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I returned for a visit after being away for several years and was appalled at the condition of the highways and medians and overgrowth on the side of the roads impairing vision of the signage.
An overhead banner sign and large signs on the supports posts would be helpful, but the State needed money for all the "Welcome to NY, Andrew Cuomo Governor" signs.

I returned for a visit after being away for several years and was appalled at the condition of the highways and medians and overgrowth on the side of the roads impairing vision of the signage.
An overhead banner sign and large signs on the supports posts would be helpful, but the State needed money for all the "Welcome to NY, Andrew Cuomo Governor" signs.

In over 30 years there are so many.
- Drowning, pool was like milk, couldn't see anything in the water, started a grid search. On second pass swan right into victim, scared the sh_t out me. Got him to surface. DOA w/broken
neck.
- Victim cut in half by train, half the body facing one direction the other half the opposite direction.
- Working to extricate two accident victims from an overturned car with my brother as it starts burning and hoping the engine arrives quickly.
- A deliberate hit and run at a bar, the victim had visible tire tracks across his body like you see in the cartoons. He had minor injuries.
- Advancing a line and having the ceiling cave in with me on one side and the rest of the team on the other.
- An EMS call to a seemingly normal, well cared for house with a BMW in the driveway, met by a stylishly dressed woman only to find it like an episode of hoarders on the inside.
- The actual and attempted suicides by drugs, guns, stabbing and hanging.
- The EMS call for a young man with an orifice impaled by a boat oar when he fell from the step ladder he was on while 'utilizing' the oar.
- Having to wrestle down a doctor with the police who became an EDP when he missed his meds for a condition no one knew he had. He cursed and fired all his staff on the way out. When
we got to the hospital there were scores waiting to help him.
- While at work, alerting the residents of a triple decker apartment house and carrying out a child as fire raced up the back staircase, going back to try to access an apartment with a potential
victim, fire too advanced, she wasn't home.
- Responding while on the rear step.
- SCBA for only a few.
- Getting one of the first Hurst tools in the County.
- Being there as my nephews came in and up in the ranks.
- Being in the station when a distraught and lost deaf woman came in for help. We calmed her down and had one of the guys lead her back to her house.
- Lots more, you forget more than you remember, but over the years you've helped a lot of people, most you didn't know which makes it all the better.
I once told the nephews, we're a small town, but be here long enough and you'll see just about everything, and I have.
There is no better calling

In over 30 years there are so many.
- Drowning, pool was like milk, couldn't see anything in the water, started a grid search. On second pass swan right into victim, scared the sh_t out me. Got him to surface. DOA w/broken
neck.
- Victim cut in half by train, half the body facing one direction the other half the opposite direction.
- Working to extricate two accident victims from an overturned car with my brother as it starts burning and hoping the engine arrives quickly.
- A deliberate hit and run at a bar, the victim had visible tire tracks across his body like you see in the cartoons. He had minor injuries.
- Advancing a line and having the ceiling cave in with me on one side and the rest of the team on the other.
- An EMS call to a seemingly normal, well cared for house with a BMW in the driveway, met by a stylishly dressed woman only to find it like an episode of hoarders on the inside.
- The actual and attempted suicides by drugs, guns, stabbing and hanging.
- The EMS call for a young man with an orifice impaled by a boat oar when he fell from the step ladder he was on while 'utilizing' the oar.
- Having to wrestle down a doctor with the police who became an EDP when he missed his meds for a condition no one knew he had. He cursed and fired all his staff on the way out. When
we got to the hospital there were scores waiting to help him.
- While at work, alerting the residents of a triple decker apartment house and carrying out a child as fire raced up the back staircase, going back to try to access an apartment with a potential
victim, fire too advanced, she wasn't home.
- Responding while on the rear step.
- SCBA for only a few.
- Getting one of the first Hurst tools in the County.
- Being there as my nephews came in and up in the ranks.
- Being in the station when a distraught and lost deaf woman came in for help. We calmed her down and had one of the guys lead her back to her house.
- Lots more, you forget more than you remember, but over the years you've helped a lot of people, most you didn't know which makes it all the better.
I once told the nephews, we're a small town, but be here long enough and you'll see just about everything, and I have.
There is no better calling

