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Great work! Best wishes for a speedy recovery.
Article: http://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/2015/01/09/westchester-cop-hit-car/21497297/

Always nice to see positive press regarding the police these days.
Paul is good people, prayers for a speedy recovery!

Unless those paramedics would take over policing in the unincorporated portion of the Town of Ossining I don't see the point.

The city writes a check and a few months later the truck shows up. How does it work by you?

If rifles weren't included in this program, would they still be complaining?

Don't forget, Michael Frey was executed by a man with a rifle and the responding cops had nothing heavier than handguns to deal with it until Yonkers and NYC showed up.

And that was right next door to Tuckahoe in Eastchester.

That would be a bad bad decision. How exactly does an uniformed electorate make a decision like that?
Considering the quality of our elected officials, I'm not sure letting them determine the level of police or fire protection is a sound idea.

I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with you sir. While I can respect the idea that taxpayers (voters) should have a say in their municipal services, police procedure should not be one of those areas.
Let's face it, the majority of people have little to know clue about the services they receive. So you want the civilian layperson to judge what amount of protection their police officers need?
Most people probably have no clue how many police officers even protect their communities.
Same goes for Fire and EMS (as has been beaten to death here). The majority of people have no idea what level (or lack of) fire and Ems services they are getting.
They may know there's a local firehouse or ambulance corps. Other than that, they don't know if there is paid personnel or all volunteers.
I work for a Village DPW. Do you know what the majority of residents are constantly concerned about? Garbage collection.
I have family and friends who are LEOs and I want them to come home after every shift. Therefore I want them to have any and all equipment that may give them an advantage.
Ask the residents of Newtown or Aurora if they want their Police to be as prepared as possible.
20 years ago we didn't have to think like we do today. Unfortunately we live in a different, ever changing world with an unpredictable society. It sucks, but it is reality.
I carry a firearm on an almost daily basis. I know that carrying a firearm is not my only line of defense and may not save my or my loved ones lives. However, I carry because it just may be my only line of defense. I love my life and want to stick around as long as possible.

Probably right around the time Al Sharpton became a Constitutional scholar. I'm a small government conservative myself, but lets be honest; neither stop and frisk (which used to just be called the Terry Stop) nor the DoD's surplus acquisition programs, are harming anyone's liberty.
Its the same argument that I make regarding the Second Amendment. Having a gun doesn't make you a bad guy or a tyrant, that comes from the way in which it is used.

Just like they did in New York City with stop, question, frisk???
Yea. That worked well.....

Just like they did in New York City with stop, question, frisk???
Yea. That worked well.....

Just like they did in New York City with stop, question, frisk???
Yea. That worked well.....

Just like they did in New York City with stop, question, frisk???
Yea. That worked well.....

Let the local police determine the level of protection they need...not the feds or the media.

The Westchester Special Operations Task Force(WSOTF) is a mutual aid group consisting of 11 Career FD's. The departments are divided into squad companies. Every squad is trained in Hazmat/WMD, Trench, Building Collapse, Confined Space & Rope Rescue. Each Squad is equipped with Hazmat/WMD equipment (except Yonkers handles it outside the squad). Greenville, New Rochelle & Yonkers squads have collapse rescue units in addition (which carry Trench, Building Collapse, Confined Space & Rope Rescue equipment). White Plains Squad also has collapse (but I am not sure if they carry trench).
The squads are assigned as follows:
Squad # 1 Yonkers
Squad # 2 New Rochelle (with Larchmont & Pelham Manor recently being added)
Squad # 3 Mt Vernon
Squad # 4 White Plains
Squad # 5 Eastchester / Scarsdale
Squad # 6 Fairview / Greenville / Hartsdale
Each squad must respond with a minimum of 5ff's & 1 Off. But some respond with more.
Yonkers Squad Responds with a Collapse Unit. Their USAR Trailer responds with the Rescue and a USAR Task force to support the squads.
Both Greenville & White Plains have collapse units.
New Rochelle Responds with either hazmat/WMD support unit or Heavy Rescue and Collapse Rescue unit. New Rochelle was also designated for swift water rescue, has been equipped and officers have been trained as instructors. Members will be training this summer.
The system is set up so that their are approximately 54 trained/certified responders on duty in the different depts. available to respond.
Many of the squads have responded as far as Delaware County. NRFD has responded as far as Canada.
We can be requested via 60 Control. Dispatch times are generally under 5 minutes to get sent out of district.
When a tornado hit California Closets in Hawthorne (17 miles from NRFD Sta. #1) 60 Control Requested us immediately and YFD, GFD & NRFD had 50+ responders and equipment on-scene in under 25 minutes.

Satire website. Like duffelblog.com

Congratulations Mr. Harvey!
This award could not have found a harder working or more conciencous care giver to belong to.
Dick is a a bonafide shite magnet, having worked many of the toughest calls around- the 3 Yonkers firemen out the window comes to mind but that is just one. He did another major MVA that same night that never made any headlines. Still working Yonkers, still pulling OT, carrying gear up and people down and still doing all that with that heavy medicare card in his wallet
My hat is truly off to You, Brother Harvey.
(Unfortunately, Dick is even less tech saavy than I, so he will likely not see this unless someone shows him.)

