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Date:11/18/2016
Time: 1522
Location: Hudson River/GWB
District:PAPD
Battalion:
Channel:WCPD F-1, PIPPD-1, PAPD GWB
Weather:Clear
Units:WCPD M2, PAPD ESU, Patrol, Detectives, PIPPD, Patrol, Detectives, Fort Lee EMS
Writer:  

Description: WCPD M2 while providing security zone for Humpback Whale in area of GWB witnessed aided/jumper. Aided pulled aboard M2 and CPR initiated. Aided transported to Englewood Boat Basin and TOT Fort Lee EMS. Aided transported to Englewood Hospital in traumatic arrest. 

Date:11/18/2016
Time: 1522
Location: Hudson River/GWB
District:PAPD
Battalion:
Channel:WCPD F-1, PIPPD-1, PAPD GWB
Weather:Clear
Units:WCPD M2, PAPD ESU, Patrol, Detectives, PIPPD, Patrol, Detectives, Fort Lee EMS
Writer:  

Description: WCPD M2 while providing security zone for Humpback Whale in area of GWB witnessed aided/jumper. Aided pulled aboard M2 and CPR initiated. Aided transported to Englewood Boat Basin and TOT Fort Lee EMS. Aided transported to Englewood Hospital in traumatic arrest. 

Date:11/18/2016
Time: 1522
Location: Hudson River/GWB
District:PAPD
Battalion:
Channel:WCPD F-1, PIPPD-1, PAPD GWB
Weather:Clear
Units:WCPD M2, PAPD ESU, Patrol, Detectives, PIPPD, Patrol, Detectives, Fort Lee EMS
Writer:  

Description: WCPD M2 while providing security zone for Humpback Whale in area of GWB witnessed aided/jumper. Aided pulled aboard M2 and CPR initiated. Aided transported to Englewood Boat Basin and TOT Fort Lee EMS. Aided transported to Englewood Hospital in traumatic arrest. 

 
Wait, you mean to tell me agencies are pre-planning their responsibilities before a multi-agency incident?  Instead of just showing up and doing whatever you want or having a fight over whose jurisdiction it is, or who has the most brass on their collar?
 
I am both shocked AND appalled at this blatant and willful display of preparedness and cooperation.

 
Yes WCPD Marine has Side Scan Sonar. At the scene of a major incidents with fellow port partners certain tasks are assigned to certain units. WCPD Marine has members assigned 365 days a year. They are supplemted by members of ESU. 

 
Yes WCPD Marine has Side Scan Sonar. At the scene of a major incidents with fellow port partners certain tasks are assigned to certain units. WCPD Marine has members assigned 365 days a year. They are supplemted by members of ESU. 

Please explain. Any EMS agency that is treating a patient involved in any type of hazardous situation should be provided with the proper PPE.

Just asking because I don't understand the situation. Shouldn't the city and the PD be paying for this?

I'm going to focus on the waste part of the issue. Why do we pay for (again, the source of the money is irrelevant) a piece of apparatus that will sit and collect dust and rust for it to be used once in a blue moon? If the WCDES METU was granted for the sole purpose of evacuating nursing homes and similar facilities, does that mean that we actually have a problem evacuating said facilities? Do we have to evacuate these facilities that often that we need a vehicle SOLELY for that purpose?
We've reacted wildly after every terror attack and every natural disaster to get the best, shiniest equipment, yet a lot of this equipment ends up sitting idle. If we have a METU, why can't it be used in MCI situations, not just to be able to get the motor running every now and then, but to use that darn thing? And couldn't it be part of a larger, regional task force, where it and similar units from around the area can work as a team to respond to large scale MCI calls?

Where was the DES METU? Why have a METU respond from Yonkers when there is one literally up the street?

Where was the DES METU? Why have a METU respond from Yonkers when there is one literally up the street?

Can you give us the reference you are using for this information? Who "mandated" the function for the use of the METU?
It seems to me that Westchester made a calculated choice to opt out of using the vehicle for a variety of assignments the way other UASI partners are. YPD has been using theirs with great success and I'm sure if there was a mandate prohibiting that they wouldn't be able to do it.
FDNY can use the vehicles for MCI and other things (see policy attached). It may just be less efficient in the city where ambulances are far more abundant than here in Westchester.
To think that a vehicle that can transport two dozen people (or more) sits idly by while ambulances have to be summoned from around the county just doesn't make any sense. With the airport, railroads, high-rises, and other significant hazards in the county to limit the resource to only nursing home evacuations is unwise. Especially when you consider how fragmented and inadequate the EMS system is in the county. It is almost as if the county just wants the toys but not the responsibility of using them.
When has a nursing home in Westchester County ever had to be evacuated? How about in the UASI territory?
I heard the same thing. FD/PD/EMS operating at a serious MVA on the parkway "witnessed" the train accident.

Where was the DES METU? Why have a METU respond from Yonkers when there is one literally up the street?

Where was the DES METU? Why have a METU respond from Yonkers when there is one literally up the street?

Where was the DES METU? Why have a METU respond from Yonkers when there is one literally up the street?

Where was the DES METU? Why have a METU respond from Yonkers when there is one literally up the street?

Where was the DES METU? Why have a METU respond from Yonkers when there is one literally up the street?

Where was the DES METU? Why have a METU respond from Yonkers when there is one literally up the street?

Its actually the other way around. NYS mandates Counties to maintain a Sheriff's Office which Westchester does through the Police Department. Cities are also required to maintain Police. Town's and Villages are not.