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Check out the website Christmas lights There's one house I've found on Morris Drive in Continental Village that has one of these displays.

YOu're sounding more and more like a career FF. The answer here is PAY the Career FF a proper wage and give some sort of tax break to live in the community. Lets not get into the argument giving the volly's incentives now make them paid or they are taking jobs away. How many career FF's have "B" jobs as carpenters, plumbers etc?? Well then you're taking jobs from union men too. It boils down to making living in these towns and villages affordable. Pay the career guys a decent wage, give some advantages for young people to stay in their community and we would not have a lot of these problems. We all know there is very little affordable housing today for someone starting out. Were can you find a 2 or 3 bedroom house in good shape for $200K or under? $250K? Its all over southern NY. Very little, maybe a co-op? There has been a little falling off of housing prices but not much and lets face it, builders don't make money building cheap homes.

Gatta agree with you. Calling a second alarm before you arrive on the scene puts everyone at risk. What if it turns out to be nothing and there is a legit job in the second alarm companys area? Wake up the career guys, put the vollunteers on standby works. The worst that happens is a few guys loose sleep. The rigs are manned and ready if it is a job and able to quickly resond IF needed. If not, back to bed or work or whatever but at least everyone was ready. You never know what you have until you're on the scene. I remember a young a**'t chief who called out the troops, mutual aid, tankers all to the scene. Turned out to be a minor detached chimney. Put out with the can. In the days of pull boxes, the box get pulled 2, 3 or 4 times, do you fill out the assignment, go with the original resonse? You show up a tthe box and no one is there. Now we have 4 cents

Hudson, remember EVOC teaches rig placement at the scene. Use it to protect the scene. The firedepartment should be called to the scene right away. As for what Scotty said, the trooper is capable of putting out flares, he should have a big box in his car. I have been to a great number of MVA's since i moved up here and I have seen troopers, Westchester County cops and Putnam Sherifs all lighting flares and asking for cones. Sounds like these agencies need to learn to work together.

My first question would be "why was it refurbished after 10 years in service?"

" For me I've come down to 2 choices, either a teaching degree or a degree in psychology. Just haven't figured out exactly which one I'd like to do. " Tom, A Shrink?

Mt Vernon ran 3 tillers, all American LaFrance until they replaced Truck 1 (county 61) with a Snorkal. Then eventually migrated away from tillers to you have todays fleet.

The LIRR talked about the same issues with car size, height etc when they bought Diesel/Electric engines and double decker cars. The talked about them for 4 years before they ordered some, When they came in they tested them for a year before they went in sevice and I know a lot of prople who think they are great. The only drawback some people saw, no 3 across seating its all 2 by 2. Now you can't put your bag in the middle seat it goes on top in the rack or on your lap.

This would be an exterior job. Chain saws to open up and vent, open the roof if you have a tower but without any real exits, stay outside. its too risky. Good chance the building isn't too stable either. Could be holes in the floors, piles of junk. Who knows.

I agree the check and advise is not good. We all know that every so oftem the automatic alarm is a real fire so we have to respond. Any delay in notification increases the intensity of the fire. Up here in Philipstown we have several buildings, Garrison Institue, St. Christophers, and others where when the automatic alarm goes off everyone has to evacuate. As Pville2371 says about the students at Pace, let them stand outside at 3 AM, We're up right. If its a nasty night the better, cold and drizzle? Leave 'em out a little while and you'll see amazing results. They will get on each other to be more carefull.

By technicality when the FDNY arrive at an incident at the UN they have to ask permission to enter. This more or less has been waived. As for building codes, there are so many different sets of codes that depending on who's building it is would depend on the codes. The Port Athority of NY who owned the WTC as well as the sourounding buildings had one code. The Customs Building had to go by federal codes. Federal Plaza in NYC goes by Federal Codes. The MTA has their own codes as well. I'm not sure but I think the state buildings have to go by state codes. Then of course there are the NYC codes. confused yet? My father was a civil engineer and years ago explained this all to me. Some of it nmay have changes in the last 20 years, I'm not sure.

Good words Andy. These are pretty much the top 10. Hopefully you learned from good officers. Know who in your department you can trust, these people can be your eyes at a job. If you have a good core of guys work with them. If not, help develop a good core. Look to some of the more senior guys for help. You'll figure out real quick who you can count on.

I beleive it was Liability Insurance. Yes if you use a catering hall they have insurance but if the host of the party is EMT Bravo there is liability on their part as well.

