CAM502

Bring it on baby!!!

I gotta work anyway so might as well make it interesting...besides I love snow it makes me feel like a kid again!!

This could become something akin to the structure in Maryland where the combination departments have both career and volunteer staff working together to insure a timely response. So long as all the personnel are properly trained and equipped, who cares if the apparatus responds with 3 paid FF or 2 paid and 1 volunteer?

The Union's would care!!

Jack...enjoy some relaxing time on the beach for all of us. Congrats.

Wishing a very Happy and Healthy Thanksgiving Day to All!!

First off, I'm not defending any of these probies with criminal pasts. They should've never been hired. Period.

However, I do find it to be a double standard that the moderators came down with an edict stating "no discussion of problems or arrests involving firefighters who were off duty." I believe it was enforced after a firefighter was charged with arson, it may have also come down after another was charged with rape. The thread was quickly shut down, posts erased, etc. Yet here we are, on yet another thread discussing criminal issues and it's left to go on because it "relates to the job." It's a pretty blatant double standard, what's good for one side should be good for the other. I'm just saying, personally I feel it should all be fair game for discussion.

No Raz you got it all wrong bro...it's not that it relates to the job it is that it relates to Mount Vernon...come on what else would people have to talk about :angry:

$$$ ????

I dialed 911 on Route 100 in Somers a few years ago,

Suffolk County PD 911 answered.

Same thing happened to me once....except I was in Rhode Island!!

Caught a LI cell tower across the sound! Couldn't believe it....

We have enough wierd callers in MV....no out of towners please!!

Sorry guys I have been AFK and am a little late here, but as I said to all my Met fan friends who were gloating just last week:

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.....

Now on to Hockey....LET'S GO RANGERS....anyone see them kick butt in Switzerland??

Great some one mentioned White Castle and I'm stuck in fire alarm at Foxwoods and starving!!!!!!

Wait a minute....Izzy you work for the Foxwoods FD? PM me we have to talk comps...lol.

In Pelham they do court/civil stuff. Real easy job...Believe it is a civil service test but not sure. They also help with traffic by glover field.

Just an FYI:

A funnel cloud was spotted coming down over the City of Mt. Vernon. It was seen from the FD Alarm Bureau in City Hall. (from the one window...lol) It never touched the ground but the mircobursts were intense. I wish I wasn't on vacation at the time. The person who saw it is a 25+year veteran who said he never wants to see it again...lol.

Oh and in case you didn't realize I'm voting for McCain...to hell with the union. I'm more concerned with having an America than a union.

That is very true.. he has been FIRMLY against it for almost 3 weeks now. For about 10 years before that, he actually supported many aspects of it. I guess that counts as strongly against as long as you are one of those people who don't let facts get in the way. If you want a list of the over 70 position changes he has had since going from "maverick" to "courting the right wing" you can visit http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/flipflops?t=3 . Of course you won't, but it doesn't make it not true.

SOURCES: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/20...n-reverses.html

http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/John_McC...ivil_Rights.htm

"It doesn't take a great deal of effort to get shot down" - McCain

Guess what moron they have the same partisan BS type of sites for Obama too. How F**king stupid do you have to be to put a site like that up and use it as the backbone of your argument. I bet you are the type of idiot who believes in the 9/11 conspiracies too!! Listen It was Col Mustard in Den with the knife...

RIP Trooper Snow

CAM502, to clarify what you wrote, there does not have to be a hand-off only to a higher medical authority. It has to be an equal, OR higher medical authority.

For example, if you are an EMT-B, from out of the area, and you pull up on an MVA and assist, and another EMT-B from the local department arrives, you CAN transfer care to them.

As far as handing-off to a "higher" medical authority, an EMT-B cannot hand-off to a CFR, but a CFR can hand off to an EMT. Same goes for a medic. A medic cannot hand-off a patient to an EMT-B, unless the medic has declared the patient to not need ALS intervention, in turn making them a BLS patient, therefore, the hand-off to a "lower" medical authority is acceptable.

Yes sir you are correct....

As previously said, in NY YOU DO NOT HAVE TO STOP AND ACT AS AN EMT , MEDIC OR OTHERWISE. If you do stop and intiate patient care you must be relieved by a higher medical authority (IE: EMT hands off to the medic, Medic to a flight nurse or doc, etc...). Locals laws may differ. A town law may say a member of the local VAC must stop if they see something in town. If you are in a marked Emergency vehicle it is a different story.

Now as for this crap about sitting in quarters and still picking and choosing calls....your chief needs to get some....and kick them in the rear.

What no pics?!?!?!?

Hey is the top pay really only $33K? Or is that after one year?

You know when I read this in the Post the other day only one thing came to my mind.....What FREAKIN MORON would let there kid walk around barefoot in a NYC playground?

Here is a pic from their website of their former Chief's vehicle.

Nah i figure it was someone from a dept west of Rombout...down I-84.

Thanks anyway...

Having had the honor to work at The Stadium for a couple of seasons I must say that walking through the maze of tunnels that is under the stands is awe inspiring. You never know what is around the corner. Or who is around the corner. When I first got my job there, they told me to talk a walk around and get a feel for the place. So i'm just wandering and next thing I know I pop out of a tunnel and I am in Center Field. Man what a thrill!!

And it is easy to get lost...that is why if you go back and watch again you will notice a blue line on the floor in some of the shots. The blue line leads to the clubhouse. Yellow went to others offices, and so on...these were put there for the new guys. :-)

Starbucks is the worst coffee shop in the world....

When I go into a place and say "I want a large coffee with cream and sugar" I shouldn't be asked thirty more questions to get my coffee.

Besides Dunkin's coffee just tastes better...

Are you guys for real? Those guys with the carts are just trying to earn a living. They go from parade to parade peddling there wares. You want them to have a permit, fine I can go for that but come on. Not to mention it makes the kids happy which is what the parades are really for....

OH and a ban on silly string is just freakin stupid...let the kids have their fun!

It was deff. a tanish/cream colored pickup without the usual striping.

Quick question for you Dutchess guys. Saw an unmarked pickup truck (beige or cream color) with red lights and sirens go blazing by me, while stopped at a red light right by the I84 Diner in Fishkill. He turned onto I-84 westbound. Pretty sure I saw an FD sticker on the window. This was around midday Sunday...I think . What could this have been? Thanks ahead of time....