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We musn't forget that several local DPW's, including Greenburgh and Tarrytown, also have these vehicles available. [attachmentid=2659]

It's a Freightliner/Mccoy Miller with a VERY cheap vinyl lettering job. Like most of the things the Medical Center does, they skimped on what could have been a very nice bus. I'm wondering if it was a demo or used bus....I highly doubt that they would spring for a Q.....I'm suprised they paid for tires! [attachmentid=2657] [attachmentid=2658]

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Congrats EMTBravo Member esema!

I'm curious, as usual. How many tech rescue teams have arrangements and/or keys to their local or nearby Home Depot/Lowes or local lumberyard for access to lumber when they are closed? I've heard of this practice in other areas of the country, most specifically the Los Angeles City and Los Angeles County FD's USAR teams, but would like to know if exists here?

And for those who don't know, Engine 75 runs alongside Ladder 47, a 200? Seagrave Meanstick. (Ladder 47 designation USED to belong to Hartsdale when Hartsdale FD has L-46 and L-47) [attachmentid=2650]

Greenburgh PD had several of these ambulances over the years. As they get rid of them, DPW picks them up and puts them to a different uses, uisually street signs. There's one, the former 88, which is used by the highway department street sign division (which is technically a PD division). Before that, it was GPD's crime scene and arson unit, and of course before that an ambulance. It still carries the PD marking on the door since the street sign division is part of GPD technically. It's also interesting to note the Brauns were remounted and refurbished several times before enfding their life as an ambulance. [attachmentid=2652] The Tech Rescue team also has one of this style as a decon unit, I think it sits in GPD's lot. I know I have seen it at the town shops and at Fairview Station 2. And, as you can see here, the Parks and Rec department was using this old,old former Greenburgh PD ambulance in the late 90's: [attachmentid=2651]

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[attachmentid=2646] Stamford FD used to operate this as reserve Engine 8. Was it actually ever a front line piece?? What make/model is it?

Greenburgh Police Unit 70 (Car 62, Police Officer w/ EMT Cert Patrol Ambulance- now Unit 76) used to operate this 1989 Chevrolet/Braun up until the late 1990's, when it was replaced by a Ford/McCoy-Miller Type III in the at-the-time new ugly white with strip scheme. [attachmentid=2645]

New York State Thruway Authority West Nyack Section used to operate this Mack R as a barrier truck. Behind the truck, you can see the NYSTA's giant snoblower, and in the background is the Palisades Mall under construction. [attachmentid=2644]

A Bowhunter who is an active member of this site, the man who taught me the proper way to work a Tac bus, used to operate this Chevrolet Lumina, k. [attachmentid=2642]

Also in the lot at Hudson Valley Ambulance was this interesting 1989 Ford E-350/Collins (Collins is the parent company of Wheeled Coach). [attachmentid=2641]

Westchester Medical Center through A-1 Ambulance operated this thing that was chain driven. I remember shooting this in the lot of the former Hudson Valley Ambulance in Haverstraw [attachmentid=2640]

Hartsdale operated this Chevrolet/Reading Body in the early 1990's as Car 2172, the Deputy Chief (Shift Commander) After being replaced by a Chevrolet Suburban, the town of Greenburgh got the truck and "parted" it out for its DPW fleet. [attachmentid=2639]

I haven't heard a lot of buzz about any of the apparatus products introduced at FDIC this year. I've seen the threads about the Pierce PUC, the E-One Quest, and now this. Crimson's "Booomer" Kind of like a modern day telesquirt. Wonder if any department will actually pick up on this? http://www.fireboomer.com/boomer/

A phooto of the "new" Tanker 57 after it's Pleasantville is now posted on http://www.emtbravo.com courtesy of x2371

I know a couple of years back, Bedford Village FD was considering several options for expanding their headquarters or building a substation. As most know, their current heaquarters is extremly cramped. They have 2 bays that are 3 apparatus deep, and every call requires shuffling of the apparatus. There is little room to work, much less walk, in the bays. The apparatus has to be modified to fit, and Bedford FD can't get a tanker which they need and should have because the floor won't support it, from what I understand. I heard several ideas, expanding their HQ's out the back into the parking lot with more bays, sort of like Pound Ridge, building a HQ's at Route 172 & Route 22 and making the current HQ's a substation with an engine and the ambulance, or building a small substation at Route 1722 and Route 22 with a tanker and the rescue and some other storage and training space. So, what is the current status? My info is a few years old now.... [attachmentid=2621]

Thanks for the answer. I'm just curious, in your reply you sound as if you're content the way things are. Is a modern firehouse, especially one that allows you not to have to waste time and manpower shuffling apparatus and to have a tanker, a priority for the department?

I've been a little out of the loop in Northern Westchester since I left WEMS 45-Medics in August of 2005 for Hartsdale FD, but from what I remembered, Bedford was either buying KBHVAC's old ambulance, a 2000 Ford E-450/PL Custom, or they were going to buy a new one. So, what is the status of 52-B-1, is there a new one, if there is where is the old one, and where are the photos?

Stat Flight lands in Ardsley on 1-30-92, after a cement mixer rolled off the NYS Thruway and down an embankment, landing on Elm Street in Ardsley and heavily entrapping the driver (1hr extrication?). Anyone know what the deal with the helicopter was? It's definetly not a BK117! And what was "Aeromed"? [attachmentid=2620]

Continuing on, here's Ardsley FD's fleet IFO their Ashford Ave. headquarters circa 1990. From left to right Engine 165-1979 Mack CF, Car 2011-1985 Chevrolet Suburban 2500, Engine 164 1972 Young, and Quint 1 1988 Hahn/LTI [attachmentid=2618]

It appears that Ardsley VAC's new Headquarters is compete. Just some quick background history, Ardsley VAC was running out of a obsolete, dilapidated building that was formerly used as a bank in Mount Vernon, and donated and trucked to Ardsley VAC on American Legion Drive in Ardsley. This new building is modular, and was trucked in from Canada and assembled in Ardsley with the finishing touches. The new: [attachmentid=2615] And the old, which was demolished to make way for the new above: [attachmentid=2616] Ardsley VAC operates one BLS ambulance, a 2000 Ford F-450/LifeLine Superliner assigned as 50-B-1, or 914 on Ardsley Police frequency. [attachmentid=2617] Greenburgh PD*EMS Civilian Paramedics provide the ALS via a 2006 Chevrolet Tahoe flycar that responds from the Dobbs Ferry Hospital area.

And we'll finish up with this, Truck 319 a Chevrolet 4x4 [attachmentid=2614] And, hiding in the fleet maintainence garage was a "antique" WPDPW truck. Wonder if that will be making any appearances at community events this spring/summer?

And continuing with the unusual, here's White Plains DPW's version of a Ford F-450 with a dump body. Anyone know what is the advantage to this kind of dump body? After some research, it's supposed to fit in the truck bed without having to remove the bed. [attachmentid=2613]