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13 hours ago, nfd2004 said:

 

Sir, no matter how I try, whether I type in Village of Colonie, NY or Town of Colonie, NY, I still come up with the same number of people. That is 7,913 according to a 2013 censes.

 

And when we start to talk about Rescues, or the FDNY, I got a feeling "Bad Box" knows exactly what he's talking about. Both from a career, as well as a volunteer firefighters point of view.

Population statistics: http://www.census.gov/quickfacts/table/PST045215/3617332,3600117343,36001

32 minutes ago, nfd2004 said:

Population of Colonie, NY was just under 8,000 people in 2013. Not exactly a densely packed urban area, spread out among 50 plus square miles. 

I think that's probably the village of Colonie. The Town of Colonie had a population of 81,951 in 2010

6 hours ago, dwcfireman said:

Is the station of the Greenville company owned by the company or the district?  I'm trying to understand why the district would allow apparatus to sit outside in the elements while they await a new home.

According to what I found old news paper articles, I believe the station was owned by the fire company/department, and then the fire district was paying rent to store equipment and whatever else there, which was a source of contention between the two

http://m.recordonline.com/news/20160602/greenville-fire-department-deactivated

I think the brush truck/mini-pumper is over at the ambulance bay in the spare bay. Supposedly the new FD is building a fire house next to the ambulance bay, and the apparatus is being kept in the fenced in area until the fire house is built

I have heard rumors that there's a new fire department in Greenville and they were given all of Greenville's apparatus and equipment

4 hours ago, SECTMB said:

The City of Savannah just recently announced the formation of a motorcycle squad.  Is this becoming a trend?

Town of Warwick PD has had a motorcycle unit for quite a while now and it seems to work well for them. They have three motorcycles and as soon as the weather is nice enough, they usually have one or two guys a shift on the cycles. It's not a full time unit, so anyone in the department can go to their motorcycle school, they do their own, and I've seen all ranks riding the motorcycles, including the chief.

Does anyone know the frequency(ies) that State Police aviation operates on? I thought I remembered that they had their own set of frequencies, but I can't anything

Date: 3/21/16
Time: approximately 645
Location: 103 Prices Switch Road
District: Warwick Fire Department

Battalion: 6

Channel:

Weather: Cold and sunny
Units: Warwick FD (Full Department), Pine Island FD (E-651, TA-654), Slate Hill FD (R-735 F.A.S.T.), Mcafee (Vernon Township NJ) FD (TA-442), Highland Lakes (Vernon Township NJ) FD (TA-424)
Writer: EMT111

Description: Chimney fire with extension into the living room and basement

19 hours ago, Ga-Lin said:

"Yes, but I don't have any one else to drive"

"Can't one of the other (half dozen or so) responders (getting in their points) standing around drive for you"

"Well, no they're from a different agency and our insurance won't cover them"

I've driven the medics fly car/ambulance plenty of times. Never heard anything about an insurance issue. In fact, we almost always get asked to drive the medic's truck in if we have an extra member.

1 hour ago, Gomer said:

I left something out of my post that I should have added.....is there a NYS DOH policy that forbids ambulances being used by a single Paramedic flycar?

Nope, In NY, a fly car fits into the category of emergency ambulance service vehicle, which is any vehicle that is not a transporting ambulance that's used by an agency other than an aircraft or boat. This is either accomplished by meeting the minimum equipment requirements for an emergency ambulance service vehicle, which is less stringent than an ambulance, or you can obtain a waiver from DOH to exempt it from requirements as long as you show how the vehicle will be used within the agency. So if you meet the ambulance requirements, you should be more than good to use it as a fly car

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Are you talking about taking an ambulance to an EMS call alone and leaving it and transporting with another service? Would seem to open up a huge issue? On the other had, my dept. routinely sends an ambulance to mutual aid request for ALS back-up, as often the VAC doesn't get a crew and we're left with our medic in the back of their bus with none of their licensed people, which is not allowed here. That said, we have three ALS ambulances and two vehicles available for transporting ALS personnel, so it's not often (extremely rare) that service suffers due to out of service equipment.

I don't know why leaving an ambulance somewhere would seem to be an issue. As long as it's locked up and everything, and usually if the medic's on another ambulance, all the drugs and stuff are with him. As for having a someone from a different agency alone in the back of your ambulance, NY does not care. The only thing NY cares about is that the person providing patient care is an NY certified EMT/paramedic, not what agency they're from, who's driving, etc.

I've seen it done all the time. Why wouldn't they be able to? 

