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City of Newburgh's new pumper courtesy of Campbell Supply's Facebook www.facebook.com/campbellsupply

Newburgh is very generous with mutual aid responses, depending on commitment times they will call back overtime. As much as they use it they understand it is a two way street. IMO it seems over the last few years Newburgh has begun providing more mutual aid then they receive.

Mark, While I don't know the breakdown the county hours are not divided equally, why would Greene County the same hour allotment as Westchester? At the last Orange Co FFI graduation the Dep Coordinator of Fire Training stated Orange County is #2 in NYS with OFPC hours, behind only Erie County. With that being said Orange County also separately funds their own County Fire Instructors. This greatly reduces the dependence on NYS hours for classes. ie. If a class needs a 2nd and 3rd instructor for 10 hours of hands on in a county like Ulster you use up 30 OFPC hours, Orange can use 10 OFPC and 20 county hours if they'd like. This increases the amount of classes they can host.

Pat is a great guy who would go great lengths to help a brother in need. A little more on him: Full Time Montrose VA FD Vol FF @ Vails Gate FD Asst Chief of Orange County Haz-Mat Team Facilitator at Orange County FTC Former Huntington, Stewart ANG, & Walden FF His wife is also a member of the New Windsor Ambulance corps. They have 3 small children at home with the youngest less than 2 years old. As soon as other donation channels are confirmed I will share those as well.

City of Albany posted as well.

Watertown & Mount Vernon posted as well.

It was a 2013 Stock Unit, purchased this past summer.

An article on www.midhudsonnews.com had reports of VP Biden staying at the Emerson Lodge in Ulster County. I know in most EMS cases a pre-arranged transport can be accepted if the patient begins or ends in your CON area.

With all these numbers being thrown around I decided to use the Comptrollers website, Open Book NY, to see what the actual financial condition of the district has been since the first referendum in 1999. *Note* I've never even been to Yorktown, but have done a lot of studying on wasteful spending with poor service by fire districts here in OC. FY 2000 Total Budget - $703,929 Tax Levy - $652,800 Total Expenditures - $898,598 "Capital Reserve" - $366,176 FY 2013 Total Budget - $1,136,291 Tax Levy - $1,128,616 Total Expenditures - $721,945"Capital Reserve" - $2,718,233 "Reserve for Repairs" - $265,464 Total Change 2000 - In this time it appears there were 5 large apparatus purchases. Tax Levy - $+475,816 (72.88%) Expenditures (will be off as they bought an engine in 2000) $-176,653 (-19.65%) "Capital Reserve" - $+2,352,057 (642.32%)

Not trying to take anything away from the true volunteers in New Windsor, but to call them a VAC is far from the truth. When they reopened they required significant career staffing during various hours, and still do. While they are now an ALS agency it only relies more on career staffing to supplement the volunteers. It brings back that old question, when do we have to change our name to drop the false adjective?

Date: 3/6/14 Time: 2300hrs? Incident Type: Working Fire Location: 1 Walker St., Walden District: Walden Fire District Units on Scene: Walden E-236, E-238, T-240, & R-246 Montgomery T-221 Wallkill E-64-11 Coldenham T-205 (FAST), & R-208 (Cascade) Maybrook Engine Pine Bush T-234 Orange County Fire Services 36-1, 6, 12, 109 Town of Montgomery VAC 2 BLS Rigs Mobile Life ALS Rig & SORT 1 Re-locations: Cronomer Valley T-301 & Bullville E-252 --> Walden St. 1 Walker Valley E-63-15 --> Walden St. 2 Description: 3 sty 40x100 ordinary brick construction, fire self vented from 2nd floor #2 & #4 sides on arrival of first chief, auto-exposed to 3rd floor by the arrival of the first engine. Most fire and damage held to in line apartments on 2nd & 3rd floors.

City of Newburgh has a Spartan ERV pumper on order.

