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No you can't but you can put some gauze on them and slow down the bleeding. But eventually they will win the Darwin Award.

NEVER!! Particulary the wems one in ossining LOL

I am a volunteer not with CVAC but with Armonk. Yes the Manison. But even we have our bad days all volunteer agencies get them from now and then. But we back each other up when it comes down to it. We are all pround of being Volunteers and enjoy it for the most part. There is no reason to bash each other saying that one can't get out the door. It happens in cycles to all of us. We have other lives outside the VAC of VFD. Granted we never want to call another for help and we feel bad when we do. But thats what its all about is just helping each other. This has straid far off the intial comment and article. Yes some new politicians just got into office and want to help cut cost. You can't blame them, look at the dam gas prices now. Its just a hair away from 3 bucks a gallon. What was the price last year? not that I can tell you. Plus cost of living is going through the roof. I am just about finish with college (May 13th) and I can't move out to an appartment. I will have to leave at home because there is no more middle class or a very small middle class left in westchester county. They are just trying to help cut the cost. Not votes they are already in office and will be for the next year or two, depending on the there term. Yes 1.5 Million is a lot for 3 medics 24/7 but just look at what is cost for 3 trucks runing 24/7 in gas alone... alot. Everyone feels they should be making more then they get. Well if we keep doing that the inflation will just be out of control. I think we need to start to question some things we taxing. Just to slow down the inflation a little. Maybe we can live were we work for once. I know I have gone completly off topic and I do appoligize for it but this is a dead issue and its out of all of our hands. The decision has been made and accepts by all the parties involved.

Dam-it I was just going to get the braso out and show some of the Jr members the fine art of polishing the cans

I know in the past our town supervisor had little to know clue about ALS or what is really was. Now I know the new supervisor consults with our EMS Captain from time to time to understand what it is. I think there should be a standard of training when you become a supervisor. Maybe ICS, just to understand what everyone else does. But thats a different topic for a different time. I do work for WEMS also, and I have been on the ALS bus going mutal because all 3 medics were out. I think it will be a really bad idea if Chappaqua pulls out of the program. But maybe Medic 1 should be broken up, it is a large area to cover with sometimes very active. Maybe Mt Kisco, Chappaqua, and parts of Bedford as one car and Armonk, Banksville and Bedford village with parts of Bedford as the other car. But its just an idea....

well i heard from a supervisor at work and seeing one of them by the ambulances and waiting to get radios and strips and all that bling. I think the other one is in transit to sit next to the other one and wait a little til they get there bling.

10,000 lbs dam that can be very useful

I have seen some small cranes on the TAC units FDNY has but i just think they are for the rigid boat they have on top of the truck. We don't have a tower ladder in my department but for those who do I always wondered if the ladder can support some weight??? I have seen it once where they used the tower to remove a patient in a stokes basket that was down a large reven. But can the take a little more wiegth then that?? Say to just hold a car from going over a reven or something like that?? Just for stablilazation to remove some one not to take the whole wieght of a vechile.

At the firehouse i carry my cell with the hospital numbers, 2-way numbers for the medics, and my military issue spyderco. At work I carry one pair of shears, the spyderco, 2 sets of gloves, my cell, leather gloves in the winte, and O2 key and the personal keys to the trucks on a beaner. Not to mention the radio and nextel from the company. Plus two pens, for some reason one tends to walk off with a nurse some times but there tend to also.

well the state trooper just hired some new dispatchers from what i have heard in the local westchester area. not too sure where they came from but it has been intresting from what some things i have heard.

Actually it been pretty dam slow lately we just had a screch of almost 3 days without a call is anyone else having this?? Or are you getting slamed??

Hi I am not too sure if it was a romur or not but we got a brand new siren that is digital i think. I heard from a few sources it was able to broadcast voice too but I am not too sure. I'll see if i can find some info on it.

Sure no problem. If you guys come up with some other issues about marine fire fighting let me know. But removing the boat from a marina is a good way to contain the fire to just the boat.

