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Some beautiful B model Macks there. ( I wish our dept had kept our C - 85). Anybody know what year those ALF's are? Cool pics. Thanks for sharing.

So you are accused of DWI, and a guy is standing there with a gun "asking" if you consent to a blood draw. Of course if you refuse, no matter, the judge will issue a warrant for it and they'll get it anyway and probably any way. Kind of reminds me of my time in Germany where, if you were stopped for DWI by the Polezei, you did not have the right to refuse. They would get your blood and they didn't care if it was directly or indirectly from your veins.

Just remember to call PD so they can tag it for you. Getting caught with game out of season will cost you a whole lot more than the trip to Maine or Canada. Years ago I got a deer that way. PD tagged it and helped me load it in the trunk. Had to throw away a side of ribs and a shoulder, but the rest was fine.

Got this in an e-mail from my brother in Texas. I don't have the words to describe it. You just have to watch it. I thought this too important not to share. Many of you may have heard on the local and national news that another soldier lost his life in Iraq about two weeks ago now. That soldier was LCpl Brandon Lara of New Braunfels, TX. His body was flown back to N.B. via Randolph Air Force Base, TX (just outside Universal City and Schertz, Texas). The motorcade left the air force base outside Universal City, down FM 78 into Schertz,Texas; down FM 3009 to IH 35 North and into New Braunfels, Texas to the funeral home where LCpl Lara's funeral service arrangements took place. This video was shot from one of the police dash cams; and it is absolutely a beautiful, moving and emotional tribute to this young man who sacrificed his life for us. Please turn up your speakers and watch; you too will be proud... Video of Sunday's procession Below is the Youtube link to a video made with dash cam during the funeral procession Sunday for LCpl. Lara.

For those following this story, here is another article that appeared in The Sentinal (a small, local paper):

Here is one article from Mid Hudson News.com August 14, 2009

According to a recent article, (I'll see if I can find it and link to it), SP is discontinuing Stewart Airport and the Javits Center as patrol posts to save money. Currently, Town of New Windsor is in negotiations with the PA to fund a patrol post at Stewart.

I believe that according to the Law of Copology, LEO's are immune to or unaffected by the things that would be harmful to the rest of the general population, such as speeding, not using a hands free cell phone, not wearing seatbelts, etc. Of course there is no financial incentive for them to do so and their actions do not generate revenue for their respective jurisdictions, thereby enhancing their immune systems.

As a follow-up to the IA that was posted earlier. <H1 class=headline>Off-duty officer involved in Route 300 crash</H1> var isoPubDate = 'August 16, 2009'August 16, 2009 - 1:36 PMTOWN OF NEWBURGH - Three people were injured in a crash Sunday afternoon involving an off-duty Town of Montgomery police officer. Police say a group of three motorcycles were traveling behind a vehicle that made a left-hand turn. The third motorcycle in the line, which was driven by Officer Brian Turner, didn't slow and subsequently veered left around the other motorcycles, hitting the vehicle driver's door. The driver of the car, Turner, and the passenger on his motorcycle were all sent to area hospitals. Police said none of the patients were in serious condition. Police are still investigating the crash. Meghan E. Murphy (from todays Record Online)

Join us for our 1st Annual Poker Run Sunday August 16, 2009. Afterwards join the Band Blue Mozart as they perform free for your entertainment. Also, visit their website at www.myspace.com/bluemozart A special thank you to our sponsors: Personalize ItHaight Fire Equipment SupplyBC&N Carpet OneJoe's Pizza & DeliRed Ginger SushiClegg Brothers Garage DoorsBill Galati Pools & SpasNoto's Italian DeliAdams Family FloorsEddie's Gourmet PizzaHair DimensionsNewburgh Rescue SupplyPat Tarsio LanesR McCormick LandscapingAMY's Doggie DoosLeo's PizzeriaIron Café1st ResponderGail's PlaceRed Knight MC NY18Orange County ChoppersOrange County Fire Museum

Just wanted to bring this to the top again. Weather looks good so far. I'll be around for registration (9 - 11), but probably won't make the end. My nephew recently completed his second tour in Iraq and will be passing through town that day.. Anyway, there will scrambled eggs and pancakes at registration, free while supplies last. I believe we also have about 50 door prizes as well as a 50/50 and some other raffles. Poker Run T-shirts will also be for sale. If any of you are coming with groups and have an idea as to how many are coming, let me know.

Mmm... If they were at Harris when called and not already in the air, that's gotta be, what, 25+ minutes? Carmel to Danbury 10 minutes, to WCMC, 20 minutes? I'd complain of pain all over too. But if you can drive faster than you can fly...... With in the last few weeks we have had 2 serious injury mva's here in Newburgh where EMS called off the bird because they were packaged and ready to go and it was still a 15 minute ETA for the helo.

