User talk:Uzbek

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New contributor
Hi. I just wanted to drop a line and let you know that I have started contributing content to this Wiki. I notice that the last edit seems to have been in December if 2007. I wanted to see if you were still active on this Wiki or if you have decided not to continue work on it.

Epolk 19:51, 21 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi there. Appreciate your contributions. I hadn't given up, but unfortunately I have a bunch of projects on the go right now. I had planned on making this a roster thing, but your additions are great. Unfortunately, the rosters don't look that great when entered without a lot of additional editing, and there isn't an easy way to transfer the info I have elsewhere to the wiki. However, I hope to get the word out and start getting some rosters up one of these days.
 * Can I ask how you found it?

Cheers, Uzbek 03:32, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, took a bit of fumbling but not too bad once you get the hang of it.

Kitchener Sold Apparatus
Hi Dean, The Kitchener FD has sold via tender the following equipment off: 4 Pumpers and 1 Heavy Rescue. Aylesford, Nova Scotia bought a pumper $5282.55 Centre Hastings, Ontario bought the rescue $57750.00 Eastway Tank bought two Pumpers $4305.00 each Town of Lourdes, NL bought 1 pumper $9975.00

(John) Scottrucks 15:07, October 6, 2009 (UTC)

Update Kitchener Apparatus
Eastway Tank bought Engine 8 & 9 from Kitchener. Scottrucks 15:10, October 6, 2009 (UTC)

RE: Spartan
Hi Dean, the truck you show as ass'g't unknown is P361. The truck caught fire in stn and Advance rehabbed the truck and added a new Gladiator cab. Mike--tor328 13:46, February 7, 2010 (UTC)

Calgary Fire Department
Hello Mr.Uzbek. Im very sorry but I have totally messed up the formatting on the Calgary Fire Department page!!! Im not to sure how I did it, but I am very sorry!!!

I really hope you can fix it.

My bad,

ENGINE_4

Calgary Fire Department
Thank you very much Mr.Uzbek!!!

Ad free
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Huron County, Ontario
Hi, Huron County in Ontario is made up of 7 departments, Huron East(Brussels, Grey, Seaforth Stations), North Huron(Wingham, Blyth Stations), South Huron(Exeter, Dashwood, Huron Park Stations), Central Huron(Clinton Station), Goderich(Goderich Station), Bluewater(Bayfield, Brucefield, Zurich, Hensall Stations) and Howick(Gorrie Station). The 3 unknown truck assignments under North Huron are Howick fire department trucks (formerly Wingham Area Fire Department which was compromised of Wingham and Gorrie Stations, as of Jan 1 2010 Wingham and Blyth Stations amalgamated to become the Fire Department of North Huron, and Howick created their own department from the Gorrie station). I will try and get Truck information for all the stations, and can edit the pages once they are created, thanks for all your hard work!67.220.44.110 17:38, June 16, 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the info and the kind words. I saw that Gorrie wasn't on the North Huron fire website, so I thought it had been closed. No idea that a new department was formed. I've added a new page for Howick. Cheers, Uzbek 03:02, June 17, 2010 (UTC)

New contributor
Just wanted to let everyone know that I have started contributing content to this Wiki which is a great source of information with regard to fire fighting resources. I have much more information to come...as time allows. Cheers! Housingcop

New Wiki Logo!
Howdy,

I am part of the Wikia Lifestyle content team and have greatly enjoyed looking around your wiki!

Earlier today I uploaded a quick and simple wiki logo for your Fire wiki and hopefully it will update soon (you can view it here: http://fire.wikia.com/wiki/File:Wiki.png). (Looks like it's working now!).

Please let me know if you have any questions or need any help!

- JeskaD 18:40, July 28, 2010 (UTC)

Autopedia
I was hoping we could link my wiki (Autopedia) to yours, since it's both auto. I was hoping I could get a visitor boost from here. Thanks! --Knightrez(Talk) 02:07, August 4, 2010 (UTC)

Rocky View
Hi there,

The official spelling on their website appears to be Rocky View.

60 Bush Buggy and 56 Engine were right beside each other on my list of vehicles and I mixed up the asset numbers. 56EN is 5630; I'll fix that in a few minutes.

That 1999 International (SE2032) is most likely Chestermere's old truck. Replaced by the Rosenbauer and 99% sure it is currently a spare.

The other two Fort Garry trucks I'm not sure about - but I have someone I can ask.

As for the retired trucks: P3180 (not P23180) was either leased or purchased from Calgary Fire when 71 first opened. It was subsequently wrecked in a collision and the last I saw of it, it was in Calgary's shop yard in pieces. I would feel comfortable saying it's retired.

