NJMedic

Amtrak has a presents in NJ, although there are typical few and far between. In fact the NEC has the most officers assigned to it in the Country. Our HQ is 20 feet from the Northeast Corridor so I usally see a car on patrol once a week. NJ Transit trains operate on the NEC are on Amtrak property. Metro North owns the track between New Rochelle and New Haven, north of New Haven it reverts back to Amtrak property. This passed Sunday I saw a several Amtrak officers at a homeland security exercise in Trenton. I also see their helicopter doing fly bys every once in a while. They do in fact go to FLETC in Glynn County, GA. Their officers belong to the FOP and they have a web site at www.amtrakfop.com

I would suspect it will be used in the same fashion that NYPD ESU uses their big trucks. WSounds like the staffing is the same, a sargeant and a senior officer.

IIRC the "Rescue Company" in Syracuse had several different vehicles. A traditional box truck for heavy rescue, a ladder truck who's first duty was to rescue trapped occupants, and the ambulance, used to provide medical aid to firefighters at working fires. From SR 1's Facebook History page.... The Rescue is rich in history from 1952 to 1958 the Rescue Co. was the primary company to do all work requiring the use of breathing apparatus. In 1962 they recieved a first aid type vehicle to become a 2 piece company. In 1965 the first Heavy Rescue was delivered for Rescue 1 and 1969 or 1970 Rescue 2 was put into service a Chevrolet Ambulance type vehicle. The Rescue Company did not respond to signal 99's (working fires) until February 9, 1961. The Rescue Company is made up of members who are NYS E.M.T'S (Emergency medical Technicians) but also trades such as carpentry, electricians, plumbers, welders and small engine repair. The RESCUE COMPANY today responds to all 1st...... alarms of fire for working structure fires. The RESCUE COMPANY is a multi apparatus Company. Rescue crew is 1 officer and 6 firefighters, divided into (2) 2-man search teams and (1) RIT. RESCUE 1 is a 2004 American LaFrance Heavy Rescue, with a spare heavy rescue 1997 E-ONE. Rescue 2 is Ford Super duty crew cab with a utility box. RESCUE TRUCK is a 1985 EMERGEN...CY ONE 135' Aerial ladder 1 of 7 built by E-One.

Specifically its a Centracom Series II "Compact Classic" Radio Console

I hope its good. I just added HBO to my cable package based onthe reviews.

No pictures?

If the call did come in via 9-1-1 does NYC have ANI/ALI? In our dispatch center we always verify the address.

I must be getting jaded in my old age. I didn't think it as graphic at all. Life Lesson #1: Don't screw with a Marine(s).

The FD in town had a civilian bring in a jar of crystalized ether and gave to the guy sitting watch. He didn't have clue one what crystalized ether was or what it could do so he brought it up to the deputy chief's office. They ended up relocated the apparatus for a couple of hours while the bomb squad removed the jar and brought to to a local dump for detonation. Every once in a while some PD will find crystalized ether in the evidence locker. Mosdt of the time they don't know how dangerous it is either. Ignorance is bliss.

I'm a paramedic, my wife is a ER nurse. I didn't want anything to do with the goofy EMS stuff. The day is complicated enough.

I seem to remember that the USCG and NYPD work under sometime of protocol that allows the NYPD to handle most of the air-sea-rescue work in the NYC area as first due, primarily due to the exented ETA of a USCG assest. In the summer I believe the CG stations a helicopter at Gabreski Field on Long Island, also the home of the 106th Rescue Wing of the NY ANG

C141s are not part of the USAF inventory any longer, replaced with the C17. Biggest aircraft I have seen at Port a Prince has been a C17

Joint Base McGuire could fulfill that role and is closer then Dover AFB.

