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Uniden will be releasing the new BCD436HP and BCD536HP at the end of January. The BCD436HP appears to be basically a combination of the BCD396XT and the homepatrol 1 with trunk tracker V (APCO Project 25 Phase I and Phase II, X2-TDMA, Motorola, EDACS, and LTR Trunked Radio Systems). The BCD536HP is a combination of the BCD996XT and homepatrol 1 also with trunk tracker V. The interesting thing about the BCD536HP is that it comes wifi ready and will have an app that can allow any smart phone or tablet as a remote head. The BCD436HP and BCD536HP will retail for $499 and $599 respectively. http://info.uniden.com/Newscanners. http://www.scannermaster.com/Uniden_Bearcat_BCD436HP_Police_Scanner_p/10-501853.htm http://www.scannermaster.com/Uniden_Bearcat_BCD536HP_Police_Scanner_p/10-501854.htm

It'll be interesting to see what happens with the smart phone app with the BCD536HP legally in states such as NY where scanners in a vehicle are illegal. As for the price, I suspect we may see a drop once whistler starts releasing scanners since they bought everything GRE had.

Agreed. Also, people need to realize their limitations and stop riding when it becomes too much, I've got a few people I ride with who are over 65 and one who's 80. Each crew member should be able to lift and do any of the physical stuff involved with a call, and if you can't do the physical work, then don't come. Unfortunately, EMS is a young persons game and if you can't handle the job, then don't ride.

It's not that it's harder to apply to emergency vehicles, it's that in most cases, Lemon law doesn't apply to emergency vehicles. We looked in to NY lemon laws for one of our ambulances and were told that a custom vehicle, such as an ambulance, doesn't fall under lemon law. I assume that the logic is that since there are so many choices a customer can make, it's so unlikely that every single piece will fit together perfectly every single time, and you can't hold a manufacturer accountable for the products not working together.

That's basically it. The chiefs, captains, and any other officers the department has are line officers and handle any operations related situations such as drills and calls. Officers such as president are civil officers and handle any of the non-operational aspects of the department such as fund raising and running meetings.

My agency limits crew size to 4 on a call. I personally prefer a 2 man crew, but am just as happy with a 3 man crew. My only gripe is when you get two EMTs on the same crew and both try to be the EMT in charge, however one of the EMTs has no intention of doing the PCR or putting themselves as in charge. In my opinion, if you're not doing the PCR, you sit back and do what the "in charge" EMT says.

Date: 11/16/13 Time: 23:18 Incident Type: 2 car head on mva Location: State Route 94 North and East Ridge Road District: Warwick Fire District, Warwick Ambulance Units: Warwick FD (T-633, E-634, R-637, fire police, car 2), Warwick EMS (201, 202, 203, 209 (captain)), Greenwood Lake EMS (365), Emstar EMS (809, 811, ?), Town of Warwick PD Stand-Bys: Pine Island EMS (301) standby at Warwick's bay Description: Initial dispatch for a 2 car mva with unknown injuries. Warwick PD communications advising they are taking multiple calls on the mva, still unsure on injuries, 209 requesting his second rig be dispatched, 811 placing medevac on standby. PD on scene reporting at least 2 patients pinned, multiple patients self extricated, multiple injuries. 209 and FD car 2 on scene, assuming command (of respective agencies), 209 requesting all three of Warwick's rigs to the scene, and one rig from Greenwood Lake to stand by in Warwick. Warwick FD working on extricating the two pinned occupants. Orange 911 advised no med-evacs due to weather. 209 requesting 365 move up to the scene, backfill Warwick with a rig from Pine Island, two additional ALS units to the scene. FD extricated both patients in approx. 20 minutes, one patient transported ALS to Orange Regional Medical Center (202, 809), One patient ALS to Good Samaritan (201, 811), 5 patients BLS to Saint Anthony's (203, 365)

I think any radio system you look into will have problems somewhere. Orange County has a decent system, but base station radios are call portables in the system, i.e. department x portable 1 would be a base station in department x station 1. Also, you never know what people are going to want numbered, such as slate hill who has a trailer with an apparatus number (m-737) and Town of Warwick PD dispatch, who dispatches Warwick FD, is assigned an apparatus number (632 Base).

It has that up there now that it's a finished incident. With most incidents though, they'll just post a chief and the department in general, such as for a Suffern incident they'll post: 19-1, 19 fire department.

I'm sure it's bright colored to prevent the medics being identified as cops and then becoming targets themselves. Also, FDNY doesn't run tactical medics, especially since all NYPD ESU is minimum EMT, so what ever tactical gear FDNY is wearing is more for everyday protection, I.e. someone takes a shot at them as they get out of the rig at a call or a similar situation, rather than in a tactical/swat situation..

Looks like pretty much everyone from Rockland is there. Unfortunately there CAD doesn't list all of the units that are there http://www.44-control.net/

I meant that a majority of the fleet was KME Walden has purchased exclusivley KME since 2000 until the new rescue, which was made by a company that only does rescues. Middletown has three out of the five engines are KME, a majority of the fleet. Warwick has two KME engines, the spartan /KME, and from what I heard they like the KME tower and will probably be looking to get one when the time comes to replace the current e-one tower. The tanker was just a rechassis onto another freightliner chassis. And Pine Island is a fully standardized fleet with KME with the exception of the Unimog.

