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  2. Posted · Edited by HFD201

    UMM, Sorry for asking, but what was White Plains doing at a fire all the way in Pelham? Wasn't there anyone closer to resond w/ an aerial?

    There were multiple incidents ongoing at the time. Greenville and Fairview were operating on the Sprain Brook Parkway at a double fatal MVA, Yonkers had a 3rd Alarm where New Rochelle had 1 and 1 covering as well as an Engine from Hartsdale, Hartsdale was also on standby for Greenville so Greenville Ladder 4 could not relocate due to their incident, Once their personnel cleared the parkway L4 relocated to Pelham I believe

  5. Posted · Edited by HFD201

    Date: 12/30/07

    Time: 2341

    Location: 8 Glen Drive

    Frequency: 46.26

    Units Operating: Vista, 45M3, Pound Ridge Tanker 3 and South Salem Tanker 2 (cancelled en-route)

    Description Of Incident: Working Fire in P/D

    Writer: HFD201

    2353 Vista Confirmed structure fire requesting Pound Ridge tanker 3, South Salem tanker 2, 45M3 to respond

    2355 Vista reporting Fire K/D.

    2359 Pound Ridge, South Salem cancelled

  7. Posted · Edited by HFD201

    Date: 12-24-07

    Time: 1311 hrs

    Location: 25 West Circle

    Frequency: 46.26, EMS 16

    Units Operating: Bedford: Car 2041, Car 2043, Engine 109, Engine 110, Rescue 44

    Bedford Hills: Car 2031, Car 2032, Car 2033, Tanker 5

    Banksville: Tanker 7

    Pound Ridge: Car 2401, Tanker 3

    Mt. Kisco: Tower Ladder 14, Utility 13 (FAST)

    KBHVAC: 65-B1

    WEMS: 45-M1

    Katonah: Car 2211, Car 2212, Engine 115 (Stand-by at our Firehouse)

    Battalion 16, NYSEG, Car 1404, Bedford Police

    Description Of Incident: Working Fire in P/D

    Writer: HFD201, BedfordFire O/S

    1510 Bedford Toned out possible structure fire

    1513 Working structure fire

    1519 Battalion 16 Requesting FAST

    1519

    1520 Mount Kisco FAST

    1521 Tanker 7 on location

    1521 Bedford Hills Tanker, Bedford Addtl manpower

    1523 Katonah relocate 1 engine

    1523 2031 Responding

    1525 E110 Responding

    1526 Mount Kisco U13 Responding as FAST

    1528 2212 Responding, switching to EMS 16

    1529 20?? Requesting medic

    1529 E110 on location

    1529 C/O Zone 5 Landline 60 Control for a response

    1529 2031 on location, 2032 as well

    1531 Bedford Hills Tanker 5 on location

    1535 U13 on location

    1544 C/O zone 4 mutual aid response

    1547 2401 and Pound Ridge Units released from scene

    1549 U13 in service returning

    1600 Batt. 16 releasing all mutual aid units as per 2041

    1608 All Bedford Village units in service

    1613 All Units clear, 2 C/O members on scene

    1619 Tanker 7 In service, returning

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    Perhaps a typo?? I thought it was quite interesting that the chief of a township with a population of close to 15,000 according to the 2000 Census is a mere 21 years old. I know several departments where you cannot join as a full member, not explorer, until you're 18 years old and are required to serve two years before becomming promoted to Lieutenant and then two more years as lieutenant before becoming Captain and so on, so what is the basis for having a 21 year old fire chief???

    Burned New Jersey Firehouse had no Alarms

    BEV McCARRON AND CATHY BUGMAN, STAR-LEDGER STAFF

    The Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey)

    A Warren firehouse damaged by a fire yesterday morning did not have a fire alarm or smoke detectors, according to local fire officials.

    A passing patrolman spotted smoke rising from the eaves of the squat, brick Washington Valley firehouse around 4:30 a.m. He reported the fire, which caused moderate damage to the building and sent the Washington Valley fire chief to the hospital for smoke inhalation, according to the Somerset County Prosecutor's Office, which is investigating the blaze.

    Warren Township Fire Chief Tim McGowan said none of the township's four fire companies - Washington Valley, Mt. Horeb, Community and Mt. Bethel - are hooked up to an alarm system that rings at a third-party location.

    McGowan did not know if the Washington Valley firehouse had smoke detectors, but the chief for that fire company, Ryan Valentino, said there were none.

    McGowan said the firehouses are not required to have alarms. "There's nobody in the house to hear the alarms," he said.

    He also said alarm systems are too costly for an all-volunteer department. Each company owns and maintains its own building.

    "The fire companies themselves have to pay for it," McGowan said. "If it fits in the budget, it fits. If it doesn't, it doesn't."

