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PVFD has 3 career guys....

PFD has a Vollie Logistics Chief - "Car 5"

Tis the season for a recruitment drive for the New York Bowhunters, Inc.

We have been given a huge task by our President to sign up enough members to boost the ranks above 3000 members by the spring - something I need all of NY guys' help with!

I am a County Level rep for NYB and work at various sports shows signing up members. We were told it would be in our best interest to come to the Rockland County Show in Febuary with a "pocketful of applications for new members"! This is where I need your help.

I am asking any New Yorker (or anyone at all that wants to help support us!) to sign up for at least 1 year - it's $20! Pocketchange for all the good the NYB does. Remember last year's regulation proposals? NYB and it's members were at the forefront of the battle - and we able to derail the original plan!

Please, reply here, PM me, go to www.newyorkbowhunters.com, whatever - just please sign up. But I am asking my brothers and sisters here to do more - I want you to sign up - AND sign up a friend! 2 memberships would be great!

Thnaks Guys!

A little about NYB;

WHY SHOULD YOU JOIN NEW YORK BOWHUNTERS?

Your membership includes quarterly issues of Full Draw Magazine, the official publication of New York Bowhunters (NYB) delivered to your home, including free classified ads, informative reports, stories and photographs, annual pin, membership card, decal, discounts on Bowhunter Magazine and NRA membership.

NYB protects your bow hunting rights & privileges from the anti hunters and the animal rights groups.  NYB engages these groups, continually defending your bowhunting.  Help us fight for you.

Bowhunters enjoy a much longer season in many urban areas because of NYB’s hard and dedicated work.

Bowhunters don't have to wear hunter orange while bow hunting, because of NYB efforts.

As a Southern Zone Bowhunter, you don't have the intrusion of muzzleloaders, crossbows or other firearms during the archery-only season.  Why, because of NYB.

Your children and grand children will continue to enjoy an archery-only season. Why, because of NYB’s commitment to educating our youth.

Bowhunters can continue to use deer management permits during the entire early archery-only seasons.  NYB was instrumental in securing this privilege.

Bowhunters can now fill unused special season or doe tags with bow and arrow during the late archery season.  Why, because NYB spent years advocated for the privilege.

Bowhunters have an organization that works closely with the DEC on chronic wasting disease and other important wildlife conservation issues here in NYS. Why, because it affects all bowhunters.

By joining NYB, you can help us insure that you keep these bowhunting opportunities and privileges long into the future.

NYB needs you to help us fight your fight.  Join NYB and prevent the sport you love from being eroded.

You can make a difference.  Help yourself and the sport you love by joining NYB.  Become part of the solution that preserves our bowhunting past, protects our bowhunting future and enhances opportunities afield for you and all of New York’s Bowhunters.

“ENSURING YOUR RIGHT TO BOWHUNT TOMORROW”

NEW YORK BOWHUNTERS Inc.

NYB Factoids:

NYB is part of the decision making process, playing a pivotal and critical role in the policies set forth by both the DEC and the state government in regard to bowhunting regulations and state laws.

NYB assists physically challenged bowhunters to get back into the woods with bow and arrow, where they want to be, where they belong.

NYB gets youth involved with SPIKES membership, youth camps, shoots, youth hunts, as well as Bowhunter Education and Certification.

NYB continues to lobby and promote lowering the bowhunting age in NYS from 14 to 12 years of age. 

If you’re a Bowhunter and you live in New York, then you already are a New York Bowhunter.  So why not join NYB, the organization ensuring your right to bow hunt in NYS? 

Whether you hunt private land, public land or even archery-only areas.  If the Archery Season is shortened, taken away, or becomes usurped with other weapons, it affects you too.  NYB defends bow seasons.

Besides fighting to keep the archery-only season for archers using hand held bows, NYB was also instrumental in getting archery-only areas opened earlier (Westchester & Suffolk Counties), giving the Bowhunter more time in the woods.

Throughout the bow season, you can take an antlerless deer without having to use your buck tag or having to purchase another tag.  NYB was responsible for this change. 

 

        Remember, it’s YOUR season that is at stake here. 

If you’re a serious Bowhunter, why not be part of the solution and join NYB?

I have an older (2000) HT1000 - no display, 16 channels, speaker mic, charger and 5 or 6 batteries (might not all be good) - make an offer if interested.

