ltjay157

Ok, the volunteers can pick and chose the calls based on the severity? How many times have we been dispatched to CO alarms and thought nothing of it only to find out that there were high readings? 1 firefighter to handle a dumpster fire? What if it extends towards a builiding? What if the dumpster is on fire due to methyethyl bad stuff being dumped in there? Didn't the city learn anything after a SPD Seargent died due to them not having adaquate training or equipment? I bet if one of the politicians homes burned down due to lack of manpower, they'd change their tune. Emergency services are based on the what can happen scenerio. I pay for car insurance for a reason, the what if's. I hate politicians. :angry:

I haven't had a chance to read the transcripts on this call. Only land lines have advanced 911 which gives you the ANI (Automatic Number Information) and ALI (Automatic Location Identification). Phase 1 cell phones will give you the location of the tower which can be in another town & the cell phone number. Phase II will give you the cell number and will show where the cell caller is within 100 yards or closer roughly. So if you call 911 from a phase II cell phone while standing in the street, the 911 screen will show an X in the street but there are no street numbers shown. You will be shown a nearest cross street if there is one. People call all the time from cell phones and don't know where they are. If you're getting multiple cell 911 calls, you have to make sure everyone is calling in about the same incident because when the stuff hits the fan, it usually hits all at once. Over the summer, I had a lady get into a car accident but didn't know where she was. It was the phase 1 technology. I had to break out the street atlas and trace all of the roads she thought she went down. I finally narrowed it down to a general area that wasn't even in my town. I passed the info along to Danbury PD so they could get to her (thankfully, no injuries). I was on the 911 line with this person for over 10 min just tracking her whereabouts. I don't know if South Carolina does county dispatching like in NY, but if that's the case, I wouldn't expect the dispatcher to know every detail of the area. That's why I love how each town in CT has their own 911 center. I know as soon as a cell caller gives me a location, whether or not it's in my town or not. It's soo easy to pick on dispatchers until you have walked in their shoes. I say take all of the complainers and sit them down in the 911 center so they can see what actually goes on in there. I think I'm done with my rant now.

Ok, I've read the posts and a lot of people have valid points. I'm totally against NYS issuing licenses to illegal immigrants. Driving in this great country is a privelage, not a right. Working as a dispatcher in a PD that borders Danbury CT, I see a lot of people driving without licenses. We pull the same people over and over again and they don't give a rat's heiny. We have a lady from Brazil that married a gentleman in our town that refuses to get a drivers license because she says she doesn't need one. Then you have the people showing the officers licenses from their home countries that are expired. To top it off, the officers pull people over that live in CT but their license is from Maine, Pensylvania, or some southern state. If NYS makes it easier for illegals to get licenses, they will all flock to NY and make it harder on the legal US citizens. NY will be paying more for schools, medical, and other expenses of these illegals on the backs of the legal citizens/taxpayers! I'm all for people trying to better their lives. My family all came from Ellis Island. The US should reopen something like Ellis Island to help regulate who comes into this coutry as well as strenghten our borders. Don't even get me started on the state giving driving tests in many different languages. :angry:

With propper placement of the ladder truck, you shouldn't need to wear a mask unless you're working at a hazmat fire. when i work in the bucket, i have my mask at ready just out of habit.

In the video, they parked the truck to close to the building. Use the tower's height to fight the fire from above & a safe distance away. It appears that they only have a 1 1/2 to 1 3/4 goin up to the bucket. Secondly, it's not even being used as a masterstream. It's being used as a handline. Big fire needs BIG water!. I also don't see any other firrefighters on the fireground. I hope to god those guys aren't opperating under that roof with that much intense fire pushing out of it. The fire appears to be in a church or similar building. We all know how wide open those type of structures are. With that much fire showing, I'd have at least 2 ladder pipes in operation and various master streams. I don't know what else is going around te building so I don't know what else I'd do. This is a risk vs bennefit operation. I would want to dump as much water on that fire as possible. If the department had done a preplan (not saying they didn't) on this building, chances are they wouldn't be in the pickle they are now.

101.485 on the god knows how many throws. Ranked #10,082 been playing this game for the last hour at work and I'm doing a double tonight (get out at 7am) damn, I wonder if there's a class for this addiction yet.

Hudson, you should start your own group to look out for the best interests of the white firefighters........oh, wait, you can't do that because that would make you racist (dripping with sarcasm).

I don't want to seem ignorant since I'm not familiar about this situation. I thought that each of the names listed were their own towns? I know in CT that everytown has ther own PD or is covered under the Resident State Trooper Program. I didn't realise that all of the places named were in fact in the same town. I could never figure out what a hamlet, village, actually is. You have The Villiage of Brewster & the Town of Southeast but it's basically the same place right? Any info on clarifying how/what things are in NY would be helpful to me.

granted the numnutz has his myspace page set to private, you should still be able to send him nasty notes (not that any of us would do that type of thing). why couldn't the fire marshalls also nail him for impersonating a firefighter? i say we drag him to each and every firehouse in NYC and let the REAL firefighters do some street justice on him.

well, i'm up because i have to do the 2am radio check. it's now 2:04 am and i'm going back to watching my movies. did anyone else notice that when you get off from work, that you can only sleep in a reclining position after working midnights?

Let's see, $50 for concert tickets, trying to jump a fence to avoid paying a $5 entrance fee= $10,000+ hospital bill. Thank god for stupid people & job security I just love cheap people. Kinda like the ones that buy a Tom Tom or some other GPS gizmo for $400+ dollars then get mad when the route they're given is blocked due to a detour. If the just spent the $25 for an atlas, they'd know how to get around it. I know this is off topic, it just amazes me that people would go to such lengths to avoid paying for the little things but blow huge amounts on crap and not think twice about it.

