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Please refer to the district/commissioner's website for publicly available information on the project as well as their public feedback. The website contains contact information and how to reach them if you have questions or comments for them. Here is a list of the public information release on the expansion: http://www.ncfd1.org/Expansion.php

I found some pics of Chappaqua's old Ladder 3. I am using links rather than raw pics. The links are very light-weight, no ads, and IF you're interested, you can use it to go "up" to a gallery of CFD's 2002 Open House. officer side front officer side rear officer side front corner, arial front driver side front corner

Much better than 8, about as nice as 7 was. Laptop form factor is key, also. you can always change the software, you can't make your machine larger or smaller. A lot of recent 15.6" laptops "feature" numeric key pads on the right, however the keys themselves are narrower than a normal keyboard, which takes getting used to. The surface is a 10.6 or 12.3 screen, I think.

Chappaqua FD Ladder 3 as a 1983 Hahn. It found a nice second life though!! One of our ex-chiefs (Pasquale) retired to Raton N.M. in the early 1990's and became a chief out there. He or his department outright bought Ladder 3 and shipped it themselves. They used it for a few years, though not sure it is still in service. From 1999 - 2002 it had some increasingly expensive maintenance issues. We had to have some of the parts custom-made for it, which cost an arm and a leg.

Haha! That's a great idea Foreman. If you can invent -anything- that can literally knock common sense into people, patent it immediately and produce asn many units as possible. I'll take two (one to knock common sense into me at times).

Just this morning I saw a Class4-sized pickup truck towing a 2 axle trailer northbound on the saw mill parkway between Thornwood and Pleasantville. The gear on the trailer was roughly 7 feet high and covered in tarps. It was clearly low enough to fit under the Grant St Bridge, but it was far too wide, long, and illegal to be there. New within the past few months (in both directions) the saw mill has huge on-pavement signage stating no trucks/low bridge that lead up to the two bridges in Pleasantville. Based on where he was, the driver clearly drive right over the signage, and didn't exit. GPS is partly to blame, but only partly. When signs are clear, where does the rest of the problem lie? I'd agree that part of the problem is people being too-reliant on GPS. GPS eliminates the absolute requirement to look at a map and have "the way" sketched in your mind prior to leaving. It promotes lazy navigation, last minute lane changes, ignorance of road rules. Do Thornwood/Pleasantville have to put up one of those over-the-road signs w/ dangling chains that says "if you hit these chains, you'll hit that bridge"? (I know that would never happen).

The shutdown is on hold: http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/national/hostess-bankruptcy-update-twinkies-wonder-bread-ding-dong-makers-shutdown-on-hold They are are trying mediation: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hostess-options-20121120,0,4332341.story

"Rolling meat-outs"... I hear the Soylet Corporation backs that idea, too.

My above answer was not meant to sound crass, simply realistic. I have no issues paying for a ticket, nor feel like I should get a free one.

I debated going the "not publicized" route, but I think its worth mentioning since people don't know until they try it. Besides, you can only see the responses if you're a member of the forums. I also don't want someone having a bad experience if they aren't expecting it. Personally, I've not attempted it for many years but every now and then I see others try it. I no longer try it because I haven't found the risk of confrontation worth it. I've witnessed a full range of conductor's reactions over the years both. By full range I mean anything from a happy "thank you for your service have a nice day!" to getting an angry "just WHO-do-you-think-you-are?!" 5 minute insulting lecture (I was the recipient of said lecture). The best answer to this is "results are entirely random". I should point out the same goes for armed forces members. I've seen a full gambit of results from the very pleasant to not so pleasant. For example I once saw a conductor demand a ticket to Kisco from a soldier who clearly just stepped off a plane on his way back from Iraq. In summary, tjd1012 had the best answer.

PFDRes47cue, people (not) thinking is an increasing issue. Consequences for actions in general (not just fire related) is something fewer people have any time for. Friday on my 14 mile commute home from work I witnessed an accident due to texting-and-driving, someone acciddently flick their cigarette into another person's car while stopped at a light, a pedestrian step in front of a biker (on the sidewalk, brilliant), and a car in front of me floored the gas when the RR lights started flashing. Before I run the risk of going on a tangent, I'll jump back on topic - One thing that I think should at least slightly reduce brush fire risk is the new smoking ban on outdoor MTA property (effective 02/15). Although its rare to have a track fire in our town, it is not totally unheard of. Eliminating the risk of someone flicking a cigarette into the dry weeds beside the tracks will do some good at least. I cannot tell you the last time I saw a Smokey The Bear ad. What is a good method of broadly and easily making sure people pay more attention? Does your town do anything specific?

It appears to be the same exact rock wall as where they filmed the chase scene in Die Hard 3. That is one tightly confined piece of road. Item #3 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112864/trivia

Thanks again to anyone on Eng 91 at the fire BTW. Shortly after opening up my line (BC corner), my mask split apart. They quickly offered me their spare. Grumpyff - Agreed, P'ville does have a very good water supply system there. It definitely made things easier. Note that for all three TLs to operate, two of the three could only operate 1 nozzle to maintain enough pressure - so I was told after the fact. Pics 11 & 12 on the lohud site depicts this (Not complaining, just noting). PFDRes47cue & ac316scu - The B side (near A-corner) of D.A.B. is directly adjacent to Mavis' C/D corner for roughly 10-15 feet of Mavis' D side. If that makes sense...? I cannot say for certain, but it appeared the (d-side) roof was already partly collapsed before the 1st hand line was opened up. The hand lines were open prior to the towers being up and flowing. After a short while the hand lines were ordered to clear out while 2 of the TLs deluged the the melted tractor trailer, the store room just beyond the c-side, and a portion of the roof. Due to angle issues, the TLs could not quite reach everything so the hand lines mopped up. I have a head/helmet cam, but sadly the batteries were dead. Maybe next time.

When I began reading this story, I thought weelllll, the city might have made a simple mistake like when a cashier gives you too much change?. No, no way. Then I read "...the pension fund discovered that for 13 years it had overpaid pension benefits...". It took them 13 YEARS to catch this? Then shame on them! All sort of incompetency and auditing arguments come to mind (to which we don't know the back story). These aside... 13 years is a pathetically long time. If I were one of these retirees, I'd be angry too.

I know some people think EMS bikes are a strange thing to buy. However they can be quite useful in woods/rural situations and are not useless to have if/when you need them. One example - Someone should take these and do BIKE NY each year. People fall and get injured during the event every year. A few years back a guy even went into cardiac arrest on the Queensboro Br. Imagine how great it would be to have EMT's cycling through the event just in case things like this happen again... Articles: http://articles.nydailynews.com/2008-05-05/local/17897486_1_fdny-james-hamilton-emergency-medical-service-technicians http://www.mountsinai.org/patient-care/service-areas/heart/patient-stories/cyclist-overcomes-cardiac-arrest-thanks-to-good-samaritans-and-mount-sinai-heart passerby's video: (note: this is not my video. Skip to 2:37 mark to see good Samaritans giving CPR to Jim)