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  1. wildwest

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    Yikes! WWW went to a big fire for the volunteer fire dept. I pray they all stay safe! What I want to know is why they are calling his station way west of town when the house fire is way east of town?!? He said he could see his stations fire trucks on the interstate while he was driving there.
     
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    :confused: He just sent a pic, the whole house is in flames :(
     
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    Agree, hope hubby and everyone else get home to their families safe tonight!!
     
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    They are all safe and fine. Word is the house was not occupied (I pray that is correct). He just got home. There are no fire hydrants there.....
     
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    Oh boy. Honey do list..... So she's on vacation, and you're not.;)
     
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    :rofl: :lol::rofl: :lol::rofl: :lol::rofl: :lol:

    I tried that during quarantine, with all us home all day the house got much worse instead of spring cleaning and honey do lists :picard::rofl: :lol::doh::rofl: :lol:
     
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    BAHAHAHAHHHHHH!!

    I had the FJ towed to the place WWW brings his work trucks and I told him who I was and who WWW is so he knew he gets alot of business from our personal vehicles and the shops vehicles. Tire guy called me back and I went with the Cooper Discoveries, and then he called WWW a couple days later if if WWW wanted to fix other stuff. I LOVE IT!! The least place you think about, people are looking out for your good. Too much like you members here, we love and care for each other. And look out for one another. God Always Wins :) Anyway the guy also told WWW a place to take my Duramax to finally solve the fuel starvation problem (omg WWW wants to remove all the smog stuff :rofl: :lol: we'll see when we can afford that, when we do that according to our budget..........)

    LOVE IT
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    I AM FORTUNATE AND BLESSED
     
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    Good tires.
     
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    Big fire, low turnout, and or hot as hell. We get called all the way across the county on a big fire. Especially 8n the summer. It's just so dam hot, not even one cylinder of air and folks are beat. Your basically wearing fireproof quilts in a room that's several hundred degrees. Then you come outside and it's 100 degrees, feels like AC but it's takes a bit to cool back down. If you have two teams or more that's a good bit of people that are needed to have several rotations. If your surrounding and drowning the structure you don't need as many people, especially if you can hang a hydrant and use a deck gun .
     
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    There is a bunch of different Cooper discover tires. I think every truck tire Cooper makes carries the Discoverer name. It's either like the AT, AT3, HT, STX etc.

    I still have two of the AT2 on my Highlander. One had a broken belt or something and I ran over a bolt and the tire went flat instantly on the internet and broke the bead. That's when I had the flat a few weeks back. Due to the tires were pretty worn, the bad belt and now wear ring on the side where it rolled on the rim I just bought two new tires. I went with some random cheap Korean tires. I have had good luck out of no names. The seem to last just as long for me and cost less. Michellens seem to last a good while, but they also cost more than double. I'd rather have new tires twice as often and possibly get more miles out of those two sets vs one set of high dollar tires.
     
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    It was a class 10 zone, no fire hydrants, they needed the tanker trucks from the station out here if I understand correctly.
    I think I got the AT3 10 plys. Idk, I'm sure I'll be fine :)
     
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    Yea we also get called for those. Most of the county doesn't have hydrants either. But we're WAY better than class 10. But we still have to run water shuttles. .y station just last year got a brand new 3000 gallon tanker. We also have a 2000 gallon tanker. We have a substation in our district that houses the smaller one.

    The big one is a Mack Granite series tandem chassis. Same truck that you see as concrete or dump trucks. It's like a Cadillac of trucks. We had it custom built to our specs. It's a gold bulldog truck.
    Got it from a FEMA grant
     
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    I'm sorry, I should not have said class 10, that was the designation at my previous house in the mountains, tons of trees....beetle kill dead trees etc. This was pretty desolate except for brush and grass. I should not have assumed. But man, that class 10 at our old house killed us on home owners insurance!
     
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    Brown thing in the green is a white tail.. dogs barking, radio on, just put down a sander. 3AE92F8E-EC5D-4079-AB42-CE6B587CD269.jpeg
     
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    Pretty heavy truck for 3000 gallons. Single axle 32000 pound chassis everywhere around here hold that on the road everyday.
     
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    I am so tired of SLING blanking out when I am watching the news!
     
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    Sling is one of the few that I've not tried. Is it blanking for local news?
     
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    According to the commercials, you should invite the neighbors over . Seems the way to go, but I don't sling..... ;)

    :rofl: :lol:
     
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    Sounds like single isolated structure and a surround and drown scenario. If they're that far out and fully involved when initial attack gets there, no choice but to call for extra engines to make sure it doesn't spread to the wildland. Doubt anyone even donned SCBA's , just set a perimeter and hosed it down after a while.
    Water conservation is critical if you're only relying on the tanks the engines are carrying.
     
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