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Thanks for reminding me Jack. We're headed to the beach tomorrow and I love to build sand castles. Be lost without my shovel and bucket! You saved me!

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Disregard.

Eat well, my brother pompier ladder?

Foolish people everywhere. Maybe if the civilian had seen "The Hurt Locker" he'd have thought twice about picking it up. Welcome to the Board Phil!

+1 for a funny post, we all know you didn't mean it the way it "reads". This is a great opportunity to "build them chops" because the responses here are reflective of how you will get them busted once you do get on the job. Say hi to your dad for me.

You are too much! lol

Kidding aside for a moment (some great responses too) is this a new hydrant installation, and a soon to be ex-parking space?

I really like this idea Seth. Any idea of the costs involved in implementing such a program? I know some Sprint phones can read bar-codes. What about the software, who makes this type? Then the department would need an integrated computer system throughout it's houses. Does that require it's own server? I guess it would? (not much of an IT guy here) What other pieces of technology would a system like this require?

Where's the "Civil Defense" Sticker (and who get's that?) jk, really sophisticated, pro installation! Edit: Please indulge me for a moment of explanation. Not so long ago, the analog, tube-type radio systems that many Westchester departments communicated on 46.26 had a head-unit (where the microphone attached) which was stamped with the classic Civil Defense logo. It was an....adaptation from Cold War preparedness to fire department emergency communications. That is all, thank you.

YFD Station 13 new House Patch (circa WWII) Edit: Here's the cartoon that came to mind:

Excellent! Great job by all involved.

Westchester civil service is notorious for the length of time it takes to get test results. I took the firefighters exam around 1983 and I remember it took at least six months to get the results. Jm15 If you were asking me that question, no I'm sorry I did not read page 3. I speak from experience of having taken at least 5 Westchester tests, and the FDNY test. All of them had very lengthy waiting periods.

Good things come to those who wait..........patiently. It takes forever to get test results.

Based on public knowledge (not looking for patient confidentiality info) did anybody read about the status of the patient; critical, stable, etc.

Found out tonight from "Bad Box" that Captain Willy D, "nfd2004" on this and other sites, who's wife passed away only a couple of weeks ago, is now himself in the hospital. A member spoken with him since his admittance. He's undergoing a battery of tests and it sounds like in typical Willy D fashion is making light of his condition, but at least he was able to speak on the phone with the member who reported it on the nyc site. Please everybody keep the good Captain in your prayers. Lord knows he's been through hell lately. That kind of stress takes it's toll. Get well soon Willy D.

Seth and the Moderating Team, I have an idea that you might want to consider. Suppose EMTBravo was to come out with a "Membership Card" similar to what we get as members of the IAFF, PBA or NYSPFRA. Let's say you develop an annual membership card; you could mail them to members if they support the site during fundraising. Before you introduce the cards, you go to different vendors, merchants, etc., and develop a partnership, whereby if a card carrying member of EMTBravo (say you set the minimum contribution at $25 per year) goes to the merchant and does business, they become entitled to percentage discounts on purchases. It works for both EMTBravo as well as steering business toward the participating merchants. This could be a way to build in a financial incentive to become a supporting member of the board, and merchants (particularly those that are emergency services specific) would probably be very interested in developing a co-marketing partnership. I thought of this yesterday. I have a Winn Dixie food store membership card, and based on my purchases, I get discounts on Shell gasoline purchases. Yesterday I inserted my WD card right into the gas pump and received 20 cents off per gallon for 20 gallons. That was a six dollar savings at the pump, and all because I bought my food at Winn Dixie. "Food for thought." Edit: Also this program might provide incentive for the merchants to advertise on the site. Edit 2: Sorry lol, a work in progress. You could also think about building a tiered membership system. Let's say: Basic membership @$25: membership card w/merchant discount package. Gold membership @$50: membership card w/merchant discount package, EMTBravo tee-shirt, and another item (golf course discount or something) to provide incentive to join the upgraded membership. Platinum membership @$100: Lifetime membership card/w merchant discount package, tee-shirt, golf course package, and a Westchester Firefighters Pipes and Drums C.D.

