tommyguy

While this looks like a good way to determine what is spent, it is very deceiving. What is in each budget may not include many items.
As an example when doing a comprehensive budget comparison of 2 depts. a few years ago:
Dept. X had 30 career members and a budget of $16m
Dept. Y had 50 career members and a budget of $12.8m
Now both pay similar salaries, so in theory Dept. Y's budget should have been about $29-30m.
So how is this possible? Dept. Y's budget did not include the following:
Pension ( Paid from the HR Budget)
Health Insurance & other insurance and medical costs (Paid from the HR Budget)
Fuel, Fleet maintenance, Station maintenance, Utilities (Paid from Public Works Budget)
Hydrant Rental/Cost (Water Dept.)
Fleet Replacement (Capital Budget)
Computers & phones (IT Budget)
Contract Fees (legal Dept.)
Grants (Development Budget)
Without understanding the budget its a meaningless number.

Date: 12/11/13
Time: 02:23
Incident Type: Structure Fire
Location: 7 Van Cortlandt Park Avenue
District: City of Yonkers
Units: E306, E303, E304, E312, TL71, L74, TL75 (FAST), R1, Bat 1 (IC), Bat 2 (Safety), Car 6, Empress

Description: Fire out the top floor window of a row-house apartment building.
02:25 - E306 10-84 checking.
02:26 - E306 with fire out the window, 10-29 transmitted.
02:29 - Bat .1 transmitting 10-30.
02:34 - Bat. 1 reports primary negative, secondary underway, multiple civilian casualties.
02:35 - Bat. 1 reports multiple parties jumped from 2nd Floor windows, requesting Empress to CP, 1 appears serious.
02:38 - Bat. 1 looking for Medics, Dispatch reports they're on scene.
02:39 - Bat. 1 reports fire knocked down, companies checking for extension.
02:42 - Car 6 10-84.
02:43 - Bat .1 placing fire under control.
Exposures:
1 - Street
2 - 3-Story Frame w/ 3 foot separation
3 - Rear yard
4 - 3-Story Frame w/ 3 foot separation
02:31 - Battalion 1 reports main body of fire appears to be knocked down.
02:34 - Car 6 responding.

This isn't the greatest photo but it's definitely vintage. This is March 1931 and the streetcar in the photo is a Palisades Avenue No. 2 car that lost its brakes coming down Palisades Avenue from Ashburton (past where today the Schlobohm housing projects are located). The trolley should've turned left (in the photo) but was going too fast to stay on the track and careened into the buildings. One person, a woman, was killed. (Btw there's a typo on the photo caption. Should be New School Street.)
It's hard to see but that looks like YFD Truck 7.

FDNY's new Engine 34, a 2013 Seagrave with a three stage high pressure 2000GPM pump.

Date: 11/24/13
Time: 22:25
Incident Type: Working Structure Fire
Location: 37 Hardy Place
District: Yonkers
Units: E310, E312, E309, E308, TL75, L72, TL71 FAST, Bat 2, Bat 1 (Safety), Empress
2nd Alarm: E306, E307, Sqd11, L70, Car 6, Car 4, MSU

Description: Fire showing from the structure, #2 Side.
Exposure 1: Street / Exposure 2: Lot / Exposure 3: Rear Yard / Exposure 4: Similar Structure
22:29 - E310 10-84, 10-29 fire showing. Bat 2 responding as Safety.
22:34 - Bat. 2 transmitting 2nd Alarm.
22:35 - Bat. 2 reports 2 Story Frame, fire out #3 side, 2 L/S/O
22:36 - E306, E307, Sqd11, L70, Car 6 on 2nd Alarm.
22:45 - Bat. 1 requesting DPW for icing conditions.
22:49 - Car 4 responding & requesting progress report.
22:51 - Bat. 2 reports Fire thru roof, 3 L/S/O, pulled out temporarily, re-entering for interior attack. Primaries negative.
22:52 - MSU on location.
23:00 - Car 4 10-84. "Units in rear you're spraying over the roof and hitting guys in the front!" - Bat. 2(?)
23:09 - Car 4 reports fire thru roof of 2-story frame, multple lines & 1 Ladder Pipe working, fire is darkening down, primaries negative, secondaries unable to perform, requesting Con Ed Electric & Gas and DPW for bad icing condition.
23:29 - Car 4 reports Ladder Pipe still operating, heavy fire on 2nd Floor of #4 side, recommencing Interior Attack.

