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  7. Posted

    I was just thinking of something last night when starting a class.

    If you're a janitor, mechanic, light fixture, or whatever other title they pay you less then what you should be getting paid for what you actually are doing....

    if you take a fire training class and you fill out your orange card...under the section where is has a box for "volunteer firefighter" what do you do? You really aren't a volunteer...but you're not a career firefighter either....hmmmmm.

    Do you cross it out and put "janitor" or "mechanic" or light fixture or whatever else your title is? Or do you right in there...I just hope I don't hurt and killed because my family will only get the bare minimum basic of benefits for what I actually am doing.

    I like that alsFF :lol:

  8. Posted

    ALS, I believe that departments that employ less than 5 career members do not need to send firefighters to the academy for the 229 certificate, thus they wouldn't need the CPAT (a requirement for the 229), and would only have to meet requirements for the job title via civil service.

    That is correct (under GML-209-x and 426) but will limit a transfer to a larger Department if they wanted to. Pleasant Valley falls under the limit but does the right thing and sends them to the 229.

  10. Posted

    Arlington Fire District

    Alarm Date between {01/01/2007} and {12/31/2007}

    Type of Alarm Report (Summary)

    Count..................Type of Alarm...............................Percent

    1,123...................FIRE............................................21.76%

    3,305...................EMS.............................................64.04%

    287......................FIRE/EMS.....................................5.56%

    371......................Service-Fire.................................7.19%

    24........................Service-EMS................................0.47%

    51........................Carbon Monoxide Activation..........0.99%

    Total Incident Count: 5,161

  11. Posted

    I know a concern was brought about by the NYS Department of Labor in Long Island (go figure). If the janator, admin or what ever they are called, has to respond, mandated, they are not a volunteer firefighter. New York only has two, Paid and volunteer and they meet different standards. If paid, the Department must comply with all the applicable standards. Retirement, 207-a, Part 426, Etc. This will catch up with departments and bite them if the choose to ignore and operate this way.

  14. Posted

    Ok, now, think about this. It's a question for one of our LE members to answer. Ya know when Mommy or Daddy are driving drunk, they are often times hit with an additional charge of endangering the welfare of a minor. Well when some Richard Noggen type gets charged with arson, how about reckless endangerment? He is not only placing the lives of the responders in jeopardy, but also the public they encounter on the road, and there's a good chance, especially with a dumpster, of creating a hazzardous atmosphere around it.

    Just an idea, any LEOs care to comment on the feasability of something like this?

    The only conviction that disqualifies you to be a firefighter is arson. A sealed record is sealed and can only be opened by court order. When doing the arson check, there will not be any record to find from the PD who is doing it. How do you black list someone? What if he moved out of the area.

    Reckless endangerment may not be an arbitrary disqualification.

  15. Posted

    As in any organization, there are a few that do give them a black eye. It is unfortunate that we can only seek an arson conviction but even doing more may not always catch problems. This does strain any organization. As all, we need qualified volunteers and strive to get them. This will not cease our commitment to find and train any qualified volunteer willing to help.

    Thanks to numerous caring and dedicated individuals, both career and volunteer in our organization, we were able to nip this quickly.

    BTW the 16 year old if convicted of arson will probably have a sealed record so even an arson conviction will not show in the check.

    Jeffrey S. Pells

    Deputy Chief

    Arlington FD

    “Omnis Cedo Domus”

  18. Posted

    Check NYS General Municipal Law 209-i for reference to both arriving and assisting and "day timers".

    As stated, there is a provision in Town law that specifically prohibits being a volunteer member to more than one company.

    This is not allowed intra state unless there is a specific agreement between those intra state departments.

  19. Posted

    Not sure why the call of nothing showing other then a habit slip but adding info about the building on EMS calls can assist in why it may have taken a while to get to the patient. Calling on scene and not getting to the patient in several more minutes due to being on the 10th floor and using elevators (which is time consuming) may explain delays in treatment and extended on scene times which are tracked by organizations through QA/QI. Not sure if Auburn transports or just a FR so it may be for different reasons.

  23. Posted

    Everything we do is driven by the legal system. If the employer has to offer, then they need to show proof that someone refused. Bad system(??) but we need to work with it.

    As stated prior, yes it is a requirment by OSHA. The determination on firefighters needs to be done on anticipated duties (from OSHA - Occupational Exposure means reasonably anticipated skin, eye, mucous membrane, or parenteral contact with blood or other potentially infectious materials that may result from the performance of an employee's duties.)

    Remember that we are covered in NYS by NYS Department of Labor (PESH) so questions should be directed there. 518-972-1789

    OSHA 1920.1030 cut and paste

    http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.sh...ARDS&p_id=10051

  25. Posted

    Later this year or early next year, Dutchess County, NY will be eliminating the 36.46 simulcast and exclusively use UHF. I am looking at different in house and portable paging for our members. Currently we have old Plectrons which need to be replaced and Motorola Minitor II. Have you had good luck with other types? Would appreciate list of costs and vendors.

    We do have Minitor IV and V but looking for other options.