I have taken Basic and Advance Marine Fire fighting, actually the best way to fight a boat fire is with foam. But something that is more popular with ships and boat owners are dry chem. extinguishers. By using the dry chem. you are not adding much additional weight to the boat. Water is not always the best thing for a boat/ship fire. You have to worry about the stability of the vessel. When a vessel is on land the jack stand just support the side of the vessel, not the whole weight of the vessel. Most of the weight is transferred through the keel of the vessel. It is the lowest point and the backbone of every vessel. Normally at yards you will find large ruff cut timbers supporting this weight to the ground. The jack stands just prevent the vessel from falling over. When a vessel is in the water stability is really important. Key ways to fight a marine fire are to use low and high velocity fog patterns. Also is the fire is small enough to knock it down with an extinguisher or extinguishers. Also along the commercial side where cargo can be involved using water can be deadly. Most cargo ships are HAZMAT incidents because of different cargoes on board, especially on container vessels.

Hell Yea bring on the snow :angry:

well depends on how many nights a week it meets but it can be about 2-3 months. I know New Rochelle has some good classes that aren't too long. But they meet about 3 times a week. At WCC it is a semister as far as I know that is about 3 months. Not too sure how many days it would meet but i think it meets during the day where New Rochelle meets at night. You can look it up on the Westchester REMSCO site and the DES Training website too.

I have seen an ESU NYPD ambulance floating around the Bronx once but I didn't have my camera with me. It really didn't look anythink like the above pic but it did say ambulance and have the NYS Cert sticker on it in blue on the side. I thought i heard that NYPD ESU was doing ems after they got the ALS done. But I wasn't too sure. I have my camera in my car now so if i see it again i will get a pic.

I have conflicts with other traing classes i am taking right now. Do you knwo if they will be offering the course at a later date? Also is the class the same as the pervios class at the training center?

I was a Cadet at Maritime College in the Bronx walking across the quad, when all of a sudden I saw black smoking coming out of the city. I stood in the middle of the quad and watched. Then I saw the second plane hit after that the next week is sort of a blur with little to no sleep. Then my school was shut down and everyone removed from campus. The state and other law enforcement living on campus were all gone in a matter of minutes the who caravan of red lights screaming out of my school was insane. But with the school so close to the brigde and the ship being right there and the reactor on campus no one was taking any chances and 2 forms of ID was needed to get on campus at sometimes. School then started again about a week and a half later.

Armonk: Marine 24: 17' Boston Whaler Alert with a 50hp Honda 4-stroke off the back that usually see limited action on the resevior. Its mainly equipt for transport and med care. Engine 287: Source pumper with a good amount of 5" off the back and a couple of small portable pumps on-board two. But nothing beats the sound of her old federal Q when she starts going down 22.

Just wondering if you have basic and inermidate is there any recert for it similar to the EMT? I have always wondered about the fire classes because some of the stuff I have really never used but some I used and do all the time

Being in the commerical shipping industry I know shippers such as A&O MSC Mearsk and the other have one major problem on there hands. They can't really get rid of the shipping containers. I am sure if you approach them the right way you can either get the container for free or a small fee to transport the container to where you need it. Desposal of the containers is hard for them but most of the time they try to recycle them. But you would be surpised in the amount of containers at a terminal that are not being used and just wasting space.

Well its nice to see that we finaly have the Fire Fighter II training offered at the county. But now I am hearing that the Camp Smith training is going to close up!! I know in my department we are have about 4-6 guys waiting for the past 3-6 months for training. The big problem is there are not enough classes for them to get into. I think we had this problem before too in or about 2000 it was hard to get classes. Now it is happening again, what happened to all that homeland security money for 1st responer training? I know they have offered hazmat and trailer ops but we need the EMT or fire fighter 1st to train, can that money be used to train more FFs and EMTs?????

Maybe they should be called The Fastest, Have you ever seen a bus with a rush go down east tremont.

WOW I can't belive you would do something like that. I know my firehouse got pist when the ambulance was coming back and stopped at a MVA. My fire chief told me to destory the RMA and that it never happend. I refused and got suspend for a week. After the commisioners did some investigating one of them just came up to me a few months back and told me that I was in the right. There has to be more sharing of knowlegde between fire and ems. Espicailly when they are combined in one house.