From what I heard Winona Lake is replacing E-320. Winona Lake is part of the Orange Lake fire district and both departments were fully pierce til 2010, when Winona Lake got their pierce heavy rescue and Dan Leghorn got a KME tanker. It maybe that the Orange Lake fire district has decided to go with a KME fleet now, as a number of departments seem to be heading towards KME fleets, i.e. Middletown, Pine Island, Walden, Warwick, etc.

The new Orange Lake E-326 is up on the KME facebook page https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151978817227010&set=a.10151978815292010.1073741934.209948672009&type=1&theater

Date:11/11/13 Time: 13:00 Incident Type: 2 car mva with rollover and entrapment Location: Warwick Turnpike and Bowen Road District: Warwick Fire and Ambulance District Units: Warwick FD (T-633, E-634, M-644, Car 2) Warwick EMS (202, 203), Emstar EMS (892) Town of Warwick PD (Patrol) Description: Mini-van vs. car head-on mva. Mini-van then rolled into the woods and came to rest against against a tree with the passengers side on the ground, driver pinned. FD extricated patient in approx. 20 minutes and patient was transported to Good Sam by Warwick 203 and Emstar 892. Driver of the other vehicle transported to local hospital by Warwick 202

That would be when you only have one or two ALS units coming in and the majority of the resources are BLS. An agency like Empress that has multiple rigs plus supervisors and everything, what are they gonna do, call mutual aid BLS and turn command over to them?

Not that this is new, but did anybody know that West Point FD got a second ladder (T-466) about a year ago? It's a pierce 65' straight stick quint, former Fort Monmouth Engine 3. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152232624415537&set=pb.277336965536.-2207520000.1384066727.&type=3&theater https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152232622315537&set=pb.277336965536.-2207520000.1384066727.&type=3&theater http://www.fdnytrucks.com/files/html/otherstates/Monmouth%20County/Fort%20Monmouth.htm

They're now saying 10 - 12 weeks meaning somewhere around mid-December to early January based on when you took the test.

Is it just me, or are some of the reports coming out of the shooting at the Garden State Plaza a little creepy? Who would enter a mall, dressed at least to conceal his/her identity, if not in tactical gear/body armor like the reports suggest, with an assault rifle, fire shots, but not at people, and then walk around the mall, not shoot anymore, and vanish despite the massive police response in progress? Also, the reports of the shooter talking to himself and even waving (as in hi) to people (reported by at least one witness)? In my opinion, the suspect came in and followed whatever his plan was (whether it was to scare a lot of people or test police response for future reference or something else.) This has crazy/nut job/EDP written all over it, to the level of James Holmes in Aurora last year and they need to find this suspect before he comes out again, because if he gets the chance, he'll probably try for bigger and better, in his opinion.

To be honest though, we all know one or two people who will take their time responding to any call. I had a driver get pissed at me one day for using RLS going to a unconcious, unresponsive, unknown breathing call cause the medics (an ALS flycar with a single medic) will get their first, and she still barley reached the speed limit

I swear I posted here earlier. Whoever was the staging officer/ directing incoming unit was not doing the greatest job. CNN had a reporter on the highway going into LAX and you could see the traffic at a stand still backed up for miles, where as the side of the highway coming out of the airport was empty since the airport was on lock down. Some how though, both LAPD and LAFD were fighting their way up through the traffic, rather than going the wrong way on the empty side, something to think about for future incident planning. Otherwise it looked like a well rehearsed, well run unified command with everyone (LAWAPD, LAPD, LASO, FBI, LAFD)all working together to get the job done quickly and efficiently. I'm sure that the active shooter drill LAWAPD and LAPD ran at the airport three weeks ago was a great asset and helped prepare the officers for today and shows just how important these drills are for everyone

the unions would never allow it. They want their paid guys doing the work so their members get more money and possibly have more opening to hire new people to bring onto the job and their union. Also, I'm sure the city doesn't really want to deal with the mess of having volunteers doing active rescue work since then they would have to worry about training, keeping people qualified, LODDs, etc. when they have and still do put all that training into the fire fighters and police officers, as well as pay and give benifits

Not for nothing, but this is a story from another site, and the person on the other site probably heard it from someone else, meaning were at least 3 people removed from the original story. I would think that there's a chance that the physician ordered the the 5 mg of morphine every 5 minutes until the pain went away or he stopped breathing (meaning the patient probably had the limit on the morphine and any more would overdose him.) Then again, there are just some stupid medics out there, I had one a couple of months ago give nitro to a patient with a systolic pressure of 100 (technically within the ALS protocols), then be genuinely surprised when the patient started going in and out of consciousness, and then decide that we should bypass the local hospital to go to the patient's choice facility (another 30 minutes away) even though the patient was basically unconscious.

While we don't know what's going on in this particular instance, I will say that I've seen chiefs cars/ EMS command vehicles being left at commuter park and rides or at offices where it's clear the operator is not their and isn't going to take the vehicle to an emergency if on arises.

Does anyone know the details surrounding the events that occurred in the Wickham village area of Warwick and Sugarloaf in Chester? I know there was a major manhunt lead by Warwick PD with multiple K-9s and a NYSP helicopter, and that the manhunt ended when the suspect committed suicide as a Town of Chester officer attempted to take him into custody in Sugarloaf this evening (the officer is okay). Other than that, I can't find any info on any news source and this seems like it's larger than some small town incident, so I was wondering if anyone knew why this subject was wanted and how this started.