🌟 FLEET FRIDAY 🌟 FDNY BATTALION CHIEF 4 BRAND NEW 2024 CHEVROLET SILVERADO

[@MillburnEmergencyBuff127]

Awesome video, thank you!

[@SkylerFire]

Glad you liked it!

[@songmansteve]

Thank you Skyler!!

[@SkylerFire]

Thanks for watching

[@palletwizard]

Great day for a fleet Friday!

[@SkylerFire]

It sure was!

[@stevewolf9211]

Great job as usual of showing and explaining everything Skyler. Thanks. Looking forward tj the next one. Stay safe brother.

[@SkylerFire]

Appreciate it!

[@stephensaslafsky1535]

Thanks for the B/C car description good job again

[@SkylerFire]

Thx

[@gaborandrejszki2553]

Thank you so much Skyler! Beautiful Chevy!

[@SkylerFire]

You bet!

[@richm7410]

Well done Skyler. Thanks

[@SkylerFire]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@golferpro1241]

Nice ride! They are ready

[@SkylerFire]

@@golferpro1241 yup

[@jimkeappock7558]

Great video and narrative Sky!

[@SkylerFire]

Thank you kindly!

[@donalddodson7365]

Thank you for the information. In San Diego County (California) most BC rigs have a rear Command Post configuration with radios, white board, computer and support.

[@SkylerFire]

Yeah command posts are on the division….

[@chrisbarr1359]

I think FDNY has it right. The command post is one side one (alpha) of the main fire building or in the building lobby. At some incidents you can't get close enough if you use a vehicle as the command post. Plus with a tailgate CP your back is toward the foreground. Personally, I think those who run command from inside a chief's vehicle are too isolated from others on the fire ground.

[@PowderMill]

Great as always! Thanks @Skyler Fire

[@SkylerFire]

My pleasure!

[@firepix1979]

The brass nozzle in the tray is a Bresnan Distributor- basement nozzle

[@robertgreason9515]

You have to be an Oldtimer, not many people have heard of the Bresnan.

[@jonwest2924]

Last few years, new minds have been using it as a poor man’s floor above nozzle on wind driven high rise fires. Somewhere I have great video of it in use as that at HROC

[@davidbott9401]

I recognized it as well. Guess we're "old school" Lol

[@SkylerFire]

Yea

[@johnpappas2060]

Bless Thanks 😊 Beautiful piece. I'm into radios & antennas, so on the next video show the roof & its antennas. 😁

[@SkylerFire]

I’ll try to get a shot of the roof!

[@patrickrobledo8215]

Ok thank you 👩‍🚒🤙🙏

[@SkylerFire]

You're welcome

[@lungley7364]

Very nice rig! Could we do a Fleet Friday on a Haz Tac Ambulance sometime? Thanks, Skyler! Keep up the good work!

[@SkylerFire]

Possibly!

[@richardharris1818]

Good video

[@SkylerFire]

Thanks

[@GrovelandJohn]

Nice truck

[@SkylerFire]

I agree!

[@JimDog794]

Awesome video. That's quite an interesting rig.

[@SkylerFire]

Thanks!

[@davidbott9401]

Great video Skyler!

[@SkylerFire]

Thanks!

[@joeymarron8160]

Amazing vid sky i hope you have an amazing weekend ahead

[@SkylerFire]

Thanks for watching!

[@NeilFaithfull-z3u]

Really interesting, like your videos FDNY buff,from the United Kingdom.

[@SkylerFire]

Glad you like them!

[@states1996]

Insanely cool video thank you for putting it out. Any idea who makes that slide out truck bed tray? It looks very useful

[@SkylerFire]

Not sure thanks for watching

[@SkaMaRtiSt1991]

Can you do a walk around of an NYPD ESS rescue truck? That would be mega!

[@SkylerFire]

Nah that’s NYPD.

[@marksicuso737]

great video as always - do only the divisions carry the command board?

