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The times have been changed for the wake. The time for the wake are 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm and 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm for Monday and Tuesday at the Hawthorne Funeral Home. The Firefighters will assemble in uniform on Tuesday night at 7:00 pm at the funeral home.

Rest in peace brother! Scan 10.pdf

The wake for Barry will be at Hawthorne Funeral Home on 21 W. Stevens Lane, Hawthorne, N.Y. 10532. The wake will be on Monday, Oct.10,2016 from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm and on Tuesday, Oct.11,2016 from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm. The Mass will on Wednesday Oct.12,2016 at the Holly Name of Jesus Church on Broadway in Vallhalla at 10:00 am.

They are NOT coming back the vote was 4 to 3 NOT to reinstate them. The next step is a law suit to have the village honor the over 4,200 signatures on the petition for a permissive referendum.

The Port Chester Board of Trustees choose to ignore the over 4,200 signatures of the TAXPAYERS last night and voted 4 to 3 not to reinstate the career firefighters. One trustee, Dan Brakewood went as far to racialize that even spending $1million dollars to defend legal actions from this decision is a one time cost as opposed to the salaries of the firefighters which are a yearly reoccurrence. One can only hope that in light of the PESHA report that the Attorney General responds the gross violation of law, falsifying public records, ordering the changing of a fire record, lying to state investigators, the list goes on and on, because its obvious the village leadership don't have the pair to do it! It's a shame we are going to have to wait 3 years to vote them out of office. Also two of the 7 volunteer companies sent letters to the village board supporting the reinstatement of the career firefighters and voiced their displeasure with not being consulted prior to the decision, Washington Engine & Hose and Fire Patrol & Rescue. Mayor Pilla and Trustee Didden have been attending all the meetings of the volunteer companies scene their May 2 vote to fire the career firefighters to drum up support for their actions. It was also stated at last nights meeting that the two of them urged the rescue company not to send the letter and promised them a new rig and fire house! The only response was a wide eyed and red face mayor and trustee!

http://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/rye-brook-port-chester/2016/06/18/state-cites-port-chester-fire-department-violations/86079360/

For the record there is nothing allegedly about it, it's 100% accurate. That comment is only the tip of the ice burg! You should here the rest of the comments he made, some down right voguer and disgusting about the career firefighters and anyone who was speaking on their behave. The lack of actions to this point by the Village Board is embarrassing and disgraceful. Maybe its time the Attorney General's Public Integrity Bureau needs to step in and start an investigation!

Just out

Here is the file.

Make no mistake about it, this whole thing was orchestrated by the 3 chiefs. I quote the Mayor in his attempt to justify this to me "This was all balanced against our volunteer response capabilities and their contingency plan."

Just for the record, Port Chester last August (2015) basically disbanded the Auxiliary Police, forbid them from performing in any official capacity. They claim it was due to when they were formed it was under the civil defense laws and that no longer applied and lack of training and money to fund that training.

The tax payers will not see a penny of savings. This was not a cost cutting measure but a way to fund additional positions and raises without going over the tax cap and doing so at the cost of the 8 firefighters and their families.

Teir 6 did not eliminate 20 year retirement for new police officer or firefighters. Membership Milestones for Police & Fire Retirement System (PFRS) Members Tier 6 PFRS 20-Year Retirement Plan (Article 22) Before Retirement: Immediately upon joining the system, you are covered by certain job-related death and disability benefits. After 90 days of service credit, you are covered by a non-job-related death benefit. With 10 years of service credit, you become vested and are entitled to a monthly benefit. Members who retire directly from the payroll may apply for and receive their benefit as early as age 55. Members who are off public payroll may collect a vested benefit at age 63. With 10 or more years of service credit, you are: Eligible to apply for a non-job-related disability benefit. Eligible for an out-of-service death benefit, if you leave public employment and die prior to your retirement. With 20 years of service creditable in your special plan, you are eligible to retire at any age. If your employer has adopted Section 384-e, you will receive an additional benefit for each year of special plan service credit over 20 years. A maximum of 32 years of service credit can be used in your pension calculation. With 20 years of service credit (32 years if your employer has adopted Section 384-e), you are no longer required to contribute. If you are 55 or older at retirement and your regular plan benefit is greater than your special plan benefit, you will receive the higher benefit. After Retirement: After you retire and begin collecting a monthly benefit, you will receive annual cost-of-living (COLA) increases when you meet eligibility requirements. (Return to Top) Tier 6 PFRS 25-Year Retirement Plan (Article 22) Before Retirement: Immediately upon joining the system, you are covered by certain job-related death and disability benefits. After 90 days of service credit, you are covered by a non-job-related death benefit. With 10 years of service credit, you become vested and are entitled to a monthly benefit. Members who retire directly from the payroll may apply for and receive their benefit as early as age 55. Members who are off public payroll may collect a vested benefit at age 63. With 10 or more years of service credit, you are: Eligible to apply for a non-job-related disability benefit. Eligible for an out-of-service death benefit, if you leave public employment and die prior to your retirement. With 25 years of service creditable in your special plan, you are eligible to retire at any age. If your employer has adopted Section 384(f) and you have elected it, you will receive an additional benefit for each year of special plan service credit over 25 years. A maximum of 32 years of service credit can be used in your pension calculation. With 25 years of service credit, (32 years if your employer offers and you elected Section 384(f)), you are no longer required to contribute. If you are 55 or older at retirement and your regular plan benefit is greater than your special plan benefit, you will receive the higher benefit. After Retirement: After you retire and begin collecting a monthly benefit, you will receive annual cost-of-living (COLA) increases when you meet eligibility requirements.

