SteveOFD

I thought I heard that.

You know you're a buff when you know the Company name that the apparatus is assigned to.

I hate that burnt electronics smell, I've done it too many times!

My understanding is 60 Control is now their primary dispatch.

The FDNY site has an article and pictures of the tests.

DaRock98, you do not need to program the BeeLine buses to hear Fire/EMS Talkgroups. Do you have the scanner, and banks, programmed for trunked operation. If it is in conventional mode you may hear the first part of the conversation, but if the return part is on another frequency you may be missing that part. Check out this previous thread for further info. There is alot there, but there was alot of info posted during the thread.

I heard Ardsley FD on the trunked system this morning responding to an alarm. Confirmed this tonight, and that they are now being dispatched by 60 Control. Had hoped to add this post to the previous thread on this subject, but it went past fourteen days and alas is locked. The old thread is Now open for business

I saw this on WNBC News at 5PM. They interviewed Chief Tracy (from this year's Lt. Andy Fredericks Seminar). He pretty much stated what was mentioned in the NY Times article. For life safety, and to improve our operations, we may want to consider using this tool.

Talkgroup ID's 7 and 50487 are not valid TG numbers. Talkgroup numbers end in even numbers, and all TG's are sixteen digits apart. For more info see Wikipedia - Talkgroups. With the spacing between TG's being sixteen, valid TG's will be divisable by sixteen.

Came across this on the Marion Fire Apparatus website. Did not see any info about it on Garrison FD. Anyone know if this replaced 15-2-1 or 15-2-2? The picture looks like it may be 15-2-1.

I've always gone through to that site through the New York Senate site, then clicked on Bills & Laws. I searched and found the direct link which I posted above. I'll be at the parade and all the other activities of the WCVFA Convention, so I'll see you there.

I saw an episode of Bill Moyers Journal on PBS tonight that was about the political process of "earmarks". Earmarks are attachments to Bills that dedicate funding for specified projects with little or, most often, no debate on the neccessity of the project. These projects are inserted by Members of Congress usually at the last moment before a Bill is voted on. This way most voting Representatives will not even know they are voting on the specific project. This episode of Bill Moyers Journal followed two reporters for The Seattle Times who traced earmarks for represenatives in the Washington State area. They showed one earmark that was for a $4 million boat for the US Coast Guard. The USCG did not request this boat, and when they received it, they stated it did not fit their mission and they could not use it. The "earmark" for this boat was for a Washington State Representative for a Washington State boat builder. Long story made short, eventually the boat (less than five years old) ended up in San Francisco being bought by the Sheriff for ONE DOLLAR. The link above for The Seattle Times will bring you to their website, where you can view all "earmarks" for all Representatives, along with Corporations that received funding from these "earmarks". Interesting stuff!

Here is a link to all New York State Laws. There is a lot there, you just need to search through to find what you want.

All the Snorkels in Westchester have retired. Snorkel 1 - Bedford Hills Snorkel 2 - Verplanck Snorkel 3 - Mount Vernon Snorkel 4 - Scarsdale Then there were the Snorkel TeleSquirts: TS 1 - Fairview TS 2 - Millwood(E245) TS 3 - Mohegan Only Millwood is still in service, soon to be replaced with a Sutphen 70'. jack you googled while I was typing in.lol

Westchester County has posted until 2/25/08 job listings for Mutual Aid Coordinators - Westchester County Fire & EMS Mutual Aid Coordinators. Scroll down for descriptions.

From Firehouse.com Eastchester FD awarded $36,000 for Operations and Safety from the Assistance to Firefighters Grant program. Congrats Eastchester.

You have got to go to closed (or ID scan) mode. Right now you are in open (or ID search) mode in which will hear all talkgroups on the system. In closed (or ID scan) mode you will hear only the talkgroups you have programmed in.

