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The Special patch is the same as the PD patch except with out the white POLICE in the middle
PD patch

Special patch

The Special patch is the same as the PD patch except with out the white POLICE in the middle
PD patch

Special patch

 
New Car 2102?
 

Empress EMS is the new contractor for Montefiore EMS. They are running 4 ALS trucks to start, as part of the NYC 911 EMS system, and went into service the other night after months of hard work and planning. This is one of the four trucks (2016 Ford F-350 4x4/AEV Traumahawk), and the Supervisor truck (2016 Ford Expedition).
 

 

@trauma74 Thanks for the response. I know they wear a breast patch but I was wondering about the shoulder patch.

As far as I know, they SOD EMTs & Paramedics do not wear this patch on their uniforms. They have a uniform that is different than non-SOD employees, but they wear the standard Empress patch on their sleeve

Hello all,
saw this picture on the Empress Facebook page and it looks like Yonkers has some new stickers on there METU. One thing that struck me was the logo for Empress Special Ops, does anyone know if this is an actual patch or if Empress Special Ops has a patch to begin with.
Thanks...

 Round Rock FD, Texas Truck 7 company used to be my first due where I lived in TX.  Round Rock is a fast growing suburb of Austin. They have 8 stations, and are opening two new fire stations this year, as well as just breaking ground on a comprehensive public safety training center. It is an all-career department now, but was a strong volunteer department until about 1985 (there are still two volunteer departments in the city, Jollyville and Sam Bass, whose districts encompass a MUD district). At one time, they were a large mostly Seagrave department, until Seagrave stopped selling in TX. Now, their fleet is comprised almost entirely of Pierce.
 
This is their new 100' aluminum platform built on a Dash CF chassis. 300 gallons of water with a PUC 1500 GPM pump.
 
The pump is a secondary feature of this truck, and runs with an Engine, both fully staffed. This truck's first due is the north Round Rock area, which encompasses 2 major hospitals, several college campuses, public and private schools, and medical facilities, numerous apartment complexes, residential developments, an outlet mall, Bass Pro shops and other major retail centers, as well as a busy portion of I-35...and that's just the part of the city that's in their first due. A lot of the structures are light weight construction. To give you an idea of how fast this area has grown, when I moved to Texas in 2008, this station had just opened with an Engine and a Tanker, and NONE of the above buildings, except for cow pastures and the residential area in which I lived.
 

 
MORE PHOTOS: https://www.facebook.com/pg/Siddons.Martin/photos/?tab=album&album_id=810843808952087

I'd like to take this oppurtunity to wish you and your family a happy and healthy Thanksgiving, and hope this will usher in a wonderful holiday season for you all.
 
Enjoy your Turkey, and have a great holiday!
 
Regards,
Seth Granville AKA x635/EMTBravo
 
*Please support small businesses in your community when shopping during this holiday season*
 
Thanksgiving is America's national chow-down feast, the one occasion each year when gluttony becomes a patriotic duty. ~Michael Dresser
 
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow. ~Melody Beattie
 
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. ~ Cynthia Ozick

Hello all,
saw this picture on the Empress Facebook page and it looks like Yonkers has some new stickers on there METU. One thing that struck me was the logo for Empress Special Ops, does anyone know if this is an actual patch or if Empress Special Ops has a patch to begin with.
Thanks...

looks like they found a chevy cab and attach a boat to it.
 

4304's a BLS unit It's a Frazier Box on a Chevy chassis (unsure of year)

Here's unit 5156 (unsure of year) Chevy  chassis but it's a Frazier at the ER Today 

I know rescue 88 has their own patch, does anyone know if any other WPFD apparatus/ houses have their own patch.

I truly apologize, but some posts made in the past 24-48 hours got lost in the transition from our old server to our new server due to the IP not resolving as quickly as I expected it too. 
 
If you posted something during that time that is now missing, I kindly ask that you repost it and I'm sorry for the inconvenience. Thank you for your support and understanding.

Keep liking and show appreciation for the people that keep the content on this site going as stated in the first post of this thread! Thanks people!
 
