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nope it's not in service

Totaly agree with comments about george ,great person,leader and am proud to call him my friend. Remember working with him when he was new at "THAT HOUSE" in the good old days. The dept is loosing a real asset. I wish him all the best, he deserves it

Usually there is a Chief of department under a unified Commissioner.YFD gave up the Dept chief to go to the commissioner,YFD now has neither. No Offense but a PD or uninformed civilian who is a puppet for the powers that be is a no win for the FD.The guys and gals are in for a tough fight but need to watch out for each other so everyone goes home.

That's the City of Yonkers for you. When budget cuts come the teachers are left alone . That's the way they work,always on the back of the other workers. Union backing of politicians don't mean anything

I find it ironic that guys always seem to have a comment about YFD all the time but I notice alot of pics of fires ,one just recently in dover where waist straps are dangling and nobody says a word. I worked in the YFD for 29yrs and take offense and I agree with a past statement and can't figure out how I got through all those years without the EMT Bravo police doing their monday morning quarterbacking. If your not on scene you don't know what's going on plain and simple.Maybe everyone should just worry about themselves and leave everyone else alone.

Gamewell 45 the concept is good but I think if you investigate it more it is geared towards college students offering them a way to save some bucks. I'm not saying it won't work but if your not close to a college it may be difficult. They are not the first to do it a number of depatments have "live -ins".

Anyone going to Mohegan Sun make sure you don't buy gas there it's 4.79 a gallon

I know of firemen who have done what they call lateral transfers into other depts and I'm not gonna argue about it just know it exists and it applies to just firemen. I was asked by one dept to transfer and I wasn't on their list besides I like'd where I was to much.

You can transfer from dept to dept. in NYS because I know dept's that take them. You keep your years in the pension but that's all. You start at the bottom as a proby with the dept you transfer into. Yonkers does not do this you must take the test all over and go through proby school just like everyone else no matter who you worked for. I know a few guys from other dept's including FDNY that have done just that. As far as promotion tests not everyone promoted is the right guy for the job just the guy who scored the best,not always but it does happen and depending on when you are allowed to take the test and where they work for the municipality,slow or busy house,the person promoted may not have the experience to actually be a good boss. Just my 2 cents

I usually don't bother posting in the forums because it usally gets out of control but having been a ladder truck operator for a city in westchester that definitely is not ladder friendly for many years ,I have to say that the ladder driver did a good job and maybe all the monday morning quarterbacks should try placing a ladder truck under those conditions and let's see how well they do. As someone said before no one got hurt and everyone went home,which is the most important thing. Be Safe!

Your right ,memory gone when you get old R1SmokEater... the rescue wasn't around then

Hey Batt2 shouldn't 6 been on the first there with 3,9,8 72 ,71 and rescue or were you guys out. I came in the day shift

Don't care for the complete setup but it's private so ....oh well. Used to like checking on jobs where I used to work and a little bit of a pain to have to sign in just to look at them

[in my opinion, for Westchester County, it has to be the MASSIVE General/Mutiple Alarm Fire in Yonkers on Bronx River Road a few years back, to which not only was New Rochelle, Mount Vernon, Greenville, Eastchester, etc.etc., but a Full Battalion from New York City was brought up to help knock down the fire. I can't remember any other that was SO HUGE !!!] R3 then you must remember that 14 buildings were involved with people lost on Nodine Hill not to long before that one.We also had as many rigs when 377 N Broadway went up the first time of two times with fatalities in both cases with Lt Kuenher being lost the second time.I was the officer on the first due truck at 85 BronxRiver Road. For the real old timers I believe the Butter and Egg Fire down near alexander street was a good one also but that's before my time

Yonkers does a radio test witth all units every day except sat. on their own freq. around 0900 On sunday they do it on all frquencies including the county usually around the same time.