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RIP Chucky.....we share the same name but not the same blood....but yet I still will always consider you a "Distant cousin" and more importantly and EMS Brother. May you look upon us as we do our sworn duty and guide us in the right decisions, and please watch over us so we can make it back to our families when our day is through. We know you are up there, and someday we shall meet again and tell the stories of our days in EMS and the Fire Dept. Rest in Piece Chucky.

I don't think that's a new bus, I think it's one that came up from Brooklyn. If you look at the numbers it gives away how old the bus is. Unless the numbering has changed in the past couple of months. 289 is a 2002. Just like the number for the NR3 is 270 (One of the old NR buses before the new mods came in) and the other buses are 505 and 515 I believe. It looks brand new but it may be a refurbished 2002 bus which is why it still has it's shine....and again I think it came up from brooklyn...they have some different color schemes there.

The new 5 engine looks great.

None of us were there but the request for Stat Flight could have been due to the lengthy extrication time also since there was concrete involved it probably started to harden and cause more traumatic injuries then with a normal trench rescue. We also have to think they may have been able to land Air 1 So close to the scene that the amount of time it would have taken to get the Pt from the scene to the helicopter might have been less then how long it would have taken to get off the property. The scene could have been in the backyard of a mulitmillion dollar mansion that it was 1/2 mile away fom the driveway and the ambluance couldn't get close enough but Air 1 could have landed in the backyard. Lastly we are forgetting about one other issue, RUSH HOUR. Between 3:30 - 6:30 that section of the hutch is a virtual parking lot at times. So the normal 10 minute response could have became a 20 minute response. These are all POSSIBLES not that these are the reasons but possible reasons. Most of us weren't there, hell I'm 1100 miles away. We don't know all the factors that went into some of the decisions that the IC made on the scene. What may seem like an odd decision to someone Monday Morning QBing, may have been the right decision all along for the situation and obsticles at the scene. All we know is that the PT was extricated, is alive and at the hospital. Good job by all.

We speak of internal training and cost factors but what we really should look at is where will the best training be for the FF. There are Dept. that do internal training for what ever reason they have but it may be the best for the incoming Probies. When you go to the Career academy you are taught 15 different way to do one thing and still the 15 ways may not be the right way for your Dept. The best training may come from you own dept. They are being taught the way things are done as per their own SOPs and not how the 15 other depts do it. I'm not saying that the training at the career academy is substandard, I feel it's probably better then most in the area. I'm just saying that what's best for your probie is the career academy so be it. If the best is internal training so be it. Why should there be a debate as to what's better and what's not.

Are you sure they are gonna sell it and not just give it away?

I BELIEVE I READ IT'S ON MAIN STREET IN MT. KISCO.....THE JOURNAL NEWS HAD THE OBIT IN TODAYS PAPER.

Ray was a great man and instructor. He was my instuctor for my original class in 1997 at the Radio Circle Annex. As we all know he didn't realy allow absences but when I told him I needed a night off to be sworn in to Pelham FD he made an exception and he even told me not to worry about coming up after the fact. It hurt me to have lost contact over the years and that I never got a chance to tell him when I got hired by New Rochelle. He always love to hear when his students did well. My condolenses to his family and friends. He shall be missed. Mickey Melillo Mamaroneck EMS - Larchmont VAC Pelham FD - New Rochelle FD

Since you are working in a another county why not use the term "Westchester Car 2441" then there won't be an issue for you when you cross the county line. Even if you begin to use firegound designators you still need to establish who you are when you take on that role, i.e. Westchester Car 2441 10-19 in Mahopac Falls taking over water supply. Boom now you are Water Supply. Till you need to go 10-8 then you call in again as Westchester Car 2441. One again all it is, is 3 additional sylabyls yes and I'm you are all checking right now too....West-Ches-ter.