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They're actually a small group, mostly related. Generally at any protest you're seeing the whole nut house. What interests me most about this is that liberals are generally the ones who are pro censorship and PC speech restrictions. The conservatives generally best embrace the illogical anti-abortion because every life is sacred/pro death penalty stance. Conservatives also tend to be anti gay rights. So to blame this on either side is ridiculous. These are asholes taking advantage of their 1st amendment to be as much of a piece of garbage as they please. Just because its unpopular, no matter how unpopular it still must be protected. There are other ways to handle this. Mourning zones proposed in many states is one way. Setting up an area around a funeral or memorial service where protests are prohibited allows people to be heard without interfering with a family's right to privacy.

Mr. Snyder sued the Westboro Baptist Church and its members and won a 10+ million dollar lawsuit one or two years ago. The groups founder Fred Phelps won his appeal to the 4th circuit court. These clowns are not stupid. They have funded their lunacy largely through legal action in civil courts.

The quick escape, made by the same company is a better device. The guillotine destroys a rope due to many friction points and sharp bends and it requires several slides to get adjusted right. Not a concern with your personal device and rope, but a definite training problem. Allegedly the difference between dry and soaked bunker gear is enough to lock the device and prevent it from releasing. The quick escape is essentially the same thing without the brake plate. Friction is applied by clenching the system.

yes, you can't stop for a mai tai and snacks, but you can quickly and calmly get out of there. By the end of the required 10 evolutions guys of all comfort levels were able to rapidly descend and stop within a few feet of the ground. Younger guys, people with more experience on it, or with a climbing background were able to free fall and stop right above the ground. I've also watched members lower themselves along with an "unconscious" ff on an adjacent hook. The system is both fast and precise.

It was supposedly going to be part of the changes this April, but was dropped from the final version. I've heard 2 stories. First, Remac has questions about when the cooling will begin, before or after rosc. The second is FDNY stalled it awaiting the delivery of the next round of vehicles which will have the saline coolers.

Since NY still won't designate PCI centers as specialty referrals we have to go through medical control. It also allows us to transmit our 12 leads to the receiving hospital and activate the cath lab. Sadly after years of LP-10 and 12 use, and an overwhelming number of members selecting the LP-15 over competing monitors we're switching to Philips because they have the CPR feed back monitor.

Be extremely careful with the CMCs. I haven't used one in 2 years, but at the time the two loops of rope were separated by a pin. On 2 occasions during testing two separate devices locked up at the window sill when one of the ropes crossed over the pin. The first locked up after the member exited the window, and the second locked as the member was trying extend his slack resulting in him being caught with his head still up in the window when he tried to bail. Turns out without tension its not hard to push the rope across the pin during packing. I can only assume a similar situation can occur while being jostled in the pouch or during deployment. While the Petzel can be opened into a free fall, the double action of opening the lever is not conducive to panic operation and a person in panic tends to either clutch or flail. Both of which release the descender and stop the fall. When deployed properly you will come to rest below the window sill and ideally out of the way with time to calmly descend at your leisure. As with any device, practice makes perfect. Use needs be second nature and reflexive. For complex skills some physical therapy research points to 50 to 60 repetitions per year with no more than 6 months between repetitions.

A system in North Carolina, Wake County was an early adapter and has published a lot research. It has since spread to agencies across the country. There are a variety of methods of induction used including cooling blankets, ice packs, and cold saline infusions. FDNY is awaiting the next round of ambulances before they begin cooling patients in the field. Benefits of hypothermia for spinal injuries is still hypothetical and not well researched. In post arrest patients cooling has shown a small increase in survival rates, but a substantial bump in survival to discharge and patients remaining neurologically intact. With cooling, you're not necessarily going to save more lives, but you're going to give people a chance at going back to a normal life. Thanks Goose for the correction

I agree Chris. On a similar note allegedly AHA is going to suggest 12 leads be made available to BLS providers.

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/03/28/2010-03-28_newest_biggest_and_most_powerful_fdny_fireboats_pay_tribute_to_world_trade_cente.html One of the boats will hit the waters next month and the other will be in use by late summer. The $27 million fireboats, purchased in part with money from the Department of Homeland Security, replace one ship that was dedicated in 1938 and another activated in 1954, Dalton said.

I believe to self insure a municipality only has to demonstrate that it is financially prudent to do so. They then submit to the state legislature their plan and it gets voted on. There's a group here in NY called "The NYS self insured community association" or something to that effect to support self insured communities, but its purely an advisory and lobbying group. I met one of their reps in Albany while kissing tookus on behalf of FDNY EMS a while back.

But without them actually retrieving the cash a lawyer could argue it was a prank.

Did they give you any info as to how they intend to get that onto the tracks? Even in stations with elevator access to the platform you still have to get 4 feet down to the tracks. There are only a few street level access points that I know of, and they're all in outlying portions of the system.

News to me. At the last subway MCI drill guys were hauling the patients and equipment my hand. Maybe it arrived after I left.

Thats a common misconception. First, you just described inflation. As society grows and prospers, demand for products increases. This drives up costs and the cost of living. That then requires the workers to need more money which perpetuates the cycle. Since the last minimum wage increase inflation has still grown and at a consistent rate in spite of the fed's best efforts to control it. In fact before the economy crapped out unemployment was without exception lower in states with minimum wages above the federal. Americans suck at saving. Per capita we carry more dept than any other nation. When we're working we're spending. Besides, this allegedly non-socialism country (at least until Obama) spends an awful lot of money on people with no jobs.

Very cool. FDNY just upgraded to push carts. Looks like we're a little behind on this one.

