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They initially asked for a truck from Scarsdale to relocate into Yonkers.

However, Scarsdale did not respond.

Could be due to manpower issues.

The mutual aid request to relocate was declined because their spare truck was out of service.

If there was a job in Port Chester, that's where we'd find you. The fireground will never be the same. Rest easy, Charlie.

68 Munson Street - July 29, 2007

But, in all seriousness, i'm pretty sure they have to go by whatever scheme the department establishes.

While I can't confirm when and how the protocol was established, it was not tailor-made for each individual agency. All agencies dispatched by 60 Control fall into one of those three categories.

Just a question does Westchester have the 4 minute rule? In rockland a truck or chief must be responding in 4 minutes or 44 Control dispatches the next closest department . There is no 2nd or 3rd tone.for the initial department

Negative. If memory serves me correctly, the breakdown for agencies dispatched by 60 Control are as follows:

Staffed Fire and EMS agencies: (Dispatch) - One minute to respond

Unstaffed EMS agencies: (Dispatch) - Three minutes to respond - (Redispatch) - Three minutes to respond - (Redispatch) - (Dispatch) mutual aid agency

Unstaffed Fire agencies: (Dispatch) - Five minutes to respond - (Redispatch) - Five minutes to respond - (Redispatch) - (Dispatch) mutual aid agency

God forbid the American public see such realities in the media.

Fenway Country Club has restricted the use of golf carts through Monday due to the recent rain. Instead of rescheduling a second time, the golf outing has been relocated to Saxon Woods Golf Course. The cost has also been reduced to $150 per golfer. Participants who have already paid will be reimbursed the difference. The driving range will be open at 10:00 AM and breakfast will be available until an 11:30 AM shotgun start.

Relocating the outing was a difficult decision and every effort was made to avert further changes. Unfortunately, Mother Nature wasn't on our side. At least Monday's weather looks promising. Despite losing some foursomes, we're still anticipating a great event. Dinner at the Saxon Grill is now only a short walk from the course. Again, if you're interested and available for a fun day of golf, food, and beverages in support of the American Cancer Society, feel free to swing by Monday morning.

The "Putt for Pink" Golf Outing has been rescheduled for Monday, October 17, 2011 due to current course conditions. I'm sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. However, I hope this date creates new opportunities, as there is still plenty of room for additional foursomes and single golfers. Please help Local 1394 support this worthy cause.

The Uniformed Firefighters of the Village of Scarsdale, Local 1394, is hosting the "Putt for Pink" Golf Outing to benefit the American Cancer Society's Westchester Region on Monday, October 3, 2011 at Fenway Country Club. I apologize for the late notice, but there is still space available for foursomes and sponsors. This is a great opportunity to support a good cause while enjoying a day on the golf course. See the attachments below for contact and additional information.

Putt for Pink Flyer.pdf

Putt for Pink Sponsor.pdf

Those of us local to the Mamaroneck area are probably familiar with this house on Grand Street.

Mamaroneck's Slimmest Home

County PD Command Unit:

It looks like this unit is being housed in the DES Support Services Building. Is the consolidation of DES and DPS moving forward?

I saw the documentary as well, and felt a little like they tried to "sugar coat" her as a person. Either way test results proved she was drunk and high. As someone else stated, they brought in a leading ME who clearly in person stated to them, Westchester followed all the proper procedures and filed everything correctly. Was anyone else surprised by the choice of photos they showed towards the end of the show? How do you get away with showing that on TV?

It's not TV. It's HBO.

NR still uses 10 codes and the county answers us in engish, sometimes they answer correctly and sometimes they do not. Plain english can be just as confusing as a 10 code when you do not understand what the meaning is.

we use 10-20 to indicate a NON-Emergency response. Often the 1st due will advise incoming units to 10-20 to reduce risk. 50% of the time 60 Control responds with 10-4 all units respond non-emergency mode and the other 50% they advise all units to "Respond with caution".

Our policy is to always respond with caution, so there is no reason to state it and it is not the instruction given to dispatch for relay.

If this is a problem, have you suggested using plain English on the radio to your superiors? The defunct definition of "10-20" in Westchester County is "respond with caution." If you want operators who are no longer trained to use ten-codes to advise your units to "respond non-emergency," perhaps you should tell them exactly that.

Another 10 Code issue we found is the "key" words for CAD to indicate a working fire are problomatic.

