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I also found this one... TITLE OF BILL : An act to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to authorizing blue lights to be affixed to police vehicles PURPOSE : To authorize police vehicles to display blue lights. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS : Section one adds a new subparagraph b to paragraph 4 of subdivision 41 of section 375 of the vehicle and traffic law to allow one or more blue lights or combination of blue, red and/or white lights may be affixed to a police vehicle, and such lights may be displayed on a police vehicle when such vehicle is engaged in an emergency operation. JUSTIFICATION : Currently, police departments are not authorized under the vehicle and traffic law to use blue colored lights as part of their emergency equipment. Colored lights that police are authorized to use under the current statute are red, white and yellow. Studies have been conducted which have determined that blue colored lights attract the attention of drivers better than any other color. The combination of red and white colored lights used by almost all police departments in the state, is more than effective for law enforcement purposes. Police officers have determined however that for safety reasons, blue colored lights in combination with the current configurations would further enhance officer safety. Presently, the law provides blue lights for use by voluntary fire personnel. Police use of blue colored lights would be in addition to the continued use of blue colored lights by volunteer fire personnel. LEGISLATIVE HISTORY : New bill. FISCAL IMPLICATIONS : None. EFFECTIVE DATE : Immediately.

AWESOME SHOW! Did anyone catch the fact that the Dennis in several shots was not wearing the FDNY morning pride gear? I look forward to seeing it Wednesday nights.

DWI - FIRE ENGINE.... THAT'S A BIG WHOOPS! Not only does this make the driver and the department look really bad but us as Volunteer Firefighters. Just take a look at the damage being done to the FDNY Firefighters by the press and they are Off-Duty incidents. How the public perceives you as a Firefighter and your department are very important. All to often we lose sight of that. Not to bash anyone here, We ALL have had our "fun" but when it comes to drinking just use a little common sense. If you have been drinking DON'T respond, for your own safety and the safety of your brother Firefighters.

RES20CUE, When you say that you were forced to switch to 46.14 because the UHF doesn't work do you mean the radios didn't work well or other departments were not on UHF to communicate with the IC? 4-Mile Diesel spill? WOW! #-o

SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 8:46 AM American Airlines Flight 11 crashes into the north tower of the World Trade Center. 8:47 AM Eighteen fire companies begin responding to a fifth alarm, setting up a command post in the lobby of the north tower when they arrive. 9:03 AM United Airlines Flight 175 crashes into the south tower of the WTC. Another command post is set up in south tower, as a second fifth alarm is broadcast. 9:10 AM Over thirty more companies have arrived, and a third interior command post is set up inside the Marriott Hotel, located by the base of the north tower. Meanwhile, an exterior command center has been set up on West Street. Top-level fire chiefs send units into the towers from here. 9:20 AM Three fire companies have reached the 40th floor of the south tower via an elevator. 9:32 AM From the north tower command post, Assistant Fire Chief Joseph Callan orders all units down to the lobby over the radio. He gets little to no response. 9:40 AM Another fifth alarm is broadcast. The Marriott command post mistakenly dispatches four companies to the north tower instead of the south. The slip-up winds up saving lives. 9:45 AM Battalion Chief Orio J. Palmer and Fire Marshal Ronald P. Bucca have reached the impact zone on the 78th floor of the south tower. Palmer radios to Chief Edward Geraghty that they are sending a group of injured survivors to the tower's only working elevator on the 41st floor. 9:57 AM Dozens of firefighters near the south tower command post are still waiting in the lobby for orders to go up into the tower. A warning about the towers' instability is issued from the Fire Vehicle Staging Area, where emergency vehicles from Brooklyn have gathered and wait for orders. 9:59 AM On the 35th floor of the north tower, some firefighters hear a cry of "mayday! Evacuate the building" over the radio, and four companies begin to descend. Around the 28th or 30th floor, a crowd of resting firefighters is told to evacuate. Meanwhile, the south tower collapses. 10:00 AM Battalion Chief Joseph Pfeifer radios an evacuation order that is received by some chiefs in the north tower, but not all. A firefighter on the 65th floor radios that a nearby floor has collapsed. This is the highest floor a firefighter is known to have reached in the north tower. 10:15 AM Firefighters, court officers, and other witnesses find group of firefighters, according to some estimates as many as a hundred, catching their breath on the 19th floor. Most in the north tower are not aware that the south tower has already collapsed. Told to evacuate, many of the firefighters say they'll come down "in a minute." 10:29 AM The north tower collapses, bringing down the Marriott Hotel as well. Over a third of the firefighters lost were in the north tower, and some were still in the lobby of the Marriott directing evacuations. 5:20 PM Damaged by the collapse of the towers, Building 7 of the World Trade Center collapses. September 12 Six firefighters are rescued from the World Trade Center debris. After contacting emergency officials with cell phones or radios, the firefighters were pulled out by rescue workers who had dug through concrete and iron to reach them. September 13 Firefighters who have worked their 24-hour shift are told to go home, but they refuse to leave. Two firefighters who were searching through the rubble of the World Trade Center become trapped in an air pocket before they are rescued hours later. September 14 An estimated 200 firefighters are believed to be missing. President Bush visits the site, and heavy rain turns the disaster site into a big mud pit. Memorial services are held at National Cathedral in Washington D.C. September 15 152 bodies have been recovered, including 18 city firefighters, three Port Authority police officers, two emergency medical technicians, and a New Jersey firefighter, 92 of which have been identified. The first firefighter funerals take place: Chief of Department Peter Ganci; William Feehan, the department's first deputy commissioner; Father Mychal F. Judge, the fire department Chaplain, who died while administering last rites to a firefighter mortally wounded in the Trade Center collapse. September 16 FDNY promotes 168 firefighters. "No one really wants to be here. No one really wanted to be promoted,'' says Jerry Horton, who became a captain during the ceremony. September 17 According to the FDNY, the number of missing firefighters is at 343. September 23 "A Prayer for America'' memorial service is held at Yankee Stadium. The nationally televised event was intended especially for the families of victims and the rescue workers. September 24 The International Association of Fire Chiefs requests that the nation's fire and emergency service agencies fly their flags at half-staff and shroud their badges until October 11th, marking a thirty-day period of mourning for the rescue workers lost in the terrorist attacks. Workers find a ten-foot-long piece of jetliner fuselage. September 25 Mayor Giuliani says "the chances of finding anyone will involve a miracle," but "miracles have happened." September 28 A Morgan Stanley Dean Witter safe containing $2.7 billion in stocks and bonds is found. Meanwhile, crews working in the World Trade Center ruins have begun assembling giant cranes -- one is 420 feet tall -- capable of lifting hundreds of tons of debris at a time. So far, 305 deaths have been confirmed. October 1 Searchers find 18 bodies, including fourteen firefighters, most of whom are still in full gear. October 2 In a mass held at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani honors fallen Fire Captain Terence Hatton, who earned 19 citations for bravery during 21 years on the job. The New York City comptroller, Alan Hevesi, states that the cost to New York from "the crash, the attack, the calamity, the murder" is already $45 billion and will reach $105 billion over the next two years. October 