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Date: 9-28-06 Time: 1200hrs Location: North Wabash Ave Departments: Numerous Description: Suspect fled from a traffic stop and ambushed (2) Officers and a K-9 dog. (1) Officer and his K-9 were killed. Large perp search insued with negative results. Writer: Truck4 Links: http://www.baynews9.com/content/36/2006/9/...th%20identified

Pulled this from another board: I was member number #100 or so on this board. Over the years, the Code 3 Forums became an example of what we did not want to happen here. Some of the nonsense we fight to keep off this board, was allowed to go on at Code 3. We learned from this example and unfortunately Code 3 was brought down by it. When the moderators and administrators run this site, we use the experiences of other forums, good and bad, that we have observed over a long period of time.

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Date: 9-26-06 Time: 2236hrs Location: Route 100 Southbound X Route 9A/Pleasantville Rd. Frequency: 453.2000 (Fire Op's)/462.950 (EMS Op's) Units Operating: E-92, R-37, Car 2051; 53B1, 36M1; NYSP Description Of Incident: MVA with Pin, reported (1) victim unconcious. Writer: Truck4 2238hrs- Req. Rescue 37 to scene for Hurst tool.

Date: 9-26-06 Time: 2032hrs Location: 86 Fairmount St. X Arbor St/Dead End Units Operating: E-312, 310, 306, 309; L-75, 72; R-1, B-2 Description Of Incident: Heavy fire on 1st floor of a 3-frame OMD. Writer: Truck4 (O/S), Spyda313, DFFD227 2029hrs- Original call for a reported structure fire. 2032hrs- B-2 10-84, 10-30 (Working Fire). TL-75 to the front. 2033hrs-Safety 10-84, Car 2 responding 2034hrs- B-2 req Con Ed to scene. Req. Engine co's to hit hydrants on Saw Mill River Road. 2036hrs- Car 2 requests Car 6 (Arson). 2038hrs- B-2 transmitting 2nd Alarm. 2nd Alarm: E-311, 307; TL-71 Exposure 1- Street (Dead End) Exposure 2- Side Yard Exposure 3- Rear Yard Exposure 4- Side Yard 2045hrs- Multiple L/S/O, Co's making progress. 2100hrs- Fire darkening down. Co's checking floors above for extension. 2113hrs- B-2 rpts fire U/C.

I've posted some shots from the Yonkers tanker crash/fire. http://onthejobny.com/messar/gallery/The-Latest

Date: 9-24-06 Time: 0630hrs Location: 77 Locust Hill Ave Units Operating: YPD 4th PCT, ESU Truck 4, Truck 3 Description Of Incident: Male stabbed multiple times to the head, chest, back; transported to Jacobi by Empress. Writer: Truck4

Date: 9-22-06 Time: 1200hrs Location: 3004 Heath Ave X 230 St. Description Of Incident: Fire top floor and cockloft of 6-story OMD. Writer: Truck4 1154hrs- (4) Engines, (2) Trucks, Rescue 3, Squad due to calls. E-81 transmitting 10-75 for fire on the top floor. E-81, E-79, E-75, E-52; L-46, L-37; R-3, Sq-61; B-27 1156hrs- B-27 using All-Hands on Arrival for fire in a 6-brick 100 X 75 OMD. TL-33 FAST. B-19 (10-75 B/C). 1200hrs- B-27 transmitting 2nd Alarm for extension into the cockloft. (1) L/S/O, 2nd underway. 2nd Alarm: E-48, E-43, E-95, E-88; L-52, L-56; E-72/S-2; Rescue B/C, Safety B/C, B-15 (RUL), B-15 (Safety); Field Com, TAC 1 1203hrs- S/C additional Truck for FAST (L-59). 1205hrs- Div. 7 rpts co's have water on the fire. Primary underway. D/W/H. 1214hrs- Div. 7 rpts all visible fire K/D in fire apartment. Co's still opening up the cockloft. D/W/H.

