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Now that the list's been established, anyone heard anything about hiring off this exam?

Any ambulance corps can do it, you just have to find a corps that has officers that are willing to consider your vehicle an official agency fly car and tell the state so. On the flip side though, that means you are responsible for meeting all state requirements to, such as what equipment you carry, markings on your vehicle, having your vehicle inspected at any time by state EMS to make sure you are compliant with requirements, etc. I don't know of anyone besides Hatzolah who allows members, other than chief officers, to run red lights in their personal vehicles

You could volunteer as an EMT, but your corps would need to have the state certify your personal vehicle a a corps fly car. of become a Chief officer of an FD or Ambulance corps

First, I don't really see how the color schemes match, other than they both have New York State on them in yellow letters. The patrol car is either NYSP blue or a very close match and has the tbta patch and license plate on it. The truck is black and looks like someone flipped the dot color scheme, making the yellow parts black and black parts yellow, and then it has a generic NYS logo on the door. Plus, what would the TBTA be doing with 30 of those trucks up in Rockland County? Finally tbta pd is already their own law enforcement agency, if they split away from the tbta, who answers to the mta, who's authority would they be under in order to enforce any laws or have a jurisdiction. Do you really think it's the BTO's behind this? This is Cumuo taking a page out of Bloomberg's book from when Bloomberg had all the traffic and school safety vehicles repainted white and light blue to make it look like there were more cops on the streets. Since Cumuo is sending as many troopers as he can to NYC in whatever him and DeBlasio are going on about, Cumuo is repainting all state law enforcement vehicles down there in NYSP colors to make it look like there's more troopers out there. Wouldn't suprise me if you saw the MTA pd start switching over too.

Maybe the state is planning on using theses trucks the same way NYC DOT uses their trucks as road blocks. Fill one of those up with sand or gravel and you have a roadblock that can go anywhere under it's own power. Prevent car bombs from getting out onto a bridge such as the Whitestone, or you might see these preventing vehicles from entering pedestrian areas of major events to avoid a repeat of last months attack in Berlin.

So I rpobably just don't understand this, but what is the point of having civil service status employees for the Town of Patterson if they are only going to be part time. As far as I'm aware, only full time employees of a municipality need to be civil service. Then again, I guess this does mean they are going to get $20 from everyone who wants to apply for the job.

So I keep hearing the Orange County Sheriff's corrections division is actively hiring per diem COs. Does anyone know if they currently have any plans to hire off of the CO list that came out this summer?

Sloatsburg (Rockland) just received a 2016 E-One Typhoon 78' quint and has a 2016 E-One rescue pumper scheduled for delivery early next year. The new trucks will replace 15-quad and 15-rescue. Pic from Orange and Rockland Fire Facebook page

Date: 11/26/16 Time: approx 12:00 Location: Creek on County 1 between the railroad tracks and the Warwick Valley School Bus Garage District: Warwick FD/EMS Battalion: 6 Channel: Weather: 40s, partly sunny Units: Warwick FD (full department), Monroe FD ( dive team), Cromner Valley FD ( dive team), Warwick EMS (201, 203, 205 (rehab), 208 (duty lieutenant), 209 (captain)), Town of Warwick PD (patrol, Watch Commander), NYSP (Patrol, Scuba, investigators (accident reconstruction?), Lieutenant), NYS DEC encon police. Stand Bys: Florida FD (1 engine to Warwick FD Station 1) Pine Island FD (1 engine to Warwick FD Station 2), Greenwood Lake EMS (1 ambulance stand by Warwick EMS station 1) Writer: Description: Initial call for a vehicle found submerged in the creek, unknow when it went in, unknown victims. Rescue swimmers from Warwick FD located the driver in the vehicle, driver transported to Saint Anthony's ER BLS, no available ALS, cpr in progress. Vehicle cleared and Divers from Monroe FD, Cromner Valley FD, and NYSP searched the creek for additional victims, none found. Scene turned over to Warwick PD and NYSP for further investigation. Greenwood Lake EMS and Warwick EMS station 2 units handeled multiple EMS calls in the district during the incident.

