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How it changed my life, after about 15 years of off and on EMS and 4 years fire. Well lets say it hasnt changed my life it made me realize how stupid people really are. Yes and well yea it changed my life I also hate people, seriously.

Steve Irwin has died, He was fiming a show when he was killed http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/09/0...rwin/index.html

How much of a pay raise do they get?????

Dont worry all Homey the Mayor will reap what he sows. Keep in mind it must be hard to lead the most corrupt city in the state to recovery when you have Mayor Mc Cheese running things. Think maybe he should take my ICS 300 class and learn that diasters start local and end local

Put it to you all this way, if Tommy leaves FDNY the show is over. SO he aint leaving

Please see the I-300 Course announcement below. Class size is very limited. Those that are interested in attending should register by Friday, August 11, 2006 New York State Emergency Management Office ***TRAINING ANNOUNCEMENT*** Incident Command System National Training Curriculum ICS Intermediate (I –300) Course United States Military Academy at West Point Army Education Center Bldg 683 Buckner Ave, West Point, NY 10996 Tuesday, August 22,2006 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Wednesday, August 23, 2006 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Thursday, August 24, 2006 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. The New York State Emergency Management Office is sponsoring an Incident Command System - Intermediate (I-300) course to be held at the United States Military Academy at West Point in West Point, New York on August 22nd, August 23rd and August 24th 2006. This course was jointly designed under the leadership of the NWCG and included DHS/FEMA, NFA, and USDA and complies with the NIMS/HSPD-5 requirements for Incident Command System training. The complexity of incident management, coupled with the growing need for multi-agency and multi-functional involvement on incidents, has increased the need for a single standard incident management system that can be used by all emergency response disciplines and is required by Homeland Security Presidential Directive #5. Use of the Incident Command System by public safety and private sector organizations across the country is increasing. ICS is being used for a variety of applications including: · Fires (structural and wildland) Hazardous Materials Incidents · Law Enforcement Operations Search and Rescue · Air, ground and water accidents Multi-Casualty Incidents · Natural Disasters e.g., tornadoes Planned Events e.g., parades, concerts, etc. TOPICS TO BE COVERED IN ICS INTERMEDIATE (Modules 7 – 11 & 13) · Module 7 - “Organization and Staffing” · Module 8 - “Organizing for Incidents or Events” · Module 9 - “Incident Resource Management” · Module 10 - “Air Operations” · Module 11 - “Incident and Event Planning” · Module 13 - “Unified Command” PREREQUISITES The prerequisite to enroll in this course is completion of the Incident Command System National Training Curriculum ICS Basic (I-200) Course. Other ICS training may be acceptable; however, prior approval is needed by the Course Manager. **To promote understanding of HSPD-5/NIMS requirements, we strongly encourage participants to complete the IS-700, an Introduction to the National Incident Management System, available from FEMA’s Independent Study Program at http://www.training.fema.gov/emiweb/IS/is700.asp prior to attending this program. COURSE COMPLETION An open book exam will be given at the end of the course. Participants who achieve a passing score on the exam will receive a Certificate of Completion for the course. WHO SHOULD ATTEND The target audience for this course is individuals who may assume a supervisory/management role in expanding (Type 3) incidents including Command and General Staff positions, Branch Director, Division/Group Supervisor, and/or Strike Team, Task Force, or Unit Leader positions. Persons who may assume these ICS supervisory positions would include senior personnel from Emergency Management, Fire Service, Law Enforcement, EMS, Healthcare, Education, Military, and Volunteer organizations active in disaster. COST There is no fee for the course. Food, Lodging and Transportation costs are the responsibility of the participant. CONTACT New York State Emergency Management Office – Training Section, (518) 292-2351 or semotraining@semo.state.ny.us REGISTRATION Register on-line at http://www.semo.state.ny.us//programs/training/index.cfm. ~REGISTRATION DEADLINE COB Friday, August 11th, 2006 Katherine O'Connor, BS, EMT-P Program Specialist, EMS Division Program Coordinator, REMSCO Westchester County Department of Emergency Services Westchester Regional EMS Office 4 Dana Rd., Valhalla, NY 10595 T(914) 231-1685 / F(914) 813-4160 koc1@westchestergov.com Westchester County wants to be able to contact you in an emergency. Sign up at www.westchestergov.com This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. --- You are currently subscribed to wcems as: b.bzbeagle2@verizon.net To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-140449-29703B@list.westchestergov.com

They did all ready cant remember the name it wa on FX last year.

