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The Comm. of Detroit actually has a better idea. 1) Create a special list of abandoned or vacant structures updated by FD companies and inspections. If there is no life safety and the building is well engulfed in flames, most incoming units will go 10-8 allowing a smaller number of units to contain the fire and prevent its spread. This will allow other units to be available for the rest of the city and not fighting a fire in a building no one is in and that no one wants. 2) Having Navy SeaBees demolish all abandoned buildings in Detroit 3) Using a FD demolition crew to raze other hazardous structures.

So what about that honors student that is forced to go to a failing inner city school? What do you tell them and their family, sorry your poor and can't afford to live in a better part of town or send your kid to private school?

RIP, couldn't have said it better myself mfc2257

Study: Chopper trauma transport improves survival chances http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/17/study-chopper-trauma-transport-improves-survival-chances/?hpt=hp_bn12

I think you mean slow and steady arrive alive.

60-Control has all of this information within their CAD system which they use very well to the advantage to all departments they serve.

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Yonkers budget: $295 tax hike, 112 city job cuts, but no significant cuts to schools http://www.lohud.com...|text|Frontpage Best of luck to our brothers and sisters in YO. Hopefully this is a gimmick similar to Bloombergs...

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Why save a sinking ship? The only mail I get is junk mail that I don't read. All important communication can be handled via email channels. Instead of trying to save the post office by sending more mail, why don't simply hire new workers to assist with federal IT instead? I can't tell you the number of municple IT problems I have read or heard about, but they do recieve their mail on time however...

As mentioned above, he may be chief but he is no leader, he is single handedly destroying moral and his own authority. You don't spy on your own people and expect them to follow your orders or any degree of loyalty, plain and simple. The fact that he was even thought this was a good idea means that he is not an effective leader and thus not an effective chief. If he was an effective leader/cheif than his members would have followed his orders to abide by a more subdued response policy.

Exactly what I was thinking. While Mayor Booker may be tooting his horn a little much two things are undeniable. 1) Bloomerg would have never even considerd it, he would have told his escorts to call the fire department and leave it at that. 2) Mayor Booker has a long history of trying to do good whenever possible on his own time for the city of Newark.

Do yourself a favor and pay the full fair for your ride. Pay for the MTA with something other than your taxes...

And why again do we do this? Is this accessed directly from NR to MTA or is this paid to the state via taxes then funnelled to the MTA?

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Hands down, I am not a fan of this upgrade as it stands currently. As mentioned above, everything is significantly slower and harder to use. It doesn't surprise me in the least that posting has decreased to the lowest levels I have seen since I first joined. I do not know the reason for the upgrade but let me say this, I think it was unnecessary and so far has detracted significantly the quality of this site in my opinion. It has become a real pain to post and view this site, to the point where I have stopped doing it at all except during my slowest hours. Bring back the old pre-upgrade site.

Extremely serious allegations, especially considering the level it must have rose to to have nine (9) current and former members with a similar story filing a complaint with NYSDHR. Unfortunately it is only the patients that truely suffer when morale and members leave an organization due to internal strife and forces.

While obviously very humorous, he violated a major rule in the fire house in my opinion. Much like when you are at the pool, no running, if you slip and fall the risk of hurting yourself is too high. There is no call in the world that is worth tripping, falling and striking your head on the side of the rig or the ground. According to NFPA, from 2008 to 2010, 25% of all firefighter injuries were from "Fall, jump, slip, trip". Go slow and hopefully you can catch yourself before you fall so you don't get hurt. 8,210 falls with inuries were reported by the NFPA between 2005 and 2009, thats over 2,000 injuries from falls a year. Again, go slow, maintain your balance and avoid being a statisitic, maybe then you can fight the fire.

Agreed 110%. I just switched from Droid 2 to iphone and I will never even think of going back to Android. Both of my droids gave me nothing but problems from day one. After the google play update, my Droid 2 was slightly more useful than a brick.

Firedude, I get the same screen.

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Kinda like asking if you have an issue with female firefighters. The answer is unequivocally not at all. Some of the best firefighters I know are women as have the ones who went on to be chief been some of the best chiefs I have known. I thought this cartoon was very fitting for our discussion here. http://api.ning.com/files/XkjrBT5712xWTXD1bDHmSRLLwIFHxUdlfGS-X5stXHBb5DUSv3xDxaHD*v1ux7REQHFjalLHHJ0IN5ukoAaknxDsG4h6Dk1Q/COMBSEqualityInOz.jpg

Next three obvious questions: 1. What will happen with all of their apparatus? 2. What will happen with all of their money? 3. Where will they pop up next?

Considering O2, glucose, charcoal and aspirin, metered dose inhalers, nitro, epi are all considered medication in the BLS protocols, unless you are a CFR/EMT I would ditch any of those from a BLS jump bag if it is not used by members certified to use them (not that BLS is carrying nitro, epi or mdi's.) Additionally, unless you are qualified to splint a limb or immobilize a patient using BLS equipment (backboard, collar, straps, splints, traction splint etc) I would refrain from attempting to splint any injury seeing as you can do more harm than good if it is done wrong. I.E. unless you run as a state licensed BLS/CFR service, ditch anything that is considered a medicine or that you need special training to apply. I wouldn't want some random firefighter who just happened to grab the jump kit trying to treat a patient, do it right or don't do it at all. Let me finish this little statement with the belief that CPR/AED & CFR should be part of all intro firefighting courses. (and if we are adding time to FFI we might as well add FFII, Survival, AVET, FAST) Just becasue you are a firefighter does not mean you will not be called on to treat patients. When was your last fire verse your last time seeing a patient on-scene?

Give a whole new meaning to "size up begins at the front door".