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Somebuff, sorry I mean the gps mapping.

Well not for nothing but we have been using the "I am responding " app. It does the same thing we have been using it for a year. We get a pop up window then press which station we are responding to, or scene, not available, or delayed. It also has schedule, apparatus status, and mapping with gps.

Thanks brothers for all the assistance. Half way thru, and I visited 34Engine, 55Engine, and 21Engine in Manhattan. 90 and 41 in the bronx and squad 61. Today I went to Coram and Yaphank FDs on the island. Still trying trying to get to the volly houses in queens and staten island.

I got to say hands down the guys at engine 90 and 41 truck were super welcoming and all aces! All the houses were , but I felt like family there. I also thank Coram fire for the tour. Holy crap the houses on the island are amazing. If I move back I am definitely living in long island.

We are still looking for a used or donation of a pumper by the way.

Thanks again , I am out of patches but I still got 1 shirt to trade?

Thanks brothers for all the assistance. Half way thru, and I visited 34Engine, 55Engine, and 21Engine in Manhattan. 90 and 41 in the bronx and squad 61. Today I went to Coram and Yaphank FDs on the island. Still trying trying to get to the volly houses in queens and staten island.

I got to say hands down the guys at engine 90 and 41 truck were super welcoming and all aces! All the houses were , but I felt like family there. I also thank Coram fire for the tour. Holy crap the houses on the island are amazing. If I move back I am definitely living in long island.

We are still looking for a used or donation of a pumper by the way.

Thanks again , I am out of patches but I still got 1 shirt to trade?

I am flying to NY tonight and will be there for 2 weeks. I am bringing patches to trade, so I am planning on visiting R3 in da bronx, and a few other houses. I was thinking of visiting maybe ride along in in queens or the island? Maybe visit the vollys out in Point Breezy or Broadchannel ? So if i can arrange any visit s or ride alongs let me know. Thanks in advance

Well where I currently work, our 2 front line pumpers are 1984 pierce arrows. They dont meet NFPA 1901 sub section d , and we can't get our Commishoners to place a tax measure on a ballot. When I.presented a plan , I was asked "well they start dont they?" never mind open jump seats, no heat windshield defrost non existent, ONLY a mechanical federal siren.

My opion is if a department needs a new pumper or ladder, they should get it. It comes down to.our safety and the publics safety. Yes some may go.over board with lights and what not, but non the less if a dept can do it I have no.problem

Brothers and Sisters,

I previously was a volunteer up in northern Westchester (YHFD) And now live in Central Oregon and a member of Cloverdale Rural Fire District. Our current 2 front line engines are 1986 Pierce pumpers, which are way out of NFPA safety standards,. Our Board of Commissioner s are not helping the matter, we are fighting to get.a.tax levy this November. I am leading the fire fighters association in getting a pumper donated or us buying our own rig to lease to the district.

With that said I ask my colleagues back home for help. We do have cash reserves avavailable if purchasing, or perhaps a donation? So if your department is getting rid of a enclosed cab pumper please contact me.

RIP brother may your family be comforted in this hard time.

My condolences go out to my brothers and sisters back in Peekskill and all of Northern Westchester.

I will trade my FDs 50 th Anniversary shirt (Cloverdale Fire OR) for one or I guess buy one if you can ship to me

Brothers, as having been a responder on 9/11 ( US Coast Guard ) and the importance it has in the history of the fire service. My question is, where or who do I request a piece of memorial steel for my fire district?

Quick summary after being a lifelong New Yorker, relocated to Oregon last year. Now my Fire District and Fire Fighter Association is celebrating 50 years of service and we are also celebrating a new fire HQ. With that said I would lov e to present to the company and chief, a piece of history from NY.

So where do I begin to get the ball rolling?

I will keep my reasponse short, so not to open Pandoras box.

Overall parades are good for the kids and public, and post parade activities can prove great for a single guy or somebody whose wife is not in town... But parades have the possibility of a good social event with good public relations.

Drinking at parades? Sure why the hell not as long as we wear out big boy pants, and are smart about it. Not for nothing but, march in NYC in uniform and tell me you don't drink after! Or before for that matter.

But what ever you do, don't get in any pictures that will screw you.

10 million ? Are you Sh!ting me!! What the hell for cause some body got all butt hurt. Forgive me but what am I missing ? Suspension yes definitely but 10 mill for damages ? Crazy ....

this stuff should be in house matters. And delt with internally like the not so long ago.

Was he wrong, yes but come on forgive my lack of P.C., but we all throw around derogatory words to each other and it doesn't leave the house and nobody cries over it.

Signed

Kristopher

Since everyone in here has given most of the answers that i would have given, all I can say to the rookies entering the fire service is that you get to buy coffee for all the guys at the conclusion of the alarm.

And on that note probies must know how to make coffee and freshen the pot once the enter the firehouse. Also to learn to knock with their elbows.

Well when I was a volly back in Westchester, from what I remember upon transmission of the 10-75 mutual aid was called in for FAST, additional manpower, and coverage to backfill.

That I always thought was kinda good, but you can definitely deplete an area and create a void of coverage. Possibly causing a unsafe situation if another hot job comes in. Yes the chances are small but can happen. And, as pointed out then you have the question of how much actuall manpower is responding and if a crew can even be assembled. ( this more of a issue with volunteer dept)

Well moving to here in Central Oregon, my dept and our neighboring depts, have a automatic aid policy. This I feel is slight improvement. Basically when a possible structure fire is toned out so is an engine from our neighbor depts. With this we know of any manpower isssues and can place other units in stand by if needed.

Well I don't know if there is a right or wrong solution to this issue. And I guess it's just what ever works for your community.

