Alpinerunner

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    I haven't seen anyone comment on the smoke coming from the chimney in the summer. We have smoke from the 3rd floor and smoke from the chimey. Due to the location of the chimney, it's doubtful that the fireplae is on the 3rd floor. My guess is fire on the first floor, with smoke venting through the fireplace, and fire extending up the balloon frame to the attic/third floor and showing out the window

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    So they will not be hiring up to 300 new recruits like the last article stated, which the same judge who said the testing was discriminatory was going to allow them too????

    I'm confused.

    This article sums up the options the judge gave to the city pretty well. The city chose 'neither of the above' because they all mandated racial discrimination (ironically):

    http://www.firehouse.com/news/top-headlines/fdny-given-go-ahead-new-recruits

  5. Posted · Edited by Alpinerunner

    Good for the city for sure! However, I have a somewhat related question that I was hoping someone would be able to help me with.

    I saw on the last application that for the last FDNY test date of Jan 2007, NYC residency had to be established from March 2007 - March 2008. So you can move to the city AFTER you take the test? Is this expected to be the same for the 2011 test?

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    2nd or 3rd? What about the 1st due? Given the frequency of false alarms, are the risks of RLS outweighed by the potential of an actual incident?

    That's my speculation. I believe 1st due should always go Code 3 to an alarm. Too much damage can be done by a fire in a short time. The 2nd and 3rd due are debatable, and I don't quite have an opinion myself. I would say just drive more carefully. And no one should ever be "busting" red lights. Treat them as stop signs.

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    So Ems abuses the lights and sirens I think they are forced to abuse it when someone dials 911 and states their illness is worse than it is Ems believes it to be life threating and its a stumped toe that is abuse, but the Police officers. How many times do I see cops especially in Yonkers put their light bars on just to pass a red light so lets look at both sides here.

    That is a response code. I believe it's usually called code 2, expedited response. It's used for not quite emergency, not quite "nothing". I don't know any further from that... but I don't believe the cops are abusing their lights when they do this. I used to see this in Raleigh and though the same thing, then I learned about Code 2.

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    Very interesting article. And it has implications on the fire side too. Do you need code 3 response for CO alarm when the house is evacuated? Probably not. Do you need code 3 for tree down? Probably not. What about for the 2nd and 3rd due apparatus for an automatic alarm? That is a tough question and can only be answered by careful statistics. You would need to look at the number of apparatus accidents vs. number of stops on fires found by alarms, then compare the damage cause by those accidents vs. the damage of burning an extra room.

    Then you look at the fact that you can't put a price on a life. Is that a life of someone hit by a fire truck, or the price of a life taken by fire. A complicated subject indeed.

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    Sooo my chief and my fire truck can have all the colors they want facing backwards to protect themselves but i can only have what color and how many lights facing backwards on my POV so i don't get hit putting my gear on at a scene??? (NOT a highway scene where as my dept you do not respond to highway calls in your POV. The scene I refer to is you a-typical town road or busy street or side street where there is still traffic going at if not OVER 30mph) Hmm.

    Park in front of them or move to CT where you can have blue lights in your POV! :P

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    Well I guess they'll be gettin dropped by there insurance company, 2 wrecks in less than a year. I have said it in my department and will say it here, this is what happens with inexpieriance and not having driven anything bigger than a toyota camry, you should know every bit about the vehicle and how to drive the vehicle before even putting it in drive, (which is another joke, but thats for another forum).

    The article points towards a sleeping pill being the cause of the wreck, not inexperience. The guy is 30 and travelled from the Bronx to continue to serve his old VAC. At least this is the story being told by the article.

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    Sounds like a great program. I'm surprised that 21 hours per year is all that's required though. I have heard from a Vollie FF who is also a PO that he does MUCH more training with the VFD. However, I recognize that POs and career FFs run so many calls that their training is really "on the job". But with PD, it would seem that it would take more than 21 hours just to keep up with changing laws and technology.

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    I don't know if it's necessarily being blown out of proportion, but would agree that the "fuss" over it is predominately based in the "politics" of the situation in Stamford. In general, what happened for this specific call was reasonable and consistent with what takes place daily elsewhere. However, the problem with this specific situation vs what happens elsewhere is that this particular VFD's Fire Chief explicitly stated (in response to the poor handling of a prior incident) that his Fire Department would NEVER AGAIN cancel responding units without a unit/officer on scene of the incident.

    Granted this may have just been a simple mistake, but given the scrutiny of the prior incident and it only being a few months past, you'd think that they'd be more diligent on the matter. However, there's also the need to consider that if the Department's members can't follow something as simple as "don't cancel units with no one on scene", will the members be able to follow the "bigger" orders in the future?

    "Small picture" - not that big of a deal. "Big picture" - definitely a big deal.

    I agree with the above points.

  21. Posted

    You said it. Someone who is ON THE SCENE!! If an alarm company calls back and wishes to cancel an alarm, the first due apparatus can and should continue lights and sirens (regardless if non-fire department personnel are trying to cancel) and the rest may respond normal traffic. But ALL apparatus should never be cancelled until a fire official arrives on scene to confirm that it is a false alarm and decide if any other resources are needed or not. Because we all know that sometimes it isn't a false alarm.

    Exactly, and as the article said, Banksville was first due (closest), and they continued in. End of story. This is being blown out of proportion due to politics. This happens all the time all over the country, including downtown Stamford. SFRD will send 2 engines and a truck to an alarm, and when the alarm company calls to cancel, Unit 4 (the DC) will often send closest engine only.