Check the link for classes before Sept 30. http://www.semo.state.ny.us/programs/training/calendar.cfm

There has been many movies through the years that profited through others tragic loss. Pearl Harbor, Raid on Entebee, The Movies about Munich 1972. But i do not hear anyone saying that the families of these tradgadies should get any money from the movies. I never heard people say they would never go see these movies (which is your choice not to see them or see the WTC movie which i will not argue). But to say it is too soon or that it is not right make them is just wrong. It is unforutnite that in our time people do make money over diasters and other peoples loss. Many of use sat and watched Pearl Harbor movies or docudramas and such. But how many of us said it was wrong to make because of the lives lost. How many times did any of us say will the familes who lost someone get money from this movie, and to say it is too soon too show, well for the people who lost someone special or a loved one its always too soon for a movie like that. But it is part of AMercian Histroy now, and the story will be told sooner or later. But for those of us who lost someone it will always be too soon. It dosent matter if it was yesterday when it happend or if it was over 60 years ago. It still hurts, we all must understand that someone will profit from any incident that is worthy of being part of Amercain History or World Histroy. The person writing a history book will profit from it.

Hey... Tomorrow, August 2nd, will be the 28th Anniversary of the Waldbaum's grocery store fire. There will be a 10:30 Mass in St. Brendan Church, Avenue O and East 12th Street, in Brooklyn. For those younger members of The Secret List, 6 firefighters lost their lives at the Waldbaum's fire on August 2, 1978. This was the largest loss of firefighters in a single fire in Brooklyn. The firefighters died at the fire when the roof collapsed, and 34 others were injured. At the time, it was the worst single disastrous fire for FDNY. The heroic firefighters who died are FF George Rice, 38, Ladder 153, FF James McManus, 48. Cov. Lt. James Cutillo, 39, 33rd Batt., FF Harold Hastings, 40, 43rd Batt., FF Charles Bouton,38, L. 156 and William O'Connor,29 of L. 156. Critically injured were FF's Richard Smicuska and George Costanza. The fire started at 8:40 am in the "under renovation" Waldbaums supermarket on Ocean Avenue in the Sheepshead Bay section of Brooklyn. Dozens of electricians and plumbers were renovating the building when the fire started in the mezzanine area. The "all hands" signal was transmitted for the working fire at 8:49, the 2nd alarm at 9:02. Shortly after 9:20, with 20 firefighters operating on the roof, a crackling sound was heard and the center portion of the roof fell into the smoke and flames. Some of the firefighters were seen running toward the edge of the roof, some made it, others nearby fell into the hole....a nightmare. At 9:18 the 3rd alarm was transmitted and it went to a 5th. Laborers and firefighters managed to pull out some firefighters who were near walls, some crawled out. Several holes were made into the wall to pull out injured survivors and victims. Some wives were at the scene when their husbands fell. It was a horribly tragic and sad day-one we need to remember as those firefighters gave their lives-but so many have lived since that fire as we have learned about. I was working in New York City for I.S.O. at the time and with my partner, a retired FDNY truck Captain and real character named Angelo Puleo listened in our office fire radio to that horrible fire as it unfolded from the first alarm in 1978. It was incredible radio traffic that day to say the least. And as we were listening, Angelo started to tell me about that building that he knew from experience and proceeded to spend nearly the rest of the day teaching me all he knew about truss construction and the inherit dangers for firefighters. Here are some links on that fire: http://www.stevespak.com/waldbaums.html http://cms.firehouse.com/content/article/a...=33664§ionId=10 http://www.vincentdunn.com/ Take some time to remember the Waldbaums 6...but more importantly, remember by spending time this week focusing on educating your members on the hazards of truss construction to firefighters. No better way to remember than learning... Take Care, BillyG The Secret List 8-1-06

