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WASHINGTON - Two law enforcement groups said Friday that 153 officers have died in the line of duty so far in 2005, with the majority killed in traffic accidents and shootings. The number, just one fewer than the 154 reported killed in 2004, marks a continued downward trend over the last 30 years, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund and Concerns of Police Survivors. The groups compiled the deaths from reports through Dec. 22. Traffic-related accidents claimed the lives of 62 officers in 2005. The ranks of officers killed in traffic accidents has risen 40 percent in the last 30 years, according to the groups. Another 60 died in 2005 in shootings, including firearms training accidents. Physical-related incidents, including heart attacks and heat stroke, accounted for 20 more deaths. Other deaths included two fatalities in a helicopter crash, one in a bomb-related incident, one in a stabbing, two in drownings and three in falls. "The increased use of body armor, better training and, more recently, the advent of less-lethal weaponry have all played a role in bringing these numbers down," said National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund Chairman Craig W. Floyd. Excluding the 234 officers killed in the Sept. 11 attacks, 160 officers have been killed each year on average over the past decade, the groups said. The annual average was 220 through the 1970s. California continued to have the most officers killed in the line of duty, with 17. Texas, with 14, and Georgia, with 10, followed. Nine federal officers died. Just four of the overall deaths involved women officers. The groups plan to add the 153 names over the next few months to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C. The memorial lists the names of more than 17,000 officers killed in the line of duty since 1792. There are an estimated 800,000 state, federal and local officers in the United States, according to the most recent available numbers from the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

My guess for the department that produced the most certified FF's is Ossining or Port Chester. I must say recently the courses that have been coming out are great. I wish the highway safety course was available again, I wanted to take it but wasn't a time a year I was able to take any courses (tax season). I have a question for firecapt or als what courses did FF1 replace. For example pre FF1 our department required all members to take essentials, inital attack I, and basic truck. Whats couses should they have to take to be equivalent to those. Also since we had a topic about what should officers requirements be what should the requirements be, in couses, should every department require for firefighters.

Great picture from Paterson on the fires section before 2000.

What departments have equipment or a deal worked out with a local gym for physical fitness? Who should be responsible for paying for this the companies or the department? All volunteer companies recieve 2% money but how many used it on helping their members. I will bet we spent more 2% money on dinners than on physical fitness. We have control of this money and we should have used it to do whats in our members best interests.

This house was on channel 2 news this morning. It is a house in Mason, Oh and he shut it down due to accidents and traffic. It takes 2 months to set up and he has over 26,000 lights on his house.

FORT MYERS BEACH, Fla. - Police accidentally hit a naked man in the genitals with a Taser after he was caught breaking windows and asking women to touch him, authorities said. Jeremy J. Miljour, 26, tried to run away when sheriff's deputies approached so one of them shot their Taser, said Cpl. Matt Chitwood. But one of the gun's prongs accidentally hit Miljour's genitals and got stuck, Chitwood said. "The Taser is relatively accurate, but when someone is moving like that, it doesn't matter if you have a Taser, or a pistol. (Officers) can't aim," Chitwood said. Miljour was treated at a hospital before being taken to the Lee County jail. He was charged with indecent exposure, resisting an officer and criminal damage

How do they receive funding?

Seth I just want you to know, and i think everyone else here should do the same and say thank you. You have given us a forum, with mainly your time and money to see what other departments are doing and to also take pride in our own department. Just remember no matter what anyone emails or posts about you, you know who and where your friends are. For this i thank you and if i haven't told you congratulations on becoming a paid fireman in hartsdale. Also don't be a stranger from your first home. from your friends Paul and Jen

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NJ Licenses if you are under 21 your picture is taken from teh side and over 21 is taken from the front. Can't change the dates with that.

