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Spontaneous combustion....that must have been a sight...1st off an 87 yo man riding a bike is not something you see everyday, but one on fire??!!!!!!

Best wishes to Officer Carroll for a speedy recovery. And thank God Ford fixed the gas tank problem!!!! And as usual...good job to those involved in the incident, from extrication to locating the suspects! And, no I was not working!

Oh please, we get enough of this!!!!! In fact the other day...well forget it Chief Flynn, I think we already know the answer...Valhalla is only 10-15 minutes away, that is not nearly enough of a head start. I am sure that the volunteer team takes more than 30 minutes to fully assembly, prior to even getting on the road and going to the incident. I am against each person responding to the scene from where-ever they are at the time and believe that a fully qualified team should be assembled first. I think we have had enough of the truck showing up and no one there to work!!!! Time to wake up and smell the coffee! Yonkers can respond at any time and then backfill the downed apparatus within 30 minutes, so let's get real. People have to wake up and realize that ego's are the enemy, not career firefighters or volunteer firefighters, not everyone can be in charge or get their own cake!

Looks like a matchbox edition.

I know that a car was lit on fire for the filming, I don't remember any info about "explosion."

A little late to this...but ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!! Please don't ever be responding to the job that I am the patient and need real help! Besides St. Joes, the other 2 "Yonkers" hospitals are not nearly ready for trauma. St. Joes isn't ready either, but they get more traumatic cardiac arrests and serious cases than the other 2. Jacobi is not 20 minutes away...I am sure we all got there in about 10...especially if you knew how to get there. You have to get someone to DEFINITIVE care...not well we patched him, take him elsewhere care! But, thank you for reminding us how much people actually know...I think a few of us forget from time to time how people have no clue and post things like this trying to "call out" a number of people who are damn good at what they do or did in Yonkers. And as for transporting out of the city...that was a cardinal sin at empress unless they paid up front so take your GUESS and go find another place to voice it! And that is my honest OPINION!

No, Mt. Vernon keeps them in the stories.

Yes, she is currently awaiting trial. She got cited for a number of things...

Or you can paint them the OLM color and at night they just blend in and disappear...

Instead of bothering everyone on here with my sports rants, I have created a blog on Facebook to do so for those who actually are interested! Here is the link! MFY Sport Blog on FB...click here!

Ah, PROOF! The program really works!

Sounds like a good idea for those "possible" wanted persons...where name and pedigree are almost 100% the same but the person may be different...does happen, no?

So, the cop holding them on the side of the road endangered them more than the "Father" speeding in order to get to the hospital...I believe that is what the 1st poster said! Interesting thought...thanks for reminding us of how people see things in their own way. And wasn't it not a few years ago that this happened to some County cop in Westchester? Wasn't there an incident where a man was pulled over and claimed he was speeding to get home cause his wife was in labor and needed to go to the hospital. Something like an ambulance was sent to the address and the lady wasn't even pregnant...I heard that through the grapevine so the particulars may not be 100% accurate, but it is readily believable! Last night alone at least one moron called 911 and lied so she could get the police there faster...I been shot...on callback..."oh I lied" notice the quote, unquote!

I did some due diligence, but couldn't find this impound call...but most likely if it is a heavy duty tow we call County in Yonkers and let them figure it out...LOL!

This is a part of the "NextGen911" or next generation 911 system requirements being hashed out by the Department of Transportation. I have been trying to keep up and keep my boss appraised. Because, people will text 911 whether you are ready or not!!!! I am still waiting for the brass to approve our cell phone 911 procedure and institute the training required since about 18 mos. ago we began receiving the 911 transfers on the older e911 system. You know, the one without GPS ability! Now on calls sounding as if they are truly emergent, we back track by calling the provider's LEAC (law enforcement assistance center), attempting to get what we don't have...oh and no one is truly trained to do that...

This is a very interesting idea and seems awfully well thought out. Even properties that are "tax exempt" need protection. And fire districts taxes are your payment for that protection. So, I believe this is a concept that should pass. No offense to any religions, but how many "churches" have we seen burn down in the past 5 years. They should be paying their fair share, granted that the members of the organization may pay their own property protection taxes, this separate property should be required to pay some sort of monetary amount for protection. I am sure that there is some scale for residential and commercial properties and this should be a 3rd division of that scale. Considering that churches are not inhabited (well, not all) and are vacant more of the time than other types of properties should have effect on how much they pay. Also, some churches and organizations have other properties such as living quarters and these too require protection. In other words, if I had a vote...I would vote Yay!

As a homeowner, not a ff, can these be purchased? Throw it and give the FD a chance to get there and put out the rest!

My neighbor in Buchanan has one at the back of his property next to his garage...it is painted the opposite colors of the regular Buchanan hydrants...head and trunk being opposite the regular ones, colors are identical! Heads up BFD1054!

Thanks! I missed it, because it is in the "IMPORTANT" list...ooops LOL!

I can't actually take credit for the "Bridge" line! A few years ago my sister and I were driving in Peekskill and saw a car with a Hawaii state license plate. I proceded to say something like Wow! how'd they do that? She then said, they just drove across the bridge! Yes, she is blond! Speaking of blond haired women...go on youtube.com and search for "blondstar"...like "On Star" but ya know! Pretty funny stuff!

RIP Warren! He will be missed, especially in the Peekskill area!

I think the corner of windshield lights are a great idea for intersection approach warning...also could have put them on the mirror housings, but the way SWS did this is much more discreet. Don't they make a 2 color talon? That may have worked just a slight bit better. Also like the side facing LED's mounted on the B post, they are cool, but this car probably would be better off not blocking an intersection as it has 0 markings. And I think 446 would like his job to get him one of these!!!! Oh yeah, GREAT JOB! Once again by SWS!

Safari Jeep...just have to find a bridge to Africa!

Yes, on the trunk.

I didn't know they could differentiate that now...A while back the Yonkers 3rd pct had a detail and they got a hit on a stolen car. One of the officers on the detail was broadcasting the description, of the car he saw, and being the dispatcher covering the detail I informed him that it didn't match the stolen cars description. Later we located the car, Ohio license plate, not stolen just same letter number combo of 1 active in NYS. A bit of confusion, but no one was hurt, thankfully. When I met up with a friend a few weeks ago using the new "313" car I didn't notice the difference in states, but it was only a 5 minute thing so we may not have seen any out of state cars. We were at S Bdwy/Radford and the thing was making more noise than a rock concert...lol