In over 30 years there are so many.
- Drowning, pool was like milk, couldn't see anything in the water, started a grid search. On second pass swan right into victim, scared the sh_t out me. Got him to surface. DOA w/broken
neck.
- Victim cut in half by train, half the body facing one direction the other half the opposite direction.
- Working to extricate two accident victims from an overturned car with my brother as it starts burning and hoping the engine arrives quickly.
- A deliberate hit and run at a bar, the victim had visible tire tracks across his body like you see in the cartoons. He had minor injuries.
- Advancing a line and having the ceiling cave in with me on one side and the rest of the team on the other.
- An EMS call to a seemingly normal, well cared for house with a BMW in the driveway, met by a stylishly dressed woman only to find it like an episode of hoarders on the inside.
- The actual and attempted suicides by drugs, guns, stabbing and hanging.
- The EMS call for a young man with an orifice impaled by a boat oar when he fell from the step ladder he was on while 'utilizing' the oar.
- Having to wrestle down a doctor with the police who became an EDP when he missed his meds for a condition no one knew he had. He cursed and fired all his staff on the way out. When
we got to the hospital there were scores waiting to help him.
- While at work, alerting the residents of a triple decker apartment house and carrying out a child as fire raced up the back staircase, going back to try to access an apartment with a potential
victim, fire too advanced, she wasn't home.
- Responding while on the rear step.
- SCBA for only a few.
- Getting one of the first Hurst tools in the County.
- Being there as my nephews came in and up in the ranks.
- Being in the station when a distraught and lost deaf woman came in for help. We calmed her down and had one of the guys lead her back to her house.
- Lots more, you forget more than you remember, but over the years you've helped a lot of people, most you didn't know which makes it all the better.
I once told the nephews, we're a small town, but be here long enough and you'll see just about everything, and I have.
There is no better calling

Yes, this is absurd. But really, it shouldn't be about unions or representation. The overwhelming majority of firefighters/EMS are not members of a union, nor are our military. This is about what kind of country we have become. A country searching for loopholes to avoid responsibility, that can't distinguish right from wrong, knows no ethics, adheres to no moral code. I don't know how all these things work, I just think if you lose your life in the service of your country or community, your surviving spouse should receive your paycheck and benefits, adjusted as if you remained on the job, until he or she re-marries or takes on a permanent significant other. And, that's in addition to whatever lump sums are provided as the initial death benefit.
Same for all the military coming home missing limbs and minds. The cost of caring for these people can't be more than a rounding off of a line on a budget. Some gave some, some gave all, and they or their survivors should be compensated properly.
Thank God for programs like 'Wounded Warrier Project' and the generosity of the public. But we shouldn't need these and similar programs in this country. We should take care of those who served without reservation for as long as needed. That we need these programs is a disgrace and a national embarrassment.

Yes, this is absurd. But really, it shouldn't be about unions or representation. The overwhelming majority of firefighters/EMS are not members of a union, nor are our military. This is about what kind of country we have become. A country searching for loopholes to avoid responsibility, that can't distinguish right from wrong, knows no ethics, adheres to no moral code. I don't know how all these things work, I just think if you lose your life in the service of your country or community, your surviving spouse should receive your paycheck and benefits, adjusted as if you remained on the job, until he or she re-marries or takes on a permanent significant other. And, that's in addition to whatever lump sums are provided as the initial death benefit.
Same for all the military coming home missing limbs and minds. The cost of caring for these people can't be more than a rounding off of a line on a budget. Some gave some, some gave all, and they or their survivors should be compensated properly.
Thank God for programs like 'Wounded Warrier Project' and the generosity of the public. But we shouldn't need these and similar programs in this country. We should take care of those who served without reservation for as long as needed. That we need these programs is a disgrace and a national embarrassment.