AFG and SAFER are not tax mandates. Started under the Bush administration, these programs have to get continual Congressional approval every year to be continued. I don't get your point that money from Juno winds up in Camden. All of the tax dollars wind up in D.C. and get appropriated from there. I like what Ron Paul has to say about our foreign policy, so I'll steal a few of his ideas for this post. Why do we continue to maintain tens of thousands of troops in places like Germany and South Korea? Both of those countries are currently operating "in the black". They aren't running deficits. Why are we subsidizing their national defense, when we desperately need our money for domestic programs? Why is the discussion about the national debt focused on money being spent right here at home and how we can't afford to help ourselves in these tough times? Screw the rest of the globe, let them pay for their own defense. Why does the Federal government continue to turn a blind eye on the overseas programs costing us hundreds of billions, and the conservatives constantly talk about slashing domestic programs? Lets start getting our financial house in order by telling the world we are no longer going to bury ourselves in debt to subsidize some of the healthier economies in the world. Let THEM (the Germans, the South Koreans, the Indians, the Pakistani's et al) pay their own way. How much is it costing the United States to ensure safe passage through the Persian Gulf for ALL the world's countries oil shipments? If we're going to continue these "world defense" programs, it's time to say "SCREW YOU PAY ME." Let the world's stronger economies start paying their fair share; you want our troops in there to guard your borders, while we have to borrow money from China, so you can safely produce cheap vehicles and sell them to the U.S.? Your economy prospers, while ours sputters, and we're paying for your protection? "SCREW YOU PAY ME." Either that, or close the bases, bring the troops home, and let them do something productive here, like guard OUR borders. Shrink the military-industrial complex. That's a major reason why we're going bankrupt. Eisenhower warned about it, but it has fallen on deaf ears and blind eyes. Why would NBC News do an expose on runaway military contractor costs, when they are owned by General Electric (which paid NO corporate tax last year) that does major contract work for the military? I mean if the Congress wasn't so bought and paid for by lobbyists with foreign and corporate interests, maybe some of these injustices being perpetrated on the American people would be addressed. OUR Congress is OWNED by foreign interests, and in the meantime we fight amongst ourselves, because the media keeps most peoples' minds right where the Cabal running Washington wants them. Watch a Republican debate. Watch how the corporate news agencies that run the debates go out of their way to downplay what Ron Paul has to say. He continually wins or places high in straw polls across the country. Yet, because his ideas about foreign and corporate policy, his ideas about the FED, threaten the corporate owners of the news agencies, they will ensure Ron Paul is minimized, and ridiculed. Alexander Hamilton ABOLISHED the "national bank" in his time, yet in 1913 the banksters gathered on Jekyll Island off the coast of Georgia, and created the Federal Reserve Bank, a private entity that controls our monetary policy. Take a poll of American people and see how many know the FED is a PRIVATE business. One that creates bubbles in the economy that benefit the banks, then deflates the economy which benefits the banks. Banks profit from war. Read about the Rothsteins of France. Read how they manipulated Europe through the twentieth century; created World Wars that countries paid for with blood of soldiers and borrowed money from banks. In 2008 the banks created an economic crisis that we're going to suffer from the ongoing effects for decades. The banks received hundreds of billions of tax dollars. Instead of working people in America being united, and knowing who the common enemy of this country is; the banks, the corporations, the war machine, and foreign interests; the corporate controlled media has succeeded in pitting Americans against themselves; private employees vs. public employees. Union workers vs. non union workers. White collar vs blue collar. American vs. American. Just the way they want it; the Federal Reserve, the banks, the corporations, and the foreign interests. It's time all Americans unite, kick out incumbent politicians, get the money out of elections. A long process for sure, but in the meantime let's stop fighting each other on the homefront. America First!

Are those patches in his hair from recent brain surgeries? Some kind of mental deficiency going on.....

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/17/teacher-aid-obamas-jobs-plan_n_1015854.html Maybe you guys who are claiming how the funding for this part of the jobs bill would have been paid for out of all our pockets missed this detail. I cannot remember any other programs that ever helped fire departments other than AFG and SAFER. The AFG's that we got were instrumental in solving some serious health and safety issues my job had. The guys that hook up the exhaust systems to the rigs now before they back them into the firehouse probably take it for granted that they don't have diesel particulate matter on their plates and glasses in the kitchen. They might not have worked with the guys we lost due to strange and rare liver cancers. SAFER has been key in rehiring laid off Westchester firefighters. Yes, it's temporary, but you know what? I'd take the two years of temporary while the municipality tries to get it's act together to keep the positions after the grant expires, instead of two years on the bread line. I'm not sure how this part of the jobs bill interfaces with SAFER, if at all. If it is the entire SAFER funding that just got voted down the tubes thanks to the millionaire protecting Republicans and a few cross-over traitors of working people like Joe Lieberman, well shame on them!

Not exactly. In 1960, you'd have to have waited two more years for me to even drive a Matchbox limo across the rug in the living room. Nice to see you back bad box! Edit: Any Yonkers guys want to help us out here, and identify the location where the photo was taken?

Great video R1Smokeeater! Thanks for the memories. I lived on Centre Ave. when this fire occurred, yeah I was a buff boy that night.....

Standard equipment for a crossing guard in Minnesota.

Date:10/21/11 Time: 1740 hrs. 2nd Alarm transmitted @1827 hours due to heavy smoke Location: 120 Broadway opposite Pine St. Frequency: Manhattan/Citywide Units Operating:E10, E6, E4 L10, TL1 B1 10-76 L20 Fast, L15 (assigned when available above the 10-76) E202 Lobby Control E55 CRFD E33 w/ High Rise 1 B6 Safety B31 D1 Field Comm 1 Command Tactical 1 Car 4 David Brooklyn Companies on boxes 9031 and 9032 E205, E279 L110, L101 B35, B32 Some relocations: L122/10, L104/20, E230 Weather Conditions: New York Description Of Incident: Report of a fire on the 28th floor of a 41 story commercial, 167x310 Reporters/Writer: kfd274 and Ten Seventy-Seven@nycfire/Emergency Stream/efdcapt115 Emergency Stream live feed: http://www.emergencystream.com/video_streams/NY/NYC2/a.html

Yonkers Police Department doing an unusual escort through the city of Yonkers in 1960. JFK in the Chevy. credit: NYCHistory