kurt

Milan (Dutchess) 256 Fire and EMS

In regards to fit 5 it all depends on the situation at hand. 2 years ago just after my dept put them in service we had a house fire with flames showing from 2 windows on arrival. Found 2 car in driveway with a pocketbook in one car and thought there might be someone inside with limited manpower on scene. It worked very well knocked fire down enough to get people inside for search and get hoses in place. It didn't put fire out but gave us sometime. The homeowners insurance company reimbursed us for the fit 5.

Hyde park at 6pm

Pine plains fire dept sept 11 at 4pm about an hour long service people that would like to attend they ask to be at there firehouse around 3 sothey can line people up. There will be a short march from there firehouse to seymour smith school

GOod times had a blast fireworks were great

Just heard there under another tornado warning

Arlington fire dept in dutchess county has hired new fire chief http://m.poughkeepsiejournal.com/news/article?a=2011103260328&f=982

Thought and prayers to the family and the brothers and sisters of ppd rip brother you will not be forgotten

Got to love facebook the officer name has been all over facebook tonight just a sad day for all those involved rip thought and prayers to the family

Wow what a fire load thanks for sharing

Nice shots and I feel for you guys having to deal with the cold temp we battled the something at 6am monday morn

Lol sorry

My department milan in dutchess county was faced with this this morn ata fire around 5:50am. Had are 48-12 when I got to the fire I was put into the water shuttle and my bleeder valves we frozen when I got there got most of them to close when I arrived being they were open dropped my fist load of water by 3 inch hose hooked to supply truck are brush truck we use for draft froze before it even got water flowing I did 2 loads of water and my valves were frozen was down to just 1 rear discharge that finally froze after my last load we had to use flares to get caps off trucks when I got back to station all my discharges were frozen shut took 3 hours to get everything thawed out hose that was used for fighting fire were frozen just a horrible day but building still standing lol called in multiple dept with man power to change people out

Not sure what brand aed you have but the one I have we thought we could leave them out and found when they get cold they start to beep at you and then you have to pull batterie out and put them back in and go threw self test I have the philips heart starter frx

In dutchess county we use priority dispatch for ems 1 being worst 4 being non emergency no lights so if we are non emergency and someone gets on scene and says step response upgrades to lights and sirens on fire side its code 3 lights and sirens and code one no lights all fire calls are code 3 unless someone gets on scene and tells us other wise so if were code 3 or priority 1 2 or 3 then were coming with all we got so telling us to hurry up doesn't do anything but put more stress on someone who is already stressed anyway