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Other reasons include: Age, Supply & Demand and Activity level. Age:Probationary Career FF's are generally much older, with more responsabilities (homes, families, etc.). Our average age in probie school is between 28 and 34. A majority of vol. probies are still teens. S&D. How many VFD's are in a position to turn away potential members? How many career depts have a long waiting list (often with 100's of applicants). When we screen potential new ff's the law requires we interview 3 people for every 1 position. When you do 100's or 1000's of calls you are less likely to be looking for excitement.

Sta. 1 has 2 brass poles (1962) Sta. 2 Has 1 (3 others were removed prior to the mid 1980's) (1922) Sta. 3's were removed prior to 1987 (1910) Sta. 4's were removed prior to 1987 (1911) Sta. 5 is a ranch (1962)

Richard Pryor (in Brewsters Millions) may have the answer........Write in "None of the Above" on the ballot.

1) I noticed a number of repeats (so it maybe less than 87) 2) NYC has more frequencies on reserve (i.e. not used, but being held incase its ever needed) in additiona to all the ones they do use, then we will ever have. Multiply that figure.

Can you give the OSHA & NFPA standards that state this. I've never read this and we hae been looking at a fireground repeater system (and other systems) to deal with dead spots within highrise buildings

This is just the latest version of a venturi (large foam eductor). I've been told that we had one in the 1960's for pumping out flooded basements. Members who used it (it was gone when I got on the job) said it always got great looks when you told the home owner with the flooded basement that you were going to pump water via a 2 1/2" line into his basement to get rid of the water.

Glad he is ok. And how many times do we have to ask law enforcment not to "play" with fire.

While its great that the City administration is finally willing or able to invest in the FD, before anyone claims that closing multiple stations and relocating to a single station makes a whole lot of sense a number of questions need to be answered. 1) Was an ISO distribution study performed, and evaluated? This requirement is worth 4% alone (and another 0.8% in divergence) thats 1/2 way to the next rating (better or worst) In this case worst. This could cost every property owner an additional 8% anually on there insurance premiums for the next 75 years or more. To equal this point loss, they would need to hire 4 to 8 additional career ff's (this does not mean they dont need to do that, just what it would take to equal the points). 2) How will the depts operation be affected by this move? Does it mean that the number of rigs needed will change? If you avoid the response time/distance issue and will only maintain one station then they need 2 engine and a spare. They can move some of the drivers onto other rigs and run with more career ff's per rig. 3) The article says the response times to most of the community will be 3 minutes from a single station. The distances that I calculate (without doing a full GIS study) show that if one uses Both ISO and the Rand Corporations Response time calculations that about 60% can be covered in this time frame. 4) When designing a station for a combination dept. They need to consider potential future expansion of the career staff, in terms of crew space. Expansion may not occur anytime soon, but what will it cost if that space is not considered now? Again while its great that the City is willing to step up to the plate, Before they commit over $11 million and set the PFD to a single station for the next 30 - 100 years they need to understand all aspects of this move.

Everyone talks about bringing back MV to what it use to be, does anyone actually know what that was? Yes the rescue was manned with 4, but was that not at the cost of manning on the engines and trucks? Doesn't the MV City charter cap the number of uniformed personnel? And that cap has been in place since the 1950's? Has Foam 1 everbeen manned or is it a 2nd piece? Having this new leadership is a great start and I know Noah and teddy will work hard to improve FDMV, but I think the manning issues will be there for many years to come. Just saying that MV should hire more does not get around the city charter and changing the charter requires the community to vote (a vote that will increase taxes) this is in a community that in May voted down all sports in the schools to prevent the increase in taxes (note....it did not reduce the tax, just hold it at last years level). I wish them luck.........

Why? Could it be that it goes against their teachings?

Great so now we are taking leasons from the only industry that has a safety record thats worst than the fire service.

Your argument would need to go to the fire commissioners, as a fire district the Town has no say, nor no funding of the EFD

Its also a good idea when you consider that even if EFD's units were not tied up GFD's station is 1.8 miles from the incident. EFD's 2nd due engine is 2.8 and there 2nd due ladder is 3.2 miles. And of course you had a cigar....lol

Not every building in NYC is 5, 6 or more. Why is it that is the proper thing to send a full alarm to a house in Queens but not to an identical house in Putnam? Lets not forget that FDNY responds to more single family house fires than anyone else. If you cant get your members to respond to calls, then maybe its time to go to staffed rigs (dedicated vol. crews or career) or to have another agency take over everything.

I never said we did not have parades. I said the FD did not pay for them. Thanks for confirming that.

Don't be sorry...It was a proper and well called for rant. And it looks like the moderators took his post down.....I don't like censorship, but this one was well called for.

