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M' Ave liked a post in a topic by Morningjoe in Apparatus Participation - Parades June 18, 2016

Your district/city/village decided that it was of the utmost importance for life safety to purchase that apparatus, what ever type it is, using taxpayer money.

To remove it from service to show it off places everyone at risk.

To those who say "that's what mutual aid is for," if that's your excuse, why not just rely on it all the time and use them instead of purchasing your own equipment. If you can justify the extra response time a couple times a year, other than mechanical or maintenance reasons, how can you effectively justify your need for your own apparatus all the time?

M' Ave liked a post in a topic by Morningjoe in Apparatus Participation - Parades June 18, 2016

Your district/city/village decided that it was of the utmost importance for life safety to purchase that apparatus, what ever type it is, using taxpayer money.

To remove it from service to show it off places everyone at risk.

To those who say "that's what mutual aid is for," if that's your excuse, why not just rely on it all the time and use them instead of purchasing your own equipment. If you can justify the extra response time a couple times a year, other than mechanical or maintenance reasons, how can you effectively justify your need for your own apparatus all the time?

Westfield12 liked a post in a topic by Morningjoe in Federal Probe: Mahopac FD Mising $5 Million Dollars June 16, 2016

Now there's a reasonable response to an entire organization because of the acts of one man.

Morningjoe liked a post in a topic by nfd2004 in Village Of Port Chester Disbands Career FD June 10, 2016

Thank you very much "Bnechis" for that information. I certainly appreciate that.

Thank you also to the IAFF for their donations to each of these firefighters. I am very happy to see that the Brotherhood is still alive and well.

As many here do, I also hope for a positive resolution to end this nightmare that these guys have been put through, as well as bring those firefighters back for the safety of all involved.

Morningjoe liked a post in a topic by Dinosaur in It is still out there Professional vs Volunteer...and in Westchester June 1, 2016

Bad analogy. The best analogy would be the volunteer EMT compared to the "career" "paid" EMT. Both receive the same training and hold the same certification. All security guards in NYS receive the same training and certification from NYS as do police officers but they are not the same. That's unfortunately not the case with firefighter training in NYS!

Morningjoe liked a post in a topic by x152 in Village Of Port Chester Disbands Career FD May 12, 2016

Absent from most of this banter has been the giant elephant that is the Port Chester volunteers.

Now I am not suggesting that the rank and file were part of the negotiations prior to the dismissal of the entire career force, but this thread looks to be painted with financial blame with little said about the animus toward the Union.

So where is the widespread support from the PCFD volunteers? Yes, there are a handful out there support the laid off members, but with claims of upwards of 300 volunteers to support the village...one would think that more than a handful would show visible support?

Why have more volunteers not taken a stand with their "brother" career firefighters?

Have we not heard time and time again "that we are all brothers?", "the fire doesn't care if you are paid or volunteer", "I am a professional too" and other countless canned lines of absolute BS for years on this board and others out there.

Where is the cry of the volunteers? Where is the Chief pounding the desk?

In places like Lawrence (MA) and Providence (RI) were departments were dissimated due to the agenda of a Mayor, Fire Chiefs have resigned in protest (no worries, some boob is always found to sit-in), but the leader took a stand in protest.

I'll throw the gauntlet to the PCFD Chief and other "leaders" at his side....you sure have been quiet about this issue. Your silence is deafening. When will you stand?

There must be a bunch of hearing impaired individuals that live in "la-la-land" on this board if they still want to pretend that this was solely a financial crisis. This appears to be nothing more than good old fashioned retribution against a small labor union.

You want to know why?....Wait for the court documents and depositions...nothing like a nice controlled and sterile legal environment to find truth and oppress political smoke.

Who will stand? The Chief? His subordinates? The Volunteers?

BMA

x635 liked a post in a topic by Morningjoe in Village Of Port Chester Disbands Career FD May 3, 2016

What? There's no such federal law.

each state sets its fire laws up, and in NY a village is required to provide (either by direct supervision, Croton-onhudson, or contract, Mt. kisco) fire protection. Cities, and villages are required, towns are not allowed to set up fire protection.

Port Chester is a village that directly oversees their fire department (it's a department of the village), so they have absolute rule over budgeting and such and staffing.

EmsFirePolice liked a post in a topic by Morningjoe in Village Of Port Chester Disbands Career FD May 3, 2016

100%. Surprise vote by the board. Rye Brook currently without fire protection, sent the PC career firefighter home.

Cops at every PC fire house

Morningjoe liked a post in a topic by dwcfireman in Amphibious Landing Vehicles For Sale May 11, 2016

NWP will take it LOL

Morningjoe liked a post in a topic by Ladder44 in Village Of Port Chester Disbands Career FD May 7, 2016

How is this even acceptable? outisde of this recent issue....idc if you are career and vollunteer at home, but to vollunteer in a combo dept? do those "double dippers" run mutal aid into other career depts with PCFD?

Before this gets out of hand, im career and vollunteer in my boonedock town in no whereville CT, but i dont run mutal aid fires into the neighbooring iaff city, nor does anyone else whos career and vollys with me.

x635 liked a post in a topic by Morningjoe in Village Of Port Chester Disbands Career FD May 3, 2016

What? There's no such federal law.

each state sets its fire laws up, and in NY a village is required to provide (either by direct supervision, Croton-onhudson, or contract, Mt. kisco) fire protection. Cities, and villages are required, towns are not allowed to set up fire protection.

Port Chester is a village that directly oversees their fire department (it's a department of the village), so they have absolute rule over budgeting and such and staffing.

EmsFirePolice liked a post in a topic by Morningjoe in Village Of Port Chester Disbands Career FD May 3, 2016

100%. Surprise vote by the board. Rye Brook currently without fire protection, sent the PC career firefighter home.

Cops at every PC fire house

Morningjoe liked a post in a topic by Bnechis in Village Of Port Chester Disbands Career FD May 4, 2016

#RyeBrook Mayor Paul Rosenberg responds regarding elimination of paid #PortChester firefighters.
"To my Rye Brook Friends and Neighbors:
I want to bring you up as to date with a very important issue which has arisen in in the past 24 hours. A shared fire services contract with the Village of Port Chester requires them to staff the Rye Brook firehouse with one “career” firefighter from 7:00 PM to 7:00 AM daily. In the event of a fire, they would respond together with numerous Port Chester volunteer firefighters.
Last evening, as part of its budget adoption, the Port Chester Board of Trustees voted to remove the “career” firefighters from their budget, moving to an all-volunteer fire department. When that happened, Port Chester put all “career” firefighters on leave, including the firefighter who was staffing the Rye Brook firehouse. At that point, we made the decision to staff the Rye Brook firehouse overnight with Rye Brook Fire Department personnel.
Despite Port Chester’s breach of contract, the Village of Rye Brook will ensure that the Rye Brook firehouse will be staffed around the clock while we consider all of our legal options. As in the past, the Port Chester volunteers will continue to respond.
Please be assured that the safety of our residents is of paramount concern to us, and we taking every step to protect your safety.
I will continue to keep you informed as events warrant."

Morningjoe liked a post in a topic by mfc2257 in Village Of Port Chester Disbands Career FD May 4, 2016

I wouldn't be calling PCFD ENG58 out over anything that is taken out of context on this site. The guy devoted his whole life to the PCFD both with and without a paycheck.