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To deal with their budget crisis the City of Yonkers is laying off 52 public workers and will be cutting garbage pickup to once a week. LoHud Article

The Independent Fire Company of Mount Kisco is hosting a raffle to benefit the restoration of our recently reacquired 1926 Seagrave Engine. The drawing will be held on Friday Jule 9th, 2010 (The night of the MKFD Parade) at the Independent House, but you need not be present to win. Tickets are $100 each and the prizes are as followed: Grand Prize - $10,000; Second Prize - $1,000; Third Prize - $500; and Fourth thru Eighth Prize - $200. Tickets will be sold on a first come first serve basis so please contact myself via PM or at NYRangers30@gmail.com or (914) 623-8013, Engineer Jon Bruno at J13Bruno@yahoo.com, or Engineer Ray Zaccari at Zmaddog81@aol.com as soon as possible to get your ticket. Best of Luck, Jon Pucila Assistant Engineer Independent Fire Co.

Yes, That is very important. Only 300 tickets are being sold. The night of the MKFD parade and the raffle drawing will be on JULY 9th.

Date: 4/15 Time: 18:38 Location: 50 MAPLE AVE Frequency: Fire 16, FG8 Units Operating: MKFD: 2281, 2282, 2283, 2284, E103, E104, E105, E106, TL14, R15, U13 *Bedford Hills: C2031, C2033, TL57 - FAST, E198 *Katonah: C2212, E117 *Milwood: C2252, E247 *Chappaqua: C2061, TL27 *Yorktown: E270 - FAST *County Car 24 Weather Conditions: Description Of Incident: 10-75 Reporters: Writer:NYRangers30 18:38 - Initial Tone Out 18:41 - C2283 reports 10-75 18:42 - Requesting FAST from Bedford Hils 18:43 - Battalion 16 On Location; C2031 & C2033 Responding 18:44 - R15 Responding; TL57 - BH FAST Responding 18:45 - Chappaqua Relocate 1 Ladder, Millwood Relocate 1 Engine to Mount Kisco Station 1 18:47 - Battalion 16 reports 50'x50' Wood Frame fire on First and Second floor with extension into cocloft 18:49 - TL57 On Location 18:49 - Battalion 16 requests Con-Ed Gas & Electric 18:52 - Battalion 16 requesting Katonah Engine to Scene & BH Engine for exposure protection 18:55 - BH Engine 198 responding 18:55 - Battalion 16 requests Yorktown fast to the scene 18:57 - Battalion 16 requests to be prompted every 15 minutes; Heavy fire volume **PM with details**

Does anyone know which battalion this is for?

Yes, they have switched to red. Their new rescue truck is about 4 times the size of that old one too.

I am a big advocate of the "when in doubt send it out" philosophy. Especially when it comes to tankers! We can't to much without water.

FIOS!!!!!

I have never been a fan of this concept. I have always had a concern that god forbid someone blow an intersection as the rig is passing and they pin the crew door closed it would not be an easy exit.

You are correct. 105 & 106 belong to The Independents and 102, 103, and 104 are the Mutuals. The rig pictured above served as Engine 104 from 1983 until 2007 when it was replaced by a Pierce. It is still currently in service as Engine 102! You can actually see in the picture above right to the left of the side-view mirror before the crew window the vertical "104" in gold leaf.

I really like the side crew door. Great idea. Best of luck with it

Bingo

How is it going to work for vanity plates?

I'd be very interested in the specs, and what the rest of the truck looks like

Date: 10/14/09 Time: 8:35 Location: 324 Jay Street Frequency: 60 FIRE 16 Units Operating: KFD, BHFD, GBFD, SSFD, MKFD Weather Conditions: Description Of Incident: Barn Fire Reporters: Writer: NYRangers30 8:36 - Car 2211 Confirms Structure Fire. Requesting Tanker from Goldens Bridge and South Salem. 8:49 - Requesting 1 Engine from Mount Kisco to Stand-By in KFD Headquarters 9:01 - Utility-13 (MKFD FAST) on location 9:05 - Engine 104 & 2282 located in KFD Headquarters 9:05 - Engine 140 enroute to Draft Site 9:12 - 1405 (C&O Zone 5 enroute) 9:12 - Command reports all units currently working 9:19 - 1405 on location 9:26 - Releasing Goldens Bridge Engine, Holding Tanker 9:40 - Releasing Utility 13 (MKFD FAST) 9:42 - Releasing Goldens Bridge Tanker 10:06 - Tanker 2 Released 10:26 - Releasing KBHVAC from scene; will remain on Stand-By in quarters PM me with more information

First Post on page 10...priceless

The Journal News should hire more Frank Becerra's. Now he's a real Photographer!

As much as i believe that it would make more sense for at least all FD and EMS agencies to be under one roof, you have to understand why they don't want to. Monday night when we had the wicked storm it took me about a mile and a half to be able to sign on as responding since at the time Mount Kisco, Bedford Hills, Bedford, Armonk and Chappaqua were all operating on Fire 16, and it wasn't because the dispatchers weren't answering, it was because it took me that long to get air space since i kept getting stepped on. Then you look at places like somers for example and you don't have to worry about stuff like that because they self operate on their own frequency.

Those are really awesome

wow, that's pretty awesome

The thing is that most of the time an incident commander knows what his neighboring departments have, whether their ladder is a quint or not. Calling for a quint could actually end up screwing you over because it could be coming from further away as to where if you were to just call for 1 and 1 your response time would probably be better along with greater staffing. Call for it early and if you don't need it send it home. Don't run the risk of coming up short

Those are some awesome looking birds

...that should end the somers debate. I feel that losing STAT Flight in this area is truly detrimental. Having a MediVac in this area i believe is crucial (even if life net claims otherwise).

Today on my facebook something from thefirestore.com popped up in my newsfeed. It was a video about a device that supposedly converts carbon monoxide to breathable carbon dioxide. It is called the Essex Last Chance Rescue Filter. I am wondering if anyone has ever heard of or seen the product or if anyone knows anything else about it. If it works as it says it is a really amazing product, but could also lead to more problems if it malfunctions A link to the video: (sorry you need facebook to view it) http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=...3957&ref=mf A link to the product on thefirestore.com http://www.thefirestore.com/store/manufact...ufacturerID=360