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Great idea chief. But Mark understands that l-13 is 1st due at his house and we can only send TL-11 2nd due (to clean up what L-13 missed).

Actually your house was upwind. We would love to power wash the house, but we have a new technique to do the inside of the windows.....we just poor enough water down the chimmney till its all filled up.

I thought Ebenezer Scrooge was a christmas thing.......ho ho ho

Almost every political ad over the past month (local, regional state & national) have discused the spending of taxpayers money. How is an unmanned house going to protect the public? Does YFD have volunteers who live nearby? When the bond issue 1st came up, I remember reading that they had no volunteers there and they would have to respond in private vehicles (down the TSP) to get to the station to respond. While it may not relieve them, it could give them the 1st due engine and YFD sends the rest from the existing fire stations. Most of the contry understands "closest available units" but in Westchester we only understand spend more tax money.

That or send them a bill for services rendered

I know this is not what you ment, but consider how it is written.

Very interesting. In some ways I agree with seperating occupational from line of duty, particularly if the benefits remain the same. In other ways I'm not so sure. Should those responders who got sick working the pile at ground zero be considered as "occupational" since they came down with many issues that are not "normal" occupational illnesses? I do believe that their is a major difference between a member who dies while searching in a fire building or running into a active shooter scene or putting themself truly in harms way is a LODD, I have trouble considering the 75y/o responder who dies from a cardiac event while ouside the hot zone is clearly not the same and when some say it is, they are marginalizing the 1st groups sacrifice.

Dosent Schenectady Fire lease the entire fleet? With the normal replacement cycle 5 years on an engine and 7 years on a truck? If this is correct then the only reason they need them so "desperately" is because they have to turn in the "old" (5-7 years) ones.

If the primary site was less than 1/4 mile, ISO will recalcualte your GPM rate to at least 1 miles which would be 550gpm. ISO calculates the distance based on the distance from all structures to the water sources in the district. This is why depts with good ratings develop water supplies so one never has to drive more than 1 mile.

Since we still use them, its not just old timers and sometimes when 60 repeats it in english they get it correct other times they do not. 10-20 is not respond with caution.

1)How many tankers and 2) what was the distance from the fill site(s) to the dump site(s)?

Select one: 1) Bingo 2) They must be sober, because they are under 21 and there info is 100% acurate (according to them and the NYC politicos that spoke at the press conference) the dash cams and other video is wrong and they must be correct (do you know how hard being sarcastic on here). I found it interesting how some NYC Council members showed up at the news conference and talked about this will never happen again because they have past a law requiring NYPD to have annual CPR training.

Now let me get this straight, the witnesses are at a bar (many underage) some fighting and they are all sober, so why are the accounts lies & half truths?

The issue is not gettinga ticket, its the potential legal fallout for an agency that is involved in an accident. A smart lawyer (or even a not so smart one) will show that the accident was your fault because you were doing something illegal. I dont think your insurance carrier will be happy after that. An ambulance should not be used as a blocker for a PD vehicle. Get something bigger behind you. EMS personnel have been struck and killed while loading the patient.

That means using them does not violate the DOT KKK standard. But it still must meet State Law, which clearly only allows it if it is on a FD or PD ambulance

SF has (or at least had) a ladder shop with 2 "carpenters". They build their own ladders as well as maintaining them. I visited them in the early 1990's and they told me that they would travel to Alaska to purchase the lumber needed. 50 foot Alum. Alco ladder is listed at 250# As previously listed overhead electrical (and very close to buildings) is the main reason. I also noticed that the members took great pride in their wood ladders (more than I have ever seen for an aluminum one).

I believe that the sun beats down on you pretty hard down there in the keys.

Any idea what the small diamond plate door without a compartment (middle of hose bed) is for?

Well for moving from a 4 to a 9 is is a 35% increase in premiums. A few years back I calculated the cost savings for a fire district in Westchester with 1,500 homes with a value of $265,00. They had an ISO rating of 4 if it improved to a 3 each the cost savings would be $240,000 per year, so going the other way it would be $1,200,000. This was calculated based on 1998 dollars. Since the average home is now double that, consider the additional costs to be $2,400,000 per year. Thats $36,000,000 over the rating period. Now they pay more and a lot more for commercial properties. As an example of what it will cost (in 1998 money) a commercial occupancy: Restaurant with a $1,572,450 replacement cost 2 stories with basement, 12” thick masonry walls, wood joist floors/roof, Non-sprinklered with an Auto extinguishing system for cooking. 80% co-insurance As an ISO 4 they would be annually paying $10,661 in fire insurance (in 1998 dollars) under this change they would be paying $16,259. A space like New Rock City would pay an additional $200,000 per year for the structure (not including the increase in insurance each tenant pays for stock & loss of biz.). These are just a single property add up all of them in a community. I can think of at least 15 Westchester departments that can be affected by this. BTW its 6 responding ON-Duty firefighters, for on call (volunteers) its 18.

Nope its in the safe deposit box....its like "money in the bank"

The list is the property of ISO and they sell it to insurance companies (or anyone else) for big bucks. Thats how they pay for the service. Every Fire Chief and every mayor, manager, supervisor and chairman of the board of fire commissioners is sent a copy of the rating for there fire dept.

The consultant (Larry Stevens) was a friend of mine. He lived in Fallon and he is responsable for more ISO improvements in depts around the country than anyone. He died in 2004. There in town rating improvement had almost nothing to do with those rigs, those rigs are what got their non-hydrant area its great rating. The % improvement in the vehicles was only a few points. They scored massive points in manpower & training.

If you do not have an inhouse crew then you need 36 on-call members (plus 1 IC) responding on every fire call and they all most have a substantial amount of training (more than most around here). I know Fallon NV, claims they roll 4 rigs with 8-10 interior FF's per rig on every fire call. I figure there is not much elso to do there. Also they had better respond that heavy on the call, with the exception of Fallon NAS FD, the closest mutual aid dept is 200 miles away.

In NYS private residential 1,2,3 is often (butnotby all insurancecomapnaies) grouped as A, 4,5,6 is B and 7,8,9,10 is a C. so yes there is not a big % changeif you stay in your letter catagory. But for commercial properties (including multi dwellings this is not true, andthere is about an 8% change for each number change. only 2 Volunteer Depts (Fallon NV and Dubois PA)are ISO 1 and neither has "in house" crews they respond from home.

The standard is BLS in 4 minutes and ALS in 8 minutes, 90% of the time.