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Here's Hillsdale VAC's 2014 Ford E350/Horton at Englewood's ER They recently switched to this color scheme 

*SPY SHOT*
Greenburgh Police*EMS
New Ambulance 79
2016 Chevrolet Express 4500/Braun Express

Photo taken today at the Town Garage, while it was getting some finishing touches. Should be in service soon.
 

 

Here's Cliffside Park's 2012 E340 Bruan Unit ID CPA1 One of 3 Braun's in thier fleet Cliffside Park EMS is staffed by full time EMT's they  sometimes run 2 crews to staff 2 buses  

Just delivered today 2016 Ford Expedition SUV will be sent out for radios & some extra LED Lighting as well as lettering Unit ID  EC9  witch is Dept chief

Brand new Grand Rapids ladder 4 at the training center doing ladder testing 

Here's a pic of 49-EMS 1 2000 Ford E350 Horton at the ER today unit is the paid duty crew weekdays 6 am to7 pm when  they are not handling calls they help out at police headquarters  One of the 1st "Blue Buses" in Bergen County area

as nice as it is, this picture saddens me as I was the chairman of that truck committee. At least it wasn't a total loss.

Nice

Stiloski's Automotive recently completely rebuilt Goldens Bridge former Rescue 24, a 2001 Spartan/Rescue 1. It was destroyed along with their firehouse in a fire in February of 2014.
Rescue 24 was totaled. Stiloski's purchased Rescue 24 as salvage, and completely rebuilt it in house. The roof and interior needed complete replacement, the body needed complete repainting and structural repair, in additional to numerous mechanical items that were destroyed by the heat and smoke. .
This truck operates now as an Incident Support unit, supporting Stiloski's two heavy duty 85 ton rotating boom wreckers, as well as other recovery equipment. It carries, amongst other things, chains, cribbing, jacks, high lift air bags, generators, scene lighting, cutting torches, fuel spill containment and cleanup supplies, traffic cones, and other specialized tools.
Also to note, Stiloski's loaned the former Tarrytown Engine 80 to GBFD until they can obtain a new rescue.
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AFTER:

I have never visited this and never will for a few reasons. First when they started selling tickets to walk down a sidewalk and look at a hole, I realized this was going to be more like Disney's 9/11/2001 experience than anything reverent or somber. Second when there was talk of making a statue of the now famous picture of the firefighters raising a flag, but first they had to change the faces to be more inclusive, I realized how many disgusting the agendas were. Then when there was talk of making the museum into the international Islamic friendship center or some other such crap design to promote the revisionist history that 19 guys randomly just all had the same terrible idea at the same time that had nothing to do with anything, that opinion was cemented. Then there was the debate over listing the names by affiliation or not, and almost independent of the opinions of NYPD and FDNY I thought that the approximately 700 workers for Cantor Fitzgerald should be allowed to be remembered next to their coworkers.
 
It just seemed to be that this whole project has been more about erasing memories than preserving them, and that is just plain wrong.

Based on a few previous post, it seems many New Yorkers are fully aware of the issue.
 
Here's how I found out.
 
Last year there were a group of guys, all good friends coming up to visit in the NYC area. The group was made up of active and retired firefighters, EMTs/Medics, military and buffs. We were all getting together in NYC for a couple of days and maybe visit at a few prearranged firehouses and other places where these guys might be interested in visiting. I thought "why not make a visit to the 9/11 Museum too". So I asked a few of the local NYC guys how they felt about it. I was very surprised to hear that "NOT ONE" had visited this museum themselves. Many of these guys were directly involved on that tragic day. Their efforts continued on for months after. They all paid a terrible price from that attack.
 
 When I heard that New Yorkers themselves had NOT visited this museum, including many first responders who worked months there trying to recover their lost friends, "how could I go there and bring a group of friends to view the history of this 9/11 Memorial". We would pay money to view what so many of our very good friends had lost. The answer was "NO...., we will NOT go". And in total agreement were every one of those who had planned to visit from as far away as Tennessee.
 