The GM bus was 56 Support at one time, asset 1891. Not sure where it is now.

The two front-mount pumpers might be trucks that were sold to some of the other non-County departments. Cochrane has one and Airdrie either used to or still does have another. They're no longer County property. I do intend to do the other departments when I have time, so I'll work on that.

The other two (the 1991 GMC and the 1985 GMC van) I'm not sure about - again, I can ask someone.

Thanks for the warm welcome and I definitely will be working on things as I get time! :)

New Look Coming to Lifestyle
Uzbek,

Hi! Quick reminder, in case you missed the site notice last week. The Lifestyle category, which includes the wiki you are an admin for, is among the first to test out our new look (read more about the new look)!

You've been added to the beta group where you can access the Theme Designer to prepare your wiki for the change over. Starting tomorrow (October 6,2010) all anonymous viewers of your wiki will see it with the new look. We've created a Transition Guide with tips and best practices in the Community blog or my announcement for Lifestyle adminshas even more tips. Please let me know if you have any questions. Cheers,

JeskaD 18:38, October 5, 2010 (UTC)

British Columbia
Hey,

Where are you getting all this information to update the wiki? Your doing such a great job.

I run a website, www.bcfiretrucks.com Ive just recently started adding the wiki information to my website. Its good for the information I dont have.

Ryan Stelting.

Bcfiretrucks.com

Alberta
Thank you and will do may just need a hand keeping my entries look good. keep up the the good work.Backdrft 23:43, February 2, 2011 (UTC)Backdrft

Ya no worries I only know the smaller depts. I don't have a very good idea of the cities. Your calgary page is really good. Please add to mine I know I am missing Apparatus for both depts.

Hey just had a look at your additions to vermilion and did some additional fixes. I was wondering if you new about some of there other apparatus I know the county bought a new truck back in the mid 2000's I think it was a superior or e one and they bought a new truck from FGFT this summer in august and also have a dodge ram for command hoping you may have the answers keep up the good work backdrft

So I had another look into Vermilion the Town got a 2010 spartan pumper from FGFT and it arrived in the fall of 2010 and it replaced the 1979 front mount. Thats all I know I have never seen it in the FGFT deliveries but I know they got it. I believe vermilion has the 2003 In there hall which is the county truck and the 2006 pump is blackfoot alberta which is in the county. The county of vermilion has updated all of there Trucks in the last 10 years. I dont think the 1998 tanker was kept it was basically a flat deck with a plastic tank on it and the 1994 pump I am not sure but I doubt it was kept possible sold elsewhere. The 1994 rescue was for sale on the towns website. The 1999 pump is the towns also. Hope we can solve this mystery (lol).

Design
Howdy Uzbek,

Thanks to the Wikia design team, the Fire wiki has a new look and feel - please take a look and let me know what you think.

As always, don't hesitate to let me know if you've got any questions or thoughts about the wiki and keep up the great work!

Cheers, --JeskaD 20:02, February 28, 2011 (UTC)

hi its logan
hi i just joined

TNRD info
I don't have time to make these updates. You can gleam fire hall addresses from the maps at this link for Thompson-Nicola Regional District in British Columbia.

ftp://ftp.tnrd.bc.ca/pub/FireProtectionMaps/

Edmonton
Hello Uzbek. I was just viewing some pages and realized that Edmonton station 26 has a tanker also but I have no info on it just wondering if you did???

backdrft

Bon Accord, AB (Sturgeon County)
Hello:

Not sure how to add a category on Retired Apparatus?

Bon Accord has sold Unit 7, a 1984 GMC Tilt Cab / Superior Pump via Ritchie Bros. in Edmonton, AB earlier this month.

Best regards,

CdnFireTruckBuff 20:51, July 17, 2011 (UTC)

Can you send me an E-mail. [mailto:stuck@scanbc.com stuck@scanbc.com] I have some questions about some information listed on the Langley Fire Page.

Question
Hello Uzbek, I just have one quick question, where do you find all the information about the different trucks? 101blargman 18:07, May 11, 2012 (UTC)101blargman


 * Hi Blargman. Thanks for your efforts on the Ottawa page. A lot of my info there is out of date and I don't have assignments for a lot of the newer rigs. Any missing shop numbers would be a great help too. Also, I see you have the new Spartan / Carl Thibault tower at 81 as 81B. I know they've had some issues with the RKs, but thought they had been worked out. If they're running the new trucks as backups, maybe not.


