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Date: 10-15-07 Time: 0050hrs Location: Cross County Center- "Applebee's" Units Operating: YPD 2nd PCT, ESU Description Of Incident: (2) Suspects armed with shotguns, assaulted employees and took approx. $2,500. Writer: Truck4

The "Big Island" of Hawaii has a island, or county-wide fire department. Fire Station #19 is on the grounds of Volcanos National Park and the town of Volcano is just outside the park. Station #19 runs this fairly new Pierce along with an ambulance. And unfortunately, I did not get to see any giant fountains of lava. But this was a real sharp looking rig. Definately my vote for a Code 3 model. Gallery of Hawaiian Islands FD photos: http://www.onthejobny.com/index.php?q=gall..._DI_NOISSES_PMT

In addition to the two 2005 ALF heavy rescues delivered to SFFD, they recently placed two additonal 2007 ALF's into service as Haz Mat 1 and CBRNE 1 (Regional Task Force). http://www.americanlafrance.com/interior.a...;nd=4&x=665 http://www.americanlafrance.com/interior.a...;nd=4&x=661

Date: 10-14-07 Time: 1608hrs Location: East Butler St. X Aramingo/Sepviva (Richmond) Description: 2nd Alarm on Arrival for a fully involved 3-story vacant brick warehouse. Writer: Truck4 http://www.nbc10.com/news/14338169/detail....l=headlineclick

Date: 10-14-07 Time: 1430hrs Location: Hudson River, western shore, opp. Yonkers north city line. Units Operating: YPD ESU Marine #1, Truck 3, 851 (ESU Sgt); Empress; YFD Fireboat Description Of Incident: 38-foot cabin cruiser struck a sea wall and taking on water with (2) injured. Writer: Truck4 1430hrs- Mayday over Marine Radio Ch. 16 for a vessel taking on water. 1440hrs- YPD Marine #1 has removed (7) occupants from the vessel which is stuck on pilings and taking on water. Req. Truck 3 and Empress to the Police Dock. 1455hrs- Empress transporting (1) to St. John's and (1) RMA.

Date: 10-14-07 Time: 0510hrs Location: 1120 Wyatt St. X Devoe Box: 3069 Description Of Incident: Fire on the top floor and cocloft of a 6-brick OMD. Writer: Truck4 0512hrs- B-18 Using All-Hands On Arrival for fire out (1) window on the top floor of a 6-brick OMD 150 X 150. S/C extra engine and Truck. L-38 FAST. S/C: E-88/L-31 0518hrs- B-18 transmitting 2nd Alarm, fire into the cockloft. 0534hrs- Div. 7 rpts co's making good progress. S/C (2) Trucks above the 2nd. S/C: 47/54 0550rs- P/W/H.

Date: 10-13-07 Time: 2323hrs Location: Herriot St X Riverdale Ave Units Operating: YPD 3rd PCT, ESU; Empress Description Of Incident: Person stabbed Writer: Truck4 2326hrs- 3rd PCT on scene, req. Empress with a rush. 2340hrs- Empress transporting (1) to Jacobi.

Date: 10-11-07 Time: 0930hrs Location: 875 Saw Mill River Road Units Operating: Description Of Incident: (2) armed males robbed the Chase Bank and fled in a gold colored Acura MDX with a female driver. Writer: Truck4

Date: 10-11-07 Time: 0900hrs Location: Mount Vernon City Hall Frequency: Units Operating: FBI Description Of Incident: FBI entered City Hall with search warrants and subpoena's, reportedly involving corruption and mob involvement into city contracts. Writer: Truck4

Date: 10-10-07 Time: 2020hrs Location: 68 North Broadway X Manor House Square Units Operating: YPD 4th PCT, ESU, Detectives; Empress Description Of Incident: Suspect fired several rounds into a hair salon, striking (1) victim in the back. Writer: Truck4

