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Well the logic is, we need that many because we've always had that many. The problem is we need to call that many. I'm reminded of a room and content fire in the middle of the county about two years ago. A dozen departments responded.....for a simple room and content fire?

Yes the majority of departments are volunteer. 5 are career or if they have volunteers, they no longer respond to calls. 9 are combination with the majority of responders being career ( in some cases the volunteers are exterior only and only have a handful left) 4 are combination with the majority of responders being volunteer. and Port Chester. So their are more volunteer departments. But what do they protect? the population of Westchester County is 972,634 434,622 people live in communities with the 5 career depts. (approximately 45%). 177,397 people live in communities with the combination depts. with mostly career response (approximately 18%). Thats 612,019 people (63%) The communities with the majority being volunteer are hard to calculate as they include fire districts that do not have census data, but it is totaled at no more than 360,615. (37%).

Unfortunately, the PSC holds a higher level of authority than the DOS and they ignor this code.

For private or yard hydrants

That's what I have been told multiple times from suez

Yes and still do. Apparently if Isis gets their hands on flow data the region is doomed. National security says no one can know this info.

It's very common out west and some parts of Fla.

If that is the plan, it makes sense, but why collect the gear before issuing new stuff?

It has nothing to do with money. The administration just wants them gone.

http://www.local2029.com/news-and-events/2016/3/29/board-of-fire-wardens-weakens-qualifications-to-be-chief What do you need to be chief?

Rye Brook owns the house on King St. A number of posts have assumed that PCFD was only providing an engine and a career firefighter from 7 pm to 7 am. They were also providing (not getting into quality), the balance of the response to alarms (not mutual aid) 24/7. So even daytime when RBFD was staffed, PCFD automatically responded. Also PCFD Chiefs provided the IC since RBFD has no officers.

#RyeBrook Mayor Paul Rosenberg responds regarding elimination of paid #PortChester firefighters. "To my Rye Brook Friends and Neighbors: I want to bring you up as to date with a very important issue which has arisen in in the past 24 hours. A shared fire services contract with the Village of Port Chester requires them to staff the Rye Brook firehouse with one “career” firefighter from 7:00 PM to 7:00 AM daily. In the event of a fire, they would respond together with numerous Port Chester volunteer firefighters. Last evening, as part of its budget adoption, the Port Chester Board of Trustees voted to remove the “career” firefighters from their budget, moving to an all-volunteer fire department. When that happened, Port Chester put all “career” firefighters on leave, including the firefighter who was staffing the Rye Brook firehouse. At that point, we made the decision to staff the Rye Brook firehouse overnight with Rye Brook Fire Department personnel. Despite Port Chester’s breach of contract, the Village of Rye Brook will ensure that the Rye Brook firehouse will be staffed around the clock while we consider all of our legal options. As in the past, the Port Chester volunteers will continue to respond. Please be assured that the safety of our residents is of paramount concern to us, and we taking every step to protect your safety. I will continue to keep you informed as events warrant."

It is clearly not a financial issue. Watch the village board meeting on their website. 1) they state they want to add cops 2) they state they failed to pass the tax cap override 30 days prior (as required by law) 3) they stated they can only add cops if they cut the budget elsewhere (since they can't legally raise taxes) 4) they started with a number of cuts, including the $600,000 in salary/benefits for the career firefighters now here is is the kicker....... 5) they included dropping the Rye Brook "payment" (with no explanation). This payment is approximately $1,000,000 for fire protection. So how many cops can they hire with this math? $600,000 - $1,000,000 = negative $400,000. In other words, the village will have to come up with an additional $400,000 to fund the FD.

There are NYS laws that require Police and Fire. But they do not define it. So if you have 2 volunteers and an Indian tank you can call it fire protection and you are covered.

If the boots are lace up yes, pull ups are questionable and the helmet for structural does not have a face shield for filtering smoke like a wildland one does

NFPA compliant wildland PPE: pants,coat, boots, gloves, helmet and face shield. I just added up the average costs for each from one of the equipment catalogs.

Agreed, but it's approximately $650 per responder

15 feet of soft suction is easy to fit. And there is plenty of room under the boom

I'm close friends with their immediate past chief and he said it was used to drop about 75 firefighters. Just because they still sent other rigs on an alarm does not make up for layoffs. Everyone ends up working hard. Also the union pushed hard to go back to engine and ladders, but it took a full fleet replacement 20 years to do it.

WP has a public safety commissioner. If it was a public safety department cops would be fighting fire and firefighters would be patrolling streets. because it's just a title

Quint/midi was a shell game to cut firefighters standard engine and and ladder in a double company with 3ff/1of each =8 then quint with 5/1 and midi with 1/1 hey the quint is a ladder and it only needs 3/1. Bang you now have 6

There is a difference between a dept of public safety (police & Fire) and a public safety commissioner who is in charge of both.

My dept. FF/EMTs are level A suit trained to use duaDote and Mark I kits. There is no way anyone could administer rectal meds in a level a suit. Protocol during WMD's is inject thru clothing. With level A double or triple gloves, it's like trying to pickup a dime while wearing a baseball glove

Mamaroneck Rescue Squad did that