Here's my question why does the county give out "squads" that do not even fit their classification of what a squad is? A vehicle(s) consisting of at least an Engine with or without other support vehicles (ie: Rescue, Ladder, or Utility Type), equipped with additional and specific equipment to handle hazardous materials / WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction) and/or technical rescue, that will respond with a minimum of six (6) trained and certified members, included a company officer. Or does the engine mean that it is motorized. Another question when you ask for the county squad lets say greenburgh does 6 guys come with that?

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SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian man built up a 40,000-volt charge of static electricity in his clothes as he walked, leaving a trail of scorched carpet and molten plastic and forcing firefighters to evacuate a building. Frank Clewer, who was wearing a woolen shirt and a synthetic nylon jacket, was oblivious to the growing electrical current that was building up as his clothes rubbed together. When he walked into a building in the country town of Warrnambool in the southern state of Victoria Thursday, the electrical charge ignited the carpet. "It sounded almost like a firecracker," Clewer told Australian radio Friday. "Within about five minutes, the carpet started to erupt." Employees, unsure of the cause of the mysterious burning smell, telephoned firefighters who evacuated the building. "There were several scorch marks in the carpet, and we could hear a cracking noise -- a bit like a whip -- both inside and outside the building," said fire official Henry Barton. Firefighters cut electricity to the building thinking the burns might have been caused by a power surge. Clewer, who after leaving the building discovered he had scorched a piece of plastic on the floor of his car, returned to seek help from the firefighters. "We tested his clothes with a static electricity field meter and measured a current of 40,000 volts, which is one step shy of spontaneous combustion, where his clothes would have self-ignited," Barton said. "I've been firefighting for over 35 years and I've never come across anything like this," he said. Firefighters took possession of Clewer's jacket and stored it in the courtyard of the fire station, where it continued to give off a strong electrical current. David Gosden, a senior lecturer in electrical engineering at Sydney University, told Reuters that for a static electricity charge to ignite a carpet, conditions had to be perfect. "Static electricity is a similar mechanism to lightning, where you have clouds rubbing together and then a spark generated by very dry air above them," said Gosden.

Well lack of manpower does not make up for not wearing an SCBA.

Ardsley raised 13,000 in 5 hours and may have someone to match it. We will be at it again the week after the peekskill parade as directed by the county.

Ardsley is out of logical options for a temporary firehouse. We want thew westchester garage but it is not available as is the hillcrest shopping center. The current owner of the Water Wheel Property has some problems and can not lease us the property. We have asked the village to look into it and Trustee Leon has done a wonderful job in doing so. This is the only thing slowig us down now. Will update when it becomes available.

What are the looters going to do with the tv's and other stuff like that. Not to sound insensitive but hey have no where to put it or use it. Jus take the food water and clothes. And another thing why would you shoot the helicopters that are trying to save people and eventually yourself.

I think the most oil used is by corporations not the average consumer so the idea a good one will never work. Or a better idea would be to write to your state officials and tell them to get rid of the gas tax that is killing us. I think New Yorks is like 4% and also does not include the federal tax.

Seth you should take it and go back to college for a semester. Did he mention there were three girls lliving there.

Date: 8/20/05 Time: 02:30 Location: NYS Thruway NB MM 8.4 Frequency: 46.52 Units Operating: 2011, 2013 E-164, E165, ASVAC 50-B-1, NYSP, STAT Flight Description Of Incident: Motorcycle Accident with STAT Flight Writer: Firemn23 Motorcycle hit back of car at a high rate of speed. Driver and motorcycle down an embankment. Crew of 164, 165 removed patient to STAT flight using stokes basket.

Not sure if anyone is facinated by astronomy like I am but so this web site that had a lsiting of thw top 20 pictures from the hubble. http://www.space.com/bestimg/result.php?ba..._03.jpg&cat=hst

What steps does your department take in SOP's or equipment to help battle the summer heat?

Jakfd are those all the ones you have or all the ones you need.

You mean i cant keep emtbravo time.

How is Jimmy Lees smell the food all the time and it smells great.