There are some towns with laws regarding these unsitely campaign signs. I seem to remember a piece on Snews 12 about Yorktown PD picking up signs on public property. I think the new state l;egislature should make it the first law they pass in January about removing the signs within 10 days of an election. I still see signs out there for our DA o n Rt 6 a year after that election.

They should be forced to take the signs down. We should also send back the ton of crap we all got in the mail. I have never gotten so much junk mail in my life as this last election. I got something different every day from one candidate until I started seeing the same stuff. He ran a 10 day cycle on his junk. Enough of this went out that must have killed a small forest.

I was down near Ocean City Md last week and paid 1.94 for Shell Regular. Wanted to buy a couple of gas cans and bring some extra back.

The reason we use "Tankers" is to get large volumns of water to the scene and to shuttle back and forth. Tankers should have at a minimum 2,500 gallons. If it is used as a pumper it then defeats the tanker term. It needs to shuttle water. Most real tankers can dump quickly, go back to the water source, fill quickly and return. Simple.

rob, Seth count me in. Rob if you need help let me know.

Andy Check out Putnam BES's website. It lists what they require to be recognized as an officer although many o fthe Putnam Dept's I have heard do not unfortunitly adhear to it. www.pcbes.org

What Hudson said has a lot to it. If there was a good size job in the upper floors of a high rise it would be M/A. Lets say god forbid what just happened in NYC with a plane into a building happens here. We have a lot of new high rise buildings scattered that stand out. The new Trump building in New Rochelle, A plane in trouble over White Plains trying for the airport. The list could go on. Each one of those could and would be multi department response. We all need to be working together. It's going to be a nasty job. We need some standards in how we would approach this type of alarm. Just think of all that would be involed, fire suppression, rescue, evacuation, scene security.................

As many of you know, the Baltimore City Fire Department suffered the loss of a firefighter who was injured while battling a fire and succumbed to those injuries a short time later. Firefighter Allan Roberts, the father of four young children - 13 year old Samantha, 11 year old Katie, 5 year old Jake, and 18 month old Danny. A memorial fund in honor of Firefighter Roberts has been established for the benefit of his children and their educational future. Anyone who would like to contribute to this fund may do so by sending donations to the address below. Please note that contributions will also be accepted at any M&T Bank location. ALLAN ROBERTS EDUCATIONAL MEMORIAL FUND C/O M&T Bank – Fountain Green Branch 1201 Agora Drive Bel Air, MD 21014 From one of my friends in the department "We appreciate the kind words and sympathy expressed to Firefighter Roberts' family and his friends and colleagues in the Baltimore City Fire Department."

Here's a webpage with a calculator in an excel spreadsheet to help you figure it out. http://www.nvfc.org/news/2004-cost-savings.html

A Baltimore City Firefighter has died of his injuries following a two-alarm fire this morning in Southeast Baltimore. Two other firefighters and two civilians are hospitalized. The firefighter was identified as 40-year-old Allen M. Roberts. Officials say Roberts had been a firefighter for 19 years. Two other firefighters were injured in the blaze. The fire was reported about 2:30 a.m. in the 500 block of South Macon Street in the Greektown area. WJZ'S Mary Bubala spoke to Fire Department spokesman Chief Kevin Cartwright says the first units reported heavy fire and smoke coming from a two-story brick row home. Two occupants jumped from the second floor to escape the flames. Cartwright says they suffered minor injuries. The three firefighters were trapped inside by the partial collapse of the second floor. Cartwright says a rapid intervention team rescued them within minutes. One of the firefighters has serious injuries and the others have minor burn injuries. "The fire began to rage in it's intensity and ordered any evacuation of those members...It appeared that the structure might have flashed over...Firefighters made a rapid egress, exit the dwelling. In the interim there was minor entrapment of the firefighters, they were able to get them out within a minute or so." said Cartwright. All five patients were sent to the Bayview Medical Center. The cause of the fire has not been determined. Copyright CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Well said Jim, what would it have taken for someone to hop off, push the wheelchair along then hop back on as the rig proceeded through the intersection? We are here to aid the public right???

Yhink of the realistic response times in an all volunteer department here in Northern Westchester, Putnam and Dutchess. Call comes in, 1 or 2 minutes to check the CAD system and then dispatch. You get the call get dressed and go to the firehouse and wait to assemble a crew. Dress and Travel time another 3 or 4 minutes, a minute to put on gear, crew assemble in rig and get on the road another minute then drive time to the alarm. So it can be 8 or more minutes to get a rig out the door in some areas then maybe another 3 or 4 to the incident. The larger the fire district the longer the times. A 10 to 15 minute response can be realistic.