We use "working fire" to indicate the need to dispatch (if not already on the road) the 3rd engine, FAST, an Ambulance, Safety and relocation of units.

We use "10-75" to indicate this.

We have tried to get away from it and go with "plain english" and the results were:

We have "smoke showing", or "Heavy fire from the roof" or stretching a line or some other discription, but since no one said the majic words "Working Fire" we did not get the additional resources that are listed that we get when we say "10-75"

In my experience with 60 Control, using the words, "working fire" or "10-75" will prompt the operator to upgrade the incident to the predetermined first alarm assignment, if one exists, in the CAD. It seems as simple as using a couple of magic words after the initial size up.

For over a century, researchers have debated whether or not wood exposed to long-term, low-temperature heat sources can exhibit spontaneous combustion. Vytenis Babrauskas, author of Ignition Handbook, argues that ignition is possible for wood building members exposed to temperatures as low as 77^oC (170^oF) for long time periods (months to years). Due to internal heating (self-heating), a reactive char forms under oxygen-deficient conditions and eventually ignites as oxygen enters newly-formed cracks. Examples that we may encounter in the field include wood floor/ceiling assemblies penetrated by steam/hot water supply pipes or ducts. For the sake of comparison, external heating applies to the ignition of wood exposed to higher temperatures of around 250^oC (482^oF) for periods no longer than a few hours. Most causes of fire probably fall under this category.

For the fire investigators and chief officers out there, have any of you determined that a fire was caused by self-heating or pyrophoric carbon? Conversely, does anybody think that long-term, low-temperature ignition of wood isn't possible? My knowledge is limited, but I understand that this topic is controversial in the fire investigation community. For more information, click the link below.

'Pyrophoric Carbon' and Long-term, Low-temperature Ignition of Wood

Drop the FDNY quotas

New York Post

August 9, 2010

City Hall says it plans a speedy appeal of Brooklyn Federal Judge Nicholas Garaufis' latest attempt to rebuild the FDNY to his personal racial specifications.

38.5 percent of the nearly 22,000 applicants who took the 2007 tests were minorities -- as were 33 percent of the top 4,000 scorers.

Where is the disparate impact?

Drop the FDNY quotas

Interactions between field units and 60 Control operators are generally limited to radio transmissions during an incident. Take a quick look at their role as call takers, all of whom are certified emergency medical dispatchers. Great interviews with 651 and 662, and of course, well-delivered pre-arrival instructions by 637.

Yea pretty crazy. I think the FDNY rule is you can be one (maybe 2) boroughs outside the city, but not CT. So you can live over 2 hours away in Montauk, but not 45 mins away in CT.

You must live in either the five boroughs of New York City or in Westchester, Putnam, Rockland, Orange, Nassau, or Suffolk County.

Do you have to be a New York City resident to be a NYC firefighter?

I really don't see a problum with this my old dept. For fun paraide's we would sometimes set guys on the roof or hose bed as long as its a just play around paraide and it was not judged. Bit for letting them set there to ride to it hell no if its not a dress one or anything big. Have fun as long as there safe

And really we all can have a opinion on something but we really have no say in what other dept's do they will do what they won't to and that's fine for them let them deal with it every fire house is different and does there own thing

Ignorance is contagious. We tend to accept the reality with which we are presented. I can't blame you for being exposed to unsafe practices when you first joined the fire service, but it is the duty of every firefighter to look beyond the culture of their department and educate themselves on how to improve. There are thousands of online resources that tell us how to prevent firefighter injuries and deaths. Don't wait for the next guy in the chain of command to enact change. Start with leading by example.

One Fire Fighter Dies and Another is Severely Injured in a Single Vehicle Rollover Crash - Georgia

A Career Lieutenant Dies and Three Fire Fighters are Injured in Ladder Truck Crash - Massachusetts

Fire Fighter Dies after being Ejected from a Pumper in a Single Vehicle Rollover Crash - New York

Volunteer Captain Dies in Engine Rollover - Colorado

A Career Captain Dies and a Fire Fighter/Driver is Seriously Injured When Two Fire Trucks Collide at an Intersection - Connecticut

For those departments that have been using this system for the past year, how has it been working for you? Have there been any problems with getting members to use it on a regular basis? I recently noticed that this system can be integrated with dispatch centers so that operators can see if any members of a dispatched department are en route to their station to get a rig out the door. The website offers hypotheticals, coincidentally matching 60 Control's protocols for unstaffed fire agencies, that seem pretty feasible if departments were willing to get on board.

