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Date: 6-22-05 Time: 0430hrs Location: W.C. Airport taxi-way. Description: Small plane occupied by (3) intox males landed on taxi-way and grass area of airport after running low on fuel. Tower operator contacted WCPD of suspicious plane. Pilot flying plane without permission of owner and intoxicated. First arriving WCPD units had beer bottles thrown at them from plane. Writer: Truck4

The anti-cop sentiment bleeds through again. Haz Mat is not about "oops we dropped the bucket of glowing slime" anymore. Educate yourself. Do you want to suit up, as a fireman, and go into some place where there's a bad guy looking to take you and everyone else out and his weapon is a chem-bio agent? And newsflash! This IS about fighting crime! It's about keeping up with the times. Why don't all you haters look into the origins of FDNY Haz Mat and why/how it came to be. You might be surprised at the truth. And another thing, where do you think the money came from to buy all the FDNY Haz Mat gear and training for the members since 2001? Government funding. Likely where the NYPD will go for the money now that they are the lead agency. Ever think for a second that Haz Mat trained cops will be there to PROTECT fire and EMS operating at these jobs?

Date: 6-20-05 Time: 1355hrs Box: 77-44-1800 Location: 672 Jamaica Ave X Logan Description: Fire in a 3-story frame 20 X 60 with ext. into exposure 2, 4 and 4A. Writer: Truck4, FDNY242Buff 1436hrs- 4TH ALARM transmitted via Field Comm. Staging is Jamaica X Hale for incoming units. Units being advised to park apparatus at jamaica and hyland 1 block east of Hale 1448hrs- S/C (2) additional trucks (TL111 and L174). 1456hrs- Main body of fire knocked down. (3) TL and (3) handlines in operation. Fire is still doubtful. Duration is 1 hr.

Date: 6-20-05 Time: 2324hrs Location: 60 Leland Ave X Chestnut Description: Fire on top floor of 2.5 story P/D. Writer: Truck4 2324hrs- Original call for fire on 3rd floor, Car 2302 on scene reporting 10-75. 2325hrs- E-23, 30A1, Car 2303 responding on the 10-75. 2330hrs- Car 2302 reports fire on top floor and cockloft with 1 L/S/O. 2338hrs- Car 2302 reports fire on top floor with extension to attic and roof. 2341hrs- Car 2302 reports fire knocked down, co's opening up.

Date: 6-17-05 Time: 1230hrs Location: 3135 East Main Street (Cortland Town Center Shopping Mall) Units: Mohegan L-35, L-10, Eng 257, 2263, 2264, 2265, 2267, 69B1, 69B3, Peekskill 134, Buchanan U-12, NY State Police, C&O Zone 4. Description: Fire in (1) taxpayer (Blockbuster) in row. Writer: Truck4, mikeinet, CG206 1235hrs- Chief on scene reporting working fire. M/A Yorktown ladder to cover. 0109hrs- Fire K/D. Sprinker system was activated.

Date: 6-17-05 Time: 1640hrs Location: East River X 42nd St. Units: Numerous NYPD, FDNY and Coast Guard Description: Corporate helicopter down with (7) on board. Writer: Truck4, DADAY 1640hrs- Private vessel "Half Moon" reporting over Coast Guard Emergency Ch. 16 of a helicopter down in the East River off the F.D.R. Coast Guard contacting NYPD Harbor and Aviation. Vessel is attempting to aid victims. 1644hrs- NYPD PCT unit confirming job from FDR at 42nd St. 1645hrs- NYPD Harbor unit on scene deploying a resuce swimmer. 1647hrs- NYPD Aviation 14 on scene reporting helo down with (3) victims holding on and (1) unconcious with an NYPD diver. 1653hrs- NYPD Harbor Launch 32 with (1) victim going to 34th St. and req, EMS with a rush. 1655hrs- Vessel "Half Moon" has rescued (3) victims from the water and is heading into 23rd St boat basin. Victims are concious and alert. ESU Truck 1 has witnesses reporting people in the water off the Con Ed pier. 1658hrs- PCT units reporting they, along with civilians, are removing (3) from the water off Con Ed. Units at Heliport have employees stating that the copter was occupied by (7) on take off. NYPD Level 1 Mobilization at 34th St. X River. 1659hrs- NYPD reports Harbor Launch Divers in the water. Req. Aviation to Heliport to pick up (2) ESU divers. U.S. Coast Guard units have East River closed from north end of Roosevelt Island to 14th St. 1710hrs- EMS supervisor reporting all (8) persons are accounted for. (1) victim was a witness who jumped into the water to help victims. USCG Cutter Penobscott Bay on scene. 1715hrs- NYPD divers will be conducting search for helicopter body. NYPD reporting (4) victims at 42nd St., (3) at 34th St. and (1) at 23rd St. 1725hrs- NYPD Harbor has lifted the tail section of the aircraft after it was located by divers. U.S. Coast Guard has a part of a rotor blade.

