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The missing youth was found at about 1745 hrs 30 June. He lost his clogs in a swamp and was barefoot, and suffered numerous insect bites as well as probable poison ivy exposure. He did not appear to be the victim of any suspicious or criminal activity. He stated that for part of the time he was gone he was not trying to be found and did lay down and sleep. Admitted to a hospital for dehydration and skin symptom management (it is not always wise to give steroids to a diabetic.) The response to the request for assistance was tremendous, with at least 10 agencies involved as well as numerous civiliian volunteers, with input on social media and from at least one church.. The family is aware of help from the Town of New Castle Police, the Westchester County Police (patrol, aviation, K9 bloodhounds), the MIllwood Fire company, the Ossining Fire Department, Ossining E.M.S.. Croton E.M.S., PleasantvilleE.M.S., Yorktown Fire, Croton Fire, Chappaqua Fire, Briarcliff manor Fire, and Westchester DES. The family is deeply grateful for the efforts that everybody put in, and the care and coordination that made the response work out so well.

Can anybody post more information about a "blanket" the roof man is evaluating the need for? Are they dropping a tarp or something, or considering a water curtain?

As a sad side note: I am aware of people paying big bucks to live in an assisted living facility. Even though the second-worst-case scenario for one of their clients is to fall and need assistance to get up, they find out in their hour of need that this type of ASSISTANCE is not provided by the purported ASSISTED living facility.

Canton is in New York State's Northern tier, like between the Adirondacks and the Canadian border. Close to Potsdam, Ogdensburg

Directional microphones connected to a computer that triangulates the position of the origin of the sound, over a fixed geographical area.

The unions do have a say in this, but...... The employees are interested in getting their routes done a.s.a.p. as they can sometimes go home when done. These same employees also pick up recycling items and have to a very quick pick-through at the curb. A single container will not hold 3 categories of recycling as well as the garbage. Peekskill puts a limit on the size of the container you use for trash -34 gallons, I believe- and enforces a limit as to how many are used by any particular residence. In short, there is a level of human involvement, off the truck, that is required. That being said, I see no reason why the employees could not wear some kind of helmet......

I'm attempting to post a photo, taken before sundown this date, which shows a wide, dense plume of smoke from a brush fire in Rockland County. The plume is lifting a little and heading about east by northeast across the Hudson towards northwestern Westchester , apparently causing numerous good intent reports in Croton, Buchanan, Montrose, and Yorktown. (I guess from Peekskill you can see the cause as they haven't had many calls.) Photo taken from Maryknoll.... All Attachments .zip

$117.05, or about 1 one-thousandth of the unsettled part of my surgeons' bills.......... but on the plus side, another surgeon told me last week that, starting this week, Westchester Medical Center will again be "back in network" with the Empire plan Blue Cross/United Healthcare combo.

A fleet supplier trying to help one police department found that there were few options for installing a screen and keyboard in a small patrol car where the installation did not interfere with radios, lighting/siren controls, vehicle controls, seatbelts, and airbag trajectories, (a problem as airbags become more numerous)

Most would, but the troopers have been driving around in 2-wheel drive TAHOES that nobody (except a bean counter) would buy.

To give this topic a few more thoughts: 1. If I had a neighbor with a few cars on his driveway, I can't consider them part of my fleet or count on them to get me to work, etc, . My ride is my responsibility. It is possible that Millwood neither seeks nor needs added territory or additional calls and is quite content to let Yorktown FD cover their own calls in the area. I don't know if the voters in Yorktown somehow thought that Millwood assets should be considered their's. 2. It is also not unlikely that most of the voters were ignorant of the fact that a tanker operation usually requires several tankers, and that having theirs relatively pre-positioned would be a good idea. 3. I believe there are no hydrants in Yorktown south of the reservoir, west of Route 100. This includes the Kitchiwan area and the Teatown area. I'm not sure about the area east of 100 that borders Mt Kisco's district. (and I don't know which department has that Yeshiva in that area.) Put a tanker in the neighborhood! 4. An earlier post might have quoted 6 miles as the distance between current and proposed fire stations. I think it would be a fair estimate to point out that the tanker travelling that distance would spend the first half of the ride going through the hydranted areas. 4a. For those who don't know - and might want to start a separate thread - the Taconic Parkway may temporarily cease to be a viable option for north/south travel for YFD, as the northbound parkway bridge over the reservoir must be replaced. Removal is supposed to start this spring. The southbound bridge, which is inconveniently about 500 yards away, will be forced to carry 4 lanes of traffic for the duration of the project and the detour or crossover zone goes from Pinesbridge Rd in New Castle (Millwood's district) almost to Underhill Road. There are few points where the reservoir can be crossed, and this messes up 2. The Croton Dam in Cortlandt Manor outside Croton may remain closed to traffic, The parkway - with lanes as narrow as 9 feet in 2 places - may be a nightmare, the bridge near the ?Hunterbrook? pump station is too lightweight, and you have to wonder how bad traffic will be on Route 100. 5. YFD probably has considered that department emergency vehicles - including those enroute to the scene- may have to be used to transport a tanker driver from one firehouse to another.

