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No...tolls in CT were not removed after the Myannis River Bridge collapse. They were removed after a similar type, firey accident on the Turnpike in which several people were killed.

County PD DOES have motorcycles but they don't use them for parkway patrols. The book is good reading too.

Too many questions. You need to talk to your chief !

Registered Profesional Nurse of Excellance: Peter McDonald-Putnam Hospital Center ....and I remember Peter when he was a kid and his father used to bring him to work at FDMV Engine 4. You've come a long way. Congratulations !

The Saw Mill did flodd in the vicinity of 117 during the Nor'easter. I think that I was the last vehicle to get thru while headed south Sunday afternoon. The work that NYSDOT was a temporary measure that in no way allieviated the problem of too much water being sent downstream into an area that is now a swamp ...ooopppps....wetland.....with a meandering stream that cannot help but overflow it's banks each time their is a significant rainfall event. The paving job helped by raising the road a bit but the problem persists.

No firm has been awarded the contract....yet. Should be able to make an announcement by the end of May.

I hope that this panel, the Governor and the legislators have the "guts" to do something about the duplication of services that is costing all of us a fortune.

On days like this, you can NEVER have enough trash pumps.

Take it from someone who knows and is in the know, your information is incorrect. We'll just leave it at that and move on to better things.

There wasn't a riot at Playland 4 years ago.....and "they" did not run out of buses. There were 4 disorderly Playland patrons who disobeyed a lawful police order. There was an error in transmitting the request for police assistance.

If I remember correctly, when Mt. Vernon Hospital got out of the ambulance business in the late '70's/early '80's, one commercial ambulance was contracted for by the City and FDMV ran the second ambulance. Several of the career men were EMT's and they were assigned to the bus. I think that it came out of Station II. There was no increase in budgeted manpower positions to provide the ambulance service.

....and you should have been there the night that we bought "that huge yellow truck" down from the airport. Needless to say, the services of a tow truck were required that night !

BTW - When the first Jet Blue flight from HPN landed at MCO, the airport crash trucks provided a water salute to the A-320 aircraft landing on it's inaugural flight.

....and on the seventh day God invented the fire truck....and he painted it red.....with a white over red cab. Thank you God !!!

Shall I send a ParaTransit van ?

I agree....let Con Ed or NYSEG trained personnel perform this job.

I was less than impressed. Did not flow well and the "rap" between newscasters was fragmented. And what is up with the newscasters interviewing the Journal News reporters ? Shouldn't the TV reporters be out in the field gathering the stories rather then having a print reporter "telling the story ?" BTW - There is no Greenburgh High School. It's Woodlands High School...Look at your video for God's sake !!!

Richie, Dennis and I manned 17-7-1 on Tuesday nights for many years. Oh, the stories that I could tell. Richie loved his country, his community and his family. RIP my friend.

From today's NY Times: JetBlue’s C.E.O. Is ‘Mortified’ After Fliers Are Stranded By JEFF BAILEY The founder and chief executive of JetBlue Airways, his voice cracking at times, called himself “humiliated and mortified†by a huge breakdown in the airline’s operations that has dragged on for nearly a week, and promised that in the future JetBlue would pay penalties to customers if they were stranded on a plane for too long. David G. Neeleman said in a telephone interview yesterday that his company’s management was not strong enough. And he said the current crisis, which has led to about 1,000 canceled flights in five days, was the result of a shoestring communications system that left pilots and flight attendants in the dark, and an undersize reservation system. Until now, JetBlue and its low fares have enjoyed overwhelming popularity and customer satisfaction ratings. The crisis began Wednesday when an ice storm hit the Eastern United States. Most airlines responded by canceling more flights earlier, sending passengers home and resuming their schedules within a day or two. But JetBlue thought the weather would break and it would be able to fly, keeping its revenue flowing and its customers happy. On the contrary, JetBlue’s woes dragged on day after day. On Saturday night, for instance, the airline said that the 23 percent of flights it had canceled on Saturday and Sunday would also be canceled Monday. The confusion led to angry exchanges between customers and employees, prompting the airline to call out security personnel. Founded in 1999 as a low-fare airline, JetBlue was often cited as a favorite among passengers and expanded rapidly, but its systems to deal with the consequences of bad weather did not keep up with the growth, Mr. Neeleman said. The company’s low-cost operating structure may have been a contributing factor. “We had so many people in the company who wanted to help who weren’t trained to help,†he said. “We had an emergency control center full of people who didn’t know what to do. I had flight attendants sitting in hotel rooms for three days who couldn’t get a hold of us. I had pilots e-mailing me saying, ‘I’m available, what do I do?’ †The part of the company that locates pilots and flight attendants and directs them to their next flight assignment is far too small for an airline JetBlue’s size, Mr. Neeleman said. He vowed to train 100 existing corporate office employees to work in that area when needed. Within two weeks, the area can be better backstopped, he said, and within 30 days, “flawless.†Then again, Mr. Neeleman has been wrong before. On Friday, he told The New York Times that operations would be mostly back to normal on Saturday. That morning the company canceled 23 percent of its flights and shut service to 11 cities entirely. Yesterday Mr. Neeleman said that throughout the chain of events, he had overestimated JetBlue’s ability to find people and get them into position. The basic problem, he said, was JetBlue’s communication system: the ice storm had left a large portion of the airline’s 11,000 pilots and flight attendants far from where they needed to be to operate the planes, and JetBlue lacked the trained staff to find them and tell them where to go. Prior to last week, JetBlue had never had so many people out of position. The reservation system was also overwhelmed, with customers unable to get through to human agents to check on a flight. In an unusual arrangement, the company employs nearly 2,000 reservation agents in the Salt Lake City area, many of them women who work at home. Mr. Neeleman said he would adjust their work agreement to require them to work longer hours during difficult periods. Mr. Neeleman said he would announce a compensation system for passengers tomorrow. He is hoping to win quick forgiveness from customers and to demonstrate that he takes the airline’s failings seriously. “This is going to be a different company because of this,†Mr. Neeleman said. “It’s going to be expensive. But what’s more important is to win back people’s confidence.†He did not say if higher fares might be in the offing. At the peak of the JetBlue problem, nine airplanes full of angry passengers sat for six hours or more on the tarmac at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. Other airlines have suffered big breakdowns. American Airlines stranded passengers on a plane in Austin, Tex., for about eight hours last Dec. 29. And in January 1999, a Northwest Airlines flight from the Caribbean arrived in Detroit 22 hours late and then was kept on the snowy tarmac for seven hours. Last week at J.F.K., Delta Air Lines had at least one outbound flight that pulled away from the gate and then sat for two hours or more on the tarmac before returning to the gate, Betsy Talton, a Delta spokeswoman said. But Delta’s operations, smaller at J.F.K. than JetBlue’s, ran more smoothly. It canceled 20 to 25 of its roughly 80 flights on Wednesday, Ms. Talton said, and had some delays on Thursday. Up and down the East Coast, Southwest avoided many of the problems JetBlue confronted by canceling more flights earlier. American Airlines also canceled flights earlier at J.F.K. Throughout the airline industry, the move to lower costs has led to a thinning of staff. When things are running smoothly, the fewer number of people is usually adequate. When bad weather and other problems develop, however, it often becomes clear that airlines do not have enough people to manually rebook passengers on other flights, to handle misplaced bags and to take care of other problems. Mr. Neeleman said JetBlue certainly erred in not canceling more flights and in not doing so earlier on Wednesday, and added that his company’s management lacked depth in operations. “We need to beef it up,†he said. “I’ll address that as well.†Mr. Neeleman said he would enact what he called a customer bill of rights that would financially penalize JetBlue — and reward passengers — for any repeat of the current upheaval. He said he would propose a plan to pay customers, after some amount of time, by the hour for being stranded on a plane. He says knows he has to deliver. “I can flap my lips all I want,†he said. “Talk is cheap. Watch us.†There is growing sentiment in Congress to pass legislation that would mandate limits on the time passengers can be kept in a plane on the ground and also set compensation standards for stranded passengers. The airline industry hopes to fend off such a measure. Mr. Neeleman said he wanted to make the penalties to JetBlue “more aggressive than any airline lobbyist would let Congress do.†Gordon M. Bethune, the former chief executive of Continental Airlines, said that little other than low fares would do much to win back customers, but if an airline makes a bad judgment call, “you better be good at recovery no matter what.†He called last week’s JetBlue meltdown “a byproduct of their past and their growth.â€

Jet Blue is going thru a bad week. It is apparent that some really bad decisions by someone who is inexperienced with how to get planes back on schedule after a weather event like we had on Valentines Day. I note that the other airlines did not have nearly as many problems as Blue had. Their schedule cancellations were minimal. I suspect that whomever made the decisions that were made is no longer working at Jet Blue. I have flown Blue a number of times down to Florida. Have always had safe and reliable service. And the TV's are the bomb ! I have flown Air Trans out of the Westchester County Airport a half dozen times, however. I have found their service dependable also.....especially last months 2 hour and 8 minute flight from Orlando to Westchester. Gotta love them tailwinds. Keep the faith. I'm headed south next month to do the spring training tour. Jet Blue comes into Westchester on 3/25 and we'll see how the competition shapes up !

70% of the ridership on the New Haven LIne are from Connecticut. Hence, Connecticut has to come up with the $$ to pay for the cars, power system etc. Note that the cantenary system has been removed in NY between the Woodlawn Jubnction and south of New Rochelle station where the Hell's Gate branch (AMTRAK) line joins the main line. New cars have been ordered for the New Haven Line but you won't see them for a few years.

First flight on Jet Blue from HPN to MCO is sold out.

1968 Mack in front of the old Rescue quarters (formerly Engine 5) on S. Fulton Ave. north of E. 3rd St.

Didn't this truck roll or the aerial collapse at a job at the old Daitch Shopwell on Halstead Ave. back in the '70's ?

Never, EVER use house hose for anything other than washing your car. It's usually old, single jacketed and rarely, if ever, inspected. Use the hose on your engine that you know is inspected, pressure tested, is double jacketed and is in probably good shape. Also, never, EVER use a ladder that you find at the scence of a call. That ladder is not NFPA certified or inspected in accordance with NFPA regs. Use ladders that you carry on your apparatus. The ONLY exceptions to the above is to protect life.