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In honor of Rockland County native and FDNY Battalion Chief Michael Fahy who was tragically killed yesterday in an explosion of an illegal drug lab in the Bronx, our department vehicles will be displaying a red line across the rear windows of our patrol vehicles in his memory. This was the idea of PO Andrew Yorke and he was assisted by PO Mike Careswell, K-9 Officer Lou Venturini, Sgt. Rick Marsh and Sgt. Dave Tarantino. We greatly appreciate Chief Fahy's as well as all firefighters service to their communities. - Chief Osborn
 
In honor of FDNY Battalion Chief Fahy, we at the Suffern PD would like to extend our condolences and support to Firefighters everywhere. Thin Red Line's have been placed on the rear window of our cruisers to show our love. It's the least we could do after Suffern FD has been flying Thin Blue Line flags from their apparatus to support us in trying times. 
- In this brotherhood, nobody fights alone - Police Officer Andrew Yorke

 
An explosion in a Bronx drug lab killed a firefighter Tuesday morning, sources said.
Emergency responders were called to the home on W. 234th St. near Irwin Ave. for a gas leak at 6:22 a.m., officials said. After they arrived, firefighters discovered a drug lab, sources said.
Link to Daily News;
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx/explosion-rocks-bronx-home-cops-suspect-drug-lab-article-1.2808271
 
Been a horrific couple of days for the fire service worldwide...RIP
 
***hearing varying reports***
 
if anyone can confirm, please do
 
 
 

RIP Chief Fahy

From my understanding, this will be for 4 ALS ambulances.

From the Empress EMS Facebook page:
 
 

http://www.cityofwhiteplains.com/index.aspx?NID=410

Warwick EMS' "new" rehab unit. Originally a Town of Warwick Dial-a-bus, conversion done by members and local businesses
 

Looking for Ahmad Rahami in a Blue Honda Civic with NJ plates D63EYB.
 
Also Linden, NJ shooter in custody and found a suspicious package. Requesting Bomb Sq and K-9
 
 Update: Ahmad Rahami is in custody in Linden, NJ after shooting police officer

A few guys telling me the NYPD has the suspect(s) in custody for the bombing. Perp(s) apprehended in the area of Belt Pkwy and VZ Bridge.
 
As many as Five in custody.
 
If that's true, great job by those in blue. 

 
 Not too much I can argue about that one.
 
 And oh yes, in our Blast from the Past, the news media DID report it to first be a "transformer explosion" when that bomb went off in the lower level of the parking garage at the WTC in 1993. Only to find out later that they gave us the wrong scoop.
 
The other incidents you bring up as well. Just a little criminal mischief with nothing else behind it, I suppose.
 
 Excellent points brought up.
 
 

So yesterday I was in NYC for the Steuben Day Parade, I got home around 7. By 9 I was hearing news of the explosion. I had already heard about the bombing in NJ earlier in the day. I spoke with a friend who is an EMS Chief in NJ. He told me they were all notified to be on alert. Then reports of an explosion at a mall in Virginia started coming in, followed by reports of an active shooter at a mall in Minnesota. Fairly quickly they determined the one in Virginia to be a transformer explosion (wasn't that the initial dispatch in 1993?). This morning I got up and started hearing the news media fall all over themselves to remind us who was not at fault. In Minnesota it turned out to be a mass stabbing (if only we had some common sense knife control) by someone asking victims if they were muslim and stabbing those that said no, all the while speaking of allah. The local police there say they have no idea what his motivation was. The news media says this was not terrorism. We will hear no more about guns, because it turns out that the attack was stopped by a good guy (off duty cop) with a gun.
 
We have to get out of this national state of denial we are in. The media, politicians and even the investigators are refusing to even look at the most obvious possibility because it might offend someone. Well here is an idea, if you want to kill me and destroy my country, then I do not care one bit if you are offended.

Excellent point Pete. Whether we must deal with Terrorism, mass shootings, or even just the everyday crime, trying to be PC is NOT the answer. Burying our heads in the sand and hoping our problems go away doesn't work. I think 23 people injured in this incident. That's 23 more than should have been hurt.
 
 We have allowed our civic leaders to destroy our own safety by allowing those out to hurt us the ability to hurt more.
 
 In the first World Trade center bombing of 1993, over 1,000 people were injured and I believe six people were killed. That was a bomb placed in a car in the below sub level parking garage of one of those WTC Tower Buildings. It was so powerful that it blew through FIVE levels of solid concrete in that garage. Our Leader then (President Clinton - the same one that lied about cheating on his wife on national television), had every opportunity to get Bin Laden then. But he didn't and instead the terrorist got stronger.
 
