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This is part 1 of a multi-day series on the problems of the LI Fire Service.......... http://www.newsday.com/news/specials/nyf-i...0,3691882.story

Has anybody seen the new movie Jarhead? Any good?

How does the quint concept work out there? Is it an engine first, a ladder first? What's the staffing?

Well said, 4Truck48. Could the hostility out there be caused by MISUNDERSTANDINGS and EGOS of a FEW select members of both sides?????

I can see them, thanks for bringing them back to the front page, I really enjoyed that feature...

How time flys! Congrats!

What is included in the Lobster Dinner, besides the lobster of course???

Firefighter admits making prank calls By JONATHAN BANDLER THE JOURNAL NEWS (Original publication: June 11, 2005) A Tarrytown firefighter has been arrested after making two prank calls to Briarcliff Manor police while firefighters in that village were answering a call about a gas smell, police said. Briarcliff firefighters were responding to the routine call at a home on Chappaqua Road on Wednesday morning when police received a phone call in which a man yelled 'There's smoke' before hanging up. In another call a moment later, the caller said "Hurry!" then hung up. Police traced the call to the main Tarrytown firehouse at 50 Main St. John Hilken was arrested Thursday after admitting to Briarcliff police Detective Joseph Pugliese that he was the one who made the calls. Hilken, 35, of 120 Cobb Lane, was charged with second-degree falsely reporting an incident, a misdemeanor. He was released without bail at his arraignment Thursday night and is due back in Village Court on June 22. He was the second Tarrytown firefighter arrested this week. Ex-Chief Joseph McCarthy was charged Monday with third-degree grand larceny, accused of using a village credit card to buy himself $3,000 worth of computer equipment, tool supplies and other items the day after his term as chief expired in April. Hilken, a volunteer firefighter in the village since high school, said yesterday he regretted doing what he did and called it "a dumb mistake." "It was a stupid thing, an idiot thing," he said, insisting he did not realize Briarcliff firefighters were responding to a call at the time. When asked why he called Briarcliff, he said, "It just popped into my head and I did it." He declined to comment further and said he didn't want the arrest reported in the newspaper, worried that the Tarrytown Fire Department would get "another black eye" in the wake of the McCarthy arrest.

Rumor says that it has heated seats, every position. Can anyone confirm this?

Don't forget the value of a K-12 saw with a steel blade in this situation. I feel the trunk should always be watched out for, and checked. It's crazy what people are carrying around in their cars.

Nice work! How long did that take to do?

So, daday, you are saying your community ALWAYS has an ambulance (from your community, without MA) to respond within a set amount of time with the appropriately trained people?

And this is used for......??????????

Is it the same guy moongoddess? are you trying to solve the rumors?

I notice Lifeline ambulance have something that looks like a camera mounted on the front windshield, what is that? And howcome they have OLM and Westchester Ambulances parked there?

Croton Falls is getting a new engine? Is it going to be like Engine 149?

Isn't Rye Brook covering King Street as well? I've heard this firehouse will be right down the street from them.

Yonkers Rescue 1.

I thought they were a combination FD.