[@SkylerFire]

Yes only divisions

[@24Taroleaf224fsb]

Great video with info on chiefs. How many ffs to the different types of vehicles and their jobs?

[@SkylerFire]

Thanks I don’t understand the question

[@michaelskcrots5320]

Who does emergency upfitting? Private company or FDNY shops? Do you know approximate cost top to bottom with all the modifications and equipment when all is said and done?

[@SkylerFire]

Not sure sorry

[@PremierAutoMan86]

I'd guess anywhere from $80k - $100k all in.

[@AlGenovese813]

Ft Pitt. Great job, bud.

[@SkylerFire]

Thanks for watching

[@raymondguilbeault4585]

I agree I like yours and FDNY Response channels you guys are good for getting information out quickly on FDNY

[@emergencyresponsevideosand4423]

0:07 if you listhen closely, you will laugh for hours, also nice video

[@SkylerFire]

Laugh about what?

[@lukesdailypov190]

Best new Yorker accent

[@SkylerFire]

That’s a jersey : New Yorker lol

[@james-i1d]

thank you for the hard work a lot of info the truck looks like a camel and one more tool will back his back

[@SkylerFire]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@stevenm5949]

What is are duties of the aid ff when they respond as the all hand schief or on a greater alarm chief. Do they operate as a ff or do they just stay with their respective chief.

[@SkylerFire]

@@stevenm5949 stay with respective chief. Big incidents the aide might monitor additional channels

[@ericnilsen9438]

On the tailgate, passenger side, top, there's a round white thing. Almost looks like a trouble light from a taxi. What is it?

[@SkylerFire]

Light for the back inside so you can see

[@stvnd53]

Great video.Radios : last nights building/Brush in SI .Car 8 requested dispatch to activate the "xyz Repeater" what is this new toy????

[@SkylerFire]

Staten Island has repeaters

[@raymondguilbeault4585]

@@SkylerFire does FDNY have citywide dispatchers or just individual dispatcher centers?

[@timmuller1567]

Is the aide a permanent assignment thats bid on or do they just rotate the house thru?

[@SkylerFire]

Whoever the chief likes

[@stephenraclaw3927]

What is the keypad next to the light controls?

[@SkylerFire]

Anti theft so the vehicle can stay running and no one can drive off without the code

[@ianschwarz7993]

Heard the MDT ring when you were flipping the lights on. Was it a call or just a message?

[@SkylerFire]

It was a call

[@DizsLLS2197]

Is that a rotary light?

[@SkylerFire]

Idk

[@EnjoyFirefighting]

I think that this is a remarkable difference to departments here in Germany. We'd never use a pickup truck for that task, but Battalion Chiefs will usually have a van ... at larger big city departments usually a rather compact van like a Mercedes Vito (Metris in the US), and smaller big city departments it will usually be a larger van like a Mercedes Sprinter. No matter what: it will usually be a van where crews can sit inside and have computer screens, radio terminals etc around them LOoking at the equipment in the rear this looks ... a bit messy. Like for a new unit I'd expext them to have a thought-out storage concept where the keep their stuff nice and tidy, and at 3:48 I was wondering if they ever clean the outside of those storage boxes? I wouldn't want to have equipment this dirty (even if it's just the outside of the box) in any of my units. I wouldn't take a rest until it's cleaned

[@SkylerFire]

Talking about a department that sees 7-10 fires a day this is not Germany this is the best fire department and biggest in the world you can’t compare to Germany.

