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The Empress contract with White Plains in temporary for the moment as per the Director of Public Safety.

Can someone on here, who is a current Fire Alarm Dispatcher, please send me a private message? I have a few questions. Thanks in advance!

That is a pretty cool feature. I wonder how good it is.

http://www.newrochelletalk.com/content/new-rochelle-makes-unexpected-midnight-switch-emergency-transportation-services

actually, orange county has a bunch of ambulance corps that are still all volunteer. Town of Montgomery, pine bush, Kiryas Joel, greenwood lake, pine island, warwick, lenape, and Woodbury.

Those VACs are still volunteer, for now. I can see some paid staff in the future for some of them. The majority of the remaining VACs in OC have paid staff, either full time or part time to supplement the volunteers.

I am selling 1 pair of navy blue Fire-Dex brand bunker pants. Size: 40X29. They are in excellent condition. Never worn inside of a fire. Worn a few times on scene of MVAs. Black padded Fire-Dex suspenders come with the pants. Retail price is $500+. I am asking $400 or best offer. No reasonable offer will be turned down.

Anyone have any idea if and when 60 Control or County PD will be hiring any dispatchers?

The THALES LIBERTY is a nice radio also.

http://www.thalescomminc.com/Content/libertylmr.aspx

This new truck is specifically for CBRNE incident response.

CHESTER — The president of the Chester Volunteer Ambulance Corps has sued the town for contracting with a private operator for emergency medical services, a move the lawsuit describes as illegal.

Filed in state Supreme Court in Goshen, the suit asks that the agreement between the Town of Chester and New Windsor-based Mobile Life Support Service be declared void.

The suit comes five months after the town terminated its 64-year-old relationship with the ambulance company, allegedly without notice, and hired Mobile Life instead to provide service in the town. The ambulance company was given 15 days notice to vacate its building, which was to be handed over to Mobile Life.

“Our volunteer corps was founded in 1949 and we had been serving Chester citizens with all volunteers as a non-profit for more than six decades,” petitioner Robert Boardman, president of the volunteer company, said in a statement. “All of the sudden, there is this illegal arrangement and citizens now have to pay more for emergency medical transportation.”

Town Supervisor Alex Jamieson rejected the allegations.

“We signed a legitimate contract with Mobile Life support,” said Jamieson. “This is a make-believe lawsuit.”

He said the town ended its contract with the ambulance corps because residents complained of poor service. The ambulance company has acknowledged in the past that it missed calls for a period because of a lack of adequate staffing, but that the problem had been rectified.

Boardman’s suit alleges the town’s agreement with Mobile Life allowed it to impose user fees higher than those charged by the ambulance corps, and collect a profit. That agreement is unconstitutional, the suit said, because municipal ambulance services are not allowed to profit from providing essential services.

It asks that profits earned by Mobile Life be returned to the town.

The lawsuit is the second between the town and the ambulance company. Earlier this year, the town sued the volunteer group for ownership of the two ambulances previously operated by the volunteer group. A decision is pending.

http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20140623/NEWS/140629879/-1/NEWS

Anybody get their results yet ?

I have not received my results yet. I am not surprised. The City is slow.

I never bothered to check, but there may be a City Ordinance allowing them to use blue lights.

Mount Vernon and Yonkers PDs both have forward facing blue lights along with red/clear. They have both been using forward facing blue for about the last 20 years, long before the law was changed allowing PD to have blue in the back.

I just hit my 20th year as an EMT. Time goes by very quick. I have worked for 3 commercial EMS agencies, 1 municipal agency and 1 volunteer agency during these 20 years. Companies like Empress, TransCare, WEMS and Mobile Life are not bad places to start your career as an EMT or future medic. The pay is not great working for these companies, but you will get good experience, which will help you if/when you decide to go to place like FDNY EMS or to one of the hospital based systems in NYC. Overall, my opinion is that if you are planning on doing EMS for the next 25-30 years, you should get yourself into a municipal system like FDNY EMS or Greenburgh Police EMS. Greenburgh pays very well. You get great benefits and you are in the NYS retirement system. FDNY is not the highest paid, but there is plenty of overtime, great medical benefits, vacation time, sick time and a pension. The commercial agencies just cannot afford or they do not want to afford these same benefits for their employees.

The dates on the link you posted are very old.

UNREAL!!

Was there a time when County PD ESU was disbanded or not in service?

Several years ago, the County asked the Village of Monroe PD to change their Dispatch number from "410" to "450" and their cars from "411 - 419" to "451-460" because their unit numbers overlapped with Town of Cornwall PD units. As far as I am aware, Monroe PD had no issue changing their unit their unit number.

So far, this new relationship between TOWVAC & EMStar seems to be working well.

Anything I say here in the forums, I would gladly say to any of the MLSS administrators if we were face to face. Oh, wait a minute. I have done that already.

Yes, there will be 2 TOWVAC EMTs and 1 EMStar Paramedic together on a TOWVAC bus. If a patient requires ALS treatment, the EMStar Paramedic will provide care. If the patient is determined to be BLS, the TOWVAC EMT will provide care. In addition, EMStar will have extra BLS & ALS buses in the area, which will provide BLS & ALS mutual aid to TOWVAC.

Also, TOWVAC is in the process of becoming an ALS agency. EMStar is in FULL SUPPORT of TOWVAC getting upgraded to ALS. This is in stark comparison to the FORMER ALS provider who covered Wallkill. The "OTHER" ALS provider DOES NOT support TOWVAC being upgraded to an ALS agency. They went to the Wallkill Town Board and told them that they can provide BLS & ALS services to the town cheaper than what TOWVAC can. This was another blatant attempt by "THEM" to get another VAC shut down, so they can take over.

EM111,

That is a PERFECT explanation!!!!

Thank you!!

It would be no different than if an EMSTAR Fly car responded to a call with TOWVAC, then got aboard TOWVACs bus to ride the job in ALS to the hospital.

As of right now, there will be an EMStar Paramedic assigned 24/7 to TOWVAC. The EMStar medic will be on a TOWVAC ambulance with a TOWVAC EMT. EMStar will also have BLS & ALS ambulances stationed in the area to handle mutual aid requests from TOWVAC.