Date:10/30/13
Time:1st job 0923- 2nd job 1033 - 3rd job 1806
Incident Type:10-26 working fires
Location:1st job 45 S.15th Ave/2nd job 50 Forester Ave/3rd job 61 Washington Blvd
District:
Units:ENG3,ENG4,ENG5,ENG6,L-1,L-2,R-1, Eastchester L-15 w/Asst Chief
Description: Working fires at all three locations. Units packed up and were redirected to other fire scenes. Mutual aid received from Eastchester, New Rochelle and Pelham. Busy few days for FDMV!

Below is an audio link to the radio traffic as this fire was toned out and the first units began to arrive. The audio is on the Lohud site.
The radio traffic shows:

0312 - Initial assignments for heavy smoke in the building.
0316 - Advises Battalion, "We're getting multiple calls including from PD."
0317 - Eng 4 is 10-84 at scene, reports basement fire with heavy smoke/fire condition.
0319 - Battalion reports,"Four people are still inside."
0323 - Primary searches are underway. One line stretched, second line being stretched.
Audio Link

Lets not forget in all of this "Stuff" the fantastic job the Brothers did that night under these extreme circumstances--. rescues were made-- civilians were saved--firefighters put their lives on the line for the citizens of Mt Vernon.
To any firefighter pulling up on a scene and being told that people were trapped in side--chills run up and down your spine--your training kicks into high gear and you go to work doing the best you can. Those firefighters and Officers that night were sworn to protect the citizens of Mount Vernon and they did it to the best of their ability. 2 men 3 men it didn't matter - people were trapped and they went to work, knowing full well that at any time it could be them in trouble...it didn't matter- they did it any way. For that the people of Mt Vernon should be proud of firefighters and Officers of FDMV.
Let politics take its course--it will all shake out--but FDMV did a yeoman's job that night.
Just my thoughts

We are fighting some really tough manpower issues right now. They had only 14 FF the other day! The Rescue is the first rig they put out of service. But it is still a heavy rescue not a pumper combo.

AWESOME! I love the new paint scheme, and the fact Stamford is going with a real fire apparatus manufacturer finally!
I think mstrang1 will be behind the wheel of this. Will be in service soon.
City Of Stamford Fire-Rescue Engine 9
2013 KME Predator Severe Service 2000 1500/1000/30 Class B
(Supplied photo with much thanks)

No we are using a local dispatch channel. All of our MA has access and if we got some unit that did not, our guides have dispatch in our portables.
When the county was designing the trunked system, we met with them and the engineers and they said it would not meet our routine needs and suggested we develop our own system....so we did.

Also remaining local units (ln this case Engine 24) would not be able to hear/talk to the mutual aid units (if they switched to county 18) as locals stay on local dispatch. E24, Sq11, L75 & B2 responded to a smoke in a structure downtown, they need to hear/talk to each other.

The New Rochelle Fire Department responded to a working fire at the Mid-Westchester Jewish Community Center on Wilmot Road near the border with Scarsdale Wednesday evening. Engines 25, 23, 21 and Ladders 13 and 12 responded on the initial assignment. Engine 22 and TL11 were special-called.
Yonkers FD Squad 11, Truck 75 and Battalion 2 were M/A at NRFD Station One with NRFD Eng 24.
The fire began in a sauna room in the rear of the building around 5 00 PM and was declared under control by 7 00 PM. Below is a news link with six photos taken at the scene:
News Link

Vintage Fairview Photos from Barclay McKeough collection

Harrison Seagrave.

Lake Mohegan Young Crusader. My Dept had a Snorkel with this cab. Ahead of its time for the 60's in window design and visibility.

