JohnnyOV

Pretty sure no girl is going to get excited over 3 inches, especially a cold 3 inches

I think this is one of the most interesting, and IMO controversial, apps put out there. It is absolutely amazing that technology has come so far to be able to notify citizens of cardiac arrests occurring around them. This app is going to save lives, however I feel it brings on an undue risk to the departments and citizens who are now being "dispatched." What happens when a citizen is involved in a wreck because they were speeding down the street in their personal car to someone in cardiac arrest? I just see this as a liability to the department, when a citizen turns around and says, "Well you dispatched me to the incident, I was involved in an accident, you're now responsible for my coverage." edit: and there is a PSA to go with it... http://vimeo.com/19139695

That too, but I re-read the article and it stated it would only be alerting citizens to cardiac arrests in public places. So i can see how they can argue against the Hippa law, especially if the citizen isn't even asking for a name

Awesome set up! It amazes me though, that some parts of our country are cutting staffing by 1/3s, yet this one city has enough excess money to build another "mini city" inside of its own. Kudos to the person in charge of money for Frisco.

I tried to decipher what you wrote... if I'm far off, let me know Either way, the grammar police just issued you a major fine

Last night, guys from the local FD and FD's around the county/city, went out to Finnegans Bar and Grill in Yorktown to play a game of Trivia. For those who don't know, the restaurant patrons form teams and answer questions that the bar tender has come up with for a chance to win a some prizes. Last night, a question in the "Daily news" category was "What was the number of Police that NYC will deploy to the Freedom tower when it is finally constructed? A) 250 500 or c)700" As soon as the question was asked, the bar tender, under his breath, but loud enough for us to hear stated "Either way, its going to make a pretty big airport." That got our attention, but rather then making a scene, we let it slide. As soon as the answers were given out about 10 minutes later for that round, the bar tender over the mic states "The correct answer is C)700. Can't wait for our taxes to go up over this and not one of those cops will be stopping a plane.' At that note, we closed our tabs, some guys gave the bartender a little piece of our mind and we all left. This afternoon, one the guys went back to talk to the manager, and she basically blew him off, and was completely rude about the whole situation, siding with her bartender. Take what you want from it, but I just felt the need to share this disturbing news with guys who may have been there for 9/11 and might frequent this place... I know they have lost my buisness for good.

It might be the wording of your post but I'm confused as to why they are not turning out for minor alarms such as smoke detector activations or CO calls. Is it written in their contracts that they will only respond to actual fires and major car accidents?

Haha, no problem Chief, I'll try and pass it forward.

Cogs, looking at it from a realistic approach, why do you think the live in programs and staffing programs work in MD? To me they work because of a few reasons. PG county and its surrounding areas get a s#it ton of fire, and thousands of calls a year, for each individual company. They have a progressive, aggressive, county operated department, that works to hold everyone, including the vollys accountable for every action they make. They are the epitome of a fantastic combo system that works hand in hand to create awesome coverage for its citizens, while keeping costs down. Some companies down there are running fires every day or 3 making them some of the busiest companies in the nation. The experience gained their alone is second to none for operating on a scene. This is not a knock on any volunteer company in Stamford, but just a opinion based off facts, but expecting volunteers to sit around on a weekday in Stamford, expecting maybe a call or 2, if that, would get old really quick; especially if they have jobs or other traditional work schedules. How can you expect someone to give up their livelihood to ride on volunteer shifts instead of hiring someone who could be there 24/7 and get paid to do so? Aren't we all supposed to be our brother keepers and watch out for one another? If there is a lack of manpower, on both sides, and our brothers lives are being put in danger, shouldn't we be a bigger person, step back and say "This is too much for us to handle?" If everyone can come to an agreement that would work, and if the volunteers really would staff their rigs during the day with expectations of not having a single run and do it consistently on a daily basis for years, then kudos and all the more power to you. But in a time when the work to down time ratio is steeply declining, leaving less time for people to volunteer, is this the most appropriate long term investment? And for the record, I am not pro/anti paid/volly. I'm a realist, and just want everyone to be as safe as possible.

Good god, how presumptuous of me. I'll be sure to leave my haughty grammar for the new England tea party I'll be at this weekend

I'll combine a whole bunch of quoted posts into one, and just use yours to go off of... This wasn't us taking a personal attack via the bartender who had it out for cops and firemen who died that day. Yes, 343 firemen died that day, along with 23 NYPD officers, 37 PAPD officers 15 EMTs, and 3 court officers, It is not just about preserving their memory though, it is about the 79 passangers and 11 crew members on AA flight 11, 51 passangers and 9 crew members on UA flight 175, 53 passengers and 6 crew members on AA flight 77, the 33 passengers and 7 crew members on UA flight 93. Its about the 2185 lost in the towers and the 125 in the pentagon. I was not involved in emergency services when the attack happened, and regardless of whether or not I was now, I would have reacted the exact same. To me and the rest of the guys there, it wasn't about the cop comment, or the rag on taxes, or using the tower as an airport. It was an individual attempting to making fun of a tragedy that occurred in our country that took thousands of lives, ruined thousands more, and continues to ruin even more every day, especially the year of its 10th anniversary. All we wanted to do was stick up for the thousands of individuals who can no longer stick up for themselves, and we feel as if we've accomplished that. Should the "jokes" have ever happened, hey its their bar and they can say what they want, but now to know that the employees have be reprimanded for their actions by the owner, and they truly feel sorry for what was said, we feel like some good has come out of this.