Date: 6-17-05 Time: 0034hrs Location: Caryl Ave X Landscape/Eleanor Description: (2) males shot by male in SUV that fled east toward Van Cortland Park Ave. (1) male shot (5) times- "not likely" and (1) male shot (1) time to the leg also "not likely." Both transported by Empress to Jacobi. Units: YPD 3rd PCT, ESU Truck 2, Truck 4, Detectives, Criminal Identification Unit; Empress. Writer: Truck4

Date: 6-16-05 Time: 1805hrs Location: 53-67 Shonnard Pl. (YPD 4th PCT/YFD Sta. 9) Description: Power lines down on vehicle in front of location with male inside. Unkown if MOS. Writer: Truck4 1815hrs- B-1 req. Con Ed with a rush advising male will be in car until Con Ed arrives. PD with area blocked off.

Date: 6-13-05 Time: 1540hrs Location: Hamilton Ave X New St. Description: Accident at construction site with unconcious worker. Units: WPPD ESU, WPFD R-88 Writer: Truck4 1540hrs- PD/FD dispatched for construction accident with man down unconcious. FD with Truck and Rescue responding. 1550hrs- Stat Flight on stand-by. 1610hrs- Stat Flight cancelled.

Date: 6-13-05 Time: 1255hrs Location: Inwood Pl. X 6th Ave (Near Pelham border) Description: Fire in a P/D. Writer: Truck4, pudge3311 1305hrs- M/A Mount Vernon E-2 and L-2 to cover. Pelham E-5 and Pelham Manor TL-3 to cover Sta. 3. 1325hrs- Fire K/D. 1345hrs- M/A released.

One monkey under.

Date: 6-12-05 Time: 1525hrs Location: 83rd St. X Madison Ave Description: P.O. slashed at the wrist hand during disturbance at Puerto Rican Day Parade. Transported stable to St. Luke's. Originally reported as slashed, then transmitted as shot, further corrected by PD as a slashing. Writer: Truck4

Date: 6-12-05 Time: 1540hrs Location: Coney Island -Riegelmann Boardwalk X Stillwell Ave Description: 20-year old male swimmer missing for (2) hours located by NYPD Aviation and transported in cardiac arrest. PCT units and ESU responded to same location at 1600 for a 2nd drowning of child transported in cardic arrest. Writer: Truck4 1825hrs- 20-year old victim was pronounced at Coney Island hospital. Child was transferred to Medical Center.

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Date: 6-11-05 Time: 2250hrs Location: 80 1st Ave X Broadway/Marion Description: Writer: Truck4

Date: 6-11-05 Time: 1245hrs Location: 13 Walnut Pl. Description: Fire in a P/D. Writer: Truck4

