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Orange, CT Orange, CT Citizen's Engine Company Bethany, CT

Noroton, CT Engine 31 (since taken out of service I believe) Southington, CT Engine 4 Derby, CT Woodbridge, CT

Westerly, RI Horse Drawn Mohegan Volunteer Fire Association New Haven, CT Engine 15 (won the best antique)

Date:12/4/08 Time: 09:53 hrs Location: 75 s. Plaza Depot Frequency: TFD, TPD, other unknown Units Operating: Tarrytown Police, Tarrytown Fire, Tarrytown VAC, Irvington VAC, OEM, WCDES Haz-Mat, Westchester County PD (SHFD stand-by) Description Of Incident: Haz-Mat incident at Sewage Treatment Pumphouse Writer: gpdexplorer 09:53: units dispatched to 75 S. Depot Plaza, Westchester County Sewage Treatment - Tarrytown Pumphouse for a Haz-Mat incident 10:10 hrs SHFD 1 and 1 (TL38 and E86) dispatched to Washington Irving School for Activated Fire Alarm. 10:17 SHFD Cancelled enroute, redirected to stand-by in Tarrytown FD HQ. WCDES Haz-Mat to the Scene. Approx 10:50 hrs TL-78 released from scene, back in service. 11:13 Ossining one ladder (L42?) and one chief to SHFD HQ 11:32 All Tarrytown FD picking up and returning Please feel free to PM with further so I can add more info. Thanks to unklecletus and eagle24 for additional info.

Journal News says a sewage pipe burst on a worker at the water treatment plant

Maybe some the law enforcement officers here can comment on this, what if a police officer was in an ambulance or fire truck, say as a volunteer, and witnessed someone commiting a felony, would they have the legal authority to stop the person?

I don't know their policy, but Im sure the Salvation Army would take some.

Here are some pics from a working fire on S. Buckhout St in Irvington, 1/15/06. These pics are from before my days in the FD. This was a fire that came in the morning after a light snow fall. If I remember correctly, the family was away at the time of the fire.

JRS, I'll send you a PM and explain how it works.

JRS, that is the Greenburgh PD Civilian Medic. FFFORD, thank you mike

Hope you enjoyed them!

Assistant Chief J.P. Natkin (later to be my FF1 instructor)

Here are some pics from Valhalla's fire last week. It was pretty well knocked down when I arrived.

Driving to the bank to today, I saw 2 houses that have been outfitted with solar panels. The first house had a multiple panels linked together that spanned the whole width and length of one side of the peaked roof. The second house had considerably fewer panels, but were mounted at a very steep angle. In a day when solar energy is becoming very popular, what problems or hazards do these panels pose to firefighters on the fireground? The way the panels were set up on the second house, it looked as if they would come down very easily under fire conditions. How do these panels affect the structural integrity of roofs? Also, stepping aside from fire conditions, how about snow and ice build up? It seems they might be hard to see under certain conditions, you might be walkin along the house, say on a aided call, etc. and the ice lets loose. Is it going to come down on you?

67-L57, if you look at the picture of the interior of the VW, you can clearly see an aftermarket stereo installed in the dash.

A just wanted to share some thoughts and observations that I've had recently and see what every one else has to say. Off the bat, none of these comments are directed at any department or person specifically, nor am I trying to monday-morning quarterback. First, there was recently a working fire close to my girlfriend's house so I stopped by to see what I could learn from exterior tactics in motion. Numerous mutual aid departments were called to the scene. Shortly after one department was requested I noticed a member from that department come to the scene in his POV, gear up and go directly to work. At that point in time, the situation was pretty well in control. In my opinion, if you're responding mutual aid and arrive at a scene before your department, you should await the arrival of your department before going to work. One reason is accountability. Your department needs to know where you are. If you get there, go to work, and they don't know that you are there, what is going to happen if the proverbial "Sh*t hits the fan?" Who is going to come save you. While you might make contact with your chief, officer, etc via other means i.e. Nextel or what have you, you should still wait. Hopefully I'm making my point here and not just rambling. But if any one has anything to add or clarify what I'm trying to say, by all means take a stab at it. Second, I was recently reading an article about a working fire which had several pictures attached. In one picture, a two man team is shown trying to make entry into a doorway, while there is one FF on the roof above with flames through the roof. One of the two men on the team was a chief. Now, I don't know if the chief was from the first due department or a mutual aid chief, but in my mind a chief should be overseeing operations and directing other teams on the fireground, not taking a hands on roll. Granted manpower may have been an issue at that point, I don't know. Just my 2 cents. Third, at the same fire that I mentioned in the first sitaution and looking at pictures from the same publication as the picture from the above article, there is one last thing that I noticed for now. I saw one FF on scene at the fire and 2 FF's in a picture at a working structure fire wearing 3/4 boots up to the hips and turnout coats. While 3/4 boots may still serve a purpose, i.e. pumpouts, by no means should they be used at working structure fire. I'm sure they worked well "back in the day," but today isn't "back in the day" and there are things to think about, NFPA, firefighter safety, etc. What would happen to a department if an FF wearing 3/4 boots on the fireground got hurt? Again, these are just some of things to think about. As I said, I'm not tryin to question fireground decisions that I had nothing to do with, I'm just looking for some other opinions. Please feel free to add or clarify.

Thank you every one for replying. One note to add though, I never got to see whether or not that the member of the mutual aid company checked in with chiefs or officers of the first due department, so its a possibility. This member came from a department that had a 4 mile ride to the scene, so about a 15 minute response time give or take.

Was anybody in the other vehicle an MOS? If you look at the pics posted by Brian Duddy, you can see a dashlight on the dash.

Texastom, It seems as though that the exterior is a traffic directional and the interior is a warning light