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SOURCE: Ferrara® Equips Yonkers Fire Department with New Pumper - Ferrara Fire Apparatus

Anybody have any pics of the Yonkers Oshkosh DPW trucks?Would love to see them,Yonkers had a large fleet of Oshkosh dump trucks also called "stripper trucks" used in coal mines as well as garbage trucks...all equipped with plow  hook ups...hope this Oshkosh goes to a good home..

Is Mount Vernon's fleet of Pierce and Ferrara Apparatus getting worn out, that the City of Mount Vernon would seek to suppliment their Fire Department fleet, with used apparatus (albeit from Yonkers, who does a great job in maintaining their fleet of Fire Trucks). One would suspect that the 3 used Yonkers Fire Truck that Mount Vernon is looking to purchase are some of the recently changed over American LaFrance rigs. Replacement parts for ALF rigs are hard to come by and thus the reason why a number of departments in the area (New Rochelle, Yonkers, etc) are quickly replacing their ALF Fleet with other manufactured apparatus. 

3 Bay Station 1? There goes any hope for a reactivated Engine 301, to coincide with the Downtown Development Project. And the Mayor's spokesperson, Christina Gilmartin is saying that the Ridge Hill Fire House is unnecessary (Gee, why doesn't LoHud have the guts to ask her where the $3 Million Dollars that was set aside by the developer for that Fire House is, and why the Mayor and City Council, at the time that the Ridge Hill Development was approved, wanted it in the original proposal?)

3 Bay Station 1? There goes any hope for a reactivated Engine 301, to coincide with the Downtown Development Project. And the Mayor's spokesperson, Christina Gilmartin is saying that the Ridge Hill Fire House is unnecessary (Gee, why doesn't LoHud have the guts to ask her where the $3 Million Dollars that was set aside by the developer for that Fire House is, and why the Mayor and City Council, at the time that the Ridge Hill Development was approved, wanted it in the original proposal?)

Date: 3/15/2017
Time: 04:00
Location: 1 Hawley Terrace
District: Northwest Section of the Cit Of Yonkers
Battalion: Car 3
Channel:
Weather: Snow, Icy, Windy
Units: Full City of Yonkers General Alarm Assignment and 1 City of New Rochelle Ladder Company
Writer:  61MACKBR1

Description: http://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/yonkers/2017/03/15/yonkers-fire-hawley-apartments/99199648/
 
http://westchester.news12.com/news/at-least-1-dead-in-raging-yonkers-apartment-fire-1.13266437#autoplay=true
 
Mutual Aid from Greenville, Eastchester and Mount Vernon
 
Do not know the exact alarm (1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th General Alarm) assignment at this time (should anyone know this, please feel free to post)

Date: 3/15/2017
Time: 04:00
Location: 1 Hawley Terrace
District: Northwest Section of the Cit Of Yonkers
Battalion: Car 3
Channel:
Weather: Snow, Icy, Windy
Units: Full City of Yonkers General Alarm Assignment and 1 City of New Rochelle Ladder Company
Writer:  61MACKBR1

Description: http://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/yonkers/2017/03/15/yonkers-fire-hawley-apartments/99199648/
 
http://westchester.news12.com/news/at-least-1-dead-in-raging-yonkers-apartment-fire-1.13266437#autoplay=true
 
Mutual Aid from Greenville, Eastchester and Mount Vernon
 
Do not know the exact alarm (1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th General Alarm) assignment at this time (should anyone know this, please feel free to post)

 
Seth - I can't see this location as a site for the New Station 1. It is essentially still in Engine 310's coverage area and there is a tremendous amount of pressure to keep Rescue 1 and TL 71 in the Downtown Southwest Yonkers Area. (This move is probably just to be able to get out of leasing the 2 buildings that YFD is currently leasing at 460 and 470 Nepp. Aveunue and move YFD Headquarters and Special Operations into this possible spot just north. (But why just build a state of the art Fire Headquarters/Station 1, in the downtown area, and be done with it

Where is Mayor Spano's promise to have Architect Drawings, Final Designs and a Site Selected by October of 2015? Hmmm? We are now looking at February 2017, and nothing on any account.and ZERO updates to the community by either Mayor Spano or anyone from his Administration on the status. Poor Communication and Management on the part of the Mayor of the City of Yonkers

Where is Mayor Spano's promise to have Architect Drawings, Final Designs and a Site Selected by October of 2015? Hmmm? We are now looking at February 2017, and nothing on any account.and ZERO updates to the community by either Mayor Spano or anyone from his Administration on the status. Poor Communication and Management on the part of the Mayor of the City of Yonkers

