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Not if his child was born here. People do dumb stuff. He didn't go out to the bar. He ran an errand. Not excusable but the details matter here. Was it 5 minutes or 30? Was he remorseful or blaming the child? When I was 6 or 7 my parents tasked me with watching my brother while ducked into a store. 2 minutes later they came out to see a by stander catching by brother in his stroller that I'd let roll down the hill towards a busy NYC intersection. In all of my injured child calls it was one of the least significant scald burns that was most disturbing. The most serious were precipitated by the actions of dumb adults but never with malice. Usually I spend more time reassuring the parent. Some people just really don't know any better.

I'm extremely interested to see the move from barge to intrepid. That's a lot of space shuttle to swing through the air.

Why would you file charges against someone with no control over their motor functions?! Someone who gets themselves so whacked out of PCP or some other chemical and loses their mind, is a different story. Lock 'em up. Someone that lashes out due to hypoglycemia, a seizure, significant brain injury, etc are the people we are supposed to be helping. Why on earth would you you even pursue this?! Thank god reason prevailed and nothing went any further.

The criminal aspect and her healthcare are unrelated as far as privacy rights are concerned. There is no discussion about her mefical condition or details about why EMS was called. All of the information is pertinent to her arrest. No one is going to pursue charges if there is a simple medical explanation for the violent behavior. That leads me to believe this was not a simple AMS or psychiatric emergency.

Call the DCAS automated system. As soon as the list is established your number will be in that system.

Come out and join the EMS Week 5k in Hudson River Park along Manhattan's beautiful west side on May 20th. The race is being organized by an FDNY*EMS Lt out of Station 7 and is open to all levels of fitness. Whether you're an avid runner gearing up for your next marathon or a more evolved individual that understands the internal combustion engine is way better at getting you around than running. Sign in starts at 8am and the race kicks off at 9am. For a mere $20 you get a shirt, schwag bag, and entry into the worlds most prestigious Manhattan EMS Week 5K. All proceeds will be going directly to the FDNY Foundation. The race will be an out and back, starting at 23rd street and going to pier 40. You'll be right in the middle of Chelsea, within a block of Chelsea Piers and the Highline if you're looking for something to do after the run. Sign up now at fdnyemsrun.bbnow.org Registration ends May 13th

Absolutely unions frequently include minimum staffing levels and NYC Sanitation is one example. However NYC Sanitation is not the only ones hauling garbage in NYC. In fact throughout the tri state most communities are covered by commercial haulers. If single man operations were actually more cost effective commercial haulers would have embraced them. Blame unions all you want, but the free market does not substantiate your claim that unions are preventing their implementation. Cities don't want to put up the initial cost because they will not recoup their investment. Savings made by smaller crews are cut into by slower operations, more expensive vehicles, more expensive maintenance, and maintaining the refuse containers. So the unions are at fault yet, you admit the trucks simply will not work in many cities?

Any test with a disparity in the racial make up of the passing applicants must be proven to be applicable to the job for which they are testing. People frequently reference job testing in skilled labor fields. Unless you can prove essay writing competency is an accurate predictor of talented welders you cannot include an essay writing section on the test. You can however test their ability as a welder. Firefighting is trickier/ Depts must prove their tests are accurate predictors of future success in that position since they are testing skills related to, but not directly applicable to firefighting.

The city owns the truck. If they want ads, the trucks get ads. They just need to be aware there's an added cost. Firefighters generally take a lot of pride in their trucks and put a lot of time and money into them. Take away that pride and maintenance costs will absolutely go up.

Divisions have impalas and other older sedans.

Morris Park, a block off of White Plains Road

So it looks like Spring has sprung in Yonkers with re recent spate of shooting popping up. I was wondering if YPD was still using Shot Spotter. Is it working and are there plans to roll it out across the city?