 * To answer your question, I've gathered it from here and there over the years. Websites, people in the area, Ontario Fire Buff Third Alarm ([www.ofba.ca]), apparatus photography, etc. etc. By putting everything I have out there for people to see and change, I hope to keep my own info UTD. Hope this helps and keep those updates coming! Uzbek 19:27, May 11, 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the info Uzbek, as for the RKs, last year the Pierce had a recall and got replaced by the RK for about 7 months, now the Pierce is back and the RK floats around from station to station as a spare ladder. Since station 81 is fully trained on that ladder, if the RK is at the station for storage, they could put it in as a B ladder if the situation should arise. So the Pierce is the full-time ladder and the RK is just a spare. When ever I get so new info I'll make sure to put it on! 101blargman 20:37, May 11, 2012 (UTC)101blargman

Mississauga
Hello, just noticed that the Mississauga Fire Station 114 has been updated and Pumper 114 now a 2010 Spartan Metrostar? Just wondering if this is correct or if they are still operating Pumper 114 as the 1998 American LaFrance/Smeal Truck? Thanks...


 * Not sure. I didn't make the changes. Uzbek 11:59, June 6, 2012 (UTC)


 * They were running a 2006 ( I believe it was a 2006) Spartan/dependable that was former Pumper 101 I believe, they are not running the Lafrance anymore it is a spare. I have asked a friend who works at 114 for the info on the truck but here is a picture
 * http://www.flickr.com/photos/e2kmaster/5215686330/


 * Brad

Ottawa Fire
Thanks for your edit Uzbek, I only have access to the active roster, not the unknown location roster. So I have no idea where those trucks are. On the subject, where did you hear about getting 12 new Pumpers? Thanks again,

101blargman (talk) 14:46, September 3, 2012 (UTC)101blargman


 * Hi Blargman. I wouldn't be surprised if many of those trucks have been retired, but generally try to get some sort of confirmation. Can you tell me about the active roster info you have access to? If they aren't on the active list, that might be all the confirmation we need.


 * The twelve pumper tender was posted on MERX at http://www.merx.com/English/SUPPLIER_Menu.Asp?WCE=Show&TAB=1&PORTAL=MERX&State=7&id=250377&print=Y&src=osr&ForceLID=&HID=&hcode=ZwJQIIgyLbFszjMsdxeKDA%3D%3D.


 * Thanks for your help on Ottawa. Big city and my info was out of date - plus, there seems to be lots of movement there. Uzbek (talk) 15:33, September 3, 2012 (UTC)


 * I'm involved with the OFS in different ways, I have a scanner and once a week every full time station does radio checks, telling me there Pool numbers and Lit numbers, then I match them to the ones on this site. I haven't been updating in a while because I've been quite busy lately, so I only have them in my records, so soon I'll have a big update on pool numbers. The only flaw with that is that I only know the pool numbers and I don't know what type of truck it is all the time. For the confirmation, most of those trucks numbers I haven't heard in a long time, so I'm guessing they're no longer in use.


 * Sneaky, I never thought of doing that type of research to figure that out. It's my pleasure, I already had my own record of the trucks, so I thought why not share them? Yes there is a lot of movement, the OFS isn't the most efficient department. Thanks again, 101blargman (talk) 19:27, September 3, 2012 (UTC)101blargman

Hi

I've finished editing the Seattle Fire Dept. page for now, but left a formatting mess that i couldn't resolve. No tabs, double spaces, etc. Sorry!

Regards,

Bob Lukas

Rlukas1 (talk) 23:23, December 29, 2012 (UTC)

Uzbek
Здравствуйте, я седьмой вандал за всю историю этой вики, заблокируйте меня пока я не натворил "пожалим по тихоньку"! --LYON CYBORG (talk) 21:02, January 18, 2013 (UTC)

Вы заблокированы. Спасибо за предложение. Я не узбек, я канадец. Это мое имя пользователя, больше ничего. Я устал от этого. Пожалуйста, остановитесь. Uzbek (talk) 21:35, January 18, 2013 (UTC)

Ottawa Fire Question
Hey Uzbek, just wanted to run something by you and grab your opinion, on the Ottawa Fire Service page, there is a massive list of trucks that were made in the 1990s era, and I'm almost positive that they're no longer in service. I haven't seen any of them around, nor have I heard any of there Pool Numbers over the air. With your blessing, I'd like to move them to the "Retired" section if that's alright with you. Let me know. And thank you very much for this website! 101blargman (talk) 02:01, January 24, 2013 (UTC)


 * If you're reasonably sure they're gone, sure. Any idea what they do with their old trucks - trade-in, auction? Uzbek (talk) 02:50, January 24, 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks Uzbek, I'll start removing some. They seem to do a mixture, manly auctions though. I know a lot of neighboring Ottawa Departments end up with there older rigs. It's just I don't know whether or not they did do that with any of these rigs, so I can't link them. 101blargman (talk) 22:33, January 24, 2013 (UTC)

Password
Uzbek, I set up an account, but I must have mistyped the password I wanted to use how do I fix?

