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Reminder - Sunday May 4th, 2008 from 10AM-4PM The Trustees of the Rockland County Volunteer Fire Services Museum are proud to announce that we will be having an EXPO for 2008. It will be held on Sunday May 4th, 2008 @ the Rockland County Fire Training Center located at 35 Firemans Memorial Drive in Pomona. It will be from 10AM-4PM and will feature front line & antique apparatus & demonstrations from several County Fire Departments & specialized units like the Hazmat Team & Technical Rescue Team, Take A Tour Of The Fire Museum, Vendors, Food & Fun for the whole family. Free Admission ! We are still looking for Fire Departments from outside Rockland to bring their antique or front line apparatus for display or demonstrations on that day. If you can definitely attend, please contact me directly. Vendor tables still available @ $20.00 each. I can be reached via e-mail: PhotoFires@aol.com Brian Duddy - Trustee - Rockland County Volunteer Fire Services Museum Some photos from last years Expo can be viewed on my website: http://www.brianduddy.com/g/expo2007 We are anticipating this years Expo to be even better then 2007 !

The Expo is from 10AM-4PM at the Rockland County Fire Training Center, 35 Firemans Memorial Drive. Take the Tappan Zee Bridge [NY State Thruway N/B] to Exit 13N [Palisades Interstate Parkway North]. Get off Exit 12. At end of exit make a left onto Conklin Road. At traffic light, make left onto Route 45, then 2nd traffic light make a right onto Pomona Road. Firemans Memorial Drive is your 1st right off Pomona Road.

Sorry for posting these almost 2 weeks late, been busy lately ! Anyway, these photos are from a well involved house fire in Hillcrest at 12 Doe Drive on April 15th. Mutual Aid was called from Tallman & Thiells to the scene. There were 7 residents home at the time of the fire and all escaped without injuries. More photos can be viewed on my website: http://www.BrianDuddy.com/g/H041508 http://www.BrianDuddy.com/g/H041508

Thanks, needless to say I got very wet during that photo ! Thank god for lens hoods !

More photos on my website: http://www.BrianDuddy.com/g/WN041408 http://www.BrianDuddy.com/g/WN041408

More photos on my website: http://www.BrianDuddy.com/g/WN041408 http://www.BrianDuddy.com/g/WN041408

The Journal News has not paid for "Stringer" photos for some time now. The expect us to give them our photos for free by uploading them to their website. I have asked all my buffs in Rockland who go to fire scenes as a courtesy NOT to submit photos to them in protest of this new B.S. policy. If I get up at 3 AM to go and shoot a fire and spend my hard earned money on gas and lose a few hours sleep, I shouldn't be compensated by a newspaper that makes $ ? Unreal ! The problem with some photographers is that they live to see their photos published so they will give their photos for free to anyone who will publish them. I could give two ***** about being published. Sure, it's nice, but you see the same Photographers photos in Firehouse type magazines all year, and they aren't the greatest photographers either.

Keith is a great photographer. He & his friend Tom produced a book which is for sale on the internet.

Mack/Baker Aerialscope's are my favorite rig of all time. Here are a few from my personal collection ! Hazle Twsp, PA Barnstead, NH West Ossipee, NH [Ex-FDNY]

I have used the Diamond on my Yaesu FT-530 for 10 years, awesome antenna !

Model looks real good ! Just a short train ride from Manhattan’s Grand Central Station is the city of Yonkers, New York where I was able to visit the Headquarters of the Yonkers Fire Department. Both the Commissioner and Chief were impressed with the finished model of Engine 306. The guys at Fire Station 6 were equally excited to see Engine 306 in miniature and proudly drove the Engine out of the house for pictures. Fire Station 6, which houses Engine 306, was built in 1901, located at 81 Oak Street and is the home to Engine Company 306, a 2004 American La France 1000gpm pumper with a 500-gallon tank. It is powered by a Detroit Diesel series 60, 470 HP engine and an Allison 4000 PR EVS transmission With 80% new tooling this is the first of many new tools you will see this year. Though there are some elements from existing tooling this is a distinct new model for your collection. This beautiful American LaFrance Pumper has been created with great attention to detail and it is one not to miss. Those who have previewed the Yonkers model have all indicated a quick sell out on this introduction. - John H. Dunkel YONKERS ENGINE 306 is a 2004 American La France 1000gpm pumper with a 500-gallon tank. It is powered by a Detroit Diesel series 60, 470 HP engine and a Allison 4000 PR EVS transmission. Engine 306 is headquartered in Fire Station 6 built in 1901, located at 81 Oak Street. The station is manned by a Captain (the house commander), a split Captain which rotates thru multiple firehouses, three Lieutenants and seventeen firefighters. The crew consists of one officer and three firefighters per tour. Engine 306 has been the busiest Engine Company in Yonkers since the 80’s. The working fires of record has shown that this company as the busiest engine in the city and 6th in national surveys thru out the United States. Its area is a mixture of commercial property, high rise apartments, wood frame tenements and single family structures. Station 6 was to celebrate its 100th anniversary in September 2001, however due to the events of September 11th, this was postponed until September 2002. This apparatus is dedicated in the Memory of Deputy Chief Chris Kiernan. This company was in Chris’s blood, having served much of is career there as a firefighter, Lieutenant and Captain prior being promoted to Assistant Chief. As Deputy Chief in charge of the Suppression Office, he was instrumental in bringing back the Federal Q sirens and bells on all the Yonkers apparatus. His strong belief was to get the best equipment for the firefighters and the citizens that Yonkers protects. Chris passed away suddenly in February 2004 before seeing this apparatus placed in service. The issuance of this unit by Code 3 has a special meaning for the members, family and friends of both Chris (Car 4) and the Yonkers Fire Department.

