IHV II

I used to check this site more when the incident threads were up to date. There was a time when it seemed like at three in the afternoon or three in the morning emtbravo had good, detailed posts about every fire or pin job (anything significant where mutual aid was called). I work in an office where I can't monitor the pager all day so it was really great to know what was going on in the county. No one ever posts these anymore so I don't bother checking this as my resource. Now I check lohud or my local paper instead.
For me, the threads always turned into one of the following...
1. Career vs. Volunteer arguments
2. Everyone patting each other on the back for no reason
Boooorrrrrriiiiiiinnnnnnnggggggg!
Plus, I kept getting put on moderator watch where my posts had to be approved before they went into the threads for having unpopular opinions. For a past volunteer who is now getting back into it again I have very anti-emergency services views because I think that the volunteer fire system here in Westchester is seriously broken and am in favor of consolidation. That said, just because my opinions are negative and unpopular does not mean that they are wrong. When I sent a note to Seth asking why I was being censored he did not even bother to respond. So i seldom waste my time anymore.

That was really my point, albeit reading back on it, it didn't come out clear at all. Run numbers mean absolute jack. It's stats like BFD1054 is asking for that really matter.

Port Chester , nobody left to do reports ?

How about posting the numbers that mean something; i.e. Response times, # of INTERIOR FFs per call, etc?

About time someone pulled the curtain back to expose the charade. How many other departments in the county can't meet the NFPA or OSHA standards for minimum staffing yet think they're OK?

They're still not going to be sending enough if they hire four whole guys. Wow.
Just kicking the can down the road. Sooner our later our luck is going to run out and there's going to be a 100% preventable tragedy. We will all call the unwitting victims "hero" and don our spiffy parade uniforms to salute their hearse but we won't fight against the problem that's making them vulnerable now. It's a travesty.

I am generally in favor of anything that keeps taxes low, but in reality this just means they will be raised and directed elsewhere.
I find it odd that police and fire contracts were picked for this, yet other municipal contracts were left out.
Now the big question that nobody wants to ask is why raises were so big (if in fact they were?) in NJ? Was it because municipalities take years to negotiate a contract and by the time it gets settled the raises which are generally reasonable per year look really big on paper? Is it because the cities have been steadily cutting benefits and raiding pensions to the point where these raises are offsetting other expenses the employees are now inuring?
Lately it is the fashionable thing to blame unions for the government's mismanagement. Even if the unions bear some of the blame, they certainly do not bear it all.

Paralyzed, if you're going to correct people's spelling, please use proper spelling. Sorry, had to break balls.

Same reason EVERY air traffic control tower communicates in English. You must speak and understand one language.

I believe that despite IFSTA making Spanish language textbooks that NFPA 1001 requires the ability to speak and read English.
A few years ago at a VFD conference on a cruise ship (yes it is a fun way to accomplish training) we got a tour of the fire protection systems by the ship's safety officer. He was Italian and said that since his fire crew was made up of employees from other sections of the ship that respond when needed, he had 56 different languages spoken by members of his team. Because of this English was the only common language and as such operations were in English. This meant that speaking English was a requirement to be on the fire control team. I found it interesting that in an international setting, he was far less hung up about English that we seem to be in an English speaking country.