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  3. Posted · Edited by x129K

    I started at Empress nearly 20 years ago...put in 7 OF THE BEST YEARS OF MY LIFE THERE..I loved every aspect of it..L O V E D IT!

    Yonkers.

    YPD

    YFD (effing big time!)

    The J O B S

    The TRAUMA

    The POTENTIAL FOR DIASTERS

    The people.

    I had so much fun it should have been illegal. (Some of it MAY have been....)

    I survived the Guy Amendola scandal.......Popestock......Operation Snowflake.....Sugrue as an Admin......unionizing....the Wolkowitz/Minerva Smackdown....the inception of the TAC bus ......I buried my friend, partner, and Lieutenant Tommy Sal....I had my car broken into numerous times.....I met and worked with some of the finest people to ever wear an EMS uniform.

    I would go back in a heartbeat.

  12. Posted

    I LOVE IT! I am a big E-One fan, and a bigger "truck" fan, so this is a nice fit.

    We also run a 2006 HP75, and while it is nice, we are certainly handicapped by the shortfall of the "just" 75' stick. As I have mentioned in the past, even though the majority of our fires are in SFD, the setback from the road is what kills us. That extra 25 feet would come in handy on more than 1 fire that I can immediatly recall.

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    I had the honor and privlidge to work with Mark at Empress once he came home from his first active duty. I remember when he got hired by the Troopers him calling me frantic asking how to get to Troop K HQ, knowing I lived up that way. He would always bust my balls saying he couldnt wait to get out on the road so he could pull me over and write me for having a huge blue lightbar....LOL..

    Some years later I was headed home, north on the TSP when a Troop car came up on me, as he was passing, we looked at each other and immediatly slammed on the brakes and pulled over. it was Mark, headed up to Troop K again, and I had long since taken the lightbar off. LOL

    God Bless Brother - I hope to run into you soon.

    http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2013308050023

  16. Posted

    If your paying a million dollars for a 75 ladder you must have put every bell & whistle on it.

    In my district we have several buildings while only 2 stories in the front they are almost 4 stories in the rear should we have a ladder (most have sprinklers), maybe. We only run 2 - 3 fires a year, most are held to room & contents and we have 6 towers & 2 ladder within 5 - 7 minutes of our district. We don't have the manpower to also run a ladder company and a engine company. We would most likely be calling for mutual aid if we did have a fire in one of those complexes. So why should we spend $750,000 - $1,000,000 for an Ariel?

    Maybe Castle Point will buy one....................................... ;)

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    concerned about the prospect of the town buying a 75-foot-tall ladder truck in a town with no buildings even half that tall.

    It ain't about the height.....it's the REACH.

    And with a majority of SFD's in the suburbs and rural districts being set back from the roadway, even 75' is too short, as my department has seen all too often.

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