Where is Mayor Spano's promise to have Architect Drawings, Final Designs and a Site Selected by October of 2015? Hmmm? We are now looking at February 2017, and nothing on any account.and ZERO updates to the community by either Mayor Spano or anyone from his Administration on the status. Poor Communication and Management on the part of the Mayor of the City of Yonkers

It's being wasted on massive duplication of services 
 
 

 The WPFD currently operates out of 5 Fire Stations, located throughout the city, under the command of a Deputy Chief per shift. The WPFD also operates a frontline fire apparatus fleet of 5 Engines, 3 (Now 2) Ladders, and 1 Rescue,

 The WPFD currently operates out of 5 Fire Stations, located throughout the city, under the command of a Deputy Chief per shift. The WPFD also operates a frontline fire apparatus fleet of 5 Engines, 3 (Now 2) Ladders, and 1 Rescue,

 
CAN YOU SPELL 'CONSOLIDATED WESTCHESTER COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT" NO MATTER WHAT THE CITY, TOWN, OR VILLAGE (and that includes White Plains, Yonkers, New Rochelle and Mount Vernon). EVERY FIRE-FIGHTER (PAID OR VOLUNTEER) WOULD BE 'REQUIRED' TO UNDERGO THE SAME TRAINING AND CERTIFICATIONS - PERIOD !!   ALL CONTROLLED FROM WITHIN THE WESTCHESTER COUNTY DES (60 CONTROL). NO MORE 'HOME RULE' !!!  THIS WAY, THERE IS NO MORE MUTUAL AID SYSTEM, AS EVERY STATION WOULD BE DESIGNED AS 'WESTCHESTER COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT'
 
WAKE UP WESTCHESTER COUNTY - THIS IS NOW 2017 NOT 1967 !!

 
CAN YOU SPELL 'CONSOLIDATED WESTCHESTER COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT" NO MATTER WHAT THE CITY, TOWN, OR VILLAGE (and that includes White Plains, Yonkers, New Rochelle and Mount Vernon). EVERY FIRE-FIGHTER (PAID OR VOLUNTEER) WOULD BE 'REQUIRED' TO UNDERGO THE SAME TRAINING AND CERTIFICATIONS - PERIOD !!   ALL CONTROLLED FROM WITHIN THE WESTCHESTER COUNTY DES (60 CONTROL). NO MORE 'HOME RULE' !!!  THIS WAY, THERE IS NO MORE MUTUAL AID SYSTEM, AS EVERY STATION WOULD BE DESIGNED AS 'WESTCHESTER COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT'
 
WAKE UP WESTCHESTER COUNTY - THIS IS NOW 2017 NOT 1967 !!

I don't disagree.  When I got out of Westchester for a few years to go to college in the '90s I saw how much smoother the fire service operated elsewhere.  From rural Pennsylvania where individual small departments banded together and complemented each others resources to PG county Maryland where the same delivery model happened including county oversight with career and volunteer mixed together in one of the toughest fire/rescue environments in America, and only a stones throw from our nations Capitol.

As long as you have these volunteer chiefs, wardens, commissioners running the show no county run dept will ever exist.  As I have stated before imagine the tax dollar savings to this county.  Yes local tax would go down and county tax which Yes we know is high would go up. But you won't be eating tax dollars on 20heavy rescues. Instead county could have 2. Not counting the cities of yonkers, white plains  and New Ro. Ladders- ha with some small towns having 2 ladders that only need 1 that's more savings.  5 pumpers to a small town. It's a joke a complete waste.  Oh because it's tradition since 1880 you have 5 companies?  Come on.  

1) the county mutual aid system is broken. No depts should have the right to choose their run cards. 60 control should have full discretion based on available resources and their capabilities. All fires in this county are basically a reunion of the boys club 
 
2) . The county HAZMAT team, in its current state is a complete waste of space, time and money, I do agree with you on that. It would make more sense for the Grasslands Brigade members to be trained to the tech level and essentially staff that rig (only during work hours, but its a start) when it is called for a response.
 
3) In regards to the HFD captain / YHFD assistant chief, I do not know this person personally, but its not very hard to figure out, as the names and ranks are readily available on the internet. Again, this response cannot be justified, unless there is a HAZMAT/special ops task force made and this task force is made available for all county departments to utilize.
 
