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After serving Westchester County Fire Control (AKA 60 Control) and the Department Of Emergency Services for over 33 years, the legendary Hap AKA 602 is retiring!

He signs off the air after his final shift tonight.

Congrats and best wishes for a happy and healthy retirement!

Article in Journal News: http://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/2015/01/24/fire-dispatcher-signing-three-decades/22285861/

For information on attending his retirement party/dinner: http://www.emtbravo.net/index.php/topic/51364-lt-felix-hap-602-hughes-retirement-dinner-2-7-15/

you dont have to drink and act like a hero.you can be like the rest of the guys and enjoy your self see what rigs our out there,

The brotherhood is still there. However social media outlets where guys can go and cry about mundane immature stuff that should be kept in house and worked out has ruined a lot of it.
And - no disrespect to this website - places like this where everyone climbs on to their high horses and points fingers PUBLICLY instead of manning up and shooting a brother a private message, calling them or dropping in to their firehouse to talk to them man to man has ruined a lot of what we all used to know.
I appreciate the things I have learned here and on other websites. I have made great friends and taken what I picked up here and put it to good use. However, there has been more drama for me and my department because of sites like this, Facebook and Myspace when it was still around. I have been accused of doing things I didn't. My department and members of it have been falsely or inaccurately implicated in things they didn't do. Friendships and professional relationships with neighboring departments have been tested, strained or ruined when someone sees/hears something and reacts to it before knowing the facts.
We live in the information age. Everyone can hide behind a keyboard and be an expert on everything. They can call someone out for something with little to no facts, denouncing them to their easily impressionable audience.
Let this be a lesson to all of you up and coming members of the fire service - WORK YOUR PROBLEMS OUT WITHIN THE CONFINES OF YOUR FIREHOUSE! If you can't say something to someone face to face, DON'T SAY IT!
And to be "politically correct," we're not a brotherhood anymore. Many females have joined our ranks and proven to be exceptional parts of our department families. I like to say that the fire department is a family, and like the families we've been born into, we don't always agree, we don't even always like each other, but at the end of the day - we are (or should be) there for one another when the chips are down.
I'm done. Thanks for listening.
EDIT: I forgot to mention that I am not always liked, and often say things that offend people. It comes with a deep sense of pride in what I do and the department I am proud to be a part of. But, at the end of the day, I can sleep knowing I do what is best for my people and what's in the best interest of keeping our department going strong for years to come.

Port Chester Fire : 1201 Fire NO EMS

Port Chester Fire : 1201 Fire NO EMS

Port Chester Fire : 1201 Fire NO EMS

R.I.P Thoughts and Prayers with the family & his brother and sister Troopers.

I would just like to reach out and thank our brothers and sisters involved in bringing and letting us have their 1977 Oren. The Mahopac fire department generously donated the rig to our department, Sharon Fire Department. We have been struggling to keep our apparatus running and operating, it is a huge relief that we now know we have neighbors(could be far) that would do such a thing. I am sure, from what i heard, it will serve us great. I was sent a photo via email early this morning of it about to leave it's quarters for the last time. Now, ofcourse it made us happy, but we feel for their department for a loss, a loss because that engine served them well, we all know how they will miss it.
Again a very big thank you to everyone involved in making this occur, as it is greatly appreciated by us. They even lettered it for us too. We should be expecting the rig within a day or so. Then go from there.
A photo before being shipped..

Have a great day all any questions just ask

Massachusetts State Police is testing the new Explorer and Taurus already. Been seeing a lot of departments in the MidWest and South getting them.

Why does it matter aside from maybe helping figure out what is wrong with the patient? Forget about how its just wrong to treat someone differently based upon a medical condition, what if they don't know they're carrying some disease. Everyone gets treated the same unless I suspect an infection requiring droplet precautions.
Moderator note: This was the very last post made by Lenny, before he left us for keeps. RIP.

Thoughts and prayers with his family for a safe return..

Yea a LT from L-31 was transported as well as PC car 2393 due to injuries

Port Chester is a 2 truck Company... we dont dont go to parades unless the 2nd due truck is manned with a crew.

It is a week day manpower is always gonna be an issue.. Be safe guys

Date: 5-26-2012
Time: 16:20
Location: 12 North Lake Road
Frequency: 46.26
Units Operating: [Armonk FD: 2021, 2022, E286, T9, 51B1]; [banksville FD: E158, T7]; [Mount Kisco FD: 2282, 2284, E106, U13 (FAST)]; [North White Plains FD: 2321, L47]; [bedford FD: 2042, E110]; [WCDES: Battalion 16, C&O Zone 4 & 5]; [ConED]; [North Castle PD]
Units Relocated: Chappaqua FD, Bedford Hills FD
Weather Conditions: Heavy rain with lightning/thunder
Description Of Incident: Armonk FD received a call for a reported structure fire, house struck by lightning. Car 2021 requested Banksville FD to the scene with an Engine and Tanker while en-route. Car 2021 arrived on scene and transmitted the 10-75 for smoke showing from the roofline and smoke in the basement. Mount Kisco FD with an Engine and FAST and North White Plains FD Ladder to the scene on the 10-75. Bedford FD requested to relocate an Engine to standby in Armonk HQ. Bedford Hills FD requested to relocate an Engine to Banksville FD. Bedford engine redirected to the scene. Chappaqua FD requested to relocate an Engine to Armonk HQ.

Heavy smoke from 3 story taxpayer 50 x 100 store with 2 floors of apts. Rescue 40 Engine 60 on location

Getting ready to bail from roof

Time to go as fire vents out roof cut

Engine 58 at it again

Ladder 31 getting the 2nd floor window bars

Tower Ladder 2 knocking down the fire after the guys were pulled

That's why it is an Engine job. LOL

http://firetruckblog.com/2012/05/02/kyle-mcgetrick-from-barnegat-nj-has-died-firetruckblog-com-readers-from-around-the-world-sent-him-messages-patches/