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Herbie Hancock

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  1. Harmonic balance manager or interventional management?
  2. You ain’t livin’ until you’ve flown 50 miles more or less sideways in an Augusta 109, piloted by what I always assumed is a former IRA member, chewing on an unlit strawberry philly cigar and yammering on in unintelligible Irish jibberish about the snotty weather. Military trained pilots > civilian trained every day and twice on Sunday
  3. Tickets can be purchased at the gate day of. They’ll just be more expensive
  4. Was gonna say call me back when Global shows up with their 747’s, but it appears they are out of business. That behemoth dropping 20k of product was a sight to behold
  5. I was about to correct you until I saw this. Kris has two going, but one more at the ready if necessary.
  6. Only thru fire hose and not thru the water mains. Pumping water from a distanced water source (hydrant or static draft) to another apparatus that is called relay pumping. There is a wild difference in pressure when talking draft vs hydrant, but you are pumping the water at a pressure to overcome the friction loss inside of the hose x distance of the hose. Because I suck at explaining things, here is my best explanation Connect to a hydrant on corner of Avenue A and 1st street. Static pressure of the hydrant, which is the psi on my pump intake when not pumping anything, is 80 psi. The fire is 600’ down Avenue A on the corner of A and 6th street. We lay 600’ of LDH (supply line or large diameter hose) from the hydrant to the engine that is making the actual attack on the fire(attack pumper). I connect my intake to the hydrant, then connect the 600’ of LDH to my discharge. I then send idle pump pressure thru the 600’ of LDH that terminates at the attack pumper. I coordinate my pressure discharge with the attack engine via radio until he tells me he has 80psi on his intake. My discharge pressure will most likely be 160-ish depending on several factors, the size of the LDH we are using and the friction loss coefficient from the manufacturer; among several other factors. TLDR; you need volume AND pressure to move water. But when you have enough of one or the other, you can essentially move the water source directly to the scene of the fight, as long as you have competent operators and the equipment necessary to do so. I’ve been a part of a relay that was almost 2500’ and at the terminal end we were flowing in excess of 1700 gpm.
  7. Yeah, but the odds of getting stabbed in a bar in Temple are much higher than walking thru the 4th ward dressed as the grand dragon.
  8. No white helmet or white shirt. Herbie was full of shit!
  9. When I was younger, this kind of declaratory statement used to really aggravate me. It still does, but not as much as it used to as I came to realize that the majority of people making these kinds of statements are either intellectually deficient or misinformed. Or both. So I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you are simply misinformed. Every department/agency has what is called a PIO (Public Information Officer). He or she has been designated as the mouthpiece for the agency when high visibility incidents occur in that agency’s jurisdiction. They have been beaten over the head by city lawyers, HR, and their superior(s) with what to say and how to say it. 98% of the time they are a desk jockey position; not someone that is currently assigned to operations and engaged in daily tasks. If you’ll notice, they almost always have on a white shirt and/or white helmet (and it’s not dirty). If it is dirty, it’s because they borrowed it from someone else. Thanks for coming to my TED talk
  10. I’d rather have to deal with the inconvenience of someone going slower than maybe necessary. In two days it will be the five year anniversary of someone driving too fast for road conditions killing two Lubbock firemen and a Lubbock police officer working a previous wreck. A month from tomorrow will be 11 years since a Dallas fireman working a previous wreck was hit and killed by someone driving too fast for road conditions. The second leading cause of death for fire and police, behind heart attack, is involvement in a vehicle collision. Not fire. Not a meteor. Not a bad guy with a gun or knife. I like my job, but I’d prefer to not die doing it unless it’s necessary.
  11. There is a force field right at the tarrant/parker county line. Everything east is melted, everything west is slicker than a greased bb. Big ol’ fat snowflakes coming down out here
  12. You’re not wrong. I have long contended that if fire and ems were to ever be put under the same microscope as law enforcement, public opinion of us would be about the same as the cops these days.
  13. I’m curious how much water it is that you think it takes to put out a single structure fire. As for the bolded, that’s a pretty strong assumption. Is there an ISO study or a fire suppression official that has come out and stated that is what they will do or have to do?
  14. That’s an AR-AFFF foam that is used to suppress vapors and snuff an existing fire out. Not gonna do anything for radiant heat impinging on a structure
  15. 12. I intend to have a little left over to take home with me tomorrow
  16. Starting a pot in a few hours for dinner tonight. Using the Lynn Heitmancjik recipe from 1988 Terlingua competition from page one or two of this thread. 9 pounds lean ground venison, 3 pounds venison breakfast sausage. Pics to follow
  17. That’s Latin darling. Evidently Mr. Ringo is an educated man. Now I really hate him
  18. Because fires like this one and the one that tried to burn all of Boulder County a few years ago are spotting two to three hundred yards ahead of the fire line.
  19. Nah, I played. It’s not hard to see the field on a freshman football team. Now ask me where I was in ‘04 when we played SLC and I’ll tell you a much different story.
  20. I played against Case Keenum, Colt McCoy, Ryan Tannehill and the McCoy brothers from Midland Lee all in the same year and beat all of them. Keenum hit me in the forearm with a pass and I didn’t regain feeling in it until later that night.
  21. Decent dusting in Red River today. Planning to head up at the end of the month if a bit more will come down. Pretty sure this is the first snowfall for them since before thanksgiving
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