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Does the Fire District post the minutes online?

Does anyone know if they are still around. I went looking for their website tonight and could not find it.

Getting back on topic, How did they secure the victims? I am assuming a "horse collar" would slip over their heads and under their arms. Ho do they secure it so the vic dosent slip out?

Got mine with my name misspelled. Lovely.

Did you expect anything diferent?

Really? NYC BS is that bad? haha

Out of the frying pan and into the fire!

Do they still have part timers there?

Not if I can help it! Sorry, no use for PTOTSS (Part Time Over Time Stealing Sc*m) Sorry for the rant but this is my carear and I hate having people using it as a "second" job

It's not just LEO, as of today there have been 11 FF died in the line of duty already this year (24 days old). Not a good pace to be setting

Is the wheelbase as long as it looks in the third picture, or is it just the angle of the shot? (or maybe I'm delusional)

Trust me, it has a long wheelbase and turned like crap. We have it's twin still in service (Scheduled to be replaced this year). Here is a couple older in service pictures

What is the top out pay? after how many years?

5yrs about 54K

Mahopac VFD has an AED in each Chief's car and on all 1st Due apparatus with the exception of the Rescue Truck. We got 5 AED's in 2004 on an AFG Grant. The Board approved buying 3 more AED's last year to be 100% AED equipped including the Fire Police Van amd the Bikepath Gator.

Mahopac (Putnam)did 1140 Fire & EMS

Mahopac Engine Co. 2's Candy Cane Run Crew

18-4-2 in the Holiday Spirit

Was this the Hickman Building or Guideposts? Picture 2 looks like Ex-Captain Hank Schleicher from Mahopac Eng Co. 3. Nice to see CArmels old Oren Ladder before it got Lyme Disease

So if WEMS dispatches Somers from the Somers firehouse, why does 60-Control dispatch the 45 Medics which I believe are WEMS?

Fire Districts are another political subdivision of the government. In NYS Cities, Villages and Fire Districts can provide fire protection. Town cannor provide fire protection on their own and have to contract with an independent Fire Company or a Village or Fire District to cover a predesignated area (Fire Protection District).

It gets so confusing there is actually now a course at the Fire Academy in Montour Falls to explain it all (Legal Considerations for Volunteer Fire Departments). It's run by Mark Butler for teh Buffalo area and is a real eye opener as to who is the famous "Authority Having Jursidiction" or AHJ.

In the case of Freeport, they are a Village Fire Department and have to answer to the Mayor and Village Board

Just to keep this going and to show what JBE was talking about, here is a picture of the old 12-5-1 after it suffered from Lime Desiease. Credit to the original Photographer

Didn't a crew from Beekman (Dutchess county) participate?

How much money does a Volunteer FID cost?

Date: October 26-27, 2010

Time: Start 2345, finish 0130

Location: North end of West Branch Reservior, Little Fill Ct off Nichols Rd T/Kent

Frequency: 46.380, 46.440/46.540, Lake Carmel Fireground

Units Operating: 17-1-1 (IC), 17-1-2, 17-1-3 (ops), 17-7-1,17-6-1,17-8-1/Boat, 16-1-1,

16-8-1/boat, Putnam Medic 4, KPD, DEP Police

Weather Conditions: Unseasonably warm, misting, slight fog

Description Of Incident:Male hiking in woods injuried leg approx 1830hrs. He contacted family who went to look for him. After Darkness fell, they got lost. Parents finally called 911 around 2345hrs. At first location was not known. After Putnam 911 made contact with lost party we got them to call 911 and were able to get GPS fix on phone. Due to location it was decided to bring them out by boat. Pt packaged and stabilized by LCFD EMS and Putnam Medic 4. Pt removed from woods on Stokes via Kent Fd Boat with LCFD Boat Assisting.

Reporters:

Writer: EJS1810, Putnam Dispatcher 411 on Desk

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Quite the difference between Patterson's first load and it's second. Looks like the municipal system hasnt flowed a lot of water in a while

how is an agency gonna know about a persons driving record? someone correct me if im wrong by the place were this incident took place is a VOLUNTEER agency. your gonna tell me that every agency should do driving record checks on ALL the members that drive?? are u crazy...thats just a straight up WASTE of money!!! ill tell u right now i've had accidents in my personal car 2 of which i totaled my car... you mean to tell me that the agency that i belong too shouldnt let me drive because of my PRIOR driving record??? honestly if there is a good driver training program out there its the EVOC class. people get in ACCIDENTS every day...THATS WHY THEY ARE CALLED ACCIDENTS!!!

do i think what this guy did was wrong? yes i do. and he should be held responsable for his actions because he knew he took the sleeping aid.

New York State DMV offers the LENS Program (Licence Emergency Notification System, I think). You sign up through the DMV website and you are notofied of tickets, suspensions, revocations and reported accidens of your members licences. It's a free service.

Mohegan, Mahopac, Lake Carmel, and Lake Carmel Explorers will be there

To me that's a simple question; I would do what is right for the fire service, what is right for EMS, if that was my Commission. But this same issue pops up when a chief of a department is asked his/her position regarding the department.

Unfortunatly, "Commissioners" in this case are loyal to the political machine that feeds them and does what is needed to save themselves.

IMHO

Both Putnam and Dutchess (and I'm sure other counties) have combined dispatch centers. They seem to do pretty well. As with everything, there will of course be growning pains, but IMHO, it's a step in the right direction. Now if only we could centralize the PSAPs and have every emergency unit in the county dispatched from the same center like in Dutchess (well, almost).

I work for Putnam, we only do 911 Police calls. I used to work @ PCSD where we did both 911 and regular police work. There is a major diference. As for centralizing PSAP's in Westchester, it will be easier for Playland to make a profit

FYI...

A fireman's bell cap is intended to be worn with the brim facing the front.

No matter how cool you may think you look, it is never Ok to wear a uniform cap backwards. It is disrespectful to your uniform, your department, and the fire service as a whole.

It may even be grounds for a solid smack upside the head.

That is all.

So totally agree. Anyone who knows me knows how I feel about this. I have walked up to other FF in bullpens and asked them to turn it around correctly or take it off