Happened this past weekend. Shark Bite Confirmed As White Shark BY GREGORY J. VOLPE MANAHAWKIN BUREAU SURF CITY — Officials on Long Beach Island received confirmation Wednesday that a 17-year-old surfer from Lacey was bitten by a white shark off 18th Street — New Jersey's first shark attack in 30 years. George Burgess, curator of the International Shark Attack File, a database that records shark attacks, said he listed Sunday's biting of Ryan Horton as having been done by a white shark — commonly referred to as the Great White. "The more I look at it, after I got the photographs (of Horton's wound), the more I became convinced that the white shark looks like the real thing," he said. "The wound characteristic is pretty much white sharkish." He said the wound's depth and teeth markings connect it to the white shark, not the bluefish as some local officials have suggested. Ellen Johnson, executive director of the Southern Ocean County Chamber of Commerce, said people should avoid deep waters until lifeguards are posted in two weeks — a precaution that would be urged regardless of the shark attack. "It's unfortunate what happened to this young man," Johnson said. "It's such an isolated incident." The report Wednesday caused the family to stop talking to the media because of all the reporters who came to their home. But people on the 18th Street beach in Surf City were not panicking. "It's highly likely to happen anywhere. Sharks are everywhere," said Randy Townsend, 26, a professional surfer, who lives on 18th Street. "There's big fish all over the ocean, you don't know where they'll go." Townsend said the attack won't keep him, or tourists, out of the water. "It's not going to stop people from the pure white sand of New Jersey," he said. Carol Marino, 60, who has a summer home in Surf City, was distressed when she heard of the attack because her son was surfing at the same spot Sunday where Horton was attacked. "I would be leery of going out too far. But nothing will keep people away from the beaches in the summertime," she said. Trevor and Clinton Beiswenger, 13-year-old twins on vacation from Pennsylvania, were in the surf Wednesday afternoon, undaunted by talk of a shark. "We're not concerned," their mother, Michele Beiswenger, said. "They don't go out very far, either." The incident on Sunday was just the 16th unprovoked attack in New Jersey ever documented, only five have been fatal, Burgess has said. Most of the attacks along the Jersey Shore occurred in 1916. Those attacks inspired the book and movie "Jaws," which debuted in 1975 — the same year as New Jersey's last shark bite, which was off Sandy Hook. The shark attack Sunday was the country's first this year north of Florida. Shark experts said local officials historically try to dismiss shark bites as bluefish or unconfirmed reports. But they, too, hope people won't stay away from the island because of a rare occurrence. "Unfortunately, it really impacts the year the thing occurs," said Dr. Richard G. Fernicola, doctor of pain management and author of a book on the real-life shark attacks at the Jersey Shore in 1916. "The problem is not this isolated attack, but whether the environmental conditions create a clustering of sharks. Hopefully, it's simply a freak (occurrence) and that's the end of it." Surf City Mayor Leonard T. Connors Jr. said he doesn't expect the report will keep tourists away. "If there's any impact, it would certainly have the impact of being very cautious when you go into an unguarded beach and that would be a good thing," he said. "It's an extremely rare situation." Burgess agreed. "It is a rare event, indeed. Once every 30 years is truly a rare event," he said. "People shouldn't be shy about going in the water." Ray Mombelardi, captain of the Scorpion III, a shark charter boat out of Brick, said he was surprised to hear of the bite. "The whites don't generally come in this close, although I guess this one did," he said. Horton couldn't be reached for comment Wednesday. On Tuesday, he told the Asbury Park Press: "I was surfing. I was up, and then I fell off and it felt like a baseball bat had whacked my foot. He bit into my foot and tore off a big part of flesh and skin." Horton received 60 stitches in his foot and expects a full recovery.

Date: 6-8-05 Time: 2210hrs Location: Intervale Pl X Mclean Ave Description: Male EDP on roof of apartment building threatening to jump. After approx. 30 minutes of conversation, EDP was talked down by ESU and 3rd PCT unit. Removed from roof by TL-71. Writer: Truck4, DFFD227

Date: 6-8-05 Time: 1255hrs Location: 192 Neelytown Rd. X Maybrook Rd/Beaver Dam Rd. Description: Fire in a P/D. M/A to scene. Writer: Truck4, ocff75 Mutual Aid: (1) Tanker from Campbell Hall ( TA901) (1) Engine from Campbell Hall (E-903) Stand-by in Maybrook FHQ (1) Engine from Montgomery ( E-223) (1) Brush Truck from Montgomery (M-224) (1) Engine from Coldenham ( E-204) (1) Rescue from Coldenham (R-208) (1) Tower from Coldenham (T-205)

Added Fireboat Harvey events to the main list, including free public trips out of Mamaroneck Harbor in June. For more Info: www.fireboat.org

Date: 6-4-05 Time: 1808hrs Location: 114 Grandview Ave Units: Nanuet (Dept. 8), Pearl River, South Spring Valley Description: Writer: Truck4

Date: 6-3-05 Time: 2310hrs Location: Washington X 173rd St. Description: L-27 involved in a major accident with civilian auto occupied by off-duty NYPD MOS. MOS reported to be in critical condition at St. Barnabas Hospital. NYPD Highway units responding for the accident investigation. No serious injuries reported to L-27 members. Writer: Truck4

Looking for info/photos/video/personal accounts of muti fatal fires in Port Chester (nightclub) and Harrison (hotel) in late 70s/early 80s for news feature. Please contact me through site or email. Thanks! Mike

Date: 6-3-05 Time: 0430hrs Location: I/A/O Old Liberty Rd. Description: Extensive M/A for fire in multiple structures, possibly bungalows. Writer: Truck4

Date: 6-3-05 Time: 0200hrs Location: St. Nicholas X 167th St. Description: Fire on 1st floor with ext. to all floors of 5-story OMD. Original rpts of people trapped. EMS treated 24 FF's and 4 civilains. Writer: Truck4