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First of all, I spent 42 years working for Con Ed in the Bronx and Westchester with the last 14 in Westchester as a supervisor in gas emergency until I retired last year. I responded to countless gas leak complaints both as a mechanic and as a supervisor. I am also a volunteer firefighter in Orange county. For me personally, the last thing I wanted to see is the fire dept on location when I arrived. They don't have the required equipment or training mandated by the PSC or the experience to investigate a leak. If it's on fire, I don't want anybody else than the fire dept but unfortunately the majority of firefighters lose interest quickly if it's not on fire. Then the paid depts. want to put the companies back in service asap and the volley companies in the day time Mon-Fri had what we call the paid firefighters responding, ie, the DPW members and their boss wants them back to work. So I would just prefer Con Ed to respond and if I need the services of the fire dept, I would request the FD.  At a damage that I responded to one time with the fire dept on location and blowing gas, the chief in charge told me they had shut off numerous valves to no good. I asked him how many valves and where they were. I got the deer in the headlights look back. I then went over and turned off the curb valve on the damaged service and secured the leak. They had turned off gas to numerouse homes and business, over 50. Restoration of gas is not simply turning the valves back on and is time consuming and costly.  A little info on responding. The New York State PSC mandates that all gas leak complaints must be responded to within 60 minutes. Con Ed has told the PSC that they will respond to 75% of the leak complaints within 30 minutes. That works well in the Bronx, Manhattan and Queens but can be difficult in Westchester. Con Ed will request the fire dept to respond if certain criterias of the leak complaint require it but the understanding is that it is to make safe by evacuating people in the area of the leak not to mitigate it.  The finest example of that was the damage in Scarsdale about 10 years ago where the contractor pulled the 1" high pressure service out of the regulator in the bsmt with ensuing high pressure gas filling up the house. The contractor called 911 and reported it but he did not evacuate his workers from the bldg. When the Scarsdale FD arrived, they evacuated the house where the damage was and the surrounding houses also. They opened windows in the house where the damage was to ventilate but being a cold day, the temperature dropped in the house and the thermostat called for heat and the house exploded but there were no injuries. Job well done. What would the outcome have been if they decided to look for valves? The curb valve was buried under construction material, main valves were further away in the intersections at the end of the street and can be and usually are difficult to open. In many older areas main valves can be much further apart than just in the immediate intersections and many are paved over. I was working the night of a gas main fire in Mamaroneck the night of a severe thunderstorm that took down a primary electric cable which grounded out on the ground burning a hole through a 4" steel medium pressure main that was four feet deep in the ground and igniting the gas. Such is the power of primary electric. Looking at our maps, I saw the location of the main valve but could not locate it, only a water valve. I had my construction crew start excavating in the area of where the main was (it was a one way feed down a dead end street) and had my two leak responders start searching for surrounding main valves to secure this leak and fire, a total of five more valves. While we were trying to locate theses valves, the water company responded to mark out the water main and services. After about 45 minutes, he came over to me and stated they did not have a water main any where near where the water valve box was. I had my crew open up that box to see if it was our gas main valve but it was filled with asphalt. I had my crew excavate that box down to the valve and it was our gas valve which we then shut to secure the leak and extinguish the fire. That took 2 1/2-3 hours to do from our time of arrival. Definitely unacceptable in my book and I spent the next hour apoligizing to the chief who was a genuine nice guy. It turned out the road had been repaved about 2 years prior. The contractor had damaged the gas valve box, did not report it and replaced it with a water valve box he had. You never know what you will find. Now back to the Scarsdale incident.  If I recall correctly, the FD said from the time of their arrival to the explosion was about 5 minutes. The first Con Ed responder, a supervisor, was able to locate and t/off the curb valve stemming the gas that was feeding the fire. As I stated earlier, the PCS does not want code 3 response and I personally did not want code 3 response having driven fire dept rigs code 3 and knowing the dangers. So my opinion and the way I understood the policy, the fire dept is to evacuate and make safe. 

NYC Department Of Environmental Protection PD
2016 Ford Police Interceptor SUV w/ New Lettering Scheme
 

I buy/sell/trade all kinds of man cave things.  Message me if interested. 

Shot this ambulance  in my mom's village it was on a call It's a Cittron Jumper unsure of year They run 2 person crews This rig is out of Sparti & traveled 25 minutes to get to the village

So, so those that didn't see my Spy Shot previously posted, the Town Of Greenburgh Police Department Special Operations Division acquired this 2002 Mack MC/Saulsbury from NYD surplus (Formerly Truck 3 and Truck 5). The refurbishment, including engine and electrical overhaul, chassis work, paint, etc was done all in house by the Greenburgh Town Garage.
 
Here's a shot of it in service and finished, although equipment continues to be mounted:
 

I forgot to update this.....AJ won!!!

Wems will operate
37 M1 & M2 0700-1900
37 M1 1901-0659
The shift change will be out of MPPD HQ