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So now you are saying that there should be size and gender requirements for firefighters! Okay, I got your point, thanks for expressing it so well! Guess some people don't realize this is the 21st century yet, and the bucket brigades have since moved on! Oh and yeah, I never worked in a large city as an EMT or anything, or even dispatch for one...I am just talking out of my rear!

Buying meals, I'm in, just send em to the Radio Room c/o MFY! I used to enjoy stand by's, now I get paid so I like it even more!

Weasel, what are you thinking? Requiring first responders to have additional medical training would be beneficial to everyone, especially the public whom you are sworn to serve. Maybe you need to open your mind and grow up a bit. If each firefighter were a paramedic, that would increase the survival rate of cardiac arrest and such by reducing the response times of ALS intervention. Imagine that, a system that could actually save lives by putting people out on the street trained to the best that we know! Why can't we add personnel to staff the ambulances, so if a single Engine Co. added a bus to the station, instead of 4 working men, now we would have 6, 2 assigned to the EMS crew. Now a job comes in and all 6 go, next call in area and the engine goes and starts the job while waiting for either the next avail bus to get there or if there crew is on the way back from the hospital they respond straight in and the medic performing care on the scene switches places with the one of the guys on the bus for this particular job! Talk about an efficient system...Just a dream though, especially if people keep thinking the way you are! As for the original question, there are none in Westchester, however Albany may have something similar pretty soon I think. Isn't LAFD also doing this? and Metro Dade (Miami)? Interesting...cause this would increase jobs, productivity, and reduce dependency on 3rd party services such as private, for profit EMS services that don't screen workers very well, and just put a "butt" in the seat!

I believe that there are no "CONS" when it comes to cameras mounted in Emergency Vehicles. As emergency personnel and civil servants, we have a responsibility to act appropriately, follow all rules, and provide a good example of how things should be done. It is about time that persons entering into this job step up to the plate and lead with that type of thinking. Everyone is so afraid of being caught doing something wrong or dishonest, well cut the $hit and stop ruining the name of each service. If you don't like it or are not ready to be a honest person and serve the public appropriately then find something else to do with your life. Stop drinking on duty, stop being shady, do your jobs to the best of your ability, and realize that working together is the best way to get things done! All emergency vehicles should come with cameras and GPS devices. It is time to take responsibility in a world that doesn't understand what that is. It is time for us to lead the public by example, how can we expect them to know what to do when we obviously don't show them enough?

Exactly! That is why I love it when they call and say, "I pay your salary!". Well, don't b**** about your taxes and then tell me that!

Most of the time when someone works more than 16 hours straight it is because of arrests and extended tours that cannot be handled differently due to the needs of the department. The inspector guy may have a point in some cases, but not nearly enough! The public needs the police, stop paying them and watch crime rise again! There are more important things than money, how about people feeling safe when walking down the street?

Since we are on the topic of "IN Premise Shootings with an Active Shooter", I would like to bring up our local hospitals and churches as possible scenarios. I have the blueprints to our schools in a binder in the Radio Room, and have studied them extensively! (probly the only one though) My concern is our 3 local Hospitals and our larger churches. Yonkers has a diverse population and although we have not had any thing along these lines, it is very possible. I would like to see more training dealing with these other type of facilities, as well as maybe City Hall and some of the larger corporations with extensive buildings. I also think that this training should not be limited to the responding radio cars, but what about us Dispatchers? What do we need to do? How should we mitigate a potential phone call from within? What about basic Hostage Negotiation for preliminary phone conversations with the "Shooter"? Since none of these things even ever occur, Right? As well as more County wide training like we had with Purchase a few months ago! For it to work right, everyone has to be trained, from the calltakers to the snipers! If one part messes up or is not proficient, the whole incident begins to go down hill. Personally I take pride in understanding these issues, and hope I am working up front when it goes down! But can any department guarantee that all of their people are ready? Is it time to be proactive instead of reactive? These things are occurring at a faster rate than before, lets step up to the plate! And I always want to hear, "Aviation", when I ask: "Aviation, on the air K?" At least 0700-2300 hrs...LOL

I drive fast, but I don't think I am a bad driver. I always use my turn signal, even if I don't stop to turn on RED all of the time...I talk on my cell phone constantly, cause everyone always calls me when I am DRIVING! I do not drive in the left lane, I pass at a high rate of speed and then move into the driving lane, which is on the right! I do not tailgate, but sometimes I have to pass on the right because people don't pay attention and see me coming! When I run traffic lights...I stop first and make sure it is clear... Maybe I am a bad driver...LOL

Really? That is kind of cool! Hopefully it wasn't buried in molten lava!

