- 11/24/00 17:24:25

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Sarah Hyde - 10/10/00 17:20:36
My Email:Shdimples@hotmail.com

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I think that your web site looks better than all the others that I looked at. I need a picture of a fire station and I can not find any that I like. I need it for a school project and the stations in Kansas are ugly. I need the picutre to be the frount of the building. If anyone could help me I would be most greatful. Thanks!

Dan Warren - 10/02/00 21:44:24
My Email:aaafire@npcc.net
Your opinions: good site
Your Suggestions: Could you send more info on your squirrel tail hook-up on the pumps, send close-up pictures if you can, Thanks

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Chris Boaz, FF/EMT - 08/18/00 05:41:00
My Email:cboaz@kscable.com
Your opinions: WOW

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I happened to see a picture of one of your new rigs on the Firehouse.com site. So, I decided to check out your website to see if you had a little more info on it, and WOW, was I in for a suprise. THREE of the possibly the most awesome apparatus I've eve seen! You all along with Darley put A LOT of thought into these rigs. I'm sitting here drooling even staying up a bit past my normal bedtime to try and take it all in. All I can say is WOW, I might be able to say it backwards, WOW, and maybe upside do n, MOM. I am so impressed (could you tell). I'm definetely going to have to make a stop in your district a part of my next trip out to Colorado. Thanks for all the great info and ideas!

Kevin Willey - 07/30/00 10:42:10
My URL:http://www.miltonfire.com
My Email:FF323@hotmail.com

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Great site. Would be interested in a patch trade if anyone on your department would like to. There's a picture of our patch on our department's website.

Paul Sojourner - 07/29/00 01:26:38
My Email:Rattle09@aol.com
Your opinions: Great site!

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Great pics and info on this site guys. I have been collecting all the magazine articles that I can find on RFD. I miss all of you and think of you often. I also miss the weather in CO.(it's hot and humid here in MS) Stay safe and feel free to e-mail me. I hope to visit yall sometime soon.

Hector Fire Dept - 07/02/00 20:38:10
My Email:hectorfd@angelfire.com
Your ISO rating: class 9

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very impressive!!!

Jo Webb...Palisade Fire - 05/22/00 17:00:28
Your opinions: you're the BEST
Your Suggestions: none...right now
Your thoughts: miss you guys
Your ISO rating: 5 in town, 9 out of town

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Tom - 04/25/00 17:56:10
My Email:tommackelvie@bwn.net
Your opinions: Really Nice Job!!!
Your Suggestions: How's about a "Contact Us" page and a page outlining your entire process with timelines. ?
Your thoughts: If you are a "special district" you should put a link to http://www.state.co.us/gov_dir/govmenu.html#special
Your ISO rating: 6-9

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After viewing your "Guestbook", I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one out there "banging his head against the wall". How did you motivate/educate your people to undertake such a project? How long did it take & how many tries? What was your situation p ior to this? - Budget, directors, # of calls... Where is the best place to start & do you have any recomendations? Did your local insuranse agents rate your customers lower than your actual ISO rating before & if so how did you overcome that one? - & if y u get your class 4 will they hand out 2's?...The list of questions goes on & on...

Bob Baitinger - 04/24/00 22:27:09
My Email:amym12@ctaz.com
Your opinions: i think your department is going the right direction love your rigs
Your thoughts: keep going positive direction

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i wish my dept would go your way they are regressing in ways its hard to see my chiefs not trying it hurts but i will stick with it because i love my job and proud to be a firefighter

Darrel Benesh - 04/17/00 14:21:01
My Email:jbenesh@alexandria.k12.mn.us
Your opinions: Web sites like yours sure helps a volunteer dept. like ours
Your thoughts: Thanks for the web site

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John Manahan - 04/08/00 18:05:31
My Email:JMana1@peoplepc.com
Your opinions: Great site, learned a lot
Your thoughts: We need tomake sure the fire service ingeneral sees what can be done when we throw out 200 years of tradition and ask " is there a better way to do this"

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Every truck committee in America should have read this. It would make a great idea book for those who write the specs on new firetrucks. I tried to get those in my department to look this over and they were so interested in buying a 2 year old demo pump r that they wouldn't. The demo pumper is already built and saves a lot of time and meetings. Too bad.

Tim Osborne - 04/03/00 15:40:45
My Email:timmbeck@netacs.net

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I enjoyed your web site.I was most impressed with the amount equipment you were to carry on your trucks. I can tell that alot of time went into planning your trucks......... CPT.Tim Osborne Burlington VFD. Station 200 Burlington Ohio

Mike Pritsel - 03/31/00 00:01:41
My Email:pritsel@aol.com

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I think your fire dept. has some very good fire equipment. I am a Columbus Ohio Firefighter and I wish we had trucks like that we get trucks from sutphen . I also worke for sutphen I build the pumps for them . If I was you I would stay away from this co.< r>
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LT. PHIL MCGILL - 03/28/00 02:12:23
My Email:HFDSPARKY@AOL.COM

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MY SON AND I ENJOYED YOUR EQUIPMENT AND DESCRIPTION OF YOUR DEPT. ARE CHIEF HAS MADE COPIES FOR FUTURE REF. WHEN WE GO TO PURCHASE ARE NEXT TRUCK.

