dougeng41

The UFA and FASNY both have plates but they are found under the organizations list on the DMV site.

"NYS Vehicle and Traffic Law § 1219. Putting glass or other injurious substances on highway prohibited. A.) No person shall throw or deposit upon any highway any glass bottle, glass, nails, tacks, wire, cans, snow or any other substance likely to injure any person, animal, or vehicle upon such highway. B.) Any person who drops, or permits to be dropped or thrown, upon any highway any destructive or injurious material or any material which interferes with the safe use of the highway shall immediately remove the same or cause it to be removed. C.) Any person removing a wrecked or damaged vehicle from a highway shall remove any glass or other injurious substance dropped upon the highway from such vehicle." It is not always the responsiblity of the tow truck operator. If you drive your car away it is your responsibility to clean up after your accident.

Check out the info on Chemical Suicides at the National Hazmat Fusion Center website. It is located under alerts half way down the home page. My link

Date:03/28/11 Time:1230 Location: 4552 Route 7 Hoosick Falls, NY Frequency: Units Operating: Hoosick FD, NYSP, Rensselaer County Haz Mat(Troy FD),numerous depts. for tender shuttle Weather Conditions: sunny and windy Description Of Incident: MC331 tanker rolled over and crashed while transporting 10,000gal of Propane. The crash took out the electricity to the area and the product was ignited. FD has evacuated the area and has set up master streams to cool the truck. http://www.timesunion.com Reporters/Writer:Dougeng41

Throw Joe in and hope for the best!!

The parade has started at 7pm for at least 35 years.

As you can see from the attached quotes taken today from OSHA's website the numbers you hear thrown around come from their requirements for intial training. The awareness level does not state any hours but as the last poster put up, FF's can not be trained to awareness. The big thing most people do not realize is that you do not have to take a refresher course. OSHA allows you to demonstrate your competency BUT, you better be ready to DOCUMENT!, DOCUMENT!!, DOCUMENT!!! It can not just be a simple sheet the the dept. training officer/chief signs and says you did it. So the easiest thing to do is take the classes. The other issue with haz mat training is alot of individuals who ride the front right seat do not have enough initial haz mat training to meet the requirements to be a incident commander at a haz mat incident.

Remember 585, Are you saying to allow the meter to clear before turning off or actually zeroing the meter by fresh calibration?

My experience with text messaging for calls has not been the greatest. I have had experiences where my VHF low-band pager has gone off twenty minutes prior to my cell phone receiving the text message. Now with that said, most cases I receive the text message one to two minutes after the page and in one or two cases prior to receiving the tone on the VHF pager. There have been more than enough calls though where I have not gotten immediate notification that I do NOT rely on my text messages.

Date:03/03/08 Time:3 -4 am PST Location: Woodinville WA, Snohomish County outside Seattle Departments:Snohomish County Fire District #7, multiple Mutual Aid Agencies, BATF, FBI Description:Multiple House Fires started with Incidiary devices, three houses completely destroyed. so far no reported injuries. houses were demos and unoccupied. Environmental Liberation Front(Domestic Terrorists) Claim responsibility for setting the fires Links: http://www.cnn.com Writer: Dougeng41

Date:02/19/08 Time:1200 Location:Brazos Canyon New Mexico Departments:Brazos Canyon FD, Rio Arriba County Description: Propane explosion destroys firehouse kills fire chief Links: http://www.krqe.com/Global/story.asp?S=7896889 Writer: Dougeng41

Correct, it doesn't cite the Law as to the PO having jurisdiction to turn the FD around. I believe though that this is the law that NWFDmedic was referring to in post #20

Duties of a Fire Chief - State Law New York State General Municipal Law Article 10 Section 204D Link from NYS Senate

Hey, Does any one know who transmits on 453.000?? Some one is broadcasting on this frequency like as if they are a NYC Citywide channel. The only thing is they cover both FD and PD major incidents in the tri-state area. I heard them covering the 5 alarm fire tonight in union city and the white plains fire last night. most times it sounds like they are listening to scanners and other times they have guys on scene giving updates. Some other incidents have included shootings, stabbings, and Pin jobs. Just curious. Thanks in advance.