How many attic fire have you actually had and how many were the result of blown in insulation? Most attic fires originate elsewhere in the structure, and spread to the attic, such as balloon construction where you most likely would find the blown in insulation. Or are the result of a lighting strike and the burning insulation is the least of your problems. A better investment and money well spent to battle attic fires as well as others would be on a CAFS system.

Barry, A bill was passed by the NYS Senate and Assembly in June that moves the Eastchester Fire District elections to the November general election.

Affirmative action refers to policies that take factors including "race, color, religion, sex, or national origin" into consideration in order to benefit an underrepresented group "in areas of employment, education, and business". By no means does this scenario have anything to do with affirmative action, this is a violation of the oath this individual took when he raised his right hand and swore to faithfully discharge his duties. This type of behavior within in the department is just like a cancer in the body, not treated aggressively, they both will have the same results.

Absolutely! As I have said in the past the fire does not care if you are receiving a pay check or volunteering your time, it will kill you just the same. The standards and training should be unilateral across the board for every firefighter and officer. You don’t see any difference in the training requirements for career vs. volunteer paramedics and EMT’s!

Seth, Here is a rough idea. The individual logos are joined with a chain symbolizing we are only as strong as our weakest link.

Yes. There are only two ways to go between departments, a transfer, which needs to be agreed upon by the department you are leaving, by the department you are going too, by Westchester County Civil Service and by the firefighter requesting the transfer. When you do a transfer you have protection where as if the department doesn’t retain you during the mandatory 12 weeks probation the department you came from has to take you back. The second is a resignation reinstatement. In this case all the same parties must agree with the exception of the department you are leaving. You resign from you department on 1/1/13 and Westchester County Civil Service reinstates you in the new department on 1/1/13. In this case, if you don’t pass your 12 weeks probation you are out of luck & a job. In any case after 1being out year or more, you must start from scratch.

There is no clear cut answer to your questions. It all comes down to pre-planing and size up. The type of occupancy, the type of construction, the occupant load, the fire load, the time of day, the weather and so on and so forth are all going to play a role. The I/C needs to take all of this into consideration and based on his/her judgement determine what type of initial fire attack is warranted. Bottom line it will be determined on an incident by incident basis, and the judgment and skill of the I/C to perform an quick and accurate size up.

No it’s not time to throw out or rewrite the books on fire ground tactics. The IC needs to take into account his staffing and their abilities when planning his initial attack. On all incidents the IC needs to quickly determine the following “what do I have, what do I need, and where is it going” to quickly and safely mitigate the situation while keeping in mind the incident priorities, 1 – Life Safety; 2 – Incident Stabilization; 3 – property Conservation. The IC first priority is the safety of his personnel and then of the public they are sworn to protect, with this in mind we sometimes have to push the envelope and make an aggressive interior search with reduced manpower. However, lacking any reason to believe that there may be victims within the structure and aggressive interior attack should only be perform when the proper personnel arrive on the scene. Remember, we the willing, lead by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungratefully, we have done so much with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing!

First to put things in perspective, New York City Transit, (Subways & Buses) move over 7.5 million people daily (5,300,000 subway & 2,200,000 buses) 2011 statistics. Not sure where the number of 54 fatalities of individuals struck by trains came from but here is a more accurate figure. 128 individuals were struck by trains in 2012 of which 51 were killed. There were an additional 9 individuals who were killed in subway related incidents by contacting the third rail, jumping off the elevated structure etc... with no involvement of trains. 5 pedestrians were struck and killed by buses. While 1 death is to many the shear number of trains and buses moving threw the system daily and the individulas interacting with them, it is a relatively small percentage. As far as "clearing up" the trough between the running rails in the subways station is plenty deep, if you lie down in it you will not come in contact with the train. Secondly there is not sufficient room under most platforms to clear up if a train is coming, you need to find yourself between the columns between the tracks, our in a niche (a cutout in the wall) keeping in mind any where you see red and white strips on the wall or area you are standing in you will be hit by the train. If the individual is able and the train is not upon them, they should be instructed to walk in the opposite direction of the train to the end of the platform where at the entrance to the tunnel there will be a wall ladder. Also anyone who witnesses and individual on the tracks should immediately or have someone run to the end of the platform and look for a blue light in the tunnel and repeatedly pull the alarm box which will kill the power and use the phone there to speak with the rail control center to advise them of the situation. As far as the glass subway barriers go, all I will say is they are under review at this time.

The term "Structure Fire" is used to describe the type of incident/call units are responded to, i.e. report of a structure fire, dumpster fire, outside rubbish fire, vehicle fire etc... The term "Working Fire" is used to describe a fire that is in the process of being suppressed. Typically reserved for a structure fire or an outside fire with a considerable fire/fuel load that will require additional assets/resources to mitigate.

Go to Google images and type Emergency Management Logos, at least 75 + come up.