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Of course people favor it, but did Quinnipiac ask if people would accept increases in fees (that are not tax deductable) and reductions in service to cover the tax cap? How many municipalities in NYS understand what this will mean? New Rochelle is the only one who has lived thru it. I wonder how many municipal workers and the mighty teachers union understand that also included in this package is contract arbitrators must consider ability to pay as the primary issue, so managment just has to show the tax cap and the arbitrater will have to force salary reductions to pay for increases in benefits.

Since last night the state senate passed the property tax cap and the gov. said he will sign it. Fire districts, Local and County governments and schools will not be allowed to increase taxes more then 2% (and most will need to do that just to pay fuel increases, insurance increases, tax certiorari, etc.)

Yes, every day. Yes its legal (as long as they do not send firefighters into a hazardous atmospher until they meet the 2in 2 out standard). 2in 2out is law, otherwise the standards can be used in civil court, but someone then actually has to sue. The same are needed, the ideal is an engine company (with a minimum of 3 firefighters and 1 officer) is stationed within 1.5 miles of all structures in its 1st due area, a ladder or rescue within 2.5 miles. In places with multiple depts. each needs to meet the minimum, so 2 depts. next to each other, with each covering 1 square miles requires 2 stations, 4 engines (2 each), 2 ladders (1 each), 2 spare engines and 2 spare ladders and 26 on-duty ff's(13 each) or 72 responding on-call ff's (36 per dept.). if only 1 dept covers the same are hey need 1/2....1 house, 2 engines, 1 ladder, 1 spare engine, 1 spare ladder and 13 on-duty ff's or 36 responding on-call ff's. 43,000 dept in the country are evaluated by ISO (Insurance service Office) every 10 - 15 years and survey's them annually. They provide the chief and the highest ranking community public official (mayor, chairman of the board of fire commissioners, city manager, etc.) with the info. Also why should anyone need to inform the depts.? How could they not know? ISO (Insurance service Office) rates the FD and sells the info to all the insurance companies in the state. If the property owner or his insurance co. wants to sue for damages they can. More likely the loss of someone in the structure or even an injured or LODD of a responder. They, either need on-call responders (volunteers and recalled off duty career) or lots of trucks. Or they roll the dice and hope for the best. And it does not have to be from 1 station, just thas what is needed to arrive. Carbon Monoxide, Natural Gas leaks are both very common, but any Hazardous material release and confined space entry. Because most tax payers believe they will never need the FD and all the politicians hear is LOWER MY TAXES. The Volunteers The Union The Chief The Community You

That would only be true if we wanted it in the show (or agreed to it)

And we thought it was in North Haven getting the finnishing touches done so it could go in service. Silly us.

Nice idea, but "exclusive franchise rights" may violate the CON requirements under NYS DOH. Its been a long time since they ran WCMC and got out of it because of poor financial $$$$$ Great, but most EMS in Westchester is provided by VAC's or Fire Districts, neither answer to local government. The main communities that are "providing" service already use the commercail service (NR, MV, WP & Yonkers)

No apparatus is located at HQ (our admin offices). It will be inservice at station #1 and the old unit will be Eng 17

yes

When its done. 2-4 weeks

Its a vertical tank, not an L. yes 3 dead loads: 1 3/4" with TFT, 2" with straight noz., 2 1/2" w/ straight and 5" Supply

E-25's is higher because that was the best that manufacturer could manage. E-21 actually has more storage and the storage is lower.

Isnt the internet grand. I had no idea how much fuel was in it, until I googled it and found 3 different sites that listed 28 gallons. I gues they were wrong. So a single saddle tank leaking/on fire on a truck needs 8 engines? Yes I have read it and commented on it many times. It has evolved, but just because the FAA agreed on it does not even make it an acceptable plan. In past versions the FAA said it was ok, with 18 fire trucks and 1 ambulance responding to a confirmed crash of a commercial airliner....only 1 ambulance ("becuase we do not want to strip communities of EMS"). Another version determined that we would not need EMS because they never came to the planning meetings...oh "We forgot to tell them there were meetings". Flight 232 in Souix City moved 60+ patients off the field in about an hour. Every drill we have had got stopped 90-120 minutes in with no more than a dozen transported because we were taxing our responders.

