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  2. Posted

    On 12/9/2017 at 4:11 PM, NYStech said:

    @EMT111  do you know of any ambulance corps that run red lights the sides hatzolah? I am waiting for them to contact me back

    Any ambulance corps can do it, you just have to find a corps that has officers that are willing to consider your vehicle an official agency fly car and tell the state so. On the flip side though, that means you are responsible for meeting all state requirements to, such as what equipment you carry, markings on your vehicle, having your vehicle inspected at any time by state EMS to make sure you are compliant with requirements, etc. I don't know of anyone besides Hatzolah who allows members, other than chief officers, to run red lights in their personal vehicles

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  4. Posted

    6 hours ago, v85 said:

    TBTA is the Triboro Bridge and Tunnel Authority. They are a part of the MTA that maintains several crossings including the RFK bridge, Brooklyn Battery Tunnel and Midtown Tunnel

     

    there is a rumor that their law enforcement was to be absorbed into the NYSP but given the truck, they may try to split them off from MTA into their own agency, hence why no agency markings 

    First, I don't really see how the color schemes match, other than they both have New York State on them in yellow letters. The patrol car is either NYSP blue or a very close match and has the tbta patch and license plate on it. The truck is black and looks like someone flipped the dot color scheme, making the yellow parts black and black parts yellow, and then it has a generic NYS logo on the door. Plus, what would the TBTA be doing with 30 of those trucks up in Rockland County? Finally tbta pd is already their own law enforcement agency, if they split away from the tbta, who answers to the mta, who's authority would they be under in order to enforce any laws or have a jurisdiction.

     

    4 hours ago, americanpolice said:

    TBTA- first they changed their patch to say NEW YORK STATE.

    Now they have cars that look like NYSP??

     

    Multiple failed attempts to get them police officer status so they want it to say NYS all over their patches and cars in an attempt to get more credibility. 

     

     

    Do you really think it's the BTO's behind this? This is Cumuo taking a page out of Bloomberg's book from when Bloomberg had all the traffic and school safety vehicles repainted white and light blue to make it look like there were more cops on the streets.  Since Cumuo is sending as many troopers as he can to NYC in whatever him and DeBlasio are going on about, Cumuo is repainting all state law enforcement vehicles down there in NYSP colors to make it look like there's more troopers out there. Wouldn't suprise me if you saw the MTA pd start switching over too.

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  5. Posted

    Maybe the state is planning on using theses trucks the same way NYC DOT uses their trucks as road blocks. Fill one of those up with sand or gravel and you have a roadblock that can go anywhere under it's own power. Prevent car bombs from getting out onto a bridge such as the Whitestone, or you might see these preventing vehicles from entering pedestrian areas of major events to avoid a repeat of last months attack in Berlin. 

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  9. Posted

    Date: 11/26/16
    Time: approx 12:00
    Location: Creek on County 1 between the railroad tracks and the Warwick Valley School Bus Garage
    District: Warwick FD/EMS

    Battalion: 6

    Channel:

    Weather: 40s, partly sunny
    Units: Warwick FD (full department), Monroe FD ( dive team), Cromner Valley FD ( dive team), Warwick EMS (201, 203, 205 (rehab), 208 (duty lieutenant), 209 (captain)), Town of Warwick PD (patrol, Watch Commander), NYSP (Patrol, Scuba, investigators (accident reconstruction?), Lieutenant), NYS DEC encon police.

    Stand Bys: Florida FD (1 engine to Warwick FD Station 1) Pine Island FD (1 engine to Warwick FD Station 2), Greenwood Lake EMS (1 ambulance stand by Warwick EMS station 1)
    Writer:  


    Description: Initial call for a vehicle found submerged in the creek, unknow when it went in, unknown victims. Rescue swimmers from Warwick FD located the driver in the vehicle, driver transported to Saint Anthony's ER BLS, no available ALS, cpr in progress. Vehicle cleared and Divers from Monroe FD, Cromner Valley FD, and NYSP searched the creek for additional victims, none found. Scene turned over to Warwick PD and NYSP for further investigation. Greenwood Lake EMS and Warwick EMS station 2 units handeled multiple EMS calls in the district during the incident.

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  10. Posted

    2 hours ago, 201/65 said:

    This article misses some key parts to this agreement; to cover only Port Jervis and Deerpark as primary, around the clock staffing, and the board of directors for PJVAC was changed from members of the organization to a 3 person board with the membership and each municipality having a seat. 

