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    Adam Thiel knew he had his work cut out for him, one year ago.

     

    It was three days into his new job as Philadelphia fire commissioner, the first one in the long history of the department to come from outside of it.

     

    Having built a reputation as a turnaround artist for several fire departments across the country, he had a rule: don’t sign anything for six months.

    With an eye on making changes, you don’t want to cement a policy before you’ve had time to see what’s needed.

     

    But a department employee was being very persistent. This memo, he was told, he had to sign. It was urgent.

     

     

     

    FULL STORY: http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2017/05/19/an-outsider-wins-fans-in-his-first-year-as-philadelphia-fire-commissioner/

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    This firefighter was seriously injured with 3rd degree burns after a stairway collapse. WHY? Here's some more photos and video.
     

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    On April 30, Vinny Plotino, a volunteer fire fighter of 24 years was injured in a fire. At 2:14am Vinny responded to an electrical fire located on Bushwick Avenue in Central Islip. While performing his duties, he along with another firefighter fell through the stairs. Vinny suffered second and third degree burns to his neck, hands, leg, and foot. He is currently being very well taken care of at the Suffolk County Volunteer Firefighters Burn Center in Stony Brook https://www.gofundme.com/3qfhq60

     

     

     

     

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    MOUNT VERNON — Fledgling firefighter Michael Rhodd was geared up and on the roof of the Lincoln Avenue firehouse with Lt. John Lively on a recent afternoon.

     

    They were reviewing the principles of building construction and how to open the roof to ventilate a building during a fire. It was the tail end of a drill that started with Rhodd positioning a ladder truck in front of the building and raising the ladder from its resting position to the roof.

     

    The exercise — typically learned and practiced at the county-run fire academy at the Westchester Department of Emergency Services in Valhalla — is just one more example of how the department is changing how it readies the city's next generation of firefighters. That includes recently running Mount Vernon's first in-house fire academy in nearly four decades for its new recruits.

     

     

    FULL ARTICLE: http://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/mount-vernon/2017/04/19/mount-vernon-ny-news-fire/99505008/

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    3 hours ago, GreatPlains588 said:

    Per the Greenburgh U446 guys.

     

    Not Certified and not capable of filling 5.5's

     

    Are they buying a bunch of spare cylinders? Because if they're not, what happens when they deplete their stash? Pick up and go home, leaving the departments with 4.5 packs? Or shuttling bottles between the compressor and scene? Which probably isn't that far.

     

    But I guess change needs to happen somewhere at sometime, just hope they are equipped for it.

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    WHITE PLAINS— It was just a matter of time, firefighters said, because there were too few men to do the job and substandard equipment to work with. Warren Ogburn, 39, a professional firefighter here, died Feb. 24 in an elevator in a burning high-rise apartment building. As fellow firefighters mourned his loss at a funeral last Monday, they also expressed feelings of outrage, saying that their comrade perished because government leaders had failed to take their concerns seriously.

     

    "How far can government keep cutting us back before the system cracks?" asked Duncan MacRae, president of the 170-member White Plains Professional Firefighters Association. "Morale was bad before this, but now it's worse than ever."

     

     

    http://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/07/nyregion/after-a-fireman-dies-questions-about-staffing-and-equipment.html?pagewanted=all

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    This was regarding the fire yesterday at the Sports Page Bar:

     

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    White Plains Professional Fire Fighters - IAFF Local 274

    Ladder 34 was in service during the fire, luckily. However soon after the fire Ladder 32 blew a piston, and without another spare truck (TL-6 was using the spar...e) L-34 was reassigned as L-32 and the 34 crew was forced to use a spare engine (E-72) as their responding apparatus. Needless to say they had their hands full yesterday.

     

     
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    Can anything in Stamford NOT involve controversy?

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    STAMFORD — The city fire department’s highly decorated chief of volunteers was suspended for one week for safety violations.

     

    Assistant Chief Robert “Rex” Morris was suspended after he unexpectedly fell through a fire-damaged floor in a burning North Stamford home on Deepwood Road on Jan. 21. His suspension was lifted Friday.

     

    Morris, 68, said he was not injured in the fall and was able to get himself out of the home unscathed.

     

     

    http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/local/article/Decorated-Stamford-fire-chief-suspended-for-10907267.php?cmpid=fbsocialflow

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    On ‎12‎/‎2‎/‎2016 at 0:22 PM, mustang22_2002 said:

    Yeh he did such a great job maybe they'll give him a raise. NOT !!! As a city employee myself I would never try and save them money especially after the s*** contract they just gave us.  If I would be saving the Brothers money then it would be a different  story.. 


    You're not screwing the city, in the end you're screwing the taxpayers.

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    On Sept. 18 the Town of Greenwich suffered a tragic loss of one of its citizens in a fatal fire on Windsor Lane in Cos Cob. The first two fire engines arriving at the fire were the chronically understaffed Engine 2 of Cos Cob and Engine 5 of Old Greenwich. Each of these fire engines only brings two firefighters to the scene. The staffing of only two firefighters on a fire engine is dangerous for the public and for first responders.

     

    http://www.greenwichtime.com/opinion/article/Firefighters-cite-unsafe-staffing-levels-10599449.php

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    PETERSBURG, Va. — As the city of Petersburg continues to grapple with financial difficulties, the company that supplied the city’s fire department with new breathing equipment has repossessed the equipment.

     

    Deputy Fire Chief Brian Sturdivant tells local media that Fire Protection Equipment Co. repossessed the equipment Wednesday because “the invoices had yet to be reconciled.” He says the $400,000 contract with the company was to have been paid for through a federal grant.

     

     “Basically, the city got a grant from the federal government to purchase the brand new air packs. The government wrote a check to the City of Petersburg earmarked specifically for the air packs instead of putting the money aside to a special account,” Beemer said. “Because it was allocated as a grant, they put the money in general funds and the money is gone and the vendors have not been paid.

     

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    http://washington.cbslocal.com/2016/08/20/petersburg-fire-equipment-repossessed/