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Wow...really? Was there a past injury or something that made the department look to avoid the roof? Do you guys have an aerial?

Well I am glad some can actually past the BS and nonsense and take some good from this post. Yes, it could have been taken as stirring the pot, and I will admit - it may have been - a little. BUT..I KNOW those vollies who post here, who are active in conversations, to gain knowledge and information from the more esteemed members ARE NOT THE TYPE WHO WOULD CALL IT A DAY IF THE TOOK AWAY THE BELOVED WHOOPIE LIGHTS. You, and I do it for the right reasons.. Barry nailed it - the young fellar in question who I saw, at a local gas station talking to his other young buddy, was driving a raggedy a** pick up, dual whip antennas, primer, bondo, stickers UP THE WAZOO, a dash light, lights in the rear window, and the holy grail of buffiness, a shiny new full length LED bar with yellow, blue, and red to the back (he turned it on to show his buddy)...His buddy laughed, said it was illegal and the Chief might make him take it off...his reply, "Hell with that! i'll quit first!" For the record - I used to have a bazillion whoopie lights on my vehicles..(Seth can attest to that! LOL!)....got in trouble a few times too..actually had a Chief with BALLS who took them away for 3 months. I slowly learned my lesson. It aint about lights...stickers...LOSAP...etc...It's about doing the right thing. Doing all you can to be the BEST firefighter you can...learning, training, and applying. To those who cry shhut this topic down, perhaps the truth hurts?

Perhaps I am.... BUt then again, I overheard someone say today they would quit their department if they could not use their shiny new LED lightbar...so it is a half serious question, half tounge in cheek.....

That is basically what I was getting at, just worded far more eloquently.

HAhahahaaa....Awesome.

Mark - it is not untypical to have upwards of a dozen firemen from a mutual aid department end up at a fire. They may not all get there on a rig, but they do show up. More often than not I drive MY truck to calls, as I can never make a rig, even living within a few minutes of the firehouse.

What is an acceptable staffing level for a career apparatus to respond to a fire? Let's face it - here in Dutchess, career or volunteer - no one is responding with a safe amount of trained members..but as luck would have it - for the most part, we manage...all of us. I feel for the guys in the FFD, PFD, and other area jobs - the staffing is borderline criminal. Sad thing is it is not just this area, it is all over the world. Again, sending an apparatus with "exterior" helpers is plain silly, and I agree with your points there for sure..but some expecting an apparatus with a driver, an Officer, AND 5 guys....unrealistic in the volunteer and career world north of Yonkers. Departmental Chiefs have to set a policy of what they expect from incoming mutual aid...bottom line...

That apparatus should have never left 'the barn"................ It should respond with a minimum of one driver and two firefighters.....and by firefighters, I mean someone that can do every aspect of firefighting..

Fire Engineering; March 2001

1/1/2001 Mr. Rizley

Definite

Poughkeepsie's multi-fatal "Taylor Avenue" fire is in there too...

The general alarm "Thatched Roof Mansion Fire" in Pawling has my Vote for #1 due to fire volume, dollar loss, and sheer amount of mutual aid called to the scene....

Are we allowed to talk about past incidents in Dutchess?

RIP

Anyone famliliar with an FDNY firehouse within walking distance of Grand Central? Headed down tommorow and my 7 year old is dying to see a "real life NYC firehouse"..LOL

Badass...Thanks!

Thanks guys.

Looks like a little over a mile...530 West 43rd Street

1000 percent ethical!

Thank you Sir.

Is there an online source for values, for older Code 3's? I have FDNY TL79 and was wondering what it is worth?

Thats pretty much the same thing I have heard..I don't know much about it...just another frequency to monitor...

No REP for Mods....?

I am not a fan....at all...I totally, 100 percent, emphatically prefer the LAST version..it was top notch. I can barely stand to log in anymore!