 Then in September, 2001, just eight years later, our country is attacked again. This time it is the Worst Attack ever on American soil. Bin Laden takes credit for accomplishing this. Perhaps this could have all been prevented had our leader then taken the proper steps to deal with it.
 
 So with this most recent event occurring in NYC, where do we go from here ? History does have a way of repeating itself. Will the mayor of NYC treat this as the former U.S. President treated the first WTC bombing ? I hope not and I hope he has learned not to repeat the mistakes of others.
 
 I don't have the answer on what to do or how to handle it. But that's not my job, "that's theirs" !!!

Listening to DeBlasio I can only shake my head, what a dope. "Intentional" uh duh ya think!! The very nature of a bombing (or mass shooting) is to instill fear...no not just fear but terror...in people. To make them afraid to go outside, to gather in peace, to go to work, in fact to simply live their lives normally. Ignoring the obvious does not make people safer, it makes them ignorant of what's going on around them. Well I got news for ya Mr. Mayor this was an act of TERRORISM no matter who did it. Time to can the PC bullsh!t and start calling these attacks what they are...TERRORISM. We, as a nation, have got to face up to the reality of the world we live in today otherwise we aren't going to be prepared for the next attack...and make no mistake, as we sit here typing away, that next attack is being plotted by someone somewhere right now. 

 
Dinosaur wrote:
" State law in CA has all police cars black and white "
This is a Newport Beach California car. I am not familiar with California law, but I have been to California on a few occasions, and while the vast majority of Police cars there are B&W, I have seen a few that were not B&W.
This example is the first photo I found on a Google search, but there are a few other examples.

We do not make any attempt to standardize other public safety vehicles, not even any attempt to make DOT trucks look the same, which might be an important traffic safety issue. Some departments are not even standardized with their own fleets. We have several variations in Stamford, mostly now Black & White but a couple of leftovers from the blue days. Then we have frequent visits from the State Police that could be any color, although mostly grey now. UCONN police, which has at least 4 color schemes that I have seen locally. So I would say that standardization is nothing that police departments seem to care about or desire themselves.
 
Besides, which big department gets to decide the color scheme? New York, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami?

 
Imagine if American police cruisers looked like this, with fairly standardized color patterns to identify them as police vehicles with high visibility markings for safety.
 
Should there be a standard police vehicle color scheme or pattern?  A pro would be that the public would always be able to identify the vehicle, where a con would be the lack of local identity (which is highly prevalent in the United States).

The fallen of 09/11/2001.......
 
