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Now this thread needs a few positive reviews. If you want to donate, established charities with experience assisting in disasters is the way to go, and the Red Cross is an excellent route.

non violent crime, not drug related, and not a habitual offender. He should be fine.

What Chris said. If he does sign before being approved he's toast. I've seen some people with impressive records still get their card. Letters from judges, arresting officers, parole officers, etc go a long way towards getting approved.

Was the exposure attached or adjacent? Was there an attempt at preventing fire spread from within the exposure?

The doors make the truck prettier. The linkages and valves are all ready protected behind the panel. Door or no door, you're still going to instal an electric heater or auxiliary radiator loop around the pump because just closing it up in a door is not enough to keep it warm. Without a heat source it will still be as cold as the outside environment.

moggie, there will be no fewer calls handled as a result of this change. All that changes is the volunteers lose their unit designations. nycemt, crews trying to duck a late job can still call the volunteers and dump a job on them. When the city needs additional units to add to the system they will again reach out to the volleys like they have in the past. The only change and I repeat ONLY CHANGE is they are losing their unit designations. So instead of being 94B, 96A, etc they will be 201A, 401A, whatever. They were not before and are not now in suggested unit string that gets assigned jobs. FDNY was last on board with the Epi pens because they felt there wasn't a need for them. They were the first in the state with BLS Albuterol because the populace needed it. This isn't about pilot programs, this is about continued and regular training. As part of the smart cpr study FDNY has demonstrated having a FDNY ALS or BLS on scene results in a small but statistically significant increase in ROSC. This is believed to be a result of continued training throughout the year. There were also surges in ROSC immediately after CPR training. I'm not talking about the voluntaries. Between their lack of job protection and FDNY's heavy hand in dealing with them voluntaries generally can't get away with as much crap as FDNY units. The volunteers however have no accountability outside of the state pulling an individuals card.

these are volunteers, the hospitals are voluntaries. They're unaffected.

I'm sure their 19 member company fills out that cab every run.

Individuals may have handed the volleys a call here and there, but they were still not part of the sugu string. I had a partner who use to call Throggs Neck VAC every time we were going all they way out the end of Tremont or if he wanted out of a late job. It still doesn't change that they were not a full part of the system. As for not having a designation, that doesn't mean a damn thing. We turn pts over to transport units all the time without a problem. As for why FDNY turns down help, its because FDNY has no control over the volleys. BLS isn't a money maker, its got nothing to do with billing. A single provider can provide a more consistent quality of care. This is not to say that FDNY is the end all be all of pre-hospital medicine. There are plenty of idiots employed by FDNY, however our idiots are better trained and better supervised then their idiots.

Before everyone gets their pro-volley panties in a bunch, a few facts. First and foremost, this is a procedural change that has no real affect on how things are done by FDNY or the volleys. While they were in the system outside of the days when their help was specifically requested by operations they were never assigned jobs. There could be jobs holding in the system and the volleys were not assigned jobs. The same applies to the university squads. What the volleys would do and still can do is respond when someone calls them directly or be "flagged" for an assignment they hear over the dept frequency. What changes is that when FDNY and a volley are on the same call instead of turning over a call 96A (or whatever their designation was) I would be turning a call that over to xyz volleys. In an emergency where FDNY needs more units to handle call volume the volleys will still be called for help and given a unit designation.

I think the C-5's at Stewart are more than capable of flying a USAR team to Haiti. Assuming the runway is still entirely intact.

Chief Kilduf is by all accounts an excellent leader and a perfect pick at COD. Here's the catch. He's appointed by the fire commissioner. Therefor he serves at the pleasure of the fire commissioner. When Magoo tapped Cassano as COD he was met with similar praise, however 8 years later his tenure as COD has been marred by fire house closings, denial of 9/11 related illness deaths being line of duty, the Deutsche Bank tragedy and ensuing farce of an investigation, etc. To keep his job the COD has to toe the Dept line. If he strays too far he can find himself out of a job.

These I'm going from memory on, so please excuse if some details are a bit off. The gist is still true, most of these are woefully wrong. 2. Close. Drafts and ensuing copies were likely printed on hemp since up 90% of the paper used then was at least mostly hemp. The actual document signed by the delegates is in fact parchment. 5. Lucci is from Garden City and went to Marymount. Diller is from California. 8. Charles Lapier Grigg died in 1948. 7up didn't get the red dot till the 70's. Most Albinos have Hazel or Blue eyes. Ohh, and Grigg wasn't Albino. 12. They don't explode, however it can rupture hollow organs and tear solid organs. I could keep going, but I'm tired and its late...or early...its something.

Lets also not forget the response of the career depts to Pleasantville when the rear wall detached from a building on Manville Rd. The career depts have repeatedly shown they are fully capable of playing nice in the sandbox. Its time we focus on getting the job done right rather than getting everyone involved with the job.

Date: 01/05/10 Time: approximately 2015 hrs Location: Davidson AV & Fordham Rd Frequency: Units Operating: 52 precinct, BxTF, EMS Weather Conditions: Cold Description Of Incident: 2 Police Officers shot. 1 to face. 1 in the leg. Both conscious Both taken to Jacobi. PD searching for perp. UPDATE Both officers reported to be in stable condition from graze injuries after opening fire on an attacking animal. Reporters/Writer: ny10570 and

Thats really the problem. While many people want to and intend to save lives, hiding behind this we're volunteers and doing the best we can isn;t always good enough. Right now, there are two big weaknesses in emergency services in Westchester right now as I see it. Coverage capability and redundancy. Both of these problems greatly affect the volunteer service and every time they're brought up, it assumed people are bashing the volleys. All any of us want to see is the volleys and paid depts do something to address these problems. The paid depts appear to have started the ball rolling towards this end. Volleys too often continue to sit dug in insisting that all is well.

Grow up. This has nothing to do with Obama. This has been a workplace cancer since affirmative action first began.

High security hydrant nuts are not so secure. In the hood, they defeat them with a couple of heavy duty hardware store magnets. Not ideal, but if works to get your car washed, I'm sure it'll work for a fire.

Negative sir. Diesel is perfectly flammable out in the open. While it has a much higher flash point than gasoline it is perfectly flammable out in the open. At the same time, the higher flash point makes the operation of the torch in that situation not particularly dangerous.

Chris, the security overseas on any flight terminating within the US must be screened in a manner approved by the TSA. Their security is at least as good as ours, and they follow through with their latest commitment to add back scatter imaging to all screening stations will be better than ours. All of the anit-terror money and hype has been grossly misspent and mismanaged. Over and over local community policing has been the key to discovering and disrupting terrorist activities. We need federal help in coordination and sharing information and resources. Instead we have multiple federal agencies competing for attention trying to be everywhere at once. Empower local cops to do their job and you will get the results.

They are a crack commando unit was sent to prison by court for a crime they did not commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the New York City underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire... The A-Team.

Many residents call the 7 digit rather than 911 for emergencies. These were potentially emergencies getting rerouted to an auto body shop.

MERV3 in Midtown is a little unlikely, however any multi alarm fire or in severe weather any fire you will see a MERV assigned.

Its inappropriate to drop 27k when they are short 13k for necessary equipment.

The 5 MERV's and MRTU (Mobil respiratory treatment unit or 'BOB') are all designed to transport multiple patients however they're generally used as the triage/treatment area at multiple alarm fires and other large MCI's.