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    Saw a banner on the Firehouse Grille building the other day saying that they were reopening this summer. I don't know any other details as to whether it will be the same owner, menu, etc.

    a little late on the info huh? that banner has been up for a few weeks not to be offensive but alot of people knew already we are just wating on a date but rumor has it that all the old decorations are still in place like some of the old gear that had been there

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    K, ill bite. I like your line of thinking in regards to alarm assignments and mutual-aid. Its been discussed time and time again on here and its a shame that it hasn't gone anywhere.

    But in your post that i have quoted, i must disagree. It seems as though you're going off of City responses with your numbers for MVAs and such. Many Volunteer FDs dont even have a Ladder. So why do you think all Vol FD's should respond with 2 Engines and a Truck to MVAs?

    My vol FD is fortunate enough to have 3 Engines, 2 Trucks and a Heavy Rescue that respond out of 2 stations. For an MVA, our Rescue is 1st Due out of our Station 1. An Engine would be 2nd due and sometimes we respond with 2 Engines. Many times, the IC will turn one of the Engines around, depending on the need. We NEVER send a Truck on an MVA, but thats our response.

    Then to say any call at a 5+ story building should get 3 and 2? As i said, some Vol FDs dont have 1 Truck, let alone 2. Many vol FDs dont have 3 Engines either. So are you suggesting mutual-aid for these responses?

    you got to look at it from your old BFD stand point

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    After reading an article on how there's a total of 4 female fire chiefs in the state of Connecticut, it got me thinking about how people feel about being in a department (career or volly) with the chief or an officer being a female.

    Does this present an issue and cause problems or do you not care what sex the officer/chief is?

    Do you feel like you have to watch how you act/what you say when on the job?

    Also does anybody know how many female chiefs there are in NY, if any?

    No disrespect meant to anyone here, just curious to see people thoughts.

    verplanck has its first female chief

  14. Posted · Edited by Spartan052

    There's a lot of truth to what they tell probies as they come through the door, "if they're breaking your balls kid, it's cause they like ya".

    you know what thats what they told me i get my balls busted and so do they but we know where the line is and ththats all i have to say other than the traditions of the past are lost

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    Of course the hazards are the same, but the situation will dictate the way you work.if you have high heat,smoke banked low you be on all 4's. If not you can probably stand,again the situation will dictate. Being taught to stay low as a probie make great sense though. Its easy to walk through a building, but when you need to be down, you have to kow how to do it,best way to go about that is to bang it in your head early.

    just my .2 cents.

    true but if there is heat and smoke some firefighters using the TIC still stand up in that hazardous envionment i reacall reading an artical about this issue in a magazine

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    These are the automatic mutual aid/dual responses that I'm familiar with:

    Pelham/Pelham Manor/Mount Vernon, Mamaroneck Town/Mamaroneck Village, Mamaroneck Town/Larchmont, Purchase/West Harrison, Croton Falls/Somers, Yorktown/Bedford Hills, Ossining/Millwood, Tarrytown/Sleepy Hollow/Irvington, Valhalla/Hawthorne, Purchase/Armonk/Port Chester, Pocantico Hills/Archville and Briarcliff/Millwood

    Verplanck/Montrose/Buchanan run automatic standby mutual aid

    with the trivillage (Buchanan/Montrose/Verplanck)if one has even a chimney fire trivillage is activated but FAST for buchanan or verplanck is usually peekskill (R134) and for montrose Fast is croton (E119) but buchanan does do alot of mutal aide calls with its cascade (U12)

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    Christie is doing what every good politician does, disregard right and wrong and align themselves with the vocal majority. In this case all the bleeding hearts that want to place this has been, drug abusing, alcoholic, entertainer on a pedestal that front and center in the media light at the top of every news hour.

    you know what you exactly right this country will suffer becuase of this mark my words