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Are the buying ALF, cause from what I understood they are only buying the LTI part of the business.

very nice editorial http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20140611/NEWS/406110327

Rockland County Community College has a summer EMT class, but I believe they've already started.

So yesterday, I was watching the news and they were following a manhunt in Mount Vernon for a suspect who had struck a police officer with a car. One of the shots they kept showing had a MVPD ESU truck with a red and blue light bar. As far as I was aware, blue to the front is still technically illegal, so has MVPD decided to run red/blue to the front, or is it a color changing bar that they set to red/blue when on a scene since blue add's visibility?

Thanks for the answers. I was just wondering since as it was explained to me that no one other than vffs could run blue to the front and the volunteer fire fighter associations in NY were actively fighting against anyone else running blue to the front.

Date: 05/28/14 Time: approximately 23:00 Location: 11 Camelot Drive District: Warwick FD Units: Fire: Warwick FD (E-634.635, 636, T-633, TA-639, R-637, M-640, M-644, Car 1, Car 2, Car 3), Chester FD (E-914, ta-?) Goshen FD (TA-935), Monroe FD (E-543, F.A.S.T.), Pine Island FD (E-651, Car 3), Florida FD (TA-610) EMS: Warwick EMS (202, 203, 204 (rehab unit)) Standbys: Greenwood Lake Standby Warwick FD, Pine Island EMS (301) standby Warwick EMS Coordinators: 36-16, 36-1, EMS 1 Description: Warwick FD initially dispatched for a garage fire, 911 filling out the first alarm. Warwick Safety 1 and a past chief on scene, reporting a 3 story building with active fire on all floors and on/through the roof, several vehicles well involved, and unknown entrapment, requesting 2nd alarm. Safety 1 able to confirm all residents out and accounted for. Fire knocked down in approximately 1 hour. 1 fire fighter transported to the ER for a facial laceration secondary to tripping over a line. Warwick EMS assisted Red Cross in relocating subjects due to several residents having severe physical disabilities.

Like any other job, you're going to have a wide variety of people who have a wide variety of attitudes towards the job.Having been in EMS for 8 years now and an EMT for 3 year and 1/2 years, I have found that you truly have to enjoy the job, whether it be as a volly or paid, in order to make it worth it, I think alot of people get jaded because the join EMS just as a job, and compared to what we do and compared to the rest of the emergency services (fire & pd), we don't make that much. As for me, I joined my local VAC as a junior member when I was 16, and it just clicked. I moved up to the senior corps as soon as I graduated High School and got my EMT paid for through the corps. I still ride for my vac now, and also work as a ski patrol EMT in the winters and as a per diem EMT for another local EMS agency, and I love it. Give me a rig, a good partner, and an area with a decent call volume, and I'm gonna enjoy it. Now as for being part of a vac or a paid agency, they obviously have their benefits and and subtractions. I enjoy my paid spot, because can go in, run my calls, and then go home at the end of the tour, and when I go home, and I don't have to care or worry what's going on while I'm not there. However it can get boring sitting in the station when it's slow. As for volunteer, I ride with a very strong VAC, and it's nice to get out and help my community and provide top level service at a significantly reduced cost than what a paid service would cost our community. However, I do find that when you volunteer, you run into alot of bs. I also find that alot of vollies feel that the amount of time you've been involved/what your age is is all that matters, regardless of skill, experience, training, etc. I will say it gets annoying when you have people who push you out of the way to get to a position of power, but then you have to show them where equipment is on a rig, or you have to assist the medic with something because the more senior EMT doesn't know how to do it, and then they act like you purposefully showed them up in front of other people. All in all though, like I said, I truly enjoy being an EMT and wouldn't trade it for the world.

From what I understand now, the reason it is too heavy is because they are using it on steep terrain. Supposedly this all stemmed from an incident where the rig was coming down Greenville Mountain, and burned it's breaks before it got to the bottom. Supposedly they've now taken the water off the truck and are using it as a rescue only and it's within the weight limit.

Why is this coming up now, after 5 years? My guess, the commissioners got turned down on their $1 million ladder truck last year, and they thought they'd try for a new rig again.

Date:5/5/14 Time: approx. 12:00 Incident Type: Large brush fire Location: area of 107 Pentalona Road District: Greenwood Lake Units: Fire: Greenwood Lake FD (Full Department), Warwick FD (M-638, M-644, M-631, E-635, Car 1, Car 3), Chester FD (M-918, M-912, ATVs, TA-922, Car 1), Monroe FD (M-922, ATV), Florida FD (M-609, Mule), Johnson FD (M-714, M-717), Tuxedo FD, Woodbury FD, Hewitt NJ FD. Fire Coordinators: 36-16, 36-1, 36-? EMS: Greenwood Lake EMS (365), Warwick EMS (203, 204 (rehab)), Monroe EMS (412, 415 (rehab)), Tuxedo EMS. EMS coordinators: EMS 1, EMS 15, EMS 16 Description: Large Brush fire in the area of Pentalona Road and Old Dutch Hollow Road. Warwick FD also operated at a structure fire with Pine Island FD and Slate Hill FD in the village of Warwick during this incident.

