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Click below to read a great article of making a kids wish come true. Great Job Great Story

Mechanics Club, Doane's Restaurant, Buischi's Bullpen and Wing House?

Chris what is left?? I will take whatever you got left.

I would love to see all the 911 and other dispatch centers start talking about their contracts and union information! Here in the City of Poughkeepsie we are also CSEA, but as in other locations including Dutchess 911 everybody is in the same union as there DPW and other civilian workers. As of 12/31 our contract is now expired being that its a new administration negotiations have only just started to be worked on. This may have to be placed under a new topic, but lets see if we can make this a discussion.

Walkway over the hudson For those of you who are history buffs, click on the above link and select their PDF presentation. Information about the bridge construction, the fire and the walkway now supported by the State of NY.

Rumors and more rumors and more rumors!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lets set the record straight! As the Senior Public Safety Dispatcher for City Of Poughkeepsie 911 Center here are the facts. There is NO contract with ANY EMS provider for the City Of Poughkeepsie! Alamo Will be handling our EMS Calls. Mobil Life will be our Pre-plan Mutual Aid Provider if Alamo is unavailable. City Fire did not request meetings with anybody they called us. Those are the facts, The City of Poughkeepsie 911 Center and Fire Department's Priority is Patient Care! As long as that is achieved there is no problem!

Congratulations, on a job well done!

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Looks Great, Good Luck with it!

About 2 weeks ago I was leaving City of Poughkeepsie FD HQ and we saw an A10 Tank Killer flying low going north up the Hudson.

Nice graphics seth looks sharp, Is the Moderator graphic new too?

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone.

Three men who were previously detained as suspects in the disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway have been re-arrested in the case, the Aruban public prosecutor's office said Wednesday Joran van der Sloot Satish and Deepak Kalpoe Check your favorite news website or channel for updates

The City of Poughkeepsie uses NYCOMCO's 800 system. It does well for our department. As far as SWN goes it is a long ways from being completed. It really has nothing to do with me, I was just passing along the information I learned at the 911 coodinators conference. I personally believe its going to be a State Police channel used statewide. This system is needed in upstate and western NY where radio coverage doesn't exist. I also know that they are already working on the NYC region as well. Go to there web site.

I just found it interesting that Fire Departments were heading up the complaint, when its really not going to help them anyway. It can be used for communications as a side channel. The office of technology has said in meetings if you have a problem with your radio communications now, repair or replace it on you own. They also added that it cannot be used for paging. Most rural depts in upstate ny were under the impression that this was the answer to the problems they are having and its not. It will be used for communications state wide, so yes it will cover inoperability with mutual aid companies. I think it will be used as a police channel more than anything but we will see.

New York State Police and its the first NYS Contract ever to have been written where is you fail you done get paid. Its a large deal important on both ends of the table

I can tell you SWN is not going to change the Office of Technology is dedicated to this program. again this is just the beginning of this huge scale project. They have only built 2 sites at this time within the state. Two teams will simultaneously build the SWN network. One team will work from West to East, while the second team will work from South to North. WEST – EAST 1. Primary Regional Build 2. Western Region 3. Finger Lakes South 4. Finger Lakes North 5. Northern Region 6. North Central Region SOUTH – NORTH 1. New York City 2. Long Island 3. Hudson East 4. Hudson West 5. Capital Region 6. South Central Region

New York State has not spent anything into this contract. The system is in its building stage (its not turned on) for testing purposes maybe but not live. They are building this system from scratch. They are also building from 2 different parts of the state at the same time. This is a statewide system and i believe they are looking for 90 percent coverage statewide. If that goal has not been reached the contractor has failed in its duties. This company again is NOT getting paid until the state approves.

Twice a year the New York State 911 Coordinators Association meet, at every meeting there is a representative from the New York State office of Technology and things are progressing just very slow. He made it clear its all or nothing so we will see what happens. The PDF files are too large to post here is there link for anyone who is interested. Statewide Wireless Network "SWN"

If the system does not work as promised, M/A COM does not get paid! Thats part of the contract with the state. Also the new system is not going to be used for a paging system, so if you are in an area where fire pagers are having coverage problems, you need to build your own coverage you cannot utilize SWN.

Jim, it comes up fine for me. No problems at all

Very interested read, Kudos to Chief Campbell for a job well done. My Family has known the Chief for a very long time. One of the smartest men in the Fire Service.

more than 100 law enforcement departments and security providers from fancy international resorts to local universities have purchased Segways, and military police and logistics personnel on bases are looking into them as well.

Congratulations on 4 years!