Date: 11/17/07 Time:6:00pm Location: Schuyler Street Neiborhood Frequency: Units Operating: Description Of Incident: Police were called to the area of schuyler street for multiple calls of explosions in the area. After closing down the nearby railroad and neighborhood several bombs were found. NYSP assisted in the investigation and disposal. Remnants of another bomb was found on Sunday along a thanksgiving parade route on Court St c/ Genessee. Utica FD was called in to clean up the haz mat residue. https://webmail.state.ny.us/exchweb/bin/red...m/news/x9500437 http://www.news10now.com/content/top_stori...asp?ArID=126924 Writer: Dougeng41

Firebuff31, IYO rockland has better fire facilities than westchesters and that may be the case when it comes to certain props. There is always room for getting better. The thing is here in westchester we are very lucky to have the facilities that we have. I do alot of teaching around the state and get to see alot of facilities. Westchester's has one of the best facilites around the state. A lot of counties have no facilities at all. A lot of the times I am teaching in firehouses on the apparatus floor b/c that is all they have. I am not trying to put you down but you need to realize how good we really have it.

IMO - It is always better to talk about things than to bottle them up. Talking to fellow first responders who understand where it is that you are coming from and also seeing other responders talking about the issues that they feel helps. My only concern would be that whoever ends up moderating the forum really needs to have training in Critical Incident Stress Management. The problem comes in that people mean well but sometimes more damage can occur than help if someone is not properly trained in helping these people.

If you are interested the test to work for OFPC opened today.

Mamaroneck village - 5 engines(1 spare), 2 ladders, 1 utility staffing is all volunteer and is dependant on who is in town. manpower will try to get to the houses but if rigs are out they respond to the scene. average response is approx 10-15 personnel.

Students who are taking their first class will use their SS# to complete the card. They must also completely fill out the card as to the information on the back so that they have an address to mail the new number to. Once you have been issued the new number you are supposed to use the number instead of your SS#. If for some reason you have lost your card you may still use your SS#. On top of this you will start to see new Green cards instead of the old orange cards. The new cards collect more information than the old. Example those of you who belong to two different fire organizations will be able to put both departments on the card. Second the new number eventlually allow you to access over the web your personal training record on file at OFPC.

On Wednesday Gov. Spitzer signed into law a new section of Executive Law. Section 156-g Formally creates NY-TF2 in statute and gives power to OFPC to coordinate it's activities. This new section also allows OFPC to create additional task force teams across the state along with technical support teams. It also gives power to OFPC to provide an accreditation system to evaluate exisiting and future capabilities in regions and localities. OFPC will be creating rules and regulation over the next few months. The new law took effect immediately. Executive_Law_156g.pdf

One thing to keep in mind about these teams compared to NY-TF1 is that they are IN-STATE teams. They will follow the FEMA Styling but are for in state incidents. They are not meant to go out of state like TF1.

A firefighter in the Melrose firestation (Rensalear County NY) completing a report after a call is struck by lightening and lives to tell the tale. See the associated news report. http://www.WTEN.com/Global/story.asp?s=6610776

OFPC Announced today the following: It is with regret that the Office of Fire Prevention and Control announces the death in the line of duty of Firefighter John Anthony Canfield, age 46, of the Albany Fire Department, on June 3, 2007. Firefighter Canfield died of an apparent job related illness. He is survived by his wife, Angela M. DiBacco Canfield; children, John Anthony, Jr., Justin Anthony, and Kaleigh Marie; parents, James and Patricia Prendergast Canfield; siblings, Deborah Canfield, James (Laurie) Canfield, Tina (David) Gryp, Jennifer Stone and Stacey (Blaine) Goverski; grandmother, Joseph Canfield, in-laws, Anthony and Angeline DiBacco, Tony DiBacco, and Michael DiBacco. The wake is scheduled on Wednesday, June 6, from 3:00 - 8:00 p.m. at the Parker Bros. Memorial Funeral Home, 2013 Broadway, Watervliet, NY 12189 (518) 273-3223. The funeral, with full Albany Fire Department and military honors, will be held Thursday at 11:00 a.m. at the Sacred Hearth Church, Pawling and Spring Avenue, Troy. It has been requested that no apparatus be brought to the wake or funeral. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Canfield Children Educational Fund, c/o Parker Bros. Memorial Funeral Home. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family of Firefighter Canfield and to members of the Albany Fire Department. John F. Mueller Acting State Fire Administrator NYS Office of Fire Prevention and Control

Here in mamaroneck we were using multiple boats to rescue trapped people for awhile but we switched to the nat. guard units. This was done for a couple of reasons. One small boats only hold a couple of victims at a time and sometimes the rescuers were having to walk along side the boat. second for those boats with outdrives, obstacles such as guardrails and changes in elevations such as curbs caused navigation issues. We had two boats who lost lower units in their outboards due to this. third it is one thing to lose your outboard in calm water but there were large portions of town that had swift water. It was much safer to use the trucks and front loaders to transport people. We could also transport larger numbers in each trip.