It appears that the Rockland County helicopter is about ready to go back into service. Which Rockland agency is it that operates this helicopter and what capabilities does it have? http://rocklandgov.com/#prettyPhoto/1/

From what i understand, they purchased GREs piece of the scanner business, and are putting out what GRE would have put out as their next generation of scanners. As for having the first and only scanner to do P25 phase II, Uniden beat them with both the BCD536HP and BCD436HP.

NYS allows EMTs to use it, but your agency must be approved by the state and the region to use narcan

Not sure that's true. I know at least one person who works both Blooming Grove and Mobile Life. TOWVAC is not ALS, yet, they are still applying/going through the certification process to become an ALS agency. That's why the medics still have EMStar uniforms rather than Wallkill uniforms.

Mobile Life guarantees 5-8 hours of OT a week for full time employees, no idea on Emstar. Any reason you're looking to go commercial though, there are several VACs in Orange County with their own paid staff. I.E. Town of Wallkill, Port Jervis, New Windsor, Town of Highlands, Blooming Grove. Out of that list, Blooming Grove requires experience, but other than that you should be able to go on the VACs website (Orange County Civil Service for Highlands) and fill out an application for paid employee.

I don't see what suing the city will do. The only way I see this guy getting hired is if he can get a judge to overturn the initial ruling that the 2007 exam was racially biased. And no offense to his man who served his country, but they offered him a spot in the academy and he declined, and yes I understand there was no other option, but he was still on the list and a judge, not the FDNY or the City, ruled the list invalid, so what is his claim against the City, that they should have ignored a court ruling to serve him?

Because I used up all my premium clicks for the month prior to reading this article.

Considering I don't have a paid account with therecordonline.com, no I didn't read the article because I can't.

Isn't he already in jail/awaiting trial for the same thing?

From what I can find, it's not a MAB, rather it's used as a mobile medical examination room idea that can travel around to the different precincts, rather than have officers have to leave their precinct to report to wherever the main NYPD medical facilities are. Why it needs a full light and siren package for, who knows, maybe the whole "it makes it look like we have more cops on the street" logic.

Has anyone noticed that Town of Woodbury PD and Town of Warwick PD seem to have units with the same number? Woodbury PD has at least a 221 and a 224, and Warwick PD has the whole series from 201 to 224. I would think this would be an issue, even though they are on separate radio frequencies, and since all of these vehicles have AVLs, you think the county would have caught it

Obviously, this guy, along with everyone else in the US, has a right to their own opinion. And I will agree with his original thesis statement, which is that fire men, and emergency services in general shouldn't be regarded as heroes. I could be wrong, but all most everyone I know would say "I'm not a hero". After the thesis statement though, it quickly becomes an opinion piece, either that or he doesn't understand the evidence he's looking at. Yes, the Holland FD only has working fires at 3.8 percent of their calls, but he claims the 3.8 percent actually represents suspected fire too (that total is actually 20.7 percent). He then goes on to the FDNY. Yes they've received a lot more money in terms of funding, but alot of that has gone towards terrorism preparedness and future natural disasters, such as another hurricane sandy. Also, does he realize that the FDNY dropped a firefighter off every engine company? In my opinion, this professor is one of those people who think that if they're not fighting fires, firefighters are sitting around eating lunch and playing checkers, which as we all know is untrue. Also, it may seem that emergency services get paid alot, even though we aren't actively working at emergencies all that much, but as a professor of mine put it "emergency services don't get paid for what they do do, they get paid for what they may have to do."

Unless there's something somewhere that states that this is a mobile command center, I would think that it's likely some other vehicle. First, every NYPD command post I've seen has at least been lettered "Command Post" in addition to the command it's assigned to. Secondly, the bomb squad is a very small unit, like less then 10 detectives per tour, I can't think of any reason that unit that small would need their own mobile command post. That leads me to believe that this vehicle is more likely a mobile lab for testing for explosives or maybe a truck that carries all their robotic equipment or something.

Meaning? They are a much smaller unit with only a couple of detectives per tour and respond citywide from Manhattan with either one or two trucks (I'm not sure)

To be fair, it's not actually a meter. They're just detectors that have an on/off switch and beep if they detect CO and the speed of the beeps tells you how dangerous the CO levels are (sort of dangerous, dangerous, and GET OUT), but it doesn't tell you what the actual ppm are or anything.