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Working Fire at Uncle Bob's Storage, Route 22 and Route 312, Brewster.
Photos courtesy Stephanie Gould.

Mount Vernon FD Foam 1 circa 1970. I believe that this was a 1947 Seagrave. Photo courtesy Joe Pinto.

Mount Vernon FD Foam 1 circa 1970. I believe that this was a 1947 Seagrave. Photo courtesy Joe Pinto.

And the current Foam 1(Now OOS, I believe):
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Photo by x635.

Mount Vernon FD Foam 1 circa 1970. I believe that this was a 1947 Seagrave. Photo courtesy Joe Pinto.

Mount Vernon FD Foam 1 circa 1970. I believe that this was a 1947 Seagrave. Photo courtesy Joe Pinto.

A salute to the veterans from all nations who stormed the shores of Normandy 68 years ago today. You saved the world from tyranny.

A salute to the veterans from all nations who stormed the shores of Normandy 68 years ago today. You saved the world from tyranny.

A salute to the veterans from all nations who stormed the shores of Normandy 68 years ago today. You saved the world from tyranny.

A salute to the veterans from all nations who stormed the shores of Normandy 68 years ago today. You saved the world from tyranny.

Absolutely ! Urgent care centers reduce the demand for EMS, unclog the ER passenger waiting line and reduce health costs.
Yep......sounds like a good plan to me !

If by hog, do you mean reduce unnecessary 911 calls and subsequent transports? If so, I say good!

This sounds like a drug rip gone bad.
The story was good up to the part where I started reading the comments and then I remembered how friggen stupid a large portion of the population is.
It's amazing that people on there are trying to make excuses for this criminal and his behavior and some of them are actually blaming the police.
It's incredibly frustrating to see how backward people's thoughts and ideas about us are.

The retired paratransit vans are not "beaten to death." They are not canalbolized for parts.
The vans have accumulated several hundred thousand miles and are no longer cost effective to maintain in regular service. The ones available for the van giveaway program are the best of the vehicles retired.

Actually last year NY was over funded. If you average out pension costs to the tax payers over a career rather than just the boom and bust cycle of the last 10 years pensions are an excellent investment for the taxpayers. Both social security and state pension systems were raided when they were profitable. I keep pointing this out, but you people on the right keep ignoring it. HAD GOVERNMENTS MAINTAINED THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS RATHER THAN REDUCING THEM BECAUSE OF STRONG MARKET RETURNS NY, NYC, AND I'm SURE MANY OTHER FUNDS WOULD STILL BE FUNDED WITHOUT THESE MASSIVE INCREASES. 2000% increases in taxpayer contributions is outrageous. But ask yourself what changed to necessitate those changes. There wasn't a surge in retirements nor was there a spike in payouts. The government finally got caught with their hand in the cookie jar. All of this applies to social security too. They kept kicking the ball down the road saying we'll pay it back later, but later never came.

Unless you want to keep your head in the sand and adhere to some strict ideology, you have to see that the pension benefits allotted to prior generations of civil service employees are no longer sustainable in today's economic climate.
And, if we're going to be honest about it, those pension benefits were justified in order to attract persons into civil service as, then, civil service compensation was notably less than private sector compensation.
In the last 40 years however, civil service compensation has in many instances, increased to match or even exceed private sector compensation.

Seeing the above makes my blood boil.
It is partisan horsesh1t.
This nation create ENORMOUS new wealth each year and will continue to do so, what has changed in the past few decades is how this wealth is distributed.
The people at the top through buying members of Congress, state legislatures has advocated for changes in the law that allow a CEO to be paid tens of millions for firing tens of thousands.
CEO pay has gone up 400% while ordinary worker compensation has gone down in the same time period.
If some of you want to accept the current political dogma from both parties that all our fiscal woes are the fault of TAX PAYING civil servants you do so at your own peril.
One political party only advocates for the already rich and corporations, the other party advocates for illegals and thinks money grows on trees, NEITHER party gives a damn about the hardworking middle class.
You can't demand pensions be cut or eliminated for working people as Cuomo has while demanding another tax cut for the rich and an increase in welfare.

Many departments, including their leaders, do not undertsand the mission of a truck company, do not take it into consideration when designing an attack plan, do not train adequately or appropriately with it and do not fund it properly.

Many departments, including their leaders, do not undertsand the mission of a truck company, do not take it into consideration when designing an attack plan, do not train adequately or appropriately with it and do not fund it properly.

Hoping some LEO brothers/sisters can help me with a few questions...Isn't minimum staffing for PD regulated by population? And if a merger takes place and the officers slide over to the new agency..while your civil service time carries over...don't you lose seniority in terms of the CBA...or is that negotiable?
Also I love hearing savings to taxpayers..there are plenty of other things in most places that are wasteful...public safety is not. What is the minimum staffing per tour of these areas? What will it be once a merger takes place? Of the other places where a merger took place..do you have the same amount of staffing on the road in your town or village?
Funny thing is many will support PD mergers...yet talk about FD consolidation and adding professional staff and forget it.

Not quite. It is the Transportation Management Center.

Ahhh......It was 9 years old ?

Ahhh......It was 9 years old ?

Ahhh......It was 9 years old ?

Just a quick side bar...
1. Whenever using an aerial ladder for an exterior operation or any operation where a handline will be placed on the ladder, make sure you throw a few hose straps on to secure the line in the middle of the aerial. Putting that amount of weight and pressure all to one side can cause a failure.
2. Make sure the aerial is supplied by two completely different water supplies because a sudden complete loss of water can shock load an aerial also causing a catastrophic failure!
3. Never lay an aerial into a window or on any object when you can only get one rail to align and touch. A sudden chock load i.e. victim jumping onto the ladder) will cause failure and make cause the rig to overturn. (happened to ladder 108 in Brooklyn)
4. If you need to short-jack always position your rig on an angle to increase space for the outrigger being set on the working side and always short-jack on the non-operational side

Unpainted. Painted doors will be a maintenance nightmare.