Saw this on the news the other day. The Incapacitating Flashlight An LED flashlight makes culprits vomit. By Prachi Patel-Predd Nonlethal weapon: A flashlight (above) contains layers of electronic control circuitry, multicolored LEDs, and special optics that together produce disorienting and nausea-inducing patterns of ultrabright flashing colors. Soon cops' flashlights might not only temporarily blind bad guys: they might also stop them in their tracks by disorienting them and making them nauseatingly sick. When suspects turn away or reel, cops or border-security agents can nab and handcuff them. The flashlight, which is being developed for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), uses a range finder to measure the distance to the target's eyes so that it can adjust the energy of the light to a level that won't cause permanent damage. Then it rapidly shoots out pulses of light from an array of ultrabright light emitting diodes (LEDs). The flashes incapacitate a person in two different ways, says Robert Lieberman, CEO of Intelligent Optical Systems, based in Torrance, CA, which is making the device. The flashes temporarily blind a person, as any bright light would, and the light pulses, which quickly change both in color and duration, also cause what Lieberman calls psychophysical effects. These effects, whose effectiveness depends on the person, range from disorientation to vertigo to nausea, and they wear off in a few minutes. It's not clear why the changing light pulses cause this effect, even though the effect has been well documented, Lieberman says. Helicopter pilots, for example, have been known to crash because they get disoriented by the choppy flashes of sunlight coming through the chopper's spinning blades. The DHS is funding research on the new nonlethal weapon. According to a DHS press release, cops, border-security agents, and the National Guard could be armed with the new flashlight by 2010. The device is part of a larger effort to develop nonlethal weapons that can help law-enforcement and military personnel control crowds and riots, both in antiterrorist actions and in hostage situations. The LED flashlight comes with a few caveats. The person being targeted could easily look away, or he or she might be wearing heavily tinted glasses. And the device would not be useful to, say, a security agent who is chasing a suspected attacker. "It is designed to be used on someone coming at you," Lieberman says. Also, the flashlight's effects are less during the day. But Lieberman notes that security agents will more likely face situations in which they need the device at night. Glenn Shwaery, who researches nonlethal technology at the University of New Hampshire, says that authorities would use the flashlight, and other light-based "dazzler" technologies, to distract a suspect so that they can close in on him or her. "If you disorient or distract somebody and cause them to look away, then they can't focus on their task, which could be aiming a weapon at someone, or looking at a screen with sensitive information, or dialing a phone," he says. There have been efforts to make dazzlers using lasers, but LEDs could be a safer choice. "Getting an eye-safe wavelength with a laser has been very difficult," Shwaery says. Because laser beams are energetic and focused, they could cause permanent damage to the eye. Shwaery adds that the new LED flashlight would be safe because it uses a range finder and adjusts the energy it throws out. "The ideal goal for nonlethal technologies is that they be scalable." Researchers at Intelligent Optical Systems are now analyzing combinations of wavelengths and light intensities that have the strongest effect on people while remaining safe. They also need to make the device smaller and easier to carry. Right now, it's about 15 inches long and 4 inches wide. This fall, the team plans to test the flashlight extensively on people at Penn State University's Institute of Non-Lethal Defense Technology. This was from Technologyreview.com On the news report, the reporter was subjected to the flashing and stated that about one half hour after the flash she had an intense headache. I agree that some of these LED lights are way too bright.

The new Sutphen will be in additon to the 100' Tower, which they will be keeping.

Speaking to a friend of mine from SFD, the new Ladder will be a Sutphen (I believe 70') straight stick, similar to what Millwood FD is getting and what Chappaqua FD has without the bucket.

From The Journal News legal section 2/15/08 "Bond resolution...authorizing the issuance of bonds of the city of New Rochelle, New York in the principal amount of $480,000 to finance the acquisition of firefighting vehicles." Would this be for the Rescue or other apparatus?

Tony Bosco has retired, this is why you will hear Battalion 10 - Jerry Munson covering B12 area. I check the County site every couple of months for the apparatus updates.

The posting does not state a Battalion. According to Westchester Co. Fire Apparatus list 1/08 Battalions 12 & 19 do not have Mutual Aid Coordinators listed, so it is probably one of them. Unknown which EMS Battalion needs to be filled.

According to Seagrave.com there are specs for a new Harrison Engine on their site.

Anyone with info?