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Isn't most of the weight of the SCBA supposed to sit on your hips instead? I doubt there is a weight or ergonomic difference between Scott and MSA>

ALBANY — A plan by Gov. Cuomo to spend $60 million for police vests and body cameras got plowed under when lawmakers failed to reach a deal on criminal justice reforms, the Daily News has learned.

The money that Cuomo initially planned to spend on vests and cameras for police in high crime areas went instead to pay for new snow plows and a handful of other major expenses, including last summer's manhunt for two escaped murderers and the state's response to a Buffalo snowstorm in 2014, legislative sources said.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/exclusive-60m-cuomo-gear-plan-snow-plows-article-1.2508191

How would you integrate directional labels into the IC structure? And you'd have to teach firefighters how to use a compass I would guess.

Is this a volly house or a career house

I think Eastchester Volunteer Fire Department only exists only on paper now. Used to be a huge volunteer department and that house used to be a volunteer house.

I was being sarcastic about the going from firefighter to Commissioner part.

Well, the new Commissioner will be more in touch with the guys....he's got 12 years on the job and went straight from Firefighterto Commissioner.

New FDMV Union President Resigns & Pleads Guilty to Federal Gun Trafficking Charges

Posted on January 11, 2016 by AJ Woodson in BW News

Mount Vernon — New Mount Vernon Firefighters Union President Henry-George Thomas, who replaced Ernest Richardson as the union leader of Local 107 on Jan. 1, resigned from the job and the department a week later. The older brother of Mayor Richard W. Thomas, Henry-George, plead guilty last week to federal gun trafficking charges.

“It’s a serious matter before the court,” Mayor Thomas shares BW over the phone, Monday night. “When Commissioner Kelly made me aware of the situation, I instructed him to take immediate action.”

Ernest Richardson, the former Local 107 President, was sworn in Monday morning as Deputy Fire Commissioner in the City Council Chambers, after a monthly commissioners meeting. At the swearing-in, the now former union head, wouldn’t comment on the resignation of his successor.

In a statement, new Public Safety Commissioner, Robert Kelly, echoed Thomas comments to BW, “As soon as the mayor became aware of these charges, he directed me to take whatever actions I needed to under the city’s charter. Before we could act, the firefighter in question resigned.”

According to the indictment, Thomas started importing guns from out of the country in 2010 and continued doing so until 2015. Thomas is currently out on bail and awaiting sentencing.

When asked for further details Mayor Thomas simply said, “It’s a personnel matter” and referred me back to Commissioner of Public Safety as it relates to his department.

Public Safety Commissioner Robert “Bob” Kelly, who now heads the Police, Fire and EMS Departments was sworn in, Friday morning in the theater at the Dole Center (250 South Sixth Avenue), along with thirteen new probationary police officers.

While Ernie Richardson was sworn into his new job Monday as Mount Vernon's new fire commissioner, investigators were closing in on the man who replaced him in his former role as president of the firefighters union.

Henry Thomas, who replaced Richardson as the union leader of Local 107 on Jan. 1, resigned from the job and the department a week later.

http://westchester.news12.com/news/firefighters-union-head-resigns-amid-charges-1.11315179

Since when do we leave our downed brother and venture off? If your brother is low on air, you probably are too. You're just dumping off air equalizing bottles. How are you going to save somebody if you can't save yourself. You're making yourself another victim,

I think the money is better spent on a RIT pack and crew.

How old is the current Tower Ladder?

How is gas leaking from a stove Con Ed's problem? Shouldn't the resident just turn off the gas and call a plumber?

How can they enforce this and ensure the departments pay the bill?

That's what I was thinking. I love the idea though, but it would take balls for someone to actually implement this. And how would you determine what is legit and what is not?