    Valentino, the 21-year-old chief, said he did not know why the 36-year-old building hadn't been equipped with smoke detectors or alarms.

    "It's possible because it was old, it wasn't required," he said.

    The state Department of Community Affairs last night said the building may have been exempt.

    "Although we cannot comment directly to this location as we do not know enough details about it, in general, it is possible, based on both the usage and the age of the building, that detectors and/or alarms are not required," said spokesman Chris Donnelly.

    In Somerville, fire official Barry Van Horn said all four fire company buildings in the borough are outfitted with alarms that ring directly into an alarm system. The borough paid for them, he said.

    "So anything happens, we're going to get notified and they'll dispatch the fire department like any other business in town. And we know they work because they go off when we cook," he said.

    Firefighters point out the fire alarm system to school kids who visit the firehouse, according to Van Horn.

    "I always like to look at it as, we practice what we preach," he said. "We point out the detectors, and say, `We even have them in our house, so you should have them in yours.'"

    Investigators from the Somerset County Prosecutor's Office and the Warren Township police are investigating the cause of yesterday's blaze, which brought out 50 firefighters from Warren and Watchung, who found the apparatus bay engulfed in smoke. Once the fire was located, it was quickly extinguished, according to the prosecutor's office.

    Valentino was treated for smoke inhalation at Somerset Medical Center, but was released and was back at the firehouse last night assessing the damage.

    The blaze began in the southwest corner of the building, damaging a utility closet, a bathroom, a workshop area and an upper-level storage area holding historical records, McGowan said.

    As a result of the fire, some electrical circuits blew and the garage doors wouldn't open. One of the rigs, a ladder truck, was damaged as firefighters pulled it out of a bay and will be out of service until it is repaired, McGowan said.

    Staff writer John Holl contributed to this report.

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    I've bveen very displeased with my subscription. I subscribed in July in Baltimore at the expo, received my first issue in Late september which was the August issue over 3 months late. Then the September issue never showed up at all and thankfully October just showed up today but very unhappy.

  15. Posted · Edited by HFD201

    Yeah, I'm waiting for the text book. The cheif said he'd get it to me soon.

    What does firefighter 2 cover?

    Firefighter 2 consists of Incident Command Implications, Building Materials and Collapse, Special Rescue, Hydrant Flow and Operability, Hose Tools, Foam Operations, Flammable Liquids/Gases, Detection, Alarm Systems, Fire Cause and Origin, Fire Department Communications, Pre-Fire Planning, Special Situations, Strategy and Tactics

    In my class there was an emphasis on communication, situations, and a day of live fire scenarios

  16. Posted

    CT has changed their format...I just took it recently and passed my first practice test and received my certificate approximately a week or so later. It counts for the actually CPAT only if the conditions it is run under are up to the CPAT standard. For example, I went on a rainy day and there was question if it would count as an actually CPAT if i passed it because of puddles but they were cleared off and it was counted. Same thing for temperature, has to be over 42 degrees i believe and under whatever the max was but as long as those conditions are met it counts.

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    I may be mistaken and correct me if I am wrong but the Fairview eng was there because they requested the Foam unit and I do believe that a eng goes along with the county foam unit.

    Just to clarify E-175 was there prior to the request for the foam trailer.

    This isn't a paid vs. vollie dispute, this situation does call into the question of why have a Battalion system if dept's in the same Battalion are being skipped and for example if I heard right on the radio a ladder from Mohegan was requested to stand by in someones quarters and it took nearly 45 minutes to arrive at such location. Why skip Hartsdale for example who is in the same Battalion as Tarrytown or Greenville, or Scarsdale (different battalion) but also who are less than 5-10 minutes away.

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    3 rescue workers killed at Utah mine

    By PAUL FOY, Associated Press Writer

    HUNTINGTON, Utah - The search for six miners missing deep underground was abruptly halted after a second cave-in killed three rescue workers and injured at least six others who were trying to tunnel through rubble to reach them.

    It was a devastating turn for the families of the six men trapped in the Aug. 6 collapse at the Crandall Canyon mine and for the relatives of those trying to rescue them. It's not known if the trapped miners are alive.

    "It just feels like a really hard blow to swallow after all we've been through the last week and a half and everyone trying to hope in their own individual way," Huntington Mayor Hilary Gordon said in telephone interview Friday with CNN's "American Morning."

    All rescue workers were evacuated from the mine Thursday evening and work underground was stopped. Asked if the search would be suspended, "that's something to be determined," said Rich Kulczewski, a U.S. Department of Labor spokesman.

    The cave-in at 6:39 p.m. was believed to be caused by what seismologists call a "mountain bump," in which shifting ground forces chunks of rock from the walls. Seismologists say such a bump caused the Aug. 6 cave-in that trapped the six men more than 3 miles inside the central Utah mine.