I just ask for facts. You clearly don't have them in this specific instance. Maybe no one has made the effort to track accidents per mile for firefighters career or volunteer. Maybe you have the connections to get the NFPA to look into this. I don't know how to make this any clearer. I don't give a rats arse who is more dangerous behind the wheel, I only want to see the statistics proving it. Lets look at NYC. I can't find a single instance where a volunteer fire company was involved in a fatal collision. I know of three involving FDNY. Now maybe the volunteers don't even have enough road miles to make a statistically significant comparison to FDNY, but on the surface it sure seems like the volunteers are safer. No one in their right mind would consider that a fair comparison. Similarly the MTA is the deadliest city agency. They've killed far and away more civilians than anyone else and are always governed by VTL. Their drivers receive more training and have more time behind the wheel than FDNY. But their road miles are so high it would be impossible for me to just guess at which agency is statistically more dangerous. Do career fire departments actually put more road miles on than volunteer FDs? They absolutely have more calls, there are stats documenting that. But do they have more miles? I'm still can't find anything addressing that. What I can find shows that far more land area is covered by volunteers. Absolutely every paid firefighter must first get to work, but unless I am mistaken, those accidents are not included in these numbers. Volunteers responding to their station for a run are included. Similarly volunteers headed to the station for a parade, meeting, drill, etc are not counted. Again, you are correct that volunteers do not meet the same standards for selection, training, and accountability. However there is NOTHING demonstrating that volunteers are crashing more frequently than career firefighters and even less proof that the training gap has anything to do with it. So you're just going to pout and go home? There are a lot of flaws in the volunteer fire service. First and foremost that it is an inferior level of service than you would receive from a paid department. The deciding factor between the two is cost. If you could get a functional paid department or reasonably close to what you're paying for a volunteer dept you'd stick with the volunteers?? You'd be a fool. That being said there is still a very large need for professional volunteer fire service in this country. The key is professional and that starts with addressing flaws and inadequacies within your own service.

Lieu Yonkers didn't choose to start bussing their kids. They were ordered to. That school district has so many problems, they're in far worse shape than PD and Fire.Taking from one to fund the other doesn't work in the long term.

That's a promotional video made by the company. Those aren't real court appearances or taser videos.

Absolutely I did my searches and I found that analysis ( http://www.nfpa.org/...hicledeaths.pdf ) pretty early on. However it doesn't do anything to explain if volunteers are driving more or less recklessly than career firefighters. Its a breakdown of the causes of the crashes during that period. Absolutely speeding is easier in a car than a tower ladder; but speed in excess of the road road conditions is the killer, not speeding. The article doesn't say anything about water tenders turning too fast. It says they were involved in 28 crashes resulting in 30 deaths. I'm sure many of these were as a result of attempting to negotiate a turn too fast and the vehicle leaving the road. However fatal crashes can occur from mechanical failure, at rail road crossings, or maybe it was because they were struck. The article doesn't give a break down of the 28 tender crashes. You are inferring your own cause.

Everything you've stated explains why I would expect volunteers to have substantially worse numbers. What you're discounting is that the accidents include personal and dept vehicles. With every volunteer driving to the station and only one career firefighter per rig driving, the volunteers have many more miles per response. Does this make up for the disparity in total responses? I have no idea.

Have you seen a breakdown of apparatus vs personal vehicles? Is there a differentiation between personal vehicles allowed to operate in emergency mode and personal vehicles with only courtesy lights? In the end its the driver not the rules regulating drivers that are responsible for the accidents. Speed and intersection control negatively impact paid and volunteer drivers. What no one can accurately demonstrate is the actual rate of these incidents.

Absolutely, the stats were in no way misleading. Your conclusion from those stats however was completely biased and unsupported. You claim reckless driving is an "obvious problem" in the volunteer service. I'm not saying that it is not a problem. I just don't see any evidence of the problem. With every member driving and on average a younger and less experienced membership; there are piles of research demonstrating that if the fire service posts numbers correlating to those found in the general population the volunteer fire service should have a substantially worse driving record. I have not seen this in my extremely limited and cursory searches. This may be because the most common factors in young driver deaths; drugs, alcohol, reckless activities, and inattentiveness are rarely factors when volunteers are responding to alarms. Maybe its just poor judgement and it affects both sides equally. I cannot speak for the posters stooping to snide remarks and cartoons, but I only look for accuracy in any side of a debate. Losing credibility in one facet casts a poor shadow on any other points. I am not attacking any departments, referencing isolated incidents, or defending anyone. I'm just trying to take an unbiased look at the facts. Want to say that the average Westchester VFD on the average day is providing an understaffed, undertrained, and slow response to calls for help? I completely agree. But to say that volunteers are obviously driving recklessly just doesn't stand up to scrutiny as far as I can tell. If you have the research, I'd actually like to dig through it. Post a link, send a message, anything.

