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Date: 02/10/09

Time: 20:34

Location: Dover Plains Metro-North Station

Frequency: DC Dispatch

Units Operating: Dover Fire Department, Northern Dutchess Paramedics, New York State Police, MTA Police Pawling Fire Department, TransCare

Description Of Incident: Male shot in ULQ @ Dover Plains MTA Station

Writer: citystation1848

20:29| Dover dispatched for a male seizure at private residence

20:30| NDP Medic 75 responding from Millerton to Dover

20:31| 36-71 responding

20:32| Dover 2nd Call In District, NDP respond P1 for a "Male Shot": Dover Plains Train Station. Units advised to stage away

20:33| 84-75 advises they are re-routing to the train station, 36-71 to proceed to the first call.

20:39| 84-75 on scene

20:41| 84-75 en route to Sharon ALS

20:46| Dover 3rd Call In District, 36-72 and NDP, Pyschiatric Emergnecy at the Harlem-Valley Wingdale Metro-North Station on Route 22, stage away scene not secure.

20:47| 36-71 en route to Putnam Hospital requesting ALS intercept from Pawling

20:52| 54-79 meets up with 36-71, now en route ALS.

20:55| 36-72 advising no patient contact made, back in service.

Saw Pawlings rig at the structure fire the other day liked the name on it not being a magnet looks sharp

Well it's a good sign that TC shelled out all that money to buy these brand new ambulances, and customize them. Seems to me like they want to keep these contracts.

Awesome rig, good luck with it!

I'm sure when the weather gets a bit warmer we will do another. I will keep you informed and you would be welcome to come up and join us.

Sounds good, Thanks

someone with picture taking know how and a decent camera (unlike myself) should take some shots of putnam medics 1 2 and 3 as well as bls 4

From flickr.com

You gotta love the mangets that NDP has on their ambulances, that always get flipped upside down at the hospital

Looks like a very good drill, well put together and it culminated a good ammount of departments up there. I've yet to get my hands on a CAFS line yet, but hopefully in the spring I will.

Now they all match!

However, I do wonder why the Union Vale one says "Union Vale Fire District" when the other ones say Town Of Pawling or Town Of Beekman

Apparently the towns that selected TransCare took delivery of the brand new ambulances this past week.

Sounds like city has another Structure Fire now on Montgomery

Date: 02/01/09

Time: 06:59

Location: Pawling Mountain Gun Club (306 Penny Rd)

Frequency: Dispatch, Response, Firergrounds 11 & 12

Units Operating: Pawling, Beekman, Dover, Patterson, CC-16, DCDER

Description Of Incident: Structure Fire

Writer: citystation1848

06:59| Original Dispatch - All Equipment

07:04| Dispatch - 2nd Dispatch for Pawling all equipment

07:09| Dispatch - Beekman with 34-31, Pawling 3rd dispatch for 54-14, 45, 51, 32, 61

07:11| 54-14 Responding

07:17| Pawling 54-67 Responding

07:17| Beekman 34-31 Responding

07:18| 911 advising Pawling command of 11, 13, 31, 51, 61 79 on the road, Beekman 34-31, CC-16. Requesting an additional tanker

07:19| Dispatch for Dover 36-12 to the scene

07:26| 2nd Dispatch for Dover 36-12, Beekman with 34-32 now to the scene, Relocating Patterson with an engine to Pawling Station 1

07:29| 36-12 Responding

07:29| CC-16 on the scene

07:30| 2nd Dispatch for Beekman 34-32

07:32| 34-32 Responding

07:40| CC-16 requesting FID

07:43| 34-31 Back in service

08:20| FID-1 Responding

08:28| Command reporting fire is knocked down

08:46| FID-1 On the scene

09:04| Dover 36-12 back in service

14:24| 54-c3 advising all Pawling Fire Equipment is back in service, 22-35 released from standby

14:25| 54-1 advising county FID is finishing up, will be back in service shortly

I have to agree with you, the departments all get along. Ive heard some towns in other areas that wont go to town x because of a rivalry of hurt feelings. Dutchess, everyone seems to get along great. EMS mutal aid is good, ditto with fire.

Thanks!