In over 30 years there are so many.
- Drowning, pool was like milk, couldn't see anything in the water, started a grid search. On second pass swan right into victim, scared the sh_t out me. Got him to surface. DOA w/broken
neck.
- Victim cut in half by train, half the body facing one direction the other half the opposite direction.
- Working to extricate two accident victims from an overturned car with my brother as it starts burning and hoping the engine arrives quickly.
- A deliberate hit and run at a bar, the victim had visible tire tracks across his body like you see in the cartoons. He had minor injuries.
- Advancing a line and having the ceiling cave in with me on one side and the rest of the team on the other.
- An EMS call to a seemingly normal, well cared for house with a BMW in the driveway, met by a stylishly dressed woman only to find it like an episode of hoarders on the inside.
- The actual and attempted suicides by drugs, guns, stabbing and hanging.
- The EMS call for a young man with an orifice impaled by a boat oar when he fell from the step ladder he was on while 'utilizing' the oar.
- Having to wrestle down a doctor with the police who became an EDP when he missed his meds for a condition no one knew he had. He cursed and fired all his staff on the way out. When
we got to the hospital there were scores waiting to help him.
- While at work, alerting the residents of a triple decker apartment house and carrying out a child as fire raced up the back staircase, going back to try to access an apartment with a potential
victim, fire too advanced, she wasn't home.
- Responding while on the rear step.
- SCBA for only a few.
- Getting one of the first Hurst tools in the County.
- Being there as my nephews came in and up in the ranks.
- Being in the station when a distraught and lost deaf woman came in for help. We calmed her down and had one of the guys lead her back to her house.
- Lots more, you forget more than you remember, but over the years you've helped a lot of people, most you didn't know which makes it all the better.
I once told the nephews, we're a small town, but be here long enough and you'll see just about everything, and I have.
There is no better calling

In over 30 years there are so many.
- Drowning, pool was like milk, couldn't see anything in the water, started a grid search. On second pass swan right into victim, scared the sh_t out me. Got him to surface. DOA w/broken
neck.
- Victim cut in half by train, half the body facing one direction the other half the opposite direction.
- Working to extricate two accident victims from an overturned car with my brother as it starts burning and hoping the engine arrives quickly.
- A deliberate hit and run at a bar, the victim had visible tire tracks across his body like you see in the cartoons. He had minor injuries.
- Advancing a line and having the ceiling cave in with me on one side and the rest of the team on the other.
- An EMS call to a seemingly normal, well cared for house with a BMW in the driveway, met by a stylishly dressed woman only to find it like an episode of hoarders on the inside.
- The actual and attempted suicides by drugs, guns, stabbing and hanging.
- The EMS call for a young man with an orifice impaled by a boat oar when he fell from the step ladder he was on while 'utilizing' the oar.
- Having to wrestle down a doctor with the police who became an EDP when he missed his meds for a condition no one knew he had. He cursed and fired all his staff on the way out. When
we got to the hospital there were scores waiting to help him.
- While at work, alerting the residents of a triple decker apartment house and carrying out a child as fire raced up the back staircase, going back to try to access an apartment with a potential
victim, fire too advanced, she wasn't home.
- Responding while on the rear step.
- SCBA for only a few.
- Getting one of the first Hurst tools in the County.
- Being there as my nephews came in and up in the ranks.
- Being in the station when a distraught and lost deaf woman came in for help. We calmed her down and had one of the guys lead her back to her house.
- Lots more, you forget more than you remember, but over the years you've helped a lot of people, most you didn't know which makes it all the better.
I once told the nephews, we're a small town, but be here long enough and you'll see just about everything, and I have.
There is no better calling

Retirement? Don't you have to have worked in order to retire? It will seem a little less like home monitoring 60 and not hearing the familiar voice of 607.