heyyyyyyyyyyy I don't blame anybody for being lost in the area of the TMC. when you're southbound on the Taconic and approach the split, 2 different signs seem to indicate that you're getting on the bronx river parkway. There is a sign (very popular with vandals, thieves, spinning cars, and/or overzealous DOT lawnmowers) that is occasionally displayed in the first half mile or so indicating that you are still on the TSP after following the signs for the BRP. A further source of confusion occurs because the sprain brook and the Bronx river parkways eventually do interchange - in Yonkers. The DOT has a history of misleading signs; a number of years ago they were written up in the paper for some crazy mileage quotes. Did you ever go east on route 35 from route 100 and try to follow the very large sign telling you that your second left turn takes you to 684 north? try taking that second left.... Now that I mentioned route 35 (in somers?) I recall an incident a few years ago where a 60 control dispatcher had a different name for that road that they are required to use. I like 60-control dispatchers, for about the first 90 seconds of a telephone call. their required list of questions gets a little annoying. I have a friend that worked at the TMC who is competent, able to communicate, and has good local knowledge.(possibly the only such person) I enjoy telling this person some of the funnier episodes from dealing with them, like when they were trying to tell me that a call was in my jurisdiction because their caller thought so ( I kept transferring it back to TMC, they kept trying to give it back)even though it was miles away. I suggested that they could try calling their state senator or assemblyman to explain their uh, joy. I also enjoyed having to tell a TMC dispatcher that a traffic circle is round....... I was speculating once about what their personnel problem stemmed from, and it was confirmed to me that the following scenario is not too far off: A welfare momma in ?Queens? comes across a job announcement for a state job. minimal qualifications, maybe a test? they apply and get the job.Great! One more taxpayer. They end up getting assigned to ?Manage Transportation?! at the TMC in hawthorne, despite having no local knowledge,no polce experience, no car, no driving experience or license, and they take trains and buses (which don't use the parkway system) to get to work. I can also relate to the comments about mile markers, but I had a bad experience a few weeks ago. I was driving west on route 119 leaving white plains and entering Greenburgh and got on the ramp from 119 to 287, west. A car in front of me suddenly veered into the curb as the front suspension of the car collapsed as one or more of those "arms" things broke -pittman, idler, rocker? The female operator then had one of her young children get out of the car to look at the front end. Knowing that the "service by permit only" sign 200 yards back was going to make this a Thruway problem, I called TMC to get connected to nysp troop t. I reached a dispatcher for troop T who apparently did not know where the above location was, had never heard of white plains or greenburgh, refused to acknowledge that she might have access to a map, refused to dispatch anybody to help and refused to believe that there are no mile posts on the exit or entrance ramp. she refused to state where she was, which was a topic that came up when i pointed out that these were state highways in new york and I thought I had called a new york agency. you can only hand some people so much.....

if you are listening to the tape, i can decode some of the portable numbers there used to be 10 engines 1 to 11 with no # 3. the officer from the engine has a 3 digit radio id starting with a 1. 101 is engine 1's officer. there used to be 4 ladders. the ladder officers radio id is 20_. there used to be 3 paramedic rescues,, non transporting, {just like johnny and roy} housed with engine companies. their portables start with a 3. the heavy rescue, which ran a lot including all working fires, is probably what is heard as rescue 1 with a portable starting with a 4. when i left albany years ago there was a firehouse on delaware ave (cross st referred to for this fire) which housed engine 9, rescue 9, and ladder 4. these were probably first due. obviously things have changed in regard to battalion chiefs; they used to staff bat 1 and bat 2. there was also an in-the-rounds driver for the one deputy chief who would be called out for all 2-baggers. in the days before cell phones the driver was still supposed to know where to find the deputy, on or off duty.