Date: 10-10-07 Time: 1735hrs Box: 8534 Area: Woodhaven Location: 84-25 85th Road X Forest Parkway First Due: E-293/L-143/B-39 Description: Fire in the walls on (2) floors of a 6-brick OMD. Writer: Truck4 1735hrs- 10-75 for fire in the walls on the 2nd floor. 1st Alarm: E-293, 294, 236, 285; L-143, 142, 175 FAST; R-4, Sq-270; B-39, 51 (10-75) 1745hrs- B-39 Using All-Hands for fire in the walls of a 6-brick 100X100 OMD. S/C Engine and Truck. S/C: E-332/L-107 1751hrs- Div. 13 transmitting 2nd Alarm. Fire has extended to the floor above. 2nd Alarm: E-286, 319, 225, 324/S-4; L-151; B-46 (Safety), 44 (RUL); Rescue B/C, Safety B/C; Field Comm, TAC 2 1755hrs- Div. 13 S/C (2) additional Trucks above the 2nd. S/C: L-173/126 1759hrs- Div. 13 rpts fire on the 2nd floor with extension to the 3rd and 4th floors through the walls. Fire is darkening down. D/W/H. 1804hrs- Div. 13 rpts (4) L/S/O 1811hrs- Div. 13 rpts P/W/H.

Date: 10-10-07 Time: 1544hrs Location: 1753 Central Ave- High Ridge Plaza- McDonald's parking lot. Units Operating: YPD ESU, K-9; 1st PCT, Traffic Div., DEA; WCPD Bomb Squad; YFD Description Of Incident: Explosive devices connected to drug traps in a vehicle. Writer: Truck4 1544hrs- DEA on location with a vehicle operated by drug suspects with small explosives hooked into the traps containing drugs. One device has detonated with no injuries. Req. YPD ESU with rush. 1545hrs- ESU supervisors enroute, req. WCPD Bomb Squad. 1547hrs- ESU Truck 2 advising a confirmed detonation of a small device with a substance in the car. Also rpts additional small explosives visible in the car. Officers evacuating McDonald's. 1550hrs- YFD E-311, L-70, B-2 to respond and stage at Central X Underhill. 1552hrs- YPD Patrol LT req. all available 1st PCT and Traffic Division units to evacuate Pathmark and the High Ridge parking lot. Also req. all foot-post officers citywide to respond to scene. 1553hrs- ESU LT req. units to evacuate Wendy's parking lot and remove all occupants of the OMD on Balint Drive that faces the McDonald's parking lot. 1557hrs- R/C 100 (Patrol LT) establishing a command post on the east side of the parking area. Req. Empress to scene for stand-by. 1604hrs- Units now reporting (1) injured DEA agent. 1608hrs- Empress treating (1) injured DEA agent. YFD B-2 req. E-310 to scene to replace E-311. 1613hrs- WCPD responding with a (15) minute ETA. Empress advising DEA agent is an RMA. 1654hrs- R/C 100 advising WCPD Bomb Squad on scene and will be detonating the additional devices in the vehicle. LT req. units to shut down Central Ave in all directions and remove all media from the center median. 1710hrs- R/C 100 advising roadway is re-opened, but will be closed again.

