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Date: 11-20-08 Time: 0430hrs Location: 953 E. 223rd St. Description Of Incident: Heavy fire in a 2-story P/D. Writer: Truck4

Date: 11-20-08 Time: 1455hrs Location: NJ Turnpike western spur ramp to Route 3 west Units Operating: Description Of Incident: Overturned and fully involved fuel tanker. Writer: Truck4 Observation from Chris192 - At 600 feet above the ground in White Plains, the smoke was clearly visible and NYPD helicopters in Brooklyn and Queens were talking about it as well. BIG job!

Sgt. Timothy Simpson was a 20-year vet and father of three. Simpson was killed by a fleeing career criminal while responding to a robbery. Simpson's partner was killed in May during a robbery. The suspect "boasted after his arrest that he had often eluded capture." http://www.philly.com/inquirer/front_page/...er_mourned.html

Date: 11-19-08 Time: 2138hrs Location: Hegerman St. X Wingate St. Departments: PFD Description: Multiple cars on fire inside a large commercial building. (2) Firefighters fell through or off the roof and transported with multi-trauma. Writer: Truck4

Date: 11-19-08 Time: 1615hrs Box: 2553 Location: 1105 Southern Blvd. X 167th St. Description Of Incident: Full involved, 1-story row of (7) taxpayers. Writer: Truck4 (O/S) 1616hrs- Div. 6 transmitting the 2nd Alarm for fire into the cockloft. 1624hrs- Div. 6 req. Haz Mat assignment due to fire in a dry cleaners. Fire into Exposure 2 and 2A ATT. 1635hrs- Div. 6 rpts co's going to an exterior attack. 1650hrs- Div. 6 transmitting 3rd Alarm. (3) Tower ladders in operation.

Pics of the Corpo Civici Pompieri in Lugano, Switzerland. Similar to other European countries, they run out of large, regional fire stations. This station in Vignola houses 18 rigs in two buildings- One with 10 bays and one with 4. Gallery here: http://www.onthejobny.com/gallery/The-Latest/ Newer 2007 Man Pumper: Their Magirus Tower Ladder:

Switzerland, like Italy, has a national fire service. All thier stations are regional with platoon-type staffing. They run 4-5 men per rig on the front-line engines. Units are mission specific, as you can see with the ladder, and they see little structural fire. Also as with Italy, these stations run a smaller engine for narrow streets (pic above). For runs in those areas, they'll split the crew and take two engines.

Date: 11-17-08 Time: 2230hrs Location: Allegheny X Aramingo Departments: Description: Philadelphia Sgt. involved in an MVA while responding to a robbery. Pronounced dead at Temple. Writer: Truck4

Date: 11-18-08 Time: 1510hrs Location: 244 Route 306 Units Operating: Description Of Incident: Fire in a Yeshiva. Writer: Truck4

Date: 11-17-08 Time: 2315hrs Location: 122 Chestnut St. X Westfield "Costa's" Units Operating: Description Of Incident: Heavy fire in 2-story 75X100 commercial restaurant with apartments on 2nd floor. Writer: Truck4

Philadelphia is facing an $8 Million shortfall, compared to the $16 claimed by Yonkers and is closing 5 Engines and 2 Ladders. There are NO layoffs, no station closings and no demotions. No talk of give-backs yet either. They also made sure to mention that structural fires were down 60% since 1990 and EMS runs are up 96% during the same period. Philly is also closing 1 Police Station, eliminating the DARE program and several hundred unfilled positions in the department. http://phillyfirenews.com/Gm08-135.pdf

The dozen front-line apparatus include 5 Engines and 2 Trucks housed in the main building facing the street. The rigs are two deep in some bays: Secondary apparatus (Haz-Mat, Rescue, Utility) are in a 4-bay building the rear of the complex.

The Dodge is basically a utility vehicle. It is equipped for roadblocks, flooding, fire prevention and extra SCBA among other things.

