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dispatcher has a pronounced echo (still) 1249 pm edt - they just did the morning lineup / rollcall - Big Pine is on day off - Eng 310 is Capt plus 3 (per Little Tujunga Station on Tone 11) - Water Tender at Little Tujunga is unavailable lets talk about this Angeles National Forest (ANF) uses Type 3 engines - 500 gallon water tanks - maybe 500 GPM pump or 150 GPM pump - seating for maybe 6 - approx 25 engines in 25 stations around the Forest staffing for each Type 3 engine is usually 1 captain and 4 firefighters - apparently ANF does not have enough money to staff each engine 7 days a week - so some days the engine is "off" - in other words - no one is scheduled to staff the engine - maybe 1 or 2 days per week - depending on the time of year they obviously have a choice - staff the engine with 5 people for 5 days - or staff it with 4 people for 7 days today - seeing as how Big Pine is unstaffed - and probably 10 miles from the next closest station - ANF will probably have to move some engine (with 1 hour of travel time) to fill in at Big Pine so if anyone has a motorcycle crash at Big Pine in the next couple of hours - you might be totally screwed lets talk about the unstaffed water tender at Little Tujunga - ANF only staffs 3 water tenders - 1 person each - they carry maybe 2500 gallons of water - at this point they are down 33% on water tenders because they cant fund 1 guy for the day the Little Tujunga engine is staffed with 1 Capt and 3 FF today - so obviously they have no real problem running 4 man engines I bet they have 20 engines today running 5 man crews - if they take 1 guy off of each of these engines - they can staff 5 more engines - in other words - they can increase the number of engines by close to 25% by reducing staffing on each engine by 1 person but of course - gotta have 5 people on the engine - its the holy grail - is there any logic behind it? - I dont know -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "massfire" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/massfire. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
