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Negative...that was indeed before my time....I started 9/12/94...on my 20th Birthday

I started at Empress nearly 20 years ago...put in 7 OF THE BEST YEARS OF MY LIFE THERE..I loved every aspect of it..L O V E D IT! Yonkers. YPD YFD (effing big time!) The J O B S The TRAUMA The POTENTIAL FOR DIASTERS The people. I had so much fun it should have been illegal. (Some of it MAY have been....) I survived the Guy Amendola scandal.......Popestock......Operation Snowflake.....Sugrue as an Admin......unionizing....the Wolkowitz/Minerva Smackdown....the inception of the TAC bus ......I buried my friend, partner, and Lieutenant Tommy Sal....I had my car broken into numerous times.....I met and worked with some of the finest people to ever wear an EMS uniform. I would go back in a heartbeat.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! You have NO idea....

I didnt pass the bar, but I know a little bit............ SOD came to fruition long after my retirement.....but from what I have seen, it's a great thing. Other than the wannabe ESU cop uniforms..LOL

Do some research Bud....

Mark - consider replacing two of those with 6 foot steel roof hooks. Serious.

I LOVE fires. BUT I ABSOLUTELY HATE TO SEE BARN FIRES! Farms, and barns are becoming few and far in between, and it is nearly impossible for the average farmer to recover and rebuild after a fire like this...this can end a farmer's life as he knows it..very, very, sad.

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Does being despondent about a life changing event, such as a divorce, really make one an EDP? Or was there a HISTORY of mental illness?

That website is a spoof site FYI///

I LOVE IT! I am a big E-One fan, and a bigger "truck" fan, so this is a nice fit. We also run a 2006 HP75, and while it is nice, we are certainly handicapped by the shortfall of the "just" 75' stick. As I have mentioned in the past, even though the majority of our fires are in SFD, the setback from the road is what kills us. That extra 25 feet would come in handy on more than 1 fire that I can immediatly recall.

I had the honor and privlidge to work with Mark at Empress once he came home from his first active duty. I remember when he got hired by the Troopers him calling me frantic asking how to get to Troop K HQ, knowing I lived up that way. He would always bust my balls saying he couldnt wait to get out on the road so he could pull me over and write me for having a huge blue lightbar....LOL.. Some years later I was headed home, north on the TSP when a Troop car came up on me, as he was passing, we looked at each other and immediatly slammed on the brakes and pulled over. it was Mark, headed up to Troop K again, and I had long since taken the lightbar off. LOL God Bless Brother - I hope to run into you soon. http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2013308050023

Guys - the YFD AND the YPD both ARE EMS, with the YFD obviously more prominent a provider.

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Maybe Castle Point will buy one.......................................

It ain't about the height.....it's the REACH. And with a majority of SFD's in the suburbs and rural districts being set back from the roadway, even 75' is too short, as my department has seen all too often.

TRULY a fine human being. Rarely does one person have such a large and far reaching impact on so many lives. Thank you Doctor D.

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Good Lord...I was the FTO for ALOT of those names you listed! Apparently I do good work..LOL

WOW! That is AMAZING on several levels....

Bill Rothschild is one of the longest for sure....who else is left? The Commander? Maria of course - "AY Ay Ay!"

Man I hope they 7 or less fingers in that gun!

Then it sounds like you have alot of work to do there Chief... And I love Skoal.

Needs those wheels powdercoated flat black IMO... And good for paul - I didnt know that! I came into Empress as he was leaving..