Uzbek, I set up an account, but I must have mistyped the password I wanted to use how do I fix?173.181.91.66 06:26, March 10, 2013 (UTC)


 * Not sure, sorry. I'm an admin, but I don't believe I have account access as it should work across all Wikia wikis. Uzbek (talk) 01:44, March 14, 2013 (UTC)

Helping hand?
Greetings! Fire Wiki is a great concept, I have family who are firefighters. :) I wonder if you'd interested in some help with a new background (or at the very least, a fix of the blank white space at the top) or wordmark logo, or possibly with a main page that has more info and better links to the wiki contents? Please let me know either way, I'd be happy to lend a hand here if you'd like. Thank you for your time! :)
 * http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/xraydeltaone/images/b/b2/Siggy4.png @ (profile)•(talk)•(email) 20:16, March 13, 2013 (UTC)

Hi great work
great Fire Wiki...my kid is a firefighter in Wyandotte MI and i Live in St. Calir Shores MI 3 fire stations thanks for updating..Whatsonron (talk) 18:26, April 19, 2013 (UTC)

Fire Wiki in French
Hi Uzbek !

I'm QcRLH from Pompier Wiki, it's a project like Fire Wiki but obviously in french ! I think that we can do a partnership between your project and our project and add interlanguage links between the two wikis. I know that our wiki isn't big, but currently Pompier Wiki has 190 pages in 17 days, I think it is not so bad for a new wiki !

Some informations are only available in French in some regions and I think that can help your wiki and a lot of informations from is on your wiki.

PS : Sorry for my English, my first language is french. QcRLH (talk) 21:17, May 20, 2013 (UTC)


 * A request have been sent for links between our two wikis : http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Community_Central:Interlanguage_link_requests --QcRLH (talk) 22:31, May 20, 2013 (UTC)

Airdrie
Hey,

I cant figure out how to put the box's in for the stations on the Airdrie Fire Dept page, can you help?


 * Hi. Which boxes are you referring to? Can you link to an example? Uzbek (talk) 03:04, June 9, 2013 (UTC)

I figured it out!!! thanks anyway


 * No problem. Looks good! Thanks for the edits. Uzbek (talk) 20:48, June 9, 2013 (UTC)

Some pictures and categories
Hi ! I start to take some pictures of some fire stations in my region (Chaudière-Appalaches, Québec), all of pictures is take by me (currently they are posted directly the same day that I take the pictures), today I did all fire stations of Les Etchemins except Saint-Cyprien (I forgot that village... pathetic), you can view the (new?) pumper #208 (ex:?) of Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague. For the tanker #609 of Saint-Just-de-Bretenières, I take that picture during the parade for the Saint-Jean-Baptiste, however each years they also parade with the pumper #209 and the rescue #509, but this year they have some problems... This two apparatus can't be use currently by firefighters (#209 is too old (Greatly the new Levasseur pumper) and #509 have problems with safety belt...

Brief, I will try to do others RCM in next weeks (or this week), Montmagny (except Saint-Antoine), L'Islet, Bellechasse, Lévis, Beauce-Sartigan, Robert-Cliche and La Nouvelle-Beauce are my goal presently. For Saint-Antoine-de-L'Isle-aux-Grues, unless that I pass one day on the Isle-aux-Grues, I can't take picture of the fire station, hovewer I don't know if I can go close enough of the fire station to take a picture because this fire station is on the field of the local airport and is the property of the government and in my memory I think that the field is fenced.

For categories, for the Municipalité Régionale de Comté, I find some errors : also in french it's : Municipalité régionale de comté (without capital)
 * Municipalité Régionale de Comté de La Côte-de-Gaspé
 * Municipalité Régionale de Comté du Domaine-du-Roy
 * Municipalité Régionale de Comté du Granit
 * Municipalité Régionale de Comté de La Haute-Côte-Nord
 * Municipalité Régionale de Comté de La Haute-Gaspésie
 * Municipalité Régionale de Comté de L'Île-d'Orléans
 * Municipalité Régionale de Comté de Kamouraska
 * Municipalité Régionale de Comté des Etchemins
 * Municipalité Régionale de Comté de Matane -> Municipalité Régionale de Comté de La Matanie
 * Municipalité Régionale de Comté de la Minganie
 * Municipalité Régionale de Comté de La Nouvelle-Beauce
 * Municipalité Régionale de Comté de Robert-Cliche
 * Municipalité Régionale de Comté de La Vallée-de-l'Or
 * Municipalité Régionale de Comté de La Vallée-du-Richelieu

but in everyday life we just talk of the La Nouvelle-Beauce, therefore all of this category can just be named like : La Nouvelle-Beauce, La Rivière-du-Nord, L'Assomption, Le Haut-Richelieu, Les Etchemins, etc...

