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There were a few cases in Ca over the past 24 months or so of this happening. My chief actually sent around an email today identifying the event in Irvington and giving instructions on what to do if we encounter an event like this.

it was a mere joke at the absurdity of the situation but thank you for the information provided.

So does this mean the next step is my moms OB/GYN gets 10% of my annual income, I mean after all she did deliver me...

Obviously this diverts the thread but I can't imagine using my wipers without my headlights. If it is raining/sowing that hard then it will be dark enough or with a lack a visibility to warrant the use of the headlights.

I know BOCES had a half day EMT-B program you could get into, I did not do it nor did I hear of anyone else doing it but when I saw it about 5 years ago it seemed like a good idea. I agree a recruitment assembly could be a decent idea. I Know FLHS has a first responders club comprised of members of the various town departments that the district feeds into the the high school but I have no idea how it works as it was formed after I graduate. But really some kind of assembly would really only be useful when geared to Freshman/Sophomores. Seniors will be leaving in a few months for school (most of them), the juniors are too busy with school and wanting to be seniors to have time to add another time commitment if they are not already in the department so that really only leaves the freshman and sophomores.

Agreed, I keep a pair of chocks, about 12 pairs of latex gloves, safety goggles, a pair of shears and my leatherman that is it.

Wouldn't that require the system be updated almost hourly? With shift change, sick leave, injuries, etc etc couldn't that type of information of whose riding where change almost hourly with an organization the size of the FDNY's? I mean with all of the hundreds of fire houses and several times that in manpower, wouldn't at least some people be leaving work almost hourly requiring the system to update hourly or regularly at least?

Too early, plain and simply too early...Rest In Peace Brother Zgrodek, we have the watch from here...... All men are created equal, then a few become firemen -Unkown

Congrats FF Demontreux. They should send his gear to the different houses in the country to show why you need to wear 100% of your PPE. 100% of the time in an IDLH environment.

Tried that, unless you want some 16-17 year old wacko galavanting around your fire house getting into trouble. I started at 15 so I can honestly say that I have seen the gambit of good and bad high schoolers. The worst ones by far and away were the ones that should up for their mandated hours and only the "good calls". Additionally, training these kids is a huge problem considering the number of hours and the fact that 95% of them will be leaving in the fall for college. I would run out of fingers if I were try to count the number of kids that have come into my fire house only for their hours and then left not actually adding anything beneficial to the company. Yes there are those who can handle the pressure of this, but not Johnny Down the Street who wants to graduate with his friends but doesn't want to do anything that demeaning. I have found that unless they join young and join for the right reason they will provide a much larger headache then someone three times their age and is not worth your trouble. For those you know me, you would know when me and those in my same "class" of "junior members" started when we were (and still might be) just whippersnappers, it took years of training, indoctrination, education and maturity to reach a point where we contributed to the department in a positive way independent of just showing up, helping out and obey commands.

Gotta be super top-heavy and a rollover hazard no? Other than that very unique indeed.

I try never to get off the rig without a box light if I am going to be going inside anywhere. Additionally, I keep an LED Streamlight in my helmet and a LED Survivor on my jacket at all times. Besides the fact that the Survivor points to the ground when crawling and having heard anecdotes by one specific WCFTC instructor about being hung-up on the Survivor, I have not found a better place for the day-to-day mounting and positioning of a flashlight that stays attached to your jacket 90% of the time.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/23/nyregion/23nassau.html?hpw nytimes article about the shooting offering some new details.

I thought that NFD bought the Tiller from Hastings to use as a trainer/spare for their new tiller. Any one have a photo of the spare rescue in question?

So who won? All kidding aside a real shame such a nice car got ruined.

Would you have the same problem with it if it was left at the fire house with the keys in it or if it was left at the individuals house instead?

1. You incorrectly asked about a supply engine when you were really asking about a 2nd due. 2. I don't think anyone but a dealer would be willing to recommend anything to you without knowing more about your district. 3. You were very vague and unspecific about what you wanted from the truck. If you can fit the requirements of an engine into less than 10 lines of text you should be working for a design firm or something. 4. If you want opinions on manufactures look in the dozens of past threads on here in the past years, literally all of your answers have been answered there several times. 5. You asked for this help and assistance was forthcoming, I do not appreciate your tone and I am sure mfc does not either.

