What's it used for? It's been around since at least 2006 but I don't see it as ever being dispatched. Seen in this gallery below that awesome photo of Medic 80.
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| Author: | Atomic Taco [ Sat Jan 09, 2010 8:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Seattle Fire MVU1 |
What's it used for? It's been around since at least 2006 but I don't see it as ever being dispatched. Seen in this gallery below that awesome photo of Medic 80. |
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| Author: | icom1020 [ Sat Jan 09, 2010 9:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Seattle Fire MVU1 |
Looks like a very large smoke evacuator. it says something under Seattle FD but cant read it |
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| Author: | KA7WEB [ Sat Jan 09, 2010 9:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Seattle Fire MVU1 |
It's Mobile Ventilation Unit One, a very large blower. |
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| Author: | MTM [ Sat Jan 09, 2010 11:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Seattle Fire MVU1 |
SFD uses it to make money. They clean up shopping malls at night blowing out the parking lots. Wooooosh ! |
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| Author: | Jim [ Sat Jan 09, 2010 11:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Seattle Fire MVU1 |
Looks like they just park it out front of the hall and turn it on to eliminate sweeping the floor :D |
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| Author: | N7QOR [ Sun Jan 10, 2010 1:03 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Seattle Fire MVU1 |
Suck-o-lux? Or the best blow job ever :evil: |
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| Author: | Jim [ Sun Jan 10, 2010 7:25 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Seattle Fire MVU1 |
It has only been called in to service once when someone called 911 when they couldn't blow all the candles out on their birthday cake :roll: |
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| Author: | bbirmingham [ Sun Jan 10, 2010 11:22 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Seattle Fire MVU1 |
Per the book, Seattle Fire Department by Richard Schneider, it is for removing smoke from subways and tunnels. It looks like it was purchased by Sound Transit. |
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| Author: | eriksdaddy [ Sun Jan 10, 2010 4:40 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Seattle Fire MVU1 |
7/2/2009 11:43:58 PM F090061279 MVU1 140 4th Av N Fire in Building 7/2/2009 11:25:04 PM F090061279 E17 E9 140 4th Av N Fire in Building 7/2/2009 11:23:19 PM F090061279 E8 140 4th Av N Fire in Building 7/2/2009 11:22:33 PM F090061279 A5 AIR9 B6 DEP1 E10 E22 E25 L10 M10 SAFT2 STAF10 140 4th Av N Fire in Building 7/2/2009 11:17:25 PM F090061279 B2 E5 140 4th Av N Fire in Building 7/2/2009 11:14:28 PM F090061279 E2 L4 140 4th Av N Fire in Building |
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| Author: | bbirmingham [ Sun Jan 10, 2010 6:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Seattle Fire MVU1 |
Here are a couple of links to some further reading about the subject: First is a link to a report covering a proof of concept test: http://www.tempest-edge.com/pages/documents/SeattleTunnelTestReport.pdf Second is a link to some Sound Transit info concerning the link to the Seattle Fire Department: http://www.soundtransit.org/Documents/pdf/about/board/resolutions/2005/R2005-12-M2005-67sr.pdf |
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| Author: | Atomic Taco [ Sun Jan 10, 2010 6:23 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Seattle Fire MVU1 |
bbirmingham wrote: Per the book, Seattle Fire Department by Richard Schneider, it is for removing smoke from subways and tunnels. It looks like it was purchased by Sound Transit. Cool, I'm going to have to go look at that book. http://catalog.spl.org/?index=BIB&term=2420830 |
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| Author: | Jim [ Sun Jan 10, 2010 6:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Seattle Fire MVU1 |
eriksdaddy wrote: 7/2/2009 11:43:58 PM F090061279 MVU1 140 4th Av N Fire in Building 7/2/2009 11:25:04 PM F090061279 E17 E9 140 4th Av N Fire in Building 7/2/2009 11:23:19 PM F090061279 E8 140 4th Av N Fire in Building 7/2/2009 11:22:33 PM F090061279 A5 AIR9 B6 DEP1 E10 E22 E25 L10 M10 SAFT2 STAF10 140 4th Av N Fire in Building 7/2/2009 11:17:25 PM F090061279 B2 E5 140 4th Av N Fire in Building 7/2/2009 11:14:28 PM F090061279 E2 L4 140 4th Av N Fire in Building The famous KOMO vault fire at Fischer Plaza.... http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/l ... za04m.html |
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| Author: | kb7dqh [ Tue Jan 12, 2010 9:14 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Seattle Fire MVU1 |
Bus tunnel has its own internal fire ventilation system, I been there when it was tested before they opened it. No soft-start on those motors, I can tell you that! I suppose this vehicle could be used if the whole blasted city lost power and they needed to blow down the tunnel after a fire? Would work nicely for the BNSF tunnel, battery street, etc... |
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| Author: | Atomic Taco [ Sat Jan 16, 2010 2:20 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Seattle Fire MVU1 |
So I took a peek at that book; it's a lot of historical stuff, a full photo gallery of all the chiefs, and only a few pages of the current fleet. All photos are black and white, which was disappointing for the newer stuff. Captions are on average only 3 sentences. So here's another one:  Is this SAFT-2? It left about a minute after SAFT-2 and Battalion 2 got code green'ed, and I saw B2 at another location. The only other command vehicle I didn't see on scene was DEP1 and STAF10. |
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| Author: | bbirmingham [ Sat Jan 16, 2010 6:15 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Seattle Fire MVU1 |
I believe the vehicle in the picture is Deputy 1. Safety 2 is a similar vehicle that is simply marked "SAFETY." Staff 10 is also similar. It is marked "STAFF 10." Here is a picture of Staff 10 from a few years ago: Attachment: seattle_staff10-01-400x.jpg [ 52.08 KiB | Viewed 2323 times ] |
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