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The following is from the fire inquestion as written up on Kentlands website www.kentland33.com "FIRE SHOWING FROM LANDOVER HILLS HOUSE 2/13/2006 - At 0030 hours, Engine 334, Tower Ladder 33 and Chief 33 (Mattison) were dispatched to 6908 Standish Drive, in Landover Hills, for the house on fire. Initially, calls were flooding into the Prince Georges County 9-1-1 center, reporting that the kitchen was on fire at the above address. First arriving Engine 302 found fire showing from all windows on the first floor, side "B". Engine 334, with five volunteers, arrived, secured the water supply for Engine 302 and stretched a pre-connected back-up line. Once the Tower Ladder arrived with another five volunteers, they quickly went to work, performing a systematic search of the fire floor and floor above. After the main body of fire was knocked down, the Tower Ladder crew opened-up, secured utilities and performed a secondary search of the entire home. It is believed that the fire started due to unattended candles left in the kitchen area (due to a large power outage in the area). No civilian injuries were reported. One firefighter recieved minor burns to his wrist. Kentland Volunteers returned to service just before 0300 hours. Some of the volunteers still had not had solid sleep for almost 48 hours. "

He was also in Con Air, not with Sandler... With Sandler he appeared in Big DaDDy, Mr Deeds,

you all forget this site has grown from ZERO members to what it has now. this site is EMTBRAVO created, run and paid for by EMTBRAVO so there for he has every rite to make rules and inforce the rules of the board. Secondly this site was created as a learning tool to share information witjh our fellow brothers and sisters in the emergency services field. This site is about meeting people in our lines of work and trying to learn form each other as well as discuss new ideas and share Factual information about current events such as fires or MVA's and so on.

December 14th 1975 is the correct date and it is the dalewood shopping center hartsdale ladder 47 is just to the right of the yonkers tower ladder. Also those replys about that fire being arson are correct and the fire originated in Perriello's pizza having been started by the owner and an accomplice. i have more photos and some of the news paper articles from this fire if any one is interesed.

Date:2/4/06 Time:2210 Location: 5 Hilltop Drive / cross of Granite Springs Rd Frequency: 46.26, fire ground 1 Units Operating: Somers FD 2441 IC,Somers - E180, E181, E185, E188, L18, R20, 80B2, 80B3, Yorktown FAST 2532,2537,2538, E-270, YHFD E-273 Water Supply, Croton Falls E-148, 2071 ( Water Supply Officer), C&O 1404 (Zone4) Greenville Fd Car 2159 (K-9),Yorktown Water Dept. New York State Police, Katonah-Bedford Hills VAC, Yorktown VAC Description Of Incident: Working Fire Residential Structure,2 story wood frame heavy fire showing on the #1 floor upon Car 2441's arrival, 2 FF injuries. CMD reports heavy fire floors 1 and 2 Writer: HFD23, DADAY,BFD1075 2218HRS- C&O zone 4- 10-1 fire control for response 2225HRS Croton Falls Eng-148 to standby Somers-Lincolndale Fire House 2235HRS- YHFD 2532 requests 2531 contact him ASAP, 60 contol requesting 2531 10-1 asap, 2532 also requesting 1 Eng to standby YHFD 2238HRS YHFD dispatched to 2828 Mead Street cross of Green Lane on a outside smoke condition. (Smoke From Somers 10-75 per 2531 cancel Mohegan FD) 2244HRS- Batt 13 requesting CFFD E-148 to respond to scene locate hydrant on corner of mullen and hilltop and lay in to scene. also additional Engine to stand by somers. 2248HRS- 2071 CFFD 10-17 to 5 Hilltop 2249HRS- Goldens Bridge 1 Eng to Somers Lincolndale Fire House 2301HRS- Batt 13 requestin YHFD Eng 273 to scene to complete layin from mullen, pick up E-148's line. Companys attempting to hand stretch from E-184 to E148's incomplete supply line. 2310HRS YHFD E-273 laying out from Mullen, 2307HRS- CFFD 2071 10-19 ( Water Supply Officer), -.

Date:2/3/06 Time: 1255 Location: SMRP SB on the Ramp to the Sprain Brook PKWY Frequency: 46.26, And WCPD Freq Units Operating: THornwood FD 2471, E-290, R-75, Hawthorne E-155 and Ambulance, Pleasantville VAC, WCPD mutiple cars Description Of Incident: MVA with ejection, WCPD on reporting 1 ejected drifting in and out of consciousness request rush on the bus and accident investigation team, ramp from SMPR SB to Sprain Shut down. Writer: HFD23

Date:1/24/06 Time:approx 2015hrs Location: 1800 central park ave. Frequency: 46.50 Units Operating: E-314,Sqd- 311,E-312,E-310,E-307?, L-70,TL-75, Res1,BATT2, empress. Description Of Incident: working fire in a strip of stores, 2 lines stretched and operatiing, Both trucks to the roof, In coming engines took 3 separte hydrants. Fire under control 2043 Writer: HFD23

basic firefighter and intermediate firefighter are the old state classes that have been combined with hazmatt 1st responder and WMD awarness to make up the new Firefighter one progam and as stated above. the state requires FF1 to be a volunteer interior firefighter, how ever some departments require more.

There is one under the top 10 incidents on the main page

Its definetly a great 14 weeks, its not easy and you only get out of it how much your willing to put into it. Learn from it. Do the running, get in shape now before you get there. Weather is no excuse. We ran in the rain, and did PT indoors. Its not a cake walk. and shouldn't be. I am definetly glad about the instructors enthusiasm. It makes the academy that much better and you will thank them for that one day down the road when all your hard work training and studying pays off. So, yes, be excited and get ready it marks the start of years and years of service. .

yonkers runs their own probie class, rumor has it they will be hiring 40 FF's in the near future

i heard scarsdale is getting 2 more, M2theax can probably confirm that.

