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The city is strapped. FD needs to come up with cuts just like everyone else. That makes sense. I'm far from inside on this, but from what I understood they run a surplus of FF's more than 90% of the time city wide. So where is the savings by closing these companies overnight outside of gas and electric?? City Islands last fire was bad, but would have been worse had the truck not been there with a second line. Outside of a few restaurants, bars, and a marina just about everything on city island is residential. At 5 am anyone stuck above the fire is screwed.

I don't know about you rich, but not many typical size adults and even fewer of us EMS folks can fit through those openings without some lard and a prayer. LP-12 is short for Lifepack 12. Its an EKG monitor/Defibrillator made by physiocontrol. Probably the most common one around here in the northeast.

No matter what the next attack is, the attack isn't the problem. The perfect example is the Anthrax attacks in 2001. It killed 5 people and maybe 20 more. Yet depts are still going out on powder runs 7 years after the last victim was discovered. Some african making handmade sheep skin drum heads catches anthrax and it made headlines. A couple years ago some kid drove around the mid-west putting pipe bombs in mail boxes because he wanted his attacks to look like a smiley face on the US map. He had people all over middle america sealing up or just plain removing their mailboxes even though he only killed one person. On average vending machines kill just over 2 people a year. Hot water from the tap kills close to 100 a year. The perception of fear is vastly more dangerous than the actual fear and that is how we are really going to suffer after the next attack.

sounds like the system whelen has been pushing for a while. If you're worried about computers running everything you're a few years too late. The vast majority of the time we push a button or flip a switch we're activating a circuit.

There are several access roads from street level that feed into the Brooklyn Bridge. I'm not exactly sure where L118 is, but from under the bridge your best access would be Sands st. However post 9/11 our government has taken an approach of preventing terrorism by preventing smooth traffic flow so Sands may be closed off. In that case you would have to go all the way around to Tillary St to come in off the main approach.

It will also significantly increase the safety of the crews using that pad.

Got it easy down here in NYC. If its alive PD takes it to the Animal Hospital in Manhattan lights and siren. If its dead sanitation comes and picks it up. If its healthy and needs to be secured while the owner is taken to the hospital PD is responsible till animal control can take over. The cops should have taken that dog. Its much easier to clean the back of a cruiser than it is to clean the front of a chiefs car of POV. 2 quick stories... Called for the chest pain. Woman was taken to the hospital 1 wk earlier for a bad asthma attack. Intubated for 5 days. Gets home and finds both cats dead, now she's having a legit MI. Cats were the only "family" she had in the area. PD secured the apartment after fire broke down the door, door was replaced, and still no one did anything about the cats. PD calls for an intox. Cop pulls woman over, hammered drunk with big yellow lab in the back. She's broke up with her girlfriend and is on her way home from New Hampshire to Delaware been drinking the whole way. Got lost trying to get gas. Day before holiday weekend so if he arrests her she stuck for 4 days waiting till she can pick up her dog. Decided to give her appearance ticket, send her to the ER to sober up, and precinct gets a new mascot till the AM. You don't have to care about helping the animal then at least do it for owner. The animals become part of people's family and at times their only family.

Should have locked the doors and arrested everyone in the store. Sadly, you'll never be able to charge most of these idiots with anything but if nothing more than to send them all out of store empty handed hours after they entered you would at least take away the deals these animals valued more than a human life.

Lets be real, most plain cloths cops look like cops. Transit is probably the exception but all I hear from transit cops in the Bx is how their bosses keep on putting them in uniform standing on platforms as a show of force.

I'm pretty sure the hour long delay wasn't due to the distance. It sounds like they thought it was under control, found extension and then banged out the call for mutual aid.

WEMS is now running 2 boxes? Are they running a 2nd ALS or are they converting to an all box fleet?

Is this really a surprise that Al Qaeda still wants after New York and might make a special effort during the holidays. What I really love is how in response security has been increased all over midtown and lower manhattan. Too bad the 92 bomb and Oklahoma City were planned and constructed on the outskirts of their intended target. Want to blow up a packed subway wouldn't it be easier to get on at the start of the line and either ride in unnoticed as the car packs up? It is such a waste of money to just make a few people feel safe. How about real safety via more beat cops patrolling neighborhoods and more plain clothes riding trains. They are the ones who will see things out of the ordinary and be able to do something about it.

$600 for a train. Is that a normal price?

