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Very well said.. That is absolutely true. Congrats Hopewell Hose, and many more to come!

Congratulations, Hopewell Hose, on your 100 years of volunteering and giving your best to your community. I have only heard great things about your personnel, and wish you all many more years of making East Fishkill proud. Enjoy your party - you have well earned it!

When my father was alive and battleing cancer, he had to carry a card with him at all times because he was receiving radiation treatment. Even with the medical radioactive dyes and stuff for CT Scans ect, he had to have the card. And that was back in the late 80s and early 90s.

I had a Stress test before they gave me a card that said I had the test. A week later I was in JFK going away but I didn't trip any Detectors off.

Even more reassuring is that the trooper acted on it.

There was a 60 Minutes episode a while back interviewing Raymond Kelly about the capabilities of the NYPD. They showed a Marine unit that had the detector and it was set off by a passing boater who just had KEMO.

Absolutely. When I was doing the full-scale exercise program at Anniston it was very apparent to me that my skills vis a vis radiation detection and control were limited and that I've got to seek out some additional training in that area. I'm thinking about going out to CTOS in Nevada for their Rad/Nuke Tech class, anyone here have an opinion on that course? Is it worth the trip?

Your average brick in a brick house will expose you to more radiation a year than several chest x-rays. Each brick is roughly 7mrem/yr while a chest x-ray is roughly 1mrem/scan.
Had a load of bricks gone past the sensor, im sure that too would have set off the detector.
Im sure the reason why they cant bring them into underground places or places with high stone/brick/masonry is all of the radioactive elements naturally in the ground or included in the stone building material.
I dare anyone to take a scintillation detector and hold it up to any random brick, I am sure the radiation levels would be much higher than you expected.
I work with a form of radiation in one way or another almost every day, I am not afraid if it, what does amaze me however is how misinformed we as first responders are.

I have heard that NYPD can't bring them some places because they are too sensitive and will activate. I might be wrong but I think Grand Central is one of those places?

I'm with you.

It's reassuring to know that there are detectors sensitive enough to activate in response to such minute quantities of radioactive material present.

Happens all the time. Must have been a really slow news day!

I have heard this happens pretty often, my CBRNE Tech Class at Anniston discussed how sensitive these personal sized detectors are, just never seen an example in the news before. Just sounded like an interesting story.

Crazy story out of Montpelier Vermont. http://www.benningto...ruisers-tractor

Happy Birthday Seth!

Happy Birthday Seth!

Happy Birthday Seth. Enjoy the day.

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday, Boss!

happy birthday

Happy Birthday Seth!!

Wishing our EMTBravo Founder & Executive Director
Seth Granville a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Thank you for everything you have done with this site.

Get Well Soon Chief

Get well soon

Second that. Get well soon Chief.