[@EnjoyFirefighting]

@@SkylerFire no need to brag about it, seriously. Looking at some stats when comparing e.g. NYC to Berlin: NYC is a bit smaller in land area and has bit more than twice the population and bit more than twice the number of stations. When leaving stations of the Berlin Volunteer FD aside the FDNY has 6 times as many stations for only 2 times the population, and the FDNY responds to about 4 times the number of fires. Wouldn't that come down to the single station of the Berlin FD running more fires per day in average? Yes the FDNY is the SECOND largest FD (behind the Tokyo FD) in the world, and they're good. But sometimes, for being such a good and experienced department I seriously wonder about some of their tactics, or the lack of tactics on scene of major incidents (sometimes even minor ones). Not saying that we're perfect and they're poor, not at all, but it's just sth I noticed over and over again A high call volume can be an excuse for equipment being a bit dirty at some point, but leaving it dirty is definetly not the way it should be. Or is being the world's 2nd biggest department the excuse for having equipment not stored properly and leaving it dirty? Then I wonder how Tokyo manages to keep things clean ... Being the 2nd largest in the world it would make me wonder even more than Battalion Chiefs will pretty much work with only mobile radios and no actual command post (and no I'm not talking about that desk) they might set up on scene

[@EnjoyFirefighting]

@@SkylerFire 2 more questions I have: 1) why aren't there any higher reaching Aerials in the fleet of the FDNY. No matter if you look at rear-mounts, mid-mounts or Tillers, they all reach only 100 ft high; When they already go for enormous truck chassis, why not go for a higher ladder or boom as well? 2) how do you determine a department being THE BEST? Each department should be the best in its own response area. While the FDNY is best in New York City (what a suprise) ... I'm sure they wouldn't be good at handling e.g. mountain rescue or cave rescue incidents, fires or accidents in long road tunnels, wadden sea rescue or incidents in tight oldtown areas ... of course not, as they just don't have any of that in their response area and thus don't have to be experienced for these things. At the same time departments from let's say Italy, France or Germany would barely be experienced with the response area the FDNY handles on a daily basis. So how would that make one department actually better than the others?

[@lassemoisio4474]

On the side back corner of the car there are two power connectors, red and grey. What is the difference of those?

[@SkylerFire]

Shoreline and heater I believe

[@RedHat2023]

Does whelen still produce the Hi-Way risers?

[@SkylerFire]

I believe so

[@67TRUCK67]

I'd love to see: Marine Incident Response Team, 343 Fireboat, Mask Services Unit and maybe one of the volunteer departments.

[@SkylerFire]

Marine Tactical is up, and Mask Service is also. I don’t know about 343 there is a law suit going on so not sure yet

[@NY.firebuff]

Hey nice video! Also can you visit Brooklyn’s engine 236? It’s my local station.

[@SkylerFire]

Nothing there of interest right now

[@dcentral]

Who picks the emergency lighting equipment for FDNY? They always seem to jump around from Whelen to Federal Signal. The current lighting setups just look less effective, especially the lightbars with that strange pinwheel flash-pattern.

[@SkylerFire]

No sure

[@NickJ01]

Agree got Federal Signal Lightbar but the rest of the lights are Whelen would have been cheeper to go with all Whelen and got a freedom lightbar and gone with rotobeams in it

[@tombattino3319]

Hey Skylar a little off topic but I have a question, what kind of scanner do you use? I have a uniden BC125AT, just was wondering what you use

[@SkylerFire]

I have Motorola radios

[@tombattino3319]

@ so you use an actual radio u can talk into, not a scanner correct? Is that legal since u can talk into it? Also how much does something like that cost? And would u recommend one over a scanner?

[@SkylerFire]

@ no I can’t talk into it. It depends what u are listening to

[@tombattino3319]

@ so is it a scanner or is it an actual radio that your just not allowed to talk into?I have all the dispatch channels for FDNY,NYPD, and EMS on mine, along with all the FDNY tac channels

[@paggs2216]

How many new chief vehicles are on order?

[@SkylerFire]

@@paggs2216 was just 3

[@paggs2216]

@@SkylerFire wow just 3 with so many needing replacement and the Division vehicles

[@omerozbek5242]

Cool

[@SkylerFire]

Thx

[@michaelgarrity6173]

Do FDNY Chiefs carry AED or first aid equipment?

