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EASTCHESTER - When Mike Grogan joined the town fire department as a volunteer at 18 years old, he wasn't sure what the future held for him.

Later this month, Grogan, the longtime Eastchester fire chief will retire from the department after more than 40 years.

 

http://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/eastchester/2017/03/22/eastchester-fire-chief-grogan-retiring-33-years/99459150/

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EASTCHESTER, NY — The Eastchester Board of Fire Commissioners will meet at 9 a.m. Saturday, March 25 to conduct interviews for the position of fire chief.

http://patch.com/new-york/bronxville/eastchester-fire-commissioners-interview-prospective-fire-chiefs?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_term=police+%26+fire&utm_campaign=autopost&utm_content=bronxville-eastchester

FULL ARTICLE: http://www.eastchesterreview.com/news/eastchester-fd-county-mutual-aid-system-is-broken/

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EXCERPTS FROM EASTCHESTERREVIEW.COM:

 

The Eastchester Fire District says it should have been immediately called to assist in a fatal fire outside of its borders—less than a mile away from one of its stations—in nearby Scarsdale late last year.

 

Eastchester fire officials noted, and Seymour confirmed, that Scarsdale’s southernmost station, which was closest to the location of the fire, was closed on Dec. 4, as the station’s only engine was in the repair shop.

The Eastchester Fire District, however, maintains that it was not one of the departments promptly called to assist. Nonetheless, Richard Dempsey, the captain on duty at the time of the fire, responded on his own volition, sending two of the department’s trucks to the scene, according to Eastchester fire officials.

Seymour said that Eastchester is on the second tier of Scarsdale’s run card. Scarsdale gets a first wave of mutual aid when it sounds one alarm signaling a working fire, and a second wave of assistance—which includes Eastchester—when it raises a second alarm. He added that Scarsdale sounded two alarms for the Dec. 4 fire, but Eastchester was already on the scene. “Eastchester was there sooner than they would [have been] if we had transmitted a working fire second alarm,” he told the Review

Transcripts of the fire show that Eastchester was not called to the fire until 14 minutes after the fire was initially reported. By comparison, the call for the first wave of mutual aid was issued six minutes after the fire was reported. Seymour said that because Depmsey self-dispatched, Eastchester was one of the first departments on the scene.

 

FULL ARTICLE : http://www.eastchesterreview.com/news/eastchester-fd-county-mutual-aid-system-is-broken/

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http://www.eastchesterreview.com/news/eastchester-fd-county-mutual-aid-system-is-broken/

How can White Plains maintain a Class 1 ISO rating with staffing issues?

Isn't the purpose of insurance to pay for accidents?

Heard a rumor Eastchester may lay off 18 firefighters? Anybody have more information?

Nice rig, great photos

Didn't Eastchester or New Rochelle have the same issue a few years back?

Is Harrison looking to replace TL24? Saw a Ferrara TL from Elmont FD in front of headquarters last week.

Heard Eastchester is shopping around for a used engine. They should look into this, and invest in the long term instead of letting the fleet deteriorate and fixing it with temporary band aid measures. For a Seagrave this is a great price!

The Eastchester Fire Department has selected ESI Equipment Apparatus Division to build a new SpaceKap first response vehicle. Thank you EFD!

New Car 2102?

I've heard Eastchester was looking at it to replace the old Engine 176 they bought from Fairview.

The problems they found seem to fit every department in Westchester.

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In a Q&A, the two first responders on the scene of a two-alarm fire talked about how they got people out of the building and how they stopped the fire from spreading.

http://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/new-rochelle/2016/02/26/new-rochelle-rescue/80234734/

Unbelievable.

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A former Mount Vernon firefighter facing federal prison time for selling guns and cocaine wants a disability pension after claiming he aggravated a back injury after his arrest.

http://www.lohud.com/story/news/investigations/2016/02/14/convicted-firefighter-pension/80079816/

Economic Study

FASNY has released an economic impact study titled Tax Savings and Economic Value of Volunteer Firefighters in New York.

The study, the most in-depth of its kind, concludes that the 100,000 volunteer firefighters across New York save the states taxpayers more than $3 billion annually. These savings are realized because volunteer firefighters are not paid wages and because fundraising by volunteer organizations reduces the need to levy taxes to finance fire equipment and operations.

http://www.fasny.com/economicstudy/

Report On The Physical Condition Of Eastchester Station 4

Link to photos and report:https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-XOgCD7rTnMdGJxNVFvV2xzZXhuc0xBUHNpZmRCZGhVdVN3/view?usp=sharing

The building has been neglected for far too long and too much needs to be done. They just need to demolish the place and start over which would be much cheaper and faster. You could use the old materials in the new building. No way doing a restoration would fix things. Look at the disaster the repairs on Station 5 turned out to be.