If you have never been to the show, it's well worth it. No only is there an apparatus shoot, but there is also a flea market and some really great shows by some incredible photographers [including myself]. This year we are making it a BUFF WEEKEND. The Photo Night will be Saturday with our annual FDNY Bus Trip to NYC on Sunday. Trying to get out of towners to come out for a great buff weekend ! If ya don't feel like going on the FDNY bus trip, you can always come up to the Rockland County Fire Museum for our 7th annual expo. Many antique & frontline apparatus will be on display from the NY/NJ/CT area, as well as live demos for the burn building, extrication, hazmat, technical rescue team, etc. Photos from last years Expo can be viewed on my website: http://www.brianduddy.com/g/expo2007

As long as the weather is good I will be taking a trip across the Hudson to Photograph the event for you ! I will also post the event on my website [RocklandFires.com] as soon as more concrete details are available. Please forward info to my e-mail: Photofires@aol.com Brian

Congrats, well deserved ! I always enjoy seeing your posts about classic fires. Besides being a fire buff, I am a also a history buff. It's amazing what photos people have in their collection and the info you can find on the internet nowadays ! The History section of my website [RocklandFires.com] is definitely my favorite. Here is a recent research project I did. Always working on new ones ! A very historical fire in Nyack was the American Aniline factory explosion on January 31st, 1919. The factory was located at the corner of Cedar Hill Ave & Railroad Avenue. Here is a partial article from the New York Times on February 1st, 1919. Link to the entire article: http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/...FB4668382609EDE What is Aniline ? From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2007 aniline , C 6 H 5 NH 2 , colorless, oily, basic liquid organic compound; chemically, a primary aromatic amine whose molecule is formed by replacing one hydrogen atom of a benzene molecule with an amino group . Aniline boils at 184°C and melts at -6°C. It is of great importance in the dye industry, being used as the starting substance in the manufacture of many dyes—e.g., indigo—and as an aid in the manufacture of others. For this reason many dyes have the word aniline in their common name, such as aniline black (one of the best black dyes known), aniline red, yellow, blue, purple, orange, green, and others. Today these synthetic dyes have largely replaced the natural ones. Aniline is prepared commercially by the reduction of nitrobenzene, a product of coal tar, or by heating chlorobenzene with ammonia in the presence of a copper catalyst. Sulfonation of aniline yields sulfanilic acid, the parent compound of the sulfa drugs. Aniline is also important in the manufacture of rubber-processing chemicals and antioxidants .

Here is a photo in my personal collection of Satellite 2, the 2nd half of E.72 taken on the 2005 NJMFPA FDNY Bus Trip

If any fire departments in the lower Hudson Valley try to put on a display like this, please let me know, I would love to see it ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tr18GISWsY

I wouldn't give the Journal News another 1 of my photos if they got on the ground and kissed my feet. The nerve of them not paying freelancers anymore. They expect people to submit photos to them for free. What has this world come to ?

Awesome available light shot by FFD79 !

Here are photos from our firehouse from last year. Haven't started decorating yet this year. Central Nyack Firehouse, 43-45 Waldron Ave, Central Nyack, NY 10960

How about Loyal Member ?

Nikon D80 with the vertical grip, AF-S DX VR Zoom-Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G IF-ED and the SB-800 flash

Here are a few shots of some new rig delivered to the Orangetown Police Department & the South Orangetown Ambulance Corp. taken today at the Tappan Fire Departments 100th Anniversary Mardi Gras Parade. More photos of the parade can be vieweed on my website: http://www.BrianDuddy.com/g/mardigras http://www.BrianDuddy.com/g/mardigras

Valley Cottage's new ALF has been delivered and has been designated 22-99. The district doesn't officially own it yet, so don't bother stopping at the firehouse and asking them to pull it out for a photo shoot, because they can't. Might be another week or 2. I only got to shoot it because I was there when it was delivered ! I did get them to pull out the 1975 ALF for a side by side shot ! All images can be viewed on my website: http://www.brianduddy.com/g/valley_cottage Video of 22-99 arriving @ 22-100: Video of 22-99 backing into 22-100 for the 1st time:

September 11th, 2007 @ 0001 hours

Here is the new video for recruitment in Rockland County ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsW786u2mFU Here is the old video for a reference: http://youtube.com/watch?v=CX8t1qk7JeQ