FDNY Firefighters, EMTs and Paramedics killed on 9/11
Company Fatalities:
FDNY Chief Peter J. Ganci, Jr., 54
FDNY Commissioner William M. Feehan, 72
FDNY Marshal Ronald Paul Bucca, 47
FDNY Chaplain Mychal Judge, 68
Battalion 1:
Chief Matthew Lancelot Ryan, 54
Lt. Paul Thomas Mitchell, 46
Battalion 2:
Chief William McGovern, 49
Chief Richard Prunty, 57
Faustino Apostol, Jr., 55
Battalion 4:
Lt. Thomas O'Hagan, 43
Battalion 6:
Chief John P. Williamson, 46
Battalion 7:
Chief Orio Palmer, 45
Lt. Stephen G. Harrell, 44
Lt. Philip Scott Petti, 43
Battalion 8:
Chief Thomas Patrick DeAngelis, 51
Thomas McCann, 45
Battalion 9:
Chief Dennis Lawrence Devlin, 51
Chief Edward F. Geraghty, 45
Lt. Charles William Garbarini, 44
Carl Asaro, 39
Alan D. Feinberg, 48
Battalion 11:
Chief John M. Paolillo, 51
Battalion 12:
Chief Frederick Claude Scheffold, Jr., 57
Battalion 22:
Lt. Charles Joseph Margiotta, 44
Battalion 43:
Lt. Geoffrey E. Guja, 49
Battalion 47:
Lt. Anthony Jovic, 39
Battalion 48:
Chief Joseph Grzelak, 52
Michael Leopoldo Bocchino, 45
Battalion 49:
Chief John Moran, 42
Battalion 50:
Chief Lawrence T. Stack, 58
Battalion 57:
Chief Dennis Cross, 60
Chief Joseph Ross Marchbanks, Jr, 47
Division 1:
Capt. Joseph D. Farrelly, 47
Capt. Thomas Moody, 45
Division 11:
Capt. Timothy M. Stackpole, 42
Division 15:
Chief Thomas Theodore Haskell, Jr., 37
Capt. Martin J. Egan, Jr., 36
Capt. William O'Keefe, 48
Engine 1:
Lt. Andrew Desperito, 43
Michael T. Weinberg, 34
Engine 4:
Calixto Anaya, Jr, 35
James C. Riches, 29
Thomas G. Schoales, 27
Paul A. Tegtmeier, 41
Engine 5:
Manuel Del Valle, Jr, 32
Engine 6:
Paul Beyer, 37
Thomas Holohan, 36
William R. Johnston, 31
Engine 8:
Robert Parro, 35
Engine 10:
Lt. Gregg Arthur Atlas, 44
Jeffrey James Olsen, 31
Engine 21:
Capt. William Francis Burke, Jr., 46
Engine 22:
Thomas Anthony Casoria, 29
Michael J. Elferis, 27
Vincent D. Kane, 37
Martin E. McWilliams, 35
Engine 23:
Robert McPadden, 30
James Nicholas Pappageorge, 29
Hector Luis Tirado, Jr., 30
Mark P. Whitford, 31
Engine 26:
Capt. Thomas Farino, 37
Dana R Hannon, 29
Engine 29:
Michael Ragusa, 29
Engine 33:
Lt. Kevin Pfeifer, 42
David Arce, 36
Michael Boyle, 37
Robert Evans, 36
Keithroy Marcellus Maynard, 30
Engine 37:
John Giordano, 47
Engine 40:
Lt. John F. Ginley, 37
Kevin Bracken, 37
Michael D. D'Auria, 25
Bruce Gary, 51
Steven Mercado, 38
Engine 50:
Robert W. Spear, Jr., 30
Engine 54:
Paul John Gill, 34
Jose Guadalupe, 37
Christopher Santora, 23
Engine 55 
Lt. Peter L. Freund, 45
Robert Lane, 28
Christopher Mozzillo, 27
Stephen P. Russell, 40
Engine 58 
Lt. Robert B. Nagel, 55
Engine 74 
Ruben D. Correa, 44
Engine 201 
Lt. Paul Richard Martini, 37
Gregory Joseph Buck, 37
Christopher Pickford, 32
John Albert Schardt, 34
Engine 205 
Lt. Robert Francis Wallace, 43
Engine 207 
Karl Henry Joseph, 25
Shawn Edward Powell, 32
Kevin O. Reilly, 28
Engine 214 
Lt. Carl John Bedigian, 35
John Joseph Florio, 33
Michael Edward Roberts, 31
Kenneth Thomas Watson, 39
Engine 216 
Daniel Suhr, 37
Engine 217 
Lt. Kenneth Phelan, 41
Steven Coakley, 36
Philip T. Hayes, 67
Neil Joseph Leavy, 34
Engine 219 
John Chipura, 39
Engine 226 
Brian McAleese, 36
David Paul De Rubbio, 38
Stanley S. Smagala, Jr., 36
Engine 230 
Lt. Brian G. Ahearn, 43
Frank Bonomo, 42
Michael Scott Carlo, 34
Jeffrey Stark, 30
Eugene Whelan, 31
Edward James White III, 30
Engine 235 
Lt. Steven Bates, 42
Nicholas Paul Chiofalo, 39
Francis Esposito, 32
Lee S. Fehling, 28
Lawrence G. Veling, 44
Engine 238 
Lt. Glenn E. Wilkinson, 46
Engine 279 
Ronnie Lee Henderson, 52
Anthony Rodriguez, 36
Engine 285 
Raymond R. York, 45
Engine 320 
Capt. James J. Corrigan, 60
Haz-Mat 1 
Lt. John A. Crisci, 48
Dennis M. Carey, 51
Martin N. DeMeo, 47
Thomas Gardner, 39
Jonathan R. Hohmann, 48
Dennis Scauso, 46
Kevin Joseph Smith, 47
Ladder 2 
Capt. Frederick Ill, Jr, 49
Michael J. Clarke, 27
George DiPasquale, 33
Denis P. Germain, 33
Daniel Edward Harlin, 41
Carl Molinaro, 32
Dennis Michael Mulligan, 32
Ladder 3 
Capt. Patrick J. Brown, 48
Lt. Kevin W. Donnelly, 43
Michael Carroll, 39
James Raymond Coyle, 26
Gerard Dewan, 35
Jeffrey John Giordano, 45
Joseph Maloney, 45
John Kevin McAvoy, 47
Timothy Patrick McSweeney, 37
Joseph J. Ogren, 30
Steven John Olson, 38
Ladder 4 
Capt. David Terence Wooley, 54
Lt. Daniel O'Callaghan, 42
Joseph Angelini, Jr, 38
Peter Brennan, 30
Michael E. Brennan, 27
Michael Haub, 34
Michael F. Lynch, 33
Samuel Oitice, 45
John James Tipping II, 33
Ladder 5 
Lt. Vincent Francis Giammona, 40
