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Hopefully you guys get to keep your jobs. I hear YFD is making a push to get rid of all of the civilian dispatchers and replace them with light duty FFs. Good luck and sorry that you guys are caught in the middle of all of this.

I hope that is not true.

NO change in Dover Plains.

Even if the business doesn't there are 3rd party agencies that will pick up the good and deliver it for you anyway.

Like cops and medics.....

Agreed. I have no ill feelings towards FP.

I think MANY firepoliceman have a power trip of some sort. Hell - when we bought our house 9 years ago, I was burning brush...it was smoldering and smoking, I went inside for dinner and some more beer...we heard a knock on the door...an older man in plain clothes was at the door, he tinned me with his fire police badge....said I had to put the fire out.

Sad thing was he was in a neighboring fire department, and we reside in a totally different township. I laughed, saluted, and went back to dinner.

Yeah, I figured...I was gonna post that too, but I dont know spanish so well.

The USCG does not restrict commercial activity on a navigatable water way

Good thing too.

This could have been ugly if they tried to issue UTT's to the good Captain!

Interesting. Ever consider a career in VTL enforcement?

RIP.

I still have my "Westchester County Golden Apple of Excellence" award issued by him. Cant - for the life of me remember what I did to deserve it.

I was always curious of how while at Empress, commercial ambulance agencies were "allowed" to use the parkways for non-emergency use.

Good question....where the hell is he?

M/A from Yonkers?

A long standing tradiotion here on Bravo, seems to go by the wayside...so i thought I would throw one together.

I know there were several more major incidents in the county that had no IA's..so these are based on only the IA's posted.

Incidents such as these reinforces the strong work done by the emergency services here in the county, from the 911 Dispacthers, the police, EMS, and firemen.

10; Tivoli Triple Fatal MVA - http://www.emtbravo.net/index.php/topic/44862-tivoli-triple-fatal-mva-1-14-12/

9. Dover 2nd Alarm with multiple animal rescues - http://www.emtbravo.net/index.php/topic/47182-dover-structure-fire-9612/

8. Glenham Deck Collpse with Aided - http://www.emtbravo.net/index.php/topic/46980-glenham-deck-collapse-with-injuries-8612/

7. Dover 2nd Alarm w/ Medevac Burn Victim (fatal) - http://www.emtbravo.net/index.php/topic/45638-dover-2nd-alarm-fire-w-medivac-31112/

6. East Fishkill Haz Mat/MCI - http://www.emtbravo.net/index.php/topic/46536-east-fishkill-sulfuric-acid-spill-15-patients-61312/

5. Arlington House Fire with Rescues - http://www.emtbravo.net/index.php/topic/45854-arlington-porch-fire-wpeople-trapped-3302012/

4. Rooselvelt Fatal MVA with Pin, in Water - http://www.emtbravo.net/index.php/topic/47693-roosevelt-mva-rollover-into-water-w-extrication-11912/

3. City of Beacon 2nd Alarm with Rescues - http://www.emtbravo.net/index.php/topic/45815-city-of-beacon-2nd-alarm-wentrapment-32612/

2. Fairview Multi Fatal House Fire - http://www.emtbravo.net/index.php/topic/44968-fairview-2nd-alarm-structure-fire-1-21-12/

1. City of Poughkeepsie 2nd Alarm with multiple rescues - http://www.emtbravo.net/index.php/topic/48034-city-of-poughkeepsie-2nd-alarm-fire-121712/

And I am all for some sort of career staffing everywhere there is not adequate volunteers. The more jobs the better IMO....hell, who out there in vollieville wouldnt want to do this AND get paid?

Look to the future, it will be easier for our kids to get on the job, if there are more career departments. And what better job is there?

........but one can still see the cliff is coming when the tax base will no longer support the current less.

No doubt....the end is near. The whole "fiscal cliff" frightens me..personally, and in emergency services, but moreso as a father of two young ones...their future is bleak at best.

ALOT of us volunteer departments are facing in the next few years tje possibility of "going paid"...which to some has such a different meaning to others...the old timers, and many current Chief Officers, Commisioners,etc, see "going paid" (a term I loathe BTW) as "paid drivers during the day"...a bandaid IMO..

"Well, the trucks will get out on first dispatch!" Bandaid! If noone can HEAR the problems of no manpower, it must not exist right?

An engine, with a just "paid driver" rolling out is a recipe for disaster, as many of us know. A bandaid with no adhesive.

My opinion is, and hopefully, there are laws preventing the random hiring of a simple paid driver, but anything less than a career firefighter, complete with an official ACADEMY training (229, not piece meal IMO) is a risk. Anyone employed in the position of firefighter obviously should be able to perform ALL capacities of the job.

Hiring retired guys (not retired firemen) to drive is silly.

Wow...thats not much at all, considering. Thanks.

Cap - what is NR's staffing? (out of pure curiosity)

I BELIEVE the engine with a cracked, and financially irreplaceable tank.

What up with all the fires in Mount Vernon though. I feel like slowly but surely houses are just being wiped out.

Yeah....cuz JOBS in The Vern is a new found problem...LOL

GREAT picture series - thanks for posting.

Bet that was a BEAUTIFUL house back in it's hey day

City of Hudson also has a Dive Team.

After January 1, you can ask for Car 3, Chief DeMarco.

Wow...when I took Fire Police in 1990, I think it was only 6 hours.

But I agree....hell - we all could use more training.

On FFclosecalls they have a blurb on this JOB, with a pic...and it shows the fire building, you can see these guys did NOT take an easy ride down...off the roof onto the porch stairs...luckily no one was under them!

http://www.firefighterclosecalls.com/news/fullstory/newsid/178257

Went through this many years ago. Stopped at my fathers house for breakfast, on the way into work for 9x6 tour. He said-"hey, your firehouse is on 43st.,right? I think it has been destroyed by a huge fire!" I hoped (selfishly) that it was the other company,Engine 65, also on 43 st., not Rescue 1. No, it was my firehouse- the 6-story (heavy timber) piano factory burned (arson) and collapsed onto our 3-story quarters.

We spent 2 weeks digging through the pancake collapse, getting to our lockers and finding old photos and memorabila (sp?). One of the guys had many large coffee cans filled with quarters, and another had all the masts and sails and gear for his sailboat in the cellar, in addition to his three boys band equipment. (He told his boys that they could rehearse in the firehouse basement, as long as the Captain wasn't working). Well one day the Captain made a last minute mutual, and ending up working during a "rehearsal". Needless to say, he wasn't happy when he heard a huge racket going on in quarters!

Anyway, we had to relocate for several years to E34/L21 on 38st. unil a new quarters was rebuilt on the site. Of course the wrought-iron circular staircase and the old kitchen and the wainscoting-all gone in the new "modern" station. Losing your firehouse to a fire is very painful even if it was an accident.

I "liked" this post, Sir, not for the destruction and loss, but for the story....in my opinion, one of the many romances in the fire service is listening to stories told by guys...especially guys who have legitimatly "been there, done that"...and just like the wrought iron and wainscoating, true stories, are "getting gone" in the modern day fire service.

Thanks for sharing...I could listen all day.

You are allowed to take your POV mutual aid? Have only of a few departments allowing that.

Was any fire found?

Your son got some nice shots!

Yes.

I am not sure, I don't carry a portable radio, so i didnt copy any radio traffic. I know there was smoke.

Thank you.