According to which "rules"? According to Federal and NYS Law - 29 CFR 1910.120(q)(3)(i) The senior emergency response official responding to an emergency shall become the individual in charge of a site-specific Incident Command System (ICS). All emergency responders and their communications shall be coordinated and controlled through the individual in charge of the ICS assisted by the senior official present for each employer. NOTE TO PARAGRAPH (q)(3)(i). - The "senior official" at an emergency response is the most senior official on the site who has the responsibility for controlling the operations at the site. Initially it is the senior officer on the first-due piece of responding emergency apparatus to arrive on the incident scene. As more senior officers arrive (i.e. , battalion chief, fire chief, state law enforcement official, site coordinator, etc.) the position is passed up the line of authority which has been previously established. 1910.120(q)(6)(v) On scene incident commander. Incident commanders, who will assume control of the incident scene beyond the first responder awareness level, shall receive at least 24 hours of training equal to the first responder operations level and in addition have competency in the following areas and the employer shall so certify: Since NYS Troopers are generally trained to the Awareness level (HM training at higher levels is given to some troopers in each troop) the law requires OPS level (for commanders) which NYS has determined is the minimum level for all FF's. The FD more often than not should be incharge at Hazmat incidents (this does not mean LE can't, just what the "norm" is). The last "big" HM we had on I-95 was a "white powder" incident that started at the toll booths and was transfered to the barricks before our arrival. Once they determined it was a potential incident we were called to decon them, the toll collector and seal the barricks (with their weapons/uniforms) and toll booth for 3 days until the state lab determined what it was. Proper ICS would have limited this to almost no incident.

So its ok to put a nylon vest (or as some suggest a nylon coat is nneded by the standard) over turnouts? Just a few months back everyone here was saying it was not ok for EMS to wear nylon coats at an MVA because it "might" have a flash fire. I've been allowed to drive past a number of working car fires along I-95, the last time I saw it 100% closed as crews were stretching the 1st hose was when the flames from the tanker were going from the right shoulder to the center guard rail. Even when we had the 2 trailers fully involved in the toll barrier, water was flowing before all the traffic was controlled.

Never had a band and our parade budget has been $0 since 1927.

Works great till the trooper starts threatening arrests for blocking "his road". We have had this happen many times with the last round (a few different incidents) being within the last 2 years.

We purchased 2 engines, 1 rear mount and 1 tiller from them. There service has always been excellent. Maybe there is a reason they "won't come and intstall things".......does your dept. pay there bills on time? Or is there some other reason that with all your years in the fire service you are unaware of, before you bad mouth a company that has a pretty good reputation.

Talk about no common sense. The regulation says you must wear it, even if its flammable it also indicates that once you use it at a car fire it will no longer meet the standard. https://www.rkb.us/contentdetail.cfm?content_id=200647 Currently no such exception exists for firefighters. Some fire service personnel have expressed concern about the idea of adding a layer of potentially flammable material between their turnout gear and SCBA while battling car fires or during an extrication. Because those views were not expressed during the comment period of 23 CFR 634 no exceptions or interpretations for fire service operations were published along with the rule. Further, all fire department personnel should be aware that turnout gear alone does not meet the visibility requirement. No turnout gear currently manufactured meets the color requirement for the fluorescent background material of these high-visibility garments. Even if turnout gear could be dyed to meet the color standard when manufactured, it would no longer be compliant after the first exposure to fire, smoke, and soot. Fire departments should consider fire resistance of materials (and their limitations) as part of their criteria for selecting vests and writing department protocols and procedures.

"23 CFR Part 634, Worker Visibility, state that all workers within the right of way of a federal-aid highway who are exposed either to traffic or construction equipment within the work area shall wear high-visibility safety apparel" 1) anyone know which roads are "federal-aid highways"? 2) What good is this vest, when some of the troopers will not shut the lanes? Wow that was a bright ANSI vest that just flew over the hood of my car, I saw that way before I could have seen the firefighters reflective trim.

While this is another unfunded mandate, it was mentioned that its a minor one, which is true. But in NYS close to 80% of the School Budgets and County Budgets are based on State Mandates. State & federal unfunded mandates are the way that the legislature gets to pass laws and claim it cost nothing, look at the great job they are doing........ Maybe the way to pay for this is anytime they pass an unfunded mandate, we get to take the money out of their salary. Anyone need to buy Vests? put it on the senators tab........

Yes its a good idea for safety, but there are a few problems: 1) the only nomex traffic vest does not meet the DOT standard. 2) NFPA says I cant put a 2" nylon patch on my turnouts (it could burn), but is it ok to cover my turnouts in a nylon DOT vest. 3) it is an unfunded mandate and while we can afford it, it means I have to cut back on something else. One of the 2 state roads we cover is I-95 it is owned by the NYS Thruway Authority. They collect $40,000/hour at the toll booth in New Rochelle. They do nothing to support us. We've asked for a number of things to help us assist them (including hydrants in the toll plaza, which has water supply pipes running under it). They do not want assist us in anyway, so instead of having my tax dollars support them, let them fund there own fire and rescue services with the $350 million they make at the tolls in my city.