CMS is always better than tossing up a plain html site with front page. Easier to manage and all. I'm a fan of e107, free and very very flexible.

Priceless

I wonder how many people had to do a double take

I had a shoutcast server up briefly a few years ago now and used the RESCO pocket radio..... The RESCO program seemed to work pretty good but I had problems with the shoutcast end of things and took it off the air..... Be aware if you listen a lot with any of these programs you may go over your monthly data allotment. Verizon's is 2 GB / Month I think..... If you do, the Verizon Police will come after you as they do not allow you to do any streaming except of content they $ell you..... What good is the data plan if you can't stream? Now I have my ProScan server running Dutchess County and I wish they would introduce a Pocket PC version of that..... If they did, it would surely beat anything out there...

I had to have an Unlimited Data plan for my pda. When i was in California i had to listen what was going on here :lol:

Does that mean you can get a Hummer as a Chief's Car? I'd like to see that.

Hudson Valley Paramedics uses Hummers as their Flycar

For my smartphone i have a program called Resco Pocket Radio, for the low price of $19.99 one time, you can listen to anything on your phone that streams using ShoutCast stream whether it be Internet music channels or custom streams. One site i lost the link for, used to have the county scanner on it. If i find it ill post it. But the Resco Pocket Radio program is by far the best one i've used.

I think to define Buff we all need to look in the mirror. Me first

Thats the best answer i think we've had in the whole discussion!

I think it is an insult to the men and women of the East Fishkill Fire District for what you said. We do the best we can and you we all have families and priorities. Usally 24/7/365 39-71 is rostered. Sometimes it isn't and that is where the ALS provider or Mutial Aid comes on to assist us. DC911 does an outstanding job to get the closet rig to a scene and getting that area covered if it is needed. Not everyone is perfect, but I am proud of my Department and surrounding Departments. Also, I am thankful they have our backs for EMS and Fire via Mutial Aid.

Thomas

No one insulted EFFD. I just simply said for ALS. 39-71 & 72 get out almost instantly, thats a fact

What gives Dutchess a great edge is that 1) you have centralized dispatch, 2) dispatching is highly organized - ie: there are procedures and policies on everything from units that cannot get out to MCIs, 3) most areas have chosen to go with paid EMS solutions and 4) volunteer agencies like East Fishkill do get out for the majority of their jobs

I agree with the dispatching being organized, county always knows what to dispatch and when, and if needed 2nd dispatches happen almost exactly at the 5 minute mark. East Fishkill has Mobile Life as their ALS provider, and as far as I know they keep one unit in town. If theres another call, depending on the location MLS may send another unit, or if its on the east side of town Beekman 34-79 responds. Same thing in case for Beekman, if they get bogged down by calls, East Fishkill or Pawling helps them out. Its a great system imo

A spin off on the popular Westchester thread.

Dutchess County probably has one of the best mutal-aid plans I've seen for EMS. Most towns with the exception of a few, have ALS units right in town whether they be career ems such as Arlington and LaGrange, or commercial companies such as Alamo, Mobile Life and NDP. For those towns that have the commercial ems service my question is, how satisfied are they? When a second or third call drops, how would you rate the service?

For example, towns like Wassaic, Staatsburg, Pine Plains and a few others have a commercial agency (in this case its Northern Dutchess), how do they find the response times? Granted, the reason they don't have a dedicated ambulance is because of lack of call volume. But i guess my question is how is the average response times for an ambulance, or even a fire department to roll in some of the areas that are semi-remote?

More departments should do this, especially ones in Southern Dutchess, and the busy ones on the river. It makes sense for departments that are busy, and have manning. That way you can track whos en route, at the firehouse etc.

Too Funny! :lol:

Beautiful ambulance WEMS. Good luck with it!

Thank you all for the input...now one more thing, are there any apparatus specifically assigned for rehab for working fires? Or are ambulances called in and set up for rehab. I know here in Westchester, Ive heard Beeline Busses getting specially called to fire scenes for rehab...does dutchess have anything like that available?

It all depends on the department in Dutchess. Some departments such as East Clinton have a rehab unit, where others just utilize ambulances for them, as you saw today with the Beekman fire.