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e-q2b is on the the new rig.

I have Verizon and my new cell phone comes with the ICE already created under contacts, up to 3 numbers can be stored. In addition under the 3 contacts you can keep notes addding any additional information that might be helpful.

Final Inspection is next weekend- 19th. The new ladder should be here about a week to 2 weeks after that. and Yes the new ladder according to Seagrave is one of the last low pro. to be built.

Yes they are Tahoes for the PD. Came through TCD in Mamaroneck

They have been seen a lot in the past few weeks. First spotted them about 2 weeks ago flying over Rye. I think the Govt is stepping up patrol

Updated: 9:10 p.m. ET July 6, 2007 SAN DIEGO - Weeks into a wildfire season that has already burned parts of Catalina Island, Los Angeles and Lake Tahoe, swaths of California’s flammable national forests are some days protected by nothing more than luck. On any given day, about 40 of 271 U.S. Forest Service engines remain in firehouses rather than on patrol, idled by a shortage of supervisors. Meanwhile, the combined effects of sustained drought, last winter’s freeze and a searing heat wave has dramatically raised fire danger levels this season. An exodus of highly trained mid- and upper-level firefighters from the career ranks of the federal agency is at least partly to blame for the fact that 13 percent of the service’s 3,600 full-time positions in California are vacant. “When you start leaving holes in your organization so that on a given high-danger day you can’t provide coverage, you’ve set yourself up for trouble,” said John Marker, a retired former Forest Service district ranger on the Sequoia National Forest. Retirees return to jobs Nationally, fire planners from all five federal agencies that handle firefighting are dealing with the departure of a generation of top managers hired during a firefighting expansion in the late 1970s. That has left behind too few career firefighters qualified to run engines, oversee forests or command large fire operations. As forests from the Mexico border to Canada reassign engine crews, top-level teams working for other agencies are simply hiring recent retirees. Of 50 people working on one federal interagency team based in the Great Basin states, 10 are due to retire in the next two years, and a handful have come out of retirement as emergency hires this season. “We haven’t been able to fill out teams so we keep bringing back the old warhorses,” said Paul Broyles, who heads the team. Takes longer to control blazes? The hardest-hit areas include the Angeles and San Bernardino National Forests, where only 60 to 70 percent of engines are being regularly staffed because there are too few qualified supervisors to go around, said Mike Dietrich, acting deputy director of fire and aviation for the Forest Service’s Region 5, which encompasses all of California. Those forests border on heavily populated urban areas, potentially raising the risk to people living nearby. “It’s going to take them longer to get to these fires,” said Doug Campbell, a retired Forest Service fire planner who now trains various agencies on fire behavior. None of the big fires so far this season have gotten out of hand because of short staffing, and officials said they are confident California has enough resources available to get through the next six months. With 1,600 seasonal hires, the Forest Service is fielding 5,200 firefighters this year. Chiefs on California’s 18 national forests, which cover about 20 percent of the state, can call on their counterparts in other federal firefighting units or the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, which has 8,400 people available this summer, said Ken McLean, deputy state director of fire protection. California’s robust mutual aid system also activates thousands of engines working for myriad municipal and county departments in large fires. Covering gaps Despite the shortages of engine crews, the Forest Service’s teams of smokejumpers and hotshots are filled. Engine crews are being moved around the state as weather-related fire risk levels change, Hollenshead said. The region has also won an extra complement of 15 federal helicopters to beef up capacity for the first crucial hours of a blaze. The agency has won approval to begin a massive hiring push starting next week to fill the roughly 470 captain, engineer, dispatcher and other specialist vacancies before the fall, Dietrich said. Those critical staff members manage individual engines and direct the army of entry-level and seasonal “water-squirters” in fire prevention tasks once big fires hit. Firefighting crews and equipment from other parts of the country are also being moved into California and the rest of the West, said Tom Harbour, national director of fire and aviation for the Forest Service. “We move those assets around to cover gaps in specific area, and the focus for us now is the West,” he said.

Ok, ok, I'm sorry.

Dino is still waiting for a thank you from Rye for the dinner last week. He's a little upset they had to buy us dinner after Harrisons loss in Football. If I am going to thank anyone its the Rye football team.