    The force from the bump registered a 1.6 at the University of Utah seismograph stations in Salt Lake City, said university spokesman Lee Siegel. It was the 20th reading at the university since the original collapse, which registered a 3.9 on Aug. 6.

    "These events seem to be related to ongoing settling of the rock mass following the main event," Siegel said Friday morning. "I don't think I'm going too far to say that this mountain is collapsing in slow motion."

    The initial collapse led to the frenetic effort by rescuers to dig through the mine toward the men and drill narrow holes atop the mountain in an attempt to learn their whereabouts and perhaps drop food and water.

    It was not immediately clear where the rescuers were working or what they were doing when Thursday's bump occurred.

    Underground, rescuers had advanced only 826 feet in nine days. Before Thursday's cave-in, workers still had about 1,200 feet to go to reach the area where they believe the trapped men had been working.

    Mining officials said conditions in the mine were treacherous, and they were frequently forced to halt digging because of seismic activity.

    A day after the initial collapse, the rescuers were pushed back 300 feet when a bump shook the mountain and filled the tunnel with rubble.

    The digging had been set back Wednesday night, when a coal excavating machine was half buried by rubble by seismic shaking. Another mountain bump interrupted work briefly Thursday morning.

    "The seismic activity underground has just been relentless. The mountain is still alive, the mountain is still moving and we cannot endanger the rescue workers as we drive toward these trapped miners," said Bob Murray, chief of Murray Energy Corp., the co-owner and operator of the Crandall Canyon mine.

    On top of the mountain, rescuers were drilling a fourth hole on Thursday, aiming for a spot where devices called "geophones" had detected mysterious vibrations in the mountain. Both Kulczewski, the Labor Department spokesman, and Gordon, the mayor, said they believed that work continued after the accident.

    "They're looking right now at finishing the drilling on the fourth hole, going through, and as I understood, that they're going to just be drilling the holes and ... putting the camera through and looking at these different ways to get in there, maybe through the top," Gordon told CNN. "But I don't think that they're going to be doing any mining down in the bottom again."

    No details were available early Friday about the official cause of the rescuers' deaths.

    One of the killed workers was an inspector for the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration, agency spokesman Dirk Fillpot said. He did not know his name or have information about the other victims.

    Injuries to the survivors ranged from cuts and scrapes to head and chest trauma.

    Six of the injured were taken to Castleview Hospital in Price. One rescuer died there, one was airlifted to a Provo hospital, and three were treated overnight and released Thursday morning, said Jeff Manley, the hospital's chief executive. A sixth was still being treated, in serious condition with back injuries.

    The second dead worker passed away at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo, hospital spokeswoman Janet Frank said. Another worker there was in serious condition with head trauma but was alert, she said.

    The third death was confirmed by Kulczewski, the Labor Department spokesman.

    Gov. Jon Huntsman flew to the hospital in Price early Friday and planned to meet with mine safety officials later in the day to discuss the future of the rescue operation.

    Huntsman said he did not want underground tunneling to resume, but that the decision rested with the MSHA.

    "We're pushing for that to cease right now unless MSHA and others can guarantee that it can continue safely," he said. "Whatever happens, we're going to want to ensure that it is done safely and that may take a little while.

    "We as a state don't want any more injuries," he added. "We've had enough."

    Before the latest cave-in, officials said the third of three holes drilled reached an intact chamber with potentially breathable air.

    Video images were obscured by water running down that bore hole, but officials said they could see beyond it to an undamaged chamber in the rear of the mine. It yielded no sign the miners had been there.

    Murray said it would take at least two days for the latest drill to reach its target, in an area where a seismic listening device detected a "noise" or vibration in 1.5-second increments and lasting for five minutes. The drilling began Thursday.

    Officials say it's impossible to know what caused the vibrations and clarified the limits of the technology.

    The geophone can pinpoint the direction of the source of the disturbance, but it can't tell whether it came from within the mine, the layers of rock above the mine or from the mountain's surface, said MSHA chief Richard Stickler.

    The "noise," a term he used a day before, wasn't anything officials could hear, Stickler said. "Really, it's not sounds but vibrations."

    Officials stressed that the motion picked up by the geophones could be unrelated to the mine, even as they drilled the new hole in an effort to uncover the source of it.

  19. Posted

    It’s that time of year again, when I see more people cleaning there Engines and Ladders then there was on last nights call. What is so big about these parades that are judged? Then you go to a Memorial Day parade or a 9/11 memorial and hardly anyone shows up. Is because there is no trophy given, or no free beer garden at the end? Does it really matter who had the best Engine? Or who had the most in line? Why are these parades such a big deal?

