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The people of White Plains are very lucky. These Brother's are so understaffed it is not even funny. I doubt the people there know how dedicated the members are and how much they are required to do compared to NYC, and to say that they don't or anyone doesn't deserve the same staffing is not true. The amount of fire load that WPFD NRFD YFD Greenburgh and fairview covers is the same as NYC actually even greater throw in MVFD and the 2 guys they have on a rig, man, you guys are doing a great job!

Its not the same outside of NYC. Guy I was carpooling with stopped at firehouse I believe in greenburgh, it was off 119 about a block in on the right side of the street. We asked if it would be ok to leave a car there as we both were driving to work together. What were we told? Ask the chief?! Ask the Chief? We were parking a hyundai or an infiniti not a motorhome 24/7. Ironically, went to Greenburgh PD, were told by a sgt there, NO PROBLEM, if you have any issues come inside. We had a guy who was on his Harley stop at firehouse who rode in from Cali for 9/11. He wanted to obviously go downtown, we insisted he leave bike in quarters as we couldn't guarantee parking or safety of the bike downtown, smaller firehouses etc. He was extremely grateful. I was taught you always treat anyone who isn't assigned to your firehouse as a guest, the mechanic, the radio repairman, even the exterminator all given the offer of coffee something to eat, some heat or ac, anything so when he remembers YOUR firehouse he says those guys are great!

First off I am truly sorry about your son. Brotherhood is in many ways not dead, but it also depends on where you work. My method of actions precludes me in many ways of social invites, or of being a part of the social hierarchy other than people being afraid of running across me, especially where I volunteer. I don't ever claim to know everything, but ill be damned if some idiot who thinks cause he is a volunteer firefighter knows more than 99% of the guys who do it day in and day out is going to teach someone the WRONG way to do things. At work its always take care of what you need to, we will work it out. It is a completely different environment. At home, at the local FD its all about who is most liked, or who licks the Chief's balls in many cases. But when I think about who actually gives a rats behind it is usually always the same core group of guys. No one realizes how much even a little phone call means to a sick or injured member, until it is them in the hospital with not a soul around. I am usually the stranger at the hospital for many of our terminally ill Brother's in the FDNY. I am there with either a cash donation or an offer to help anyway I can. I know what brotherhood is, and like one of the guys who I worked with when I got on said, 'kid, you never want to know how good this job really is.' Pete the Greek said that, if you know who he is. Trying to teach new guys this is not that hard. But what needs to be explained is the fact that no matter what kind of call you go on, the threat for death or injury is there. We all know it at work, we have plaques and everyone knows someone who was killed. Here locally it is not as prevalent luckily, so the gravity of the work usually doesn't hit home. This is part of the reason Police officers always have a mutual respect for one another, because no matter how long you have been on the job, you know that safety is paramount, and relying on one another is critical to survival. Perhaps one way you could teach everyone is through a basic call audit. Bring up the last few recent alarms, and point out every way someone could be hurt or killed. Instilling the fact that you can be the difference between life and death for each other is paramount to these kind of exercises.

Two great guys gone way too early. One of the scariest tours to be away from the firehouse having a very close friend at work that day, who also happened to be very close to Mike, not only out of work, but being one of the trapped members as well. Continued prayers for both family's.

Give them back, with a note saying thank you. Practically almost ALL CO detectors use AA batteries.

My buddy made a whole 40k a year in Gwinette county Ga had to kill two perps on two sep occasions and both times he was not only worried about being held criminally responsible, but worried if he would be fired as well!!!!

Keep rende out of the drivers seat!

The picture was sent to you two days ago. It was ordered removed July 30th. Not one single positive thing to say about it. Heavier and much harder to maneuver.

It is no longer in use. It was removed promptly after its first use.

You shouldn't have anything in the cab but your helmet and gloves anyway, cause if you want to err on safety it becomes an issue in the event of an accident but thats not that issue. Wouldn't you want to have an extra guy on an engine instead of a rig to sit in that has room for what? A meter? Realistically what are you putting in the cab that shouldn't be in a compartment? If youre going on an unknown odor run you shouldn't be starting your meters on the rig anyway, it will FAS in a dirty environment, especially if you work in a busy area and have contaminated bunker gear. It would rather also have a rig replacement program that gets you something every x amount of years as opposed to when they think its not gonna last another day.

Trying to say that safety is compromised is not really valid. How about don't drive like an idiot and you won't get killed. I would much rather see the additional 300k in savings spent on something much more useful like things that get used, and often. I have a few fireman friends that drive an oil truck, why is it you rarely here of oil truck drivers getting killed in accidents? When you look at the specifics of most apparatus accidents the other poster was right, wear your seatbelt, pay attention, forget the stupid radio. If you can't put out the fire with the first due engine which better have at least 750 gallons if you even own a tanker you aren't saving any lives anyway, and if you drive like youre in your civic you won't be saving your own behind either!

Probably one of the best rigs and ideas I have seen in a long time. Custom rigs are a complete waste of money when dealing with tankers. Not many are using them as a first due rig and if you are they are very limited due to the size constraints due to tank size. Lake Mohegan bought 4 commercial cab rigs back in the 90's, I just passed one the other day. Why spend 700k when you can spend 400 and get the same thing? Its not like that many dept's in NYS are running like we do in NYC with 3-5k runs a year. Spend that 300k on something better like in house training by all these guys giving valuable information in a one or two day class.

We are slowly heading towards no FD service. Unless you get kids in high school to start training we will soon enough not be able to find someone with the time to attend 140 hours of training just to get on the backstep, and they still won't know a thing! In my experience most if not every new member has been extremely hungry and willing to train their hearts out. I don't see what has changed since 1994 when I took essentials. If anything now we are better off and not because of training but because all of the advances in protective equipment and concentration on mask design and so forth has allowed us much better protection.

They do it cause its the way out. Those triple deckers are all built front to rear with a stairway on the left or right front side and a rear deck as second means. Half the time fire blows out the rear deck and then you only have your primary means of egress as your way out. They are taught to use ladders, not many people use them as much as they should.

FDNY doesn't use it, NYPD does. And try and decipher the ICAD reports they suck!

Aren't every new members required to complete firefighter 1 before they can even wear a mask? I took essentials in 1994, that was more than enough back then, hell I work with guys who went to proby school for only 3 weeks, now we have 14 weeks of training and a few poor bastids had 6 months! We still have guys who come out of proby school who are flat out retarded!

I worked with holowach aka 'the champ' we called him that cause he was the furthest thing from it!

You haven't lived till you slid a pole that somehow got a little wet!

I think St Lukes has a Horton. They only use gas rigs, they gave up on diesel a long time ago.

Light duty diesels in ambulances that just sit and idle are a huge problem. I think a better alternative would be to put in shore lines and electric climate control where the units sit awaiting. No more idling.

They have like 50 cars just sitting out at Floyd Bennet, all mint! I bet the men would love to get a few instead of the POS out there now.

You left out WTC command, that one is new.

Its clear, update your Penal law, it is a class D felony. Possession of child pornography is a Class E, go figure. And for pointing out that my father in law couldn't possibly know what he is talking about, the fact that he went to law school AND is a State Law Enforcement commissioner would preclude him from not knowing the facts, also include being a prosecutor in NYC for 10 years would make him quite knowledgable in the decline to prosecute area. But I left that out since it wasnt pertinent.

cop had no right to search the magazine. Why do you think the DA failed to prosecute, cause it is far better to do that then it is to make the entire NYSP look like fools. Already discussed this with attorney slash LE Commissioner Father in law.

I think if anyone who has any prior training or knowledge of Art 35 they wouldn't have any left :-)