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Seth's thread about a new DPW truck reminds me of an article I saw a while back regarding the Rockland County Highway Dept's new Oshkosh plow trucks. Something about how they designed a pretty unique system for the salt delivery, how it's offset towards the middle of the road? I can't remember now, maybe someone knows what I'm talking about? I'm not really into DPW trucks so I have no clue. On a different note, I once read somewhere that the Town of Ramapo operates the largest fleet of FWD DPW trucks in the country? I found that suspect, but who knows. And for a bonus...here's a shot of Columbian Engine, Spring Valley's old 1979 Hahn engine "17-1001" as it was in service, and after the Spring Valley DPW got done converting her into a salter/sander!!

Ah, now I remember where I saw the thing about Ramapo's fleet, on this site: http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/mark_simiele.htm I still can't find the thing about Rockland's new plows, but I think I saw it on the Journal News website. Here are some photos from their site (middle of the gallery, just look for the orange), so maybe that had something to do with what I saw. http://jukebox.lohud.com/photos/index.php?...DNER&offset=180 John Monroe of the Rockland County Highway Department attaches a department sticker to the county's new snow plow/salt spreader Oct. 16, 2006 in New City. The new truck has a plastic plow, a stainless steel hopper, and a more efficient method of spreading sodium chloride. It carries more than twice the amount of sodium chloride solution as the older snowplaows.( Kathy Gardner / The Journal News )

Many times, you guys only see the "sanitized" version of a thread after offensive posts have been removed, which might make you wonder why warnings were posted or a thread was ultimately locked or removed. Just like the Transformers...there's "more than meets the eye" around here.

Truck4 closed the original thread and gave his reason for doing so. http://emtbravo.net/index.php?showtopic=14901 With that, I'm closing this one as well. Nothing personal!

That's definitely a great thing to have, and another great benefit to LEDs. I know Sparkill has blue lights illuminating the rungs of their 2000 105' Smeal, but I'm almost positive it's done with regular bulbs, not LEDs. I could've sworn I had a picture of it lit up at night, but of course I can't find it now.

Craig Sherman has some photos in his Fotki album, but he hasn't updated it in a few years. I'll try to get you some more info from the two guys in my dept that are members there (unless someone else jumps in first). http://public.fotki.com/cbs1578/ems_units/page3.html PS - The guys are flying out for the final inspection next week, then the Rescue will make her way to Fire & Safety in Jersey for tool and odds and ends mounting. Barring any holiday or other unforeseen delays, she should be up here in time for the new year, and in service by the end of January.

Ok, just making sure! I ask because I know people who've gone to the Hotel...or Martio's even...and thought they were at the right place. I have to confess without trying to sound like I'm bragging, that my best friend's wife's family owns the place, and for many years I was completely and ridiculously spoiled when she would bring us tons of the stuff to the firehouse after work!

Are you talking about the Nanuet Restaurant (south of the Mall and Nanuet's firehouse) or the Nanuet Hotel and Restaurant (just to the east of the Mall)?

Ok I wasn't sure, but that makes more sense I suppose. Post edited.

Found out some more info regarding the double side upper warning lights. Apparently the larger lights were SUPPOSED to be clear halogen scene lights, but there's some ongoing confusion/dispute as to how they wound up being red LED warning lights instead. Guess they should've checked over those pre-build prints and specs a little better!

http://www.sorcefuneralhome.com/obituaries...uary.php?id=363

Happy Thanksgiving to one and all! Let's remember to give thanks for every little good thing that comes our way, no matter how small, even if we've been through some hard times. A very active and beloved member of our fire company passed away late last night, and I know that I will be giving thanks for God having given him to us for as long as he did.

