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Tommy pretty much nailed it. However, the CO renovations/consolodations are not the brightest idea out there. The plan is to have FDNY Fire and NYPD dispatching out of one building. They are prepping 11 Metrotech to take in 3 of the 5 boroughs. BAD MOVE!!!! Just paint a big F'ing bullseye on the side of the building, not to mention the parking problems. The Queens CO is being renovated right now, and apparently is running just about on schedule. The Bronx CO renovations started about a month ago. I would much rather see all the FDNY CO's renovated, and EMS moving in with us and we dispatch alongside each other. As long as they play by the house rules. The idea of a PSAP(Public Service Answering Point) is Bloombergs big idea and it is detrimental to current FDNY operations. When we get a call from the public reporting a fire/emergency, if there is a question about it, such as a vague description of the problem, I can yell over to the call taker and find out what is going on. Can't do that with this PSAP plan. As for the idea of one stop shopping, looks good on paper, but I personally don't think it will work. Example: I worked in Manhattan from 1998-2002. I got a call from a 911 dispatcher reporting a fire on the subway at 61 Street and Roosevelt Drive in Manhattan. The calltaker at 911 didn't realize it was actually the 7 train at 61 Street and Roosevelt AVENUE in Queens, and she was actually got snippy with me when I told her there was no Subway at 61st Street and the FDR Drive.(I think I threw in a snide remark about getting out a little more) The call center is in one spot, and the actual area where the units are dispatched is somewhere else. The running mentality of the bean counters is that other cities do it with no problems, but how many other cities handle the call volume that we do and are as big of a target as NYC??? I don't see much else happening until FDNY gets a CADS for fire that is an improvement on a system that was developed when I was in diapers.

Go East Young Man!!! Start out with NYPD or PAPD, and then head over to Nassau or Suffolk. The pay is phenomenal.

By any chance did that FAJ photographer catch that job in Hackensack this morning??

E-329 is in the Breezy Point section of the Rockaways. Very isolated area. E-70/TL 53 are on City Island. They cannot leave the Island unless on Building Inspection or going to traning. They must be filled if they are going out of service at all times.

Engine 329 and the Manifold Hose Wagon. Lucky if they see 5 runs a week. Engine 70/TL-53 About the same.

At least on the first due Engine, First Due Truck(if you have one) and one for at least each chief.

Thank you.

You would have thought the FDNY would have learned after the E-One Demo rig back in the mid 90's.

Can you also investigate that annoying music, and praytell find a way to make it STOP!!!!! Thank you kindly!!!

It'll be a spare, but watch how soon it gets put into front line service once one of those E-Ones break down again.

Nothing good can come of this. I have friends who are gay, and even they say these gentlemen give gay men a bad name.

I remember when I was like 15 or 16, and in the Explorers. I was in the Mc Donalds in Carmel and I smelled propane. I told the kid behind the counter and he did nothing. I left and 5 minutes later, CFD was pulling up. I saw the kid at school a few days later, and said, next time someone tells you they smell gas, believe them.

I think there should be a memorial there. As for what's built there, difficult for me to say. Especially with all the emotions surrounding it.

God bless and get ready for the teen years!!!!

Great site run by a great SUPERVISING FDNY Dispatcher.

In some cases, over a month.Why aren't the LA County Pix up??

HELL YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, ok. Just keep telling yourself that.

No, I got you.

I've been out of the Coast Guard for nearly ten years. This was when units were being shut down/combined/downsized. They're out there. It's also tough, I would presume, when you have a military service with less people in it than the NYPD.

Not to step on any toes here, but how is this different from posting pictures of fires, be they fatal or not?? Reason I ask is because a friend of mine is a photographer/videographer out in CA and he's been getting the same kind of feedback. If it is done with taste, IE No limbs hanging out of a wreck or guts splattered across the Taconic, I don't see any problem with posting pictures. Maybe I'm not getting it.

Simple answer..Money. They have patrol boats that do MLE(Maritime Law Enforcement) that are homeported around the area. You don't see them because they aren't patrolling the Hudson very often. The utility/rescue boats are stationed in the areas I gave in the other thread. Most of the time the cutters used for primarily Law enforcement are off shore and are doing boardings, etc.

They were there, Tbendick has photos of them on his site.

They have a boat for LI Sound that's moored up at Kings Point, LI. As for Hudson River assets, the closest boats are coming out of SI, and a bunch of cutters(Harbor tugs and Buoy Tenders) out of Bayonne. It's one of those situations where the local police/fire departments have enough units in the area to handle quickly. Besides, I don't think they can afford to put anything up there.

There are approximately ten volunteer fire departments inside the city limits. They are separate entities from the FDNY. There are two that are recognized by the City. Those are Richmond Engine and Oceanic FD in SI. They are dispatched by the FDNY. As a matter of fact, any box that is in their response area actually says RVFD or OVFD on the assignment card. (They were there before FDNY) There are 5 in Queens, West Hamilton Beach, which is in between Howard Beach and Kennedy Airport. Broad Channel, in between Howard Beach and Rockaway. Rockaway Point, Point Breeze and Roxbury. All of these communities are isolated and it's a bit of a haul for FDNY companies to get in there. Brooklyn has Gerritsen Beach. The Bronx has Edgewater Park and Aviation. Aviation is best known for getting a bunch of rigs donated to them after Sept. 11th,(a lot of controversy about that, too) and then losing their firehouse(Vacated by 47 Truck and the 6th Division, it was falling down). There are numerous volunteer ambulance corps in the city, they are dispatched by FDNY*EMS as needed to incidents, but only if they have checked in with the EMS Dispatchers that they are crewed and ready. Then you have Hatzoloh, which operates outside of that system. You have hospitals that have their own ambulances and most of them are in the 911 system.(I'm going by memory/presumption here so correct me if I am wrong) The volunteer departments here are not for show. There are times, because of those long responses, that sometimes they are operating before or arrivng simultaneously with FDNY assets. Many of them are all state trained and regularly attend classes out at the Nassau County Fire Academy. Broad Channel, for all the problems they had in the past, actually have a pretty good relationship with the units in the 47 Battalion. Not too sure about the other Rockaway Vollies. West Hamilton Beach is not very well liked by the local fire companies, and they have a serious manpower problem. As for the Volunteer ambulance corps, I was a member of one in the Bronx when I first got on the job, saw close to the same BS that I saw when I was a member of Lake Carmel, and I walked after one meeting.