Boss159

It is sad when cops have to start worrying about hurting the feelings of gangbangers.
I hope these gangbangers were not to traumatized by what they heard and I hope they recover completely and are able to go back to their productive lives as valuable members of their community.

Is this chief kidding with this nonsense ? These are pice of s*** MS-13 gang members who were threatening to assault the officers, etc... they deserved a lot more than a few f*** you's. This is another example of political correctness gone awry. Chief Bratton said a few weeks ago that he firmly believes that the number of officer related deaths are up this year because cops are weary about people with cameras and are holding back during their encounters with the public and are therefore giving up the upper hand. In this case you have cops who did the right thing and refused to give up the upper hand and now they get called to the carpet for it. What a joke.
This is another example of a boss forgetting where he came from

Wish all involved a speedy recovery!
Now my two cents:
According to the news report in the video, they crashed in the driveway of the house they were going to for a deck fire, Although there was not a good angle of the trucks involved the one that you could see had some serious damage to the officers side of the cab. So my question is why the hell were they going fast enough to cause that much damage pulling into a driveway? No doubt 'tunnel vision' was in play in this incident, even if the one truck didn't see the house and was cruising past the other driver should have been aware that the truck was not turning into the driveway, This is easily preventable! Driver training, Requalification what have you, or just taking the second to think and look.
On a lighter note, this is why the Chief should drive nothing bigger than a Tahoe!!

Well, I was sent the announcement of assistant fire coordinator, Hopefully someone gets it that has a clue and gets some things done, good luck to whoever gets it cause they will be one busy S.O.B. LOL
BTW the announcement is here if anyone wants to apply https://www.co.dutchess.ny.us/CivilServiceInformationSystem/ApplicantWeb/Public/frmAnnouncementList.aspx deadline of 2/18

In northern Dutchess county it is rare that reporters even leave the office for incidents in the area, rather call the Firehouse 20,000 times while everyone is still on scene requesting information from the answering machine. I have had on a few occasions updated the local papers with incident detail only to read the article the next day and have it completely wrong, and very obvious that the reporter was not even listening or taking notes. So in my opinion it is a waste of time to give out any info, I will never again, if they want a story drive to the call or firehouse and interview in person. With that being said I do understand the power of the media, positive or negative.

Blah blah blah...........warning lights people......warning lights!
WHO CARES!
I ride around in a big red engine or truck. It has flashing lights and we use it on streets highways ect.....The only thing that is really going to make a difference for your safety is YOU! Use your head and pay attention. I've been standing on the highway and seen people work REALLY hard to squeeze their car between the flares we put up to close a portion of the road. I've had motorcycles weave right through the firemen on the scene.
Lights, stripes, ribbons, flares don't matter that much. The only thing that will keep you safe is using your head and some proper rig placement. The only thing that's going to keep you safe and stop drivers from coming near you while you work is to make them UNABLE to.

I am all for the shoutbox.

Chris,
We got hit pretty hard here and during the height of the storm there were very few plows on the road. We have two vehicles outfitted with plows that were busy responding to alarms so apparatus and ambulances could get to the incident locations.
From the onset of the storm to now we have recieved approx. 75-80 alarms. Also, we were extremely busy getting the elderly and invalids to shelter. We sustained heavy tree damage and most of the town was out of power and still is.
Our Town E.O.C. was open however it was basically a center for fire department operations and we did have communications with the PD.
We recieved a request from the Dutchess EOC for the snowmobile to transport water and blankets to stranded motorists and check the welfare of the occupants, also to transport them to a shelter. We responded within 15 minutes to the request along other neighboring departments.
There was no Unified Command to my knowledge with the exception of the communications between the fire departments. The Thruway Authority and NYS Police requested our assistance and were the authority over the incident. We did have contact with some units on scene but no command structure to my knowledge.
By the time we received the request the Thruway Authority had already started to redirect motorists through turn arounds to the eastbound side and off the highway. We were prepared to transport stranded motorists to a warming center at our HQ's until shelter was established. Most refused to leave their vehicles and the Troopers were not forcing the issue.
The storm severly taxed our resources and the resources of our area. We had members in stations from Thursday afternoon until Saturday evening when we sent as many as we could home and returned to stations Sunday morning.
Given the scope of the storm and the damage it caused I do believe we did as much as we possibly could and if there was a true medical emergency we would have made every attempt to get access to the patient. Just an example we had to remove one resident in a rowboat with a few guys acting as reindeer because nothing could get to where he was located. I am thankful for the dedication of our department members and their willingness to rise above the obstacles they face.
If you have further questions feel free to PM me
Scott Post