It is with deep regret that the Hillcrest Fire Co. #1 announces the passing of Tom Lorusso, who passed away late Tuesday night after battling with a prolonged illness. Tommy joined the fire company in February 1993 and served tirelessly every single day he was a member, not even stopping during the past few months as he worked from his hospital bed. In addition to his long tenure as a company Trustee, he served for many years as both Fire Prevention Officer and Accountability Officer, in addition to being very active with the County's Fire Prevention program. He will be sorely missed by all those whose lives he touched. Rest in peace, brother. SERVICE DETAILS: Viewings to be held on Saturday, November 25 and Sunday, November 26 from 2-4pm and 7-9pm (both days) at the Sorce Funeral Home in West Nyack (on West Nyack Road). Firematic service to be held at 8pm during the Sunday evening wake. Funeral services will be held on Monday, November 27 at St. Catherine's Roman Catholic Church in Blauvelt (on Western Highway) at 11am, with internment to follow at Rockland Cemetery in Sparkill. "Dept 6 on the air with a special message..."

I wonder what the guys from Rescue H&L Haverstraw would have to say about this thread?

Around these parts, we mainly stick with "ladder" and "pumper", it helps keep any potential confusion to a minimum.

While I have quite a few personal feeling and experience with this topic, for now I'd just like to say that Danb is dead on: nepotism is a HUGE problem and cancer in the volunteer services. Unfortunately, often times the reality is that there is very little that can be done to curb it if so many family and friends hold a majority of the high level positions. It's been like that forever and will likely continue forever, sadly.

lad12derff, HDF23 and ALS, I was just trying to head off any potential turn towards a "career vs vollie" debate. If I came across too strongly, I apologize.

HFD23, once again, don't bring the "vollie vs career" argument into this thread or I'll close it right down. That is NOT what this article is about. This article is about the problem we ALL face when institutions have bad policies of "checking and advising" BEFORE they even put the call out to 911. So to suggest that this dept is being unprofessional by not responding to calls THEY NEVER GET is clearly absurd. Yes, the local volunteer Chief recognizes this will strain his dept somewhat, but he also said that they'll readily adapt. This is also an issue of trying to reduce nuisance false alarms no matter what type of dept is covering the problem facility. False alarms endanger lives and put a strain on our resources, no matter what type of dept we're talking about.

lad12derff, You've completely misunderstood the Chief's quote and the context of the article. It wasn't the FD that was choosing not to respond, it was campus security that was delaying notifying them. BIG difference. This is not a "career vs. vollie" issue, things like this happen all the time no matter what dept is covering an area. Do you really believe that there aren't institutions that have private security whose policy it is to internally "check and advise" even in a paid dept's area? Of course there is. Don't go off on a rant about the "volunteer dept picking and choosing calls" when it's clearly beyond their control. How the heck can any of us ever respond, paid or vollie, if we never get called in the first place? Incidentally, it sounds like they had an internal alarm system on this campus that would annunciate locally instead of going right to the county's fire control center. Here in Rockland, ALL commercial and educational institution alarms MUST go directly to 44-Control by law.

By the way, I'm not knocking Westchester or anywhere else. If you guys have a system in place you understand and like, more power to you. I'm sure there are plenty of people who have heard Rockland and think we're wacky as well. It's just that to me, "6-75" makes it pretty easy to figure out that you're getting our 75' ladder. Or "10-99" is one of Nyack's 100 ladders. Or that "6-1500" is one of our 1500 GPM engines. The rest are even easier because they're plain English or easy to figure out acronyms, such as "6-Tower", "6-Rescue" and "6-ATV". Officers start at 1 and go down, so "6-1" is always the Chief of Dept.

Boy, I sure am glad I'm from Rockland after reading all this confusing stuff. There's basically no doubt whatsoever in Rockland just what type of unit you're talking about with our identifiers!

Actually, it's just the opposite. You have to be MORE of a defensive driver when operating emergency vehicles. That's the entire premise of the National Safety Counsel's CEVO classes (Coaching the Emergency Vehicle Operator). While it may seems like you're driving in "offense" mode, you're really driving with a much more defensive mindframe. At least, you better be!