I lost my Nextel phone on Labor Day in upstate NY. Had the i560 for 6 months and when I called customer service to shut the phone off, I got transferred repeatedly to someone else until the automated system hung up on me. When I finally got to speak to a customer service rep, 3 different ones said that they couldn't shut the phone off because they didn't know how. I then tried to make an insurance claim to replace the pone & they said I didn't have insurance. My friend had to talk to the customer service reps due to me want ing to kill them. A fourth customer service rep was able to suspend the service so no one was able to use the phone & they did say I had insurance on the phone & would talk to the other 3 reps (suuure you wil). They couldn't send me a new phone due to the claims dept being closed due to the holiday & said to call back on tues for a replacement. So on tues, I went to the mall and got a copy of what was on my plan & when my contract was up from the Nextel store. They told me to just leave it on suspeneded service and when December comes & my contract expires to cancel it so I don't have to pay the termination fee. I have verizon now and people can actually hear me when I talk to them on the phone now. Much better service area, plus a better Gov't employee discount (they gave me 19% off my bill). Nextel can't beat what Verizon offers in my opinion. I just wish Sprint never bought out Nextel. I never had any problems before the merger.

Oneeye, don't be soo sarcastice when someone for the outstanding ILLEGAL population gets killed. They did nothing wrong (sarcasm). I agree that something needs to be done with the amount of illegals in this country. My family all came through Ellis Island and had to know the language, have a sponsor & had a job when they got here. Our society is going down the toilet because the politicians don't care about the common people, but the people that lobby them & their rich, pork friends. Sorry for my rant, just getting soo tired of always reading about the problems that shouldn't have even happened if the Gov't followed their own laws years ago in regards to immigration.

Is it just me, or did the article not allaborate on why thy think the officer is a suspect? Is he a suspect because he had the last known contact with the victim? I bet if they had arressted a plumber as a suspect in this murder, would the caption read Plumber Arressted In The Murder of Illegal Immigrant?

If the cop had litre cola, it would've countered the effects of the salty burger . But in all seriousness, it's not like she put needles or razor blades in the burgers. Just gives me the warm fuzzies knowing the supervisor knew there was too much salt in the meat, but made the burgers anyways.

Thank god I like the Mets

ALS, it's an infrared camera. It can only detect heat signatures (well, it did when it worked). The cost to fix the camera is much more than the dept is willing to pay.

Ok, I was feeling industrious when I got out of work today and grabbed my camera. Here are some pics of Redding PD's 2003 Expedition. It used to be the supervisor's vehicle, but is now in the officer motor pool.

The Redding PD in Redding CT, just received a TIC a couple of months ago through a grant. It sits in the patrol office so anyone can grab it. There's mixed feelings about having it though. Some officers like the idea, while others do not. We used to have a vehicle mounted on the DUI Expedition. That TIC hasn't worked in a few years though. I'll try to get a pic of the Expedition when I get out of work in the morning.

i got 10/10. gues it takes one to know one

sooo, what if you're affiliated with both fire & police? do i get to hug myself then?

in the town i dispatch for, we have one of these problem facilities. they're only supossed to call 911 for true emergencies, other thatn that, the paid service will pick them up. i've complained about the misuse of the system by this facility (which shall remain nameless). they know how to work the system. they call up and say dif breathing, vhest pain, etc when they call 911. i've had the ambulance crew tell me when they get back from the ER, that th person wasn't that sick. the facility didn't want to deal with them and passed them along. the person even had a bag packed and was ready for the ambulance once it arrived. why can't 911 ambulance refer the stable, non life threatning to the private/contracted agency? how can we stop the abuse from these facilities? iknow there are days i've sent the 911 ambulance to that facility for the sniffles bs call, only to get a 911 call from the same facility 5 min later with a true emergency. trying to get a mutual aid ambulance there is a nightmare.

In CT, the CT State Police will do background checks for a $25 fee per person. It'll be form DPS-846c off of the CT Dept of Public Safety website. You also need to submit fingerprints and it tells you where to get those cards. It's a small price to pay to find out any criminal history someone may have before a majority of problems begin. If only we had used this earlier, we could have found the bad apples before they did stupid things.

One of the Police Officers at work was telling me this story. He went to a medical call for a female, unconcious outside of a resteraunt. The patient was awake upon PD arrival and the officer put the patient on O2 w/non rebreather (the officer is also an EMT). The first EMT for the FD arrived in their POV and took off the non rebreather and put a new one on from their bag with their O2. The ambulance arrived and took off that non rebreather mask & put a new one on the patient. My questio is, why would someone keep replacing a non rebreather with new ones? There was nothing wrong with the one the PD used. Isn't that a complete waste of resources? 3 non rebreathers for 1 patient? Talk about money going down the toilet. All of the police Officers in my dept are either MRT or EMT certified. Just wanted some thoughts on the matter since the officer was kind of stumped by their actions also.

I don't think the problem was the firefighters responding to calls after drinking. The firehouse bars were shut down by the liquor authority because they were INVITING too many people from outside the fire dept to come in and drink. They were basically running a bar without a liquor license. My dept is having a lobster clambake as a fundraiser this weekend. We had to get a temporary liquor license to be able to sell beer/wine during the event. But my thoughts are that alcohol does not belong in a firehouse anymore.