Adrian Borry - 03/24/00 20:13:01
My Email:justborry@desupernet.net
Your ISO rating: 5-4

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Thak you for putting this site on the web. I have been following your story in the magazines and just am in awe of what your department has accomplished as well as the lay out of your apparatus. The ideas found on your rigs will help my department immen ely. The downloads for ISO preparation are godsend also. Thanks so much

Rob Lucheme - 03/24/00 17:49:39
My URL:http://www.lawyers.com/thepeopleslawyer
My Email:lucheme@aol.com
Your opinions: I'm impressed with your department's willingness to "think out of the box."
Your Suggestions: Keep up the good work!
Your thoughts: Is the poly body at risk from radiant heat? Say,ay, a barn fire?
Your ISO rating: Don't recall right now.

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I've invited our truck committee to look at your site. You have included a lot of innovative ideas in your design. The last truck committee did a great job in incorporating many of the new ideas of the time, and hopefully so will we.

Chris Martin Firefighter/EMT - 03/23/00 23:32:48
My Email:cfd_ffemt@email.com
Your opinions: Great page!!!
Your thoughts: Great pics!!!

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I lover you Engine. Please contact me and send me more info.

walter olszewski - 03/23/00 21:54:30
My Email:wallio@juno.com

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i noticed your article in rescue mag. what is the type of radiotransponding pass that you are using.

George Wood - 03/23/00 02:07:34
My Email:LTFD1727@AOL.COM
Your opinions: I only wish our department and community had the guts to do what you did!
Your Suggestions: Keep it up!

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It is not only impressive to see the equipment that you have obtained, the lowered ISO ratings you have received, but that you are more than willing to share every bit of information, thought process, and help to other departments and communities in thier efforts is inspiring. I wish I could pick up and move to Rattlesnake's district right now.

Richard Keesling - 03/22/00 05:52:40
My Email:rkeesling@netva.com
Your opinions: GREAT
Your Suggestions: KEEP UP GOOD WORK
Your thoughts: THANKS FOR SHARING

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- 03/19/00 23:16:13

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Robin Cole - 03/17/00 03:52:40
My Email:robin.cole@dot.state.co.us
Your thoughts: Is this currently in effect

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I'm a new homeowner and am wondering if the new ISO ratings are in effect yet.

Keith Alexander - 03/17/00 02:15:42
My Email:fire@GISCO.NET
Your opinions: NICE SITE
Your Suggestions: Tone down the colors

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Nice site, great job in your rate reduction. To bad our elected official are penny wise and dollar foolish. THey have got of "cheap" for so long that they say why can't you do more with less.

Neil Fultz - 02/29/00 01:16:07
My Email:neil_gee@yahoo.com
Your opinions: Excellent change

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An excellent move to speed and simplify operations most important is making the firefighter safer!!!

Judy Cooper - 02/26/00 15:55:25
My Email:jcooper@idcomm.com

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Hi Larry, this is the first chance that I've had to see this site, pretty awesome. (my home computer would choke). I'm using government computers at the National Fire Academy. Did you know that the first thing several of the guys in the class told me was that they had been reading about me and Rattlesnake in more magazines than just Fire-Rescue. Way to go.... And one of my instructors is telling people that "I know the Chief of Rattlesnake F.D." in a John Wayne voice. Talk with you later, Judy

Ron Radel - 02/25/00 03:59:22
My Email:radel@altavista.net
Your opinions: SUPER!
Your ISO rating: 6/9

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How many calls and what types do you have a year? I plan to "steal" some of yourideas for our small volly fire company here in PA.

J.B. CARTER, JR - 02/17/00 02:59:33
My Email:JCARTER@PWCGOV.ORG
Your opinions: GOOD JOB, ILIKE YOUR IDEAS
Your thoughts: I WILL COPY SOME OF YOUR IDEAS ON OUR NEXT TANKER

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EXCELLANT WEB SITE, YOU CAN BE PROUD OF YOURSELVES.

Lenny Rivera - 01/23/00 17:10:35
My Email:FDVolley@optonline.net
Your opinions: Great Site

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You dedication to your community is evident. Keep up the good work. The Volunteer Fire Service is a symbol of American Dedication. If only all of the Volunteer Fire Departments in the Country could show the dedication and professionalism you exhibit we ould surely be tops all the time. Keep up the good work.

Kurt Gaber - 01/12/00 14:16:51
My Email:signguy@ecol.net
Your opinions: nice photos
Your Suggestions: I think some "Rattlesnake" graphics on the opeing page could create a more professional impact
Your thoughts: I lettered the trucks, and I have the artwork available to jazz up the site!
Your ISO rating: n/a

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E-mail me or call me at 715-723-3437 and I would be happy to send an electronic file of some sort to update the homepage with the "Rattlesnake" lettering if you are interested. I was given this web address in the first place to research the "look" of the truck and to see some rattlesnake artwork. I came back in early January just to check it again, and was surprised to see all of the neat photos of the progress of the trucks! Sincerely, Kurt Gaber Gaber Signs Chippewa Falls, WI

BK - 12/20/99 22:51:54
Your opinions: Wow!

