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I heard that they're looking for a fire signal and alarm tester/maintainer at the County Jail. (However, future inmates need not apply, so I guess that one is moot.)

I heard that they're looking for a fire signal and alarm tester/maintainer at the County Jail. (However, future inmates need not apply, so I guess that one is moot.)

Well, you can always call and ask. Why speculate when you can get the information straight from the horse's mouth?

...I would see nothing wrong with having twice as many people line up in between WBC and whatever event they were trying to protest. I would never tell them not to speak, but I might try to speak louder than them or block their signs from the view of the families.

Exactly.

Some cemetaries are private and limit access to those who have a legitimate purpose for being on site, such as a funeral service and/or visiting the grave of a family member, friend, etc. Thus, you can prevent an unwanted assembly on private property.

In instances where the funeral may not be taking place on private property, It may not have been clear in my original post, but "keeping them out" was meant for the site of the actual funeral mass and burial. Thus, you can also come together as a community, and not through the judiciary, to prevent an unwanted assembly at the site of the funeral, in a manner similar to the way in which the Patriot Guard operates.

Believe it or not, what makes this country so great is the fact that everybody's beliefs and public assemblies, as righteous or as disgusting as they may be, are Constiutionally protected.

While I think that Westboro has some of the most hideous, disgusting beliefs out there, the mere fact that the Constitution allows for their existence, means that you, me, and everyone else here has the same right. So why spend all the time, effort, and money on a court case (because you know that's what will happen) to have them branded as a hate group? Instead, we as a community should come together, using the same Constituionally-protected rights, and block their protest. Let's get all of our engines, ladders, ambulances, police cars, and everything else together, make a ring around the cemetaries and churches, and keep them out as a community. It will not be a court victory; rather, it will be a symbolic victory that will speak many more volumes than something that cannot be settled in the judiciary.

Apparently, it was purely an academic analysis of the City of Yonkers, with no practical elements, such as standing in Getty Square at 3am on a Friday or a Saturday with a fat knot in their pockets.

Thanks for clarifying Barry. I was under the assumption (yes, I assumed and the inevitable happened lol) that an IC would just generically call for mutual aid, and 60 would dispatch the appropriate unit or units. I didn't realize how involved it was.

Correct me if I am wrong (and I may very well be wrong), but once the IC contacts 60-Control for mutual aid to the scene, isn't it 60's decision with respect to who gets called?

And he probably votes.

He probably voted early (and often), too.

Call me a cynic, but anyone who believes his story that the boots are "hidden" so as to keep himself from being robbed of them, can come over to my house anytime they want to buy this lovely bridge to Brooklyn that I have in my backyard.

And Peruggia was demoted for some other things in addition to the blizzard response, which was just the icing on the cake.

In the article, they reference people calling 911 from the mandatory evacuation zone. Really? Those people should really shut up, because they ignored the evacuation orders and then called 911 when what was told was going to happen happened. They have no right to complain.

I'm willing to guess that the old man pictured in the wheelchair didn't have a way to evacuate. And he did "shut up," as he is now deceased.

This is what happens when you let overpaid consultants who are mayoral cronies "fix" a system that isn't broken in the first place.

Mayor Bloomberg: As Rome (or, should I say, I dunno, Breezy Point) burns, you should not fiddle and run a race.

Not if it's a lawful order. In NYC (http://www.nyc.gov/html/om/pdf/eo/eo_163.pdf) those who refused to evacuate flood Zone A were guilty of a class B Misdemeanor.

Snowstorm last Halloween, hurricane this Halloween... I can only imagine what comes next year!

Locusts

Why does it have to be restricted to FDs? People and businesses do it all the time. It happens. And while it may defy logic to an outsider, generally, there's a pretty valid reason for it.

I know Detroit is broke, but you mean to tell me that they can't spare the 50 cents that it probably cost for the exemplified ratty blanket? Come on.

I believe Croton's new tanker is a pumper tanker.

Aside from the obvious creative license that they took (ie: the whole let's pull the girl out of the car without a collar and board, then stick a needle in her heart), I found the whole show to be full of bad acting, trite writing, and rather disrespectful to the fire service on the whole. Two alpha male characters who have a beef with each other? Been there, done that. And come on, do we really need another show that depicts fire fighters with addiction? As if "Rescue Me" wasn't enough, we have yet another main character who gives us all a bad rap through his "little secret" in the bathroom, in addition to the inside supplier. While it is fiction, it stands to reason that if the viewing public continually sees dramatized emergency services characters as a bunch of yahoos who drink to excess and shoot up in the bathroom, that viewpoint will surely carry over to us - the real guys.

In short, I watched it once, and won't watch it again. Dick Wolf should stick to making cop shows.

Absolute G-A-R-B-A-G-E

According to NBC (http://www.nbc.com/chicago-fire/) it's on for tonight.

I didn't see the recent news regarding the arrests. I guess I should read lohud.com more than emtbravo?

Yes, let's cut public safety positions, especially police, from a place like Peekskill. Wasn't there an as-yet-unsolved homicide there Wednesday night?

This has "great idea" written all over it!