I totally agree with you brother! Out here in Oregon the dot of Public Safety and Standards is pushing the "Everybody Goes Home " program it is actually a good class and should be taught nation wide. It's a program put together by the National Firefighters Memorial and several federal agencies. It's a great eye opener.

However no class or case study after a incident can truly make a difference unless we actually put to practice the mistakes made. We as a community must sometimes put our pride aside and break away from " this is how we do it " and the "we have been doing it this way for years" . There are many new studies being conducted on safer practices by NISTA . If we can incorporate some of them maybe we can be safer on the fire scene, maybe not but worth trying.

The bottom line is there will always be injuries and sadly LODDs, and no matter how much training there is always something new to learn. And with the advancement in our bunker gear, we actually go further inside and potentially put ourselves into danger. Lets all make a resultion to be safer on the fireground and in our response to and from emergencies.

One death is to many.

Stay safe brothers

A local news station reported that the FDNY also responded to this fire.

Is that a true statement?

In relation to this incident I don't know either way on FDNY's response however I know in the past FDNY has gone mutual aid to Yonkers in several larger incidents. I was a one of them a few years back on Bronx River Road. So I am guessing they assisted perhaps someone else can confirm

Merry Christmas to the brothers and sisters in the Fire, EMS, and LE ! I wish all a safe 2014 "Everbody Goes Home " .

Leave to the media to make it a race issue and hype things up as usual.

If the bill was addressed to a Irish guy in Woodlawn would there be a stink ? Probably not, or the Italian in Morris Park ? Nope.

Or billed to " Bobby Irish" in Throgs Neck ? Well at least everyone knows Bobby Irish in Throgs Neck.

Ah well maybe a slow news day

Well you can check out 911hotjobs.com or search on indeed.com. and enter firefighter in the search bar. There are currently many fire depts hiring out here on the left coast in Oregon and Washington. I can tell you Aisters-Camp Sherman fire district is seeking to fill a FF/medic as is Salem OR and I believe Portland is testing in 2014, also Salt Lake UT if I am not mistaken.

Just a FYI a lot of the Depts here in central Oregon have student-resident programs for college students and they pay a stipend on monthly basis in addition to tuition assistance. If your college age or close to it I highly recommend this program they usually get preference in the hiring process.

Antiquefirelt btw having moved here to Central Oregon a year ago brother you are dam right we are lucky if we save the foundation let alone the house or two next door. Hell saving the foundation here gets a " Outstanding Job" .

If anybody here sounds like they're from the "saving the foundation of the structure is good enough" crowd, it's YOU.

Everybody going home when the call is done is not a reliable assessment of the performance that yielded that outcome. By that standard, a fire department could go to a fire, do absolutely nothing and then return to the station with everybody that responded and be said that they did a "good job", when you'd be hard pressed to find ANYBODY that would think a fire department that does nothing to combat a fire did in fact do a "good job".

Ouch beating me up here, I was not under the impression we were speaking of tactics on the fire ground in this thread. Without having the pissing match, I never implied not doing anything that is a ignorant statement with all do respect. We can discuss tactics and all that is involved in foreground ops. I am stating a very basic, but important factor that we get to the box, do our job safely. Why is putting safety at the top of our priorities such a bad thing ? Or is getting our picture in the Journal news or news 12 more important?

At the risk of being repetitive, in the 15 years I have had so far in this field doing it in the Military, Career and. Volunteer capacity lots of things have changed. But sometimes as we progress we then take steps back. And safety is something on the fireground that often gets put to the wayside. The outcome of this is injuries or worse.

This thread is called "Good job or Great Job" my opinion which is like a elbow ( everyone has at least one) is we have a Great job lets do a good job at it and just be safe doing it. Simple.

There's much more to it than that. That perspective is one of the things thats wrong with the fire service today.

Hold on, so your saying do the job safely and not doing stupid sh#t that will get you hurt or your brothers hurt is wrong? Are you kidding me, there are many many things wrong in the profession today and safety is one of them. Listen yes there is many things to be done and considered and critiqued after but everyone going home is my priority.

Maybe where you come from saving the foundation of the structure is good enough.

It's all subjective

Any job that all the members walk away and go home safely at the end of the day is a great job.

There are several other alphabet agencies that operate in NY/NJ , having previously served on one I have worked with agencies that use rental cars even. But I will say 99% of the vehicles that the Govt owned had GSA plates no markings but GSA plates or state official plates.

Other interesting point, the unit I was assigned to worked out of a previously owned Government building which people drive by every day and think it is abandoned. Another unit we worked with had their rigs/vehicles in a plain no frills aluminum garage.

Well judging by the plate on the front it's a official plate not a Federal GSA plate. So definitely a state vehicle or city I will go with MTA, having served for 3 years on a Joint task force in NYC and working with the civil support team out of FT Hamilton there rigs were blue and tinted windows buy GSA plates and ours were white with NY state official plates. However we had trailers but nothing like that.

Pretty sweet ride whoever owns it

Just quick fyi so out here in Deschutes County OR. The first number in the apparatus is the dept, the second is the type and third if even it's out of odd numbered house ie/ station 1,3,5 etc, or even 2,4,6.

So examples: dept 200 is Sunriver, 300 is Bend Oregon, 400 is Redmond OR, 500 is Crooked River Ranch, 600 is Cloverdale, 700 is Sisters-Camp Sherman, and 800 is Black Butte Ranch.

To further explain so 602 is Cloverdale station 2 and 634 is a Tanker/tender, 622 is a standard pumper, both from station 2.

771 would be The Ambulance from Sisters, OR. 351 is Bend OR ladder 1 from station1.

I hope it's clear as mud, not really it's actually a good system once you learn it.