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    Canvass letters are used to judge interest of reachable candidates by departments.  You can still receive correspondence from S.F.D. along with other departments if they are hiring. More than one department at a time can canvass and interview a reachable candidate simultaneously. Not sure if there is an expiration date on a canvass letter. 

     

    Keep your resume current , a suit pressed and not ill fitting, and a positive attitude.     

     

    Besides rumor and hearsay, no one with direct knowledge is going to post here if a particular department is hiring.  

     

    Best of luck. 

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    48 minutes ago, FF1 said:

     

    I will agree. They definitely provided the properly trained personnel and resources. no arguments here, but again, those trained firefighters and resources are there to protect the residents and visitors of the Hartsdale Fire District, because fire prevention, fire suppression, technical rescue, emergency medical first response and hazardous materials mitigation are basic facets of any fire department.

     

    Yorktown Heights has a duty to their community to be able to provide those essential services when any given incident should occur. If Yorktown Heights or any other fire department (paid, volunteer or career) cannot provide those basic services to their communities, 100% of the time, with properly trained firefighters, then why should they even exist?

     

    The way I see it, YHFD responded to this incident, realized that they couldn't handle it and called for a department that could. 

     

    Does this seem a bit broken to you?

     

    Does it seem a bit broken?  Yes. 

     

    My comments to your post was simply that the HFD coverage to its own district was most likely adequate when E170 was at the YHFD job and that the monetary issues will probably get recouped or is budgeted for.

     

    I thought the IC on this particular incident utilized what he knew and used it.  

    What he did was perhaps unorthodox or unusual but accomplished the task at hand.  He obviously felt more comfortable utilizing HFD E170 than County HazMat.  

     

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    4 hours ago, FF1 said:

    I do not live in the Hartsdale Fire District, but if I did, I would be up in arms about this. You pull an engine from service with a crew of firefighters, leaving the district less protected, by 1 engine company and 2-4 firefighters.

     

    There is absolutely no reason for this to happen. 

     

    A HFD captain happens to be the voli assistant chief in Yorktown who requested this department specifically to the scene.

     

    If my taxes were paying for a HFD rig to travel to Yorktown with firefighters, I would not be happy.

     

    -Fuel costs

    -OT costs to backfill

    -Reduced fire protection to the district, until backfill personnel arrives.......

     

    Wrong on several different levels. 

     

    Im sure HFD will either recoup the cost involved from YHFD or will absorb the costs as part of its budgeted mutual aid expenditures. 

     

    My understanding is that the HFD has a proactive automatic/ mutual aid plan in place with several of its neighbor fire districts/ departments. Im sure it's fire protection was not reduced.

     

    3 hours ago, FF1 said:

    especially when the county has a HAZMAT team and resources sitting at DES with the special ops chief on call.

     

    The HFD Capt /YHFD I.C. knew what resourses he needed to mitigate the situation and got them to the incident in a timely manner.

     

     Perhaps unusual but effective.

     

     

     

     

     

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    Having inspection stations enforce this law will mean nothing. 

     

    This is what will happen. 

     

     Before the yearly inspection is due,  bring the car to the window tint shop to take off the dark tint from the front windows for a small fee ( $20-$25 per window).  

     

    The vehicle will be in compliance and pass inspection with clean front windows. 

     

    Go back to window tint shop after the inspection and put the dark tinting back on ( Approx $100 for both windows ).  Repeat this every year.  A total cost of .50 cents per day.  It may even be a lucrative law for window tint shops.  

     

    I'm sorry but the government is trying to do something well intentioned but not thinking it through.   

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    7 hours ago, GBFD111 said:

    He is not referring to the article. If you look at the "comment" section there is an individual who wrote this,

     

    "The joke is the fact that these hobbyist hero volunteers didn't find him as soon as they got there. The story was changed to say after the fire was out he was discovered. Make sure your smoke detectors work constantly! Put one in every room, heck, put two!" 

     

    Who has the audacity to say this crap... Hobbyist volunteers? 

     

    Thanks GBFD111.  That's exactly what I was referring to.  I thought the comment was real harsh and was wondering what influenced the comment.  Seemed that maybe a health issue was involved or a lack of working smoke detectors and not something that the FD did or did not do led to this tragedy.  My posting this article and pointing out the comment was to start conversation on the subject and maybe that some extenuating facts left out by the Journal news happened.  Certainly not trying to validate the comment in lohud.  

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    Although denied in the Lohud article, this consolidation rhetoric seems like retribution by the Carmel Board to punish the C.P.D. on failed contract negotiations and going through binding arbitration.

    A quick question. If a countywide police force will be writing and issuing summonses, who will be collecting revenue and benefiting from these judicial decisions? Obviously, the local Municipalities would receive some revenue if done in local courts, but the county should receive a larger proportion of the revenue. Wouldn't this diminish funding be another financial burden on the local Government?

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    I my only be 63 yrs yong but i am still an interior firefighter and on my job i work with a couple of men already in thier seventies todays sixty is yesterdays fifty

    That's may be good on your "job", but in the career FD service, with the exception of some high ranking officers with state given exemptions, there is a thing called MANDATORY RETIREMENT AGE. You are forced to retire at a given age and have no say in the matter. You can be in the best shape of your life, doesn't matter, you must leave.

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    It seems to me that it could actually be more cost effective to hire someone older, as long as they passed all the various tests. They would likely spend less years at top pay before retiring, and might not have as much time vested in the pension when they do retire. Some might not even be maxed out as most who are hired at young ages will be.

    Where I work as a Dispatcher (I started at 19) I will max out on my pensions contributions before I am old enough to retire. Of the people who have retired so far, none of them were maxed out, as they were all hired at a higher age than I was. Granted we are not talking about the same risk of physical injury, but each of our retired dispatchers has essentially cost the city less than I have.

    You make a valid point but what good return does a fire dept have spending tons of money and time training a ff who is going to leave in less than 20 years and in this case, 15 years? Plus ffs with 15 plus years on the job have valuable experience and are an essential asset to the health of a FD organization.

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    Unless I read it wrong, the individual and the Dept. settled.

    Nobody prevailed in court and nobody won the case.

    Both parties agreed on a dollar amount. It was probably less than the individual wanted and less than the district could have lost.

    Yes, a lot of people resort to lawsuits when not hired and many of them are essentially baseless since the reason they failed or got passed over is predominantly their own fault rather than some nefarious reason to exclude them.

    In this situation, a lawsuit was clearly warranted since the person hired wasn't within the normal selection range for civil service testing and there was the possibility that age was a factor for this guy getting passed over.

    Since, he prevailed in court and it was determined that age was a factor, the lawsuit was certainly an appropriate course.

  21. Posted

    That's a fair point that tax paying residents should be given a preference. But then shouldn't these districts implement a residency policy during employment? If a kid grows up in his parents house, gets hired and buys a house up in Dutchess the day he graduates the academy how were tax payers helped at all? And why is it a complete preference to residents, NYC residency is only worth 5 points?

    Personally if I were a commissioner I'd rather hire off the open list simply for the quality of candidates. I'd rather be protected by (and work with) someone from the top of the list than someone who barely passed the written.

    If a person wants a job within a community that has residency requirements, move to the community in question.

  22. Posted

    I think it just stinks that a person who lives in a community that does not have a paid force has much less opportunity to get "on the job". Fair? Not! System needs to change so everyone has "equal opportunity".

    Some communities feel that "local boys and girls" have intimate knowledge of the community and thus will be a more effective firefighter. Not all communities feel this way but a majority do.