Date: 2/23/14 Time: 14:29 Incident Type: Working Fire, 2 Sty Colonial Style Single Family Location: 476 Scotchtown Ave District: Campbell Hall Units On-Scene: Campbell Hall FD Maybrook E-210 & Ta-211 Goshen E-931, E-932, & Ta-936 Florida Ta-610 Washingtonville R-581 (FAST) & Ta-577 Mechanicstown E-122 Salisbury Mills Ta-557 Coldenham Ta-203 Montgomery T-221 & R-222 Vails Gate R-480 (FAST) Orange County 36-12, 36-106, & 36-109 Goshen Ambulance Units Relocated: Silver Lake E-158 --> Campbell Hall New Hampton E-722 --> Goshen Walden E-238 --> Maybrook Bullville E-252 --> Montgomery Description: 14:29 Campbell Hall FD Dispatched, reported Chimney Fire 14:30 Washingtonville Engine Dispatched, stand-by in own quarters 14:31 36-12 Dispatched, Mutual Aid/Automatic Response in progress 14:31 Campbell Hall R-902 Responding 14:41 Goshen Tanker Disptched, to scene 14:41 36-1 Dispatched, Inter-Battalion Mutual Aid 14:46 Maybrook Engine Dispatched, stand-by in CH FH 14:52 Maybrook Tanker Dispatched, to scene 14:53: Florida Tanker Dispatcher, to scene (2nd Goshen Tanker OOS) 14:53 Goshen Engine Dispatched, to fill site 14:53 Coldenham Pumper/Tanker Dispatched, stand-by in Maybrook FH 14:57 36-12 Arrived, reports working fire 14:58 CMD req EMS to scene 15:00 Maybrook E-210 enroute, dispatched to EMS call on Rt 207 15:01 Coldenham Tanker redirected, stand-by in CH FH 15:03 Mechanicstown Tanker Dispatched, to scene 15:03 Washingtonville FAST Dispatched, to scene 15:04 Walden Engine Dispatcher, stand-by in Maybrook FH 15:06 Salisbury Mills & Washingtonville Tankers Dispatched, to scene 15:10 36-12 req all tankers to use UHF Water Supply channel, Goshen engine going to second fill site 15:13 New Hampton Engine Dispatched, stand-by in Goshen FH 15:24 Coldenham Tanker Redirected, to scene, next available to backfill 15:26 Silver Lake Engine Dispatched, to stand-by CH FH 15:26 Montgomery Cascade Dispatched, to scene 15:31 Fire Investigators 36-106 & 109 Dispatched, to scene 15:35 Montgomery Truck Dispatched, to scene 15:35 Vails Gate FAST Dispatched, to scene 16:06 CMD reports fire knocked down, overhaul in progress **Photo credit: Mark Rosen, Maybrook FD

More uninformed hatred. A quick search of public tax records deeds MLSS HQ, Newburgh, Middletown, and Kingston stations to either Mobile Life Support Services or a LLC with the same Newburgh PO box as MLSS. A common practice among medium-large businesses. As for vehicle leasing, who knows if they own or lease, another common practice among successful medium-large businesses. Maybe that's their trick, they incorporate traditional business practices into their plans as opposed to the traditional public safety methods of spend spend spend.

http://chroniclenewspaper.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20140116%2FNEWS01%2F140119958%2F-1%2FNEWS%2FChester-fires-its-volunteer-ambulance-corps

Anyone have a clue where the on duty medic was during this? I assume he was on scene of the seizure call awaiting the ambulance. For those that don't know Ellenville First Aid is an ALS combination agency with a staffed medic fly car 24/7. I'm not sure if they staff a driver when there is no pre-arranged volunteer crew, but I hear them go up to a third dispatch for the ambulance quite often. Given their remote location to any staffed back up, and the close proximity to Ellenville Hospital they primarily use Kerhonkson/Accord First Aid for transporting backup, and as one article stated, tone out the FD for any driver. In my opinion, if your going to entertain a non-member firefighter driving your ambulance because he drives fire trucks, then why wouldn't you entertain a member with plenty of ambulance driving experience? The captain stating that the commercial ambulance doesn't transport patients in an emergency situation is 100% false (I bet they were also the ones who transported the baby to Albany Medical Center after Ellenville Hospital couldn't handle the patient). And his claim they only use converted vans is a bit off, the agency this kid works for has more Type III ambulances than his own.

