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YOU'RE finding out now, because experts are telling you.  WE'VE known for some time now, seeing as we work in this system and have been for quite some time.  This flycar thing AINT that new.

This is a joke right. ????   That man has seen more in an hour than most people see in their careers.   

If that is all that happened, suspension was not warranted.
 
 

 
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I never met Dave Russell, but I was a Volunteer firefighter when his father was a Captain in the Fairfield FD. Later he became the Chief of Dept. A Great and respected guy.
 
I later learned that his son had become a firefighter in the FDNY assigned to Eng 62/Lad 32. It was an area that was really picking up in activity, so it was a good area to hang out and buff. One day I decided to stop at that firehouse to introduce myself. I wanted to tell him how I had been a young volunteer firefighter and how his father was very good to all of us. When I stopped to ask if he was working the guys told me: "Oh you mean Rambo" ? I guess he was named after that movie character.

Best of luck!
 
Great fireman, fire officer and fire instructor. He is a wealth of knowledge and has taught me a ton up in Valhalla. 
 
He's is one of the good guys and they simply do not make em' like Dave Russell anymore.

1) the county mutual aid system is broken. No depts should have the right to choose their run cards. 60 control should have full discretion based on available resources and their capabilities. All fires in this county are basically a reunion of the boys club 
 
2) . The county HAZMAT team, in its current state is a complete waste of space, time and money, I do agree with you on that. It would make more sense for the Grasslands Brigade members to be trained to the tech level and essentially staff that rig (only during work hours, but its a start) when it is called for a response.
 
3) In regards to the HFD captain / YHFD assistant chief, I do not know this person personally, but its not very hard to figure out, as the names and ranks are readily available on the internet. Again, this response cannot be justified, unless there is a HAZMAT/special ops task force made and this task force is made available for all county departments to utilize.
 
4) every fire department, career, volunteer and combination should be able to handle a hazmat incident. We all know that very few can, due to lack of trained firefighters and resources, but if a department cannot handle a room and contents fire or a small scale hazmat incident on their own, without calling mutual aid to the scene to mitigate these incidents, they should not exist as a department. Why even bother existing as a department if you must rely on others to do the basic functions of your job?  
 
5) The events occurring in Valhalla today are just as bad and the same amount of criticism should be given for skipping White Plains and Fairview.

I do not live in the Hartsdale Fire District, but if I did, I would be up in arms about this. You pull an engine from service with a crew of firefighters, leaving the district less protected, by 1 engine company and 2-4 firefighters.
 
There is absolutely no reason for this to happen. 
 
A HFD captain happens to be the voli assistant chief in Yorktown who requested this department specifically to the scene.
 
If my taxes were paying for a HFD rig to travel to Yorktown with firefighters, I would not be happy.
 
-Fuel costs
-OT costs to backfill
-Reduced fire protection to the district, until backfill personnel arrives.......
 
Wrong on several different levels. 

As I recall both Ferrara and KME had to specifically build new cab designs to meet the FDNY spec, they weren't already on their line. So it would be possible for another builder to do the same if they thought it was worth the effort. I doubt the majority of the fire service has the same street and station limitations that require the need for the split tilt cab, so you have to really put a lot of stock in your ability to keep an FDNY contract, and hope some other just use the FDNY spec because it must be the best (which I imagine it is...for them). 
 
I know many folks in this forum must have some direct knowledge, but early on there was a lot of grumbling about the KME product, but maybe that would be the same of anything? Unlike many fire departments where the apparatus is the crown jewels of the department, I suspect most FDNY personnel see the apparatus as merely tools that allow them to do the job, thus they set the bar high.   

We recently put into service new Scott Air Packs.  One of the most notable things about it is that the PASS alarm volumes are lower than our older units.
 
We put the packs in different locations in the training house and sent members in to locate them.  The volume of the older units would drown out the sound of the newer SCBAs.
 
To get more of a side by side comparison, we'd put the packs next to one another - both inside and outside the building - and noticed a marginal difference.
 
This is in no way a knock on the new units, and in no way is this a real "study," but this is definitely something we all should be weary of.

Date: 01/21/2017
Time: 19:32
Location: 15 Deepwood Dr
District: Long Ridge
Channel: Ground 4, Tac 3 (Water Supply)
Weather: 47 degrees & foggy
Units: Long Ridge: E71, E74, K78, R77, 714 (Lt), 715 (Lt), FM710 (C&O), C711 (Chief)
          Turn of River: K68       
          Stamford: E9, E8, E5 (Tanker Fill), E7 (RIT), T2, R1, U4 (Deputy Chief/IC), U1 (Chief), U2 (Asst. Chief), U11 (Asst. Chief), U121 (Mechanic), U8 (Safety), FM101 (C&O)
          Belltown: E41 (Special Called)
          Banksville: K7, 2581 (Water Supply)
          Pound Ridge: K3, 2402
          SEMS: M1
          SPD: 4A29, 4C10, 8S3 (Sergeant)
Writer:  AFS1970

Description: Neighbor reported house fire. Long Ridge Lt. arrived on scene and confirmed working fire. Tanker from TRFD en route shortly thereafter. Additional Tanker from Banksville called also. 1 Firefighter fell through a floor. All crews pulled out of building. Additional engine special called for relief. 
*** Stamford uses K as unit designation for tankers. For consistency I also used it for Banksville & Pound Ridge despite Westchester not using that designation. ***

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International Navistar and Viking-Cives (the plow and body manufacturer) has won a three year contract with NYS*DOT to provide them with International Workstar chassis Class 8 dump trucks, a mix of single and dual axles with winged plow setups and integrated dump body sander. These will replace the older Internationals in the fleet as well as some of the Mack Granites with Henderson bodies. They contain the stupid barely visible new logos on the doors.
 

 
 
 
 

Interesting article from FireLawBlog.com
 
 
ARTICLE:
http://www.firelawblog.com/2017/01/03/chicken-cross-street-9-million/

This is what I was talking about earlier. Saw one while sitting in traffic today at the Whitestone Bridge operations facility.. The seal on the door is just the generic New York State logo. No agency specified anywhere, except for the license plate, which is an MTA plate.
 
And obviously a repaint of a former NYS*DOT 2006 Mack Granite/Henderson.
 

 
 

Found this info on the DES site. I know they responded up to my neck of the woods 6-7 years ago. At the time I had just started my career and never went to the actual meeting due to time constraints.
Hope the link below helps.
 
http://emergencyservices.westchestergov.com/images/stories/pdfs/AgencyInfo/PeerSupportTeam.pdf

They paid the Fire District, Now they are trying to get their money back for the Fire Department (or FD's Insurance).  Still a scum move

Maybe they should stop calling fire and ems for everything from my pinky toe hurts to a water leak...

Civilian exposure to the audible warning devices of emergency vehicles is of very limited duration. These devices are only in use while the vehicle is en-route to an emergency, meaning the vehicle is moving. So, unless the complainers are keeping pace with and driving alongside the emergency vehicle with their window down rather than pulling to the right side of the road and stopping to allow the emergency vehicle to have the right of way, they are not being injured by the noise, just briefly inconvenienced by it.

And the minute a piece of emergency equipment is delayed to a call............the dopes will sue.
 
Stay safe. 

Great guy, great video.
 

Saw this in lower Manhattan, 
Not the usual pickup body. 

I could be wrong but this is already a series it's called "COPS".  and plenty of others have been done.   People either support or us or they don't.  No TV show will change opinions.  And even the ones that support cops don't understand and until you work the streets you never will.