Quinn is like all the other politicians. They feel they are special and therefore deserve special treatment not accorded the masses. Yea, why not put her in the SUV and drive her to the hospital yourself? How hard was that to figure out. Did they really need to tie up a paramedic ambulance for a fainting?
Though I have moved South, I still get my NY Post every day. I look forward to reading the forthcoming stories of the decline of NYC post Bloomberg and Kelly.
The inmates will be running the asylum come January and it won't be long before they undo everything accomplished by Giuliani and Bloomberg. Public Safety wise anyway. Between the criminals in Albany and the clueless in NYC, by the time they finish accommodating all their personal and special interests the tax rates necessary to pay for it all will be simply staggering.

According to the story, once the call was upgraded an engine was dispatched. There are response protocols in place and just because she is the council leader you don't get to jump the line. By the time she finished calling everyone she could and throwing her inflated position around, there was a surplus or resources tied up for a fainting. Not a heart attack, stroke, seizures, etc, a fainting. She is a fine example of what is wrong with the political class today.

Quinn is like all the other politicians. They feel they are special and therefore deserve special treatment not accorded the masses. Yea, why not put her in the SUV and drive her to the hospital yourself? How hard was that to figure out. Did they really need to tie up a paramedic ambulance for a fainting?
Though I have moved South, I still get my NY Post every day. I look forward to reading the forthcoming stories of the decline of NYC post Bloomberg and Kelly.
The inmates will be running the asylum come January and it won't be long before they undo everything accomplished by Giuliani and Bloomberg. Public Safety wise anyway. Between the criminals in Albany and the clueless in NYC, by the time they finish accommodating all their personal and special interests the tax rates necessary to pay for it all will be simply staggering.

According to the story, once the call was upgraded an engine was dispatched. There are response protocols in place and just because she is the council leader you don't get to jump the line. By the time she finished calling everyone she could and throwing her inflated position around, there was a surplus or resources tied up for a fainting. Not a heart attack, stroke, seizures, etc, a fainting. She is a fine example of what is wrong with the political class today.

According to the story, once the call was upgraded an engine was dispatched. There are response protocols in place and just because she is the council leader you don't get to jump the line. By the time she finished calling everyone she could and throwing her inflated position around, there was a surplus or resources tied up for a fainting. Not a heart attack, stroke, seizures, etc, a fainting. She is a fine example of what is wrong with the political class today.

Retirement? Don't you have to have worked in order to retire? It will seem a little less like home monitoring 60 and not hearing the familiar voice of 607.

Personally I find it comforting to know that Canadians are as willing to dodge responsibility as are Americans. There, like here, the first thing to do after a screw up is to find someone else to blame for it.

Personally I find it comforting to know that Canadians are as willing to dodge responsibility as are Americans. There, like here, the first thing to do after a screw up is to find someone else to blame for it.

Their protest location would be a nice location for a chemical retardant drop from a air tanker.

Their protest location would be a nice location for a chemical retardant drop from a air tanker.

Their protest location would be a nice location for a chemical retardant drop from a air tanker.

That is one ugly building. The stapler analogy is spot on.

For all the reasons IzzyEng4 mentions and more, I always found a hard booster line a convenience as much as an asset. Then I left for a few years and when I came back the new engine no longer had a hard booster reel, it had a reel with 600 feet of forestry hose that snags on every twig it meets. I miss the hard booster reel.

For all the reasons IzzyEng4 mentions and more, I always found a hard booster line a convenience as much as an asset. Then I left for a few years and when I came back the new engine no longer had a hard booster reel, it had a reel with 600 feet of forestry hose that snags on every twig it meets. I miss the hard booster reel.

For all the reasons IzzyEng4 mentions and more, I always found a hard booster line a convenience as much as an asset. Then I left for a few years and when I came back the new engine no longer had a hard booster reel, it had a reel with 600 feet of forestry hose that snags on every twig it meets. I miss the hard booster reel.