Coast Guard lays out risks of natural gas barge on Sound By KEN VALENTI THE JOURNAL NEWS (Original publication: September 23, 2006) NEW HAVEN, CONN. — A large, stationary barge storing liquid natural gas in the middle of Long Island Sound would present hazards such as the potential for an intense fire, but it could be operated safely with precautions in place, including a no-sail zone around it and the vessels that supply it, the U.S. Coast Guard concluded in a report released yesterday. The facility, which would become a piece of the region's energy system, would also require more Coast Guard vessels and a stronger marine firefighting force in the region, with local governments paying part of the cost of a project that many people oppose. To make the Broadwater Energy facility safe, a buffer zone of 1.5 square miles would have to be set around the barge and around tankers traveling to it two or three times a week to bring more of the fuel to be stored and distributed, the report says. "We feel that the risks to safety and security could be mitigated," said U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Peter J. Boynton, presenting the findings yesterday at the Coast Guard's Long Island Sound headquarters in New Haven. He said more firefighting boats would be needed on the Sound. "We have found that marine firefighting on Long Island Sound is inadequate — it's inadequate today, even without the Broadwater proposal," Boynton said. "Improved marine firefighting would be required, were this proposal to be approved by FERC." Both opponents of the facility and Broadwater representatives saw the study, called a water suitability report, as validation of their opposing views. Adrienne Esposito, executive director of the Long Island-based Citizens Campaign for the Environment, said the report confirmed what she had feared. "This validates everything we've been saying," she said. "The Broadwater proposal is downright scary. It's expensive and it's risky." Amy Kelley, a Broadwater spokeswoman, praised the report. "We're thrilled that they've confirmed that this is not a terrorist target and that this can operate safely and securely in Long Island Sound," she said. The Broadwater Energy facility, a joint venture of Shell and TransCanada Corp., would rise 80 feet above the water and would be almost a quarter-mile long. Moored nine miles off Suffolk County and 10 miles off Connecticut, the facility would house tanks with a total 350,000 cubic meters of storage. The tanks would hold natural gas that has been super-cooled to convert it to a liquid. On Broadwater, the fuel would be converted back into a gas and piped into the Iroquois Pipeline, which crosses the Sound, supplying homes, businesses and power plants. Broadwater Energy plans to begin operating the facility in 2010. Up to 1.25 billion cubic feet of natural gas a day could be fed into the line, enough to heat 4 million homes for a year, according to Broadwater. An accident could cause an intense fire, but not an explosion, Boynton said. It would burn off in about an hour, as compared with an oil spill that, if ignited, can burn for days. He said however, that the 45-year-old liquefied natural gas industry has never suffered such an accident. The report also raises the possibility that a cloud of flammable vapor could be released in an accident, spreading as much as 4.7 miles from the facility or 4.3 miles from a tanker supplying it. Such a cloud, which would be flammable, would be able to reach some points on land, such as part of Long Island's north fork. Boynton said it was unlikely such a cloud would be released because anything that punctured the hull of a tanker would probably spark a fire. A plan for responding to emergencies would have to be put together with Broadwater, the states and federal agencies, Boynton said. But Broadwater would share the costs of additional resources such as firefighting equipment, he said. Kelley confirmed that plan. "We do not want to be a burden on taxpayers," she said. Rep Tim Bishop, a Long Island Democrat, objected to the security costs it would bring. "We have better energy solutions, such as the Islander East Pipeline," he said. "We don't need to spend millions of taxpayer dollars on boats and security zones or industrialize the Long Island Sound to accommodate Broadwater when there are better and safer solutions." Bishop's comments came in a joint statement with New York's Democratic U.S. senators, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Charles Schumer. "The Coast Guard report confirms what we have been saying all along — that there are significant concerns associated with the project," Clinton said. "I continue to believe that the Broadwater proposal is just the wrong idea for the Sound." In the statement, Schumer also stressed the safety concerns. Opponents fear the facility would be a terrorist target. The Coast Guard report found that because the facility is far from population centers where an accident would claim many lives and difficult for the media and the public to view, it "would more than likely not be an attractive terrorist target." The Coast Guard would be required to process the traffic generated by the facility — tankers traveling to the barge two or three times a week from foreign regions such as the Caribbean, Africa and the Middle East, Boynton said. Boynton stressed that the Coast Guard was not taking a position on the project and had been charged only with reviewing the proposal's safety, not its aesthetics or environmental impacts or whether it is an appropriate use of the estuary. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will make the final determination after public hearings are held. The Coast Guard report is part of the FERC review, which is expected to be completed next year. Boynton also said the moorings Broadwater Energy proposed to hold the facility in place would be strong enough to withstand a category five hurricane.

Date: 9-6-06 and Ongoing Time: Ongoing Location: National Forest areas along I-5 on LA and Riverside County borders. Departments: Los Angeles County Fire, Ventura County Fire Description: Two-week old Day Fire now up to acres burning. Writer: Truck4 Links: Photos, Video, Maps http://www.nbc4.tv/news/9874034/detail.html

Date: 9-18-06 Time: 1500hrs Location: 20 Treeway Court "Cromwell Valley Apartments" Departments: Baltimore County Description: Heavy fire in a 4-story OMD. Writer: Truck4 Links: http://wjz.com/topstories/local_story_261153615.html

Date: 9-17-06 Time: 2310hrs Location: Hudson River, Tappan Zee Bridge Units Operating: Tarrytown, Piermont, Nyack, Irvington, Sleepy Hollow; NYSP, USCG Description Of Incident: Units req. for water search of a possible jumper down. Writer: Truck4 2310hrs- NYSP on the bridge with a report of a female jumper off the bridge, Nyack side. 2353hrs- (1) female victim removed from water, reportedly concious, and being transported to shore by Sleepy Hollow Fireboat 7.

