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Though I agree with you on the inability to actually enforce the new law per-say it is though a good thing to have it on paper for the purpose if an emergency vehicle is enroute to a scene and is involved with an accident with another "civilian" vehicle that failed to grant the right of way. This will help more-so after the fact when it comes to apparatus accidents.

Lord Have Mercy, we are still arguing this????????????????????????? WE AIN'T GONNA FIX IT UNLESS THOSE IN STAMFORD DO!!! Yah I'm an admin but as a member here, it's about time we put this to rest! I'm tired of it!

They have a steel front bumper, user it to puss the You know what outta the way if he wasn't going to do it. That would have sent the AMT drive a message really quick! But I'm an outsider saying this so I don;t know how much trouble the boys would get into.

ProBoards is very limited to what we do and how are set up is. Also the IP.Board software is owned by the admin and we maintain the license and the associated fees. We have full control onthe admin side on what features we can use. The other is security. ProBoards does not offer the security as we have with IP.Boards. That is why other sites like Rockland, the Rant on LI and up in CT utilize specific forum software. ProBoards also offers a very limited amount of bandwidth which with our software and also with server space we can allocated the proper amount of space needed. With all the pictures we have here and are posted, ProBoards wouldn't fit the needs of the site. We would eat up all the allocated bandwidth quickly, and end up having to pay anyway for addition space. Just because its says it's free, it usually is not in the end all be all when you need something larger in side to handle the traffic. You have to read the fine print.

According to Seagrave's press release, its due in early 2011.

Yep, just looked and I was mistaken they were full tilts. My bad on that one.

I was wondering cause I was looking at the photos in FAJ and the new Seagraves showed (at least I though) they were full tilts. I'll have to look again.

I had though FDNY was transitioning to the full tilt cabs since most split tilts were being phased out?

Already being discussed here: http://www.emtbravo.net/index.php?showtopic=38550 Thread closed.

It was later reported that the cable derailed off the ski lift and several chairs on that cable came down. Patrons were being evacuated off the chairs at last report and there were several injuries. NECN.com has up to date information.

R.I.P.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. Will Ferrel and John C. O'Rielly's version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiOwX5G7OpY?fs=1&hl=en_US

I think unionized EMS will get big mainly because of how large many of the private firms are becoming. Look at AMR and how rapidly thet grew as an enterprise. The problem lies is what union an EMS agency would be affilaiated with. If you look, many places are represented by AFSME, IAFF, Teamsters, UAW, ect. so there is no uniformity with the Locals. I think this is the first step that a "EMS union" must overcome, try and organize with one Union. When you are talking municipal agencies, then that is a different beast as many have organized under AFSME or the IAFF. If EMS agency workers want to unionize then there should be some effort to try and to be organized under the same affilation. And also remember, your union / local is as strong only by how strong your members want it to be. Its not a cake walk, you have to work on it to make it successful. Once that happens, you'll see it get stronger for EMS employees.

Also for those who used to go to NF2G.com, the owner Dave is shutting down the site. All his information is being transferred to RadioReference.com. Dave probably had the best collection of all frequencies utilized in New York State and keep it up to date. The "shut down and migration" thread can be found in RR's radio forum page at :http://forums.radioreference.com/new-york-radio-discussion-forum/191693-nf2g-com-site-shutdown-data-migration-official-thread.html

http://www.washingtonvolfire.com/Home_Page.html http://www.washingtonct.org/firedept.html Washington, CT operates a firehouse in the Washington Depot and New Preston sections of the town. The run a 75's quint, two engines, a rescue, a brush truck, a tanker and an engine-tanker.

FiftyOne you are correct in your statement, basically that is what I said in my post above. You are covered by the town / city / borough / village / district's insurance policy thus at the time of service being called or even during training you are an employee.

Good Luck with your retirement and may you have all the fun in the word now, you deserve it!

Those graphics would also look good if the new cars were black and white! Hopefully they will give MVPD a good number of years of service.

It is common more than you think for volunteer agencies. Technically when you area a volunteer and are responding and working at an incident, you are now an "employee" of the department, town, district, ect. This title is given for the purpose in case a volunteer get hurt at an incident and requires medical attention. So in essence "Workers Comp Benefits" from the town / district/ ect. covers the entire spectrum of the first responder. Take for example my town we had an incident about 15 years ago where a member was thrown of an aerial ladder during a ladder pipe operation, was thrown up in the air and fell seventy feet to the ground. Now I am not going to get into the specifics of the old operations, et al, that is for another time. But the fact of the matter was the member who was injured (who is now paralyzed from the waist down) received full compensation from our city as he was operating as a fire department member. Workers Comp Benefits is all about insurance coverage for those hurt in the line of duty. "Retirement Funds" is another retention tool that was introduced nation wide during the 1990s as a way to have retention of volunteers when their ranks have been depleting. Its basically the same thing as a tax abatement but instead it is saved up and issued out when a person reaches their retirement age. Just like a tax abatement, the fund is determined by years of service, attendance, number of calls responded to, ect. The idea of a retirement fund was to assist retired volunteers when they also retire from their full-time careers to help them out monetarily with taxes.

The aerial ladder device and torque box are built all by Smeal for Ferrara in Smeal's Snyder, NE plant. Ferrara sends up their chassis from LA to Snyder, NE where the box, aerial device, pistons and guts are mounted onto the chassis then the truck is shipped back down to LA. However there have been some instances where Smeal has shipped the aerial parts to Ferrara and the mounting has been done in LA. As was the case for Pierce in the early 90s before they began building their aerials. Originally they were built at the Smeal plant then Smeal had reps go up to Appleton and set up shop there so the aerials for Pierce were built in their own plant. If you look at a Smeal aerial and a Pierce aerial today, except for a few minor changes, they are practically identical. The patent numbers are also very close as well. So yes, FDNY has a Smeal built aerial on the new trucks.

Its still a Dodge, just like they are marketing ans advertising RAM Trucks more this way to compete with Ford Trucks and Chevy. Now on the other hand Sterling, which is a Dalmer Chrysler brand, has its own line like GMC Trucks for GM Corp. Sterling's "public" line are very similar in appearance to Rams.

Good to hear you are okay Jim!

If anyone is concerned about its legitimacy, they updated the site with there Board of the Directors. Take a look who who are the directors. This confirms they are legitimate and should put questions to rest. http://www.newyorkfirepatrol.com/More_About_Us.html

You looking for paper tape or the actual tape punch. Sorry, still having my first cup of coffee.

I'm a big advocate against having any fixed lighting at the tip of an aerial ladder mainly because you loose a lot of mobility and have to constantly work around fixed mounted lighting. Mainly because of the added weight at the tip and also tactics when using an aerial ladder, but we can talk about that later. However seeing this set up, the only concern would be damaging the LED strips on the tip by heat or if you needed to effect horizontal venting by taking out glass with an aerial (which you shouldn't do unless it is absolutely necessary). I do like this idea as one its low cost and easy to maintain, two you only have to run the strips off the normal operations of the truck batteries and not have to fire up the generator, three easy to replace, four will give you the proper lighting to see where you are stepping off of the aerial (provided there are enough lighting strips to give you a good number of candle watts) and five they are not in the way thus allowing full operation flexibility of the aerial at the tip. I think if this was integrated better into the design in the future, we might have a win-win here. LEDs are taking over the roll where quartz lighting was predominant. Plus the fact that the amperes drawn from its power source are far less, its a move in the right direction.