Date:1/4/06 Time:2100 Location: 12 north high street / Mount Vernon Ave Frequency:154.145 Units Operating: All FDMV Description Of Incident: Original call reporting mattress fire, fire on 3rd floor with fire into exposure Writer: HFD 23, Demps 121, 2128HRS- main body kocked down P/w/h 2159HRS- under contol

lol 211 is now 23 thats it...

Ya me to even though i see you every day, thank god some day we are at different stations..lol Central Avenue Express...

Tl-15 Hartsdale FD 1995 FWD/Baker-Aerialscope

Well Brothers I can't believe its over, it went so fast, yet we all couldn't wait till the next step, weither it be CPAT or National Exams or Graduation Day. I guess this week starts the rest of our Careers and I am so happy that many of you work for local departments so we will be seeing allot of each other I am sure. To those of you up north or on the Island keep in touch and we will be sure to visit. We came in 37 strangers and leave as brothers that brother hood will always be carried on and off the job just as last nights mini reunion lets keep those meetings regular. We will always remember the hard work, hard times and all that we been through and lets never for get the nicknames or jokes we played on each other it only made us stronger. As our instructors told us were only as strong as our weakest link and I don’t think that there was one among these we all excelled and I know we all will continue to learn from each other. Captain, and Lt. VV we learned a lot from you both and we all will always remember where we got our start. I wish you two both the best of luck and thank you for all the knowledge and the memories along the way. 2-4

correct me if i am wrong but wasnt that yonkers race way drill dealing with USAR and indepth tech rescue? how many volunteer depts even have TECH teams or enuff firefighters that are trained to a level that these carreer Firefighters that took part in these drill are? i think even beyond the different scheduals and availablities of vollies and career FF"s the underlying element is the difference in the level of training and i am in no way saying that volunteer FF's are not good FF"S but bottom like is they haven't been trough the academy and then any other specialized classes the CAreer FF"s have been through.... whats the bottom line the difference in training so keep training and learning it may save your life

I personally think that the standards need to be raised and maybe FFI is the start at 78 hours but I thing new York state should require certain progression within a period of time form FFI to then in lets say 1 year complete Survival and Fast training, Then the next 6 months truck ops and so on this way it helps to meet the schedule of volunteers the key is making everything accessible to all being that they are giving up their time freely to provide this service to their community and the need for higher standards is in no way meant to drive off volunteers by making the standards to hard, but lets face it firefighting isn’t a game we loose over 100 FF's a year .. 104 to date as of 2050hrs December 6th... unacceptable and its the lack of training and lack of physically fitness that is killing our brothers.... so yeas the standards need to be raised maybe something that slow progress and just sets a broad time line that a volunteer firefighter must contain to achieve in order to keep they furthering training and not just doing the minimum... which is basic at best...

honestly captain I know that Greenville volunteers used to have to basically recertify yearly usually in June or July I haven’t; heard or seen it as much lately but I remember doing burn building evolutions at the FTC as well as them doing rig quiz’s.. Correct me if I am wrong... But I was always interested in trying to developed some sort of recertification test both written n hands on, maybe 50 MC questions and then practical evolutions with scales to be rated on these could be as basic as ground ladder placement, hose stretching, search n rescue, fire attack rook work. And on up maybe rate them based on time, how accurate the search was the whole area covered? victim found, radio communications and so on maybe 10 stations 10 points each or even 5 stations 20 points each and let each Firefighter or team of 2 be rated in order to be recertified each year and maybe upon completion of FFI... I would think officers could also be tested the same in a drill situation based on how well he or she maintains a command post, frequent PAR's.. assigned tasks, used the ICS system, expanded the system as M/A rolled in and the overall out come of the fire and all assigned tasks, seems complicated but I just though it would be a interesting test for all firefighters especially volunteers who will be going to combination depts. and working with career FF:"s who have gone through he academy and this could be a good test to see where a dept as a whole lacks points if its a certain event and also certain FF's weaknesses will be exposed and thus they can be worked on. any opinions

OK here is my best advice about taking the westchester county fire test if you take the test and are "LUCKY ENUFF" to score a high enuff grade to be offered a job YOU TAKE it no MATTER where, this is a extremely hard job to get so many people in westchester want to be career FF's... and no matter if your dept that may hire you has 1 career FF on a rig on 6 the fact is that all of those career FF"s went through the same 229 hours minimum and 14 weeks at the career achademy. Also once your on the job there are always options to transfer form one dept to another.

Kittles is a P.F.F. from FDMV, also a medic, most of his class mates call him Skittles which has stuck and basicly Mr. skittles likes to yell out "has anybody seen Timmy" so its kind of a class joke has anybody seen skittles... this is just one of the many interesting inside jokes and nicknames that this class has for one another.

lunchbox, i hope you know who you are, now lets see if every one else figures out who you are...lol

i personal have gone through plenty of these, they break, but they are cheap, they never get hung up on anything like most of those othe rlights that have clips and straps to mount on your helmet and most of all aside form the light provided in the dirrection your looking just by turning your head they are great to see your partner or fellow FF"s. espically when the other members of your crew have them you can look for that light in the haze. but most of all cheap thus who cares if you lose them or break them, but sure bet you will care if you break or drop or melt one of those 52 dollar ones.

i know who it is Capt... Lets say he is form a Dept who provided lunch on a live burn day....