Date: 9-16-06 Time: 1950hrs Location: Warburton Ave X Ashburton Ave. Frequency: Units Operating: YPD 4th PCT Description Of Incident: Originally (1) call to Detective Division reporting shots fired, witness in front of 160 Warburton states shots came from south of Ashburton Ave. Units canvassed and cleared, then rpt from St. Joe's of a walk-in with GSW. Writer: Truck4 2040hrs- 4th PCT units searching for a crime scene along Warburton Ave from Manor House Square to Ashburton. Victim has non-life threatening injuries.

Date: 9-16-06 Time: 1930hrs Location: 42 Cross St X Perry/Tuckahoe Units Operating: ESU Truck 2, Truck 4, Truck 3, 1st PCT Description Of Incident: EDP male left suicide notes, reportedly intox with a shotgun to his head. Writer: Truck4 1930hrs- Caller rpts male is in his bedroom with a shotgun to his head, also states there are children and other family members in the house. 1932hrs- Units advised male is walking outside with shotgun. 1935hrs- R/C 101 rpts male is in the rear yard with a shotgun. 1936hrs- R/C 101 rpts male threw down the gun. 1938hrs- ESU units have male in custody in the yard. 1950hrs- ESU Truck 2 advising rounds were fired inside the house prior to PD arrival. Detectives and Crime Scene Unit enroute.

Date: 9-15-06 Time: 0100hrs Location: Decatur X W. Tropicana Departments: LVMPD, Clark County Police Description: Plainclothes P.O. in a marked taxi struck head-on at a high speed by a vehicle that jumped the median. P.O. is in a medically induced coma. Driver of other vehicle DOA. Writer: Truck4 Links: http://www.klas-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5412292

This hasn't received much press yet. Off-duty FDNY member beaten while walking home with his wife. Richard Berkhout, 46, who works out of Engine 298 in Jamaica is still in intensive care. Let's keep this guy in mind, and hope the DA has a set and takes it to the three wastes of human life. From New York Newsday: Third man arrested in firefighter beating BY SUSANA ENRIQUEZ Newsday Staff Writer September 14, 2006, 9:56 PM EDT A third man has been arrested and charged in the assault Monday of a New York City firefighter in Mastic Beach who had spent the day with his wife in remembrance of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Suffolk police said. Christopher Robinson, 25, who had been released Monday on parole from the Cayuga Correctional Facility upstate, after serving 4 years for felony assault, was arrested Thursday. His half-brothers, twins Darrell and Darian Taylor, 28, of Mastic Beach, were arrested at the scene Monday and charged with second-degree assault. Richard Berkhout, 46, who works out of Engine 298 in Jamaica, and his wife, Margaret, 47, were walking home from a fishermen's club meeting at the Mastic Beach Yacht Club about 9:15 p.m. Monday when a car sped by them on Lakeview Drive, said Suffolk police Det. Lt. Gerard Gigante. Police said Thursday that when Richard Berkhout yelled at them to slow down, the car stopped and three men got out and beat him severely. Berkhout suffered a fractured skull, a brain hemorrhage and numerous lacerations and contusions to his head and face, police said. He was taken to Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center, where he remains in intensive care in serious condition. Margaret Berkhout, who was not injured, screamed for help and ran to a nearby home where the resident sounded his burglar alarm, alerting the police. She then ran back to the yacht club. "When she came back here, she was hysterical," said Warren McDowell, 72, of Mastic Beach. At the club Thursday, members gathered to inquire about Berkhout as visitors were not allowed at the hospital. "When I heard about it, I got sick to my stomach," said Mike Schumacher, a city firefighter from Engine 266 who has known Berkhout for 10 years. "You would never think of him being in a fight." Berkhout is known for getting things done around the firehouse, Schumacher said, and receives an award every year to recognize him for that. "He's got his hands into everything," he said. "He's an incredible guy." Darrell and Darian Taylor, who were charged with second-degree assault, are being held in Suffolk County Jail in lieu of $100,000 cash bail and $300,000 bond, and $150,000 cash bail and $450,000 bond, respectively. The investigation into Robinson's alleged role in the assault was continuing. He is scheduled to be arraigned Friday in First District Court in Central Islip for a parole violation.