6 24 funeral services for firefighters lost in the attacks are held today alone. October 9 The last of some 350 search and rescue dogs leaves the WTC, signifying the end of the "search" operation, and the beginning of the "recovery" effort. October 10 The Bank of America, which lost three of its employees in the World Trade terrorist attacks, donates three new pumper fire trucks to the FDNY in their memory. The trucks help replace some of the 40 vehicles lost in the collapse. October 11 A moment of silence is held at 8:48 a.m. to commemorate a month having past since the first plane struck the World Trade Center. FDNY bagpipers play "Amazing Grace," leading police officers, firefighters, and construction workers to the service. October 19 So far, there have been 186 funeral ceremonies for firefighters lost in the Trade Center collapse. October 22 307 new firefighters begin their training, as the New York Fire Department begins filling the jobs of those lost in the World Trade Center disaster. October 28 An inter-denominational, public memorial service is held at Ground Zero to honor the victims of September 11. October 29 Some 40 percent of the 11,000 firefighters who worked at Ground Zero in the days following the attack are still coughing so severely that they are under medical care for what has been called "World Trade Center Syndrome." Symptoms include chronic coughs, sinus infections, acute lung trauma, and severe asthma requiring mechanical respiration. Almost 4,000 firefighters are under treatment with steroid inhalants, and at least one is suffering from a rare lung inflammation called allergic alveolitis. October 31 Over $200 million in gold and silver in a Bank of Nova Scotia vault are recovered under 4 World Trade Center. January 1, 2002 Bodies of ten firefighters and three civilians are pulled from the rubble of the World Trade Center as excavation crews uncover the lobby of one of the collapsed towers. February 9 The bodies of five Port Authority police officers and an unidentified woman are found five stories below street level in what was once the north tower's lobby. February 19 Engine 10, Ladder 10, the firehouse closest to the World Trade, receives a loaner truck to replace the one destroyed September 11th, enabling members to once again respond together as "10-and-10." March 11 Recovery crews searching through debris from the north tower at Ground Zero find the fire truck of Little Italy's Engine Co. 55 buried well below street level. Firefighters remove a door and take it back to its firehouse. A temporary memorial to the World Trade Center begins today. 88 spotlights recreate the image of the twin towers, projecting two giant shafts of light into the night sky. The memorial, called "Tribute in Light," is visible 20 miles away and will be lit every night through April 13. March 12 The bodies of eleven more firefighters and those of two civilians are found deep in the basement levels of the south tower. March 13 Three more bodies of firefighters' are found at the World Trade Center recovery site. March 14 Another firefighter's body is found, like those of the day before, in the lobby of the south tower. March 19 The bodies of two more firefighters are recovered at Ground Zero. To date, the Fire Department has identified the remains of 156 of the 343 firefighters killed in the collapse of the World Trade Center. March 20 The remains of five more victims are recovered, including two Port Authority police officers and one member of the NYPD. March 24 Since the evening of Friday the 22nd, twenty bodies have been recovered at the World Trade Center, including those of six firefighters. March 25 So far, 1,460,980 tons of debris have been removed from the site of the World Trade Center in 99,715 truckloads. The city estimates the total amount of debris will exceed 1.5 million tons. April 18 President Bush signs a bill naming a post office in Deer Park, New York after New York City fire chief Raymond Downey, who perished at the Twin Towers. Downey was an expert in disaster rescues, and the most decorated firefighter in the history of the FDNY. May 15 DNA testing confirms that the remains of 39-year FDNY veteran Chief Ray Downey have been found. May 28 Recovery workers gather and watch as the last remaining steel beam of the World Trade Center is cut down. It is scheduled to be the last remnant to be removed from the recovery site. May 30 In a ceremony attended by thousands, the last steel column of the demolished Trade Center was removed, and an honor guard carried an empty stretcher draped with an American flag, representing those whose remains were not found, up a ramp from the site. Of the 2,823 people killed in the attack, the remains of 1,102 have been identified. June 1 Special decorations will be awarded to firefighters involved in the September 11 rescue efforts. A departmental Medal of Valor will be awarded posthumously to those who gave their lives at the World Trade Center, while a Survivor/Rescuer Ribbon will be given to firefighters who were present at Ground Zero between 8:46 and 10:28 a.m. Firefighters who worked at the Trade Center until 1:28 p.m. on September 12 will be awarded a Rescuer Ribbon, while those who worked at Ground Zero at all, including retired firefighters who worked as volunteers, will receive a Campaign Ribbon. June 3 In response to radio communications problems that hampered the FDNY's response on September 11, the department announces plans to test a new, $14 million radio system. July 15 The search for the remains of victims of the World Trade Center collapse in the rubble of the Staten Island Fresh Kills landfill ends today. For a while, over 7,000 tons of debris were being sifted through a day here. August 7 Expected retirements, in combination with the commanders killed at the WTC, mean the department will soon have lost about one quarter of its entire supervisory staff. LET’S NEVER FORGET 9-11-01