4) every fire department, career, volunteer and combination should be able to handle a hazmat incident. We all know that very few can, due to lack of trained firefighters and resources, but if a department cannot handle a room and contents fire or a small scale hazmat incident on their own, without calling mutual aid to the scene to mitigate these incidents, they should not exist as a department. Why even bother existing as a department if you must rely on others to do the basic functions of your job?  
 
5) The events occurring in Valhalla today are just as bad and the same amount of criticism should be given for skipping White Plains and Fairview.

 The WPFD currently operates out of 5 Fire Stations, located throughout the city, under the command of a Deputy Chief per shift. The WPFD also operates a frontline fire apparatus fleet of 5 Engines, 3 (Now 2) Ladders, and 1 Rescue,

 
Isn't Downtown Yonkers publicized by City, County, State and Federal Politicians/Officials as being part of a "Prime Renewal Location"? At least New Rochelle FD currently has a much more modern Station 1/Fire Headquarters within their "Downtown Area" to run a Tower Ladder Company, Engine Company, Rescue Company and Ambulance in and out of (in addition to being able to house and store reserve apparatus), where as Yonkers FD doesn't even have a Station 1/Fire Headquarters in their downtown area to run anything PERIOD. 
 
PS - A number of Yonkers FD Fire Stations are as old, if not older that allot of the New Rochelle FD Stations 

Somehow I don't see Empress losing their foothold in either Yonkers, Mount Vernon or New Rochelle (what Empress brings to the table is the fact that they have a very large fleet and a very large and "Local" [to Southern Westchester County] presence, which makes their ability to respond and to provide wide coverage (ie: Mutual Aid, etc) is very attractive to those 3 cities.

Forrest City Ratner, the developer of the Ridge Hill Property, agreed to and a provision written into the Final Agreement, when they purchased the Ridge Hill Property from the City of Yonkers, that $3 Million Dollars would be set aside for the construction of a New Fire House, to be located at or around the New Ridge Hill Complex. Where this $3 Million Dollars currently resides, is anyone's question. One of the first concepts was to build this New Fire Station, and 'possibly' relocate Engine 310 to be housed in this new station (New Station 10), along with a newly commissioned Ladder Company (Ladder 76) at this new facility (there was also talk that the city would then transform the current/existing Station 10 on Saw Mill River Road, into the YFD Fire Museum). Then, back in 2011, the City (Former Mayor Amicone's Office) indicated that the city was currently looking for a suitable property to locate this new fire station (the King Fence property at the base of Ridge Hill, was, at the time, the front runner, to be the site of this New Fire Station. Since that time, nothing has happened on this front, despite continued new development being built at or around the Ridge Hill Complex. Then the city was complaining that while a new fire house could be built, the city didn't have the funding to provide the increase in manpower needed to have a New Ladder Company [76] commissioned at housed at this new station, thus the so-called reason for the stalling.  (Yes - all of the new construction, was and is being built to the highest of Fire Prevention Codes and with State of the Art Sprinkler Systems and Building Materials.. HOWEVER, you have to factor in First Responder Medical Assist Calls at or around the Ridge Hill Complex, that taxes the manpower and response of the YFD. Also, if an automatic alarm just happens to go off at one of the buildings on or around Ridge Hill, YFD normally sends out a Full Response to such alarms. What happens if a call (Could be fire related, could be a First Responder/Medical Assist Call) comes in somewhere nearby? What will the response times be for those types of calls. The Mayor and Commissioner Sweeney can cite response times since Ridge Hill has been in place, until the cows come home. They cannot say that it hasn't impacted response times, because we all know it has. Now we are at a point in November of 2016, where Local 628 IAFF is now suing the City of Yonkers, to block the issue of a building permit for the New Lowes Department Store, demanding the city provide a permanent answer to the status of this New Fire Station at Ridge Hill.
 