Lt. Michael Warchola, 51
Louis Arena, 32
Andrew Brunn, 28
Thomas Hannafin, 36
Paul Hanlon Keating, 38
John A. Santore, 49
Gregory Thomas Saucedo, 31
Ladder 7 
Capt. Vernon Allan Richard, 53
George Cain, 35
Robert Joseph Foti, 42
Richard Muldowney Jr, 40
Charles Mendez, 38
Vincent Princiotta, 39
Ladder 8 
Lt. Vincent Gerard Halloran, 43
Ladder 9 
Gerard Baptiste, 35
John P. Tierney, 27
Jeffrey P. Walz, 37
Ladder 10 
Sean Patrick Tallon, 26
Ladder 11 
Lt. Michael Quilty, 42
Michael F. Cammarata, 22
Edward James Day, 45
John F. Heffernan, 37
Richard John Kelly, Jr, 50
Robert King, Jr, 36
Matthew Rogan, 37
Ladder 12 
Angel L. Juarbe, Jr, 35
Michael D. Mullan, 34
Ladder 13 
Capt. Walter G. Hynes, 46
Thomas Hetzel, 33
Dennis McHugh, 34
Thomas E. Sabella, 44
Gregory Stajk, 46
Ladder 15 
Lt. Joseph Gerard Leavey, 45
Richard Lanard Allen, 30
Arthur Thaddeus Barry, 35
Thomas W. Kelly, 50
Scott Kopytko, 32
Scott Larsen, 35
Douglas E. Oelschlager, 36
Eric T. Olsen, 41
Ladder 16 
Lt. Raymond E. Murphy, 46
Robert Curatolo, 31
Ladder 20 
Capt. John R. Fischer, 46
John Patrick Burnside, 36
James Michael Gray, 34
Sean S. Hanley, 35
David Laforge, 50
Robert Thomas Linnane, 33
Robert D. McMahon, 35
Ladder 21 
Gerald T. Atwood, 38
Gerard Duffy, 53
Keith Glascoe, 38
Joseph Henry, 25
William E. Krukowski, 36
Benjamin Suarez, 34
Ladder 24 
Capt. Daniel J. Brethel, 43
Stephen Elliot Belson, 51
Ladder 25 
Lt. Glenn C. Perry, 41
Matthew Barnes, 37
John Michael Collins, 42
Kenneth Kumpel, 42
Robert Minara, 54
Joseph Rivelli, 43
Paul G. Ruback, 50
Ladder 27 
John Marshall, 35
Ladder 35 
Capt. Frank Callahan, 51
James Andrew Giberson, 43
Vincent S. Morello, 34
Michael Otten, 42
Michael Roberts, 30
Ladder 38 
Joseph Spor, Jr., 35
Ladder 42 
Peter Alexander Bielfeld, 44
Ladder 101 
Lt. Joseph Gullickson, 37
Patrick Byrne, 39
Salvatore B. Calabro, 38
Brian Cannizzaro, 30
Thomas J. Kennedy, 36
Joseph Maffeo, 31
Terence A. McShane, 37
Ladder 105 
Capt. Vincent Brunton, 43
Thomas Richard Kelly, 39
Henry Alfred Miller, Jr, 51
Dennis O'Berg, 28
Frank Anthony Palombo, 46
Ladder 111 
Lt. Christopher P. Sullivan, 39
Ladder 118 
Lt. Robert M. Regan, 48
Joseph Agnello, 35
Vernon Paul Cherry, 49
Scott Matthew Davidson, 33
Leon Smith, Jr., 48
Peter Anthony Vega, 36
Ladder 131 
Christian Michael Otto Regenhard, 28
Ladder 132 
Andrew Jordan, 36
Michael Kiefer, 25
Thomas Mingione, 34
John T. Vigiano II, 36
Sergio Villanueva, 33
Ladder 136 
Michael Joseph Cawley, 32
Ladder 166 
William X. Wren, 61
Rescue 1 
Capt. Terence S. Hatton, 41
Lt. Dennis Mojica, 50
Joseph Angelini, Sr., 63
Gary Geidel, 44
William Henry, 49
Kenneth Joseph Marino, 40
Michael Montesi, 39
Gerard Terence Nevins, 46
Patrick J. O'Keefe, 44
Brian Edward Sweeney, 29
David M. Weiss, 41
Rescue 2 
Lt. Peter C. Martin, 43
William David Lake, 44
Daniel F. Libretti, 43
John Napolitano, 32
Kevin O'Rourke, 44
Lincoln Quappe, 38
Edward Rall, 44
Rescue 3 
Christopher Joseph Blackwell, 42
Thomas Foley, 32
Thomas Gambino, Jr., 48
Raymond Meisenheimer, 46
Donald J. Regan, 47
Gerard Patrick Schrang, 45
Rescue 4 
Capt. Brian Hickey, 47
Lt. Kevin Dowdell, 46
Terrence Patrick Farrell, 45
William J. Mahoney, 37
Peter Allen Nelson, 42
Durrell V. Pearsall, 34
Rescue 5 
Capt. Louis Joseph Modafferi, 45
Lt. Harvey Harrell, 49
John P. Bergin, 39
Carl Vincent Bini, 44
Michael Curtis Fiore, 46
Andre G. Fletcher, 37
Douglas Charles Miller, 34
Jeffrey Matthew Palazzo, 33
Nicholas P. Rossomando, 35
Allan Tarasiewicz, 45
Special Operations 
Chief Raymond Mathew Downey, 63
Capt. Patrick J. Waters, 44
Lt. Timothy Higgins, 43
Lt. Michael Thomas Russo, Sr, 44
Squad 1 
Capt. James M. Amato, 43
Lt. Edward A. D'Atri, 38
Lt. Michael Esposito, 41
Lt. Michael N. Fodor, 53
Brian Bilcher, 37
Gary Box, 37
Thomas M. Butler, 37
Peter Carroll, 42
Robert Cordice, 28
David J. Fontana, 37
Matthew David Garvey, 37
Stephen Gerard Siller, 34
Squad 18 
Lt. William E. McGinn, 43
Eric Allen, 44
Andrew Fredricks, 40
David Halderman, 40
Timothy Haskell, 34
Manuel Mojica, 37
Lawrence Virgilio, 38
Squad 41 
Lt. Michael K. Healey, 42
Thomas Patrick Cullen III, 31
Robert Hamilton, 43
Michael J. Lyons, 32
Gregory Sikorsky, 34
R. Bruce Van Hine, 48
Squad 252 
Tarel Coleman, 32
Thomas Kuveikis, 48
Peter J. Langone, 41
Patrick Lyons, 34
Kevin Prior, 28
Squad 288 
Lt. Ronald T. Kerwin, 42
Ronnie E. Gies, 43
Joseph Hunter, 31
Jonathan Lee Ielpi, 29
Adam David Rand, 30
Timothy Matthew Welty, 34
EMS Battalion 49 
Paramedic Carlos R. Lillo, 37
EMS Battalion 57 
Paramedic Ricardo J. Quinn, 40

