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Anyone know what daily staffing in WP is, and how many members per piece/company? EMS units too. Thanks! All out of curiousity.

Poor bastards. http://m.recordonline.com/article/20151105/NEWS/151109607

Guess they liked the Ferrara pumps?

The chassis choice (according to previous posts from the YFD folks) was related to engine and chassis compatibility.

Put the fire out, and all your problems go away. Find the fastest way to cool the fire and stop its advance. If you have fire showing from an opening, knock it down, then go in a finish it. That's why they call it TRANSITIONAL attack. It's not a defensive move, it's an offensive one. We've been using it with great success lately. It slows forward progress of the fire (when used in the right circumstance) and allows you to advance to the fire room and finish the job. It's a tool. It will likely fall into place with the fog/solid foam/water debates. There are many ways to skin the cat. If, at the end of the day, you've put the fire out, saved lives and/or property and put all the lads back in their seats for the ride home, it's a good day.

Seth, I work for a career department with four stations and fifteen members on duty per shift. We are frequently down to one single resource in town. (We only have one engine that doesn't cross-staff an ambulance.) We handle the calls as they come in, and yes, when an EMS call comes in and we only have one resource left, we send it. HOW COULD YOU NOT? Someone has called for help. You're going to tell them: sorry, can't come, there MIGHT be a fire. Good luck explaining THAT one. It is far easier to explain that someone had to wait for help because ALL resources were tied up than to try to explain that you were saving an engine for a REAL call. And yes, if ANY higher priority call comes in and you haven't made contact with the patient yet, I would divert to that call. Falls under doing what is right. Rob

Seems like someone out there is doing quite the pierce/aerialscope refurb business.

What is current staffing?

I have NO idea what lead those departments to set their run cards that way. Some ideas: -Level of training of members a department sends on a mutual aid response. -number of members responding on each piece. I was a volunteer in a town that would go mutual aid into a local city with a career department. They made it quite clear that only members with FF1 and a crew of 3 of said members would be tolerated at their fires. Anything but that and we were sent home. Could be the same there. Got tired of asking the volunteer departments to meet a standard. Easiest way to deal with the problem is to call departments you KNOW will show up with the right number of trained members.

How many FDNY members responded that day? Anyone know? Did all companies eventually respond?

My only thought with this is that it actually looks like a street fair with families and member of the community coming by and being involved. They sure do look like a bunch of jack wagons, and I still don't get the need for laying on the sirens like they do. Don't they go on enough calls?

Thanks for the answers!

Who is the police force assigned to Stewart? And National Guard provides fire and crash/rescue, right?

Is Stewart a PA Airport?

And you're surprised why?

I much prefer the push back into the station tradition. My biggest issue is tying up the road and acting like what you're doing is so damn important and that its okay to impact other people's lives. That and the lights and sirens. You Just look like idiots. Go do this in a school parking lot on a weekend.

Good grief. More idiots.

Wow. Just wow. That was embarrassing.

Almost identical set up to my departments current tower.

Black wheels on 2441 look sharp!!

You can explain to me until you are blue in the face what each radio is for and why it's there, doesn't mean I'll buy in. This is a perfect example of just how flawed EMS in Westchester is. I've worked for privates, publics. ONE radio. Talk to one dispatch center once you sign on the air. None of this bouncing around, checking in with multiple people, wondering which radio I need to grab when I need help.

Yup. Well done. I bout spit out my coffee at one part though. THREE radios? He has to carry THREE radios? And calls come from any one of those? WHAT. THE. F$&*??!! Is this 1980? I live up in cow Hampshire. Bout as rural as you can get. My state issued radio can talk to EVERY dispatch center. All of em. All of our 911 calls are answered in one of two places. Then dropped down to local dispatch centers who tone out crews. There's no WONDERING if I should go on a call. If the voice in the ceiling says go, I go. You folks need to stop accepting your status quo. Step up and lead. Be that guy. How is it possibly better and more efficient to have to carry THREE radios? Do they do this in NEW YORK CITY? Anywhere? Rant over. Carry on.

Rest easy, bro.

^ what he said. And who these days can put eight butts in seats. Why have that many? Use the space for stuff.

Blasphemy!!!