rob zombie

Canvass letters are used to judge interest of reachable candidates by departments. You can still receive correspondence from S.F.D. along with other departments if they are hiring. More than one department at a time can canvass and interview a reachable candidate simultaneously. Not sure if there is an expiration date on a canvass letter. Keep your resume current , a suit pressed and not ill fitting, and a positive attitude. Besides rumor and hearsay, no one with direct knowledge is going to post here if a particular department is hiring. Best of luck.

Does it seem a bit broken? Yes. My comments to your post was simply that the HFD coverage to its own district was most likely adequate when E170 was at the YHFD job and that the monetary issues will probably get recouped or is budgeted for. I thought the IC on this particular incident utilized what he knew and used it. What he did was perhaps unorthodox or unusual but accomplished the task at hand. He obviously felt more comfortable utilizing HFD E170 than County HazMat.

Im sure HFD will either recoup the cost involved from YHFD or will absorb the costs as part of its budgeted mutual aid expenditures. My understanding is that the HFD has a proactive automatic/ mutual aid plan in place with several of its neighbor fire districts/ departments. Im sure it's fire protection was not reduced. The HFD Capt /YHFD I.C. knew what resourses he needed to mitigate the situation and got them to the incident in a timely manner. Perhaps unusual but effective.

Having inspection stations enforce this law will mean nothing. This is what will happen. Before the yearly inspection is due, bring the car to the window tint shop to take off the dark tint from the front windows for a small fee ( $20-$25 per window). The vehicle will be in compliance and pass inspection with clean front windows. Go back to window tint shop after the inspection and put the dark tinting back on ( Approx $100 for both windows ). Repeat this every year. A total cost of .50 cents per day. It may even be a lucrative law for window tint shops. I'm sorry but the government is trying to do something well intentioned but not thinking it through.

Confirmed? Nope. Word on the street ? None scheduled for the fall.

No Probie school scheduled so I would say no one is gonna hire in the near future.

Comment on lohud article suggests FD did a poor job in regards to a search? Anybody have any info about this fire? http://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/putnam/carmel/2016/07/13/richard-delaney-funeral-mahopac/87022108/

Thanks GBFD111. That's exactly what I was referring to. I thought the comment was real harsh and was wondering what influenced the comment. Seemed that maybe a health issue was involved or a lack of working smoke detectors and not something that the FD did or did not do led to this tragedy. My posting this article and pointing out the comment was to start conversation on the subject and maybe that some extenuating facts left out by the Journal news happened. Certainly not trying to validate the comment in lohud.

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

My understanding that the next meeting is to be held on June 6th and a vote will take place on the PC8 ?

Just when you think things couldn't get weirder.......... http://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/rye-brook-port-chester/2016/05/20/port-chester-oath-office/84666408/

At the board meeting tonight, a re-vote in two weeks was decided. The 2 trustees who abstained/voted no brought it up. Large turnout by career FFs, somewhat for residents.

We will see..........

http://www.lohud.com/story/opinion/columnists/phil-reisman/2016/05/13/reisman-mayor-firefghters-port-chester/84341696/ lohud gives mayor a soapbox.

Has there been any resignations from the PCFD volunteer force over this ?

In 1983.

Although denied in the Lohud article, this consolidation rhetoric seems like retribution by the Carmel Board to punish the C.P.D. on failed contract negotiations and going through binding arbitration. A quick question. If a countywide police force will be writing and issuing summonses, who will be collecting revenue and benefiting from these judicial decisions? Obviously, the local Municipalities would receive some revenue if done in local courts, but the county should receive a larger proportion of the revenue. Wouldn't this diminish funding be another financial burden on the local Government?

That's may be good on your "job", but in the career FD service, with the exception of some high ranking officers with state given exemptions, there is a thing called MANDATORY RETIREMENT AGE. You are forced to retire at a given age and have no say in the matter. You can be in the best shape of your life, doesn't matter, you must leave.

You make a valid point but what good return does a fire dept have spending tons of money and time training a ff who is going to leave in less than 20 years and in this case, 15 years? Plus ffs with 15 plus years on the job have valuable experience and are an essential asset to the health of a FD organization.

Unless I read it wrong, the individual and the Dept. settled. Nobody prevailed in court and nobody won the case. Both parties agreed on a dollar amount. It was probably less than the individual wanted and less than the district could have lost.

If a person wants a job within a community that has residency requirements, move to the community in question.

Some communities feel that "local boys and girls" have intimate knowledge of the community and thus will be a more effective firefighter. Not all communities feel this way but a majority do.

"Interestingly there is no mention of the union in the article - wonder what their stand is. Did the lawyer just go out to all the firefighters and invite them to sue? And do they have proof of above normal hearing " Union is involved. www.buffalofirefighters.com

Cold.

This is so blatant.