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Disabled firefighter about to become homeless needs help
I came down with fibromyalgia 9 years ago and rapidly lost a promising 25 year career in the motorcycle industry that was just getting its stride and hitting the big time. I found a new purpose and way of feeling proud to be a member of the human race by joining volunteer fire and EMS. I moved back to NY, something I swore I'd never do, to live again with my childhood sweetheart, despite high unemployment, taxes and housing costs.
Since then, I was lied to and manipulated by two EMS agencies, nearly lost my wife, lost most of the family
she came with, and lived a life of squalor due to the fact that she could not find a job in this job market that would pay more than her unemployment insurance and still provide decent insurance for her children.
We struggled along for several years, me selling everything I loved that was of any monetary value at all as time passed until there was nothing left to sell.
Finally, a driver with no license and a suspended driving privilege struck my car at 70 mph in a 40 mph zone,
totaling it instantly. Geico had refused to pay my claim, so I spent twice the money we had scrabbled together to replace the wrecked car that we had saved to use to move somewhere with a good school district for Rachel's children and where Rachel would be able to find a decent job, and the lies from my past EMS agencies would not follow me.
My wife had to go live with friends as a veritable child in the homes of "friends" to have a place to live, but they would not allow me to live there. I moved into a dingy rooming house full of crime and with no cooking facilities, and proceeded to destroy my ill body tearing apart my wrecked car to try and sell off the good parts, which has been singularly unsuccessful so far.
My wife's "friends" said they cannot afford her and have put her and her 12 year old son, on the street. We ended up with a pair of non-running cars, and I've gotten one running so far, but cannot afford to fully fix it, or to title and register it. The other still does not even run. My wife has ended up in a homeless shelter; I am not eligible for that because my disability is too much at $715 a month, some $250 a month short of my basic bills, forget about my wife and stepson's. Her son has been taken in by her abusive sister for the time being.
I am 4 weeks behind on my own rent and am about to be evicted myself. Despite a very open and shut case, Geico refuses to settle on a $5000 claim, and small claims court is not until November.
I have "friends" who owe me hundreds of dollars and refuse to pay. I have no idea what to do. I've been to every charity, national, state and local I can find or think of, and the referrals are all either dead ends or refer me to Social Services, who say they cannot help me because my $715 a month in SSDI income is too high for them to help me at all, even with a homeless shelter.
I am at a total loss for ideas any more. Like I said, though, I won't beg. I'm not asking for a handout. I'm asking you to search your hearts and decide for yourself if someone whose first priority is always helping others, and has firefighter's turnout gear and an EMS "jump bag" in his car and never passes an emergency without helping has the redeeming qualities as a human being to be helped himself. I fought a lifetime of PTSD as a dual incest survivor and overcame the hurt, terror, and anger that came from a childhood of that starting before 18 months of age, and taught myself to become a good father and human being basically on my own.
Our dream is to have an affordable home of our own where my wife can get a good job and I can continue to be a firefighter and volunteer in EMS, in a decent school district somewhere in NY state. If you think that I am worth helping, and have anything to spare in this horrible economy, and the spirit moves you, you would have
my eternal gratitude for whatever help you can provide. Some living space for my family if you are local, a pro bono attorney if you are local, even $5 would be a huge help. Just $400 pays me up close enough on the rent that I could stay at the rooming house for now; four times that might find a place for my whole family.
Let your own soul and conscience and circumstances be your guide. I will happily pay it back, pay it forward, work more community service for free, whatever you think is fair exchange for any help. If you want to, great. If not, I love you all anyway. My email address is espresso_doppio@ymail.com, and until the overdue bill gets it shut off, my phone number is (845) 389-3714. I just need some help until my wife and I can afford and find a home, move her son in with us, and find her a decent job and get us a reliable car.
Yours always, in love and compassion,
-Adam
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Since then, I was lied to and manipulated by two EMS agencies, nearly lost my wife, lost most of the family
she came with, and lived a life of squalor due to the fact that she could not find a job in this job market that would pay more than her unemployment insurance and still provide decent insurance for her children.
We struggled along for several years, me selling everything I loved that was of any monetary value at all as time passed until there was nothing left to sell.
Finally, a driver with no license and a suspended driving privilege struck my car at 70 mph in a 40 mph zone,
totaling it instantly. Geico had refused to pay my claim, so I spent twice the money we had scrabbled together to replace the wrecked car that we had saved to use to move somewhere with a good school district for Rachel's children and where Rachel would be able to find a decent job, and the lies from my past EMS agencies would not follow me.
My wife had to go live with friends as a veritable child in the homes of "friends" to have a place to live, but they would not allow me to live there. I moved into a dingy rooming house full of crime and with no cooking facilities, and proceeded to destroy my ill body tearing apart my wrecked car to try and sell off the good parts, which has been singularly unsuccessful so far.
