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Maybe he would have been better off on Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader??? Everything aside, it bothers me that people are willing to go on such a trashy TV show for the chance to make a quick buck while sacrificing dignity and possibly a career.

If anyone has been listening to Brooklyn radio recently and noticed a sharp decline in the volume, that's the new radios. Modern technology at it's finest.

Good luck, stay low and the first and last words out of your piehole had better be SIR!!!

Nahhh supermax for life. Let him hang out with Moussaoui, Rahman, and the rest of the waste.

And with this new wonderful dispatch policy of releasing the run before all the info is taken, it's only a matter of time before some probie mistakes Watson Avenue from Washington Avenue and 19 Truck gets sent out to an incorrect location and 54 Truck sits in the firehouse. Oh, wait, that's already happened.

Chris, it wouldn't necessarily send out triplicate assignments. I guess I've become a little jaded at the fact that if I hear a location, I can tell if it's a duplicate or not. I'd like to see the mailbox thing as well, in an either or fashion. Anything better than what we have. I dunno if PD would let that fly, it could cost them money and jobs. Dr. Zuki, the only people staffing this office will be people already on the job or being hired later on. The construction workers and contractors will do well.

That's one of the reasons I am also an advocate of FD, EMS, and PD Specific phone numbers as well. Dial 711 for FD, 811 for EMS, 911 for PD. Once we get the mapping programs up and running, I think that would make things run a little more smoothly. Pipe dream maybe. But it's a thought. I'm just not too keen on this whole consolidation thing. Seems like the city is the only ones that want it. The gist I'm getting from a few of my colleagues is that EMS doesn't want it, and PD doesn't either.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not neccesarily knocking the Starfire computer system. However, it could use an overhaul. I'm receptive to change, but not change that I feel is either going to hinder the operation at large, or make simple things more difficult. My biggest concern right now is the eggs in one basket approach, and the lack of my Union leadership to take a stand against Mayor Bloomberg and his cronies.

OK, here's the deal. Brooklyn is moving to Queens PERMANENTLY starting tomorrow. There will be a skeleton crew left over to maintain the circuits, handle ERS alarms till that gets cut over, and work the Voice Alarm as well. EMS will be moving into the Brooklyn CO when the building is finished. As far as Manhattan is concerned, nobody knows where they are going right now. They are either moving up north to the Bronx or heading to 11 Metrotech in the PSAC that they are building there. Ground hasn't even been broken for PSAC 2, which is going to be somewhere along the Hutch on Waters Place. The Bronx CO has been renovated, there are a few things that need to be finished, and is set up for the Bronx and Manhattan. The Queens CO is set up for three boroughs, and believe me, working there is an absolute NIGHTMARE!!! I've worked there about ten times since they moved back in last year, and it was definitely renovated with no input from the rank and file guys who have to work there everyday. I don't forsee Staten Island leaving Slosson Avenue anytime soon. Too much political pull and pressure out there. Universal Call Takers is something the Mayor is a big proponent of, and unfortunately, it doesn't seem like enough has been done to make him realize that it's not going to be an advantageous proposition. Aside from the fact that you shouldn't put your eggs in one basket(obviously nothing was learned from 7WTC) and that what may work in some of the cities that NYC looked at as models, may not necessarily work here. I'm not going to rant anymore, but I can say that after 11 years, the job I loved has turned into a sinking ship of an FS, and I'm truly disgusted with a lot of what I am seeing. 10570, Universal Call Takers, IMHO, are NOT going to work. Biggest reason, burnout. 911 handles over 3 million calls a year, and to add on more responsibilties and learning proper coding for incidents on all three sides, I personally feel is too much to handle. It's much better for us, to have 911 answer the call, get the borough it's in and transfer it to FD, no questons asked by the NYPD ACD, so if I have a concern or question, I can go right to my calltaker as opposed to calling somewhere else to get that information. Playing 20 Questions?? Have you listened to some of the people we have to interrogate?? I'm not just talking about folks with a limited command of the English language, I'm talking about people in general. Believe me, I could go on for a week about it. As far as consolidation is concerned, if they wanted to move EMS in with FDNY Dispatchers, I wouldn't have a problem with it, so long as EMS played by our rules. Renovate what we have, move Manhattan into the Bronx, away from the terror target that is 11 Metrotech, and leave things alone. PS get me a CAD that isn't running on software and hardware developed when I and 75% of the present FDNY Fire Alarm Dispatchers were either toddlers, in diapers, or twinkes in the eyes of their parents.

yup

It's LA County Station 51. Universal has the contract wth County. Engine 51 cannot leave the Studio grounds but Squad 51 can, if I remember correctly. Sounds like it was LACo, LAFD, Burbank, Arcadia, West Covina, and that's about all I got from listening to the radio traffic this morning. I can tell you it's LACo 51,7,8. Engine, Turck and Chief from Burbank, and a Task Force and BC from LAFD right off the bat.