The almighty google search engine in its infinite wisdom produces some interesting internet chatter when you type in "New York Rescue Response Team". One quote from http://gothamist.com/2007/06/12/daily_news_expo.php has a guest poster quoted as saying: "These guys went out and created corporations with official sounding names like New York Rescue Response Team, Metro New York Search & Rescue..." From New York State Volunteer Ambulance And Rescue Association July 2010 http://www.nysvara.org/news/2010/jul/100721.pdf NEW YORK RESCUE RESPONSE TEAM (NYRRT) has started a Fire Safety Program. Members will distribute and install smoke alarms, which have a battery life of 10 years, free of charge to any senior citizen that does not have one. The program covers Bensonhurst, Borough Park, Kensington and Midwood neighborhoods in Brooklyn. There are plans to expand the program to all Brooklyn South neighborhoods in the coming months. The group also teamed up with the FDNY Fire Safety Education Unit to distribute free 9 volt batteries donated by the FDNY Foundation. NYRRT has an interesting assortment of equipment resources. Its website shows two highway construction type portable generator powered flood light towers with NYRRT markings. At a recent event the group brought along a large two axel cargo trailer with official plates pulled by a member’s SUV which was outfitted with emergency lighting. There was also an ex Type III ambulance with official plates, NYC REMSCO security sticker and NYS DOH inspection sticker on the windshield and blue lights on the rear – items that mprompt official inquiries. Information about the group, which was incorporated 7/11/06, is on the web at www.nyrrt.org. From New York Search and Rescue News: 12 June 2007 NEWS On Tuesday 12 June 2007, the New York Daily News ran a front page story about a group and/or groups known by the names and/or initials: Metro New York Search and Rescue (MNYSAR); New York Rescue Response Team (NYRRT); New York Rescue Squad (NYRS); and their unauthorized use of official New York State license plates. Our team, New York Search and Rescue (NYSAR) is -NOT- affiliated with any of these groups and has never worked with any of these groups. Additionally, none of our vehicles bear official New York State license plates and have never had official New York State License Plates. Our documented record of searching for lost, missing or trapped subjects speaks for itself. We ARE affiliated with the following organizations: New York State Federation of Search and Rescue (NYSFEDSAR); Search and Rescue Council of New Jersey (SARCNJ); and the New York State Volunteer Ambulance and Rescue Association (NYSVARA). http://www.newyorksearchandrescue.org/news.html From The Daily News: The plate scandal at DMV State probes how private vehicles got official status http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/06/12/2007-06-12_the_plate_scandal_at_dmv-1.html

I see you beat me to the punch but I posted an enlarged photo of the bed of E108 below. While you may have taken that photo from bedfordfire.com, the actual photographer is EMTBravo member BedfordFire photo credit x635

A supply engine can be, but does not have to be a normal class-A pumper. There are at least a few departments in Westchester that operate a non-front line pumper (meaning it does not have enough equipment to be first or second due to structure fire). These apparatus are essentially giant pump on wheels with a full bed of LDH. I know of at least one that carries about a mile of 5inch. Essentially this apparatus job is to go the the fire scene, then reverse lay to water source or it can exclusively fill tankers from the fill site or supply the attack engine. They are not designed to be actively engaged in firefighting, but rather simply moving water. This can be like you said, just the 2nd due, for those without a tanker or with long distances to water sources this is another option. I have attached a copy of PRFDs and BFDs source pumper from LFD171s site and a photo of BFDs hose bed and mile of LDH.

Gowans-Knight. They did several supply engines for BFD, PRFD, CFFD.

i believe we discussed it here and it actually is hartsdale.

I think Jetphoto summed up what I was trying to say pretty well. Keep it to one message is what I meant. When I am responding on my piece of apparatus and I call in responding, with the County Trunking System they know exactly who I am, I don't need to hail them then communicate with them, if they didn't get what I said, they will ask, plain and simple. If I am wrong, please anyone from 60 please let me know, either here or the next time I call in.

How about: -engine 987 to control -controls on engine 987 -engine 987 responding 123 main street with the digital trunk radios all of the apparatus now have with the CAD identifiers is it even necessary now to sign on to control? usually I just go "engine 987 to control, engine 987 responding to 123 main street." Is that off base or too much?

The Ionizing Radiation Standard, 29 CFR 1910.1096 "Unrestricted areas" for ionizing radiation are areas where even if an employee were continuously present in the area (1) the dose received in any one hour could not exceed two millirems, or (2) the dose received in any seven consecutive days could not exceed 100 millirems. "Unrestricted areas" for airborne radioactive materials are areas where concentrations do not exceed the limits specified in Table 2 of Appendix B to 10 CFR 20. The concentrations may be averaged over a period not greater than one year. Current Reading in Tokyo: 0.807 microsieverts/hour 1 sievert (Sv) = 100 rem (rem) 1 millisievert (mSv) = 100 millirem (mrem) 1 microsievert (µSv) = 100 microrem (µrem) For more info on Table 2 see the NRC.gov site: http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/cfr/part020/appb/