North Tarrytown/Sleepy Hollow another classic Mack C Glen Vincent photo

This isn't the greatest photo but it's definitely vintage. This is March 1931 and the streetcar in the photo is a Palisades Avenue No. 2 car that lost its brakes coming down Palisades Avenue from Ashburton (past where today the Schlobohm housing projects are located). The trolley should've turned left (in the photo) but was going too fast to stay on the track and careened into the buildings. One person, a woman, was killed. (Btw there's a typo on the photo caption. Should be New School Street.)
It's hard to see but that looks like YFD Truck 7.

I can take a crack at this question about the station's history.
The current Station 2 replaced the former Station 2 in about 1980. The former station was located several blocks east at Hamilton Avenue & North Lexington Avenue and was within an Urban Renewal zone. The old Station 2 was a real classic firehouse in appearance. It was a 2-story, 2-bay house of tan brick construction. A couple of WPFD FFs I knew who were assigned there when the move was made said there were some maintenance issues with the old house. I especially remember them complaining the heat was not too good in the winter. They were happy about the move.
The same two companies were moved, Eng 66 and Truck 33. Later, I don't recall the exact date but during the 1990s I think, Eng 68 was moved to Station 2. Eng 68 was originally quartered at Station 4 at South Lexington Avenue near Maple Avenue. The company was moved in order to close Station 4 as an active firehouse.
Engine 68 is now OOS. This took place within the past five years I would say.

It occured to me that some people might not know, that the old Westchester Street Transportation Co. bus garage and White Plains Fire Department Station Two are the same building. The gutted and abandoned bus garage in the first photo was gutted and rebuilt into today's Station Two. I believe the south end of the building was or is used by WPFD maintenance people.
Btw, about twenty-five years ago there was an embarrassing mishap at Station Two. A friend of mine, Victor Price, was working as a FF assigned to Engine 66 quartered in Station 2. One night an alarm came in about 3 AM. The driver of Eng. 66 took out the bay door by moving the engine forward before the door was opened. What happened was, the driver heard the door's motor go on, run and then shut off. However it had not engaged the door. He put the rig in gear -- it was one of the Maxims -- and started to pull out (obviously without looking for some reason) and bam!.
Like I say, very embarrassing!

I can take a crack at this question about the station's history.
The current Station 2 replaced the former Station 2 in about 1980. The former station was located several blocks east at Hamilton Avenue & North Lexington Avenue and was within an Urban Renewal zone. The old Station 2 was a real classic firehouse in appearance. It was a 2-story, 2-bay house of tan brick construction. A couple of WPFD FFs I knew who were assigned there when the move was made said there were some maintenance issues with the old house. I especially remember them complaining the heat was not too good in the winter. They were happy about the move.
The same two companies were moved, Eng 66 and Truck 33. Later, I don't recall the exact date but during the 1990s I think, Eng 68 was moved to Station 2. Eng 68 was originally quartered at Station 4 at South Lexington Avenue near Maple Avenue. The company was moved in order to close Station 4 as an active firehouse.
Engine 68 is now OOS. This took place within the past five years I would say.

I can take a crack at this question about the station's history.
The current Station 2 replaced the former Station 2 in about 1980. The former station was located several blocks east at Hamilton Avenue & North Lexington Avenue and was within an Urban Renewal zone. The old Station 2 was a real classic firehouse in appearance. It was a 2-story, 2-bay house of tan brick construction. A couple of WPFD FFs I knew who were assigned there when the move was made said there were some maintenance issues with the old house. I especially remember them complaining the heat was not too good in the winter. They were happy about the move.
The same two companies were moved, Eng 66 and Truck 33. Later, I don't recall the exact date but during the 1990s I think, Eng 68 was moved to Station 2. Eng 68 was originally quartered at Station 4 at South Lexington Avenue near Maple Avenue. The company was moved in order to close Station 4 as an active firehouse.
Engine 68 is now OOS. This took place within the past five years I would say.

Here's an interesting image from the same Google Streetview as above. These are dated one year ago (Oct. 2012) and look what company is in the bay at Station 2. Engine 71 from Station 7 on North Street. Guess WPFD was a little busy that day.

Here's an interesting image from the same Google Streetview as above. These are dated one year ago (Oct. 2012) and look what company is in the bay at Station 2. Engine 71 from Station 7 on North Street. Guess WPFD was a little busy that day.

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