My wife's "friends" said they cannot afford her and have put her and her 12 year old son, on the street. We ended up with a pair of non-running cars, and I've gotten one running so far, but cannot afford to fully fix it, or to title and register it. The other still does not even run. My wife has ended up in a homeless shelter; I am not eligible for that because my disability is too much at $715 a month, some $250 a month short of my basic bills, forget about my wife and stepson's. Her son has been taken in by her abusive sister for the time being.
I am 4 weeks behind on my own rent and am about to be evicted myself. Despite a very open and shut case, Geico refuses to settle on a $5000 claim, and small claims court is not until November.
I have "friends" who owe me hundreds of dollars and refuse to pay. I have no idea what to do. I've been to every charity, national, state and local I can find or think of, and the referrals are all either dead ends or refer me to Social Services, who say they cannot help me because my $715 a month in SSDI income is too high for them to help me at all, even with a homeless shelter.
I am at a total loss for ideas any more. Like I said, though, I won't beg. I'm not asking for a handout. I'm asking you to search your hearts and decide for yourself if someone whose first priority is always helping others, and has firefighter's turnout gear and an EMS "jump bag" in his car and never passes an emergency without helping has the redeeming qualities as a human being to be helped himself. I fought a lifetime of PTSD as a dual incest survivor and overcame the hurt, terror, and anger that came from a childhood of that starting before 18 months of age, and taught myself to become a good father and human being basically on my own.
Our dream is to have an affordable home of our own where my wife can get a good job and I can continue to be a firefighter and volunteer in EMS, in a decent school district somewhere in NY state. If you think that I am worth helping, and have anything to spare in this horrible economy, and the spirit moves you, you would have
my eternal gratitude for whatever help you can provide. Some living space for my family if you are local, a pro bono attorney if you are local, even $5 would be a huge help. Just $400 pays me up close enough on the rent that I could stay at the rooming house for now; four times that might find a place for my whole family.
Let your own soul and conscience and circumstances be your guide. I will happily pay it back, pay it forward, work more community service for free, whatever you think is fair exchange for any help. If you want to, great. If not, I love you all anyway. My email address is espresso_doppio@ymail.com, and until the overdue bill gets it shut off, my phone number is (845) 389-3714. I just need some help until my wife and I can afford and find a home, move her son in with us, and find her a decent job and get us a reliable car.
Yours always, in love and compassion,
-Adam
-
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What’s the reason for doing this, wouldn’t it just be easier and more effective to use the trucks that are filling the pools (if in a real scenario) to fight the fire rather than double handling the water
This type of truck is called a Tanker (at least where I live, other places call them Tenders). Tankers don’t always have pumps on them, which you need to fight fire. This technique is used in areas where there is little to no hydrant coverage, or in a scenario where the water supply, such as a lake or river, is too far from the incident to pump water directly. We do this so that when the tankers are empty, they can go right back to the water supply and fill up again. Multiple tankers rotate between the dump site and the fill site. As long as the tankers never stop rotating, the engines will always have water to pump without any interruptions. If the engines took water straight from the tanker, having to couple and uncouple the two apparatuses, and the span of time where the pump wouldn’t be pumping water would waste precious seconds. Not to mention, in the span of time where the pump isn’t pumping any water, the firefighters on the nozzle wouldn’t have water. If they don’t have water, they have nothing to defend themselves with. It’s a very intricate process, but it puts water on the fire and gets the job done.
Why not just use a HVP, there's should be a water source within 3km of some description
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I have accidents floated in one of those tanks for the Scott Air take on my back on the Butler County Fire District Number 1
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Thank you for this scientific experiment.
why do they fill a pool?
Sep Degeus its not really a pool. Its called a dump tank. Tankers (units that carry lots of water, and their main purpose is carrying water) bring water, dump them into the dump tanks, and other fire engines (ones for pumping water to hoses and stuff) can use suction hoses to suck the water out of the tanks. Rural areas use this tactic to establish a good water supply when there are no hydrants nearby and you have multiple tankers coming from and going to the fill site to the dump area. Hope this helps.
Armyconrad ow okay, thx but why they dont Just film from tanker to tanker?
Sep Degeus if you take directly from the tanker, the tanker will run empty. It will then have to go to the fill site, which may be minutes away. In that time, the pumpers can run out of water. If you have these portable water tanks, the tankers can dump the water into there, and the pumpers can use suction hoses to draft water from these tanks, while the tanker travels to the fill site to refill. So these dump tanks are basically adding "a second tanker" to the response. By this I mean the units have water on site in a large tank like a tanker vehicle would have, but instead of taking directly from the tanker vehicle and preventing it from going to refill, they take it from the portable tanks and the tanker can go refill and the tanker can come back and wait and slowly refill the portable tanks as needed. It may not make the most sense but it allows us to get more water to the scene and in a quicker manner.
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0:29 at first it looked like his shirt said overkill XD
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I don,t understand the use of a pool! In Europe we just leave one tanker as buffer that other tankers refill al the time! This way you don,t spill water and in the mean time we build up a big hose waterline with pump from a openwater source a mile away to fire adress. Check out some Dutch firefightermovies.