I believe it is important to consider that the response to Haiti is not a "bread-and-butter" EM/USAR operation. Consider the following: (1) Though many states and localities have developed robust response capacities, this is not true in many nations. Typically, it is accepted that if the government is dysfunctional before an event, it is not likely to grow functional during a disaster, or in the immediate aftermath of one. Haiti has been viewed politically as a failed, or near-failed, state for years, suggesting it had inadequate governance structures prior to the event. Other nations are responding to assist, but one of the challenges will be how to work within the power vacuum they encounter. In most instances in the US, EM deals with badly impacted areas or regions, but there is still a city, county, tribal, state or federal government to work with, though, admittedly, it may take some time to get them engaged. In Haiti, with the entire nation affected, there is no overarching government to work with in rebuilding. The government that does exist has minimal resources. (2) In the US, the NRF and NIMS provide a model for activation, response, oversight and communications. Training, planning and exercises have been focused on working within that model. How will this work in a foreign operation, where much of NIMS and virtually all of the NRF are not applicable? In this instance, is DHS the lead agency, or is it the Department of State, with agencies working through USAID, as has been the case with USAR deployments and some military-based humanitarian assistance in the past? If the DHS, how will they interact with foreign governments? If the DoS, how well will they coordinate the response activities of highly specialized teams? (3) Over five years since Katrina, recovery efforts in the New Orleans area are still not where many wish them to be. What will the recovery to this earthquake be like, where the devastation impacted the majority of the nation, where the majority of the nation lived in dire poverty prior to the event, and where hunger and unsanitary conditions are endemic? What will be the legal, ethical, political, social implications of removing foreign assets when people are largely unable to sustain themselves at acceptable levels, though, in truth, many were in that state prior to the event? There is often a debate at the local level when a storm shelter is shut down and the homeless are left to shift for themselves. That debate is often localized, but this time the event may involve an entire nation, or the world. Will other nations feel compelled to remain and assist for a lengthy period? We all hope that the response and recovery to Haiti will be effective and efficient. My point is simply that we may need to explore this response through a lens different than the traditional EM model used in the US. We need to start considering how to assist in recovery in Haiti, with the nations providing aid working harder and longer to rebuild the area than they might have done after a disaster in a more developed nation. We also need to start exploring how to adapt our EM operational models to meet the demands of foreign operations, perhaps focusing more on the concepts of contingent coordination or intergovernmental management, than on more rigid models of command and control. Ultimately, the point is not to be critical, but to learn from this event, which is much larger in scope than the foreign disaster aid previously provided, to see how we can make the process more effective in the future.

From this morning's FEMA National Situation Report FEMA Actions FEMA NRCC is activated to Level II, 24/7 operations Region IV is at Level III Partial Activation due to Haiti evacuees possibly being evacuated to Florida. National IMAT West activated and awaiting transportation; scheduled to depart Sacramento at 10:00 a.m. PST in USCG C-130 Thomasville, GA MERS activated and moving rolling stock to Homestead; currently in Orlando Frederick, MD MERS activated in support of US&R operations and is awaiting airlift transportation Maynard, MA MERS activated and awaiting airlift transportation US&R VA-1 team (Fairfax County) in Haiti: base camp established, initial survey conducted, and priority targets identified US&R CA-2 team (Los Angeles County) to arrive at 4:30 a.m. EST, January 14, in Haiti US&R FL-1 and FL-2 (Miami-Dade) teams deploying from Homestead, FL on January 14 US&R VA-2, OH-1, CA-5, CA-7, NY-1, and TX-1 task forces have been activated and are awaiting transportation to Port-au-Prince; tentatively scheduled to arrive at Port-au-Prince today A US&R Incident Support Team is preparing to deploy to support US&R operations in Haiti Additional US&R teams on stand-by Logistics provided Frederick MERS with meals and water for delivery to Haiti; additional meals and water, along with tarps, blankets, cots, and comfort kits have been ordered and will be delivered to Homestead AFB for pre-staging Four External Affairs staff to depart today to Haiti to support USAID; one External Affairs staff to deploy to Washington, D.C. Department of Health and Human Services Four DMAT (NJ-1 is one of them) and four DMORT teams have been activated and are awaiting transportation to Haiti Four additional DMAT and four additional DMORT teams are on stand-by U.S. Coast Guard Two cutters already in Haiti; two additional cutters are en route Two fixed wing C-130 aircraft are performing over-flight assessments Two C-130s with 140 passenger capacity to arrive January 14; first evacuation flight of UN personnel scheduled to depart for Santa Domingo at 10:00 a.m. EST; two additional evacuations may be possible later that day U.S. Navy Hospital ship USNS Comfort scheduled to arrive by January 22 to provide mobile hospital Red Cross Five person team being deployed to manage distribution All relief supplies stored in Panama have been made available $1 million in funds available for immediate response

I believe the Phoenix, AZ Fire Department has removed SCBAs from the cab cited them as a possible hazard should they dislodge from the mounts during a collision.

It is an everyday event in NYC, especially when it has been as cold as it has been for the last several days.

Weehawkin, NJ or Manhattan.....US Air 1549 in the Hudson River.

Its been a while but I have taken both Roco and CMC. I would recommend either one of them.

The word "Closure" in this sense should be striken from the dictionary.

Received the seasonal on September 16 and the H1N1 (injection) a week ago today. No problems.

I was going to say "some good, some bad" but I left it at that.

12. Building Construction

When I joined in 1985 we had 3/4 length coats, pull up boats (never pulled them up, it was cool to always leave them folded), dual 3 inch lines to the hydrant, HUMAT valves (no one could figure the thing out), John Bean high pressure booster hose as an attack line, officers when sling packs, Scott IIa's with a pressure/demand switch, riding the back step and freezing my %^$ off, low band radios with skip interference from California,, and I don't even thing I'm that old.

Last Friday I was in Brooklyn for a meeting and as I'm driving on the Belt Parkway I hear the NYPD SOD dispatcher hit the alert tones and annouces "In the confines of the ??? precinct a report of a water rescue........" Now I'm think if the job is close I might be able to buff it when a few seconds later she says..... ....."person stuck in a bath tub". I'm sitting there wondering "huh what the....."