by Lenny Clarke), who on the verge of retirement, and not wanting to become a stay-at-home dad, kicks Smitty out of the house. Smitty now a volunteer firefighter in Effingwoods, NH and working part time at the “Bait, Tackle and Tanning”, is fighting to earn pay-per-call and earn the respect of his Dad.

But it won’t be easy with Smitty’s biggest foe, an unethical town SELECTMAN, who sees the fire department as a bunch of incompetent wannabes, steers the public funding to the town’s one man police department, who happens to be his nephew, Police Chief Kopp.

Living in the town of Effingwoods can take its toll, but one thing is for sure, if there’s a fire, the heroes of the EFD will roll.

More from Hosed

• Check out the Kickstarter Campaign site
• Browse the Webisodes of Hosed here on YouTube

Web Series: Episode 1

Didn’t catch Hosed when it first came out in 2011? Watch the very first episode below or browse them all here.

What do you think of the concept? Post in the comments below.

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Check out their Website at DelranFire.org for information about their organization, more apparatus and incident photos, fire prevention information and more.

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The primary goal of the Assistance to Firefighters Grants (AFG) is to meet the firefighting and emergency response needs of fire departments and nonaffiliated emergency medical service organizations. Since 2001, AFG has helped firefighters and other first responders to obtain critically needed equipment, protective gear, emergency vehicles, training and other resources needed to protect the public and emergency personnel from fire and related hazards.

The application period opened Monday, November 4th and the deadline to apply is Friday, December 6th at 5p ET.

There are several new facets of the program this year, including:

• A new EMS category which includes community paramedics, EMT-P level certified primary care providers.
• A new standard for ambulances, which must meet NFPA 1917: Standard for Automotive Ambulances, Edition 2013.
• Fire departments and nonaffiliated EMS orgsanizations can apply for vehicles under the component program Joint/Regional.
• State fire training academies are now eligible to apply for all AFG vehicle acquisition activities.

Get more details and learn how to apply at FEMA’s web site here

Related Links

• Help with the AFG Program: Supporting Document Downloads

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