    The article does mention that Port Jervis Vac will only cover Deerpark and Port Jervis, and at least as far as I'm aware, there was never a point where there wasn't around the clock staffing, at least in the recent years

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    I like how the women are complaining that they were not notified about the siren when they moved into the development. First of all, isn't the area and what's around the property something you look at when you go look at and/or research a property for sale. Second of all, didn't anyone go outside, see the pole (especially the lady across the street), and go "Hmmm, I wonder what that telephone pole with horns atop it is?" and then ask?" And who's responsibility is it to notify new people moving in of this siren? I also like how the one lady attributes her stroke to the siren. How does a noise cause you to have a brain bleed or a clot make it to your brain. Personally, I think the FD was right in offering to move the siren but having the neighbors pay for the move. I'm sure the FD had permission from whatever municipalities when they put up the siren and whatever other permits and permissions they needed, and now these women have come in and decided to live right next to the siren and complain about it. It's like someone who moves next to an airport and then complains about the noise from the planes.

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  15. Posted

    On 6/7/2016 at 8:55 PM, Spartan052 said:

    hey guys the "CAST" of nightwatch says the show is not canceled and will continue in NOLA

    Not sure where you saw that

    15 hours ago, x635 said:

    Just saw an ad on A&E....new season of "Nightwatch" in New Orleans returns December 1st.

    Could just be that A&E already had a contract with the city to do a season 3 in NOLA, and the city didn't want to inccur whatever penalties came from breaking the contract

  17. Posted · Edited by EMT111 

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    Date: 10/11/16
    Time: 0500
    Location: 186 Pike Street
    District: City of Port Jervis

    Battalion: 8

    Channel:

    Weather: Cold and clear
    Units:

    Fire: Port Jervis FD (full department), Sparrowbush FD (1 engine, R-848, fire police), Hugenot FD (E-812), Slate Hill FD (R-735 F.A.S.T.), Mount Hope FD(1 rescue F.A.S.T.), Matamoras PA FD (32 Tower 1), 36-18, 36-2, 36-100, FIs

    EMS: Port Jervis VAC (075, 076), Westfall PA FD (39 Ambulance 1), Greenville VAC (096), Emstar (891 medic, 1 BLS ambulance)

    Port Jervis PD
    Writer:  EMT111


    Description: Initial call for fire at 186 Pike Street, Orange County 911 taking multiple calls, units responding report visible fire from a distance. Upon arrival, units reporting heavy fire on the upper floors and through the roofs of 186 Pike Street (occupied commercial/multi-family dwelling) and 188-192 Pike Street (unoccupied/condemed commercial/multi-family dwelling)

    Video: https://www.facebook.com/maryann.conklinlezama/videos/10153898199823456/

  19. Posted

    I think it depends on what kind of call it would be. For example, if it's an ALS call and an ALS unit is responding, I see no reason not to let the ALS unit handle it as long as long as the ALS unit has a reasonable response time. I don't know about Westchester, but I do know an agency that had trouble getting out, so they allowed a commercial ALS provider to have a station in their building and in return, the ALS provider was also their primary back up.

  22. Posted

    Slightly off topic. I took one of the other correctional exams offered at the same time and got my results finally. In terms of the physical agility test for COs, is there one standardized test that most corrections agencies across the state use in the same way as most police agencies use the MPTC standards? And if so, is there somewhere you can go to find the passing requirements for the exam?

  23. Posted

    On 8/26/2016 at 6:29 PM, EMT111 said:

    Currently the department of health is doing a pilot program that allows EMTs to draw up epi from a vial. Hopefully it will be common place soon, as I think it's ridiculous that an epipen could cost $100s. Unless I'm missing something, I wouldn't think anything in the epipen, including the drug, come close to equaling the cost, especially for something you have to replace each year.

     

    On 8/29/2016 at 11:50 AM, somebuffyguy said:

    Not sure about NY but Kings County (Seattle WA) EMS has started making their own Epi kits that only cost $15 wig each does costing an additional $5. They've also begun to sell these kits to other agencies .

     

    http://kuow.org/post/king-countys-incredibly-cheap-answer-epipen

     

    From what I've heard, once NY allows all EMTs to draw epi from a vial, the cost will drop dramatically for agencys that go that route. However you run into the problem of agencies that have volunteers and/or staff that work one or two shifts a month and then have a regular job in some office the rest of the time. Half of them don't know how to use an epi pen, and now we're going to train them in an advanced procedure, and expect them to do it the first time five years later in a life threatening situation? I know in my one agency, half the volunteers don't know how to use the nasal narcan, meanwhile we've had it for how many years now, it's super simple to use, and I feel like I'm using it at least once a week at this point.

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  24. Posted

    5 hours ago, x635 said:

    Obviously, everyone has heard by now of the Epi-Pen price increase designed to fatten shareholders pockets.

     

    With that said, are some agencies using or switching to administering Epi with a syringe off of a bottle? Are EMT's in NYS allowed to use that method? The cost for doing that is around $10 or less a dose.

    Currently the department of health is doing a pilot program that allows EMTs to draw up epi from a vial. Hopefully it will be common place soon, as I think it's ridiculous that an epipen could cost $100s. Unless I'm missing something, I wouldn't think anything in the epipen, including the drug, come close to equaling the cost, especially for something you have to replace each year.

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