"If I were to make a post advocating the elimination or reduction of volunteer firefighters from a community my post would be pulled for being inflammatory or negative, but this guy is allowed to babble on about career firefighters" I deleted this post last night. This was added to a discussion where both sides were discussed, without "bashing" and within the limits of the forum guidelines. This thread has been monitored since inception and allowed to continue as it fell within those guidelines. Members were able to express views based on both ends of the Volunteer and Paid spectrum. If you were to post an intelligent, thoughtful reply, it too would have remained for members to read and reply. If you posted under a "Verified" screen name, you likely would have received a PM notifying of your deleted post, as a number of members do. It is recommended, again, that you direct your complaints, as a Verified member, to a moderator. It is rare that any complaint or concern goes unanswered. Most members have been around this board long enough to know this.

Date: 9-14-06 Time: 1609hrs Location: 2584 Bainbridge Ave X 193rd St Description Of Incident: Fire throughout a 3-story frame vacant. Writer: Truck4 1614hrs- S/C extra Engine and Truck with All-Hands On Arrival. 1623hrs- Div. 7 transmitting 2nd Alarm for fire on all floors and the rear of a 2-story vacant. Co's checking exposures. 1634hrs- Div. 7 rpts (3) L/S/O, (1) Tower Ladder, exterior op's ATT. Primary in basement is (-). 1652hrs- All visible fire is K/D. Still using (2) Tower Ladders. Searches delayed. P/W/H.

Date: 9-13-06 Time: 2120hrs Location: Van Cortlandt Park Ave X Lakeside Dr./Glenbrook Units Operating: YPD 3rd PCT, ESU Truck 3, Truck 4, Truck 2; Empress; YFD E-304, L-74, R-1, B-1 Description Of Incident: MVA Rollover with (2) victims ejected. Writer: Truck4 2120hrs- PD on scene confirming overturned with victims on the ground. Req. Empress and ESU with a rush. 2122hrs- ESU O/S confirming ejection. Patrol Supervisor enroute. 2125hrs- B-1 S/C Rescue 1. Req. DPW for broken hydrant with water condition. 2127hrs- B-1 rpts (2) unstable, ejected victims. Req. at least (2) ambulances from Empress. 2137hrs- Empress Supervisor Req. additional ALS to scene. Advised none are available. Req. additional BLS. 2141hrs- Empress enroute to Jacobi with (1) victim ATT. 2151hrs- Empress enroute to Jacobi with 2nd victim and St. Joe's with (1) victim BLS. (2) victims to Jacobi- (1) 19 Y.O. female with fractured femur, stable, (2) 20 Y.O. male possible LOC and altered mental, unstable. PD req. Accident Investigator to scene.

Date: 9-13-06 Time: 1710hrs Location: Williamsbridge Road X Sackett Ave Description Of Incident: Fire on 1st and 2nd floors of a 6-story OMD. Writer: Truck4 1714hrs- Sq-41 assigned to the box, reports of people on the fire escapes. 1715hrs- B-20 transmitting 2nd Alarm for fire on the 1st and 2nd floors. First line being stretched. 1727hrs- B-20 rpts (1) L/S/O, 2nd L/S. All visible fire has been knocked down. Primary (-).

Date: 9-12-06 Time: 0140hrs Location: West 1st X South 15th Frequency: Units Operating: MVPD, Empress Description Of Incident: Victim stabbed in the neck transported to Jacobi by Empress. Writer: Truck4

Date: 9-11-06 Time: 1310hrs Location: Ferris Ave X Richard St. Units Operating: Description Of Incident: Male shot in the stomach, transported to White Plains Hospital by private vehicle. Writer: Truck4

Date: 9-11-06 Time: 1740hrs Location: Yonkers Ave X Saw Mill Pkway Units Operating: Numerous YPD units Description Of Incident: Pursuit of stolen vehicle. Writer: Truck4 1740hrs- 3rd PCT unit following a stolen vehicle out of the 4th PCT from earlier in the day. Suspect refused to stop and took off out Yonkers Ave from Walnut St. 1743hrs- Suspect vehicle ran into traffic on Yonkers Ave eastbound near Midland and fled westbound to the Saw Mill Parkway entrance. 1745hrs- Suspect lost control and crashed into a tree at the Saw Mill Northbound entrance ramp, units in foot pursuit across the Parkway. WCPD notified. 1750hrs- (2) suspects from stolen vehicle in custody. 3rd PCT unit involved in an MVA on Riverdale Ave while responding to the pursuit.

Date: 9-9-06 Time: 1831hrs Location: 100 Fair St.- "Kleen Brite" Units Operating: (19) Departments Description Of Incident: Fully involved vacant warehouse/commercial. Writer: stob, Truck4 http://www.mcfw.com/source/images/september/broc.pdf http://www.mcfw.com/source/images/september/broc.html

Date: 9-10-06 Time: 0201hrs Location: 11 Kathy Lane X Spruce St. Frequency: Units Operating: E-306, 304, 312, 307; L-74, 75; R-1, B-1 Description Of Incident: Fire 1st floor of a 3-story OMD. U/C at 0212hrs Writer: Truck4