For those of you who may or may not know I spend most of my day working in the boggie down Bronx. In passing I have seen a lot of transport ambulances such as Metrocare, Empress, Citywide, Lifeline, the list goes on... Recently I saw a Lifeline ambulance with the OLM logo and colors. Do they have a OLM contract? Is it just for transports or 911 jobs too? I didnt see the FDNY Approved 911 Provider sticker so I just had to ask, Anyone know what's up? I been out of the EMS loop for a little while.

In Memory of Michael E. Neuner, Sr Lieutenant Brewster FD #585 / Police Officer Peekskill PD #27 Who Made The Supreme Sacrifice June 22, 1997 “I have no ambition in this world but one, and that is to be a Firefighter. The position may, in the eyes of some, appear to be a lowly one; but we who know the work which the Firefighter has to do believe that his is a noble calling. Our proudest moment is to save lives. Under the impulse of such thoughts, the nobility of the occupation thrills us and stimulates us to deeds of daring, even at the supreme sacrifice." -- Chief Edward F. Croker FDNY circa 1910 REST IN PEACE MIKE!

Peekskill Fire Department Parade - to be held Saturday July 3, 2004 at 10:00 AM Starts on Highland Ave, traveling along N. Division St, South St, Washington St, Requa St, to Union Ave ending in Depew Park. Fireworks - to be held Sunday July 4th 9:30 PM at the Riverfront Green Park Anyone who needs directions can e-mail me RWC130@aol.com

My thoughts and prayers go out to Chris's family, friends, co-workers, and fellow members of Buchanan FD. ~RIP~

Mikeinet, You brought up an interesting topic of agencies waiting to get on scene to dispatch ALS. In MY opinion it's a really bad move! Depending on the time and where your ALS unit is located you could be looking at up to 15 minutes. As EMT's we are taught do not delay transport waiting for ALS. So don't delay dispatching them! What would YOU want for your family member? Hmmm

Cops: Truck guards steal, stash about $1M By YARON STEINBUCH THE JOURNAL NEWS (Original publication: June 17, 2004) PORT CHESTER — Two armored truck guards yesterday stole nearly $1 million by dropping the cash in the village with a third man, then reporting that the money had been stolen from their truck on Staten Island, the village police chief said. Jeffrey Dinucci of Hawthorne and Jose Lopez of Port Chester, employees of American Armored Car Ltd. of Elmsford, were en route to deliver money on Staten Island shortly before 8 a.m. when they left a bag containing $996,000 with David Dinucci, Jeffrey's brother, Police Chief Joseph Krzeminski said. When they arrived on Staten Island later, the guards called New York City police to report that they saw robbers make off with two bags of money from their truck, the chief said. A small bag containing $54,000 was recovered on Staten Island; police believe the suspects planted it themselves to make it appear like it was dropped by fleeing robbers. "There were no guns, no injuries and no witnesses," Krzeminski said. "I think the NYPD picked up right away that this was not a robbery. The size of the missing bag was the size of a couch. It was just a dumb story." During their investigation, New York City detectives interviewed David Dinucci at New York United Hospital Medical Center in Port Chester, where he works, police said. Krzeminski believes he told them where to find the loot. The detectives notified village police of the suspected inside job about 1 p.m. and, along with village police, recovered the large bag containing the $996,000 in a back yard on Perry Avenue. The brothers had once lived at the address where the money was found. Jeffrey Dinucci, 27, of 428 Elwood Ave., Hawthorne, told police on Staten Island that he experienced chest pains and was taken to a hospital. He was in custody at the hospital last night, Krzeminski said. Jeffrey Dinucci, David Dinucci, 31, of 125 Crotona Ave., Harrison, and Lopez, 28, of 70 Purdy Ave., Port Chester, were charged last night with second-degree grand larceny, a felony. David Dinucci and Lopez were expected to be arraigned in Village Court this morning. Jeffrey Dinucci was expected to be released from the hospital today and also to be arraigned. If the investigation determines that the $54,000 is part of the theft, the total would equal $1,050,000, and the charges against the three may be upgraded by the District Attorney's Office to first-degree grand larceny. That charge involves a theft in excess of $1 million. The three suspects do not have any prior arrests, the chief said. New York City police, citing an active investigation, did not release information last night. A person who answered the telephone last night at American Armored Car Ltd., 44 N. Saw Mill River Road, declined to comment. An official with the company was at the scene where the bag was found on Perry Avenue, Krzeminski said. "He obviously was very happy to get the money back," he said. The chief said he did not recall a previous robbery in the village of such magnitude. "The amount of money involved is incredible," he said. "It's an unusual situation ... it was quite a scare." RWC130..... I had nothing to do with it!

