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What the difference is between volunteer and career firefighter training standards. All firefighters salaried or on-call will be trained, equipped and held to the same standards.

If you read this crazed killers writing and videos that have been posted by the major media outlets you will find a very distinct political sentiment that is expressed. It rails again many things crisscrossing the political aisle and spectrum, from education to the gold standard for currency to immigration. It seems apparent that at least some part of this tragedy was politically motivated, however it continues to remain unclear against who and why. Obvious Rep. Giffords, the Federal Judge and others were shot, injured and killed; what remains to be seen is why they were selected for this senseless action. This moron is clearly crazy, you don't shoot a member of the House of Representatives and a Federal Judge because everything is alright and in order up there, but what else is going on needs to be seen and determined for any real justice, closure and explanation. Let this event be the end of the vitriol, partisan, hyperbolic rhetoric on both sides otherwise this will only be the beginning of the bloodshed to come. (Think of the assassinations of the 1960's, the race riots of the 80's and Oklahoma City Bombing in the 90's as examples of when the vitriol of partisan politics have been taken to far like in this case.)

No matter what your politics this is a tragic event. The moron who did this will without a doubt fry for this and at least we can take solace in that fact. Whatever this idiots political ideals, he just set them back to the stone age with these senseless killings.

I would have to agree. Sure it is stressful responding to calls but remember us FD/PD/EMS folks show up then help once the call is received then mitigate the problem. Dispatchers have to deal with all of the stress of the caller while trying to mitigate the problem at a desk 20 miles away. I know how long it feels for me to get to the scene, I can only imagine what it is like as a dispatcher doing EMD waiting for us to get on scene.

Who says that there is no good press about PD/FD/EMS or any public works employees anymore. Here is a feel good piece from the NYTimes about some Brooklyn FDNY members rescuing a cat from a State Assemblyman's office. Hopefully one of the mods can attach the article, my computer wont let me. Dramatic FDNY Kitten Rescue Yesterday http://fort-greene.thelocal.nytimes.com/2011/01/06/dramatic-fdny-kitten-rescue-yesterday/ We may not rescue cats from trees but we certainly rescue them from walls. There is line where a staffer said the members considered bringing in a TIC but thought they were kidding. I don;t think the members were kidding actually. However the lack of knowledge about lunch breaks and duty hours is almost painfully ignorant to read.

someone screwed the pooch royally on this one. I hope Mr. Hall finds a really good lawyer and takes the city for all its worth.

In a word yes. But then so should CPR.

Did you file your 215A with the Safety Officer before the operational peroid?

New law honors 2 officers hit, killed by vehicles http://www.lohud.com/article/201012250330

Happy Holidays, and for those of you working tonight, stay safe, keep your head down and hopefully you will be able to get some sleep tonight. Unfortunately people seem to find the need to pack all of their yearly mayhem into the weeks immediately prior to and preceding this time of the year.

Eastchester Fire Department to update equipment with federal grant money http://reviewpress.lohudblogs.com/2010/12/22/eastchester-fire-department-to-update-equipment-with-federal-grant-money/

Hopefully they actually enforce the law and I dont have motorists going down I-684 at 80 MPH passing within a foot of my ambulance or scene while a trooper sits in their car writing tickets. This is not a knock on troopers, they have helped me out more times than I can count...I just want to see the law enforced for mine and their protection and safety.

Congrats Jeff. I guess we wont be seeing you on the 45-medic car anymore.......

So are you advocating hiring a person off the list (not yet a brother) who has not gone through academy instead of hiring a recently laid off brother who actual has? Not only does that not make any fiscal sense but flies in the face of our "brotherhood". Just sayin...

http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/12/20/did-jon-stewart-turn-the-tide-on-the-911-first-responders-bill/

Wait...you mean Christmas is coming up soon?????????

I say, until the IC says otherwise, the dispatcher had best be using their head and getting what they think are the required units to the incident, no if ands or buts. Sounds like someone at Metrotech needs to check their ego, use their head and realize that sometimes it is better to think out side the box then get trapped inside of it.

it is absolutely absurd how well laid out the inside of that bus is, literally everything is in plain sight. Kinda shows you how far behind we are here in the N.East.

Here is a question that I am not sure anyone can answer even helicopter. In the 50 years since Vietnam that medical aviation has come into play exactly how many civilian helicopter evacuations of patients have occurred? Additionally how many military patient evacuations. My round guess is over tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands during Vietnam, Panama, Iraq I and II, and Afghanistan. What is the accident rate of military medi-vac helicopters? My guess is significantly lower than civilian. If that is the case, what is the military doing better that the civilian world is not and what can be adapted from the military to civilian use.

I know this site ranges the gambit for left and right but if you have not seen the middle section of The Daily Show last night you really should. He has a panel of FDNY, NYP, NYCDOT and a union worker/representative, all 9/11 responders and affected by this travesty discussing this disaster in the Senate. http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-december-16-2010/9-11-first-responders-react-to-the-senate-filibuster

What other apparatus do they run? Will this rig run as a spare front line pumper if their first due is OOS or will this be for supply operations only?

If you can't find community members willing to come out and help out other community members when they are in need then you need to start paying people to help. There is no excuse for PO Smith, Driver Roy and EMT Johnny to be the only ones on a scene because the local fire department is afraid that its members might get burnt out by responding on one more minor MVA.

True, very true. I was told the best way to think about American Security was as rings of circles with the inner ring being personal awareness, security and mindfulness, the outer being the "Point of the Spear" military engagements with concentric layers of security and government in between. Our outer most layer has greatly prevented from anything even remotely resembling 9/11 to appear. The closest we have gotten since to my knowledge was X-Mas bomber, Madrid, London and the Fedex to some degree. However, the vast majority of those were 5 or less people, not the 20+ we saw on 9/11. Our military intervention/intelligence with a bit of luck have prevented the complexity to increase. It is really hard to bomb America when you are concerned that buzzing over your head is a Drone with a cruise missile attached. Once the outer most layer is breached with x-mas, madrid, london etc, it falls upon each other concentric ring to absorb the threat. However, in this country, we are facing a "radicalization" as Rep. Peter King said yesterday. Once we are on our own soil, it is the inner most ring of security that becomes most important, not the military ring.

Send them, you can always turn them back. If burn out is a problem then find new/better people. MVAs are one of the best things a department can do to stay visible and proactive in the community.