I have lived next to playland all my life and I can tell you that during 4th of July 2004 and 2005 there was a large disturbance. My cousin who is a cop in WP and was working the 4th in '05 that night and said they had ESU and 3 cars loaded up responding He stated that was a code Yellow. Also back in the early 90's not sure of the exact years but they had problems back then and it brought everyone in. Thats when they had buses from Fordham, MV making stops their. After the early 90's they stopped having those bus routes come to Playland. Someone told me that was a code blue back then but I know a lot of cop cars flying down into playland. Hope that helps a little

I have a question for everyone out there and I hope I am posting this in the right section. Besides the larger departments in the tri-state area how many departments use an incident command post/ table similar to FDNY, Yonkers, Mount Vernon...etc. Below are links to a few photos of the command post table being used at incidents by some of the above departments. I am hoping my department will look into something like this. Hey Dino (2163) what did they use at Byron Lane in Mamroneck a couple nights ago? I noticed you had taken some photos. What were they using for command/accountability at that one since i believe there were 3 departments. The first 2 are at a New Rochelle trench rescue incident using the suitcase style IC setup. The third is at a Yonkers job. http://nycfire.net/gallery/album145/IMG_0547 http://nycfire.net/gallery/album145/IMG_0590 http://nycfire.net/gallery/yonekrs5al/IMG_1596_JPG

Thanks for your help guys.

Station 1 is home to Engine 191, Ladder 25 & Ladder 26. Before renovations it was home to Engine's 191, 193, Ladder 25 & Ladder 26. Because more room was needed for living space part of the apparatus floor was taken for the career staff's living quarters. Station 2 is now the home of Engine 192, 193, 194 Utility 39,

Loddo if you are going to take a picture take a good picture to share with everyone . Here you go everyone. Here is a much better shot of the rig.

I also think they have red lights so that traffic will slow down thinking it is a Trooper. Most of the time I think when motorist see amber lights they ignore the fact they should slow down. Just my opinion.

A Christmas Story is great but what about National Lampoons Christmas Vacation? I love that movie.

Rye up until a few months ago had Ladder 26 as a tiller but is now OOS for good and being replaced with a rearmount seagrave. and Harrison before TL24 was a tiller.

City of Rye's last tiller is officially OOS and has been stripped of all tools and equipment and now sits at the DPW yard. As of last week our New Seagrave ladder is on the assembly line and this week the new Engine 192 will arrive.

Everything is complete. Twin to Ladder 25 with some minor changes and upgrades.

These are examples why the City of Rye now responds 1&1 on the highway with patrol (utility 39, if a driver comes). As of last week Ladder 25 responds to all calls on I-95 and 287 in Rye. Safety was a big concern of both the career and volunteers.

Rye Engine 191 is a 1994 Pierce Lance. I know Port Chester has two or three Pierce pumpers. I know their Rescue 40 is a 1994 Pierce Lance.

I graduated the same year as Eric from Sacred Heart University. Although I did not know him well many of my close friends did. Rest In peace Eric you will always be remebered.

Hey guys little info for you about the Ladders in Rye. Rye ladder 26 has mostly been a spare ladder and a mutual aid ladder. The ladder part is 50 years old and it hard to even consider it as a spare anymore. The front cab is 20 years old. When Ladder 25 (2001 Seagrave) needs to be serviced TL24 Harrison has covered the city and we have done the same for Harrison when TL24 has to go out of service. The department has proposed to replace Ladder 26 to the city and it is currently in the 2006 city budget. If this passes and Rye has a new ladder then Rye will start having 2 ladders going on runs. L26 would be staffed by volunteers. No secret Port Chester now goes with Mamaroneck. In the past Rye L26 second home was Westchester Ave and Poningo St in PC. Hope this helped

Rye Engine 192 currently a 1986 Sutphen is being replaced by a 2006 Seagrave. I think similar specs to Trumbull CT and Harrison Engine 10. I believe Delivery is for the fall of this year if not sooner. There is talk about Ladder 26 being replaced but that is a discussion for later time as we have no further details other then still in the hands of city council. I hope this answers everyone's questions about Rye's apparatus many of you have been asking lately

TEN75 is correct. there are no Paid Drivers, haven't heard that term used once in my couple of years in. There are only career firefighters. Drivers do not just drive the rigs to the scene they are and always will be active on the fire scene going inside the building to investigate or fight fires.

I will get one from Rye for you.