Without a doubt ENGINE CO should always roll 1st. A good driver will place the Engine in a position that would not hinder LADDER CO operations. In cases where a Fire Department has a LADDER CO with a pump and attack lines then I think it's a judgment call... Obviously your apparatus can function as a pumper if needed. Good topic!

CG206 "Fire Knocked Down" sounded like you. I was not sure with the SCBA bursts of air in the background..haha. Good job LMFD!

Can EMS Engine's carry them too? Would you have to EMD a 911 "Condom Emergency" cause if so.... that could get interesting. 60 you guys up for that? haha

For those of you old enough to remember the Drive-In Movie Theatres they were a lot of fun. Mohegan FD Station 4 called the Hollowbrook Station sits on part of the land which once was the Hollowbrook Drive-In. I think the last movie I saw there was Grease. Boy do I feel old now... Anyway I found a Drive-In actually two of them not far from us up in Dutchess County. Hyde Park Drive-In is right on Route 9. Saturday Nights are fun! Go early pay one price and see two movies. Plenty of refreshments! Check it out... It's worth the trip! http://www.hydeparkdrivein.com/

I went to Hyde Park Drive-In last night 6/12. I had a great time!

3rd Alarm? That will be a lot of Empress Units. haha

Date: 6/12/04 Times: 1538 Hrs Location: 529 Highland Ave. Texaco Station C/S Constant Ave. & Phoenix Ave. Frequency:453.225 & FG8 Units Operating:E131, E133, E134, TL45 Car 2342, Car 2343 Description Of Incident: Hazardous Condition, Propane Leaking at the Propane Filling Station Writer: RWC130

Great teamwork by all Firefighters who responded Mohegan, Peekskill, Continental Village, and Yorktown! I wish the injured Firefighter a speedy recovery.

Looks like the ball is rolling.... Today 6/10 in the Bronx I saw what once was a Metrocare Supervisor truck now lettered "TRANSCARE"

WAS967, The Whitestone Multiplex right off the Hutch and Bruckner is where the Drive-In once was. I think when it was a Drive-In it was called The Redstone but I can not confirm that at this time...K!

801, I am very familiar with the dispatch at Empress. I was once an employee (1997) I had some good times, even saved a patient or two. haha I listen in every now and then you guys sound good. RWC130: "A25 to Central we are 10-8, our patient is DOA" It's too bad not all EMS providers had the EMD system such as Empress, Westchester DES, and Greenburgh PD. If I missed anyone PLEASE by let me know.

I made a phone call and I was informed by a source in the FDNY that it is correct Rescue 2 in Brooklyn now has a Collapse Unit. The quarters of Rescue 2 located at 1472 Bergen Street was not big enough to fit Rescue 2 and the Rescue 2 Collapse Unit. Rescue 2 Collapse Unit (Old Rescue 2) is in the quarters of L132/E280 at 489 Saint John's Place. In the event of a Collapse Rescue call L132 will respond with Rescue 2. One of the FF's from L132/E280 will drive the R2 "Collapse Unit" to the scene. Did that help to clarify anything?

The Motorola HT1000 and other models (if programmed correctly) do have a "Emergency Revert" to your Priority Channel if you hit the Orange Emergency Button. I hit it once by accident when I was on another channel. Depending on how your radio is set up and programmed it does work....IT WORKS VERY WELL!! Hopefully we will never have to use it. BE SAFE BROTHERS!