The article does mention that Port Jervis Vac will only cover Deerpark and Port Jervis, and at least as far as I'm aware, there was never a point where there wasn't around the clock staffing, at least in the recent years

http://www.recordonline.com/news/20161122/deal-oked-to-save-port-jervis-volunteer-ambulance-corp

Don't Count Port Jervis out just yet, And that would be $30 - $40,000 a year from just the city, on top of whatever the town set aside for the corps, billing, and whatever other revenue sources they have

Tanker will be a Spartan on a commercial chassis

I like how the women are complaining that they were not notified about the siren when they moved into the development. First of all, isn't the area and what's around the property something you look at when you go look at and/or research a property for sale. Second of all, didn't anyone go outside, see the pole (especially the lady across the street), and go "Hmmm, I wonder what that telephone pole with horns atop it is?" and then ask?" And who's responsibility is it to notify new people moving in of this siren? I also like how the one lady attributes her stroke to the siren. How does a noise cause you to have a brain bleed or a clot make it to your brain. Personally, I think the FD was right in offering to move the siren but having the neighbors pay for the move. I'm sure the FD had permission from whatever municipalities when they put up the siren and whatever other permits and permissions they needed, and now these women have come in and decided to live right next to the siren and complain about it. It's like someone who moves next to an airport and then complains about the noise from the planes.

Not sure where you saw that Could just be that A&E already had a contract with the city to do a season 3 in NOLA, and the city didn't want to inccur whatever penalties came from breaking the contract

Maybe I'm missing something, but if they're all volunteer why do they have $75,000 budgeted for per diem staff?

<iframe src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fmaryann.conklinlezama%2Fvideos%2F10153898199823456%2F&show_text=0&width=400" width="400" height="400" style="border:none;overflow:hidden" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowTransparency="true" allowFullScreen="true"></iframe> Date: 10/11/16 Time: 0500 Location: 186 Pike Street District: City of Port Jervis Battalion: 8 Channel: Weather: Cold and clear Units: Fire: Port Jervis FD (full department), Sparrowbush FD (1 engine, R-848, fire police), Hugenot FD (E-812), Slate Hill FD (R-735 F.A.S.T.), Mount Hope FD(1 rescue F.A.S.T.), Matamoras PA FD (32 Tower 1), 36-18, 36-2, 36-100, FIs EMS: Port Jervis VAC (075, 076), Westfall PA FD (39 Ambulance 1), Greenville VAC (096), Emstar (891 medic, 1 BLS ambulance) Port Jervis PD Writer: EMT111 Description: Initial call for fire at 186 Pike Street, Orange County 911 taking multiple calls, units responding report visible fire from a distance. Upon arrival, units reporting heavy fire on the upper floors and through the roofs of 186 Pike Street (occupied commercial/multi-family dwelling) and 188-192 Pike Street (unoccupied/condemed commercial/multi-family dwelling) Video: https://www.facebook.com/maryann.conklinlezama/videos/10153898199823456/

Also, I've noticed that there is a trend of getting away from individual agency mutual aid plans and moving towards the closest available unit for both fire and ems. In Orange County, the dispatchers just put the request and location into the CAD and the system figures out who's closest available unit based on drive time.

I think it depends on what kind of call it would be. For example, if it's an ALS call and an ALS unit is responding, I see no reason not to let the ALS unit handle it as long as long as the ALS unit has a reasonable response time. I don't know about Westchester, but I do know an agency that had trouble getting out, so they allowed a commercial ALS provider to have a station in their building and in return, the ALS provider was also their primary back up.

As far as I was aware, it's shears been that way since mount hope FD was formed. Mount Hope covering the town and Priscilla covering the village. And there have been rumors of a shutdown coming before, but clearly it hadn't happened yet, so until there's some official statement, I would take any rumors with a grain of salt

Warwick EMS' "new" rehab unit. Originally a Town of Warwick Dial-a-bus, conversion done by members and local businesses

Slightly off topic. I took one of the other correctional exams offered at the same time and got my results finally. In terms of the physical agility test for COs, is there one standardized test that most corrections agencies across the state use in the same way as most police agencies use the MPTC standards? And if so, is there somewhere you can go to find the passing requirements for the exam?

From what I've heard, once NY allows all EMTs to draw epi from a vial, the cost will drop dramatically for agencys that go that route. However you run into the problem of agencies that have volunteers and/or staff that work one or two shifts a month and then have a regular job in some office the rest of the time. Half of them don't know how to use an epi pen, and now we're going to train them in an advanced procedure, and expect them to do it the first time five years later in a life threatening situation? I know in my one agency, half the volunteers don't know how to use the nasal narcan, meanwhile we've had it for how many years now, it's super simple to use, and I feel like I'm using it at least once a week at this point.

Currently the department of health is doing a pilot program that allows EMTs to draw up epi from a vial. Hopefully it will be common place soon, as I think it's ridiculous that an epipen could cost $100s. Unless I'm missing something, I wouldn't think anything in the epipen, including the drug, come close to equaling the cost, especially for something you have to replace each year.

So maybe I'm missing something, but why is this vehicle such a big secret? No specs, only one interior shot. Lenco has the medcat, and I'm sure the military has similar vehicles. Plus, there's a reason most EMS agencies have "MEDIC" all over there tactical gear.