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Looks good! Looks FAST! No laptops or are they not installed yet?

Really amazing picture progression. Thanks for sharing!

Great shots. We are lucky to live so close to this great city and have these places at our fingertips (or throttles)

Are you saying this because you're a supervisor? Or because Fire dispatcher is considered superior to Police dispatcher in NYC? Just curious because in my town police disp, fire disp, and call takers all rotate around.

Looks very slick! Nice install. 3 radios though? Looks like Westchester needs some frequency unification!

Good catch Chris192 and partners!

That's my speculation. I believe 1st due should always go Code 3 to an alarm. Too much damage can be done by a fire in a short time. The 2nd and 3rd due are debatable, and I don't quite have an opinion myself. I would say just drive more carefully. And no one should ever be "busting" red lights. Treat them as stop signs.

That is a response code. I believe it's usually called code 2, expedited response. It's used for not quite emergency, not quite "nothing". I don't know any further from that... but I don't believe the cops are abusing their lights when they do this. I used to see this in Raleigh and though the same thing, then I learned about Code 2.

Very interesting article. And it has implications on the fire side too. Do you need code 3 response for CO alarm when the house is evacuated? Probably not. Do you need code 3 for tree down? Probably not. What about for the 2nd and 3rd due apparatus for an automatic alarm? That is a tough question and can only be answered by careful statistics. You would need to look at the number of apparatus accidents vs. number of stops on fires found by alarms, then compare the damage cause by those accidents vs. the damage of burning an extra room. Then you look at the fact that you can't put a price on a life. Is that a life of someone hit by a fire truck, or the price of a life taken by fire. A complicated subject indeed.

Park in front of them or move to CT where you can have blue lights in your POV!

May these men RIP and condolances to all who knew them.

The article points towards a sleeping pill being the cause of the wreck, not inexperience. The guy is 30 and travelled from the Bronx to continue to serve his old VAC. At least this is the story being told by the article.

It's not good for you, either. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT#Effects_on_human_health

Sounds like a great program. I'm surprised that 21 hours per year is all that's required though. I have heard from a Vollie FF who is also a PO that he does MUCH more training with the VFD. However, I recognize that POs and career FFs run so many calls that their training is really "on the job". But with PD, it would seem that it would take more than 21 hours just to keep up with changing laws and technology.

I agree with the above points.

Exactly, and as the article said, Banksville was first due (closest), and they continued in. End of story. This is being blown out of proportion due to politics. This happens all the time all over the country, including downtown Stamford. SFRD will send 2 engines and a truck to an alarm, and when the alarm company calls to cancel, Unit 4 (the DC) will often send closest engine only.

haha! Good catch. That's a pretty impressive ladder. I wonder how long until the other manufacturers follow suit?

Hey, at least he gets to be back on the field.

I have Police Radio by Christopher Coudriet and it works OK. It has a huge national and international database. I don't use it too much, but the one station I try to scan, CTSP, is never available.

Interesting. Can someone enlighten me as to the reason for the change? Can UHF penetrate buildings better? Better sound quality?

Some googling tells me that a Tower-ladder has a structural boom and an non-structural ladder on the boom (optional), while a ladder-tower has a structural ladder with a bucket/platform at the end.

Well then ours are a different model because they cover both ears, and the driver and officer have two PTT buttons, one for radio, and one for intercom. The two backseat headsets have one PTT button for intercom. EFDCAPT115, I'm very sorry to hear that you had to cut short your career. I will certainly take more care of my ears going forward.

That is a good point... but wouldn't headphones or ear plugs have the same effect? No matter what method of ear protection you're using, if you're damping the sound of your own siren, you're damping the sound of other vehicle's horns and sirens, too. With the windows up and no headphones, I like that I can still easily hear a yell from my officer about a vehicle he sees (and wouldn't have the time to push the 'talk' button on the headset).

Great topic. One easy thing to do is roll the window up! I always roll my window up as I'm pulling out of the bay. It makes it easier to hear radio traffic, and on the same note, I hate when I'm trying to hear a radio transmission from another unit and their siren is drowning them out. Of course the headphones with built in mic is best, but the windows are an easy first step.

Looks like some great training and awesome pics. I have not heard of EMS getting that involved in rescue. Is this a services that Empress provides to Yonkers only? Or anywhere Empress operates? What kinds of rescues would EMS get involved in? (i.e. what specifically were you training for?)