In addition to all of this, we have the issue of the City of Yonkers apparently dragging its feet, as it relates to the construction of a New Yonkers Fire Station 1/YFD Headquarters around the Chicken Island Area. Commissioner Sweeney's comment that the city does need to build a New Fire Station, but not necessarily at Ridge Hill, but rather to replace Station 1. Well Commissioner Sweeney, the Ridge Hill Developer, Forrest City Ratner is NOT going to give you the so called $3 Million Dollars allegedly set aside for the construction of a New Fire House at Ridge Hill, to help the city build a New Station 1 on the West Side of the City. Mayor Spano in a press conference in the Summer of 2015, indicated that bid requests would go out an da bid awarded in the Fall of 2015, to begin construction of the New Station 1. Well, again, we are now in November of 2016, and still no New Station 1 in sight. The city was toying with the idea that the New Station 1, would be placed in the "Hollows" at the site of the old Longfellow Junior High School. Well, that one never panned out. Now we are allegedly back to building it at the corner of Elm Street, Palisades Avenue and New School Street, but no bids to date, have been awarded. No architectural designs and renderings have been made public. Meanwhile, you have Rescue 1, housed across the street from Yonkers Raceway at Station 7 (which is better than having it housed at Station 8). But this piece of apparatus is best served to be housed on the West Side of Yonkers (since you have Squad 11, to be able to cover 'similar' needs on the East Side of Yonkers). 
 
Bottom line, is that if Mayor Spano and Commissioner Sweeney were smart, they would take advantage of resources being contracted by the city, and develop and design TWO NEW FIRE HOUSES, to be built at the same time. Use the $3 Million Dollars (plus hopefully interest accrued over time) to build a New Station 10, and use the funding that the city said it had to build a New Station 1 and let everyone move on.

Forrest City Ratner, the developer of the Ridge Hill Property, agreed to and a provision written into the Final Agreement, when they purchased the Ridge Hill Property from the City of Yonkers, that $3 Million Dollars would be set aside for the construction of a New Fire House, to be located at or around the New Ridge Hill Complex. Where this $3 Million Dollars currently resides, is anyone's question. One of the first concepts was to build this New Fire Station, and 'possibly' relocate Engine 310 to be housed in this new station (New Station 10), along with a newly commissioned Ladder Company (Ladder 76) at this new facility (there was also talk that the city would then transform the current/existing Station 10 on Saw Mill River Road, into the YFD Fire Museum). Then, back in 2011, the City (Former Mayor Amicone's Office) indicated that the city was currently looking for a suitable property to locate this new fire station (the King Fence property at the base of Ridge Hill, was, at the time, the front runner, to be the site of this New Fire Station. Since that time, nothing has happened on this front, despite continued new development being built at or around the Ridge Hill Complex. Then the city was complaining that while a new fire house could be built, the city didn't have the funding to provide the increase in manpower needed to have a New Ladder Company [76] commissioned at housed at this new station, thus the so-called reason for the stalling.  (Yes - all of the new construction, was and is being built to the highest of Fire Prevention Codes and with State of the Art Sprinkler Systems and Building Materials.. HOWEVER, you have to factor in First Responder Medical Assist Calls at or around the Ridge Hill Complex, that taxes the manpower and response of the YFD. Also, if an automatic alarm just happens to go off at one of the buildings on or around Ridge Hill, YFD normally sends out a Full Response to such alarms. What happens if a call (Could be fire related, could be a First Responder/Medical Assist Call) comes in somewhere nearby? What will the response times be for those types of calls. The Mayor and Commissioner Sweeney can cite response times since Ridge Hill has been in place, until the cows come home. They cannot say that it hasn't impacted response times, because we all know it has. Now we are at a point in November of 2016, where Local 628 IAFF is now suing the City of Yonkers, to block the issue of a building permit for the New Lowes Department Store, demanding the city provide a permanent answer to the status of this New Fire Station at Ridge Hill.
 
In addition to all of this, we have the issue of the City of Yonkers apparently dragging its feet, as it relates to the construction of a New Yonkers Fire Station 1/YFD Headquarters around the Chicken Island Area. Commissioner Sweeney's comment that the city does need to build a New Fire Station, but not necessarily at Ridge Hill, but rather to replace Station 1. Well Commissioner Sweeney, the Ridge Hill Developer, Forrest City Ratner is NOT going to give you the so called $3 Million Dollars allegedly set aside for the construction of a New Fire House at Ridge Hill, to help the city build a New Station 1 on the West Side of the City. Mayor Spano in a press conference in the Summer of 2015, indicated that bid requests would go out an da bid awarded in the Fall of 2015, to begin construction of the New Station 1. Well, again, we are now in November of 2016, and still no New Station 1 in sight. The city was toying with the idea that the New Station 1, would be placed in the "Hollows" at the site of the old Longfellow Junior High School. Well, that one never panned out. Now we are allegedly back to building it at the corner of Elm Street, Palisades Avenue and New School Street, but no bids to date, have been awarded. No architectural designs and renderings have been made public. Meanwhile, you have Rescue 1, housed across the street from Yonkers Raceway at Station 7 (which is better than having it housed at Station 8). But this piece of apparatus is best served to be housed on the West Side of Yonkers (since you have Squad 11, to be able to cover 'similar' needs on the East Side of Yonkers). 
 