I understand the point you are attempting to make but I feel you are missing some major points. Nobody believes " wearing a uniform transforms you into something you are not". You are looking at it from the FD side and quite condescendingly at that. I'm sure they had no desire to " get in on the action" and were doing there job of protecting life and property which is very much " In the scope of their job description".
You made a statement that you always " stage away as requested by PD". How many times have you or a member of your department responded lights and sirens against the request of PD because that's not your "SOP"?
They where both housing officers so they did have elevator keys and most definitely knew how to use them.
You brought up " In the scope of their job description". This is the same forum that praises fireman for stopping a robbery or an assault in front of their house or while returning from a job. Where is your very literal definition of a " job description" then?
The bottom line is this is not the time or the place to Monday-morning quarterback someone's decision while they lay in critical condition in the hospital. I'm sure you truly wish them well and do hope they have a speedy recovery..but save the uninformed personal commentary to a later date.
Ps.. My panties are in a bunch and I'm not going to get over it

One might think that... But one doesn't know the location of the civilians in the building and how far into the rapidly deteriorating conditions the officers pushed themselves to ensure everyone else was out. One might also be glad that their injuries were relatively minor compared to what they could have been given the situation.
I'd say helluva job boys...

A very interesting and unique piece of apparatus:


https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152156627447010.1073741974.209948672009&type=1

If you are a Critical Care Techncian in NYS (will Westchester be pushed into having them?) then the new protocols suit you well. Paramedics should take a hard, close look, compare them to the old protocols, and then come to a conclusion. You will be calling a doctor many, many, more times than you have in the past. ACLS? Dont bother...they dont follow the algorythms. They are great for the "I'm barely a medic" providers that live in the protocol book and cannot make an educated patient care decision on their own. Just my two cents.....

http://open.nysenate.gov/legislation/bill/S3305-2011
BILL NUMBER:S3305
TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the labor law, in relation to prohibiting an employer from terminating an employee who also is a volunteer firefighter or a volunteer provider of emergency medical services when that employee misses or is late to work because of an emergency to which the employee was dispatched
PURPOSE: The legislation is designed to ensure volunteer firefighters and EMS responders won't lose their paying jobs simply because they were late or missed work while performing their duties.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1. The labor law is amended by adding a new section 202-1 to read as follows:
Section 202-1. Authorized absence. 1. If an employee is absent from or late to his or her employment due to his or her engaging in the actual performance of his or her duties as (a) volunteer firefighter, or ( an enrolled member of a volunteer ambulance service pursuant to article thirty of the public health law, an employer shall be prohibited from terminating such employee solely on the basis of such absence or lateness.
2. The entire period of the authorized absence may be charged against any other leave such employee is otherwise entitled to, and such authorized absence shall include travel both to and from such duties performed in his or her capacity as a volunteer. At the employer's request the employee must provide the employer with a statement from the head of the volunteer firefighter or volunteer ambulance service, as applicable, stating the employee responded to an emergency at the time of such response.
3. In the event that the employee does not have accrued time to offset any time lost in an emergency response the employer must either, at its option: (a) grant at least three hours of authorized absence in any twelve month period to an employee who has engaged in a volunteer response or ( allow its employees without use of accumulated leave time an authorized absence for volunteer response during work hours at least two times per calendar year.
4. The commissioner is hereby authorized to establish any necessary guidelines, including requirements for documentation of the emergency response, validation of accrued leave, and the conditions of dismissal and procedures for an employee to seek reinstatement and reimbursement if dismissed on the basis of an authorized absence.
JUSTIFICATION:
There are numerous examples of volunteers being discharged on the basis of tardiness or absenteeism even though the response was bona fide and in response to a dispatch from the Chief or appropriate person in charge.
The threat of losing a job has a chilling effect on response at a time when more that than 80 percent of New York State's geography is covered by volunteer response. Volunteers are frontline first responders and cannot be replaced without enormous cost to local governments at a time when the State is in the throes of a budget crisis.
The bill has several employer protections. It requires verification from a commanding officer that the volunteer was duly dispatched. It allows for absences to be charged against employee's accrued leave. It allows for verification of the timeline for the response.
Eight states including Ohio, Illinois and California have passed statues to protect their volunteers. Daytime response has become critical and attracting and retaining volunteers has become a daily challenge for local Fire Companies. Volunteers should not have to choose between their job and protecting their community.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: A.9856/S.4988 - Veto #6791 of 2010
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS: None.
EFFECTIVE DATE: This act shall take effect immediately.

The one they give me. It is my favorite, mostly because the price is right.

I am trying to think of something witty to say.... I got nothing.
Congradulations, Lt. Mike "NYSPOTY" Bleckeropoulos!

We don't save lives every day...
The "nut in a safari hat" isn't going anywhere