somebuffyguy

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    So lets play devils advocate:

    I pay taxes to support my local FD, why should someone who pays nothing to support my protection have the same opportunity? Would that be fair?

    That's a fair point that tax paying residents should be given a preference. But then shouldn't these districts implement a residency policy during employment? If a kid grows up in his parents house, gets hired and buys a house up in Dutchess the day he graduates the academy how were tax payers helped at all? And why is it a complete preference to residents, NYC residency is only worth 5 points?

    Personally if I were a commissioner I'd rather hire off the open list simply for the quality of candidates. I'd rather be protected by (and work with) someone from the top of the list than someone who barely passed the written.

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    Simple-everyone go back and worry about their own department. Identify what is working, define what is not working, find a solution of how to ovrrcome that and then work as hard as you can to fix them. No matter how hard or how much anyone on here wants to you cannot fix other departments. Legislation will only work so much bc the more the government gets involved the more things get f#/^&d up.

    That's all well and good, but Westchester is too small and interdependent to just have everyone worry about themselves. When was the last time the was a fire (outside of the big cities) handled by one FD? We work and depend on our neighbors all the time, so there needs to be some consistency.

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    Nobody ever survived for long under water huh ? Depends what your definition of long is, but 20+ minutes is longer than most people would think.

    Also as far as I know, many dive teams will stay in rescue mode for up to an hour before going to recovery due to the possibility of survival.

    http://abcnews.go.com/US/boy-survives-25-minutes-underwater-rescued-12-year/story?id=14271832

    http://www.today.com/id/36190954/ns/today-today_news/t/miracle-boy-ok-after-minutes-underwater/#.VHT5jMmK1mg

    http://www.12newsnow.com/story/16200067/boy-2-survives-30-minutes-underwater

    http://www.scotsman.com/news/world/miracle-boys-defy-death-under-the-ice-1-1299632

    They're not dead till they're warm and dead !

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    As much as it may seem like a joke to you, people have survived surprisingly long times under cold water. So time still does count. Ever hear " They're not dead till they're warm and dead" ? Forget just dive teams, how about just water rescue teams in Northern Westchester? Remember the incident this August in Croton Falls when Yorktown took a 20 minute drive to the reservoir as the nearest water rescue unit ?

    I don't have the exact numbers but I would bet money more people die in Northern Westchester in water incidents than in structure fires. As much as guys in the suburbs love to think we're in the city we're not. This isn't the Bronx with multiple structure fires a night, it's a rural/suburban area covered with bodies of water. It's a bit absurd to think in an area like this the nearest help for a drowning victim is 20+ minutes away.

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    I usually try not to be an online safety officer. I really don't care if I see a picture of a guy with his waist strap undone or something like that. But what's the deal with bearded firefighters wearing SCBAs ? I'm not talking about guys who forgot to shave in a day or two, I mean guys growing out full beards. I had to have seen at least four guys with full facial hair, my favorite has to be the EMS lieutenant with his Lincoln mutton chops. Come on guys, buy a razor.

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