Also, I know that's hard to understand, but in Québec we have MRC but also some TÉ (ET, Equivalent territory), it's not a MRC (most of TÉ are just 1 big city but all of this TÉ are several city merged together, therefore some defunct fire departments). That's the list of all TÉ: I think that's a good idea to list directly the MRC and the TÉ without Municipalité Régionale de Comté just like :Saguenay, Québec, Maria-Chapdeleine, Les Appalaches, Montréal...
 * Gatineau (1 City)
 * Jamésie (4 Cities, 1 Municipality)
 * Kativik (14 Nordics village, 1 Naskapi Village)
 * La Tuque (1 City, 2 Municipalities)
 * Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine (2 Municipalities)
 * Lévis (1 City)
 * Longueuil (5 Cities)
 * Mirabel (1 City)
 * Montréal (15 Cities, 1 Municipality)
 * Québec (3 Cities, 1 Municipality)
 * Rouyn-Noranda (1 City)
 * Saguenay (1 City)
 * Shawinigan (1 City)
 * Sherbrooke (1 City)
 * Trois-Rivières (1 City)

Finally, the Communauté Urbaine de l'Outaouais do not longer exists since 2002, it's currently the TÉ of Gatineau.

QcRLH (talk) 23:08, June 26, 2013 (UTC)


 * Hi. Thanks for all of your work, really appreciate it. Your ideas about the MRCs sound good. I was trying to be accurate as possible (sorry about the spelling), but if people just say "La Nouvelle-Beauce" or whatever, it makes sense. Here in Ontario, people would say "York Region" instead of the official name, "The Regional Municipality of York," so it would be the same. I don't know if there's an easy way to change it, though - would it be necessary to go through each article? I'm not sure. Un mille fois, merci! Uzbek (talk) 01:30, June 27, 2013 (UTC)


 * I will go through each article and change all the categories, this is not so long. QcRLH (talk) 02:11, June 27, 2013 (UTC)


 * Excellent. I'll try to grab some too. One thing - there's a change you can make when adding categories (second box) where you can add a name to put it in alphabetical order. For instance, if you add Cacouna, Cacouna is listed under C instead of S (for Service Sécurité Incendie Cacouna). I can do them as well - will do some for Rivière-du-Loup. Thanks again. Uzbek (talk) 12:08, June 27, 2013 (UTC)

Question
Hi ! This is just a question, but when I have enough information about some fire department, can I take the model of the Maitland and District Volunteer Fire Department article ? Because, with Schémas de couverture de risques en sécurité incendie, I have many informations on fire departments of the MRC when this document is available on Internet.

QcRLH (talk) 16:07, July 1, 2013 (UTC)
 * Sure. Uzbek (talk) 16:09, July 1, 2013 (UTC)

SIM SPIM SSIM SIM
Hey. As you saw, I've started editing Service de Sécurité Incendie Montréal. I don't live in Montreal any more, but I try to keep up (and I listen online occasionally). Trying to figure out a better way to organize all the info for each station and unit. --Peter Laws N5UWY (talk) 23:39, November 16, 2013 (UTC)

Ideas
Hi Uzbek,

It's can be cool to have pictograms for domains of intervention of fire departments that we can place in a infobox with some information like the logo, headquarter coordinates, established, number of firefighters, number of stations, number of engines, number of squads, number of rescues and the fire chief.

For the pictograms I thought about : I'm not able to do that, but maybe someone of Wikia can do that.
 * Vehicle extrication
 * Wildfire
 * HAZMAT
 * CO2
 * Confined space rescue
 * Vertical rescue
 * Water rescue
 * First responders
 * Off-road rescue
 * Etc...

QcRLH (talk) 15:39, November 24, 2013 (UTC)


 * Hi QC. Sure...but I'm not sure how to proceed. No idea how to do any of that stuff - an infobox would be a great way to do it. I've tried to create one but no luck. Plaws was going to look into it as well. The updates are great - thank you for your hard work. Uzbek (talk) 23:32, November 24, 2013 (UTC)