343. MAYDAY on Bowdoin Street - Dan Rinaldi

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Thank you National Fire Radio for giving us this GREAT INTERVIEW Dan and I have been good friends for quite awhile now. I was one of those Providence buffs that Dan mentions chasing the fires from the mid 1970s up until just the last few years. As a career firefighter in Connecticut, I learned so much from watching those Providence Firefighters do what they do best. My favorite buff hang out was at the Burger King or Dunks on Broad St., near Elmwood Ave. I consider it an Honor to be a friend of Dan who I'm planning to see in August (2024) and chit chat about our favorite topic, "ladies - NO, it's fire department". Oh hey Dan, I have passed on this video to many of my buff buddies too. Be Safe there Brother.

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Their department ALS ambulances are called rescues. So since that term was in practice it was sensible to call it "Special Hazards".

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The whole state calls ambulances rescues and most departments don’t have a special hazards and there is even even spill over into Massachusetts with ambulances being called rescues. Not sure where it all came from.

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What's fuckin up the closeness of the job more than anything else is 24 hour tours. Back in the day when we all went out for beers or dinner or held promotion or retirement rackets, most departments that were heavy on brotherhood worked some form of day tours and night tours alternating. So it was easier for guys to get off a day tour and go out together. If you were having a party you'd schedule it so you would have 2 tours ín town and another one on the way in (I won't take up space trying to explain this) and then only one tour had to go out of their way to come in. But guys were moving farther away and it was easier and cheaper to commute for 24's so that became the priority over company or department get-togethers. Now it's a huge effort to get guys together. BUT if you have COMMITMENT and DESIRE, it can be done. Maybe not as often, but it CAN be done. I know because myself and 2 other guys organize regular get-togethers. Guys who come on the job now only know 24's. They don't know what the job was like and they don't know what they're missing and in danger of losing. Senior guys MUST step up and preserve the brotherhood or its gone! Its easy to blame young kids and to be honest some of them DON'T get it and never will. But if they never knew what it was and could be, that's not their fault. 24's are the death of the fire service. It is unthinkable that in a four tour department, there is one tour that you NEVER see. We were ALWAYS interacting with ALL the tours several times a week! Company unity is fucked up, continuity is fucked up, training is fucked up and brotherhood is fucked up. Put in the EFFORT and save the job!!

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Raymond Camacho

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18.batt and the 7th.

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