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Saw this in lower Manhattan, 

Not the usual pickup body. 

With all of the changes made since DiBlasio took over it seems like the City does not want a police department any longer.  

Maybe they should change the name from the NYPD to the NY Department of Social Workers and Problem Solvers.  

What is next the City council providing money for vehicles  with couches so the NYCDoSWaPS (NYC Department of Social Workers and Problem Solvers)

can do mobile counseling when faced with confrontations. 

What is next, before roll call all of the officers will be instructed to join hands and sing Kumbaya to set the tone of the shift. Rose colored glasses are optional. 

3 minutes ago, fire patrol nyc said:

heard no charges will be filed....anyone verify?

From the article 

A 21-year-old man has been charged with criminal homicide after a teenage boy died of a gunshot wound inside a fire department Sunday in Redstone Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania State Police said.

And

Matis was arraigned and taken to the Fayette County Prison, where he is being held without bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Dec. 7.

15 hours ago, rob zombie said:

Having inspection stations enforce this law will mean nothing. 

 

This is what will happen. 

 

 Before the yearly inspection is due,  bring the car to the window tint shop to take off the dark tint from the front windows for a small fee ( $20-$25 per window).  

 

The vehicle will be in compliance and pass inspection with clean front windows. 

 

Go back to window tint shop after the inspection and put the dark tinting back on ( Approx $100 for both windows ).  Repeat this every year.  A total cost of .50 cents per day.  It may even be a lucrative law for window tint shops.  

 

I'm sorry but the government is trying to do something well intentioned but not thinking it through.   

Its still illegal to have the dark tint on the front windows. We use to write summons for it. When people put very dark tint on a car it was usually for a reason. We would often find other violations during the stop. While we did not have the light meter to determine the exact amount oft tinting, the local judge accepted that if we could not see the drivers hands on the wheel, then the window were too dark. He often said that the subject was free to appeal his decision but no one ever did.  Word got around quick and we actually saw a reduction in tinted windows  I don't know if it is still being enforced.

On 11/13/2016 at 7:38 PM, Anesti said:

looks like they found a chevy cab and attach a boat to it.

 

A truck and a small boat does not make a swift water rescue unit. This looks more like a unit to remove people from a flooded street after a water main break. Im not an expert but you would think one would need dry suits, PFDs large reels of rescue rope block and tackle(just to name a few). 

To think we are paying someone to make these types of decisions.

'Happy crack' got them in hot water

(NEWSER) – Nine elementary school kids in South Carolina have been suspended for violating a school drug policy because they were caught with so-called "happy crack," a mixture of Kool-Aid and sugar that is not actually illicit but, simply by resembling an illicit substance, violates school policy. WYFF4 reports that their punishment was reduced from expulsion to suspension, though privacy laws prevent the school from disclosing whether students, who are around age 10, were distributing or simply eating the powder.

"The way [the school] called me, I thought my son died," one mother tells ABC News. "She said there's this epidemic going on at school with happy crack. I Googled it. I'm like Kool-Aid and sugar, are you serious? I was appalled. I was floored. I really didn't think it would go to this extreme." But the policy, which parents say they were unaware of, clearly states that "no student will market or distribute any substance ... similar in color, shape, size, or markings of a controlled substance." Parents say kids can buy pixie sticks that are essentially the same powder. Last year a Cleveland 8th-grader was suspended for five days for a similar "crack candy" offense. (Sugar, by the way, may make us chronically sick.)

http://www.newser.com/story/233543/happy-crack-lands-school-kids-in-hot-water.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=iheartmedia&utm_campaign=story

King Como II is at it again!

ALBANY - Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration dotted New York with 514 highway signs touting its tourism programs despite a federal ruling explicitly prohibiting the state from doing so.

Documents obtained by the USA Today Network's Albany Bureau show the Federal Highway Administration has repeatedly notified Cuomo's administration over the past three years that the signs violate federal and state law, which contain strict rules for what can and cannot be displayed on major roadways.

But the state Department of Transportation and Thruway Authority appear to have ignored the warnings, rapidly expanding the signage across the state while federal officials continued to voice concerns.

"It is our responsibility to ensure safety and compliance with (federal traffic sign rules) and therefore cannot condone the use of non-compliant signs on the federal-aid system in the state of New York," Randy Warden, a team leader for the highway administration, wrote to the state DOT in April 2014.

  http://www.lohud.com/story/news/politics/politics-on-the-hudson/2016/11/02/ny-highway-signs-illegal/93151516/

My only concern is that the policy includes " using heavy vehicles". Switzerland is not exactly the wide open spaces like Montana. I guess they have different liability laws there. 

6 hours ago, COH Bulldog said:

That might not be considered "humane". Lol.

Just like when they took the "aluminum (4 D cell) kel lights" away from the LAPD and replaced them with plastic "Nerf lights" . 

They thought the aluminum lights could be used a a weapon.  Although they were quite bright and quite effective. 

i remember when many departments switched from Harleys to Kawasakis (remember CHiPs). They were supposed to be the wave of the future. They didn't hold up with the NY roads and it turned out there was defect that  killed a few CHP Officers.

Good luck I hope they work out for you. 

21 hours ago, fire patrol nyc said:

I think FDNY also considered fire assist rescue team,until they realized it would be F.A.R.T......

I think someone had a brain FART  when they made this selection. 

Its hard to take someone seriously when they get out of one of these vehicles. 

But then maybe its the administration's hope that the bad guys would be laughing too hard to run? 

On 9/27/2016 at 0:36 AM, dwcfireman said:

How.....How do some of the officers fit in there?  I'm 6' 4" and I complained about driving a Chevy Colorado.

