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What does this bill entail and why are the volleys opposed?

They're used in many areas without incident. There are also thousands of inmates working outside of prisons in work release programs across the country. In the past few years I've seen 4 different stories of FD vehicles being stolen or attempted to be stolen by people on the street.

Huh?? While I don't work for personnel; I am currently employed by the FDNY, I've successfully been through the candidate process twice, and I've walked others through the hiring process. What did you tell him to do?

It's just a single lead. Good for rate and rhythm but a lot more is needed. Even if you could wire up all 10 leads to an iPhone the ability to provide electrical therapy and monitor an airway will necessitate the larger device. As far as the accuracy there shouldn't be any real du

The FDNY is not the IRS. If these were truly off the books, cash jobs how did they find them unless you gave them references that came from or were with you at those jobs. Either way, tell them exactly why you left them off your application and you might as well come clean with any others. If there were 3 jobs they might be asking about 2 and waiting to see what you do about the third. DO NOT LIE ON YOUR APPLICANT PACKET. If a few months from now they find out you lied and you're not yet civil service, GOODBYE. We have people from all backgrounds with a variety of criminal records and personal problems in their past. The dept will take a reformed anything over a liar.

What Pb fumes? I was only aware of hydrogen gas being emitted during charging. Besides, are there any high capacity high performance batteries still using pb? The biggest problem with electric zambonis is their poor performance. I think a properly tuned engine with a catalytic converter should have no problem staying within safe limits without excessive venting of the facility. Monitoring with a high capacity ventilation system should be a simple and relatively cheap retrofit to existing facilities.

They burn much cleaner than liquid fuels. That being said they're still combustion engines and therefore still produce CO. There are ways to reduce it's production, but not eliminate it. Add in the realities of mechanical malfunction and human error and this becomes inevitable.

Thats a montage of many of TAC's ads over the past 20 years. TAC is responsible for motorized injury insurance, driver safety, and trauma care. Its a really interesting example of vertical integration to save taxpayers money. First as a no fault injury insurance program. Ratgerthan just pay claims they found it more cost effective to improve trauma care and also began tackling prevention.

How about the irony of efforts to stop it only made it stronger. Maybe legalize the real stuff, regulate it, and tax it so we can move on to real problems.

The steel grating on in the first two compartments on the rescue. Are those fold out steps?

FDNY and every other paid dept have problems with their accountability systems beyond the 9/11 scale disasters. The biggest issue being truckies. They're frequently operating separate from the company officer and the reason why roll calls essentially require firefighting operations to cease. Yes these issues are exacerbated in the volunteer world, but what happens if the first due OVM becomes incapacitated? Who's is going to notice and how long will it take them to notice?

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/appeals_court_douses_firefighter_01xtApjRXdntl31cKHGhOI#ixzz1hmSvuieu A suburban firefighter who claims he's the victim of reverse discrimination saw his civil-rights suit snuffed out by a Manhattan appeals court this morning. The ruling said Mount Vernon Firefighter Joseph Carroll, who is white, "offered no evidence" that officials rushed to draw up a new promotion list after black firefighters threatened to sue if he made lieutenant. Hoping this is just a minor setback. Good luck.

2236hrs- Phone alarm for fire on Hart Island. Units responding onto City Island. 2347hrs- 10-75 transmitted for unk. type fire on the island. 2250hrs- Marine 1 and Marine 6 S/C. Unk. type fire visible on Hart Island. Units to respond in to Fordham St X King Ave at the ferry dock. 2252hrs- B-15 req. Marine 6 to pick up members (25) minute ETA. 2253hrs- B-15 S/C NYPD Harbor. Div. 7 concurs and requests a channel to communicate on. Corrections Dept. rpts island is unoccupied. R-3 rpts they will contact NYPD Harbor on TAC Channel 'U.' 2254hrs- Marine 1 has (90) minute eta, Marine 1A will be (45) minutes. 2255hrs- Div. 7 S/C Air Recon. B-15 req. Marine 1 to respond with Marine 1A with shorter ETA. 2258hrs- Div. 7 S/C Field Communications Satellite Engine. S/C E-46. 2303hrs- Marine 6 is at Throgs Neck with a (10) minute ETA. 2306hrs- Div. 7 S/C BFU. Advised it will come from Queens. S/C BFU-6/E-321. Air Recon is grounded due to weather. 2312hrs- Div. 7 rpts (1) Engine, (1) Truck, B-15 over to the island on Marine 6. NYPD Harbor with a (20) minute ETA. Marine 1A enroute with a (45) minute ETA. Fireboat 343 will be responding with E-24/L-5/B-2 with a (90) minute ETA. 2322hrs- Div. 7 rpts Marine 6 enroute with co's to the island ATT. R-3 and Squad is also on board and will be FAST. 2324hrs- Div. 7 transmitting the All-Hands. 2333hrs- E-70/L53/R-3/Sq-61 are on the island, rpts 2-story 30X40 structure is on fire. 2335hrs- Marine 1A is on location. Req. to approach from east side of the island. Div. 7 also req. comfirmation that the larger fireboat is enroute. B-2 rpts (1) hour ETA. 2340hrs- Div. 7 rpts Rescue and Squad are being returned and L-50 will go on the island as FAST. Marine 1 (Fireboat 343) will be the water source on arrival. 2350hrs- Div. 7 rpts Marine 6 has water on the fire. 0009hrs- B-15 releasing Marine 1A. 0010hrs- Div. 7 rpts fire K/D by Marine 6. BFU will be sent over on arrival. Marine 1 and 1A can go 10-8. 0023hrs- Div. 7 rpts P/W/H. DOT ferry is transporting BFU/E-321 over to the island. Luckily Hart Island is still used by DOC an has ferry access. Through out the sound there are many islands with abandoned structures. I've been on a few and all had plenty of evidence of people still illegally using them. Do any depts have plans and have practiced accessing them or have they been written off as too dangerous and to let any fires burn themselves out?