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Nice job guys... looking good.. great training..
the parts on the collector car could of been used to restore others collector cars like it what was wrong with this collector car
cool vid. thanks for sharing
will someone put some batteries in that damn pack! haha
I've seen a few videos just now of these Shuttle Drills. Can anyone explain what these drills are for? Sorry, I'm not familiar with firefighting techniques.
Jump man this operation is used to supply firefighters who will be attacking the fire in areas where there are no fire hydrants around so there's an adequate amount of water to complete the task
+Courtney Smart ok so what their doing now, what's this got to do with areas that lack fire hydrants ?? i dont understand.
+clarence trotter The fire engine on scene drafts water out of these pools and pumps it to the hoses fighting the fire...Tankers haul water from a water source (lake/pond/hydrant) to where they are fighting the fire.
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Damn I put some new pipes on my Harley and one of the pipes came lose and was not making good connection with the heads? I ran in for like 20 min. Can some one please tell me the bike will be okay? Or why they became lose?
ive never seen a fire truck with a back door that opens like that first engine did. of corse i have little experince with a top mounted pump to, but great water shuttle, tanks did get below half. this also look like a mutual aid training
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I've been involved with this type of drill many times myself. Here's a suggestion: Unless completely empty, we always drop the water in the tank we're NOT drafting from. This helps eliminate "white water" in the draft tank and loosing prime from drawing air into the pump.
Jessie Spears are there 2 separate tanks?
600 GPM is a pretty respectable rate, nice job.
Good drill. When there aren't any hydrants around you have to do something to get lots of water to the fire. Waste of water.... not really. The training is necessary or you might as well not have an FD because the only thing you'll save is the slabs. Love the dump gates or whatever you call them now. They were just coming into use when I was a fire fighter many years ago, and they were on the back of the tankers. How times have changed, and for the better.
when we do a tanker shuttle drill, then just as a part of a complete emergency exercise like a forest fire drill, then with dozens of FDs taking part
Are you in Marbletown in NY? And are your ambulance ALS or BLS?
This is definately a great drill for any department to do, especially with a rural water supply. Just one small suggestion that will help a lot if I may. When the stream of water coming from your side discharges changes from "white water" to slow running clear like at 1:22 and 3:40, get the truck out of there. The extra 40 gallons that you get on a slow pour isn't going to matter when you have a nozzle flowing over 250 g.p.m. Great drill though. Alot of Depts overlook this.
just curious what would this drill prepare for in an actual realistic situation? it looks like you guys did a good job but im a little lost to what actually is going on
koolaidkidz67 water shuttle operations are used in areas where they don't have hydrants at all. They can also be used as a secondary water supply for a department that has hydrants in the area so they don't drain the water supply.
thanks for filming this I wondered how this worked.... very educational
hahahahaha he probably isnt even a firefighter, he wouldnt know jack shit about it.
ok shit for brains, when your house is on fire, i i'll make sure that we "dont know how to run the pour-a-pond" because our drills were a waste of water
imagine a fire that called for 5 portable ponds and 30 tankers. we had to supply 2 towers going full blast and a few monitors (dont know how many) for 12 hours straight. we had 2 4 inch hoses running between the water supply engine and the attack engine. we were barely keeping the ponds filled for 12 hours straight.
Green is also the brightest light color the human eye sees
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i ordered the same one last week, in ALL blue. I recived it today in blue and white. called them no response. Emailed them and shortly after they got back to me and told me to ship it back and they will send me right one. I saw other reviews but i know a few people who ordered from here and never had a problem
ffs i meant to post that on a vid of a 12 year old who said that when he gets a car he's going to put those lights on to drive faster aha! srry
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its funny because you cant drive yet and when you do drive i bet you'll be xharged for impersonating a xop.
they screwed me up over a tire I paid for it and had the reciept they said it wasnt ligid i lost my 200 dollars
where did you get the bassani 550 kit.. cant find it anywhere on the internet?
Awesome.
Hey Adam! ALl I have to say is… NICE! My name is Dean…I wrote one of the reviews on Ebay about this company under deano888red. Ran across your youtube post and had to comment. BTW, are these guys still open? I wasnt abel to locate an ebay store… it would be nice to see them out of business… anyway… take it easy!
Were those flames? =|
ok so my friend has a 125 and i have a 250 he has no exhaust and i have an exhaust but all straight thru exhaust, can some one tell me what could happen if anything on both of our bikes,
what will happen is someone will reply to you after 5 years with no definite answer
Straight pipes should be fine. If your friend has no headers like on this video it will kill the engine but im pretty sure it already did. 6 years ago lol
The pattern at 0:25 is the pattern I have for the rear of my pickup.
I ordered the same light the other day and its on the way. Im getting a Dodge Dakota Pickup and I have the Hawk II LED Dash light on the front and the Vulture L4 is going to be in the rear. So psyched!
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cool video- thanks