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A demo was brought to us. you need a harness and a belay to get down safely. plus you cant see the right side of the truck. You are standing on the top left side, you have to extend a light post with a camera that is wired to the pump panel to see over the rig. Awesome is not the word I would use.

All of Quaker Ridge Road is in New Rochelle and 60 Control Recieved it /Dispatched at 10:21

The caller gave the proper location, and we have GIS mapping with a GPS interface on tuffbook laptops in every rig. & they have an electronic tape measure

I thought you said (3 posts back); "Barry, The town line is at Dennis Dr and Weaver St, give or take 50'. It is no where near Quaker Ridge Rd." Dennis drive runs off of Quaker Ridge 900 feet west and parallel to weaver street. It never meets weaver

According to the NR Tax maps, the City GIS and the county GIS the border heads north from the Western 1/3 mark of lower lake runs past the end of Arrowhead La (which is in the town, But the 2 western "homes" are in 100% in NR - #707 & 709 even thou the fire 30 yrs ago in 707 was faught by the tmfd its in NR) 565 feet nort of the end of from the end of Arrwhead Ln the line shifts 45% to the NE for 382 feet until it crosses to the eastern side of Weaver St (but west of the homes on the eastern side of the street - they are TOM) then turns north for 500 feet till it hits Cornell Street where it again goes NE as the TOM / Scarsdale Border. The NR line continues on the Eastern Side of Weaver St, just the road, no properties up to just north of the hutch, then it goes to the centerline. I always thought it was the cener line, but thats not what I see on the maps. 801, 803, and all of the other Odd # houses from that point north (the old stable, etc.), plus All of Pengilly Dr. Dennis Dr and Brookridge Rd. are in NR. 707 & 709 Weaver (on Arrowhead) were confirmed to be in NR, by the TOM, NR (me), 911 & USPS about 18 months ago as part of our rig mapping system and I witnessed the 911 testing from those 2 homes. If you can call them homes........A king would consider them a nice summer home on the lake. Lastly....since you got me looking at the Maps...Larchmont also owns a large undeveloped area North of the lake, between Pengilly Dr & Dennis Drive (aprox 800' x 300' plus the lake)

The upper lake and the western 1/3 of the lower one are in NR, the Eastern 2/3rds of the Lower is in the Town. All of the New Rochelle section (I dont know about the Towns) is the property of the Village of Larchmont. And to make things fun if the dam Breaks it all goes down to the Towns "Duck Pond" then on toward the Village of Mamaronecks Train Station.....An area well know for its high water issues. THe big question then will be who owns it. I have the list of all the dams we own, and its not one of them. I supect its either the towns or larchmonts.

Old wives tale. I use to think that too, until we got into GIS. The New Rochelle border is 36" past the Eastern Curb of Weaver Street. The Home East of that point is in Scarsdale, and the TOM stops about 100' ft south of the intersection and goes North East along the Scarsdale border until it meet Griffen about a block in from Weaver.

Yes.....go to the roof of a building with a high powered rifle and bring your camera......they will be there....

I think alot of the issue revolves around, the system, the needs, and the capability of the community/dept. This could be a great thing or a total waste of time. We run about 125 codes/year and if we put 50 AED's out in cars it would have less effect than if the state mandated the 5 "Skilled Nursing Facilities" (Nursing Homes) to have and use them, since they account for over 50% of the codes. If the 5 largest private medical office buildings and 10 Sr. Citizen buildings (6 - 12 story) had them (and someone to use them) that would cover another 25%. Thats 20 AED's to cover about 85 codes/yr. Like I said, a lot depends on the system and the community. I would hope in a few years they would be honest enough to report on the use, and sucsess of this program.

DOH took CUPS out of the EMT program about 2 years ago. To bad, it was a good triage tool that everyone knew and used regularly. C = Red or Black (in MCI) U = Red or High Yellow P = Yellow S = Green While not as objective as Start or other systems, everyone used it on every call.