I know a few troopers of the same size who used to drive the 5.0L Mustangs.

We used to chuckle watching them getting in and out of those cars. 

England was using them for years . I don't know were you put the bunker gear. 

NYPD has added new vehicles to their fleet. I saw a few of these in Manhattan today. 

Maybe we could have a caption contest? 

Here are my entries 

1) "I thought I told you not to leave the RMP out in the rain!"

2) "And what do you want to be when you grow up?"

1 hour ago, PCFD ENG58 said:

What are you talking about 2% money refund from the Insurance company's received each year or tax money from the tax payer ?Two different things

The DFS references 2% money but they call it Fire Tax. 

In  a similar thought some alarm central stations are being directly connected with 911 call centers computers with an ASAP-to-PSAP adoption , thus giving another way to hack in . 

1 hour ago, mfc2257 said:

With regard to 2% money there are absolutely guidelines on how the money can be spent.  In fact, there is even a difference between how "new" and "old" 2% money can be spent.

From the NYS Department of Financial Services: 

Question: What can fire tax funds be used for?

Answer: Except as otherwise provided by a special act, fire tax proceeds may be used for any purpose which the members of the fire department or company determine to be for the use and benefit of the department or company as a whole.

Some examples of how the funds can be used include: department social functions - such as installation dinners, picnics, banquets, holiday parties; appliances, furniture, televisions for the firehouse; dress & parade uniforms, hats, boots, jackets, t-shirts, turn out gear, and equipment for members of the department; offset of costs from life or disability insurance (must be group policies); and office equipment such as computers and fax machines. 

If the funds are designated to be received by an exempt or benevolent association created by a special act of the New York State Legislature, the use of the monies is limited to those purposes set forth in the special act. 

For further clarification on this issue contact the Office of the State Comptroller, Division of Legal Services, at (518) 474-3444.

However the articles of incorporation or rules of the individual organizations may be more restrictive. 

11 hours ago, AFS1970 said:

 

Yet how many threads right here in EMTBravo are about response times and who gets to the fire faster? Would we really be willing to accept a delay instead of a disaster, and then what are we going to consider a disaster? Is a lost life due to a slow response any more or less of a lost life due to a seat belt free collision? I do not pretend to know the answers to these questions but we need to discuss them before we can discuss adapting the high standards of the aviation industry.

 

I should also point out that while the aviation industry does have high standards, there is a TV show called Air Disasters and no similar show called Firefighting Disasters.

The reason for the show is two fold. Air Disasters are very rare and as such they peak the curiosity of viewers. Unfortunately fires are too common and often limited to a brief story on the evening news and forgotten the next day. 

The second reason is the the government will spare no expense to recover the plane, reconstruct it, examine every detail of the incident and prepare a detailed report. Like a good detective novel, the investigators always find the cause(s). 

 Incidents almost always take a year or more to investigate and issue a report. The report is extremely detailed. A TV producer can often take the NTSB report and write a screen play directly from the report. 

All fire and police vehicles (not sure about NYC and Buffalo) have official plates assigned, however they are not required to display them. 

I remember the fleet manager having boxes of plates in a store room and going crazy when the vehicles were being disposed of.

I believe that one of the fire departments had official plates on the deputy chief's suburban but removed them when they started getting bills for running the ezPass lanes when on thruway calls.   

http://www.bankinginvestment.net/article/607842769/out-spotlight/

http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2016/08/12/nfl-denies-cowboys-request-to-wear-decal-honoring-fallen-dallas-officers.html

The NFL denied the Dallas Cowboys’ request to wear a decal on their helmets during the season that would have paid tribute to the five police officers killed last month in an ambush.

The team had been wearing a decal with the words “Arm in Arm” since the first day of training camp this summer. 

Dallas police said it appreciated the Cowboys’ support.

48 minutes ago, nfd2004 said:

I would think that is ruling could certainly be appealed. Espically if there was a written contract by these Port Chester Firefighters when these lay offs took effect. 

 

That is a legal document agreed upon by and signed by each side. 

 

If there was no contract in place, then I think it could be much tougher to appeal it. 

Unless there was a no layoff clause or a guarantee of employment as part of the contract, I don't believe that the contract being in effect would be relevant. Also, it depends on how they stopped paying them. If they abolished the job title of firefighter then it would be difficult to have a court overturn the action.  That seems to be the reason they tried the court of public opinion/referendum route. 

Schumer, speaking outside of New Rochelle's Fire Station 1, said he plans to introduce a bill in the Senate that would establish a registry managed by the Centers for Disease Control. It's an idea that came from the 9/11 attacks, which caused cancers in many firefighters, he said.

"What we learned over future years is that new kinds of cancer developed," he said. "In this modern world, where there are many new kinds of chemicals and technologies in our buildings, in our furniture, even in kids' toys, when it burns, there's stuff in the air that gets into your lungs if you're a firefighter rushing to fight the fire, and it can cause cancer."

http://www.lohud.com/story/news/politics/2016/08/09/schumer-national-firefighter-cancer-registry/88454718/

8 hours ago, CTFF said:

 

 

I saw someone here ( or on another sight) in a Stamford thread completely ok with guys getting fire if he got a job out of it. 

 

It happens, don't act like it doesn't.

Lets hope that the BFC and the union can work thing out so no one has to worry about being laid off. In the meantime, I am sure that someone will monitor the situation and report back shoud thing take a turn for the worse.  Until then, let's not speculate as things can get out of control. 

Just now, fdalumnus said:

wishful thinking for some FASNY people

 

Are you some kind idiot? No one want to see someone lose their job.  If you are going to make stupid statements like that, please keep them to yourself.