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That should probably be a two person operation and they should let the single plow trucks be single person operations. That's a lotta truck for one guy in poor road conditions.

Probably because in training he was allowed to take them off to do things that required better dexterity or ease of operating. Train the way you fight, fight the way you train. Why they were trying to send a lone FF a hose via a window is yet another question. But we could critique this all day. The better question is... Could this happen to me?

http://auburnpub.com/news/local/article_b6b0189f-6cea-5104-8d73-14adc933089d.html

Tough to talk about, even tougher to implement, but here we are continuing to spin our wheels. How about this? http://www.larchmontgazette.com/2009WP/2009graphics/firereport.pdf Came out 6 1/2 years ago and we are not one step closer to moving toward a collaborative regional approach.

Remember this? How much progress have we made in the past 6.5 years? http://www.larchmontgazette.com/2009WP/2009graphics/firereport.pdf

Gotta bring the unwilling together as well! Can't approach this in the same way we have approached everything else in emergency services for the past quarter century!

Aren't the Balkans in Eastern Europe? Would make more sense to tax the rail companies here in NY, no?

That was never a consideration. Didn't you read the article? These are strictly to be used by the Governor when he has to distract people involved in an emergency response by showing up and "taking a tour" (read photo op). Why he would order a trooper to drive into flood water is beyond me and that the trooper did is equally ridiculous. He needs to be less of a responder. It's pathetic.

Lies in an election. What an unusual occurence!

I respectfully disagree. Most people only know that the loud noise means that there's an emergency somewhere. You'd be shocked to learn how many people have no idea (and don't give a damn either) whether or not theirs is a volunteer or paid department.

So if you're standing on the Verizon tower at the airport you'll miss the call in Armonk. How many residential/business districts have no cell or radio coverage these days?

I don't think the Atria applies to this discussion. They are not a tax exempt property.

It wouldn't require a new law, simply revision of DOH codes/regulations that currently prohibit it.

I don't believe this is oriented to us in the fire service. I think it is EMS where there are health regulations about treating and transporting animals in an ambulance.

Kicking the can down the road. Another grant buys them a reprieve nothing more.........

Is that a full-time salary or part-time salary plus benefits? Not saying it's a bad idea but what's the plan? Sounds like a smart way to add 125K to their reserve funds while seeming very proactive. And they probably have 125K in their reserve funds already so they didn't need to do this to have the funds available in 2016 (or 17) or whenever this is going to happen. I am not at all opposed to the idea, I just think it may ultimately be the death of the volunteer department Somers. Why become an officer if you can't become chief? Why go to training if you can't become an officer? (not firematic training but higher level, officer type training) Why should I volunteer if the chief is getting paid? Will the first paid chief be one of the commissioners or family member of a commissioner? See? Lots of unanswered questions.

Some of the terrorists still at large. Several killed by suicide belts and/or police.

From the plan: http://emergencyservices.westchestergov.com/images/stories/pdfs/FireMutualAidPlanAdopted12%2019%202012FINAL.pdf

They will stand by for other jurisdicitions if the jurisdicition is making an effort to recall it's own personnel to backfill. If they don't make an effort to recall off-duty/additional FF, then Yonkers will take up and return to the city after a reasonable amount of time.

What liability?

If the taxpayers voted "NO" it shouldn't matter who is in the commissioner's seat, should it? Just out of curiosity, were there any anti-station 3 candidates for the board of fire commissioners? Makes it hard to do what you suggest when all the candidates are pro- and you're against. It leaves you with no option other than voting down the referendum.

The physical agility will help take care of this but it is indicative of a ridiculous testing metric. With 300 people scoring 100 (or higher), there is definitely something flawed with the test or testing process.

Nobody cares! The residents reelected Davis as mayor despite all the shady dealings in his past and his utter disregard of emergency services. Davis doesn't care about the firefighters because they're not voters in his little fiefdom. He will continue to destroy what was once a vibrant department and then cry to the state or feds for funds to fix it after a tragedy occurs. He's a scam artist and playing his best game!

Well, to be fair, the "kinder and gentler" society we live in has made it more difficult to adequately guard inmates today. Used to be that you kept lights on so you could see them 24/7 but they deemed that unfair so now they turn lights out at night. Guards used to come by and check on the inmates with flashlights but that doesn't let them sleep and is also unfair. Hence you have this ridiculous environment where this can go on. Now I'm not saying there isn't blame at Dannemora! But there is also plenty of blame outside the walls!

Problem is they're not limited to RC aircraft. "Drones" are an entirely new category of aircraft called UAS and there's a growing industry associated with them that totally eclipses the RC aircraft market.