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NYC uses them. Any time we have heavy snow they are deployed in Manhattan all the time. Park it over a manhole and bring the snow over then move it to another street.

All of my thoughts and prayers are with him and his family and the department. I want to wish him a full and speedy recovery.

Good to hear, let us know what you need.

No, when he get smarried she'll move in.

He's getting married?

Rob are you taking orders ahead of time or is it regular menu?

Rich, crank up the power we need to light up a scene!!! Flood lights please.

That's the day he's taking us all out to dinner!

It is sad and we're going to see more of this as seniors just cannot afford to buy oil even with it coming down a little. Plus utility bills are going to go up, gas prices, food bills etc. The worst is yet to come. Wiat until the market goes into the 7 thousands. I'm afraid to even look at my 401K and I'm in what was termed Moderete to safe investments. I have a friend who owns a gas station and I remember him saying last winter he had about 10 or so families who came in daily with gas cans to buy 5 gallons of diesel for heat because they had no credit and could not pay $600 to get a couple of hundred gallons of home heating oil. This year it will be worse. Candles, wood burning stoves, all kinds of liquid fuel heaters. As the Boy Scouts say, "Be Prepaired." Sorry if I sound negative.

I'll bet if someone ran background checks of everyone in Mt Vernon City hall we'd find a lot of people with records.

I know this is the second group from Stewart going. Previously one of the members at my department and a NYC FF who's at Stewart went to Kuwait For the guys going now, may your time there be boring and uneventfull. Good luck and stay safe.

I agree there is just way too much duplication. Just take the towns, Mt. Pleasant, Ossining, Cortlandt, Greenburgh, or the other 14. Look what each town has and see how much can be cut. While I don't think anyone is going to go out and sell off all these rigs when it comes replacement time the question then becomes do we really need to another ladder or engine or whatever at $500,000+. Village departments can be combined to create town departments. While that alone will not save much now when it comes replacement time the towns can ask that question do we need. Then we start seeing savings. Not just cost but maintanence as well. As a larger group its easier to negotiate pricing. You'll se some reduction on a lot of the equiptment and some more standardization than we now have. We may also see better manning. Grumpyff is correct. In the norther reaches there is a need for tankers that you don't need normally down south and because of the stretches you also need water relay is an issue. While you sometimes will use them in the south end to pull off of different mains up north you need sometimes over 3000 feet just to get basic supply. What Benchis says too goes a long way. If we just cut 10% of the rigs out there, can we survive with just 200 engines, 60 ladders and 40 towers? 35 rescues? I could go on but you get the point. I don't know how many of the physical buildings will go away when commbining and that will take a lot of effort. No one wants to see firehouses close so I don't think that will happen but the number of rigs in each will happen and of course we have all the egos that will fight over which companies go away. I for one as a tax payer would like to see any cost savings that won't degrade services and if we ever can work this issue out and save the tax payers that would be a major plus for the fire service. Save lives and property and money too!

Looking at what keeps going on gives all the more reason for "TERM LIMITS." 2 or 3 terms of 6 years and your gone. When they are in office 20 or 30 years and do nothing but line their own pockets and bend the rules t osuit them its time to give them their walking papers.

And do they know they are about to become "trailer park trash?"

I don't know but my GPS tells me to turn right, I look at it and says I have another 200 yards to go. I don't just turn my wheel. A little brian power.

That's too bad. It went through newspaper articles from well known newspapers and web sites like Market watch. It gave info on who got sweetheart loans and went back to the Carter admin. How Fannie mae and Freddi Mac forced the "Sub Prime" market on the banks and how it just grew a life of its own. Unfortunitly the background music was a copywrite problem. I wish they'd still pay it without. I went back into the archives and found the articles did in fact exist but didn't save any of it.

Some eof you have made some great points both for and against the bill but look at it this way, there are 2 factors. 1 way too many people have bought homes that really can't afford them and got in way over their heads in the sub prime market. There are those who bought with no or little money down at the height of the market. Those houses are now worth less then the mortgages. Then there are the adjustable rates where the payments have jumped to a point the homeowners can't afford them and also the third catagory where they had balloon notes paying interest only and those houses are also worth less then the notes. Now look at business. You supply goods, either to retail or to manufacturing that makes the final goods or you're somewhere down the line. YOu buy on credit, supply your customer then when they pay you pay. What happens when you can't get the 30 day float to keep up production? Retail is already down. You can't make payroll what happens? You start cutting that's what. Jobs are lost, therefore tax revenus are down. They are already down in NY thanks to Wall Street.A lot of large firms are already putting freezes on hiring. My firm with 8,000 US employees has done that and there are starting to really look at expenses. How many others are too. Those are the easy cuts and we're not a manufacturing company, we're software and services. Just my 2 minutes on economics. Now take a few minutes to watch this youtube video then you decide. What brought about the Bank and Wall Street Failure and who were the leading players causing the failure. It just didn't happen overnight as Congress and the media want you to believe. Click on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5tZc8oH--o

We'll see tomorrow how much the market drops overnight, then 6 1/2 hours of who knows what. If it takes another 700 plus point drop all hell could break loose. Credit could dry up. Who knows how far down to Mail street that may go. I could mean a lot of mid size business's can't get the goods they need and it could mean some more bank failures. Next we could see a lot of retail shortages. Then you'll see panic buying, just like the day before a storm. Auto dealers are going to be hurting when no one can qualify for loans. It could be a bleek end of year.

Who's got money?

The market dropped tpday 778 points. While it wasn't popular some one has to come up with a realistic plan. More banks will fall. We've been lucky that the big ones have been gobbled up by other big banks but as soon as the mid size banks start failing in numbers the FED will be the only one picking up the pieces. As the banks and investment houses go belly up the FDIC and SIPIC will cover the payouts and the government will end up paying out a good portion of the $700B anyway. The big difference will be more lost jobs, more people losing everything and more companys going belly up.

Your mostly right, the Bull pen, gone, Pedro would take too long to warm up, he and El Duque should go too. Murphy's going to play 2nd Base in the winter leagues. YOu forgot Church who went 0 for September. What about more playing time for Endy?

That bridge was a lot shorter 1,907 ft (581.3 m) per Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-35W_Mississippi_River_bridge They rebuilt in the same spot. Here they'll spend 5 years just getting the property to put the work trailers and equiptment.

Lets see, no environmental impact study even commisioned yet and no idea where the $16 Billion will come from huh? We're 52 years into a 50 year life span. It'll be years before the first shovel hits the ground. How many agree this bridge will be about 75 years old if not more before this project is done. (and probably way over budget)

Yeah Roger. Did you see the news quote the next day from a family spokesperson? He was very displeased with the Yankee organization because he wasn't invited and no reference was made to him.

None in City Hall????