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I got the same email with the same dates it said the packet went out on the 2nd

eMedia Card Designer came with evolis pebble 4 card printer.

We tried using East Fishkill’s system as well and it worked for a while, but water always found a way in overtime and destroyed the paper so we were always replacing the cards. We went with a hard (credit card) type of card that has dept. name, firefighters name, photo id, dept id, and interior / exterior on it. We then put it inside a hard plastic luggage tag holder green for interior red for exterior. We ended up buying a card printer which comes with design software and use it to make yearly dept. membership Ids as well as the gear tags.

We generally do not use ladder trucks for our structure fires. Most of our district is made up of houses with driveways like this one or are set too far back off the road for a ladder truck to reach. A 35' extension ladder combined with a roof ladder works 9 out of 10 times for ventilation/roof work in our area.

I would have called Mohegan, specifically for their ladder 10 (75’) as I don’t think Peekskill’s tower ladder 45 or Mohegan’s ladder 35 could have made it in or up the drive way. This particular house sat on a mountainous 150 acres of property only accessible by a dirt driveway that was about a half a mile long. The driveway wrapped around the opposite side of the house from the chimney and was just wide enough for an engine, trying to get and raise a ladder up there would have been a nightmare.

Continental Village Fire Department along with Garrison and Putnam Valley FDs operate at a Chimney fire with extension on Monday Morning.

Continental Village was on Stand-by at Putnam Valley Station 1 and Mohegan was called for their FAST team

I view my departments website as a tool for recruiting and to show the public and Politicians what is going on. I try to get our drills up and any interesting calls to show people we are out there doing things even if you don’t see or hear us. I have had politicians from both Cortlandt (Westchester) and Philipstown (Putnam) comment on our site and how well it is kept up to date (so yes they are keeping tabs on what we do for the money they give us). The only time we get any news coverage is when we send an article to the papers so I feel it is important to have a source that people can go to and see hey they do exist and do respond to calls. I created our departments first website myself but do to the popularity and the amount of time to do all the updating we decided to go with Firehouse Solutions. You do pay a lot for their services but any member can write a news story and submit it for approval so all the site managers have to do is look over the content and approve it or reject it before it goes up on the web. It also comes with a load of other features that in my opinion make it worth the investment. www.continentalvillagefd.org

Ok maybe this should not be open to everyone but the idea has some merit if done a little differently. What if they had the probes from career academies spend their last week in the academy doing tours in various ‘busy’ houses. This way upon graduation they have some experience their first day on the job.

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They way I approach drill planning is to have a bunch of smaller instructional drills that lead up to a large scenario based drill. In the smaller drills everyone gets an opportunity to do all the jobs where in the scenario they may only get to do one or two depending on the task they are given for example: Week 1: Ladders and ventilation Week 2: Hydrants and drafting Week 3: Hose line advancement Week 4: Forceable entry and Search & Rescue Week 5: Initial attack scenario drill that covers all topics learned above. (Could be a Mutual-Aid drill) The topics could vary depending on your department and what they have in district, if you have no hydrants you may just do drafting and tankers. The point is have a goal that you are building towards and make sure that everyone understands and gets refreshed on the basics before you step it up. Then move on to another topic or you can have multiple topics running at the same time (each week being a different topic: week 1 fire, week 2 extrication, week 3 rescue), it all comes down to turnout and and experience level that you are dealing with. Also have a set day of the week for drills and publicize the hell out of it, my department has a 2-3 hour drill every Tuesday night this way you are looking at 4 drills a month and you can cover a lot of topics. In addition put together some bad wether drills that can be done inside on bad wether days like knots Here is a good link for drill ideas and materials to look over. http://www.firefighterclosecalls.com/weeklydrills.php

There has to be more to the story, when I was on scene there had to be at least 5 other people taking photos and videos. I will also add that when I was chief we had a bad fatal accident and when I got on scene there was a gentleman taking photos (there were no photos of the victim only the scene. The State Troopers did confiscate his memory card to look through for evidence, but I was told by them that they could only make a copy and were going to give it back. I think a lot of the negative feedback you have been getting comes from the fear of you recording or taking a photo of a department doing something wrong and then posting it on here or youtub or somewhere else. Nobody likes bad press! When you take photos you need to use discretion in what you post and I would also recommend you give a copy of the photos to the chief or someone in the department (Not try and sell it to them). That way they can see what you have and are not left wondering if they are going to see something pop up on a forum somewhere. I tend to only take photos of my own department unless we go mutual-Aid somewhere or I’m requested to take photos, and those photos are used for training purposes and to post on our department website. I also have a personal website with additional pictures that don’t make it onto the dept website and they are accessible to all the members of my department for free because I don’t believe in taking a photo of someone and charging them for it. The point is don’t act like you are hiding anything or doing anything wrong and people will generally leave you alone. Don’t go where you are not supposed to go, don’t get in the way and don’t cause a scene if you are asked to leave, just apologize and go. It also might be a good idea to go around and introduce yourself to the chiefs of the departments who’s scenes you plan on going to photograph, this way you can get permission in advance or they can politely ask you not to, and they will know who you are when they see you on the scene. Just my thoughts

On Sunday March 4,2012 the Continental Village Fire Dept. Responded mutual-aid to Putnam Valley who was operating a structure fire at Putnam Valley Park.

On Sunday March 4th Continental Village FD was requested to Garrison FD Station 2 to set up a landing zone. Garrison FD was operating at a serious MVA Rollover with extrication. There were 3 patients, 1 airlifted, and 2 went by ground, 1 of which was in traumatic arrest.

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