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Sounds like they need one of those giant snow melter's they use in NYC

If this is accurate, then the remaining 300 or so calls per year including automatic alarms, co calls gas calls, MVA's, fluid spills, cats iin trees etc. So if 5% of the non EMS calls are actual structure fires, that's 15 fires or a little more than 1 per month. Do they have more or less than that? Now lets compare them to Engine Co 82's district in the 1960's/70's If memory services they were doing around 6,000 calls a year with more than 1/2 working fires.

Because the Federal courts said so

High quality Chinese plastics of today are no comparison to the "low" quality American made steel shovels of years gone bye.

Its not about the fine, its about the finding, which will be used against the village in any civil litigation from the families. The lesson is ignorance of the law is no defense (particularly when DOL can prove you knew the law at some point in the past)

Westchester Special Operations Task Force Departments bought a number of them. A couple of hours

SQUAD COMPANY (TEAMS) Valid Prefixes (SQ = Squad) A vehicle(s) consisting of at least an Engine with or without other support vehicles (i.e.:Rescue, Ladder, or Utility Type), equipped with additional and specific equipment to handle hazardous materials / WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction) and/or technical rescue, that will respond with a minimum of six (6) trained and certified members, included a company officer. For hazmat and WMD the minimum training level shall be Haz-Mat Technician (as identified under OSHA1910.120) and the squad shall have the equipment necessary to perform air monitoring, level “A” suit and decontamination. For technical rescue the minimum training level shall be based on NFPA 1670. All members shall be at the technician level for structural collapse, trench rescue and confined space rescue and at the operations level for rope rescue. The squad shall have the equipment necessary to initiate a response, safely size up and identify additional resources required to safely mitigate these incidents.

Wow, lets use a $200 - $400 wheel chock, when we can just get a $2 4x4 from Home Depot.

Why do we need police & fire on the same radio? Its bad enough now, 3 the volume of activity on the radio and find that running a plate is more important than person trapped

And they have less than 1/2 of the population of Westchester. (500,415 less) Housing Units: 169,000 more housing units in Westchester Land area is 340sq miles more in Onondaga (trees not people) Persons per sq miles: almost 4x more density in Westchester. This all means their system might not work so well here

Actually what the run numbers mean is we have way to many rigs in Westchester covering 1 - 2 calls a day. And since most depts. can't properly many the rigs they have, all we are doing is fooling ourselves and the public.

Not like you left at the beginning of the year. You could have done most of them Now next years going to be different....

1) How experienced are most depts./municipalities at this vs. the manufacturers? 2) The big problem is how much time is needed for a minor change vs. a major one? What if what the customer wants is a minor change (i.e. will take the factory 5 minutes to change out a switch), but it will take 2 weeks for them to order it and receive it? Should they have to pay $14,000 in fines (based on $100 a day)?

Its often meaningless. 1) Most depts. put that in so it does not matter to the manufacturer which dept is delayed. 2) All manufacturers require that every change order be signed by the dept. rep. Many have a hidden clause saying that each change order comes with a 5-10 add time to the final delivery date. Even if the "change order" is to correct errors that the manufacturer has made. So you go for the prepaint inspection and find they installed something wrong, If you want it fixed, it adds time.

Technically, all a rescue pumper is, is a standard pumper with upper compartments that are double deep. Just because of the design, does not mean they will be used as one. NRFD Engines 21, 23 & 25 are of this design and only E-25 carries additional equipment, beyond the standard engine. The new engine 22 is of the same design with some very minor modifications will be operated as a squad company.

http://www.emtbravo.net/index.php/topic/47583-high-volume-foam-f500-drill/?hl=%2Bfoam+%2Bdrill This was a foam drill that we did at DES at the request of ConEd. They wanted to see different ways to deliver foam to a burning substation (in particular the one that just burned). We were able to test a number of systems. The DES trailer carries F-500 (it was donated by ConEd and refilled by them), DES has order a new trailer with Universal Gold 1-3% AR-AFFF. We carry 24 gal Universal Gold 1-3% AR-AFFF on every engine and 3 55 gal drums as seen in the pictures.

1) They can't implement it, it is either not legal or would require a union agreement, which would cost a ton. Particularly in some of the communities that only have very high end housing. 2) Its not a complete preference....for example NR must use up the residence list before going to non-residence (federal court decree) and with hundreds on the list, we just never get to the non-residence. The list I was hired off of one candidate was accidently placed on the non-residence list as # 130's (or so), he was able to prove that he actually was a resident (tax records on the house, showed it in NR, but had a Larchmont postal address) and moved up to #17. we hired 50 or so off that list. 5 points is the difference in hired not hired for NYC 3) Commissioners are elected officials and people from other districts do not vote for them.

I thought the feds will force us all to change by then

So lets play devils advocate: I pay taxes to support my local FD, why should someone who pays nothing to support my protection have the same opportunity? Would that be fair?

1) Westchester is the hardest location in the USA to get FCC Licenses, Their are more licenses in NYC than anywhere else and we can not interfere with that. We also have to deal with Long Island and NJ. So within a 15 mile radius at the southern end of the county you have 100's of radio systems. And you must remember its not just emergency services. When they were developing it, they were trying to cover the best they could with the limited availability of frequencies. 2) I do not think that was Westchester

1) Yes it may or may not be a joke on the local level, but we have no say in the accountability in another agency 2) You clearly do not know our county. Their absolutely is a take it or leave it on many issues. Many are locked in because of the programing of CAD, which can not always be modified to deal with the needs of local agencies. 3) Local dispatchers for the most part can not legally be moved because of the civil service system. When we moved to the county only 1 of our retiring dispatchers went to work for the county and that helped till he retired. One problem with relying on maps is pronunciation of street names. Many of our streets were named after the family farms that were there in the 1700-1800's and most were French Huguenot names. They get butchered regularly, even with primary dispatchers assigned to us. This is not a slight on the dispatchers, but when you go from 100's of streets to 10,000's you can not expect them to know it.

1) Yes it would, but a consolidated system needs to include all e911 not just fire/ems. If the cops are not on board, then this will never work properly. And the cops are the ones who set up the e911 system to protect their little fiefdoms. 2) Before we set up our radio system, we met with the county to discus the "proposed" trunk system. We were told the trunk system as designed would a) not cover 100% of our district and unless additional tower licenses were obtained, it would never work properly in the southern part of the county and It was not designed for the day to day use that our department needs of its radio system. So we built our own and for our purpose, ours is vastly superior.

Its not the "system" its the desperation of many departments to take anyone with a pulse.

Being a volunteer or where you live are not protected classes. Race, religion, sex, etc. are. The courts will not touch this.

Then what does that say about them having him as a member? "Please accept my resignation. I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member". - Groucho Marx