    Couldn't agree more with you. Unfortunately we all know how this topic will end up, but it's a shame

  20. Posted · Edited by HFD201

    Date:8-5-07

    Time: 2123hrs

    Location: 89 Commerce Street X of Circular Street and Kensico Road

    Frequency: 46.26, 458.9875 (FG8)

    Units Operating: 2471, 2473, E89, E290, TL1, Valhalla R9 FAST, Hawthorne TL12, Briarcliff R37, (Covering) Elmsford E237, Pleasantville E260

    Description Of Incident: Working Structure Fire

    Writer: HFD201, Fireman488

    2123hrs Thornwood toned out, possible structure fire

    2123hrs 2471 responding

    2125hrs 2471 on location, 2473 responding

    2126hrs 2471 reports smoke showing

    2126hrs E89 responding, 2473 on location

    2128hrs E89 on location

    2129hrs TL1 responding

    2130hrs Thornwood re-toned out by 60 Control, Possible Structure Fire

    2131hrs E290 responding

    2134hrs 2471 requesting Con-Ed Electric

    2138hrs 60 Control toning out, Hawthorne 1 engine 1 ladder, cascade from Briarcliff, Valhalla FAST (R9) to the scene, working structure fire

    2140hrs Pleasantville re-locate 1 engine, Thornwood headquarters

    2146hrs 60 Control advising all units operating to switch to Fireground 8

    2146hrs Pleasantville E260 will be relocating to Thornwood HQ

    2151hrs Elmsford relocate 1 engine to Hawthorne, E237

    2153hrs E260 located Thornwood HQ

    2153hrs 2471 reporting fire K/D ATT

    2156hrs C/O Zone 3 requested

    2217hrs 2471 reporting power to the building cut??

    2219hrs TL12, R9 released by 2471

    2220-2222hrs 2 Engines were released, missed the numbers E156?? i think

    2236hrs Elmsford E237 in service returning.

    2241hrs Briarcliff R37 released

    2331hrs TL1 in service, returning

    2335hrs 60 Control advising 2471 Two (2) Red Cross representatives are enroute

    2359hrs Red Cross on scene

    0006hrs Commerce St. Command (2471) advising 60 Control in service returning, command is terminated

    Anyone with additional information feel free to PM me and I will update the post

  22. Posted · Edited by HFD201

    Fairview Fire Dept. is there as well...Heard E175 requested by 60 Control to the front of the fire building as per the IC...Engine from Hawthorne was just requested to the scene from Tarrytown's firehouse to report to Midland Ave. For a 5" water relay. Mount Kisco, Yorktown FASTeams to the scene @ 0812, Armonk 1 engine to cover.

  23. Posted

    KENNETH DEAN

    Tyler Morning Telegraph

    Two volunteer firefighters were killed this morning when a burning home in Flint collapsed on them, said Smith County Fire Marshal Jim Seaton. Two others were sent to East Texas Medical Center.

    The identities of the deceased are being withheld pending notification of next of kin.

    Seaton said Flint-Gresham VFD, responding to a 911 call, arrived at the home on Old Jacksonville Highway just south of FM 346 at 1:43 a.m.

    Firefighters called for help from Bullard and Noonday VFDs and two entered to attack the flames. Once inside, communications with the men were lost.

    Seaton said when Noonday volunteers then entered the house, the roof collapsed, causing a backdraft.

    Two died at the scene, Seaton said.

    "They died gallantly trying to put out the fire," Seaton said at the scene. "This is a blow and devastating to the entire firefighting community, especially among the volunteer firefighting department."

    Seaton said these are the first deaths of volunteer firefighters in county history.

    The occupants of the home escaped after a fire alarm went off.

    Huge flames were seen shooting from the roof. The home was destroyed.

    The cause is not immediately known.

    State and city of Tyler fire investigators remain on the scene this morning. State Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents arrived on the scene in the 7 a.m. hour to participate in the investigation.

    At daybreak, firefighters could be seen consoling one another. Behind them, smoke was rising from the charred debris. Firefighters remain on scene to extinguish "hot spots" in the blaze's aftermath. The Old Jacksonville Highway south of Gresham remains closed this morning. Officials were urging motorists to take an alternate route.

    TylerPaper.com is following the story, and will post more details as they become available.

    Republished with permission of Tyler Morning Telegraph

    Firehouse.com

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    Two News Helicopters have collided and crashed in Phoenix, Arizona while covering a high-speed pursuit. Fox News Channel had live coverage. It is unknown at this time how many people were on board. There are at least 2 fatalities at this time, one pilot and one cameraman. Crash occured around 1550 hours. The helicopters crashed into a local Phoenix Park narrowly avoiding crowded areas.