Bridge where officers died will be named for them by The Jersey Journal Thursday September 27, 2007, 9:27 AM The Linclon Highway Bridge will be officially renamed for Jersey City Police Officers Shawn Carson and Robert Nguyen, who tragically plunged off the span to their deaths on Christmas night 2005. City and state officials will gather on the vertical lift bridge, which spans the Hackensack River between Jersey City and Kearny, at 11:45 this morning for the dedication. Carson and Nguyen, members of the department's Emergency Service Unit, were called to the bridge that night to deliver flares to the Kearny side because the warning system to indicate the bridge is raised was not functioning. Unaware that it had been lifted while they were on the Kearny side, the officers drove off the open span on their way back to Jersey City. Tears and pride marked the renaming of the Lincoln Highway Bridge today in honor of the two Jersey City police officers who died after driving off the bridge and plunging into the cold Hackensack River on Christmas night 2005. At the foot of the bridge on both the Jersey City and Kearny sides, signs have been erected reading, "Police Officer Shawn Carson and Robert Nguyen Memorial Bridge. As pipers played "Amazing Grace," the mothers of Nguyen and Carson leaned over the bridge railing and sobbed after red, white and blue wreaths were thrown into the fast current near where the bodies were recovered. "We hold on to the good memories and let them bring a smile to our faces," said the Rev. Joseph Jones at the end of the ceremony. "It's great to be able to drive over that bridge and not see it as so negative," said Nguyen's brother, Mason. "It's like my brother is winking back at me. It's a great honor." At Puccini's Restaurant before the ceremony on the bridge, Mason Nguyen sat at a table with his mother, Bichvan, his father, Trinh, and other family members and friends. "The pain for me is so great but I can still give God praise because he is not forgotten," said Shawn Carson's mother, Martha Ford. "I will always remember this day." Carson, 40, and Nguyen, 30, were killed when their Emergency Services Unit truck inadvertently went off the Lincoln Highway Bridge. The pair had dropped off flares on the Kearny side of the lift bridge for use in stopping traffic while it was open because its barriers were not working. They headed back toward Jersey City unaware that the center portion of the bridge had already been raised, and their car plunged into the river.

By SIOBHAN MORRISSEY/MIAMI Mon Oct 1, 6:00 PM ET Despite a recent small uptick in violent crime, most Americans are still by and large safer than they were in the crack-fueled early 1990s. The one notable exception is the people whose job it is to combat crime on a daily basis - the nation's police officers, who are being targeted and killed in greater numbers than at any time in recent years. "There just seems to be that there's a greater willingness on the part of these bad guys to take out a police officer," Miami Police Chief John Timoney told TIME. "I see that locally here. Then you look at it nationally, there's [also] been a huge increase." Statistics seem to bear out Timoney's assessment. Police officers killed in the line of duty surged to the highest midyear count in nearly three decades, in part due to a surge in fatal shootings, according to figures kept by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. As of September 18, the memorial fund showed shooting deaths up nearly 60% over last year, from 34 in 2006 to 54 this year (the worst year for such killings was 1975, when there were 99 deaths in the same period). Not only are officer shootings up, but the number of multiple deaths is also on the rise this year, says memorial fund president Craig Floyd. In the first nine months of 2007 there were six cases of more than one officer gunned down during the same shooting spree, up from just one in all of last year. "You have to come to the conclusion that some of these heinous criminals just don't care," Floyd says. "Earlier in our history there was a code of some sense of respect, even among the most heinous criminals, that you would never harm a police officer, certainly never kill a police officer." South Florida, along with the rest of the Southern U.S., where guns are easier to come by, has been particularly hard hit. In the past six weeks, two officers have been killed, and one recently got off life support after a gunman on a motorcycle shot him in the head. On Sept. 13, Miami-Dade police Sgt. Jose Somohano died and three other officers were injured by an assailant armed with an AK-47, three years to the day after the expiration of the Federal Assault Weapons ban. On August 6, a motorcyclist shot Broward Sheriff's Det. Maury Hernandez in the head when pulled over during a routine traffic stop. Although Hernandez survived and is recovering in a local hospital, his colleague, BSO Sgt. Christopher Reyka, who was shot just four days later while checking on stolen cars, did not. "I don't understand exactly why in 2007 we have found ourselves in a position where we've had this many police officers shot and killed," says Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Darrel Stephens, who also serves as president of the Major Cities Police Chiefs. "It's a big jump over the past year. We've had two officers killed in Charlotte on April 1. The last time we lost an officer who had been shot was in 1994. We went almost 14 years between that." Timoney's answer to the emboldened attacks on his colleagues is to give them matching firepower. Although it had been in the works prior to officer Somohano's death, the day after the fatal shooting Timoney signed a new police directive authorizing Miami patrol officers to carry AR 15s, a military-grade assault weapon. "Cops understandably feel they are outgunned," Timoney says. "Nine, ten months ago we looked at what can we do to give the officers a fair chance." Criminologists point to a wide range of contributing factors to the sudden spike in cop killings. The continuing proliferation of military-grade firearms often leaves police outgunned, while some gang initiations now include the express targeting of police - such as in April of 2004, when California Highway Patrol Officer Thomas Steiner was randomly shot outside a Pomona courthouse by a teen trying to prove himself to a local gang. Other experts and activists cite the desensitizing effect of popular culture, most notably violent video games, as a key reason that more young people have no compunction about opening fire on a man or woman in uniform. Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, author of On Combat and On Violence, who trains the FBI and other law enforcement agencies, subscribes to that controversial notion. Grossman relates how officers raiding methamphetamine labs and gang hangouts often find violent video games left behind. "Every time they take down a gang house, there's always one thing that will always be there," Grossman says. "It's a video game. The video games are their newspaper, their television, their all-consuming narrative. And their video games are all cop-killer, criminal simulators." One way to counter the criminals, of course, is to match their firepower. But Fred Shenkman, professor emeritus of criminology at the University of Florida, thinks a better idea would be for police to focus more on training and improving their accuracy, since they miss their intended target some 70% to 90% of the time they fire in the line of duty. "It's much easier to buy stuff than better officers, to an extent," says Shenkman, who maintains that the average police officer is undereducated and undertrained. "We haven't really decided on what makes a better police officer, but we have a better idea as to what better equipment is." Perhaps the biggest change in police training came in the 1970s, when police departments across the country formed specialized units such as SWAT teams. The idea was to sit back and wait until the experts arrived at the scene. But after the Columbine High School massacre, many police departments rethought their approach and reverted to the old way of letting the officer on the scene take control. Other than giving them more firepower, police departments around the country don't think they have a lot of other bright ideas to combat the recent spike in cop killings. Miami Police Chief Timoney says the most important thing is to make sure officers are staying vigilant and thinking before they act, even when the patrol work becomes seemingly monotonous. "We still think officer safety first," Timoney says. "We talk constantly about waiting for backup, taking defensive postures. Our biggest enemy is complacency. There is no such thing as a routine car stop."