Bottom line, is that if Mayor Spano and Commissioner Sweeney were smart, they would take advantage of resources being contracted by the city, and develop and design TWO NEW FIRE HOUSES, to be built at the same time. Use the $3 Million Dollars (plus hopefully interest accrued over time) to build a New Station 10, and use the funding that the city said it had to build a New Station 1 and let everyone move on.

Forrest City Ratner, the developer of the Ridge Hill Property, agreed to and a provision written into the Final Agreement, when they purchased the Ridge Hill Property from the City of Yonkers, that $3 Million Dollars would be set aside for the construction of a New Fire House, to be located at or around the New Ridge Hill Complex. Where this $3 Million Dollars currently resides, is anyone's question. One of the first concepts was to build this New Fire Station, and 'possibly' relocate Engine 310 to be housed in this new station (New Station 10), along with a newly commissioned Ladder Company (Ladder 76) at this new facility (there was also talk that the city would then transform the current/existing Station 10 on Saw Mill River Road, into the YFD Fire Museum). Then, back in 2011, the City (Former Mayor Amicone's Office) indicated that the city was currently looking for a suitable property to locate this new fire station (the King Fence property at the base of Ridge Hill, was, at the time, the front runner, to be the site of this New Fire Station. Since that time, nothing has happened on this front, despite continued new development being built at or around the Ridge Hill Complex. Then the city was complaining that while a new fire house could be built, the city didn't have the funding to provide the increase in manpower needed to have a New Ladder Company [76] commissioned at housed at this new station, thus the so-called reason for the stalling.  (Yes - all of the new construction, was and is being built to the highest of Fire Prevention Codes and with State of the Art Sprinkler Systems and Building Materials.. HOWEVER, you have to factor in First Responder Medical Assist Calls at or around the Ridge Hill Complex, that taxes the manpower and response of the YFD. Also, if an automatic alarm just happens to go off at one of the buildings on or around Ridge Hill, YFD normally sends out a Full Response to such alarms. What happens if a call (Could be fire related, could be a First Responder/Medical Assist Call) comes in somewhere nearby? What will the response times be for those types of calls. The Mayor and Commissioner Sweeney can cite response times since Ridge Hill has been in place, until the cows come home. They cannot say that it hasn't impacted response times, because we all know it has. Now we are at a point in November of 2016, where Local 628 IAFF is now suing the City of Yonkers, to block the issue of a building permit for the New Lowes Department Store, demanding the city provide a permanent answer to the status of this New Fire Station at Ridge Hill.
 
In addition to all of this, we have the issue of the City of Yonkers apparently dragging its feet, as it relates to the construction of a New Yonkers Fire Station 1/YFD Headquarters around the Chicken Island Area. Commissioner Sweeney's comment that the city does need to build a New Fire Station, but not necessarily at Ridge Hill, but rather to replace Station 1. Well Commissioner Sweeney, the Ridge Hill Developer, Forrest City Ratner is NOT going to give you the so called $3 Million Dollars allegedly set aside for the construction of a New Fire House at Ridge Hill, to help the city build a New Station 1 on the West Side of the City. Mayor Spano in a press conference in the Summer of 2015, indicated that bid requests would go out an da bid awarded in the Fall of 2015, to begin construction of the New Station 1. Well, again, we are now in November of 2016, and still no New Station 1 in sight. The city was toying with the idea that the New Station 1, would be placed in the "Hollows" at the site of the old Longfellow Junior High School. Well, that one never panned out. Now we are allegedly back to building it at the corner of Elm Street, Palisades Avenue and New School Street, but no bids to date, have been awarded. No architectural designs and renderings have been made public. Meanwhile, you have Rescue 1, housed across the street from Yonkers Raceway at Station 7 (which is better than having it housed at Station 8). But this piece of apparatus is best served to be housed on the West Side of Yonkers (since you have Squad 11, to be able to cover 'similar' needs on the East Side of Yonkers). 
 
Bottom line, is that if Mayor Spano and Commissioner Sweeney were smart, they would take advantage of resources being contracted by the city, and develop and design TWO NEW FIRE HOUSES, to be built at the same time. Use the $3 Million Dollars (plus hopefully interest accrued over time) to build a New Station 10, and use the funding that the city said it had to build a New Station 1 and let everyone move on.