Billy

Has any body seen the black NY DOT trucks?  I saw four on I-87 a couple weeks ago.  All black except for the yellow circle on the doors that said NYDOT,  and no reflective on back.  They had a state pickup following them.  Very weird.  Any ideas?  My friend plows for the state on a busy mountain upstate he had no idea.

 

Some lessons can be learned from the remembrance of this tragedy. Especially now since the frequency of gas calls is on the rise.
 
From "The Secret List":

Merry Christmas to all my fellow EMTBravo members!

I hope this message finds you and your family having a happy, healthy, and safe holiday! I hope Santa brought you everything you asked for!

Seth G. AKA EMTBravo AKA x635, my warmest regards!

 

 

 
 
 

Outstanding work gentlemen!
 
  POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. -- Two firefighters who sprang into action in August after five people were struck by lightning in Poughkeepsie’s Mansion Square Park were honored Thursday.
 
 
Link to Time Warner News;
 
http://www.twcnews.com/nys/buffalo/news/2016/12/15/poughkeepsie-firefighters-honored-for-life-saving-actions-.html

 
Article & List of Officers and Departments: http://whiteplains.dailyvoice.com/police-fire/white-plains-welcomes-newly-graduated-police-officers/693349/

Saw this in lower Manhattan, 
Not the usual pickup body. 

Here's NYS*DOT's Truck 175062, a 2017 International Workstar single rear axle with Viking-Cives plow setup and combination spreader-dump body. This truck is assigned to NYS*DOT Nassau County for plowing the Long Island Expressway (I-495) and a portion of the Northern State Parkway, amongst other state roads running through the area.
 

International Navistar and Viking-Cives (the plow and body manufacturer) has won a three year contract with NYS*DOT to provide them with International Workstar chassis Class 8 dump trucks, a mix of single and dual axles with winged plow setups and integrated dump body sander. These will replace the older Internationals in the fleet as well as some of the Mack Granites with Henderson bodies. They contain the stupid barely visible new logos on the doors.
 

 
 
 
 

From the beginning  The  audio  
 
Monday   drone  flyover  below........>>>>>>>
http://www.wcvb.com/article/drone-5-buildings-damaged-or-destroyed-by-cambridge-fire/8467215

Here are a couple of shots from the Scarsdale fire yesterday.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
http://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/new-rochelle/2016/11/15/new-rochelle-firefighters-honored-heroic-rescue/93885760/

I worked in Fire Patrol 2, 84 west 3rd st Manhattan it was said ;by the oldtimers it was haunted by a member who hung himself on the 4th floor,i spent 32 years there,never ran into him....but the wireservice picked up on it the rest was history....google it,it makes good reading....

I know it's past Halloween now, but this article popped up on my Facebook feed:
http://www.firerescue1.com/history/articles/134758018-10-of-Americas-most-haunted-fire-stations/?NewsletterID=139022063&utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Exclusives1LeftTitle&utm_campaign=FR1Member&cub_id=usr_uxlWcZsGs9HGgKpG
 
I figured that it was worth sharing....I also figured it would be cool to share some of the more supernatural incidents that some of us may have encountered in our fire houses.  I will be more than glad (as an intrigued believer in the supernatural and "Ghostbusters" fan) to begin with a few haunted tales of my own.
 
My hometown fire house gives me a few tales.  The first come from a night that I was sleeping on the couch upstairs.  My car was in the shop, and it was just easy to walk to the fire house and sleep there.  Any way, I fell asleep with the TV on.  I woke up to the sound of footsteps coming up the stairs, and I noticed the TV was off.  I peer over the top of the couch, towards the door, and I see the figure of an ex-chief who had passed away years ago (natural causes).  I called out, "Jimmy?"  I heard him say, "Go back to sleep," and he just simply walked back down the stairs.  I did not go back to sleep.  I turned the TV back on, along with the lights, and stayed up the remainder of the night.
 
The second story from home was when I and two brothers were in the lobby on the first floor.  It was New Year's Eve.  At the stroke of midnight we heard clapping and hollering from upstairs ( in the same lounge that Jimmy scared the bajeebuz out of me!).  There were only three people in the fire house, and we were all in the lobby.
 
After moving to Westchester, the department that I had transferred to had/has some strange happening late at night.  The gentleman's name is Herman, and if you recognize the name, you know which fire house I'm talking about.  Well, late at night he roams around the fire house.  You can here his heavy feet going up the steel stairs to the attic in the apparatus bay, and you can here him walking up and down the halls.  It seems like he's just keeping an eye on the place, but it also seems like he's keeping an eye on you.  Sometimes it sounds like the footsteps are following you.
 
Where I am now, in a smaller and much older fire house, the strange things keep happening.  One night, while sleeping on the couch upstairs (yes, there is a theme), I was awoken by a serious thud to my chest.  It felt like someone had punched me dead center on the sternum.  I have no idea what happened.  I woke up in a cold sweat.  I didn't sleep for the rest of the night.  Another guy told me he saw a random person walking around the apparatus bay, just to disappear through a wall where a door used to be.
 
Alright, now that I've told you me scary experiences, I want to here yours!  What supernatural things have you experienced in your fire houses?

Here you go Seth, for all to know it was redesigned around Feburary.
 

Awesome to see this. A member asked a simple question out of pure curiosity and another member answered, in detail, with no BS.
I like seeing posts like this. 
Also like that FDs still use box systems, but that's another story.

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Thanks!
Seth

RIP Chief Fahy

 
Not my pic, just sharing.

NYPD has added new vehicles to their fleet. I saw a few of these in Manhattan today. 
 
Maybe we could have a caption contest? 
Here are my entries 
1) "I thought I told you not to leave the RMP out in the rain!"
2) "And what do you want to be when you grow up?"
 
 

I think he means the new "Fresh Orange Theme" that seems to be the skin now.
 
The only thing I find hard to read now are the member names.

Sorry, maybe its me, but does anyone else find that the new colors on the website make it harder to read? I like the layout,design,features etc. but it seems just a little harder to read.
 
Just my 2 cents....