Boardsville Volunteer Firefighters

Teg Veece

I'm thinking about setting up a Boardsville Volunteer Firefighting Crew. Its main aim will be to provide a more rapid and effective response to fires that occasionally occur in the town and its surrounds.

The plan is build a fire station close to the centre of town that's stocked with axes, water buckets, food and other materials that will help tackle the blaze.
Also, beside the station there'll be a couple of fake houses for practicing different scenarios and training new members in different firefighting techniques such as best placement of water source blocks and fire isolation.

Obviously, charging into a burning building can be quite traumatic so the station will need to include a rec room and maybe include a small oratory and firefighters will have access to a free counselling service.

To be honest, I'm not sure how effective the crew will be! Fire spreads fast and the odds are stacked against us (plus it'll take time for us to log out, change into our firefighting skins and log back in again) but I think it's definitely worth giving it a go for no other reason than having an excuse to slide down a fire pole.

Anyone interested in helping out?

VinLieger

LOL im in, rescued 2 houses at the very beginning of the new server with 1 bucket

Mycroft H

It was vinliger who rescued my gaff at the start

Anyways, count me in

AirBiscuit

Sounds like a larf

killerhitman

count me in:cool:

Niallwithaz

I'd love to join. Sounds like a bit of craic. I'm Bradles49 on the server. I'd say the station needs a dalmation/tame wolf as its mascot.

pablomakaveli

Now that there is stackable fences you could have a fireman pole as well.:D Sounds like a fun idea.

Teg Veece

Okay so I've just laid out a few blocks at the site for the station (x=540, z=50) but the construction is the firecrew's first task.

I think in terms of the structure's appearance, it should be a mix of bricks and cobblestone (with windows too obviously).
Also, I was thinking of having planks for the floor and a sprinkler system in the ceiling that can be activated by a lever in the event of a fire (using pistons for flow control).

For now, I think a ground floor and a first floor should be enough. Fire truck, equipment cache, dalmatian (nice idea), reception and stairs on the ground floor.
Upstairs (locked doors) we'd have the rec room, oratory, fire pole leading to ground floor.

Anything else ye can think of adding?

Lets get building!

GLaDOS

Sounds like fun, I'd be happy to help

Teg Veece

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Sounds like fun, I'd be happy to help

Welcome aboard ScienceNerd.
Feel free to start adding on to the station. Same goes for everyone else.

Xenon560

Count me in, sounds like fun

Witcher

I'm up for it...can't wait for the first fire:pac:

Tankran

Blay wrote: »

I'm up for it...can't wait for the first fire:pac:

Wait till star visits town again :pac:

gavmcg92

Cpt. GavMcG reporting for duty!

Teg Veece

Here's an image that I thought we could base the station on.



And here's the blocky version of it:


We should have at least 3 bays for fire trucks. Each truck will have a couple of locked chest containing equipment.

I also like the idea of a tower to look out at the town from.

We'll have to source some stacks of bricks (we've already been given 2 stacks from one anonymous donor).

There are some blocks already laid from an earlier design but they can be destroyed and relocated to suit this new layout.

Niallwithaz

Hey sorry haven't been on in a while as I was away for a few days. I hope to get on minecraft later so I'll help with any building that needs to be done and maybe recruit that dalmation.

Indubitable

Teg Veece wrote: »

I think in terms of the structure's appearance, it should be a mix of bricks and cobblestone (with windows too obviously).
Also, I was thinking of having planks for the floor and a sprinkler system in the ceiling that can be activated by a lever in the event of a fire (using pistons for flow control).

Genius idea, should be a system built into everyone's home.

Teg Veece

So the fire truck is slowly coming together:

but it's still not quite done:



I need a fair bit of iron ingots to finish it (and a bit of wool but I can buy that quite cheaply).

If anyone wants to contribute/donate some materials, just leave a chest by the truck with your name and my name (Teg_Veece) on the lock.
I put about 110 iron ingots into it so far but I need about 200 more to finish it.
Maybe I should change the design but I'll aim high first and compromise later!

If ye see me online and want to help out, just give me a shout. I've plenty of work that needs doing!

gavmcg92

Loving the sprinkler idea!

Teg Veece

Right well the fire station is finally finished pretty much. Big thanks to everyone who donated iron, bricks etc. You know who you are..

Anyway, here are some pics




Every self-respecting fire station needs a pole:


Equipment Storage. Each crew member gets a chest that'll be stocked with axes, water buckets, food, sand and ladders:


Rec Room with bar:


Oratory (fire fighters are a religious lot):


Here's the sprinkler system. It's also available for installation in houses across Minecraftia (for a small fee):






I thought a notice board might come in handy for passing messages and planning training days:


Every room has a fire escape too with a ladder that drops you down safely to street level


Okay, one of the last things left to build is the training yard. At the moment, it's a blank canvas.

I was thinking about setting up a purpose-built house towards the back that we could test ourselves in various scenarios. We could build an obstacle course in the foreground.
As usual, any ideas or help is welcome on this one!

Also, fire spread seems to be disabled outside of towns. Quite a few people have mentioned that they'd prefer to have this enabled (makes things more interesting and it's easier to burn the canopies of trees that people leave floating there) so hopefully Cherry will be able to assist us here.

Witcher

That is brilliant, I had a look at it a few days ago and even went down the fire pole:pac:

VinLieger

Yeah well done Teg looks awesome

papu

This Thread is F*'n awesome

DevilsBreath

Ah lads ye should have used TNT for the red part of the walls.