Ok, so I'm not sure why the difference between the two stats you have. Was it just because the the time period studied or were there different criteria in the search? The "Selected Special Analysis" is throwing me off. But we'll go with what we got. From 92-02 Career ff's made up 9.9% of the deaths and from '00 to '10 they're up to 18.8%. Since the two over lap this is terrible statistics, but when I average it out we get 14.35%. As of 2010 All career and mostly career FD's only represented 14% of the firefighters nation wide. Arguably even in mostly volunteer FD's the career guys still probably do the lion share of the apparatus driving. That more than doubles the number to 32% of all firefighters. All of this however could mean nothing because take yonkers for example. Your dept has how many apparatus on the road available to respond every day? A quick google search came up with 20 including the battalions. If you take your typlical westchester volleys responding from home to fill 18 rigs and two chiefs (lets assume only two members on each rig because its a beautiful tuesday afternoon) you're going to wind up with 56 separate vehicles being driven. You'd have to do 3x as many runs in yonkers to cover the number of trips taken by the vollys. Then there's the number of miles driven. What's the average distance for urban paid depts vs suburban and rural volunteer depts? Chief, you're over simplifying some very complicated statistics just to make a point. Without the proper data how can people not take this as a biased attack? It makes it seem personal no matter how much you insist it is not.

You said the overwhelming majority of these wrecks are on the volunteer side. Do you have the stats? With the sheer number of volunteer fire departments I would expect more volunteer accidents than paid. Add in that every volunteer is driving to the scene or station, are volunteers more reckless. I don't have any real info on this, but would be curious to see the breakdown of accidents per firefighter or even department. I doubt its out there, but per mile driven could also be really interesting. I'm sure the bias towards younger firefighters and older equipment bumps up the rate of accidents for volunteers. All in all a comprehensive review of this would be very interesting.

Aside from the paid depts that can guarantee staffing the rest of Westchester is pretty much the same crap shoot. Skipping a dept because they cannot meet same standards with which you operate is a perfectly reasonable approach. Too often that's not the reason towns are skipped. I was simply offering a move towards standardization that could start right now. A first step in the right direction. An actually unified regional dept is best case scenario still years away.

That can absolutely happen today in Westchester. If your dept establishes that as their dispatch policy with 60, then that is what they will get. I've seen some good ones, but none address the chief pile that usually results. Say my FD, the world renowned and well respected Mt Crumpit FD responds with 2 engines, ladder, rescue and 3 chiefs. Upon transmission of the 10-75 signal 60 would automatically add whatever I previously arranged to have added. In this case its 2 engines, fast w/ chief, and a ladder. 60 is so reasonable you can even establish different dispatch protocols for different parts of town. No hydrants out in Bumm Ridge, they'll be happy to assign a tanker task force as soon as the fire is confirmed if that is what we ask for.. The hardest change would be getting depts to stop picking and choosing their favorite neighbors. We get it that Nantasket FD lets you use their training center and Kartroo throws a sweet parade, but Whoville is closest so lets use them. Now the heads up dispatcher listening to the radio traffic from the fire hears that this fire is really cooking. They can start looking at who is next up if it goes to a second alarm. That way if Gwark Island, the first due second alarm engine catches a fire (its rare, but multiple incidents do occasionally occur) the dispatcher can line up whom ever they'll need and quickly turn out these depts when the call inevitably comes in. The county has spent a good chunk of change upgrading 60 over the years and the dispatchers are from what I understand very well trained. Might as well use the service we're paying for.

In the past week I've had two legit MOS cardiac events. Todays death in Brooklyn is looking like another according to early reports. I cannot stress how important this topic is for everyone. If you are not in perfect shape you need to be in better shape. Every time they research the physiological impact of our jobs (EMS, PD, and Fire) we go off the charts. The first studies of stress hormones in firefighters were so far off the charts they couldn't accurately measure them.

The post office still provides a critical service. A full 1/4 of the us by population is still without regular internet access. UPS and FedEx turn to the USPS to reach areas that are not profitable enough for their operations. These debit cards that these non internet savy seniors will be using; how do you think they'll be distributed? The postal service needs overhaul, but not elimination.