I dont think it will change the number of calls, just where they are. I.E. the boat from NR will get in trouble off Huckelbury Is. (NR) and not off Milton Pt. (Rye) and vise versa for the boat from Rye. Still get 2 calls, but we will get our guy and you get yours.

I have never heard or seen a time frame associated with triage, care to inform as to where you got that from?

For many years libraries have fought against sprinklers, because the books could get wet. After a few major library fires (including the Los Angeles main one), they stopped fighting. While getting books wet is not good for them, it is easier to dry a book than unburn it.

I do not believe its ment to fool anyone, but If you stand along the parade route you see 100 members in your dept..... then you drive past the fire station and can recall all the ff's you saw in uniform marching. nothing wrong with taking pride in your dept., nothing wrong with helping out, nothing wrong with freeing up members so they can go inside, the issue is if they are not interior firefighters are they firefighters?

Sounds like a number of training and coordination issues. Since it involves multiple agencies, I suggest you bring it to the HV REMAC & HV REMSCO. But, not for punitive reaction. Go to them with it as a regional training & coordination issue.

While this is generally true, I think a number of smaller "undermanned" career depts (& combos with few vollys) dont make it clear they dont have the personnel needed to perform interior, even thought they are certified to do interior.

They advertise the number of FF's: plenty of members at the parade. lots of cars parked at the FH on meeting nights, The dept web site that proudly lists the # of members, the annual report, the instulation dinner. Even when the public dose not see this, the politicians often do and they never ask, but the chiefs never tell them that there is a problem. Nowhere have I ever seen depts. make a clear distinction as to haw many interior vs. exterior members they have. I know you were not trying to be a wise a**....neither was I.

I'm sure. Because they almost never ask anything about the FD. more important if the FD "hids" its numbers, how would they know? The dept claims to have enough, look they have plenty of members at the parade. lots of cars parked at the FH on meeting nights, etc. Yep that is the primary concern. What happens when the answer is no there are kids trapped in there. Why aren't the firefighters going in to get them? "those ff's are only the outside ones" They will care, when they find out what they have or don't have. The bigger question is do we care? If the fire service is not willing to be honest with the community about its capabilities, how can we expect to get the resources that we need?

Unless you have septic...when you flush your toilet it goes to the county or throw out garbage, it goes to a county transfer station to get rid of it.

Good Point. If one needs it...both do. Think on this.........He is wearing it incase he falls off the ladder. I'm not saying he should not, but we dont provide additional PPE to members climbing a ladder over concrete, so do we realy need it over water? Hmmmmmm

What I see in my community is a lack of spending. Particularly in capital projects that will save money over time. Failure to fix water leaks, until it threatens the building, failure to insulate (because it costs $$$), etc. My tax $$ for fire protection is repaid 3x by the reduction in my insurance rates. The City portion of my tax is 20% of the my total tax bill. The FD portion of the city tax is 20%, that means for every $100 I pay in taxes $20 covers FD, PD, DPW, Parks, etc. More importantly for every $100 in taxes only $4 goes for fire protection & EMS. That being said with 60-70% of my tax going to the School District......I see plenty of waste. In the early 1980's 4 schools were torn down or sold, since then they have not stopped building additions because they don't have enough classrooms. They got rid of those schools, but they now have more principals then they had then.

Very well said

IFD just proved that you do not need to let anyone claim to be a ff because they have a membership card. Well done

A) the public does not care until there is an issue. the public is unaware, but when told by the politicians and the FD, that the FD has 100's of volunteers, but has trouble getting a rig out the door,,,there is a problem. A village administrator asked me about the need to supply 100's of sets of PPE to the FD, I suggested they look at the rolls carefully. It turned out that 40% lived out of state (FL or some other retirement place), lived in a nursing home, was in there 80's, or was fire police (not needing the same level of PPE) etc. The public is asked to fund this dept and the dept. sells the community on its abilities, which are not true.

Bobby...in a highrise you can't leave the refrigerator as a door chock, the members needs it as part of the rehab sector on the floor below....