I had never heard of this until recently. Operation Recognition is a program that allows veterans, specifically WW2, Korea, and Vietnam, with honorable discharges to receive their high school diploma if they did not finish high school. If you know anyone that may be eligible, let them know. I went upstate last weekend to see my dad get his. He was drafted in '44 and never finished high school. It was cool to see him get his diploma at his old high school. He was very proud of the moment and quite moved by it. The standing ovation he received for the 3 or 4 minutes it took him to make his way to the podium, and the number of people who came up to him afterward to thank him and shake his hand was.... well, I don't know really how to describe it. http://veterans.ny.gov/operation_recognition.html

Isn't that what they normally serve?

It's kind of like the "expedite" button. Maybe somehow it is supposed to make you get there faster or something. I don't actually understand it. Either you're going or not. If you need a medic, call one, or send them back if you didn't need them.

My guess is that the brakes were never set. The article quoted mentioned that maybe the brakes melted, but the fire was clearly in the cab area and nowhere near the brakes. Also, if the air lines burned through, the loss of air pressure would cause the brakes to come on. However, it is possible that the valve behind the dash could have melted in such a way as to allow air to pressurize the brake system and allow the brakes to release. I have had bad air valves on trucks before that allow that to happen.

Who in EMS is hiring whether it be full/part time or per diem? I have several applications out and pending but nothing yet. I haven't tried some of the farther away places yet such as in NYC or NJ. I'm not sure the commuting expense would be worth it.

I've never heard of that. In our department, if you needed time away for whatever reason, you could resign or just not show up for a while. I guess it would depend on how long you were planning on being away. If you needed leave for a medical reason, you could go to social status in which case you are not banned from entering the firehouse, you just cannot participate in firematic duties. You could also have the option of going on light duty for medical reasons which you still can respond to the station for calls to man the radio or do the paperwork. You wouldn't be able to respond to the scene or ride the apparatus. We are pretty accommodating (sp?) to our members.

Not to pick on our esteemed governor, but I thought Memorial Day was a day of remembrance of those service men and women who gave their lives in defense of this country. The bill was sponsored by Senator Brian Foley and Assembly Robert Sweeney, both of Suffolk County. The new law regains for the fire service an exemption from CDL requirements for fire apparatus when used in official functions, such as going to and returning from calls, training, inspections, drills and parades. So unofficial functions, whatever they may be, would still require a CDL?

On the list of stupid things to post to Facebook, photos from a murder scene have to be right up there at the top. Apparently, this never occurred to Mark Musarella, a now-former emergency medical technician (EMT) at Richmond University Medical Center in Staten Island, New York. While on EMT duty on March 30, the 46-year-old retired police officer was called to a murder in the West Brighton area of New York's forgotten borough. According to Fire Chief, while he was on the scene, he snapped a few pics of the 26-year-old victim, Caroline Wimmer, lying dead on the floor of her apartment with the cord of a hairdryer wrapped around her throat. For some inexplicable reason, Musarella turned right around and posted the images on his Facebook page -- as expected, he was swiftly fired by the hospital and the NYPD was notified. What's worse, one source told the Staten Island Advance that Musarella may not have even learned his lesson: Although the murder scene picture has been taken down, someone with access to his profile told the newspaper that Musarella's Facebook page still had a photo from a car crash he may have responded to. If you have to be told that posting photos of a murder scene is inappropriate, then something is clearly wrong. [From: SI Live, via: Fire Chief] http://www.switched.com/2009/05/21/emt-pos...k-gets-fired%2F When will people ever learn?

I remember going m/a to a reported gas leak last year. As we arrived, there was the first due engine parked in front of the store. The store had been evacuated and all employees were congregated in an area about 20' in front of the large plate glass windows. And yes, the store was charged with gas. Remember, people, if we respond to these types of incidents, keep people away from the area and not in direct line of all the shrapnel that will be coming their way. As we approach the structure, I would do so from an angle, preferably keeping something very large and solid between me and all the storefront glass. They got very lucky the other day. If the store in my case had exploded, those civilians would have looked like swiss cheese. Be safe out there.

First for me was when we used to run EMS calls. We got called for a possible heart attack. We show up with the rescue and walk up to the house with the bags. Go inside and there is our chief and pd doing CPR. It took a few seconds to sink in but then it was just going with the training. The medics showed up shortly after. We were able to get him back long enough to get him in the bus. Coded a couple of times enroute the the hospital. So my first time, I also rode along in the ambulance. He "lived" about another 3 days on a vent. After the n-th time, it's like, ok, is dinner still warm? Congrats on the save. Haven't had one of those yet.

THAT would be coool. I could see that as a tanker. Arkel in New Windsor has a couple of them. I like the one they have in black/grey two-tone.

