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  1. 08-17-2011, 10:59 AM #21
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    Quote Originally Posted by 1OLDTIMER View Post
    How can you do THAT...in a moving vehicle, with your NFPA required SEAT BELT ON ?
    In the smaller cabs it was easy. As you are moving your arms around putting on your SCBA, you arm can (and often did) hit the door handle. Ya, we're funny that way, we get dressed and then get on the truck and sit down....while seated we don the SCBA.
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    Quote Originally Posted by RFD21C View Post
    ...And Bones we got you beat on our engine. Instead of the recessed handles on our new truck. We just keep the same 94 seagrave and broke the interior handles so we have to reach outside to open the door.
    Love it.
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    New NFPA guideline: 5 point harness seatbelt and attached safety lanyard with giant lobster claw hook tethered to a suitible mounting point afixed to the frame.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fireeaterbob View Post
    New NFPA guideline: 5 point harness seatbelt and attached safety lanyard with giant lobster claw hook tethered to a suitible mounting point afixed to the frame.
    Sounds like something a Phila lawyer scribed, and will this be a "guideline" or mandate ?
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    Quote Originally Posted by 1OLDTIMER View Post
    Sounds like something a Phila lawyer scribed, and will this be a "guideline" or mandate ?
    Neither, it was sarcasm.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BoxAlarm187 View Post
    Neither, it was sarcasm.
    I kinda thought so, but sometimes takes awhile for me to digest it.
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