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I believe the medical term is EDP... Perhaps Res24cuE is being sarcastic? Either way, I don't think it's time for the site to come down. It just needs some life breathed back into it and has to be open for some changes.

Based on some of these posts, I can't help but wonder if some of you were dropped on your heads as babies. What is even more concerning is how little some people know, armchair quarterback and jump to conclusions. I have a fairly good amount of training regarding trains and train emergencies. I have - what I believe - is a wealth of knowledge of the fire service, including resources in this county and around us. I also have responded to and run a handful of incidents involving mass-casualties. I have never - nor has 99.5% of you - had an incident like this. The people running it did a TOP NOTCH JOB, and the fact that some of you are sitting back, typing away and criticizing any decisions of the Incident Commander or any others at this incident just fortifies why I have little faith that we can ever become better as a county. Some of you posting here are officers, past officers or - God help us - aspiring officers in your respective agencies. As the Maitre D' in Ferris Bueller's Day off said, "I weep for the future." /rant And for the record, this is me, as a person, voicing my opinion which has no reflection of any affiliation I have or have had in the past.

Our Engine is set up as follows; (1) 100' 1.75" bumper line, preconnected with fog nozzle. We refer to it as a trash line. (3) 200' 2" crosslays. Two have smoothbore nozzles, 1 has a fog nozzle. (1) 400' 2.5" preconnect off back with smoothbore nozzle. (1) 600' 2.5" deadlay with gated Y for courtyard/warehouse stretching. (1) 1500' bed of 5" LDH supply hose. (1) 600' bed of spare 1.75" hose, (soon to be replaced with 2"). The pump panel steps on both sides have 25' lengths of 5" for the MPO to make short hook ups. We have tried 2" in the past with mixed - usually negative - results. We switched the smoothbore tips to 1" and saw a marked improvement in Nozzle Pressure and manueverability. We also realize that we could be getting our first line in to place with as little as two firefighters, so it is nice to have mroe water and more reach.

EMTBravo was a great site until it became a part of modern society. Nowadays, everyone needs to feel appreciated, to feel more important than they are and to constantly get a pat on the back for everything. I miss when a good job or deed was recognized and can't stomach the constant need everyone has now to one-up each other. And this is for life in general, not just this site. As Tony Soprano's mother used to say, "Poor you!" To quote the kids nowadays, GFY!

Not a terrible idea...

Correct me if I am wrong, but hasn't there been one or two instances where your new dispatch system failed, and departments had to man their stations and dispatch themselves? (I am hearing this third party so it may be inaccurate).

Croton's Engine 118 has a 100 gallon foam cell, which carries 1/3% AR-AFFF. Additionally, our other 2 Engines, Tanker 10 and Marine 12 carry a combined 60 gallons extra.

We posted the info to help FF Campbell and his family, as well as Sgt. Lopez' family on our website www.crotonfd.org in hopes of further raising awareness and help. http://crotonfd.org/apps/public/news/newsView.cfm?News_ID=200

The amount of money some guys have thrown away on exams over the years is brutal. That $100 fee isn't worth it in my book unless you have residency or a major hook somewhere. Good luck to those taking it!

We can mandate whatever training we want as the "minimum," but what a department does for it's members after that is what truly separates the "men from the boys." There's departments that take your FF1 and consider it "enough." That's wrong no matter how you slice it. Training + experience = good firefighters. We all know "that guy" who has taken every class, but rarely shows up on calls and when they do, you wish they didn't.

I can't see any reason that this gentleman doesn't receive what is due to him. Good luck with your case, and may you remain cancer-free!

May they rest in peace. May their families, friends and brothers/sisters in the NYPD find comfort in one another while they grieve. And may the gunman and anyone else who supports this action rot in hell.

It isn't just the relocates that we don't need to go lights and sirens to. There's quite a few call types we honestly could scale back on and not use our warning devices. But that's a whole 'nother conversation...

Does this mean any of us over the air can give names and/or other personal info, such as phone numbers?

Where can one find information - HIPAA, for example, about disseminating information either on the air or online / in the paper? This is something that has come up at work and at the firehouse at home. Thanks.