You name a Haz-Tac or Rescue Medic bus, they were assigned.

Box 1191, Transmitted at 0806: Engines:22,53,44. Ladders: 13,43, Batt 10, R-1. 0807:Fill out Major Collapse Response: Rescue Batt. RC-1/L-25, R3-3/RC-3, Tac-1, SOC Compressor, L-14(SSL) Field Comm,Squad 41. 0808: Div-3, Safety Bn. 0810: E-53 and L-43 10-84, Confirming Collapse 0812: Div-3 advises Batt 10 set up Command Post. 0813: Div-3 Transmitting 10-6/2nd Alarm To Fill 10-60: Battalions:11,12,9,16, SOC Liason, Sq-1 w/TRV, E-93/MCC-2, L-7(SSL) To Fill out 2nd Alarm: Engines: 91,39,58,74. Ladders:16,26,22(FAST). Div-6, RAC-1, E-9/SAT-1. 0816: Batt 10 rpts Confirmed Collapse of Crane, Damage to 354 E 91 Street. L-43 is removing 1 person, 2 possible DOA's. 0819:S/C E-76 to fill out 2nd Alarm, Haz Mat Batt to fill out 10-60. 0819:Staging Area will be 1st Avenue and East 92 Street. Command Post is East 91 and 1st Avenue. 0825: Con Ed requested for Vacuum Truck. 0827: 10-47 to shut down 2nd Avenue from 96th street south. 0843: S/C Batt 20 as planning Chief, and E-262 with IMT Vehicle. 0858: Div-3 reports crane came off 333-335 East 91 Street. 0905: Div-3 reports Primary search is negative with the exception of the 22nd Floor of 354 East 91. 1009: Car 4(Chief McNally Chief of Ops) reports: 1 confirmed DOA, 1 Critical, 1 injured. 8 buildings evacuated. 1404: FDNY Rescue Medics still searching with members. Since then, numerous relief companies special called. Not sure how we're gonna be doing reliefs, probably every 3 hours to 6 hours for the next few days.

If it can be brought into play to better serve the community, then why not?? Sometimes it is easier to head to a scene instead of going to get the ambulance.

Thanx, got my memory refreshed by Itzy Bitzy a little while ago. That's the third big one I can remember up that way. First the Dance school, then Mitches, now this. I remember a bunch of us taking the wrong bus home from school so we could buff the Dance School. That was 87, 88??

Trying to remember where this was, especially since I lived on Towners. Left hand side coming from 52, just past the old bike shop, just before Hill and Dale.

Nice to see the Bainbridge Island and Ida Lewis making an appearance.

Real quick as so not to spoil the true story being told. I was in Guantanamo on the navy base in June of 1992. I'm sitting in the Mc Donalds scarfing down a quarter pounder with a few of my fellow Coasties, and who do I spy sitting across from me, but a fella I went to Carmel High with. Turns out he's in the Navy and his sister who graduated CHS with me is in the Air Force. Good times, Good times.

Lotta stuff going on outside of my little out and about world. Give me some time and I will get cracking once thigns settle down.

And I thought it was messed up when I ran into a high school buddy in Guantanamo Bay.

In my 11 years in Dispatch Operations, I have never ONCE heard a request for a High Rise Roof Team. As much as I would like to see us have a helo so we don't have to depend on PD for water drops or air recon, I honestly don't feel the city is going to spring for it. This isn't LA, where the terrain and fire conditions necessitate the need for aerial firefighting, recon, or SAR/Medevac. The frequency in which we need aerial support aren't enough to justify it. Sorry, guys.

I'm going to echo most of the comments here, stabilize the blade, keep this guy as still as possible, either prone, or on his side as so to get high flow O2 into him and get him to a trauma center. I could see boarding him on his side as well.

Is there still one in Port Chester?? I remember going there with one of my old Coast Guard buddies, and after I got out and worked on Willett Avenue.

Yes they did.

Nice to see 62-45 getting a little action.