Date: 10-01-07 Time: 0100hrs Location: 2600 block Adams Mill Road NW (Adams Morgan) Departments: DCFD Description: Fire in an OMD (condo) with water relay. Writer: Truck4

Teen Set On Fire At Riverdale Firehouse (WJZ) RIVERDALE, Md. A shocking story out of Prince George's County, where a teenager has been set on fire. Gigi Barnett reports the crime occurred at a firehouse near Hyattsville about two weeks ago. It happened two Saturdays ago at the Riverdale Firehouse. According to sources familiar with the incident, the 17-year-old arrived from Pennsylvania with permission from his grandmother to become a live-in member of the fire station. He claimed to be a volunteer in Pennsylvania. Sources within Riverdale call what happened rough housing. Others describe it as hazing, but all confirm that at some point, foam was put on the teen and it was ignited. Often it will burn off without causing harm. This time it caught the boy's clothes on fire and slightly burned his back. Riverdale sources say the teen never actually joined the department but was being allowed to ride along on calls in anticipation of a possible membership. The sources say Riverdale originally tried to assist the teen, who arrived by train with little clothing and money. This issue came to light when the teen came to another volunteer fire department in the county. Prince George's County's Public Safety Director says if the incident turns out to be hazing, everyone involved will be dealt with severely. (© MMVII, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)

Firefighter Michael Reagon passed away 9-28-07 from injuries sustained at a fire on 9-26-07. From Landsdowne Fire Co. website: "Friday, September 28, 2007- Wednesday, September 26 at 22:55 Sharon Hill Pa. Station 09 (Sharon Hill) 01 (Folcroft)& 05 (Glenolden) were dispatched to the 900 block of Coates for a detached garage fire. First due Engine 09 on arrival report well involved and went into service for the knock down. Chief 09 arrived minutes after and established command. Within minutes of the bulk of the fire being knocked down the front wall of the stone and frame building collapsed trapping three 09 firefighters. Chief 09 Bill Benecke immediately called for Rescue 19 (Lansdowne) for the RIT team, 3 ALS units & 3 BLS units to the scene. Second alarm was stuck moments later bringing 04 (Darby) 06 & 42 (Collingdale) to the scene for additional help. A Pennstar Heli was also dispatched to the scene. As of this morning two Sharon Hill members we released as well as two Police officers. A nineteen year old Sharon Hill Fire Fighter remains in critical condition at the time of the report. His name withheld at the request of Station 09 at the present time. We ask everyone to keep this young firefighter in our prayers and thoughts for a speedy recovery and remind everyone there are NO routine calls."