1. To generalize that career and volunteer departments don't get along is not a fact. There are plenty of departments that work perfectly fine with one another regardless of how they are staffed. Sure you have isolated knuckleheads on both sides who flat-out hate one another, but the overall majority of ALL OF US don't fall into this category. 2. Do career firefighters have a hire minimum requirement - yes. Should volunteers, yes - but I STRONGLY feel that all of which is covered in the career academy is not applicable to volunteers - specifically the codes portion. A firefighter, whether paid or not, should have the basic education to respond to and mitigate just about anything we are sent to - and at minimum, we all need awareness level training of those specialized operations we may get sent to - but aren't necessarily trained for, staffed for or equipped for. IE: High-angle rescue, water rescue, confined space rescue, etc. It literally baffles me that awareness training on all of this isn't considered part of our minimum training. 3. No training requirements for career chiefs? Interesting. Although since most come from a lower level rank and usually have experience in that role, I don't think this is as bad as it sounds. Granted we all know how politics comes in to play and the best candidates tend to get bent over from time to time... 4. I wish you all a happy and safe holiday season. I don't care if you are paid or volunteer, I just hope you all make it home safe at the end of your day.

Comparing NYC to Westchester is like apples to oranges. In NYC, companies can move from one borough to another. In Westchester, it's usually a neighboring department moving over - sometimes only a mile or two. Here in Westchester, the majority of relocates usually move over to another district, where they generally don't go anywhere else or on any runs in that district they're covering, with some exceptions. Sometimes, resources get relocated that aren't even usually in that district... but I'll digress. And sometimes units that are relocated aren't even moved up to the scene of a working fire, while others are called from several towns away and PASS THE ONES COVERING! Again, I won't elaborate. Being requested to cover another district while they operate at an incident or multiple incidents is a PRECAUTION. It's moving things around and getting them closer in the event something else happens or additional help is needed at a pre-existing event. It is NOT an emergency. If you are driving from your quarters to someone else's and you get sent to that scene or to another call in their district, you can easily throw a switch and light it up. Some of us have districts that are larger or spread out uniquely, requiring 10-15 minute responses. Should we turn out lights and siren on to get back to quarters in case another call may happen on the other end of the district? When you send an apparatus out for repair, do you always have an apparatus to cover that unit? For example, if your department has only one Tanker, do you have a Mutual Aid Tanker come sit in your fire station until it returns? Do you drive back from the repair shop lights and siren because there might be a fire it needs to go to? I doubt it. I'm sure I won't make friends here and will offend some of you, but let's be realistic. Going from one firehouse to sit at another firehouse isn't an emergency. Chief Benz - you're 100% right that an accident can happen anytime, and we ALL know that we'll usually be the ones getting the s*** end of the incident. But - to me and me only - relocating to someone's firehouse is not an emergency and not worth me risking an accident. As for the Greenville incident - I call bullshit and feel there is some other issue / underlying agenda here. Hopefully this incident passes, no wrong-doing is cited and Greenville gets the money the need and deserve. When did you take up comedy, Chief?

#logisitics

The budget goes before the residents of the Fire District to be approved, right (third Tuesday of October)? So if the residents approve it, and then approve this added proposition to fund the more then necessary work to Station 2, it's really a non-issue. The voters have the right to question anything in a proposed budget, and have the ability to vote in or vote out Commissioners if they choose, and they also have the ability to vote for or against the proposition for the firehouse project. So it isn't about the guys at YHFD having the "nerve" to ask for funding for something that is needed. They're following the law and doing everything by the book with full transparency, from what I can tell.

My only gripes with this are Station #3 (saw carry) & #4 (ladder raise). Besides the Yard Breathers, who wears an SCBA for this stuff? And - if I have a 30 minute bottle and you have a 60 minute bottle - does that mean the same test for both of us? The change is long overdue, and everyone will complain about it until it's been around for a while, just like everything else, when it becomes accepted. Any volunteer fire department that thinks doing this is a bad idea are probably the same ones that let their Chiefs handle everything while the rank and file members hold their dicks back at the rigs.

The Washington Engine Company No. 2 of the Croton Volunteer Fire Department is hosting our annual Holiday Raffle again. The prizes are as follows; 1st Prize: $2,500.00 2nd Prize: $1,000.00 3rd Prize: $500.00 Tickets are only $10.00 each, and only 1,000 tickets will be sold. The drawing is on Monday, December 8th. If interested, contact me at jmunson@crotonfd.org. Thanks!

The only problem with that is that it will go to a police agency who likely won't transfer you to me at work...

We have Kochek Hard Suction hose, and it is fairly flexible and dependable. Granted, we do not have any 30' lengths, we tend to stick with 10-12' pieces. http://www.kochek.com/FireEquipment.aspx?uid=381-164-22

According to the Town of Ossining website, they still have a Chief of Police. http://www.townofossining.com/j25/contact-menu/85-town-offices/87-departments

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