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^^^I believe that Port Chester FD is a village municipal fire department and not a fire district. Thus there are no fire commissioners, only the village board of trustees. We have the same setup in Croton-on-Hudson, just on a smaller scale with no career FFs yet. 
It's a system that has pros and cons over a fire district. There's generally more local accountability and oversight of a municipal department than a district. However, it means that less knowledgeable politicians are making the budget priorities. Back in the day, the volunteer membership was a huge voting bloc, so the FD was taken care of. Recently, not so much.

Croton FD does not have any antique apparatus. Croton is a municipal department, not a fire district, so all funding,  equipment and firehouses are through the village government, run by the board of trustees. Apparatus are managed by the DPW fleet mechanics. FD just makes sure that they're ready for calls, DPW handles actual maintenance. The village fought the addition of U14 to the fleet and keeps pushing back the replacement of R18 and E118, both over 23 years old. There's no money for an antique apparatus, no where to put it and there are higher priorities. I'd love to get the '63 Mack R18 back as an antique or the '84 Mack CF E119. Unfortunately, it isn't feasible at this time. 

Croton FD does not have any antique apparatus. Croton is a municipal department, not a fire district, so all funding,  equipment and firehouses are through the village government, run by the board of trustees. Apparatus are managed by the DPW fleet mechanics. FD just makes sure that they're ready for calls, DPW handles actual maintenance. The village fought the addition of U14 to the fleet and keeps pushing back the replacement of R18 and E118, both over 23 years old. There's no money for an antique apparatus, no where to put it and there are higher priorities. I'd love to get the '63 Mack R18 back as an antique or the '84 Mack CF E119. Unfortunately, it isn't feasible at this time. 

^^^I believe that Port Chester FD is a village municipal fire department and not a fire district. Thus there are no fire commissioners, only the village board of trustees. We have the same setup in Croton-on-Hudson, just on a smaller scale with no career FFs yet. 
It's a system that has pros and cons over a fire district. There's generally more local accountability and oversight of a municipal department than a district. However, it means that less knowledgeable politicians are making the budget priorities. Back in the day, the volunteer membership was a huge voting bloc, so the FD was taken care of. Recently, not so much.

Croton FD does not have any antique apparatus. Croton is a municipal department, not a fire district, so all funding,  equipment and firehouses are through the village government, run by the board of trustees. Apparatus are managed by the DPW fleet mechanics. FD just makes sure that they're ready for calls, DPW handles actual maintenance. The village fought the addition of U14 to the fleet and keeps pushing back the replacement of R18 and E118, both over 23 years old. There's no money for an antique apparatus, no where to put it and there are higher priorities. I'd love to get the '63 Mack R18 back as an antique or the '84 Mack CF E119. Unfortunately, it isn't feasible at this time. 

Croton FD does not have any antique apparatus. Croton is a municipal department, not a fire district, so all funding,  equipment and firehouses are through the village government, run by the board of trustees. Apparatus are managed by the DPW fleet mechanics. FD just makes sure that they're ready for calls, DPW handles actual maintenance. The village fought the addition of U14 to the fleet and keeps pushing back the replacement of R18 and E118, both over 23 years old. There's no money for an antique apparatus, no where to put it and there are higher priorities. I'd love to get the '63 Mack R18 back as an antique or the '84 Mack CF E119. Unfortunately, it isn't feasible at this time. 

PS My aunt is doing much better, she's awake and alert. Her color has returned and most of her vitals are good. She's still on a ventilator in the Trauma ICU, but she's definitely doing a lot better than she was yesterday.

PS My aunt is doing much better, she's awake and alert. Her color has returned and most of her vitals are good. She's still on a ventilator in the Trauma ICU, but she's definitely doing a lot better than she was yesterday.

PS My aunt is doing much better, she's awake and alert. Her color has returned and most of her vitals are good. She's still on a ventilator in the Trauma ICU, but she's definitely doing a lot better than she was yesterday.

Everyone, thank you for your efforts, it is very much appreciated.
I found out that the responding police agency was Yorktown PD.
Again, thank you so much for your help.
--Josh Karpoff

PS My aunt is doing much better, she's awake and alert. Her color has returned and most of her vitals are good. She's still on a ventilator in the Trauma ICU, but she's definitely doing a lot better than she was yesterday.

PS My aunt is doing much better, she's awake and alert. Her color has returned and most of her vitals are good. She's still on a ventilator in the Trauma ICU, but she's definitely doing a lot better than she was yesterday.

PS My aunt is doing much better, she's awake and alert. Her color has returned and most of her vitals are good. She's still on a ventilator in the Trauma ICU, but she's definitely doing a lot better than she was yesterday.

PS My aunt is doing much better, she's awake and alert. Her color has returned and most of her vitals are good. She's still on a ventilator in the Trauma ICU, but she's definitely doing a lot better than she was yesterday.

PS My aunt is doing much better, she's awake and alert. Her color has returned and most of her vitals are good. She's still on a ventilator in the Trauma ICU, but she's definitely doing a lot better than she was yesterday.

PS My aunt is doing much better, she's awake and alert. Her color has returned and most of her vitals are good. She's still on a ventilator in the Trauma ICU, but she's definitely doing a lot better than she was yesterday.

PS My aunt is doing much better, she's awake and alert. Her color has returned and most of her vitals are good. She's still on a ventilator in the Trauma ICU, but she's definitely doing a lot better than she was yesterday.

PS My aunt is doing much better, she's awake and alert. Her color has returned and most of her vitals are good. She's still on a ventilator in the Trauma ICU, but she's definitely doing a lot better than she was yesterday.

PS My aunt is doing much better, she's awake and alert. Her color has returned and most of her vitals are good. She's still on a ventilator in the Trauma ICU, but she's definitely doing a lot better than she was yesterday.

PS My aunt is doing much better, she's awake and alert. Her color has returned and most of her vitals are good. She's still on a ventilator in the Trauma ICU, but she's definitely doing a lot better than she was yesterday.

PS My aunt is doing much better, she's awake and alert. Her color has returned and most of her vitals are good. She's still on a ventilator in the Trauma ICU, but she's definitely doing a lot better than she was yesterday.

PS My aunt is doing much better, she's awake and alert. Her color has returned and most of her vitals are good. She's still on a ventilator in the Trauma ICU, but she's definitely doing a lot better than she was yesterday.

PS My aunt is doing much better, she's awake and alert. Her color has returned and most of her vitals are good. She's still on a ventilator in the Trauma ICU, but she's definitely doing a lot better than she was yesterday.

PS My aunt is doing much better, she's awake and alert. Her color has returned and most of her vitals are good. She's still on a ventilator in the Trauma ICU, but she's definitely doing a lot better than she was yesterday.

I was R18-3 on this call.
We used EVERY airbag and EVERY piece of cribbing on our rig.
We had pretty much everything from the airbag compartment under that locomotive.
Metro-North's yard employees used a forklift to bring us an additional pallet load of scrap railroad ties to use as cribbing, which is what really helped us get the needed height for the lift.
I can't remember what size each of the airbags is off-hand, but there are 6 of them on the rig.
Five are various sized squares, while one is a long rectangle.
In the photo on YHFD's page, you can see that the pilot (aka "The Cow Catcher") on the locomotive had to be bent upwards to make the extrication.
The patient had been run over by the pilot and was pinned in the section under those steps, right in front of those wheels.
He had been dragged under the locomotive for a little while before the engineer realized he was under there (when running in that direction, the engineer is on the other side of the locomotive and can't see that side at all).