12 hours ago, x635 said:

It's weird a bulldozer company is developing a smart phone, but pretty cool idea and partnering with FLIR will give them the technology they need.

http://gizmodo.com/caterpillars-new-s60-is-the-first-smartphone-with-flir-1759685817?sf44639276=1

After doing a little research the phones are being made by a company that licenses the caterpillar brand. And i don't think it's that weird. If the phones do well, the next thing will be the caterpillar laptop that's their version of the toughbook, and before you know it everything on a construction site will be made by caterpillar and they'll be rolling in the profits

Date: 2/13/16
Time: approximately 2245
Location: 204 Pine Island Turnpike
District:  Warwick
Units: Warwick FD (full department), Florida FD (TA-610), Pine Island FD (E-653, TA-654), Greenwood Lake FD (TA-621), Slate Hill FD (F.A.S.Team), Unionville FD (1 engine, TA-745), Johnson FD (TA-715), Chester FD (1 engine, TA-922), Vernon (NJ) FD (T-402, TA-403), Upper Greenwood Lake/West Milford Township Co. 5 (NJ) FD (Tanker 5) Town of Warwick Police, Warwick EMS (205 (duty officer), 201, 202, 207, rehab bus), Orange County Emergency Services (36-16, 36-3, 36-101, 36-109, EMS 14)

Stand-bys: Goshen (1 engine) stand by Warwick Station 1, Greenwood Lake (1 engine) stand by Warwick Station 2, Macafee (NJ) FD (Engine 441) stand by Warwick station 3, Pochuck Valley (NJ) FD (1 engine) stand by Pine Island FD, Upper Greenwood Lake (NJ) FD (Engine 5) stand by Greenwood Lake FD
 
Description: Heavy fire condition in a 2.5 story log cabin upon arrival. Temperatures with wind chill ranging from negative teens to negative 20s with snow. Weather conditions causing issues with water supply and fire fighter exposure. 4 fire fighters transported to Saint Anthony;s Community Hospital, 2 for minor injuries and 2 for hypothermia. Units operated on scene for approximately 6 hours 

Is it just me or is the site not allowing us to post new incident alerts?

Out of curiosity, why did they decide to go with full time ALS coverage? It sounds like they're a BLS agency, and two EMTs is alot cheaper then two medics.

If the storms continues as they think it will, I think the city will get a good amount of snow and the further north you go, the less snow you'll see, such as Orange County will get a couple inches

Why? Are you looking to take the easier one and then use reciprocity to get the other state's EMT certification?

So what number does engine 582 go by now? I'm referring to the newer Ferrara that was numeted 582.

If you mean the 2013 Ferrara enigne, that was numbered 584 when they got it.

Date: 11/13/15
Time: 0730
Location: Warwick Turnpike and Black Rock Road
District: Warwick
Units: Warwick FD (Car 3, E-636, R-637), Warwick EMS (201, 202, 203, 209 (captain)), EMStar EMS (804, 891) Town of Warwick PD (Patrol, Detectives), NYSP (accident investigation), NYS DOT (Bus Inspectors Office)

Description: School bus from NJ transporting two students to a private school in NJ rolled onto it's side after going into a ditch. Both students and driver self extricated upon arrival of emergency services. Both students transported to Saint Anthony's ER for evaluation by Warwick EMS. Accident under investigation by Warwick PD with assistance from NYSP and NYS DOT

Kinda surprised to see them there, since they don't run any of the emergency services at the airport

I recently noticed that Westchester County has a continuous recruitment exam for EMTs. Does anyone know who hires off this list? And do they actively hire from the list or is this just one agency that's looking to hire a part time/ per diem EMT every other year?

One more thing to add to the list, make sure the agency actually gets out the door to calls. It's hard today to get volunteers, and you don't want to end up at the agency where you're the only one showing up, and then your calls are getting turned over to another agency cause your's can't crew.

Warwick FD will have their parade 18:00 on 6/20

Date: 5/18/15
Time: 16:14
Location: Union Corners and Spanktown Road
District: Florida FD
Units: Florida FD, Warwick EMS (202, 203, 205F, 206, 209f), EMstar EMS (808, 811, 892M) Town of Warwick Police (patrol, watch commander), NYSP (patrol, accident reconstruction team)

Description: 2 car head on mva with one patient partially ejected through the driver's side front window. Medevacs declining due to weather, 2 patients transported ALS to ORMC by 203, 206, 808, and 892M, 1 fatality. Incident under investigation by Town of Warwick Police and NYSP Accident Reconstruction.