You say tomato, I say tomato...not as easy to do by typing. No matter what the CALL, you still have to drive with due regard and caution. I am not saying this is the case, however until all is known the media does and will speculate. As is said everytime, Emergency Service Workers are and always will be in the spotlight because of the JOB duties! And smoke usually means fire, no? Even if it is controlled...smoke doesn't just appear! Except when you use a smoke generating machine with a solvent that does just that! The truth is the media does get things wrong, but so does everyone else, as well it is time to put a stop to these type incidents! 99% can be prevented by people just calming down especially while driving an emergency vehicle. Response times to medical calls are an issue because of the length, however it does appear that people are still rushing in an unsafe manner to fire-matic type calls instead of putting safety first. Once again, I am not assuming this in this specific situation, but it makes you wonder, no?

Quint means 5 uses! Hence the word quint! If it had 4 uses it would be a Quad which we used to have a few of in Westchester County! As for the Dots, they are nice but I would not be the one adhering them! That job must suck. You can just use straight reflective stripes over the vertical diamond plate just as well! The diamond plate is used for grip, but when it is vertical it is just a decoration, unless you can defy gravity and then you wouldn't be worried about traction!

Or cut through the Trooper Barracks...LOL!

Well said as usual...same with you Swank! The single man trucks as seen above are the wave of the future, technology at it's greatest. Now the only problem is we will have a bunch of fat slob g-men instead of those we see everyday who are in good shape! The "robot" garbage trucks are cool and innovative! No more back injuries/pain, no more tragedies, now if people could recycle better!

If your dept doesn't wait and hops on the hotline, we can have 3 E rigs plus White Plains and Mt Vernon to Mt. Pleasant in what, 8-10 minutes tops! All depends on who is driving the truck! Although it is not immediate, your dispatch center shouldn't wait til first car gets on scene and determines that there is actually someone shooting! Politics drive elongated response times...Centralized 911 and dispatch would eliminate this problem everywhere. Also, in the report, the 6 minutes may have been the 1st car to actually advise he was on scene...sometimes in the heat of the moment our finest forget to let everyone know they are there or where they are! It just happens!

They call the neighboring dept's team in...in this case, Jersey City ESU!

YKS 4 E, 2L, Rescue (reported fires), Safety Batt, A/C (B1 or B2) 2nd alarm: 2E, 1L, 2nd Batt., Deputy on call, Fire Control officer to 911 center 3rd alarm: 2E, 1L 4th alarm: 2E, 1L, 3rd (recalled battalion) if required 5th alarm: Remaining Co's 1E, 1L and any m/a if required M/A usually called into City stations on 3rd alarm per Battalion/Deputy recommendations. M/A responds to Sta 1, Sta 12, and Sta 13 where Guides are set up. When Oak St or Bronx River Rd goes up we tend to get a full FDNY Battalion as mutual aid as well as normal mutual aid plan! Edited post correction by one of My Bosses...thanks Car 2...I don't have enough practice!

How long do they stay in "glow" for after absorbing normal light hours?

With age we become wise...youth may be smart, but that is completely different!

No offense to anyone, but it looks like this person may not even exist! This could have been just a bad joke by someone who didn't think first!

HUH? How big is the Glenbrook Vol FD that they don't know everyone's names? I can't imagine very many vol agencies where this occurs! Just plain strange!

Nice piece! Great to see forward thinking...

Chris is right once again...cause he actually uses that pea size brain he has! Sometimes when we think about things without a presumed or to-be achieved outcome we are able to come up with the Correct Solution. Although, I believe in the helicopters as being an important tool in both firefighting and policing, as well as EMSing (lol), I do not think there are more needed. Here in Westchester, 1 police and 1 medevac get the job done! In NYC they probably need more than 1 chopper in the air on occasion and with 7 available units that is more than enough! Trust me, no other agency in Westchester needs a helo, especially not Harrison as was discussed years ago by some flim flam mayor guy! Even with the workload they are getting out of Yonkers on normal patrol, it ain't enough to keep em happy!

Question...how do you access Hosner Mtn Road now from the TSP? I used to use the right turn from NB to go to my aunt's house over in E Fishkill by doing so but there is a big mound of dirt in the way now...only way I can tell is to cut through the Stormville barracks parking lot!

Just want to share this with everyone on here. I hope NEWS12 reads this and realizes it is going to get more and more publicity and people will begin to lose trust in their reporting! This was written by the Yonkers Police Commissioner as support for the members of the Yonkers Police Dept who serve this city to the best of their individual ability's day in and day out. As I have personally ranted in the past about their shady news and their disregard for truth in reporting on this site, I guess I am not the only one seeing this crap come to life all of the time!

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