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Doesn't make any logical sense at all. How do you leave your village unprotected by your fire dept.and put the coverage on a neighboring yown,just to say hey look at us we went mutual aid to Yonkers.That's what it is all about and don't tell me different.The village mayor and board should be aware of this and stop the nonsense. If you had the manpower in the village to cover the manpower going to Yonkers it's a different story. But it doesn't sound like this went down.

When are we going to acknowledge that the system is broken? Fire and EMS in Westchester is a collection of varying agencies but we have no system. The Yorktown fire station construction 1500 feet from an existing fire station in another district and this situation with the mutual aid effectively shutting down a department highlights just how screwed up we are.

And EMS is no better off. The patchwork of different agencies all doing different things at different levels with varying success shows that we really haven't changed all that much since the 80's when the Journal News published their "where you live could cost your life" series of articles.

Buchanan's 1991 Pierce Lance came back from refurb just in time for their 75th Anniversary parade. Photo by X4093k

Posting on behalf of a friend...

Happy Birthday to our EMTBravo Founder
Seth Granville aka EMTBravo, x635
Enjoy!

Date: 7/26/2015
Time: 01:40hrs. (Approx.)
Location: 65 S. 3rd Ave.
District: Mt. Vernon (Downtown)
Units: FDMV E3, E4, E5, E6(FAST), TL1, L2, L3, B2 (C2292)

Description: Two fully-involved vehicles w/extension to a dwelling.
01:43hrs. - Battalion 2 transmitting a 10-26 (Working Fire), A/H/W.
01:45hrs. - Battalion 2 reporting primary searches in the basement negative. Engine 6 is FAST.
01:48hrs. - Pelham FD Engine 5, Eastchester FD Ladder 16 relocating to FDMV Station 3.
01:49hrs. - Battalion 2 reporting two fully-involved vehicles next to the structure. 2 L/S/O's.
02:02hrs. - Battalion 2 reporting main body of fire is k/d.
02:16hrs. - Battalion 2 reporting fire is u/c.

Premiering this Saturday night on ABC.

Video: https://youtu.be/ZFPFpn9kmbk

It's 95 degrees out and guess what? Mt. Vernon has a fire right up the street from the closed fire house. SHOCKER! I feel for you brothers.

Nobody cares! The residents reelected Davis as mayor despite all the shady dealings in his past and his utter disregard of emergency services. Davis doesn't care about the firefighters because they're not voters in his little fiefdom. He will continue to destroy what was once a vibrant department and then cry to the state or feds for funds to fix it after a tragedy occurs.

He's a scam artist and playing his best game!

Enough is enough, the firefighters need to get out the citizens who pay for fire protection and are not getting it .They need to March on city hall and make their voices heard to make a change now open the closed station, put the proper manpower on duty, stop the bull.... Before a travesty happens.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG74rQIkvXU

Full article: http://www.theexaminernews.com/white-plains-fire-department-earns-high-iso-rating-in-top-97-nationwide/

NYC Firestore Website: http://www.nyfirestore.com/
NYC Firestore Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Firestore
Message below is from the NYC Firestore Facebook Page
VERY SAD NEWS.....

and members wonder why no one is on this site anymore. at least this wasn't a paid vs volunteer bashing. good job!

Wonder Why...

See you've been a member of this site since 2007, yet I don't see a single incident posted under your account. Why not contribute ?
I used to contribute incident alerts on occasion, but really don't have the time to sit and listen to the scanner for hours on end anymore.
Being that most of these incidents are now instantly posted up on Facebook these days, whats the incentive for users to spend hours listening to an incident rather than spending time with their families or other hobbies just so grateful users like yourself are satisfied ?

jd783 thank you for the web page that's exactly what I wanted

http://nycfire.net/forums/index.php

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Description several fires this past week and not one posted in the incident section two in yonkers, one each in port chester, spring valley, new city, and Circleville. if it wasn't for channel 12 news I wouldn't have known nothing about them. I remember when every fire in the area was posted including conneticut and all second alarms or greater of fdfny I real disappointed og how the incident log has become

Great shots as always Seth.

More or less like a manpower sq and or riot sq. It could bring manpower to a location fast as there where a few around the city. As the story goes from the Man that owned that rig it was bought [used] by the Peekskill Fire Patrol as there first rig I believe It was replaced by the large 1950's GMC Approved body and the Mack was left outside to rot. Then somewhere around 1976 or so a new friend Waine from Valhalla started a complete resto on it . He compleated it around 1980 the same time I finshed up my Sanford and we showed them together at the shows. Many times he was asked to bring the Mack back to the city for shows as it was the only one left so it has to be it. Over the years lost touch with Waine and I believe he has pasted on . Maybe Howie can fill us /me in on anything else about this great rig that has Westchester ties !

Photos from today's NYPD REMA (Retired Emergency Man's Association) Day of Remembrance at the NYPD SOD Facilites at Floyd Bennet Field in Brooklyn.
All photos by me.

New Engine 22:

Can't possibly be all of those Departments and apparatus for a 30x60 2 story residence?

The Philly part of EMStar is no longer part of EMStar. They split off last year around March and became part of some healthcare network. EMStar has their own dispatch based out of a HQ in Suffern, NY. They have an Orange County CAD in their Communications Room. If they are needed for a 911 call in OC, the call pops up on their CAD screen.