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Hello from Somerville Mass fire dept. Be safe

Wayne Brown - 07/01/99 01:50:48

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I would like to see complete truck. I work at Gaffney FD and live in Union South Carolina. 253 Cambridge Dr. 29379

Doug Schmidt - 06/28/99 23:16:48
My URL:http://www.bewellnet.com/rfr
My Email:doug@parker-schmidt.com
What would you do differently?: Break Up into sparate pages
Any suggestions?: add link to district site. www.bewellnet.com/rfr
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I like most of the information here, but breaking into separate pages would be helpful. Also identifying updated information would make it easier for frequent visitors to see the new without wading through the old. See you later, Doug Schmidt - FII/EMT-P Rattlesnake Fire Protection District.

- 06/28/99 23:12:42

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Clifford K. Tharp - 06/24/99 03:12:15
My Email:bernie@oneimage.com
What would you do differently?: This is the best trucks Ive seem in Colorado

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I have been trying to get my district into CAFS for 9 years. (Mountain View FPD Longmont, Co.). They are about to buy 4 trucks without CAFS, because the Chief and A.C.s won't believe that it will work. They think my 2 hours of videos are made up. I am very happy for you for what you have done. Reading this stills gives me hope that somone in my district can see to come into the 22nd century. I sent the board the article about Phoenix. I never heard from them or the truck committee. Again hats off to all of you for the job you are doing. Clifford K. Tharp 8024 Pebble Road Niwot, Colorado 80503 303-652-2290 bernie@oneimage.com Mountain View Fire P.D. (retired)


Ed Harvey - 04/30/99 09:17:01
My URL:http://www.fire-ems.net/firedept/view/SouthfiledMA/
My Email:bighoss19@aol.com
What would you do differently?: update the photos
Any suggestions?: add an e-mail for direct questions

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I am interested in finding out more about the squirrel tail suction set ups as we rely heavily on tanker (tender) shuttles. I am going to TRY to convince the officers that pre-concecting the suctions is a good idea. Any help would be greatly appreciated
Gary L. Warren - 03/29/99 14:06:59
My Email:glw4104@alltel.net
Comments.: Very Good

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This looks like a very well thought out plan, I would be interested in hearing how it all turns out. I am a member of a small volunteer fire department, and we are trying to address many of the same topics that you have. I got some very good ideas from our web page. If you are interested in trading FD patches, please contact me. Thanks...

Mike Roche - 03/27/99 02:13:48
My Email:Roche236@aol.com

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You seem to have proven that the traditional way isn't always the best. Continue to think outside the box. Be Saf

THOMAS E. FANT - 03/25/99 00:11:11
My URL:http://www.firehouse.com
My Email:SFANT98512@AOL.COM
What would you do differently?: see below
Any suggestions?: see below
Comments.: see below

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Have drafting tanks strategically placed in any heavy populated areas. 10,000 gallon tanks should keep you going until your next due unit arrives. Keep up the good work. Keep in touch on how things are working out. Sincerely, Tom Fant, Rescue Specialist

Fred Napp - 03/24/99 14:37:59
My Email:fnapp@worldnet.att.net

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It looks like you are getting some incredible engines. They sound great. It also sounds like you have been reading Fire/Rescue News.I would like to come up and see them. Let us know when they arrive.

JOHN HUSSEY - 03/19/99 17:04:16
My Email:lcfd@northstate.net

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I AM THE CHIEF OF A SMALL VOL. FIRE DEPT., LEVEL CROSS VOL FIRE DEPARTMENT AND FOUND YOUR LINK THROUGH THE NORTH CAROLINA FIREMEN'S ASSN. OUR EST. POPULATION IS LESS THAN 2500. WE ARE GEOGRAPHICAL CENTER OF NC. 1/2 WAY BETWEEN GREENSBORO AND ASHEBORO. ONLY CLAIM TO FAME IS # 43 NASCAR OWNER. ALSO HAPPENS TO BE OUR STATION # COME SEE US IF YOU GET A CHANCE VERY GOOD JOB AND KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.

Dan Gallagher - 03/18/99 04:12:58
My Email:thegallagher@briefcase.com
What would you do differently?: break the page down with some links.... like separate the CAFS and all
Any suggestions?: see the top

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If you find the time, please e-mail a scan of the entire blueprints of this truck

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Stewart McMillan - 01/18/99 13:43:45
My URL:http://www.tft.com
My Email:sgmc@tft.com
What would you do differently?: Clean up the text
Any suggestions?: See below

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The amount of information given on this site is INCREDIBLE!! There are so many ideas packed into what this fire department has done that a lot of people need to take notice. The site needs to be dressed up a bit so that it is more credible because the ork that has been done on the department itself is highly worthy of notice and credibility