Worst is climbing on top to repack it. A slip from there is a LODD. Actually OSHA requires railings or fall protection at that hight.

Yes its the trend, and the short term solution has been to hire. But it is not the long term solution and in general it holds EMS back. How many agencies in Westchester now have paid staff (EMT's &/or Medics)? How many of these EMS employees are working for multiple agencies? How many of these agencys are handling less than 1,000 calls per year (1 call per 8 hours)? or even less than 2,000 (2 calls per 8 hours)? The reason some can call EMS....Earn Money Sleeping is because we do not need 1 or 2 paid staff members covering every little VAC. We need a SYSTEM. That can ensure a response and does not nickle and dime the staff. As long as all the jobs are hourly with minimal or no benefits, then EMS will always be a 2nd class job.

True, but having seen how bad the drills are, this does not make me feel any better. 10 Chiefs 8 Engines 1 Tanker 1 Tower Ladder 1 Rescue 1 ARFF 2 Fire Coordinators 1 Field Comm Assorted other units. 6 Ambulances 1 Flycar 2 EMS Coordinators 2 Air Units 5 Police Depts 4-5 FD relocations. 10 fire departments (plus PD, & EMS). The airport plan does not send much more to an Airbus 320 with 8,000 gals of fuel. This plan carries 28 gallons of fuel, the Kensico Reservoir holds 30.6 BILLION Gallons of water. I suspect it gets more fuel in the run off from I-684 which is less than 12 feet from it (yes I know they have a boom set up there). And the plan crashed on land so if it was just a leak it was unlikely to get to the water, but as a great hazmat instructor once told me, its not a hazmat incident if all the product is on fire, its a fire incident. 1st due is one thing, but by the 8th due......... Once in a career, I think you are being over drimatic. The Cessna holds a maximum of 6 people and has a 28 gallon fuel tank. Most mini vans hold 8 people and have a 20-22 gallon fuel tank. Full size vans carry up to 12 and have up to 40 gallon tanks. How many responses to a 2 vehicle MVA (with more fuel and people) get this kind of response?

Armonk FD: Car 2021 (IC), Car 2022, Car 2023, Tanker 9, UTV Chappaqua FD: Greenwich FD: Purchase FD: Car 2411, Car 2412, Rescue 30, Utility 10, Engine 238, Engine 240 Hawthorne FD: Banksville FD: Stand-by in HQ West Harrison FD: Stand-by in HQ Port Chester FD: 2393, Tower Ladder 2, Engine 29, Engine 62, Engine 64 Valhalla FD: Car 2482, County Gators Rye Brook FD: Engine 14 Armonk EMS: 51B3 Westchester EMS: 45-Medic-1 Port Chester-Rye Brook EMS: 77A2 Harrison EMS: 66A4 White Plains EMS: Greenwich EMS: WCDES: Car 1, Field Communication 1, EMS Battalion 10, EMS Battalion 11, Fire Battalion 11, Fire Battalion 19 Westchester County PD: Aviation 2, Airport Patrols, Road Patrols, K-9, Intel Sgt. North Castle PD: ESU, Patrol, Lieutenant, Detectives DEP PD: Patrol, Detectives, Air 6 NYSP Troop K: Patrol Units HPN OPS: Airport 7, 11 (ARFF Units) Mount Pleasant PD: Patrol While I understand that a large commercial airplane will require a major response. This was basicly a mini van that crashed off the road.

One must be very careful with this one. The telling case is from Mongomery County MD. The county operates a combination FD with career houses and volunteer houses (that are seperate incorporated entities contracted to provide service). A career FF complained that as a 10-20 volunteer in another station he was entitiled to overtime pay for all his volunteer hours over those 10-20 years. The county had no employees in that fire station and did not even own it. The courts determined that not only was he to be paid, but so was any other career ff's who volunteered. If the SVFD is in anyway an "arm" of the City of Stamford, then FLSA appears to apply to employees of both SVFD & SFRD Also so everyone understands the FLSA was not written for emergency services, it was written based on general employment and one of the main examples that the feds use is an employee of a church (a book keeper), they may not volunteer for the church in an "office" capacity as it is too close to their job.