Consider a hypothetical dispatch of a fire department in a region with a protocol that calls for second activations to be issued at the 5 minute mark, and for mutual aid to be activated at the 10 minute mark. The primary reason for such protocols is that dispatchers have never before had a reliable method of knowing which, or how many, members of a dispatched department would respond to a dispatch at any given time.

Without IamResponding.com, if the dispatched fire department does not have a full crew respond to the station or scene in response to the initial dispatch, a second activation will not be issued until the 5 minute mark. This is because the department and dispatcher will wait the full 5 minutes to see if anyone else is on the way.

With IamResponding.com, both the department and dispatcher will know within 30 seconds whether a full crew is on the way to either the station or scene. If a full crew is not displayed on the monitor within 30 seconds, then a full crew is not en route, and the department and dispatchers will know that a second activation will be needed.

With IamResponding.com, the second activation can now be issued between 30-60 seconds after the initial dispatch, saving 4 - 4 1/2 minutes on every dispatch requiring a second activation.

With IamResponding.com, if the second activation still does not result in a full crew responding, that information will be known by the 2 minute point, at the very latest. In this circumstance, mutual aid will be able to be activated within 2-3 minutes of the intitial dispatch, rather than waiting to the 10 minute mark. This would reduce the response time by 7-8 minutes on every mutual aid call.

IamResponding.com - DISPATCHER FUNCTIONS -- REDUCE THE RESPONSE TIME TO YOUR DISPATCHES!

IamResponding.com

I may be wrong, but the bottom length doesn't appear to be 6" hard suction. It looks like 4 1/2" or 5" with female connections on both ends. My guess is this is for the ECC to steamer a hydrant. The three upper lengths look like 6" hard suction, one of which already has a barrel strainer on it.

Good pics JJP!

Flexible hard suction.

FDNY - Brooklyn 2nd Alarm - Bushwick - 02/19/2010 - "FirstOnScenePhotos by Lou Minutoli"

Storage issues aside, it makes you wonder why it isn't more common outside of the city.

how does one obtaina CPAT card from a credited IAFF CPAT. Baicly who holds the cpats

CFPC: CPAT Information

It would be in your best interest to apply as soon as possible.

Jets acquire Favre from Packers for conditional draft pick

NFL.com Wire Reports

August 7, 2008

The New York Jets have acquired quarterback Brett Favre from the Green Bay Packers, the team announced in a statement early on Thursday morning.

I'm psyched. Anybody else already order the replica jersey?

So when the rig crashes and your 100, 200 or 300 (or whatever) pounds slam into me ending my career thats ok......I'm wearing mine and my injury is not caused by my actions, they are your fault. And if I (or my family) can sue you or not or even win is not the issue.

The issue is you may believe you can be hurt or not care. But if your on my rig your job is to protect my back. If you can't or won't do that ..........I can not call you "Brother".

This is an excellent point. Even if you have no regard for your own safety, think about how your actions may affect that of your brothers and sisters.

No Seatbelt, No Excuse

whoa i never said i knew it all, idk sh*t, no one does and no one ever will. training never stops. and yes i have seen the site and the video. im not sayin i dont wear my seat belt. i wear it while responding in my POV. and in the apparatus on the way back to quarters. personally i dont think it is needed while responding to a fire. there is way too much sh*t goin on in a persons head to remember to take off a seatbelt when u get there, and if youforget your seatbelt is on and try to put on a scott while wearing ur seatbelt u get all messed up. ive seen it done before, but thats just how i do it.

Take your own advice and continue training. With some practice, you'll be able to don your SCBA while properly secured. For your own sake and for the sake of the members you're riding with, buckle up.

There are three EMS Zone Coordinators:

EMS Zone 10: Covering Fire Battalions 14, 15, 18, 19

EMS Zone 11: Covering Fire Battalions 11, 13, 16

EMS Zone 12: Covering Fire Battalions 10, 12, 17

EMS Unit Coverage

The tones for EMS Zone 11 may have been related to the motor vehicle accident in Mount Kisco.

Story and photos available on the Purchase Fire Department website.

Purchase Fire Department

Thanks to those who stopped by to check out the rig. We hope you all enjoyed yourselves and managed to grab an E-238 mug on your way out. A very special thanks goes to the members of Harrison (E-10), Village of Mamaroneck (E-42), Port Chester (E-61), Rye (L-26), and West Harrison (E-265) for bringing their apparatus to the party.