Date: 09-28-07 Time: 1000hrs Location: Las Plumas High School Departments: Butte County Sheriff's, CHP, Chico PD Description: Student entered school with a gun and reportedly fired shots. Student is barricaded in athe band room with possibly (2) hostages. Writer: Truck4

Burlington Free Press: Police say fire department tools used in crimes Published: Thursday, September 27, 2007 Free Press Staff Report BERLIN -- Four members of the Berlin Fire Department used fire department equipment in Washington County to steal road signs and spray paint road signs and other items, Berlin police said. Barre residents Howard Silk, 23; Shawn Silk, 20; John Silk, 20; and Matthew Squires, 23, were issued citations this week to appear in Vermont District Court in Barre. Police said the four men stole road signs, including street signs and handicapped parking signs. They also allegedly damaged pay phones, removed windshield wiper blades from vehicles, and spray-painted road signs and other items. Berlin Fire Department officials said they were not aware that the department's equipment was used in the crime spree. "The fire chief, the president of the corporation and the department as a whole did not give approval and had no knowledge that our equipment was used," Fire Department corporation President Scott Bagg wrote in a news release. "Our policy is that any use of apparatus or equipment, outside the needs of a en emergency response or corporation activity, needs to have the approval of the fire chief first." Bagg said the four men allegedly used the electric-powered "Jaws of Life" to commit the thefts. "We, as the family of the Berlin Volunteer Fire Department, are saddened and disappointed that this occurred," Bagg said. "Some of these individuals have been very active firefighters for many years. Their family is a key component of our organization, and we are frustrated that these individuals could have tarnished the department's name in the Berlin community." The case is under investigation. Anyone with information is asked to call Officer Gowans at the Berlin Police Department at 223-4400.

Date: 09-24-07 Time: 2144hrs Location: 115 Turk Hill Road Frequency: Units Operating: Brewster, Lake Carmel, Putnam Lake, Croton Falls E-147, T-8, 2071, 72, 73; WC B-13 (Westchester) Description Of Incident: Fire in a P/D. Writer: Truck4, DOC22 **Westchester units operating on Fireground 6** 2151hrs- M/A Croton Falls Engine and Tanker to scene. 2205hrs- M/A Goldens Bridge to cover Croton Falls.

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Date: 09-20-07 Time: 2051hrs Location: 22-47 128th St. X 22/23 Ave Area: College Point Description Of Incident: Fire throughout a 2-frame P/D with extension to Exposure 4. Writer: Truck4 2057hrs- 2nd Alarm. 2059hrs- Fire in a 2-frame P/D 20X40, searches underway. Fire is in basement, 1st and 2nd floors. 2102hrs- Div. 14 req. EMS to scene. 2103hrs- Div. 14 transmitting 3rd Alarm. B-3 (Staging), B-43 (Air Recon) 2105hrs- Div. 14 req. EMS forthwidth, rpts fire in (2) 2-story frames and possibly a third. Staging area 127th St. X 22 Ave. 2115hrs- Div. 14 rpts fire in (2) 2-frames. Original fire building is beginning to darken down. Fire in Exposure 4 being attacked ATT, (5) L/S/O. Primaries in progress. 2116hrs- Div. 14 rpts Pri (-) on 1st and 2nd floors in original fire building. Pri (-) in Exposure 4. (1) firefighter being transported by EMS for trauma. Reportedly fell from 2nd floor.

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