Ed Freeman You're a 19 year old kid. You're critically wounded, and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley, 11-14-1965, LZ X-ray, Vietnam. Your infantry unit is outnumbered 8 - 1, and the enemy fire is so intense, from 100 or 200 yards away, that your own Infantry Commander has ordered the MediVac helicopters to stop coming in. You're lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns, and you know you're not getting out. Your family is 1/2 way around the world, 12,000 miles away, and you'll never see them again. As the world starts to fade in and out, you know this is the day. Then, over the machine gun noise, you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter, and you look up to see an un-armed Huey, but it doesn't seem real, because no Medi-Vac markings are on it. Ed Freeman is coming for you. He's not Medi-Vac, so it's not his job, but he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire, after the Medi-Vacs were ordered not to come. He's coming anyway. And he drops it in, and sits there in the machine gun fire, as they load 2 or 3 of you on board. Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire, to the Doctors and Nurses. And, he kept coming back.... 13 more times..... And took about 30 of you and your buddies out, who would never have gotten out. Medal of Honor Recipient, Ed Freeman, died last Wednesday at the age of 80, in Boise, ID ......May God rest his soul..... I bet you didn't hear about this hero's passing, but we sure were told a whole bunch about some Hip-Hop Coward beating the crap out of his "girlfriend" Shame on the American Media Major Ed W. Freeman (U.S. Army, Retired) Medal of Honor Recipient Major Ed W. Freeman (U.S. Army, Retired), passed away on Aug. 20, 2008 at St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, Idaho, due to complications from Parkinson's Disease. He was 80 years old. Ed was born on Nov. 20, 1927 to William Ed and Caroline Freeman in Neely, Miss.; the sixth of nine children. He married Barbara Morgan on April 30, 1954. Ed and Barbara had two sons, Mike, born in 1956 and Doug, born in 1962. At age 17, Ed enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served on the USS Cacapon for two years. Upon return to Neely, Ed graduated from high school and then enlisted in the U.S. Army. He was a Master Sergeant in the Army Corps of Engineers, but he fought in Korea as an infantryman. He took part in the Battle of Pork Chop Hill and was awarded a Battlefield Commission, which enabled him the opportunity to apply to flight school. However, standing at 6'4", the 6'2" height restriction prevented him from being eligible, earning him the nickname "Too Tall." In 1955, the Army regulations changed, thus allowing Ed to attend flight school. He earned his wings at Ft. Rucker, Alabama. Ed began flying fixed-wing aircraft, then switched to helicopters. After logging thousands of hours in choppers, Ed was sent to Vietnam in 1965, assigned to the 1st Calvary Division (Airmobile). He was second in command of a sixteen-helicopter unit responsible for carrying infantrymen into battle. On Nov. 14, 1965, Ed's helicopters carried a battalion into the Ia Drang Valley for what became the first major confrontation between large forces of the American and North Vietnamese armies. Back at base, Ed and the other pilots received word that the soldiers they had dropped off were taking heavy casualties and running low on supplies. In fact, the fighting was so fierce that Medevac helicopters refused to pick up the wounded. When the commander of the helicopter unit asked for volunteers to fly into the battle zone, Freeman alone stepped forward. He was joined by his commander, and the two of them began several hours of flights into the contested area. Because their small emergency-landing zone was just one hundred yards away from the heaviest fighting, their unarmed and lightly armored helicopters took several hits. In all, Freeman carried out fourteen separate rescue missions, bringing in water and ammunition to the besieged soldiers and taking back dozens of wounded, some of whom wouldn't have survived if they hadn't been evacuated. For these actions, Ed was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor on July 16, 2001, by President George W. Bush. Freeman left Vietnam in 1966 and retired from the Army the following year. He flew helicopters another 20 years for the Department of the Interior, herding wild horses, fighting fires, and performing animal census. Then he retired altogether, deciding to spend time with his family. Ed is survived by his wife of 54 years, Barbara Freeman, his sons Mike (Anita) Freeman and Doug (Tina) Freeman, four grandchildren, Cori (Brad) Dalton, Scott Freeman, Haylee Freeman, all residing in Boise and Joshua Freeman of San Diego, Calif., three great-grandsons, Cooper and Bronco Dalton, and Trace Freeman, of Boise, as well as his sister, Betty Waters of Warner-Robbins, Ga. and brother Charles Freeman of Mobile, Ala. Ed was preceded in death by his parents, Caroline and William Ed Freeman, his brothers Pete, Joe, Loren and sisters Miriam, Louise, and Marcella. Ed's life will be celebrated on Saturday, Aug. 23, 2008 at 11 a.m. at Capital Christian Center, 2760 E. Fairview, Meridian, Idaho. A committal service with full military honors will follow at the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery. Services are under the arrangement of Alden-Waggoner Funeral Chapel. The family wishes to thank the wonderful staff at St. Alphonsus, Idaho Veteran's Service organizations and the Idaho Army National Guard. Memorial contributions may be made to the National Parkinson's Foundation at 1501 NW 9th Ave. Miami, Fl 33136-1494, www.parkinsons.org or the National Veteran's Foundation, www.nationalveteransfoundation.org. Published in the Idaho Statesman on 8/22/2008

How do other, nearby, states/areas compare to the lower Hudson Valley region as far as pay goes? If you search the job boards, there seems to be a decent amount of jobs available in NJ, a few less in CT, and very little in PA.