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Haverstraw's 1937 Peter Pirsch 75' TDA [4-75] Privately Owned Haverstraw's 1969 Peter Pirsch 100' TDA Delivery Photo [4-99] Notice The Truck Was Delivered With A Roof - Photo Courtesy Chris/res6cue Haverstraw's 1969 Peter Pirsch 100' TDA [4-99] Still In Service Nyack's 2000 Seagrave 100' TDA [10-98] Nyack's 1999 Pierce Quantum 100' TDA [10-99] Suffern's 1973 Seagrave 100' TDA [19-99] Photo Courtesy Suffern Fire Department

Nice looking truck. Looks a lot like Valley Cottage's 22-99 !

Photos of the old Tower Ladder 105 & some of Hazle Twsp, PA's other apparatus can be viewed on my website. I visited their firehouse a few years ago after the Allentown Flea Market. http://www.brianduddy.com/g/pennsylvania

The Trustees of the Rockland County Volunteer Fire Services Museum are proud to announce our 8th annual EXPO will be held on Saturday April 25th, 2009 from 10AM-4PM at the Rockland County Fire Training Center, located on Fireman's Memorial Drive in Pomona, NY. Last years EXPO was a great success and we are expecting 2009 to be even better. We are looking for vendors and antique apparatus to attend. There will be live demonstrations by several Rockland County Departments and specialty units like the Technical Rescue Team & Hazmat Team. Any questions, feel free to contact me: RocklandFires@aol.com or call my cell phone (914) 588-0084 Brian Duddy/Museum Curator/Co-Chairman RCVFSM EXPO 2009 Photos from past years: http://www.brianduddy.com/g/expo2008 http://www.brianduddy.com/g/expo2007

Thanks ! Looking forward to next years Expo already !

Over 300 photos from the entire day ! http://www.brianduddy.com/g/expo2009

http://www.brianduddy.com/g/h040909 Command Post Command Board Command reviewing photos taken from Chopper-1 http://www.brianduddy.com/g/h040909

This is the fire that brought the Senator to Rockland http://www.brianduddy.com/g/h040909 Coming down Route 202 View from the command post 2 shots from down the road after I left http://www.brianduddy.com/g/h040909

Hope to see some of you tomorrow. Stop over and say hello ! I'll be the only museum trustee wearing a blue polo and have a camera on my shoulder all day !

I swear by Nikon. Just don't like the way Canon's are made. I use the Nikon D80. highly recommend it. Deciding on buying a D90 myself, or possibly a D300. The 18-200mm lens is really nice and also suggest getting that. The more you take lenses off your camera, the more dust you get on the CCD. The 18-200mm enables you to keep 1 lens on the camera a good majority of the time [except for low light photography].

Even the RPS Supervisor's are getting the new graphics. Spotted Supervisor 518 yesterday at Medic 5's Station in West Nyack.

Just a reminder about the Expo this Saturday. Weather should be about 73 degrees and sunny. Don't have a list of all the rigs that will be there but we should have a really good attendance. The Technical Rescue Team will be doing a demo at 11am, Explorers Post # 44 will be doing a live burn at 12 noon, Hazmat Team doing a demo at 1pm & Hillcrest FD doing an extrication demo at 2pm.

Article in today's Journal News about the Suffern PD's new LPR: http://www.lohud.com/article/2009904170352

Photos of my departments traffic car with the LPR mounted on the rear.

Thanks for posting the flyer Tim. As long as the weather holds out for us, the expo is shaping up to be a great event. Come take a tour of our 2 level fire museum. Watch live demonstrations by Rockland Fire Departments & Specialty Teams. Check out several antique apparatus as well as Rocklands newest deliveries. The Rockland County Sheriff's Department Arson Unit & Bomb Squad will also be on hand. You won't want to miss this event !

My Department has at least 1 unit mounted on the trunk of 1 of our unmarked traffic cars. It sure came in handy just over a week ago. The Spring Valley PD had a domestic dispute/assault that took place in their jurisdiction. The male perp took his son and fled in his car, which the PD had the plate for. The male called the childs mother on the cell phone and threatened to jump off a bridge. The Spring Valley PD was tracking the perps cell phone and was giving units his possible location area over the radio. Our traffic Officer on the road manually entered the plate into his LPR and headed toward the area that the perp may have been in along our border. As he was heading down Middletown Road in Nanuet he got a hit on the vehicle and made a quick u-turn. He was positive the vehicle turned onto Smith Road and searched the entire length of road and side streets until he found him in the parking lot of a nursing home. When the perp spotted our unmarked police car he took off. Unfortunately a pursuit started and the perp crashed into 3 of our police cars before pulling into the parking lot of the Spring Valley Police Station to turn himself in. The child in the car was unharmed. If it weren't for the LPR, the vehicle may have not been located so quickly, if not at all.

A few photos from this evenings fire in Hillcrest at 59 South Mountain Road. Long winding road with no hydrants. Multi Million Dollar homes all over the place up long driveways well off the roadway. Water shuttled from South Mountain Road & Little Tor Road to the scene. Mutual Aid from New City, Thiells, Spring Valley [F.A.S.T.] & Stony Point to the scene. Additional photos on my website: http://www.brianduddy.com/g/h031309 A/D side A side B side C side http://www.brianduddy.com/g/h031309

It would be nice if they stated what would be going on at their Expo. Especially because it is a 2 day event.

I am planning on going Friday for sure, hope to go Saturday as well !

750 tank, No Foam, 15KW Harrison, 2 pre-connected HRT reels, 6 pre-connected lines, light tower. Additional photos on my website: http://www.brianduddy.com/g/nanuet http://www.brianduddy.com/g/nanuet

Your right Chris, I don't know what the circumstances were surrounding the accident, I was just pointing it out because it was very ironic. In case people don't know the area, the drivers in Medic 25's area are horrible ! Not that they are much better countywide, but far worse in Monsey/Spring Valley. Not sure what kind of damaged it sustained, but it wasn't serious, that much I know.

For those that are members of RocklandFires.com, you can click on this link to see photos of the new Medic 25 truck they are talking about in the article. The photos do not belong to me or I would link them here direct. Just an F.Y.I., the new truck already has had an accident ! http://www.rocklandfires.com/forums/index.php?topic=12691.0

It has certainly been a while since I buffed a job in Westchester, but thanks to meeting Tim at his firehouse this afternoon, I was able to take this job in. Woman was lucky she wasn't killed. Additional photos can be viewed on my website: http://www.brianduddy.com/g/croton022709 http://www.brianduddy.com/g/croton022709

Half of the 26 Rockland County Departments & Mahwah and Ramsey, NJ were eventually called out to this fire last night in Suffern at 15 Washington Circle. The call came in at 2003 hours and was declared a working fire about a minute later as this building is a half a block down the street from the firehouse. It was a bitter cold night and the fire was fed by a ton of fuel with numerous explosions. The fire was fought all through the night and into the early morning hours. Suffern signed off just after 7AM after the building was demolished. Another 250+ photos can be viewed on my website. http://www.brianduddy.com/g/s020509 http://www.brianduddy.com/g/s020509

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