Rye Mayor State Of The City 2016. Wonder what this means?

the re-structuring of our fire department, to provide for appropriate supervision and to re-calibrate the dynamics between professional and volunteer members;

Great photos! Any of Eastchester?

It's the nice thing to do, easy and same as liking something on Facebook. Give people some credit for posts you like.

Rockland gets $198,875 but Westchester only gets $164,751?

Yonkers Uniformed Fire Officers Association

Media Release

From: Yonkers Uniformed Fire Officers Association

December 25, 2015

Yonkers Fire Lieutenant Rescues Woman Trapped in Burning Apartment

Young lady awoke to discover her exit was blocked by heavy fire. Fire Lieutenant crawls past fire to rescue her in back bedroom. Both Lieutenant Nee and the fire victim have been transported to Jacobi Hospital in the Bronx.

This morning at 10:05 am the Yonkers Fire Department received a 911 call for black smoke coming from a third floor apartment at 355 Bronx River Road, an eight-story apartment building in Southeast Yonkers. While Firefighters were en-route, Yonkers fire dispatchers received another 911 call, this time from a panicked young lady who related that she was trapped in the back bedroom of the fire apartment- heavy fire in the living room area was blocking her exit and her bedroom had become filled with smoke.

Firefighters from Ladder 73 and Engine 313, located on Kimball Avenue, were first to arrive at 10:09 am, four minutes after being dispatched. Firefighters from Ladder 73 forced entry to the locked apartment door as Engine 313 began the process of stretching a hoseline to the burning apartment. Prior to a hoseline being out into place, Lieutenant Nee crawled past the heavy fire and proceeded to the rear bedroom where the victim was trapped. In heavy smoke conditions, Lieutenant Nee shared his air-mask with the victim as he rescued her from the burning apartment. Shortly thereafter, Firefighters from Engine 313 were able to place their hoseline into position, and made an aggressive attack on and extinguishment of the fire. The apartment suffered heavy fire damage and the remainder of the building suffered smoke and water damage. The cause of the fire is under investigation.

Both Lieutenant Nee and the victim were transported to Jacobi Hospital in the Bronx, New York where they are each being treated for smoke inhalation and elevated carbon-monoxide levels. Lieutenant Nee is a six-year member of the Yonkers Fire Department and a USMC Iraq War Veteran.

Notably, Nee was laid off during a City of Yonkers budget crisis in 2010, and Yonkers Fire Officers have not received a cost of living increase in salary from the City of Yonkers in seven years! The Uniformed Fire Officers Association, who did not endorse Mayor Mike Spano in his most recent run for office, have been mired in a protracted contract negotiation stalemate with Mayor Spano and recently filed for impasse. While the larger Yonkers Firefighters Union received a 10-year contractual agreement 9-months ago, Mayor Mike Spano has been insistent that he will not grant a similar agreement to the Fire Officers unless they agree to contractual language that would gut the longstanding line-of-duty injury protections that have been in place. Yonkers Fire Officers are willing to accept the exact same contractual language that the Firefighters Union accepted nine months ago, including their agreement that applies to line-of-duty injuries. However, Mayor Mike Spano has demanded that in order to receive the same cost-of-living increase in salary granted to Firefighters, the Fire Officers Association must accept significantly less protection from line-of-duty injuries than what has been granted to Yonkers Firefighters. Today’s events are a stark example of why the Uniformed Fire Officers Association is unable to allow the contractual protections for their members injured in the line-of-duty to be gutted by Mayor Mike Spano for political and/or personal reasons.

The political powers of Yonkers are trying to keep the public from knowing much, if anything, about a bizarre fist fight that broke out between the city’s fire commissioner and one of his officers.

This happened at a YFD Christmas party held on the evening of Dec. 11 at the Fairways, a catering hall at the county-owned Dunwoodie golf course in Yonkers.

LoHud Article: http://www.lohud.com/story/opinion/columnists/phil-reisman/2015/12/21/reisman-yonkers-fire-commissioner-brawl-investigation/77716516/

Further details: Yonkers Tribune http://www.yonkerstribune.com/2015/12/hezitorial-investigation-knotted-linen-napkin-thrown-to-gain-a-womans-attention-strikes-yonkers-fire-commissioner-john-darcy-instigating-a-fight-that-caused-yfd-lieutenant-michael-oconnor-to-be-h

Last night, Eastchester took the manpower from Engine 31 and placed them on Tower Ladder 17 to respond to the fire scene in Mount Vernon.

Why is a department that is already understaffed, stripping an entire section of town of coverage to send to another understaffed department? I wouldn't want to live on Garth Rd and need a Tower Ladder.

What type of foam are these trailers equipped with?