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From the pictures it looks like they could have reached any part of the roof from the driveway.

This is news? The whole County fire protection system is broken. And it's not going to change until all of the elected chiefs and fire commissioners decide to give up their little sandboxs and do what's best for the citizens of the districts they protect.

I'd love to hear the radio communications at this job. I especially like at about the 13 minute mark the guy taking the vent saw to the bucket.

Wow! Just think how much money could be saved if EVERYONE did their job for FREE.

This is not a paid vs volunteer thing, it's a there should be ONE standard for ALL firefighters. There's should also be one standard for fire departments. All departments should be able to put the minimum number of properly trained firefighters on the scene in the generally accepted national standard. While Mt. Vernon seems to take the brunt of public flogging, with the exception of Yonkers and possibly New Rocelle no other fire department it Westchester can even fight a room and contents fire without Mutual Aid. Is Mt. Vernon undermanned yes, but so is basically every fire dept in Westchester.

What do you mean " here we go" what didn't say that was wrong? That there should be one standard for firefighters.

Before you knock the unions ( who keep pushing for increased training and manpower) about blocking Home Rule why not lobby for one standard for all firefighters in the state, paid or volunteer. That would include new firefighters, in service training for all firefighters, response times, manning on apparatus, promoting officers on qualifications not on election results. Not to mention mandatory retirement age so we don't have a rig responding with 3 or4 70 year old men on it with a 19 year old lieutenant because that was all that was around.

WPFD is having a tough week. Hope for speedy recovery.

Shouldn't it be a Cop stuck in a tree.

But if we all merged then I couldn't still have my own sand box.

The only time that matters is from dispatch time to " ONE LINE STRETCHED AND IN OPERATION' everything else cam be twisted and turned however it fits your needs

Congrats to both

Doesn't the County already have Technical Rescue Squads set up now? Yonkers FD and Greenburgh Squad 6 have been training together for years. So have New Rochelle and MT. Vernon and White Plains FD. I think that this web site even has pictures of some of the training which was done in August.

When I came on the job many years ago I was told that if you had any weakness hide it well, I think that is good advise for everybody. If you have a thin skin then maybe the fire service isn't for you, especially the fire house kitchen.

20 right in the middle, like most of America.