Last night the owner officially apologized on behalf of his bar tenders and the manager who discussed the incident with one of the guys the next day. We were slated to go there and try and set a meeting up with him about this, but this thread made its way back to him before we had the opportunity, so he contacted us about it. Either way, the issue is resolved from a personal stand point.

They have the absolute worst scrub area of any manufacture out there, then when you go with the raised cab option, you're reducing your entire scrub area in the front by hundreds of square feet more. Their bucket makes rescue very difficult, unless you hit the side of the building dead on balls parallel to access the entry door (which I believe opens outwards anyways, but could be wrong). Unless they've changed the design of the bucket to have an angled bucket (not just bucket walls, but frame as well) and access doors that open inwards on angled corners, Sutphen and any other "box" bucket are not the greatest design. Their water ways do not allow the bucket to drop down to the height of the roof, rather, you must drop a ladder down and then climb up. Roof's collapsing under you, you and your partner are now running back to the aerial to get off, but WHOOPS, only room for one guy at a time to FIRST climb UP then off the roof from. Sorry partner, thank the spec'ing committee. Also you cannot put the bucket to the ground without extending almost 60 feet. How does that do any good at a strip mall fire, or other fire where you have limited access, and need to place a master stream from the bucket, up and into the ceiling of the store when you only have 40-50 feet to work with? Sure you can put a lot of weight at the tip, but what good does that do if operationally you can't do much with it?

Found a great article on storage of EMS - ground transport meds, and temperatures associated with storing them without the use of a controlled environment. http://www.emsworld....&siteSection=18 Depends on whether its 1:1,000 or 1:10,000 epi.

His sick joke was referring to the planes crashing into the Towers... not the policing agency Definitely not looking to go that route... I'm more interested in getting an apology from the owner and the bartender to all the people there last night (many of whom stood by us, and were in complete agreement with us) and keeping this peaceful. It would have been nice to get an apology today and that would ended all of this.

Our engines and rescue carry them, O2 (refilled by the VAC) and BLS gear that used to be refilled by the VAC. They are mostly for our members if they become stricken on the fire ground, although it gets used time to time on patients. Even though our department runs zero ems calls, a good number of our firefighters are EMTs and there are a couple paramedics in our ranks as well due to the VAC being unreliable with getting out in a timely fashion. Even at basic car accidents, having members trained in the use of backboards, c-spine, patient management, triage ect. is a whole sh*t load of help. 9 times out of 10, when we actually do get dispatched to an MVA, the FD arrives almost simultaneously with the medics and assists with providing patient care and packaging the patient well before the jolly bus arrives, and then its just a load and go situation.

http://uvaldetx.com/content/safety http://maps.google.c...234.27,,0,-0.03 4 blocks away from the fire, so deductive reasoning lets me assume that this is the correct department. ______ Being that there are full time employees with this department, as well as this article ( http://www.uvaldelea...1cc4c002e0.html ) listing them at the local country club for an awards banquet, I highly doubt that funding was an issue for a lack of turnout gear. In fact, there are pictures of turnout gear in the gear bags on the front lawn of the building. It is unfortunate that this is occurring at this day in age in the fire service in America. I feel that someone needs to sit this chief down and just straight out ask him in a non threatening manor, 'What the hell is going on?" I'm sure that the negative press that this video is getting among the country's departments, will well alone be enough to make the department face it's embarrassment without need for outside questioning of their tactics. Who knows, maybe this video will be the best thing that happens to this department, their chief and officers get on everyone's rear end, and completely turn the department around 180 degrees. Unfortunately, sometimes you need something like this negative event to get people's rear in gear. All I can say is that I wish Uvalde Fire Department the best of luck of trying to fix their problems, and that there is a wide world of knowledge out there for them to ask for help if they so choose. There is no shame in asking for assistance when you really need it most.

When it first surfaced yesterday, that is where the original reports were saying it was from

Its like watching monkeys use tools for the first time

The systems work off both a heat activated, fusable link, or a newer, pressure sensitive hose line, that upon melting, the system recognizes the change in pressure causeing the agent to release. NFPA requires both a pull station, as well as heat activated, activation points. If the system isn't cleaned, tested and inspected on a regular basis, a buildup of grease and dust can coat the links/line, causing the system to not activate, or activate at a much later point in the event of a fire.

http://www.app.com/a...-style-killing-

Did a little google investigating, and that's exactly what it looks like for a geo-thermal energy line.

http://emergencyservices.westchestergov.com/images/stories/pdfs/bulletins/communications.pdf/app2010.pdf page 5 - 34 tower ladders in operation. Mount Vernon has 2 and Yonkers has 2, and 2 as spare reserves.

I agree with you that vertical ventilation should never be held up for any reason, that too is an essential lesson taught in truck company classes. It was a grammatical / writing mistake and I didn't proof read my post before I replied and did not realize my mistake until this morning. Again, my apologies, and I'll hold off on posting next time until I have more time to re-read my post. I've edited my post in question as of this point

I completely agree... it was just a reminder for those who like to go and break every window in the building "because they can"