Date: 12/23/13 Time: 09:00 hrs Incident Type: 2nd Alarm Fire Location: 104 Coleman Rd. District: Walden Fire District Units: 1st Alarm: Walden E-237, T-240, Ta-239, Wallkill (Ulster) E-64-11 2nd Alarm: Coldenham FAST, Maybrook E-210, EMS, OC FI, & Central Hudson Tanker Task Force: Coldenham Ta-202, Maybrook Ta-211, Wallkill Ta-64-12, & Montgomery E-223 Description: Working fire in a 1 story ranch style SFD. Dispatched as smoke coming from the roof of a home, caller sees no fire. Car 3 arrived with heavy smoke condition pushing from the eves, transmits 2nd alarm & requests tanker task force (no hydrants). E-237 arrived stretched 1 3/4" line to basement entrance where flames were visible through window. A second line was stretched by the tanker crew through the front door and fire in the kitchen area was knocked down. Truck crew threw a few ladders and performed primary searches, all negative. Mutual aid arrived and was used for secondary searches and overhaul. Due to the fire being knocked down quickly, the tankers began returning shortly after arrival.

No, the Mount Hope FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT was formed many many decades ago. Since its inception it had always contracted with the Village of Otisville, this past spring it contracted with the newly formed Mount Hope FIRE COMPANY. The Mount Hope TOWN BOARD is dissolving the FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT, in favor of a separate FIRE DISTRICT. The FIRE COMPANY will remain.

EMT111 you could not be more wrong. Orange County has one of, if not the worst, emergency radio systems in the Hudson Valley. As for the portables, not all departments "portable 1" is their base station. Some use it as it is supposed to be, and their line officers use portable numbers. Departments who are not authorized to transmit with base stations in county channels use the portable designation, maybe they think the FCC isn't smart enough to figure it out.

The Orange Lake Fire District published a Pierce spec, and the previous KME tanker was published as a Spartan/US Tanker. Walden's last spec/purchase was a Spartan/Rescue 1 Middletown's last spec/purchase was a Seagrave. Not sure about Warwick's most recent engine purchase, but the Raymond's published a Spartan/4 Guys, and got a Spartan/KME. Pine Island I don't know much about. But it seems none of those departments you listed are trying to push towards a KME fleet.

Date: 11/4/13 Time: 12:00 Incident Type: Working Fire Location: YMCA Camp Robbins, 131 North Dr. District: Walden 1st Alarm Units: Walden E-236, E237, Ta-239, & T-240, Wallkill (Ulster) E-64-11 2nd Alarm Units: 36-12, Coldenham FAST (T-205), Mobile Life, TOMAC, Central Hudson, & OC FI Tanker Task Force: Air National Guard Ta-369, Plattekill (Ulster) Ta-47-30, Wallkill (Ulster) Ta-64-12, Maybrook Ta-211, Montgomery E-223 Relocations: Orange Lake E-327 & Pine Bush Ta-230 --> Walden Sta. 1 Description: Heavy fire in a 40x40 1sty wood frame. Delayed notification, Car 3 transmitted 2nd Alarm & Tanker Task force from 3 miles out due to visible header. Arrived to find building fully involved with roof collapsed. Building was located about 1000' feet up a single lane dirt driveway, only accessible by driving through a bungalow colony with very tight single lane shoulderless roads.

It is a combination of full time NYS employees and guardsmen in the the NY Air National Guard 105th Airlift Wing. All equipment is owned by the ANG/Air Force. I believe military service and fire academy are required for full time employment.

http://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/2013/October/29/DelQuaglio_death-29Oct13.htm

I believe it was sold to Empire State Ambulance, which began changing the name to HVPS, but certain areas continued operating as Regional EMS.

When I completed the academy in Montour Falls 3 years ago, they were running 15 hour days (6a - 9p). Everyone was required to bunk in during the week, even the guy who lived 15 minutes away.