[@SkylerFire]

Nope not required

[@tombattino3319]

@@SkylerFireI feel like every FDNY vehicle should Atleast have an AED and maybe even a small trauma bag, even tho it’s a chief and they never gets their hands dirty on medical calls. It Still would come in handy if they witnessed a bad accident or a pedestrian struck before other units are on scene yet. Literally last night I was driving home and drove past a pedestrian struck by a vehicle that ended up fatal, and an FDNY chief was the first and only unit on scene, they prob just witnessed the accident and jumped right out of the truck (no one else was there yet except the chief I witnessed the accident like 30 seconds after it happened), definitely would’ve went a longer way if they had an AED or minimum medical equipment, Knowing they were first on scene and couldn’t provide proper CFR care

[@mahliekbenjamin174]

New Upgrade For Fdny Battalion 4 In Manhattan

[@raymondguilbeault4585]

I wonder if the other battalion units get upgrades or time will tell

[@SkylerFire]

@raymondguilbeault4585 Batt 3 & 4 had the oldest battalions they had 2011 and 2013… 2016s are next to be replaced

[@raymondguilbeault4585]

@@SkylerFire ok good to know I'm in the Albany NY area so didn't know that

[@mahliekbenjamin174]

Cool 😎 Skyler Fire 🔥

[@ryanl4175]

How many radios are in that rig

[@SkylerFire]

3

[@ryanl4175]

3 mobiles, how many portables

[@SkylerFire]

@ryanl4175 2 on the aide, 1 on the chief… 2 others for extra stuff

[@patrickrobledo8215]

What is efas❤🤙👩‍🚒🙏

[@SkylerFire]

Electronic Fireground Accountability System, if a firefighter is in distress and hits emergency alert button the name of the firefighter will come on the screen

[@patrickrobledo8215]

Will it show his location inside the structure

[@SkylerFire]

No

[@alexnewell8580]

heated seats zuzzz

[@SkylerFire]

Yup

[@NickJ01]

I don’t understand why FDNY use different brand lighting all over their trucks they got Federal Signal lightbar but all the other lights are whelen

[@SkylerFire]

No idea prob all about money

[@Mk99987]

Left out the Incident Command Board.

[@SkylerFire]

Battalions do not have a incident command board only Divisions and Field com

[@raymondguilbeault4585]

Battalion 1 is forever famous because that unit called in the first plane on 9/11

[@SkylerFire]

Ok. Idk about famous

[@raymondguilbeault4585]

It is the most well known unit of the battalions

[@Vladimir-Putin-]

@@raymondguilbeault4585battalion 7

[@BrickCity-BC]

Are you real firefighter?

[@SkylerFire]

@@BrickCity-BC never said I was…

[@MrJohnnybe123]

Who washes the car, bet it’s not the Chief.

[@SkylerFire]

The aide.

[@Nycmade_]

You would never see ems conditions with a brand new rig like this smh

[@SkylerFire]

They just gave them 3 of them

[@billforner3380]

@@SkylerFirecan you do a walkthrough of one of the new conditions trucks

[@xaviersteele9623]

first

[@SkylerFire]

Ok

[@chrisbarr1359]

Lower East Side, aka Alphabet City.

[@SkylerFire]

Yup

[@howiefaust2966]

Brother👊🫡

[@SkylerFire]

Thx

[@whuffer5103]

in encryption, we mistrust

[@SkylerFire]

Some things not everyone need to hear.

[@raymondguilbeault4585]

​@@SkylerFirethat's true but I wonder why Police departments are encrypting the traffic around the country

[@SkylerFire]

@raymondguilbeault4585 encrypted mostly everywhere but the US

[@raymondguilbeault4585]

@@SkylerFire good to know

[@whuffer5103]

@@raymondguilbeault4585 Because numbskulls don't want to purchase a scanner. They cheat and rely on radioreference feeds over the internet. That shit should be prohibited. They ruint' it for the rest of us. I thought we were all about interoperability, but thats so last decade i guess