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Who outfitted your new ride? Looks nice, what is its function? Officer, intercept, utility?

got it.....thanks for the clarification

2 questions: 1. By Westchester EMS you mean EMS services in Westchester, not the actual company Westchester EMS 2. By pointing out Austin-Travis EMS, you are advocating or at least supporting a county wide, municipal EMS service. This is not an attack, just clarification.

45-Medic-1 and all of the 45-Medic units are operated by Westchester EMS out of Mt. Kisco.

Who covered EMS prior to this change?

Seems absurd that they would get rid of it after two years...I remember seeing it at the Wetdown if you could call it that pretty well. Here are some pictures of it operating at the training center two days ago from the ifco site... http://www.ifco13.com/index.cfm?fs=news.newsView&News_ID=89

Any other planned uses for the crane other than just raising and lowering the boat?

Two of the news links next to the article... http://www.startribune.com/local/stpaul/70379007.html?elr=KArks:DCiUoaW_eEO7UiacyKUnciaec8O7EyUr http://www.startribune.com/local/stpaul/70539012.html?elr=KArks:DCiUoaW_eEO7UiacyKUnciaec8O7EyUr

picture of utility 95 http://public.fotki.com/lfd171/westchester_county_fire/new_rochelle/utility_95.html

YHFD apparatus: http://www.yorktownfire.org/content/apparatus/ Old R-16 is for sale: http://www.yorktownfire.org/index.cfm?fs=news.newsView&News_ID=207 Looks great.....good luck with it

Check your facts.....4 have been arrested.

Nice work.... Looks like an exact copy of 4011. Any major differences between 4010 and 4011? Will this one spend most of its time around Mt. Kisco as well?

I was taught CPR three times in K-12, 7th grade, 8th grade and 10th grade. However, in 11th grade when I was going for my recert at my FD, the person who I had to practice and model on was my health teacher who had taught me CPR the year before in 10th grade. To say the least, when ever I did something wrong during the rcert, I heard it from chief and from my teacher...it was not good. I think CPR should be one of those things that everyone knows, I like the mandatory cert with a drivers license. Congrats to Capt. Palmer, good job, nice save.

Thank you.....your points about executing him are exactly spot on. Yes Goose you are angry, yes you want justice, yes we all want justice, but what is justice if it is not that, just. We must pull out all of the stops on this one ensuring that this dirt bag has a fighting chance so we don't spawn the next suicide bombers that will inevitably arise if we stoop down to their level. We must show them that they can do all of what they do to us but in the end none of their actions are going to change what we do. By subverting the rule of law in this country we send the message that we are barbaric and lawless as they are and what they are doing is working. If we really want to end this debate, let him get tried, let him get convicted, then lets send him back to Gitmo or maybe Alaska, somewhere cold. We give credence to those who seek to do us harm if we do not do what is right based on the morals, standards and values this country was founded on and blood is shed up to this day for.

Thank you for posting that....some interesting points addressed in this article.

Certainly puts any chiefs car I have ever seen far and away from being this kind of light show... Looks great, nice work

It has been proven that torture is not a reliable technique when it comes to interrogation or intelligence gathering. It has been shown that those tortured for information give up false or misleading information under that kind of duress just to make the torture to stop. It only legitimizes terrorists actions and damages our reputation as a fair, free and human country when we engage in forms of torture. When we as a nation engage in torture for intelligence gathering we break some of very laws that this nation was founded on. http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/media/etn/2008/alert/313/

Update: Straub resigned today lohud article: http://www.lohud.com/article/20091113/NEWS02/911130380/Straub-steps-down-as-public-safety-head-in-White-Plains I know I am preaching to the choir here but this whole situation is insane. Why are we even having this debate, the current plan saves money and the brothers and sisters actually enjoy working the schedule. So where is the problem? It seems that the problem is the board wants to have its say in everything and certain egos and attitudes out there can not or will not be silences by good decision making and common sense. What is happening in White Plains is an shameful, demanding the change just because the unions did not have to give concessions to work for the city in a system that benefits both parties. Mayor-elect Bradley has been a family friend since before he was elected to go to Albany, I will see what he has to say when I see him next.

When is delivery expected? Does anyone have any PE drawings or anything to give us an idea of what the new ladders are going to look like?

Best line ever: "This is what happens when you come back from Iraq with all of this experience an nothing to do with it...." then baby powder IED explodes on the probie.

Very unique and interesting front dual axle...... what was the price tag for this?

I can not understand why people do not get the flu vaccines especially health-care and emergency service workers. On every call we use universal standard precautions and BSI, how is having an immunity to a disease or virus any different. Especially one that can spread and affect individuals as wide spread as the ones this year. For the record, I have gotten my seasonal flu vaccine back in September and have had to wait two months for the H1N1 vaccine to come to Vermont in the injectable form. (I fit 4 of the 6 or so categories of high/at-risk individuals).

Thank you to our Veterans and military currently serving abroad and at home. efdcapt, respectfully I must disagree with you. I believe that re-instituting the draft is most certainly not a good idea nor a fix to the problems our country faces today. It is my opinion, and the opinion of many of my peers in the 18-24 year old range that the draft constitutes nothing more than state run military slavery. By forcing a someone to join the armed forces you are taking away basic human rights such as self-determination and freedom of choice. Those who volunteer to serve to just that, volunteer, they choose to do what they do, no one forced them to do it and there is no reason why that should change. Those who serve must believe that they are giving back to their country and that is why they are serving. If they re-instituted the draft I believe that the government would loose the vast majority of the citizens capable of active service but not serving. It is my opinion that the youth of this nation, the future of this great land would leave, flee to a place where they were not forced to fight a war they did not believe in, somewhere where the politicians listened to the people, a place where their rights and beliefs were not reflected by vocal minority of fear-mongers that used the rhetoric of 9/11 to scare their people into thinking that they must take action when it is the people in the government and the government that should have taken action before it became a problem that the average citizen must address with guns and war. The draft is a solution to weary troops. The solution is backing out of a blood bath that we started in Iraq and not ignoring the war of retribution that we all supported initially. It is true, the level of patriotism and nationalism as well as national service among this age demographic is declining, I do not think the draft is the best way to improve this. Maybe making national service in country for humanitarian, educational or service needs mandatory is a better answer. Maybe after high school, all 18-19 year olds complete some sort of service-learning experience where they give their time to learn something while service and supporting a community in the united states that might need their help staffing an ambulance or building a road or teaching in a school. To sum up my points, if the draft was reinstated could and would disenfranchise the youth of the this country creating more problems then it would solve. The draft is an unsustainable short-term fix to a long-term issue. I leave you with quotes from some of the greatest minds to have ever lived: Conscription subjects individual personalities to militarism. It is a form of servitude. That nations routinely tolerate it, is just one more proof of its debilitating influence. — Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, H.G. Wells, Bertrand Russell and Thomas Mann in Against Conscription and the Military Training of Youth — 1930 Conscription is slavery, and I don't think that any people or nation has a right to save itself at the price of slavery for anyone, no matter what name it is called. — Robert A. Heinlein

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