Quickness

http://www.local786.org/8-1-16 Vol Letter to BOR.pdf

Unfair to characterize all the officers of PCFD. Many were kept in the dark about this.

8 hours ago, Chkpoint said:

The 2nd assistant Rye chief is a 5 year member 22 years old.  And has never been in a fire.  

Definitely not the first Westchester Chief at that age with that level of experience.

Greenwich fire departments are volunteer supplemented with career members.

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Here is my problem. I have an issue with people chastising firemen out there whose helmets look like they've gone into "the throat of a dragon" and back. I've seen memes about this and I’ve even had people approach me about it. I was scrolling through Facebook recently and there's this photo of a burnt up helmet above some firefighters carrying a casket. It reads, "If you are OK with this, then you better accept this when you die of cancer.” COME ON. Really?

http://uniformstories.com/articles/opinion-category/your-salty-lid-will-not-give-you-cancer

It would rarely be used. Waste of money.

The turnout gear and PPE manufacturers are sure making a lot of money scaring people about cancer!

Lighten up. It's funny.

So after EVERY type of fire you're supposed to wash your turnout gear, take a shower, wash your uniform, and do all that stuff. Some departments are too busy for that and firehouses not set up for that. Can't even go get a cup of coffee after a run without having to perform a big decon operation on yourself first.

It was only for an EDP, not a medical emergency. That can wait shouldn't be going by ambulance anyway.

And the title shouldn't read Sleepy Hollow refusing mutual aid if it was only one call and they didn't refuse anything.

You'd have to redesign firehouses to be able to do all that.

Relax. He's not going to get cancer or anything else from a few whiffs.

Is this legal?

Question: Is a "dual response" considered "mutual aid"?

Dual response is not mutual aid.

In an ideal world everybody wears their mask. In the real world these guys are working from the outside so you're going to suck smoke. Can't wear a mask all the time. Good job knocking it down with a can.

Can the employer legally ask for the money back if it's their mistake, or is it the employee's responsibility to report it?

I like this concept

Yonkers FD just announced over the air that a Signal 51 is in effect for today. My Google search shows "AFI Cancelled" but what does that mean?

This was from the original LoHud article. Do they have a separate fire company that handles fundraising and social functions, or is that included in the department?

The brick-faced department headquarters, which was built and opened in 2007, stands at the corner of Route 6 and Croton Falls Road and is the site of its annual carnival over two weeks each July. The town of Carmel, which funded the department with $2 million in property tax revenues in 2015, also rents the department’s upstairs meeting room for $175 a week for its senior citizens recreation program.

The department owes $4 million on tax-exempt bonds used to finance the new firehouse which, published reports said, cost about $6 million, according to its most recent 990 filing with the Internal Revenue Service.

The 2013 report states that the department’s $2.2 million in expenses exceeded revenues by $282,000. The department had $509,000 in savings and temporary cash investments, as well as undisclosed amounts in “financial derivatives” and “closely-held equity interests."

Among the expenses were $382,000 for repairs and maintenance; $237,000 for equipment and gear; $90,000 for insurance, and $831,000 for depreciation, depletion and amortization.

Departmental spending also included $77,000 for parades, $22,000 for its annual installation dinner and inspection events, and $10,000 for college scholarships for the children of members.

Its fundraising efforts brought in gross receipts of $167,000 from the annual fair, and $30,000 for its car raffle, but fundraising costs were $145,000, the report said.

Government support — and department spending - has almost tripled since 2003, additional reports show. But cash on hand has dropped 61 percent — from $1.3 million to $509,000.

But we don't share turnout gear, helmets, hoods, gloves, etc. The mask is fitted to us, so why is it any different then the rest of the PPE?

My department still shares masks and keeps them on the trucks. Wasn't there an OSHA or NFPA directive at some point that everyone was to be issued their own mask? Isn't it better that way?

Are they keeping the 2009 Sutphen 100' MM Tower as well?

Does TMFD assume the liability from LFD when this situation happens?

No loss to me... this bullshit means nothing to me...your move!

Obviously it does mean something to you or you wouldn't be getting so worked up over it.

I had heard that other departments they were letting use the facility weren't leaving it as they found it, things like causing damage by improperly using the structure and not reporting it.