kurt

Milan (Dutchess) 256 Fire and EMS

In regards to fit 5 it all depends on the situation at hand. 2 years ago just after my dept put them in service we had a house fire with flames showing from 2 windows on arrival. Found 2 car in driveway with a pocketbook in one car and thought there might be someone inside with limited manpower on scene. It worked very well knocked fire down enough to get people inside for search and get hoses in place. It didn't put fire out but gave us sometime. The homeowners insurance company reimbursed us for the fit 5.

Hyde park at 6pm

Pine plains fire dept sept 11 at 4pm about an hour long service people that would like to attend they ask to be at there firehouse around 3 sothey can line people up. There will be a short march from there firehouse to seymour smith school

GOod times had a blast fireworks were great

Just heard there under another tornado warning

Arlington fire dept in dutchess county has hired new fire chief http://m.poughkeepsiejournal.com/news/article?a=2011103260328&f=982

Thought and prayers to the family and the brothers and sisters of ppd rip brother you will not be forgotten

Got to love facebook the officer name has been all over facebook tonight just a sad day for all those involved rip thought and prayers to the family

Wow what a fire load thanks for sharing

Nice shots and I feel for you guys having to deal with the cold temp we battled the something at 6am monday morn

Lol sorry

My department milan in dutchess county was faced with this this morn ata fire around 5:50am. Had are 48-12 when I got to the fire I was put into the water shuttle and my bleeder valves we frozen when I got there got most of them to close when I arrived being they were open dropped my fist load of water by 3 inch hose hooked to supply truck are brush truck we use for draft froze before it even got water flowing I did 2 loads of water and my valves were frozen was down to just 1 rear discharge that finally froze after my last load we had to use flares to get caps off trucks when I got back to station all my discharges were frozen shut took 3 hours to get everything thawed out hose that was used for fighting fire were frozen just a horrible day but building still standing lol called in multiple dept with man power to change people out

Not sure what brand aed you have but the one I have we thought we could leave them out and found when they get cold they start to beep at you and then you have to pull batterie out and put them back in and go threw self test I have the philips heart starter frx

In dutchess county we use priority dispatch for ems 1 being worst 4 being non emergency no lights so if we are non emergency and someone gets on scene and says step response upgrades to lights and sirens on fire side its code 3 lights and sirens and code one no lights all fire calls are code 3 unless someone gets on scene and tells us other wise so if were code 3 or priority 1 2 or 3 then were coming with all we got so telling us to hurry up doesn't do anything but put more stress on someone who is already stressed anyway

Nice job looks like a challenge thanks for sharing

Well first thing that goes threw my mind being a past capt is how long is it going to take my people to safely get to the fire and how long before my 2nd alarm crews will take to get to me can these people even get out of there driveways maybe think about a plow to get these members out of there driveways to get to call.

Milan( Dutchess) 211 total fire and ems

This seems to happen every snow storm they get there is always something that goes wrong in the city I heard on the news that they were pulling pd off patrol to drive snow plows its just crazy they had plenty of notice about this storm don't know if any body seen the press conference with the mayor but to me he mad it sound like it was no big deal well wake up and smell the coffee this was a very bad thing trains buses werer not in operations and the mayor stood there and told people to get out and about no stay the hell home so people can do there job and it doesn't help when plow comes threw and people throw snow back in the road

In dutchess county the fire dept is dispatched to all mva with injury and if the caller isn't sure if anyone is hurt they send everyone until fire gets on scene and say other wise keep in mind we all still have a duty to act my dept responds to a lot of accident on parkway and a lot of times people driving by call these in so we don't know to we get there my dept respond 1 engine 1 rescue 1 brush truck for traffic 1 pick up truck support vehicle for traffic and 1 ambulance and a medic is dispatched on all priority calls 1 calls

Nice how you like it the new leathers seem like there nice

Hey mark don't you mean blue helmet lol couldn't resist

That he did he good for him wish him the best

First on scene size ups are important to let everyone know what's going on and they can plan there attack also on that is if updates come as people are responding know what's up use my dept as example is last week we received call for brush fire on tsp and county updated asst chief and no one caught the update and calling asst chief on our private channel he didn't answer back and some people didn't know if they should respond or not respond its would be nice to know what's going on and never heard chief call on scene later found out the update was from pd saying no fire farmer putting lime down in a field

As one of the responders on this call I didn't expect to find what we found on arrival with the heavy entrapment and stabilization that was required I have to say what a job well done by all who were there the team work and communication was unbelievable alote of equipment in operation you don't relies what you have taken off the truck until clean up comes around lol thanks again to all who responded