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My mistake, not sure how that got in there. List edited.

At least you're coming around and starting to admit it.

Date: 7-12-05 Time: 1920hrs Location: 4303 Cherry Hill Dr X Dutchess Trpk. Description: Kitchen fire w/extention. Units: Arlington, Pleasant Valley FAST; City of POK Eng 2 Writer: Me

There are other setups similar to this in the county. Example: The Town of North Castle consists of Armonk FD, Banksville FD and North White Plains FD. If there's an EMS call in any of those areas, Armonk FD/EMS responds as the primary EMS provider (exception of North White Plains, where Valhalla VAC is the provider).

Hybrids: High voltage battery is usually in the truck (under carpet or behind rear seat). With cables running along floor board to engine compartment. Additionally, there is NO WAY to disconnect/disable. There is also a 12 volt battery which is separate of the high voltage battery.

Cold Stone is in Somers Commons, the former Baldwin Place Shoping center on Rt 6 and Rt 118. Another favorite of mine in that area is King Kone on Rt 100 just north of Rt 35, While the mom and pop stands do seem to be a thing of the past in Westchester, a short drive to Orange County they're alive and kicking. It seems like every town over there has one. One of my favorites being Weirs on Rt 94 just down the road from the Salisbury Mills FD.

Before anyone else takes this statement literal, the post was meant as sarcasm, to a point. It isn't far off when you hear about the isolated incidents when the FD gets "shut out" by PD. Unfortunately we never hear from both sides when these issues happen. We just hear these monotone statements from Mayor Bloomy, with Mayor Kelly and Mr Magoo by his side.

Latest word has it is ALL FDNY apparatus is dumping their hazmat gear for NYPD's trucks. Once the transistion is complete, FDNY will no longer respond to hazmat jobs. 8)

EMTBravo Network is the message board within the EMTBravo website. X635 would probably know the story better then anyone (other than Mr. Bravo himself).

The web site is approximately two years old. It started when Mr. Bravo (who had way too much time on his hands), had nothing better to do than play with fire trucks and computers, so he merged the two. Now it has become the cult as it is known today. Here is the original intent for the network as stated by my Mr. Bravo himself:

Gotta agree with you ALS, it sounds like the 27 year "veteran" firefighter doesn't want to change with the times. Overzealous? Probably not. Just a matter of the brass doing what has to be done and putting their foot down. Something all the fire deparments and districts need to do. It's not like it was 20 years ago. Yes, the agencies need members. That's just it members, not do nothings. Not someone that is there to be in the "club". Not some highschooler who's there just to get in a better college, because he's "active" in the community. While I don't know the specifics behind the article or the workings of East Fishkill, a quick lookup on the East Fishkill web site, www.eastfishkillfiredistrict.org, shows a calender of events including training. I suspect that this article came to light because of the few with sour tastes in their mouths over this (Santoro appears in the print article with the gear he's "used for 27 years"). I don't agree with airing out dirty laundry like this but it's done. Hopefully it will show to the public that fire departments are more than just a good ole boy club and their best interest is to service the community with high standards.

While in a literal sence MCI means Multi Casualty Incident, the definition of such is as follows: An incident where there is more than one patient and system resources are taxed. Anytime there are more patients than rescuers Here's the link to a good power point presentation on MCI responses: www.asisonline.org/councils/fire/MCI.ppt Here's another link for a Dutchess County Fire Department that institutes their MCI Plan when "the number of patients exceeds immediately available resources": http://www.nkfd.org/SOG/NK-314%20Mass%20Casualty.html One more from the Reginal MCI for Metropolitan Kansas City defines an MCI as "a single incident that results in more patients than the responding agency can handle and as determined by the Incident Commander". http://www.raytownfire.com/MCIplanpdf.pdf

Westchester County's defenition of a squad is a follows: A vehicle(s) consisting of at least an Engine with or without other support vehicles (ie: Rescue, Ladder, or Utility type), equipted with additional and specific equiptment to handle hazarous materials/WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction) and/or technical rescue, that will respond with a minimum of six (6) trained members, including a company officer. A Rescue Company is defined as: A support vehicle, not designed for patient transport but contains tools for life support, extrication, emergency medical care. A "light" rescue is generally a smaller vehicle, that carries a limited amount of equiptment (a basic Jaws set for example). A "Heavy" rescue will carry a larger assortment of equiptment such as saws, ropes, a larger compliment extrication gear.

The following departments have Marine Unit designations as assigned by Westchester County DES: Verplanck Mamaroneck (V) Rye Irvington Tarrytown Continental Village Sleepy Hollow (2) Yonkers Croton Ossining Montrose VA Somers Peekskill Armonk Goldens Bridge Buchanan Mamaroneck (T) 2 Port Chester Montrose Out of those, I know the following have fixed fire pumps: Verplanck Irvington Tarrytown Yonkers Croton Ossining The following do not have fixed fire pumps: Montrose VA Somers Peekskill Armonk Goldens Bridge Buchanan Montrose

From "Fire Chief" website: http://firechief.com/

I flew Song two years ago when they were brand new (before the TV's were installed). It's was better than some of the others, but again, it was brand new.

While I havn't seen any discusion here on it, it looks as though Mohegan will be getting rid of one of their many SUV's for a Ford extended cab chassis with a utility box. http://www.mcfw.com/main/images/june/IMG_4317.jpg(photo from "Monroe County Fire Wire" web page). Does anyone have any addition info on the new U-40?

Talk about a waste of money to the tax payers and duplication of services. Bloombag is so worried about his budget, then does something stupid like this.

Welcome back! One question that wasn't brought up in the blog or post. How is FF Martin's kitbash collection?

The engine should either park just before or just after the fire building so that way the truck will have room to operate in front. As been said, you can add hose, you can't add ladder.

Hmmm.. :-k What benefit would there be entering a structure about to collapse??? #-o I'm all for taking risk for saving lives but this is stupid. If the structure is showing signs of weakness, it's not being saved. At that point, protect the exposures, worry about the pile later.

Why would it be more beneficial? Does this mean it is not safe to drive other vehicles in inclimate weather? From a small compact car, to a tractor trailer, all vehicles have the same DOT lighting requirements. An emergency vehicle has the same lighting requirements as the above. In my opinion, emergency lighting is an unneeded hazard while returning to quarters or responding to a backfill. If you're stopped at a red light, with your emergency lighting on, you will confuse the general public. If you are returning to quarters with the lights on and someone in front of you pulls over, you could be forced unessesaraly into the uncoming lane. If this is done on a blind curve, the danger is magnified. Responding to a backfill may be a "emergency" operation, but, it doesn't not constitute a true emergency. The two main fire department insurance carriers (VFBL and ESIP) both recommend using your emergency lighting only while responding to true emergencies. If a water condition (pump out) doesn't cut it, backfilling and returning to quarters won't. Back in the early '90's, a contigent of fire departments from Westchester responded to Northern New York State (Platsburgh area) to a major ice storm. This was an emergency operation. No one responded with emergency lights on. It wasn't nessesary. Once we were staged in our respective areas, no one responded to the "routine" (pump outs, wires calls, and welfare checks) calls those days with lights or sirens. It wasn't nessasary. Traveling with anywhere upward of six + inches of solid ice on the roads, no one was going anywhere in a hurry anyway.

My question is, why would you want to display the lights while returning?

Judging from the 4 vertical lights behind the rear cab door (under the flood light), it does carry water. Those 4 lights are commonly water level indicators so anyone on the fireground has an idea how much water is left in the booster tank.