Wow, way to go. I'm impressed for an older gent as yourself, and being from Long Island. That gets a rep point.

They were called to wash down a fuel leak from an mva. Parking on the tracks was just the convenient place to park, at least it was until the train rolled up.

Here's a summary of the fire from the Landmarks Preservation Society application for the designation of the building. Please excuse the length, but I don't have a link and I'm not e-mailing the PDF to everyone. The Triangle Fire On Saturday March 25, 1911, about ten minutes before closing time at 4:45 pm, a fire erupted in one of the huge piles of scraps stored beneath the cutting tables on the eighth floor of the Triangle factory. The table, piled high with combustible fabric, began to burn. Tissue paper patterns suspended from a clothes line above the table ignited, spreading fire throughout the room. Several people threw buckets of water on the flames. A manager ran to the stairwell for a fire hose, only to realize that the hose had rotted and the water valve had rusted shut. Soon, the room was engulfed with flame and smoke. Most of the occupants of the eighth floor escaped. A few young panic-stricken women, who had not been able to fit into the elevator or reach the crowded fire stairs and fire escape, jumped out of the windows to their deaths. Before she escaped the eighth floor, the company bookkeeper telephoned the executive offices on the tenth floor alerting them to the fire. Someone called the fire department, but no one contacted the 260 workers on the ninth floor. All but one of the seventy-some people who worked on the tenth floor managed to escape. Some crowded into the elevators. Most exited to the roof via the Greene Street staircase. Students from the neighboring NYU (Main) Building lowered ladders onto the roof of the Asch Building, where relay teams lifted people onto the roofs of the taller adjacent buildings. Only one woman, overcome by hysteria, panicked and jumped. On the ninth floor, the closing bell sounded. Sewing machine operators, most young women in their teens and twenties, collected their pay envelopes and began putting on their coats in the cloakroom on the Washington Place side of the building, unaware of the growing fire on the floor beneath them. One of the few survivors recalled, “all of a sudden the fire was all around. The flames were coming in through many of the windows.” As the frightened workers tried to exit down the Washington Place stairs, they found that the doorway was locked. Unprepared for the fire since the company had never had a fire drill, workers began trying to cross the room to the Greene Street exit, threading their way in the smoke through a maze of work tables, chairs, and wicker baskets filled with fabric. Many tripped and fell, preventing escape. A few reached the stairs and safety on the roof. Then, a barrel of machine oil stored in the vestibule near the stairs exploded, cutting off the exit. Only a few workers knew there was a fire escape in the courtyard since the iron shutters on the courtyard windows were routinely closed. One woman succeeded in getting a pair of shutters open and several workers found their way onto the rickety seventeen-inch-wide iron fire escape. But, the drop ladder that would have brought them safely to the courtyard below had never been installed. As the workers crowded onto the fire escape, the heat of the fire and the weight of the fleeing workers made it buckle and collapse, sending a group of terrified women plunging to their deaths. Soon, the only means of escape were the two small (4'9" x 5'9") passenger elevators on the Washington Place side of the building. As the fire raged, some occupants slid down the cables or jumped on top of the elevator cabs. When the elevators became inoperable there were only two choices, jump or be burned. Captain Dominick Henry of the Eighth Police Precinct saw “a scene I hope I never see again. Dozens of girls were hanging from the ledges. Others, their dresses on fire, were leaping from the windows.” The Times reported that the fire engines arriving at the scene had trouble getting near the building because of the bodies strewn on the street and sidewalk. “While more bodies crashed down among them they worked with desperation to run their ladders into position and spread their fire nets.” But the fire department’s life nets were utterly useless to withstand the force of bodies falling from the ninth floor and their ladders were too short to reach the fire floors. About twenty-five minutes after the first alarm sounded, the firemen had the blaze under control. One hundred-forty-six workers died in the blaze or succumbed to their injuries in the days that followed.

Yep. Thats about right. However its par for the course. These are the same people that every year vote down minimum wage increases yet have voted their own raises through with little opposition. Over the last 60 years They have managed to outpace inflation while minimum wage has fallen to almost half its initial value and been unchanged since 97. Republican or Democrat they're all lying thieving animals.

How the hell he got away serving his sentences concurrently is beyond me. It was a slam dunk case that any jury would have convicted. I get that a deal is always preferred, but 87 lives and dozens of destroyed families certainly deserves more. Hopefully things like depraved indifference toward human life will keep him under lock and key.

Negative sage. The CBO is not going to be deceived by double counting of social security and medicaid funds. They are a bi-partisan group that is tasked with analyzing all of the financial affects of legislation. They are not limited to confines of any one bill. They are also responsible for estimating the the long term impact of the US budget. In all of their analysis the bill reduces debt. Yes much of the savings, especially nearly all of the early savings is a result of taxes the savings eventually transitions to decreases in medicaid and social security spending. Who said Bush attacked the unions. Republicans in general are anti-union and pro business. NAFTA was not anti-union per say. It did have consequences that disproportionately affected union employees, but it has nothing in it that affects the rights of unions or union members.

I was a kid when this happened and I still remember it so clearly. A gallon of gas and a jealous ex-boyfriend. I few years back I met one of the responding firefighters and one of the things that haunted him was how many literally died in their seats.

Nothing would make me happier than to see a true 3rd party candidate have a shot at anything. Too bad we're all sheep and vote out of fear. if people voted with their brain McCain would have won in 2000 and possibly again in 2008. He was a much better candidate when he wasn't playing to the polls, kissing left wing arse, and running with Pallin.

not new, but unique. Only seen one of those on the road.