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Regardless if their are assigned riding positions or not, and despite whether it is a career or volunteer department, ALL FF's on a responding apparatus should have an assigned postion/duty upon arrival. Too many times have I seen everybody jump off a rig, and go for a nozzle,or Hurst tool, while other tasks are neglected. Not only does this lead to accountability issues, but also leads to a disorganized, chatotic scene. When I used to ride, when we had a good crew, we would determine who did what prior to arrival as time permitted enroute,and based on dispatch information, and then upon 10-84, initiated those tasks. One of the components that went into this decision is the FF's experience, and ideally a inexperienced FF was teamed up with an experienced FF (again, as levels permitted) in order to help the member learn. "Firm" riding positions, or seat assignments, only work well when you have a steady crew, IMO, such as personell assigned to that rig for the day that know each others strengths and weakness', and duties can be pre-determined. Also, for this to be fully effective, you can't ride with 2 or 3 guys, all positions must be filled. I can only imagine the fights that must go into getting the "Nozzle" chair, lol. One barrier to this though, is a rig with a "doghouse" engine. This hinders the ability to plan your attack. This is where the headsets come into play, lol. As for career departments who ride with an engine,truck,rescue concept, with appropriate staffing, I beleive in the riding assignment concept. For volunteer departments, where crews and how the crews arrive may vary greatly for each department, it should be the responsibitly of the officer on board to know his crew and assign duties prior to arrival . Having well trained, experienced, and competent leadership is critical to this concept.

$2.24M needed for firehouse http://www.thejournalnews.com/weekly/03120...312firehou.html

New Rochelle's Old Ladder 13's New Home http://cms.firehouse.com/content/apparatus...il.jsp?id=41715

From the Town Of Greenburgh Capital Budget 2004

Nice! Does Fort Worth run their Quints as Engines, Trucks, or (cringing) both?

I went by Bedford Village Firehouse yesterday, and as beautiful as it is, it is obviously outdated and obsolete. Everything is packed in there. I am curious as well, does anyone in the Bedford area know the status of this project?

How far is it from Westchester about?

Welcome back, Res20cue! Any word on when the new Engine is going to be delivered?

Thanks, everybody! When my NYS reciprocity comes through, lol!

Worcester did, LOL!

oh, boo hoo, whats the temp and weather down there now? Is the pool open yet?

From www.greenwichtime.com

I remember that program, it think it was actually a study. I worked there when it started around '98......I dont know what type of program it was, all I remember right now is John Wood and Dr. Derobertis teaching the class at St. Joes, and the paperwork that went along with a clearance. I didnt get the final results of the study, but I remember some in-progress results as backboarding going up, as DG said. I will see if I can find the training and paperwork on this study when I finally get unpacked.

I could use that $10,000 in many ways. I would use the money for: 1. Purchase of an additonal AED to remain in the firehouse. 2. Make available a personal trainer to Firefighters who want to improve their "cardiac lifestyle" and improve their endurance, or supplement gym memberships. 3. Give an in-house CFR class for all FF's, and bring department equipment up to CFR level. 4. Issue all firefighters small flashlights, door chock, leatherman, rope bag, spanner, window punch, extrication gloves, BSI gloves, and a pocket reference guide I think it's spent for the most part now.

How Could I Forget!!! Ardsley FD Captain Rick Thompson, the official chef of the Ardsley Firehouse!!! His food rocks!!! I know there's many people reading this thread, c'mon, make a reply here and let us know your favorite food in Westchester!!! Share!

IMO, as simple as something may seem, nothing in this line of work is a "no brainer".

I happened upon this idea twice this morning, once on another forum and another website, and I found it to be pretty unique. The idea (as I said before, not mine I picked it up off another site) is called "Tuesday Night Pizza" You get a local pizzeria to donate pizzas (or purchase them if you have to). Between 1700-1900 hours, you either take a pizza thats going out for delivery or randomly deliver a pizza to a random residence on your fire apparatus. The trick is this- If they have working smoke detectors (or carbon monoxide detectors),WITH working batteries, in proper locations, the pizza is free. If they don't, they pay for the pizza and the fire crew installs detectors. Another part of the idea is to get the local hardware store or insurance agent involved to donate the detectors. I think it's a great idea, not only does it promote the use of smoke detectors, but it's great public relations.

Thank you everybody

Still a growing site: http://www.local684.org/

I found this website very interesting. Has tons of information regarding local highways and roads, and even exit lists, history,planning maps, and classic photos of those roads. http://www.nycroads.com

Take a look at this: http://hometown.aol.com/brg86/otherfires.html 1. Did they back up onto the sign, which lifted the car up? If so, that's a darn strong post! 2. Are they using the ESU Bumper to stabilize the front of the vehicle? That's a pretty decent idea, it's not going to roll foward anywhere. Those heavy duty bumpers rock. (That's also a interesting bumper with the siren speakers and I can't tell what else, lol) 3. That's gotta be a pain for a wrecker to get down.

From http://www.theonion.com

**drool** That's my dream camera, lol!