JohnnyOV

I'm willing to pay per month, but the poll is making me choose a "no I don't want to pay anything choice" before i submit my answers

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I havent had a single one pop up, get firefox

Looks close enough to the building and high enough to drop either a roof ladder or an 18' extension ladder directly into the bucket, then have him climb out on his own.

I actually live with a roommate who feels the same way. And I can see his point to a certain extent, but not all the way. He feels that firefighters and police officers who die in the line of duty were doing their job, and something bad happened. "They are just doing their job; its like a garbage man falling off the back of his truck and diying." He won't call the men of 9-11 heros because again "Their job is to go up an get people out. Would you call a computer wiz who invents the next incredible idea, or someone who has a received the Nobel Peace Prize a hero? No, because again, they are just doing their jobs. A hero is a Joe Blow, who's walking down the street, sees a house fire with people trapped, gets someone to call 911, then runs in himself and pulls out a person." What we see as idiotic, the public sees the opposite. I wouldn't call what Ken is saying as ignorant or disgusting, just an uninformed opinion. Sure we all get pissed when people blame us for "wrongdoings" and things, but we still go out there and preform the service. Volunteer or Paid, Full time or Part time, its still a job that we do, and we should expect nothing in return for it except our weekly paycheck and personal pride because we know damn sure that for the most part, the public won't be giving any to us. btw, he and I are great friends, until this topic comes up. edit: spelling error

Like Izzy said, are we sure that the 2 and 1/2 wasnt for fire attack and not hydrant lay? If pulling the 2 and 1/2 was for the initial fire attack due to the size of the fire, praise to the officers and firefighters for pulling then since it is forgotten all too often.

EGO Time to stop this. I along with many members of my department have no problem turning into rehab to get a quick boost of O2, gatoraide and relax for a few minutes and re-energize, then return to relieve the guys in side and fight the fire. A quick recharge will greatly help with the on scene operations and recovery of the firefighters in the long run, and will aid in the suppression of the fire.

apparently, the "roosterloft" is a dirty word

I was in Savannah last night. Hell of a time, until the power went out, it started raining, and I got separated from my group for 3 hours.

FULL STORY: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...8030703484.html $40 fine if you get caught speeding on camera...unless your a police officer. The fine goes the owner of the vehicle not the individual so the state of Maryland gets the bill if a police officer is caught spending.

Due Regard...impressive little clause if you ask me

beat me to it....so now that one of our senators, who really did nothing for us in the first place, and a gov is now gone...whos running our state?

Yeah, i was particularly interested in the "Traveling more then 80mph on Randolph rd" comment. Who knows what the speed limit is there, but 80 mph seems a little excessive...

http://www.yorktownfire.org/ is our main website or the direct link is here - http://www.yorktownfire.org/content/front/...007%20rough.wmv Special Thanks go out to all our photographers including, John Munson, The Journal News, and the one and only JT Camp Video is about 7 min long, so sit back and enjoy.

I dont feel like paying your gas money for you to drive to California...sorry

It is for Yorktown Heights

I wont bring up the brooklyn call, but I will bring up the call in yorktown, where the guy crashed a rented dealers lambo into a few yards / fences / wall. He was walking around and fine on scene and refuse transport / medical care. The next time i spoke to the medics, he had called 911 complaining of severe neck pain. They took him to the hospital to find he had a c-spine fracture after completing x-rays.

Date:2/17/1008 Time: approx 2100 Location: Daytona International Speedway, in the rear at the Bus Loop Departments: Daytona International Speedway EMS / Fire and EVAC ambulance Units: Fire: F3 (backstretch fire supervisor), gator 4, gator 5, gator 2, gator 1, water truck 2, water truck 3, super stretch pumper EMS: Medic 5 (backstretch EMS operations supervisor), Ambulance 15, Ambulance 11, Ambulance 10, Ambulance 5, Ambulance 4, Kart 5 (ALS), Kart 4 (BLS), Allison Tower 3 (walking unit), EVAC ambulance 56, EVAC ambulance 96, EVAC ambulance 48 Description: Following the finish of the Daytona 500, approximately 200,000 people made their way to the only bus terminal to take them to them to their camp sites. The size of the bus terminal area is about 2 and a half, if not smaller, football fields. At approximately 2100 hours the first seizure call came in. Gator 4 reported still alarm to a seizure at bus gate 3. While tending to the PT, and awaiting ambulance, dispatch was receiving multiple calls for multiple unresponsive / seizures / syncopal episodes. Gator 4 reported multiple still alarms back to dispatched stating that "we are overwhelmed, there are too many patients." All this took place within a matter of 1-2 min. F3 established command on the south side of the bus terminal and reported that all front stretch units that were not tied up with calls already were to report to the back stretch bus terminal for staging. F3 advised Tower 3 to report to the roof of the Allison tower to guide units to the patients locations. Medic 3 arrived on scene and established EMS command (Halifax hospital is located approx. 2 min away, so units were loading, going, dumping, and returning for service, plus we have an infield care center that is a mini-ER which can handle numerous patients) F3 advises all gators and karts to stage at the rear (north side) of the bus terminal and become walking crews to gain quick access to patients, and for ambulances to stage at in the front of the terminal for patient transport. About 30 min later, Karts 4/5 reporting that their radio batteries are failing due to constant use over the course of the day, gators are reporting the same as well. F3 advises Medic 5 of the situation, and supplies are in route, F3 advises karts and gators to report back to the CMD center and verbally receive instructions until supplies arrive. Allison Tower 3 reports that there are too many calls to properly guide units, Medic 5 advises them to report to CMD and turn kart 4 into ALS unit. 2330 hours, command is terminated, all EMS/ FIRE units back in regular service till released by Medic 1 / F1 Approximately 50-60 patients became ill in this 2 hour time span Writer: emsjunkie712 (kart 4 EMT)

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you can even see how much hose was laid down.....goes way north up nepperhan

Down here where EVAC (not a vac, just the name) runs, they are based off an ever changing computer model that predicts where the next call will be from about 20 years worth of calls. They buses are constantly changing posts in order to get a jump start on the next call. So, based on this system, houseing the ambulances in an FD is not feesable.

Yorktown FD has one http://www.yorktownfire.org/content/dive/

Yorktown FD had a bunch of members from their dive team take a swift water rescue course. I believe they are in the process of getting certified through the state to become a team. http://www.yorktownfire.org/content/dive/

Check your equipment for this...BE AWARE!