LTNRFD

Found this on YouTube. You might recognize a Westchester ambulance or two.

But when spoonie retired he he took them with him !!!!

Does that mean I can't get an Engine 25 T-shirt ???????

Saw this at the Stop and Shop at New Roc City in New Rochelle. What goods or service do you receive that you pay a tax?? I've heard of a surcharge, but you have to pay tax on the fine also ???

I don't think you will do it !!!!! Or will you put your money where your mouth is ???

Too bitter for my taste........give me Green Mountain French Roast any day !!!!!

From this statement it is apparent that you know nothing of what the career FF's wear when they work. During the warmer months, most career departments give the on duty force the option of wearing tee shirts and short pants. Are 99 % of them yahoos and knuckleheads ????? And to address the boat shoes. Most carer FF's wear black sneakers with the short pants!!!

Nurse Betty takes very good care of the old timers too !!!!!!

Barry....The rear hose bed looks much smaller than the other engines. Will 5 Engine carry the same compliment of hose, or will there be a change in the way 5 Engine operates ??? Also, I didn't see the pop out steps to assist the old timers in the cab......

Happy Birthday Chief. I hope you're still "holding your own". You taught us well. Westchester Fire Academy's first career class 1986

He must of done his holiday shopping while he was in White Plains. Spending money gets him all confused!!!!!

First sign of old age.......lose of memory.........

Date: Nov. 22, 2008 Time:1136 Hrs Location: Premium Point-6 Premium Point Dr Frequency: Fire 15 Units Operating: Town of Mamaroneck Description Of Incident: Structure fire private residence Writer: LTNRFD 1136 Hrs Town of Mamaroneck Engs 51, 37 Lad 19 1139 Hrs Village of Mamaroneck Lad 20 to the scene 1139 Hrs Village of Larchmont Eng 34 to the scene 1141 Hrs New Rochelle engine to the scene as FAST team 1148 Hrs Town of Mamaroneck Eng 36 and Rescue 6 to the scene 1148 Hrs Larchmont EMS to the scene. 1 person removed from the structure. 66-A1 & 66-B1 This house is the home of the Chock Full of Nuts Lady.

This doesn't happen as much as it did back in the 70's. When catalytic converters were first placed on the exhaust systems there was a rash of car/leave fires. Remind family and friends do not park your car on a pile of leaves. Photo by Paula Eisenberg

What is too fast. The posted speed limit at the accident scene is 45 MPH. Normal traffic would be doing 45-50 MPH. Your right, that speed would cause significant damage to both vehicles. To make the statement that the ambulance was going " too fast" is not a fair statement to make until all the facts are in. The ambulance could have been going 40 MPH, 5 MPH UNDER the speed limit and still caused that much damage. What I am saying is, don't assume as to what happened and make a statement of fact when you don't have all the facts.

Everyone should refrain from doing their accident investigation and posting it here. What skid marks are you talking about? The ones that start on the RIGHT side of the road and move to the left. Looks like an attempt to avoid the accident. And the skid marks look like they are of both the ambulance and the car involved, or maybe just that of the car being pushed by the ambulance down the road. This may have occurred because the operator of the ambulance, being injured in the collision, may not have had control of the ambulance and was then able to bring the ambulance under control. There are so many 'what if's', that no one should make statements about who is at fault or what you think what happened. Let the accident investigators make that determination. The comments on the Journal News have the ambulance crew convicted of wrong doings. No one operating an emergency vehicle should be put though this. If you were driving would you want people armchair quarterbacking you?????

I stand corrected.

The restaurant's name was Marty Doyle's. It start in a pan of cooking bacon. A grease fire in the kitchen.

This is also a good tactic to do, if you are going thru the garage to get at a basement fire in a private dwelling. I was on the 1st line in, thru the garage, to attack a basement fire. Within 30 seconds we lost water pressure on the line. Being around the corner and down the hall from the garage, we did not notice that the automatic garage door unit had closed on our hose line. The guys working the outside quickly got a bar under the door and pushed it up enough for the water to flow again. The release was popped on the chain track and a pike pole was placed to maintain the opened door. From that point on, I religiously would pop the bracket to the track on any call using the garage door as a means of egress.

NRFD had an old light truck that was a pick up truck chassis with a utility back. There was a generator in the open rear and on top of the utility box was mounted an assortment of flood and spot lights. I'm sure PublicSafetyCollectibles has a picture or two of it. anybody with grey hair or no hair remember? OK Barry take your best shot !!!!

There were roofers working the gutters. Just prior to the fire being reported, there was a very violent thunder storm that rolled thru the area. The roofers story was that the house was hit by lighting. It would have been a believable story if they weren't seen throwing buckets of water on the roof minutes before the storm hit.

Barry, I think you need to pay homage to your icon of college past. The Sox's need all the help they can get.

You put the key in the ignition and turn it.

In an effort to keep the ambulances running and secured at an emergency scene, the Larchmont VAC had installed a keep it running switch. This allowed you to take the key out and the ambulance would remain running. If someone got into the ambulance and tried to move it, the ambulance would shut off when the brake pedal is depressed. To further insure ambulance security, the ambulance would be locked at the scene. If someone other then the person with the key needed to get into the ambulance, there is a hidden switch that would unlock the ambulance. These are two simple and effective ways to secure the emergency vehicle at the scene or even when out running errands and you need to keep the rig running to maintain the proper environment in the patient compartment.

I believe you are saying what Chief Flynn mentioned and as I tried to show in the LOHUD picture. This accident does not appear to be a high velocity impact. That is evident in the mostly intact passenger compartment. There is a mechanism here,"T-bone", side impact. The passenger does not need to take a direct hit, just the sideways impact to cause internal injuries. Add to that the patients age and unknown medical condition and you can have a walking talking patient go south in the blink of an eye. These patients all have to be worked up and transported to a trauma center (level 2 or 1) for evaluation. I had a similar situation, where the passenger was forced sideways into the door of the car. A middle aged female that had no S/S other than a little pain to her right lateral ribs. 45 minutes later traumatic arrest in the E.R. She tore a few major blood vessels. My thoughts and prayers go out to the family and the crew from MEMS. This appears to be wrong place, wrong time.