 To be honest, if there were ANY museum in this country that our group, including myself, wanted to see, it would be this 9/11 Memorial. As an outsider, I was not directly involved. But like most people in America, and the entire world, we all watched "live" on our TVs as these tragic events played out in front of us. Many of us lost good friends and family members lost them right in front of our own eyes.
 
  "I AM NOT ABOUT TO PAY TEN CENTS FOR ANYBODY TO MAKE BIG MONEY OFF THE LOSS OF SO MANY INNOCENT PEOPLE".
 
 Again I say, "the choice is yours". But "maybe that's why so many New Yorkers haven't been there".

FREE FOREVER......THAT'S ALL.....REMEMBER KEITH ROMA FIRE PATROL-2    SEPT.11,2001.........

I wish that the article had gone into more specificity regarding the $72M operating budget.  Somebody's making some serious money off this tragedy.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/9-11-museum-a-tough-sell-for-new-yorkers-1463964385

New Mahwah EMS ambulances

Just to report on what I have been told. It seems from many New Yorkers they feel this Museum should be FREE for all to see.  Our Country already paid a very heavy price and just as places like Arlington Cemetary, we, the people of this country should NOT have to pay to visit the history of how America suffered on that tragic day.
 
It was also reported to me that the top administrators of this 9/11 Museum are making large profits from this project.
 
After hearing of this, I, along with several friends decided not to visit.
 
Perhaps that is the main reason why New Yorkers are NOT visiting this museum, while outsiders are. Perhaps those New Yorkers know more than anyone else what a high price that was paid on that terrible day. Perhaps New Yorkers are fully aware of some of the salaries involved in this while outsiders are not.
 
 Take it as you may. You decide for yourself.

Lets look at this another way, from an EMT/Paramedic viewpoint.  I'll keep round numbers.  Lets try to see what the total time was. Dispatch to scene, 8 minutes. On scene evaluation and packaging, 15 minutes, transport to hospital, 15 minutes, discharge of patient and preparation for in service, 15 minutes.  Lets give it all 1 hour.  $2000 for one hour of service, one call.  So if that unit does just 8 calls in an eight hour shift are they billing a minimum of $16,000.  How much did the crew earn for that shift?  Anybody got a problem with that.  
 
Take it one step further.  If that one unit responds to just eight calls each day, every day for a year, that amounts to $5.8M per year.  How much does the crew earn annually?
 
On a personal note, I was bitten by a spider a while back and as it was swelling someone suggested it might be a brown recluse bite and I should go to the ER. I took myself. After waiting about an hour I made it to an exam room for another half hour and finally saw someone, don't know if it was a DR or RN, looked at the bite, couldn't confirm what type bite, I left 15 minutes later with a prescription and a $1500 bill. No insurance, I self pay.
 
Last year I needed a laceration attended to. Took myself to a walk in clinic. Waited 15 minutes, was taken to an exam room, had the laceration cleaned, 5 stitches, by a DR, prescriptions and out the door in about an hour, $125. No insurance, I self pay.
 
Our health care system is a mess.  
 
 
 
 

http://englewood.dailyvoice.com/police-fire/bergen-county-adds-mass-casualty-ems-special-ops-unit/662063/

I couldn't agree more!! Plus, unlike the E series van, you can get the F series in a diesel. 

Finally more and more agencies are starting to realize that F-Super Duty chassis Type I ambulances are far superior in just about every way....

From the Empress EMS Facebook page:
 

https://www.gofundme.com/helpjoycewilson

If you cannot attend the 10-13, please kindly donate on this page:  https://www.gofundme.com/helpjoycewilson Thank you in advance!!

A lot of PD's in Westchester have motorcycles already.  Yonkers, White Plains, Harrison, County, Ossining, Mamaroneck (not sure which one), Tuckahoe may, and even the State Police have them (although you seldom see them down here).

Not sure what the big deal is.