| Date | Apr 20, 2026 |
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| First and Last Name | Hall |
| Entry Type | GENERAL PASS ON |
| Your entry | |
| -Eone stripped and dropped off at CMF. All equipment in back far bay. -Cribbing from RT1 returned |
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| Date | Apr 20, 2026 |
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| First and Last Name | Captain Clemens |
| Entry Type | GENERAL PASS ON |
| Your entry | |
| E715 taken to CMF Unit equipment taken off in engine room |
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| IF DEFECT, WAS A REPAIR REQUEST MADE? | YES |
| Date | Apr 19, 2026 |
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| First and Last Name | Heflin |
| Entry Type | GENERAL PASS ON |
| Your entry | |
| E-One out of service. Pump would not throttle up and the throttle lights were acting like it wasn't in PSI or RPM mode. Defect submitted. We were told to leave wagon here and wait and see what CMF wanted to do with it in the morning White wagon is in service, the federal Q is not functioning. Switchover list emailed to Officer's and master's with a hard copy in the Captain's office. | |
| IF DEFECT, WAS A REPAIR REQUEST MADE? | YES |
| Date | Apr 17, 2026 |
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| First and Last Name | Welsh |
| Entry Type | GENERAL PASS ON |
| Your entry | |
| Pump screen on E715 written up for being unresponsive on a call and not turning on later in the shift. Leaking tire pressure sensor removed from driver side front tire of E715 |
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| Date | Apr 17, 2026 |
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| First and Last Name | Len Newman |
| Entry Type | APPARATUS DEFECT |
| APPARATUS DEFECT | |
| UNIT | A715 |
| Your entry | |
| Main Federal PA300 siren is not working. Head unit powers up but produces no sound. Alpha siren is working normally. Defect submitted. | |
| IF DEFECT, WAS A REPAIR REQUEST MADE? | YES |
| Date | Apr 05, 2026 |
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| First and Last Name | KITNER |
| Entry Type | GENERAL PASS ON |
| Your entry | |
| New Humat valve placed on E715 JOC telephone number stored in all zello phones Fire alarm people are still here |
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| IF DEFECT, WAS A REPAIR REQUEST MADE? | NO |
| Date | Apr 13, 2026 |
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| First and Last Name | Heflin |
| Entry Type | GENERAL PASS ON |
| Your entry | |
| -Switched into RT-1. All equipment is ours with the exception of the wood cribbing and the ladders. Waterway is OOS as the truck does not have a monitor on the end of it. -Truck 15s cribbing was brought back and put by the extra gear shelf. We also still have RT4s cribbing behind the brush truck that will need to get returned at some point. -Obtained replacement 8ft ny/boston rake hook from when the hook got crushed by the rungs. The hook is currently on the stick of RT1 -headset that was on the ladder truck tagged for courier due to high pitch feedback depending on position on the cable. |
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| Date | Apr 12, 2026 |
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| First and Last Name | Starin |
| Entry Type | GENERAL PASS ON |
| Your entry | |
| -CMF looked at RT-1 and fixed the air leak but found several other issues that they deemed too extensive to fix today. They told us to switch out and per the DOC to switch into RAT-7. CMF informed us that RT-1 will be fixed tomorrow (Monday). With the truck already at CMF, we decided to equip the tower with as much equipment as we could reasonably fit, and leave the rest of our equipment on RT-1 with the expectation that we will be switching back in to it tomorrow. Everything on RAT-7 is ours minus ground ladders. The fuel gauge and generator on RAT-7 are broken, no other issues were found. -Medic unit was found with a bald drivers side inner duel, replaced by rice tire. -The bay door for the engine (front) was written up for not closing. The issue is intermittent and sometimes it closes, other times it almost closes and then goes back up. |
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| Date | Apr 12, 2026 |
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| First and Last Name | Captain Clemens |
| Entry Type | GENERAL PASS ON |
| Your entry | |
| RT1 16-0594 brake chamber blowing air out once parking brake is released. >10psi in 1 minute fail brake test. Running Rescue Squad . BC701 notified. |
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| IF DEFECT, WAS A REPAIR REQUEST MADE? | YES |
| Date | Apr 11, 2026 |
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| First and Last Name | Captain Clemens |
| Entry Type | GENERAL PASS ON |
| Your entry | |
| RS715 4 gas would not calibrate LEL. In the outbox. | |
| IF DEFECT, WAS A REPAIR REQUEST MADE? | YES |
| Date | Apr 09, 2026 |
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| First and Last Name | Jason Kurtz |
| Entry Type | GENERAL PASS ON |
| Your entry | |
| Washing Machine was written up for draining into the bunkroom, drain was rerouted into the sink. Request made to have bunkroom carpet professionally cleaned. |
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| Date | Apr 08, 2026 |
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| First and Last Name | Welsh |
| Entry Type | GENERAL PASS ON |
| Your entry | |
| E715 Lifepack and Lucas serviced A715 OOS for coolant leak, in RA24 for now Contractors in station working on fire alarm system, |
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| IF DEFECT, WAS A REPAIR REQUEST MADE? | YES |
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