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Well that's good. IF they had talked to Somers before getting the Freightliner, they could have saved themselves a ton of money. Who owns/buys/maintains the ambulances anyway? WMC or Transcare?

Yeah, that's the monster. Sexy looking truck, but I personally can't stand rescue body ambulances. But yeah, that's the ground truck. Usually has an EMT, Medic and one or two nurses. WMC might toss in some specialty care personnel from time to time if it's an unusual case. Worth noting also is the medical center is on the grounds of the Grasslands Reservation (which includes NYMC, WCDES, Police Academy, Armory, the jails, the new consolidated homeless shelter, Ruth Taylor NH, etc) which has it's own ambulance as well (contracted out to Transcare).

Im not an LEO, but am I right in guessing that you keep the occupants in the vehicle because it maintains better control over them and maintains the LEO in a relative "position of power"?

Hey now, I have water hammer in my house.

Date: 5/1/2010 Time: ~1030h Location: Route 216 between Old Route 52 and Phillips Rd Frequency: DC Dispatch, Response, Command Units Operating: EFFD 39-98, 39-71, 39-51, Beekman 34-79 (Mutual Aid ALS), STAT Air2, NYSP Accident Recon Weather Conditions: Clear and Warm Description Of Incident: PIAA Car into building with entrapment, immediate launch of Air assets on dispatch. Reporters: WAS967 Writer: WAS967 EFFD with Beekman ALS responding to Route 216 I/A/O Old Route 52 for reported car into a building with entrament. EFFD also requested to setup a landing zone for Helicopter landing. Air2 responding from WMC. Patient removed from vehicle and enroute to L/Z. Route 216 reported closed between Old Route 52 and Phillips for accident investigation. Air2 safely enroute to WMC with patient. All ground units back in service. Route 216 now reopened. (If you have times and whatnot, PM me and I will try to edit - last time it wouldn't let me for some reason).

Or you could have a bad cable that caused a loss of connection during the flash. I'd check that cable for continuity to make sure you don't have any future incidents. (Because you don't mention having any power issues during the flash).

Good info. Tho one historical notation - I know for fact that A2 wasn't 24/7 for the entire time Abbey was there. I used to work the truck and we went off duty at midnight (this was around 1995ish) and we used to take it back to Station 1 and park it behind Ambulance 1 until it came back online at 8am. The crews for Ambulance 3 would report to Station 1 and pack in the back lot. Not sure when it went 24/7, maybe around the time it changed over to Transcare?

Did they get a new 75B3? Yeah, I kept my info to the northern part of the county to allow others to chime in. The ALS ambulances in New Rochelle are based out of Station 1, Station 3, and (I believe) Station 5? Pretty sure Ambulance 3 is only part of the day but I dunno the hours. Ambulance 2 used to be 8a-12a but that was years ago....think it's 24/7 now. White Plains is covered by three ambulances all out of the Ferris Ave Fire house but often posted about town. Ambulance 1 is ALS, the other 2 are BLS. Ambulance 3 is part of the day (again not sure of the hours (where's RWC130?)) and I think posts in/near the garage behind D&D on Mamaroneck Ave. Second ALS calls are covered by the supervisor(s) out the Ferris ave HQ. Mount Vernon is covered by 2 ambulances 24/7, 1 ALS and 1 BLS. Again, second ALS calls are covered by a supervisor out of the HQ on Fulton. TC also provides the medics for Mount Pleasant and the Grasslands campus as previously mentioned, which includes the STAT/Baby bus (the beast that it is). Nobody has mentioned Port Chester/Rye/Rye Brook. (Do they still call themselves a VAC?) Last I knew they ran 3-4 rigs during the day now that United closed and have capacity for more. I've heard them running up to 6 at once during special standbys and the like.

What about pain control? I dunno about you, but I'd imagine being shot in the foot would be rather painful. Is the general consensus that people are hesitant to treat pain in the field with analgesics? If so, why?