Date: 11-14-08 Time: 0711hrs Location: 250 W. Fort Lee Road Units Operating: Bogota, Englewood, Fort Lee, Hackensack, Teaneck, Ridgefield Park Description Of Incident: Fully-involved vacant former car dealership with collapse. Writer: Truck4 http://www.northjersey.com/news/Fire_repor...dealership.html Pics at EMTBravo New Jersey: http://emtbravonewjersey.com/index.php/topic,445.0.html

Date: 11-12-08 Time: 2240hrs Location: 36 W. 48th St. Description Of Incident: Fire on the first floor with extension to the floors above of a 5-story brownstone. Writer: Truck4

Mayor plans to lay off hundreds of city workers- http://www.lohud.com/article/20081112/NEWS02/811120417 -Hiring freeze -No Police or Fire academy classes in '09 -Mayor wants to renegotiate contracts

The Mayor will be announcing his cuts tomorrow, reportedly 5% across the board for fiscal year 2008/09 which runs through June 2009. YPD will be cutting some specialized details/units, including School Resource Officers (cops in the schools) and some Street Crime Unit officers. The talk is that the department will be reassigning 48 cops back into uniform patrol to eliminate scheduled OT. Promotions scheduled for this week were canceled indefinitely.

Date: 11-10-08 Time: 1857hrs Location: 11 Park Ave Units Operating: Description Of Incident: 16-year old male shot in the leg. Writer: Truck4

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Date: 11-09-08 Time: 0740hrs Location: 23150 Lake Center Drive Departments: Description: Fire throughout multiple units of a 3 and 4-story hotel. Writer: Truck4 http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Ma...ake-Forest.html

Date: 11-09-08 Time: 1740hrs Location: Various Description Of Incident: Widespread outside gas odor throughout the 23 Battallion Writer: Truck4 1740hrs- E-168 has an outside gas odor leaving quarters. S.I. receiving numerous calls for outside gas along Arthur Kill Road. 1800hrs- Still getting calls for outside gas. B-23 rpts possible odor from New Jersey, seems to be dissipating.

Date: 11-08-08 Time: 1308hrs Box: 9642 Location: 87-12 112th St. X Jamacia Ave Description Of Incident: Fire throughout a 2.5-story frame P/D attached. Writer: Truck4 1308hrs- 10-75 for fire in the basement of a 2.5-frame. R-4 unavailable, Sq-288 S/C. 1st Alarm: E-294, 270, 308, 285; L-143, 142, 151FAST; B-51, 50; 1310hrs- B-51 Using All-Hands On Arrival for fire in a 20X40 frame with Exposures 2 and 4 attached. S/C R-2 on the All-Hands. S/C extra Engine and Truck. S/C: E-293/L-126 1317hrs- Div. 13 transmitting 2nd Alarm for heavy fire in the basement, 1st and 2nd floors. Co's checking the exposures for extension. D/W/H. 2nd Alarm: E-305, 303, 298, 324/S-4; L-127; B-39 (Safety), 46 (RUL); Safety B/C, Rescue B/C; Field Com., TAC 2, TCU 1325hrs- Div. 13 rpts fire K/D in the basement. Still have fire on the upper floors. 1355hrs- Div. 13 rpts no extension to exposures. Co's still hitting pockets of fire. 1357hrs- S/C (2) additional Trucks. S/C: L-135/107

Date: 11-08-08 Time: 0134hrs Location: 112 Culver St. Units Operating: Description Of Incident: (2) victims down in the street after call for numerous shots fired. (1) male shot to the abdomen, (1) shot in the foot. Empress transported both to Jacobi. Writer: Truck4 0135hrs- Empress ALS responding from Lawrence Hospital, BLS is Mount Vernon Ambulance 1 from Mount Vernon.

Date: 11-07-08 Time: 0701hrs Box: 2108 Location: 605 E. 132nd St X Cypress Ave Description Of Incident: Fire in a 6-brick commercial. Writer: Truck4 0701hrs- 10-75 for fire possibly on the 1st floor of a 6-brick factory 80X90. 1st Alarm: E-83, 41, 73, 60; L-29, 17, 42FAST; B-14, 12; R-3, Sq-61 0707hrs- B-14 Using All-Hands for smoke condition in the building. Co's trying to locate the fire ATT. (1) L/S. 0710hrs- Div. 6 S/C extra Engine and Truck. S/C: E-35/L-14 0717hrs- Div. 6 transmitting 2nd Alarm. Fire is on the first floor. 2nd Alarm: E-71, 58, 59, 72/S-2; L-55; B-16 (Safety), 3 (RUL); Safety B/C, Rescue B/C, Field Com, TAC, CTU 0719hrs- Div. 6 rpts fire is K/D.

Date: 11-07-08 Time: 0340hrs Location: 34 Ashburton Road Units Operating: Lake Carmel, Carmel, Patterson, Brewster, Kent Description Of Incident: Heavy fire in a 1.5-story frame dwelling. Writer: Truck4