JohnnyOV

Yorktown will be hosting its 1st annual street fair along with the fire department's open house on October 10th. The center of town will be open for pedestrian traffic and vendors and merchants will be lining the streets. From YHFD's station 1, down Commerce St to Veterans Rd, and Veterans Rd east word will be shut down for the festivities and the rear of the firehouse will also be in use. Music, food, car shows and other events will be taking place all day. http://www.yorktownfestival.com/ for a list of events

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I've been thinking about the way most, if not all departments are dispatched to a possible structure fire by 60-control. This is a 2 part question/discussion based on FAST and Tanker dispatch on the intial dispatch. When a department is dispatched to a possible fire, its only that single department, with no FAST/RIT team, or Tanker operation if required immediately dispatched along with them. No standing order from any single agency as far as I know of (or even the county if they have that jurisdiction), has a SOG that sets aside a group of their interior firefighters for a FASTeam prior to the arrival of a neighboring departments team. And lets be honest here, even if your department does an SOG that states which FF and when that FF will be assigned to a FASTeam, when was the last time you can say that SOG was followed? Why place FF safety at risk for an extra 5-10 minutes for the confirmation of a structure fire by the first arriving unit? Tankers it is the same way, why wait until the arrival of a unit on scene to determine that we need an additional task force of tankers? If you cannot put a stop to the fire, or put a serious hold on it with the intial tank that your have as well as your own tanker, then lose your water source waiting for more water to arrive, you might as well call it a failed save. To me, it makes the most sense to have on the initial dispatch of a possible fire, or any situation where a FASTeam would be utilized as well as tankers, to dispatch the home field department, with the closest fast team and tanker set up, rather then wait for everything to start arriving. What would it take to change the way the county dispatched departments fires to meet this idea, and could it even be done in our county? Simply put in a dispatch would be (and i'll use my dept as an example): "60-control to Yorktown Fire and Mohegan your FASTeam, 1200 Old Crompond Rd for a possible structure fire" Then you upgrade it to the already preplaned alarm assignments after the first arriving units give their size ups. FAST is already enroute, and FF safety is greatly increased. Remember, you can always turn them around if you dont need them.

To easily sum up your question, because everyone wants to be on the line, or searching fire floors in our county. (thats the buff answer) The longer more winded answer is that every department in our county has X# of engines, X# of ladders, normally 1 rescue and a plethora of other goodies. All of the volunteer departments have no live in crews, which staff an engine with 4 guys and a ladder with 4 guys 24/7/365. It is a crap shoot in our county if any rigs will even get out the door. That being said, special calling the FASTeam lets both the FAST department, as well as other departments know who will be doing what operations at the fire. Also each department normally has 1 rig set aside for FAST operations, and there is no set criteria what needs to be on a rig, to be the FAST rig. Bedford Hills's FAST truck, for example, is their tower ladder, while Yorktown's is a "rescue" Engine. When a department gets called as the FASTeam, 1 rig is going out, and it is that specific rig set aside for FAST operations. So for example I know that if Yorktown is going on a FAST call, I need to grab my gear, head to Station 2 and get on Engine 270. As for training, the county/state do offer formal FAST training, and I will not speak for other departments, but for Yorktown you need FF1, FF2, FF Survival and FAST operations. Once those are complete, you start training with our team in house.

lol over 500 miles in our district and I pick 1/10 of a mile that is not ours, forgive me oh wise "Beck55" anyways, for the other replies, when you refer to the structural assignment, are you referring to the initial dispatch, or the "10-75" assignment?

I put it like this. Studies have shown, like previously stated, that blue lights are better for visibility in the rear. As a chief, I would want what is best / safest for my responders, even if it goes against what the law says. The law will hopefully one day catch up to what should have been done along time ago, but until then, im going to take whats scientifically proven to work safer, over what a god knows how old law says. p.s. this is as pointless at discussing the law in Utah that states "No one may have sex in the back of an ambulance if it is responding to an emergency call."

http://www.lohud.com/article/20090909/NEWS...attling%20blaze edit: http://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk...-fire-1.1432300

Amazing shots. I just wish we had someone who takes as good as shots as Bill does down here in westchester.

Might be far fetched, but i know my brothers new car uses the "Sync" technology that uses bluetooth to his phone and when he receives a text message, it reads it off to him through the cars speakers, then he can talk back to the car, and the car will write out his text message back to the phone. It might be possible to incorporate this technology into MDT for officers use, but who knows.

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Are those arrow sticks on the side of the truck? If so, why?

Everyone had a blast at this parade, and the community loved it. We all hope to see everyone on saturday, tomorrow, to celebrate with us during our annual firemans parade with the normal festivities ending with a huge 22 minute fireworks display. its going to be an incredible time, and again, we hope to see everyone there!

did a little search and came up with this http://www.watercrest-ind.com/ is that what you're talking about?

The answer is simple...A paid county EMS service, and remove ALL the local volly corps that continuously drop calls. Have one system in the county that addresses EMS and have them respond to all 911 calls, non emergency transports and other calls that ambulances run. It works perfectly in other counties in the country, why couldn't it work here?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30435336/

hahah priceless I saw the title and immediately thought it was this video

will never happen

http://lohud.com/article/20090419/NEWS02/904190412

Browsing www.vententersearch.com, there is a new article out today about "canceling" the engine because the truck can handle. http://www.vententersearch.com/?p=473 Apparently FDNY TL79 carries one length of 2 1/2 with a 2 1/2 hydrant gate and a 2 1/2 shut off and stacked tip arrangement. There is additional 2 1/2 and 1 3/4 on the rig for long stretches. Does any ladder co. around our area, without being a quint or one that has a pump on it, carry any length of hose on its truck? Like it was stated in the article, I know I would personally hate to get caught with my pants down returning from a run and spotting a car fire or something like that, and sitting there twiddling my thumbs, trying to explain to the owner that "oh, this truck doesnt carry water."

I agree with that somewhat, but if I don't have the protection of a hose line, I'm not going to approach the car, there is just no point in me getting injured from tires/bumpers/ect blowing up on me. But its just the public perception that we are just standing around doing nothing because "We are supposed to put water on the fire," that would suck. I know if I was Joe Public and had no idea about about ladders/engines, I would be furious if the firemen were just "standing around" letting my car burn.

When I was in Long Island the other week, I saw a nassau county ESU truck operating at a rollover and providing extrication. I found more info on their website today - their ESU is actually called BSO - Bureau of Special Operations - http://www.police.co.nassau.ny.us/bso.htm pictures of NCPD - BSO in action - http://billbennettphoto.com/NASSAUPOLICE.aspx

god I hope this is an april fools prank

This is partially true. I am in an ARFF class right now, and the only time requirement of the department is that when the airport manager calls upon the drill of ARFF, that they must be at the mid-point of the furthest runway in 3 min, not during the time of an actual emergency. This point was drilled into our heads. So theoretically, if during a true emergency, the trucks take 4:30 to get to the scene, there is no repercussions for the department. This time only has to be demonstrated under ideal, non-emergency, clear weather, conditions.

All of our new apparatus will be red, following the MA-8 , E270, and L51 scheme. As for the make and model, I'm not on the committee, so I do not know. edit: http://public.fotki.com/lfd171/westchester...iniattack8.html http://public.fotki.com/lfd171/westchester.../engine270.html http://public.fotki.com/lfd171/westchester.../ladder_51.html

i stand corrected