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WOW!  http://www.emergency-planet.com/uploads/emoticons/default_smile.png

What mods to try really depends on the person and their interests.  2 good ones to start with if you like American units, are LA Mod and Mayberry Mod.

Look over the downloads section, see what is up there!

Wasn't Montana Mod v2.0 a BETA?  The one I have says BETA, and I get crashes when trying to dispatch an Ambulance from the Police Dispatcher.  But if I dispatch from the Fire Chief or the Fire Dispatcher, no problems.

Just because people are not always posting doesn't mean it's dead by any part.  I login in at least every day, and always see MULTIPLE listed on the "Who's Online" section on the main page.

I've found it works best when you have 2 people there.  1 police to shoot the vehicle, and 1 person with an extinguisher to put it out right away.  Some mods you don't have long before the vehicle explodes, which can cause a bigger problem if you have a line of cars behind the stalled vehicle.

Itchboy, THANK YOU for you and the couple of others who are continuing to work on EM4 mods!  Your continuing commitment (all of you working on mods) is great, and I personally would like to thank you all for keeping it alive!

Like the van, very similar to what we had!

Back when I was a member of my hometown VFD, we had what we called an Equipment Van.  This vehicle was used to bring additional FF to the scene, and carried things like our Jaws, extra SCBA, cribbing, our cascade air refill system, extra spine boards and medical supplies for multi-vehicle / mass casualty incidents, and when we got them the airbags for lifting / stabilizing vehicles etc.

Originally was like an old bread van or tool van converted to our use.  But eventually we got a larger vehicle like an old Rescue rig.

This unit would respond along with engine and ambulance for any MVA.  It also gave you extra scene lighting.

Does that help?  If you limit your number of FF on the VFD engine, you can have a supplement vehicle like this for more FF.

Probably at least one crash cart somewhere for a Code situation

Way back when I started on my hometown Vol. FD, we had 2 tankers.  I found some old pics, they aren't the best, but these were the tankers (tenders) we were using then.

Tanker 2 - Military surplus unit?

Another pic of Tanker 2

PARTIAL pic of Tanker 1

Better Pic of Tanker 1

if I remember, T2 was about 1500 gal, and T1 was about 2000 gal.

Eventually we upgraded to a nice big tanker that if I remember was like 3500 gal.  I can't find a photo of that, but is like a larger version of the 1800 gal. one that TACRfan posted

Amazing work!  Wish I had even 1/4 that talent!

Are you running in Windowed or Full Screen mode?  If in Windowed, it is possible another program is taking priority and when you click you are actually activating that program as the primary window, and that will minimize the game.

Might depend on what RAR program you are using.  I had a similar issue, and had to update to the newest version of WinRAR to extract the files.

Those are looking great itch!  Beautiful work as always!

Is it set to FULL SCREEN or WINDOWED?  If windowed, when you click seeing the 2 mouse icons, you are actually switching out of the game to the desktop.

They may also respond if needed for specialty equipment.  WAY back in the day, when I was first a volunteer fire fighter, my little department had a cascade air fill system, and several neighbor departments did not.  So if they had a big call, we might be paged out to bring the cascade system to refill air packs.

I'm sure some others can give examples of specialty equipment some departments have that others don't.

I play on a 16:9 LCD, I used the EM4 Configurator to adjust the resolution and seems fine.  At least that is what I think I did, was so long ago.

You could try some compatibility options in Windows.  The thing to remember is that E4/911FR is an OLD game, and not optimized for today's updated software & drivers.  I've seen this happen on other older games, eventually some to the point that they don't even recognize that there is a graphics card installed.

Try this:

I removed the S from https:// and the link came up

Nice job on the Drop Tank and Tanker (what we called them in my area)!  Boy does that bring back memories of my days as a volunteer fire fighter!

There are several tutorials here in the forums, plus some on Youtube.  Reskinning is basically just editing the files in a graphics program like Photoshop, and is the most common way to start personalizing mods.

Take a look at the tutorials, or use the search forums feature.  They are pretty good.  A while back I took my own shot at doing a reskin of LA Mod, but life got too busy to keep up with it.

Double check that it didn't put another subfolder inside the extracted folder.  I've seen this happen sometimes depending on how it was packed.

Example:  C:\Program Files (x86)\WizardWorks\911 - First Responders\Mods\MODNAME\MODNAME\...

This could prevent them from listing since I think it is the em4mod.info file isn't where the program is looking for it.

Very nice looking!  I've always liked the American Flag grill that some have done.  I say keep it!

Do you have more than 1 input?  What I mean, is for example if you are on a notebook/laptop, do you have both the touchpad and an external mouse?   Sometimes these drivers need updates, or disable the touchpad to prevent conflict.