I always enjoyed taking classes at Camp Smith, I meet alot of fine firefighters there from all over the State. It is a shame that we are losing Camp Smith. As far as Westchester picking up the slack, how can you say that. Westchester has more FF1 classes then any county, Has given more ICS coures then most of the states in the country. and gives a wide varity of classes thourgh out the year. If anything all the counties should pick up the slack and carry the ball across the goal line. Because when it comes down to it we are to blame overall that Camp Smith closed. Just look at the numbers, an avg of only 1000 students a year, perhaps if we used it more the state could put up an argument to keep it.

In Westchester nooooooooooo never happens

What is amazing is that after all these years we still have problems with communcation . What is even more amazing is that most of the problems are us. As you see mentioned in the posts here. We just have to pratice switching over to the fireground freq. My Dept is self dispatched so to speak we are dispatched by our PD. But we still run into probelms if we forget to switch over to fireground. We should pratice this operation in all drills. Just check and make sure if you share it like we do that no one else is using it.

I think where it makes it hard for the Vollie is juggling career, family, and the vollie organaztion. When you start working 10 hour days, the kids after school and summer activites, and the wife in the other ear about household choirs, where does one find time to train, does one actually have time to take a class that is two or three hours a day two or three times a week for two to three weeks. How does one make time to fit it all in how does one if they can, priotize which training one should take when you have a list as long as my arm. This is not an excuse this is reaility that many volenteers face and i am sure some of our career brothers and sisters face also. unfotrunatly this is hurting the vollie services and also have cut down on recuritment. I wish i had an answer to this probelm but i dont. Please dont get me wrong i to feel that training is very important. but these are the porblems we all face.

Three more months then my contarct is up, VERIZON HERE I COME

Is there any life left in this horse?

only if 911 is called, keeping in mind ESS only does work in the Housing Projects

I was a memeber of them back in the mid 80's. That is the NYCHA Emergency Service Squad, we did everything from major floods to stuck occupied elevators. Nothing to brag about. PD and FDNY always got the press on calls such as those. What you saw ws proable the Elevator Divison of ESS. I think they are only allowed to go lights and sirens to stuck occupieds that have a medical emergency.

Lets blow this thing out of the water, I have dispatched too. Two dispatchers sleeping come on, we kniow those phones are loud in the center at least loud enough to wake you up. I think the two were drunk and passed out, that is your cover up now. they are just reporting that they were sleeping.

I have one thing to say to Met Fans. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while.

Ok Me fans hold on now lets see how your pitching staff holds up in the dog days of summer, all Yankee fans know the real season does not start until after the all-star break. All you have to do the first half of the season is play .500-.520 baseball the first half to still be in the running for a play off spot. Many better teams then the Mets right now have crumbled the second half of the season. GO YANKEES

Think its every other year or every year the test is usually in Oct. So if it is every year look for it too be posted within the coming summer months.

http://www.nysemo.state.ny.us/TRAINING/ann...an%20061206.pdf Class has been cancelled

Greatest Play in Major League Baseball It was thirty years ago. Turn up volume............. mms://a1503.v108692.c10869.g.vm.akamaistream.net/7/1503/10869/v0001/mlb.download.akamai.com/10869/library/open/features/monday_flag_350wmv?media_type=wms&av_type=video&event_pk=486348&product=gen_video who says there are no heros in baseball. How many of you remember this, many of you may not of even been born, I remember seeing it on This Week in Basseball

Its not the flu that worries me it is the panic that will come with it, hope they cant prove this ot better yet hope they prove it wrong. http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/conditions/...dflu/index.html