Governors is not technically inhabited. It is a similar situation to Liberty and Ellis Islands. While Ellis had a bridge constructed during the recent rehab I'm not sure its capacity as even upgrading to a pedestrian bridge was deemed too costly. Firefighters and their equipment are all transported by Marine Units and Ferries. Islands with permanent residents without dedicated fire protection would include Roosevelt Island, Randalls/Wards Island, and Rikers Island. Randalls has multiple access from 3 different boroughs, but Roosevelt and Rikers are both single access. Recently construction on the Roosevelt Island Bridge closed it to traffic on several overnights. Police, Fire, and EMS units were deployed to the island, but they were looking at up to 30 minutes to reopen the bridge in the event of an emergency. Broad Channel in Queens has a volunteer FD, but FDNY units are coming via Cross Bay Blvd. The residents don't realize just how isolated they really are. A few years ago a truck overturned on the access road to City Island. Thanks to recent heavy rains the ground along the road was impassible to heavy trucks. Even an ambulance got stuck trying to squeeze past. About 40 minutes after the call came in the truck was dragged to one side just to open the road. A couple of hours later the traffic backup cleared. This was a simple single vehicle with minor injuries. Then there's the islands with abandoned structures that are closed, but without any real barrier to prevent access. North little Brother Island, Hart, and High in the Bronx. I think there's one more off of Staten Island.

People have sued and won lost compensation after eventually being hired. But you have to prove some kind of impropriety. If the state isn't holding the exam because they cannot fund the position right now, there's no malicious action. ALS if the state refused to fill required vacancies before the new tier for no other reason than to avoid the more generous pensions there are grounds for litigation. No different than communities hiring provisional employees and withholding civil service exams.

Its about priorities. There are other places that see more responses, more traffic, and could better justify a boat. However the money just isn't there. In the summer when Orchard beach is open there are more resources available including a Marine unit out of Ft Totten, but the rest of the year the Marine units have a lot of water to cover. There is a Brush fire unit on the Bronx that would normally respond to a fire on one of the islands, but was OOS. As far as pre-staging equipment there's not much of a benefit as the DOT ferries I believe can all transport fire apparatus and the firefighters can carry whatever they need with them on the marine units. The bigger issue is again priorites. Hart Island is slowly being demolished to make room for more graves and is only occupied during the day. Governors Island is visited by thousands of people, has a school, major events and no fire protection.

NYS offered a bulk buy discount to enable schools to comply with the mandate. There may have been grants but they would be long since expired.

Did the plate reader find her or was it more traditional detective work?

The rig you are so familiar with was designed to be a first due engine for all of PFD's incidents. Ego's got in the way of that plan, but that's for another thread. As kurt pointed out, it was the Hahn, that even though it had one of the better pumps in the dept couldn't be called an engine.

There will eventually be a very detailed timeline and report produced by FDNY. You can also look to WNYF to do a story on the job.

47 is a great example. They were never intended to be a rescue company, but became one as a result of a bureaucratic technicality.

It was part of the discussion fire the next round of battalion trucks. If they couldn't get a non-DEF diesel, would they go gasoline? Last I heard there was an RFP being drafted for DEF dispensers in each battalion. It was a similar issue with the current ambulance order. The problem is getting enough 2011 chassis to finish the order if Wheeled Coach or another vendor gets the remaining about 200 trucks.

What engine was in the old ladders? These are being fitted with the Cummins ISM 400. If the officers are already squeezed it may have been the largest engine they could fit. The dept has been actively avoiding engines requiring DEF systems.

4 wheel drive and crane = TSU

Fire catches just as much flack when their tactics are questioned. I've seen FDNY, Boston, and just about every FD in Westchester take their lumps from EMTBravo. Some people have even stopped posting scene photos because they were tired of the conversations that resulted.