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....

americanpolice posted:
"ever so closer to the NYPD scheme"
 
This is not the first time they went to an NYPD look.
If I recall, going back to the early 80s or maybe even the 1970s, the predecessor to the the DEP Police, the NYC Bureau of Water Supply Police, had cars with the same white over blue scheme the NYPD had at that time.
This had the same shade blue (Great Northern Blue) the NYPD had with the single white stripe along the body.
I tried finding a photo on line to no avail.

 
My thoughts, exactly.  I mean, it kind of makes sense that the DEP police should have a similar scheme to the NYPD, as the DEP police are also protecting the citizens of NYC (in a way).
 
I personally still like the old white and green color scheme (similar to NYS DEC police and Parks police).

ever so closer to the nypd scheme. 
all joking aside, there are a lot of good cops that started with DEP.

All fire and police vehicles (not sure about NYC and Buffalo) have official plates assigned, however they are not required to display them. 
I remember the fleet manager having boxes of plates in a store room and going crazy when the vehicles were being disposed of.
I believe that one of the fire departments had official plates on the deputy chief's suburban but removed them when they started getting bills for running the ezPass lanes when on thruway calls.   

Police vehicles are not required to have DMV plates in NY, however, many municipal agencies have chosen to get official plates for their vehicles. Fire District vehicles in NY do not have to have DMV plates either, but many fire districts chose to have put them on their vehicles, especially the Chief's vehicles.

Police vehicles are not required to have DMV plates in NY, however, many municipal agencies have chosen to get official plates for their vehicles. Fire District vehicles in NY do not have to have DMV plates either, but many fire districts chose to have put them on their vehicles, especially the Chief's vehicles.

Police vehicles are not required to have DMV plates in NY, however, many municipal agencies have chosen to get official plates for their vehicles. Fire District vehicles in NY do not have to have DMV plates either, but many fire districts chose to have put them on their vehicles, especially the Chief's vehicles.