That number holds true in suburban and rural environments. Not in in cities. For life threatening emergencies EMS averages just 6.5 minutes and segment 9, cold response is over 10 minutes.

maybe someone a little more versed in HazMat knows, whats the lower limit is for mercury abatement? I was on a job in the Bronx while back. A woman crushed a shopping bag full of CFLs in her baby's room. HazMat was called in and gutted the room of anything not a hard surface. Even took the carpet out.

I am more than happy to critique jobs, accidents, and any other incident that we can learn from but this garbage is ridiculous. So far the only valid question was about FDNY's response policy to AFA's. While a few depts have switch to a first due only hot or all cold response for AFAs, FDNY like most depts has maintained their policy of lights and siren for all alarms. Manhattan echoes like crazy. If you have another rig behind you its exponentially worse. Vehicle 1 stops and clears the intersection. Vehicle 2 has the light and proceeds through thinking the stopped cars are part of the usual manhattan traffic. I don't know if this is what happened, its just not always as cut and dry as one guy screwed up so lets punish him.

and a head to toe reflective jumpsuit would be even more visible. Add some LEDs and you're even more visible. The point is ff PPE is visible enough when maintained and worn correctly. Reflective stripping is visible at a certain distance. It doesn't matter how much of it you wear it is still only visible at that certain distance.

My whole point is there is nothing in those photos that shows anything about who was at fault.

In April 2008, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Transportation Research Institute released a study on the conspicuity of first-responder safety garments. The study was conducted on a closed track in both daytime and nighttime conditions to compare the conspicuity of three different types of safety garments used by first responders: NFPA 1971 turnout gear coats, ANSI/ISEA 107 safety vests, and ANSI/ISEA 207 safety vests. Eight participants, balanced for gender and age, drove instrumented vehicles on the closed track indicating the distance at which they could detect workers at a simulated emergency response scene. The results show no statistically significant difference in the distance at which workers were detected, regardless of which garment was worn. In other words, all three garment standards provided equal levels of conspicuity under the conditions examined. The results suggest that all of the garments studied should be considered equivalent relative to first responder conspicuity when working in close proximity to traffic.\1\ Based upon this research, the FHWA believes that the PPE for firefighters specified in the NFPA 1971 standard is equivalent to the ANSI 107-2004 Class 2 garment. It says it right there, this garbage is not necessary. Ignoring the 4th of July like show we put on at scenes our PPE is equally effective in alerting drivers to our presence. Yeah, the salted up crap that some guys like to rock wouldn't pass but on a dark road we are properly protected.

My thoughts are with the driver on this one. That is a brutal nightmare to have to deal with. Ambulances and Buses cruising the Grand Concourse in the Bronx have taken more than a couple of distraught souls.

Assuming 45 mph, the speed limit for that road.

That is compete BS. You can always go slower. I hit someone doing 10 below the speed limit should I be going slower or should they have not run the light? We know so little about this accident. First, we don't have a clear shot of where the skid marks start. What I do know is the the standard stopping distance for a 2 axel light truck including driver reaction is approx 215 ft. Average ambulance is significantly heavier and doesn't stop nearly as well and the impact with the car is going to slow you down faster. Figure 215' is accurate you're looking at about 15 to 18x the vehicle length. Assuming this car came out of no where and the crew had the right of way this seems a very reasonable conclusion. Maybe the crew smoked a light and the car had the right of way. Maybe the crew was doing 65 and the car didn't hear them in time. There is still so much we can't tell from Brian's photos. Just because you were a problem behind the wheel before you heard about this accident it does not mean this crew was.

DC the battery and try to avoid cutting wiring harnesses. The guys at the Westchester FTC have a couple of other clips of guys getting caught by airbags.

But this issue isn't just about Plattsburgh. Take out the names and put in anyone's. These guys were not being compensated for the time they were working and their union chose to do something about it. At many academy's its accepted that you will be working many more hours than you are going to be paid. Thats not the case in this situation. Their union chose to address it and the members are now being paid for it. Good for them.

You should know the cost of what you're using. When you're talking about a $100 IO needle or $60 medication those costs matter. If the pt needs it they get it, but too often people will use something just to use it and these costs add up. The vast majority of Asthma pts don't need EPI. While the ones that do usually improve dramatically most are able to maintain long enough to either get to the hospital or await ALS. For me this goes back to BLS needs more emphasis on assessment rather than new skills. Epi when given to the right patient is safe enough where you shouldn't have to go through telemetry to administer it. However with the current training EMT's receive I wouldn't have confidence it wouldn't become a problem.