JBE

Thanx for the correction, been a while since I dispatched Manhattan regularly.

I usually just find the nearest probie and beat them senseless. Great stress relief. Not to mention the internet access is tightly restricted.

I would probably roll over and go back to sleep.

Someone asked me that question once. What would I do if I got woken up by a siren. One of two things. Either turn the scanner on and find out what's up, or just roll over and go back to bed.

I have to disagree with you guys. They got caught shtupping on a rig, they get a rip or lose their job. Consensual or not, there is a time and place for it. Although the idea of doing it in the hose bed of a fire truck is a fantasy many have had since Billy Baldwin did it in 1991, you don't want to go doing it. It's all about that public image and perception, folks. I can only imagine the $%&*Storm that came out of this.

Well, you can look at this in two different ways. One way is the psychological warfare standpoint. Think of the comfort someone in need has when they hear that siren. They know help is coming. Then you get the people who pi$$ and moan about "I don't want a whole fleet of fire trucks and ambulances and NO SIRENS" Then the vindictiveness of certain people comes into play. :twisted:

Enright didn't get made today.

Probably 54 Engine or 4 Truck.

There was a law passed in the 80's stating that anyone hired by my job after 84 or 86 must reside in the 5 boroughs(I think it was 86). If anything, IMHO, there should be a compromise. After X amount of years,(We'll say 3-5) you have the opportunity to move out. Not that I don't love living here, I do want the opportunity somewhere before I retire to move out.

From Firehouse.com I read this and it said to me that the calltaker has either very little experience, or little common sense. How hard would it have been to ascertain the proper information and pass it on to the proper PD or EMS?? I rarely want someone to get hung for screwing up, but this is inexcusable. If the dispatcher doesn't lose some money, she's gonna lose her job. This is stuff EVERY person in our line of work should be cognizant of. You get info from somewhere outside of your municipality, you pass it along to that municipality as fast as you can. I can't think of how many times we would get calls for Westchester or Rockland, and we would take the info and pass it along to 60 or 44. It's not that hard. This is one of the times I am truly ashamed of some of my colleagues.

My opinion would be to advise the responding IC that you're also getting info of an accident in this vicinity, have responding units check and advise. If it's not the same thing, dispatch as needed. If it is, you're all set, you told someone.

OK wait a second here, there are jurisdictions out there who have silent dispatch protocols. If an unknown medical emergency is dispatched, there is the possibility that it's a silent dispatch protocol. If someone(PD or EMS Boss) arrives on scene prior to EMS arrival and confirms a shooting or some other type of urgent response, common sense would dictate that they would crank up the aforementioned electronic warning devices. There are other times when you have a shooting with a hostage situation,(rare but possible) where the EMS unit is advised to respond without either, as so not to agitate the bad guy. Something to keep in mind.

maybe I'm living on a different planet, but it didn't look like we got a lot here.

Instead of bashing certain dispatchers for whatever reasons, let's get back to the topic at hand here. This is something that can happen if people aren't properly trained, or have picked up too many bad habits. The prime one being laziness. Bottom line, if it's not in your jurisdiction, take the info and pass it along to that department, even if they know about it. It may take a few minutes, but it also may save someones life. Never presume it's someone elses problem. I had posted this as a warning to others not to become complacent or lazy when it comes to stuff, it can, and obviously in this case, cost someone their life.

Down the hill in a laundry basket at Ryans Field.

Unfortunately, some just don't get it as well as others.

She had an interested look on her face. My current fiancee is into it as well. Buffed a third in Brooklyn a few years back and she left complaining she didn;t see any visible fire, just smoke. Now THERE'S a girl ya want to keep around. Another memorable one, family related. The Seavey Plaza fire of January 91. I was an explorer in Lake Carmel at the time. Heard the tones go out, heard the chief pull up and advise a working fire. Asked my mom if that was her building. And sure enough, off we went. I'm in my explorer turnouts changing bottles watching my mom cry as her office building burned to the ground. Kinda sad. Brewsters old hose rig, 11-8-1 stretching 5 inch down Route 52 from Shop Rite to supply the engines and the ladder pipes. Mutual aid from all over the place. East Fishkill, Put Valley, Mahopac Falls on Stand by.

It's also nice to see the locals covering their ears when the rig goes by.

Many of them are wired up by the members. They haven't been standard since the late 70's.

I went out on a date with a girl I went to High School with. We went to dinner at the Throggs Neck Clipper. Then we headed over to the Whitestone Cinemas and nothing there was worth watching so we decided to make it a Blockbuster night. On our way there we noticed smoke pushing from the C o c kloft of a row of Taxpayers on E. Tremont Avenue and Lafayette Avenue. We stopped and buffed it. Ended up going to a third. One of my more memorable dates. Shoulda stuck with her for a while.

They are only allowed to do so much with the rig, but the minor differences is what sets each of them apart. Company Logos, changing the font/color of the numbers on the rig. It's the little things that se them apart.

The foam units are all either 1987-89 Mack CF's that were refurbed and had a 1,000 gallon tank installed, with the exception of Foam 262(1979 Mack CF Ex-E308) and the Foam Tender quartered with E-238.

What a load of...(insert poop joke here)

I was looking at it from the CFR-D point of view. Better to have something than nothing.

Yes he is, and the first batch of bosses are being promoted Wednesday.