There are proper levels, but most depts. ignore the standards. Yes and no. The type/size of fire, size of the building, its construction, use and number/condition of occupants dictate the number of firefighters needed. a 2,000 sq ft house on fire is the same in a village as a city with the exception of how close exposures are and potential water supply issues (if not near hydrants). Their is also a distance issue. If the Fire Dept. covers 1 square mile it will need fewer ff's than 100 sq. miles. This is because you will need the minimum # of firefighters at one end of the district in minutes, while an incident at the other end will require the same, so bigger areas require more stations & more ff's. Density also plays into it, because the more people the more calls and it’s common to have fire fighters tied up on one call, when another comes in. The local community (too bad most do not understand what they have or what they should have). Also the insurance industry, by rating the dept and making the community pay more or less for insurance premiums. Liability is on the City, Village or Fire District if the FD has advised them of the shortage. If they have not been advised it is also on the fire chief. Court cases have been very minimal on this, but increasing. The only law requires if personnel go into a hazardous environment (like a fire) they a minimum of 2 interior certified firefighters to go inside, with 2 interior certified firefighters to stay outside (as a backup team), 1 pump operator and 1 Incident commander (to run the fire). That’s 6 regardless of the number of trucks. There are insurance standards that expect a minimum of 2 engines and 1 ladder or rescue (based on size of the building) and 1 chief, with a minimum of 4 on each of the 3 rigs (total 13) if they are coming from a manned station and 12 per rig (total 36) if coming from an un-manned station. Failure to meet this standard means every property in the district pays more in insurance premiums. If the FD is a city or village dept. Then it’s thru the mayor’s office (or some cases the city manager). In town FD's they are generally part of a fire district and you would need to go to the Board of Commissioners of the Fire District. For career ff's thru the union or the above. for volunteers the above (but its rare). NYS has much stricter requirements for career staffing than volunteers for training. Tradition. Outside of the north eastern US. most areas run some form of regional service without all the duplication.

Of that $50 million, doesn't Approx $32 million go to the school district and $8 million to the county? If thats the case the City share is $10 million. I bet the public safety budget is 5 times that.

So wait no more

Flares do not stop your crews from getting hit. If you are loading the ambulance, you may need the spotter for the lift, but more important if he see's someone running thru your flares, hhis warning, particularly if you are in the middle of the lift will be the last thing you will ever hear. The NYS TA is great on the bridge, but you are putting your personnel in harms way if you are not covering them properly and its just a mater of time before you will have a disaster. When everyone in the VAC took EMT (and every refresher) did they remember the required question: "Is the scene safe?" Simply put you have a responsibility to your members 1st. It appears that you are placing everyone elses well being ahead of that.

THanks. No picture. My concern was that with both colors reflective there is so much light reflected that at night a firefighter standing just a foot or 2 past (like the pump operator) the rig can not be seen, even if he is wearing a vest. I thought having only 1 color relective will break it up and make it easier to spot US. I have no scientific study to back this up, just my observation.

So they will not protect you? 1) then how do you cover your crews? You need something covering your tail when loading if not the FD, have at least another ambulance. 2) If the FD will not cover you, do you still cover them? Do you do standbys at fire scenes for them? rehab? Time for a big sit down chat BEFORE someone gets killed.

2,250 gpm pumpers. Water tank is uptop, hose bed is on a hydraulic bed in the rear compartment. Preconnects are in the rear step. Open compartment is hosebed, center compartment above it has a booster reel and the tank is behind it. Right door is ladder compartment. Hosebed extended (but not lowered yet) for packing Side view, before lowering Pump intakes and discharges (all on right side) Rear step with preconnect lines