It was awesome!!!

I was working at Empress - could not get home to Dutchess County - so I stayed for like 4 days straight!

The National Guard came in - we used a Hummer as a flycar - me, Marji, and Bannerman! We put my old blue dashlight on the hummer -what buffs!

We got our pics on some ambulance magazine cover (not JEMS)

I have some pics somewhere......

66Aplha1 is correct - Taylor Avenue - NOT Parker Ave.

Parker Ave had no fatalities - and was actually 2 seperate fires - both 4th Alarms.

5th Alarm on Seymour Street - Old School

I like the series I got from this fire - since it was on a hillside, the sky was a perfect backdrop for the smoke and Truck

Same fire as above - but from street level - this pic was considered for the cover of Fire Chief magazine.

And an old school 10-29 up in Slobomb!

Ok - here are a few more - again - they are digital pics of older 4 x 6's in an album - sorry for the quality.

This was a few buildings going down by Larkin Station - this picture was used by Aerialscope on their downloadable screensavers a few years back. Pretty cool.

Gidron Cadillac going good. I have a thing for 'Scopes.

This is the pic of the multi fatal fire a few years back in Poughkeepsie. This picture was featured on the front cover of Fire Engineering Magazine. Other pics from thei fire were featured on the front cover of the 1st Responder News thingee, FireLine, and the Poughkeepsie Journal.

Again - sorry for the reflection - which is bad in this one.

Sorry for the reflection - but this is a digital pic of a framed enlargement of a picture I took years ago on Mulberry Street (?) while working for Empress. This is one of my all time favorites.

The fire was so hot that it softened the gaskets for the front windows on the old Mack and they had to be taken out!

Back before the digital revolution there were only a few guys like me who carried cameras to jobs - used to be good money in it on the side. Not today.

I have thousands of YFD fire pics and Empress misc pics - I'll have to search through and find some nice ones to share.

Dovers Ladder -Wrecked

Was no longer Dover's.

They are currently operatimng with no truck, awaiting a new E-One stick.

Just stop by.....doors are always open.

The old Mt. Kisco truck went to Dutchess County (Dover Plains), about 91' ??, it was just recently sold to a department in the Albany area, i will let you know who when i think of it. Dover Plains is waiting the arrival of a new E-One 75' quint to replace the Sutphen truck.

Correct - I want to say Colonie but can't confirm.

The department bought it to replace a spare Tower that was in an accident to keep their ISO Rating (higher rating wioth a spare truck?)

In any event - they were doing in service on Dover's old tower, swung a corner and ripped the bucket off - no more reserve ladder!

Seth - you want a ride in the PFD Ladder?? We could work something out!

Ladder 2 pictured above - is actually acting as Ladder 1, with the real Tower Ladder 1 detailed to the Main Street Station (2). The truck pictured above will not fit into the firehouse of the ladder it replaced, so they swapped trucks until the new station is built.

The dang Towe barely fits in it as well - gotta back up Reeeeeeeeal slooowwww.

Been getting their workouts lately!

As far as I know nothing is changing with the exception of EMS calls now being dispatched with Alamo/City Fire tone combo. The vernacular is changed to now state, "City 911 to Engine ? and Alamo, respond for...."

There has never been a contract with the City and Alamo - merely a longstanding verbal agrrement.

It seems far fetched that Arlington would take over some of the City due to municipalty conflict.

Just a personal opinion, but boxes aren't really needed any more because everyone carries a cell phone

My city, which still has many boxes in service, has a large hispanic community. They do not carry cells, and if they do, we can't understand what they say when they call!

Sure we go to LOTS of 10-92's, and in my 4 years here, only 3 have been workers, but they add character to a city, alot of tradition in that metal box!

Unfortunatly, our system takes a beating with every storm, and is being phased out. It seems like each good storm we have, we lose another circuit! The cards are so expensive to replace as well.

The "command posts" built into the back is not all that great. In fact, I think Istayed there for a whole 5 minutes in my career.

I prefer to take a vantage point where I can observe the most and be as close as possible without impeding ops, or running around like an idiot.

But if you prefer them, ditto on the upswinging hatch - 86 the barn doors if you want to stay dry and look good in the paper

I preferred driving. Ask The Hammer or Blondie. :twisted: