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i added in my question regarding the 100 FF's bit i was typing, but nothing came on the screen...

Ha! i have no desire to do this for a living, i'm in the marketing field...thanks. i am a vollie bacuase i do it for the sole fact that someone has to do it...but the ambulances that take 10, 15, 20, 30, or 45 minutes to just GET OUT THE DOOR are pathetic!! how do i propose this tax increase to invest in our own health and the well being of our families, friends and homes...baby steps. one department at a time. Yes we are in a recession, but if you know anything about investing - you buy into it when it looks bad. Tell me why it takes 100 vollie firefighters to put out a fire when it takes usually 25-30 paid guys to do the same? Why do you think this is? seriously, i'd like someone to elaborate on this - if both paid and vollie FF's have a job to do why then can only the paid guys do it effectively and efficently? the vollie world pisses so much money away it's friggin disgusting! how about vollies trim the fat off their budgets and actually get some respectable volunteers who are well trained and actually physically fit to do the job. i can't stand when i'm at a fire scene and i gotta take an overweight out of shape 55 year old firefighter to the hospital because he can't breathe or has chest pains...and asks to smoke a cigg before we load him in the ambulance! The vollie system is not good, plain and simple. There are better systems out there, but vollies are too damn stubborn, egotistical or just plain dumb to learn and implment a new system. Thats why we need to get rid of them and get better educated and better trained and experianced people...not just the people that happen to see a banner hanging in the streets (no pun to the original poster, few good guys come from this, i hope you would be one of them)

somewhat true about the millions - take away what the vollies don't need - beer, soda, fat foods, parties, hard booze and INVEST that money to a paid system and it might work. in my town, there was a study that if taxes went up just $40 per household, paid departments can exist. $40 to ensure that God Forbid you need and ambulance or the fire dept, you know you'd be getting a better quality service. it really is an investment. You'll have fit ems workers, fit firefighters and better yet compitent people!!!! I don't see how any compitent individual could vote against this...

Get rid of the Vollie systems all together...EMS should be run by hospitals and FD/PD's should be run by the municipalities - whether local, county or state is another topic though. I am a vollie and i can't stand vollies or the vollie system, it only exists to fail, not to mention vollies are NOT true volunteers anymore - they are PAID labor. They get paid with little pensions, stipens and beer. Not to mention they're fat and out of shape drunks. it's very sad to see what a good concept of Americana has become. I am a Vollie that is 100% pro Paid guys - they really are simply put - BETTER.

i was thinking the same thing...very stupid... when i was in a particular fire dept, we took one engine and one ladder to the mamaroneck parade (i think 2002), anyways both rigs were full, there were 2 people that couldn't fit in the rigs, so the officers allowed them to be seated ON the rig...on the hose bed that is... we didn't take local roads either, we took I287, to I95 to Mamaroneck Ave...i think my exapmple tops this pic. it was a very sad day to see officers allow this behavior... (These weren't officers that were in their 20's - which are sadly more common today. these officers had 20+ years in the department)

I'm not asking this to start anything, I just have a question regarding the duration of CPR and by whom the CPR was being done by. The post states: Just wondering who made the determination to stop CPR, if in fact CPR was actually started. I know the info on these posts are always what actually happens on scene. If someone could clarify I would appreciate it. Thanks Again I am in no way questioning those on scene, I'm just trying to add the missing piece of the puzzle. Indeed a very sad story and hope all the responders are doing well Original Posting: My http://www.emtbravo.net/index.php?showtopic=37304&pid=212411&st=0entry212411

The omen for the Pville parade it that it always rains, and the current forecast looks about the same – chance of thunder storms (50% chance). Stay safe during the parade

along with Ossining and Briarcliff, I heard Mt. Pleasant PD (including the village departments of Pleasantville and Sleepy Hollow) could be involved with the merger as well.

you suck it up and try again in the future...just like everyne else. "Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have" Thomas Jefferson Now interchange the word government with the word Union and that is how Unions are today, which is not what they were intended to be. We have laws to protect workers now...you don't like them or want better laws - change them. You want a nice IRA, take a course to manage your IRA's, don't trust someone else to invest for you.

unions were created because laws protecting workers didn't exist. they do now, therefore get rid of all unions...PD, FD, Teachers, and all others...get rid of them. you want to get benifits, higher wages, some extra vacation time...do what all other non-union Americans do: work hard and be a self advocate. Even unions that work for generally 'conservitive'workers (FD, PD, EMS, blue collared guys/gals) fund the Obama administration and therefore indirectly...so do the workers

The Dems and GOP are all the same...all scum... I think this single article outweighs all the junk the Dem's have done to this country. Who cares about all the stupid day to day politics if we can't care for victims and hero's...this is very disappointing

Where within WMC will this be held?

I've never seen this TransCare SUV until today at WMC. Does anyone know what this vehicle is used for?

is that the old water dept building? i heard that is area is prone to flooding, has that been solved?

Just wondering if any LEO's on here would know how a firing squad works these days...are the shooters picked in some sort of awful lottery..what happens if they refuse? The article states that there will be "a team of five anonymous officers firing bullets into his heart." Do officers actually offer to provide this type of "service." I find this to be clearly contradictory and immoral to the profession, just as a paramedic (which is usually used) would be the one to push the lethal injections into a prisoner. What are your takes on this? http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/24/us/24death.html

you are right about the taxation w/o representation - but you only know a portion of the story...how about you learn the other parts of our history... i am not here to type up a report for you, i suggest you fill up your knowledge of American history. trust me, i'm sure i already know everything about our history that you know, but i know you don't have the slightest clue as to what i know - hence, your ignorance. look up the points i've made, i promise it'll shock you you can consider our conversation to end now

I know they're not from the Constitution, I think we all know what it says. The point is to understand how and why it came together, and that is something an individual can do on their own. Also I did not and do not judge people, it's a simply point that you youself made regarding the death penalty and religion. I have the highest respect for police officers, as all emergency workers. I have no problem with someone who happens to kill as a result of self defense. The death penalty is indeed defined as justice to some, but NOT for all. Ok, so I did get off topic for a bit, so back to the topic... So how do we say justice will be done when "5 officers" kill a man by shooting him in the heart, because he killed a man, when the man that was killed was a lawyer who was against the death penalty? That is not justice, Justice for the man killed would be to keep the killer in prison for life w/o the possibility of parol. That is justice for the deceased

While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader. If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslaved. This will be their great security. -Samuel Adams To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest Glory to add the more distinguished Character of Christian. -George Washington It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists [pluralism], but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ! -Patrick Henry Proclaim liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof -Inscription on the Liberty Bell, from Leviticus 25:10 I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth _ that God Governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probably that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings, that "except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it." I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the Builders of Babel: We shall be divided by our partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and bye word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing Governments by Human wisdom and leave it to chance, war and conquest. I therefore beg leave to move _ that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning before we proceed to business, and that one or more of the clergy of this city be requested to officiate in that service. -Ben Franklin, to the Constitutional Convention, June 28, 1787 We have no government armed with power capable of contendingwith human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. -John Adams Religion is the only solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man towards God. -Governeur Morris Pennsylvania delegate to the Constitutional Convention Statesmen, my dear sir, may plan and speculate for liberty, but it is religion and morality alone, which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue. -John Adams The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected, in one indissoluble bond, the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity. -John Quincy Adams Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! -Patrick Henry A patriot without religion, in my estimation, is as great a paradox as an honest man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men? Can he be a patriot who, by an openly vicious conduct, is undermining the very bonds of Society? _ The Scriptures tell us righteousness exalteth a Nation. -Abigail Adams The brief exposition of the constitution of the United States will unfold to young persons the principles of republican government; and it is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the Bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion. -Noah Webster If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become of us as a nation. If truth be not diffused, error will be; If God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendancy; If the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will; If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end. -Daniel Webster True Godliness doesn't turn men out of the World, but enables them to live better in it, and excites their endeavors to mend it. -William Penn Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure, when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that they are a gift of God? Indeed, I tremble for my countrymen, when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever. -Thomas Jefferson The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country. -Calvin Coolidge We have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God_ and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us! It behooves us, then, to humble ourselves_to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness. -Abraham Lincoln The higher state to which she [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not human, but of Divine origin. She cherishes no purpose, save to merit the favor of Almighty God. -Calvin Coolidge I suggest you get to know your American history a little better, there's more to it than you learn in a politically correct grade school or even American History 101 in college...Christianity is the spirit that created this great nation, and people like you try to change it - that's Liberalism. Learn who the founding fathers really were, then read the Constitution again...you'll find your own answer. http://www.pvbr.com/Issue_1/gwprays.htm

Yes I agree with you, but you're forgetting that the New Testament specifically negates all of those "eye for an eye" punishments. The Old Testament are old laws and the New Testament are the new laws and if you believe in Christianity then you cannot take a life no matter how you perceive it in your mind...your mind is not important enough to make the decision to take a life, yet we can detain those that do not fit the status quo of society. And as far as calling me a Liberal...I’m sorry to upset you, but I’m not. The most conservative thing any American can do is follow God’s laws FIRST, then follow our country’s laws SECOND. There is no way for contradiction if you live in that order. It is LITERALLY in the Constitution to do so and anyone that puts our Constitution first and God’s laws second is literally acting liberally. It is said that one cannot be a true conservative unless they understand this proper order and how this order has been so skewed over time by people just like “Crime Cop” a.k.a. the true and original Liberals. True Patriots do believe in the Constitution and more importantly believe that this great country is STILL one nation under God.

it clearly is immoral, we are still one nation under God and that means His rules first, than ours. Unless the officers are athiests, they should better understand taking a life is taking a life and it is immoral...It's actually people like YOU that let things like this be ok with our society

Just a quick question - why were both ambulances there?

Wow! VERY well said! I'm sure the founders of this country are very disappointed as to what it has become. I pray God will help teach those who preach the wrong messages from the Bible to understand what it really means to follow it

once obama's immigration reform kicks in, illegals simply have to "admit to entering the country illegally. after that, they're citizens... every month a citizen does not have health coverage that citizen will be fined 1/12th the annual fee for not having health coverage. The Dems admit this fee will be saved in the event an illegal needs medical attention

Ha! Not a chance

There things in this bill i like and things i dislike, especially on the issue of abortion. All in all i think Americans are over reacting. Medicare, Civil Rights and Social Security...all issues people were flipping out about when those bills were being passed... I'm not going to get into too much details about my feelings towards this bill, but i will say that health care reform was needed, but not everything is this bill i believe will HELP. As an ems volunteer and a non union employee speaking to many FF/LEO's and other UNIONIZED employees - youre unions are PROVEN to be far worse than this bill. If you are in a union, you do NOT have the right to speak against this bill as your UNION leaders have added input towards this bill. Every union in America has had consideration put into this bill and the majority of UNIONS financially "support" Obama and his Liberal friends. You want change in this Country, get your UNIONS out of the pockets of the Liberals. Most people on this website are NOT Liberal, yet their UNION fees support Liberals!!! WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!