Lesse if I can fill the gaps of Northern Westchester: BLS Agencies: Peekskill Community VAC - 1427 Main Street, Peekskill, NY 10566 - 3 Ambulances (Used to be 4), 1 Flycar - Used to be Intermediates but I think that was dropped - Daytime staffing by a single EMT from Empress. Mohegan VFAVAC - 1975 East Main Street, Mohegan Lake, NY‎ 105?? - 3 Ambulances, 1 Flycar - Think they are still ILS equipped. Yorktown VAC - 2600 Loretta Street, Yorktown Heights, NY - 3 Ambulances - Think they are still ILS equipped. Cortlandt VAC - 6 Kings Ferry Road, Montrose, NY‎ - 3 Ambulances, 1 Rehab Unit Verplank FD - 8th Street, Verplanck, NY - 1 Ambulance Somers FD - 119 Primrose Street, Somers, NY - 3 Ambulances, 1 Utility North Salem VAC - 14 Daniel Road, North Salem, NY - 2 Ambulances (Tho their new HQ has room for 4 - did they keep an old one as a spare?) Lewisboro VAC - 777 Cross River Rd, Cross River, NY - 2 Ambulances, 2 Flycars, Multiple AED equipped first responders. Pound Ridge Lions VAC - 89 Westchester Avenue, Pound Ridge, NY‎ - 2 Ambulances Vista FD - 377 Smith Ridge Road, South Salem, NY - 2 Ambulances Bedford FD - 34 Village Green, Bedford, NY - 1 Ambulance Katonah-Bedford VAC - 160 Bedford Road, Katonah, NY - 2 Ambulances (Considering adding a third) Mount Kisco VAC - 310 Lexington Avenue, Mt Kisco - 2 or 3 Ambulances (I dunno if they got rid of the old rig or kept it as a third) Armonk FD - 400 Bedford Road, Armonk - 3 (I think) ambulances Chappaqua VAC - 233 North Greeley Avenue, Chappaqua, NY 10514 - 2 Ambulances, 1 Flycar Ossining VAC - 8 Clinton Avenue, Ossining, NY 10562 - 3 Ambulances (Yeah yeah, I know, see below - but they are BLS also). Croton VAC - No idea what they have or where they are - they're "special" in a Roosa and Munson sorta way. Montrose VA FD - Dunno if they have 1 or 2 (or any?) rigs anymore - don't think they are supposed to leave the campus anyway? I dunno how that works. Cortlandt VAC covers EMS calls there anyway. ALS Providers: Cortlandt Peekskill Paramedics - 1 Heady St, Cortlandt Manor, NY - Between 2-4 ALS flycars onduty 24/7 in cooperation with Peekskill FD - Covers the Town of Cortlandt (including Buchannan but not Croton VAC's area) and City of Peekskill. Empress EMS - ALS Flycar with 1 (24/7) or 2 (8a-8p I think) medics based out of Yorktown VAC - Covers the Town of Yorktown. Westchester EMS - 3 ALS flycars 24/7 out of Mount Kisco HQ, Somers FD and Lewisboro VAC - Cover the towns of Somers, North Salem, Lewisboro, Pound Ridge, Bedford, Mount Kisco and the Armonk & Banksville sections of North Castle and the Chappaqua section of New Castle. Ossining VAC - Staff the OVAC ambulances and Tri-Village ALS flycar with paramedics - usually on on the rig one on the flycar (last I checked) with volunteer medic backup available from home (also the ALS supervisor during the day). Provide ALS for the Town and Village of Ossining, village of Briarcliff (the part not in Mount Pleasant), and the Town of Cortlandt section covered by Croton VAC (Croton village and the southern part of town outside the village), and the western section of New Castle. Commercial providers in the area: Westchester EMS runs something like 7 BLS ambulances out of Northern Westchester and 1 out of White Plains. They also run 1 ALS ambulance 24/7 plus a second ALS ambulance 11am-7pm. Transcare has a 24/7 ALS ambulance out of Hudson Valley Hospital (started a month or two ago). They also have an ALS ambulance out of Putnam Hospital now 9-5 during the day and a BLS ambulance (not sure on the times of that one). Hudson Valley Paramedics operates a few ambulances posted in the area (but based out of Fishkill I believe) but not sure what or where but they seem to like posting things at Hudson Valley during the day.

Paramedic enters burning home in Mount Kisco to help residents escape http://www.lohud.com/article/20100416/NEWS02/304160035/Paramedic-enters-burning-home-in-Mount-Kisco-to-help-residents-escape]

The guy in the white shirt in the last picture looks kinda like Bill Rice.

Additional information: http://news12.com/articleDetail.jsp?articleId=248456&position=3&news_type=news&rand=90623729 and http://www.lohud.com/article/20100416/NEWS02/304160035

Anyone can post a link to the law. I was hoping to incite some discussion regarding the new requirements to pass on the information to others. Care to post the meat and potatoes that the general public (who might see this via google search) needs to know?

Good to know. This of course reminds me....I need to check the date on my CO detector. They need to be replaced, what?, every ten years I think? I got the one I have now with my house so I've no idea when it was purchased. With the new mandate, should we have one on each level? Or is one on the bedroom level (I have a three level townhouse) sufficient?

Stick it in front of your car exhaust? (Not sure here, but that's the easiest source of CO that I can think of)

Killed in a car accident on Route 9. Funeral was in Sleepy Hollow last week.

Wasn't Nelson sold by the DeSimones (owners of Danbury Ambulance, and past owners of Westchester Ambulance) to some healthcare system in the Bridgeport area?

So they aren't obligated to man their station in town at all after 5pm?

HVP has the Pleasant Valley ALS contract. They provide 24/7 ALS coverage with an ambulance out of their own station and cover transports if the vollys don't cover their own rig. They took over the contract from Transamo around the new year after skid bidding the heck out of the contract. Don't ask me how they make any money doing it. Regional EMS is their name across the river (Orange county operations). I have no idea what 911 they have over there. I think they might still cover Port Jervis.

Talk to us when you can get 14s in the hand blindfolded. To quote a medic I once worked with - "orange is my favorite color"

Here is a map of one of the main trails for reference.

Do they still carry the third set of gear anymore? Every time I ever asked anyone about the third set, it always seemed to be the set that was raped for restock since it never got used. I can't remember the last time a third medic got activated. And I'm with 585. I never did understand why they didn't split the medics up into two trucks. One in Mohegan (JV perhaps) and one in Yorktown (near the triangle perhaps).

Sheriff Arpaio is officially my hero.

Date: April 1, 2010 Time: 1345 Location: Route 100 I/A/O 189 Route 100, Somers Manor Nursing Home Frequency: Kenneth Units Operating: Somers Fire E181, MA1, NYSP Somers Weather Conditions: Clear & Cool Description Of Incident: Brush Fire reported in area of the nursing home and Plum Brook Rd. Reporters: was967 Writer: was967