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https://www.troopers.state.ny.us/Exam-Internet/ If assigned to Westchester: Salarly with Location Pay- 1 Year- $73,159 5 Year- $85,019 Does not include overtime, education pay, fitness pay. All uniforms, equipment, dry cleaning provided. No cost to Member at any time.

When you graduate, you put in your wish list for your top three Troops. They make no promises, but, generally, Troops K and F, are very easy to get back to, while Troop L is not. If you want to get back to Long Island, it's generally about a 6 month-1 year wait. While waiting, you can work in Hawthorne or Somers so your able to commute.

Maximum age of 30 can be extended up to six years for prior active military service. Testing tentitively expected to be conducted over the course of about four weeks in March/April 2008.

Entitled to the model name if a Supporting Deposition. Not entitled to see the RADAR unit. In NYS, there is no Right to Discovery for Traffic Infractions.

Date: 05-29-07 Time: 0810 Hrs Location: Annsville Circle, Interchange Rt 9, 6, 202, Town of Cortlandt Frequency: Units Operating: (I am probably missing some, so many were coming/going.) Peekskill EMS 7511, 75B1, 75B2 Cortlandt Medic 35M2 Stat Flight Air 1 NYSP 3K53, 3K54, 3K44, 3K42, 3K60, 5K114, 5K117, 3K47, 3K45, 3K11 WCPD 27Charlie Peekskill FD E-133, Multiple Chiefs, 39M1 WC DES Car 2, Haz-Mat Team Continential Village FD - Full Dept response Montrose 2273, Bus Buchanan 2551, Bus Cortlandt VAC 8811, 88B1, 8805 MTA PD NYS DEC PD WC DOH Spill Response NYS DEC Spill Response Putnam Valley Chief, Tanker Mohegan Utility, Fire Police Yorktown 2531, LT51 Garrison Chief, Engine, Rescue NYS Dept of Transportation Description Of Incident: Tractor trailer rollover, serious injuires to driver, load of approx. 5000 gals of toxic/corrosive material. Writer: INIT915 (O/S) ***As I mentioned, there was no way to keep track of all units on scene, if I missed any, PM me.

Here is a short read, outlining what NYS DOH requires of you in order to qualify as a Trauma Center: http://www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/ems/p...umastds7085.pdf

This is a bit misleading. ACS verified Trauma Centers and NYS DOH designated Trauma Centers are two different animals entirely. You do not have to be ACS accredited to by a NYS TC. Up until recently, WMC was the ONLY ACS verified TC in all of New York State. WMC recently gave up that designation due to the cost of maintaining it. As it stands today, NOT ONE SINGLE NYS Trauma Center holds dual ACS verification. If you review the list of national verified TC's, at this link, you will see not one NY hospital is included http://www.facs.org/trauma/verified.html. This goes for Burn Centers as well. You do not need to be verified by the American Burn Association as a Burn Center in order to actually run a Burn Center in NYS. http://www.ameriburn.org/verification_verifiedcenters.php shows you that only two NYS Burn Centers hold ABA Verification, while the rest of NYS Burn Centers are designated by DOH, but not simultaneously by ABA. So, that list provided earlier does not match NYS requirements exactly, while they do have many in common. For instance, it was only recently WMC required that the Attending Trauma Surgeon be in house. Before that, he/she only had to be within a 20-minute drive.

Deaths challenge firefighting strategy By GILLIAN FLACCUS, Associated Press Writer 12 minutes ago RIVERSIDE, Calif. - A blaze that killed five federal firefighters last year has emboldened those who question the cost of saving the ever expanding number of homes on the fringe of wilderness. The five perished last fall while protecting an empty mountain vacation home from the Southern California fire, which authorities say was started by a 36-year-old auto mechanic now charged with murder. However, the deaths also were blamed on social and political pressures and decisions to put homes before the safety of firefighters, according to a report last week from the California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection. As another fire season heats up, some U.S. Forest Service officials say a shift in strategy is inevitable as firefighters increasingly risk their lives defending communities that have been built in prime fire territory. "We are not going to die for property," said Tom Harbour, national director of fire and aviation management for the Forest Service. "It's time for homeowners to take responsibility for the protection of their homes." Chief Forester Gail Kimbell would not say whether the service is considering a change in policy on defending homes in certain fire conditions, but the agency plans to address flaws in the response to the deadly fire in remote Twin Pines, about 90 miles east of Los Angeles, and is conducting a longer-term review of overall firefighter safety. Firefighters' attitudes also are an issue in protecting homes. Public expectations can sometimes lead to bravado and a cavalier mind-set among firefighters, experts say. A recent investigative report in the five deaths listed overconfidence, excessive motivation and risk-taking as contributing factors. "One of the standard fire orders states: 'Fight the fire aggressively having provided for safety first,'" said Peter Leschak, a 26-year firefighter and a commander for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources' Division of Forestry. "There has been an argument recently to change that because we don't need to encourage firefighters to be more aggressive — half the time we're holding them back." Federal firefighters could scale back structural protection without too much political fallout, but that would not be easy for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, which answers to the governor, said John Maclean, a federally certified firefighter and the author of several books on wildfire disasters. The state agency spends 44 percent of its budget on wildfire suppression annually, he said, and much of that work means protecting homes where suburbs collide with wilderness. More than 6 million homes in California stand in wildfire "red zones" — areas defined in part by their thick brush and steep slopes — and that number is expected to grow by 20 percent in the next decade, according to a recently released insurance report. "There is an expectation on the part of a lot of people that somebody better get in there and do or die for their house," Maclean said. "If you stop doing that and you stop taking reasonable risk to protect structures, you'd have a new governor in about five minutes." David Kassel, who rebuilt his San Diego home after it burned in 2003, said he would be shocked if firefighters started backing off structural protection. "What is the purpose of the fire department? Are they just going to stand around and watch?" Kassel said. "If the structures are being left to the local departments to take care of, isn't that simply shifting the risk from one department to another? I wouldn't want to be the fireman who would say, 'I'm going to leave this to you because we can't handle something risky.'"

According to the article, more than 16% of RPS patients required intubation. Does that sound a little high to anyone else?

Date: 05-24-07 Time: 1400 Hrs Location: 170 Avery Rd, Garrison, Town of Philipstown Frequency: Units Operating: Garrison 3272, PC EMS Medic 1, State Police 3K46 and 3K40 Description Of Incident: Male into an industrial wood chipper. Head trauma. ALS to WMC. Dx with depressed skull fracture, severe soft tissue trauma. Straight to the OR. Writer: INIT915

Date: 05-20-07 Time: 0220 AM Location: Sprain Brook Pkwy N/B 200 feet north of Jackson Ave Frequency: Units Operating: Greenville, Fairview, Greenburgh PD*EMS, NYSP Description Of Incident: Vehicle into tree. Difficult extrication due to intrusion into passenger compartment. Writer: INIT915

Date: 05-13-07 Time: 1800-1930 Location: I-684 S/B Rest Area Frequency: Units Operating: NYSP: 3K21, 3K25, 3K32, 3K22 (Sgt.), 3K85 (K9), 1H17 (Aviation) Bedford PD: Mulitiple Patrols Bedford Correctional: Exterior Patrols Kathonah FD Description Of Incident: Missing 16 y/o male, mentally challenged missing in the woods between I-684 and Katonah village. Writer: INIT915

That is correct, those can be file checked thru NYSPIN via NLETS.

The NYSP Units are permanently mounted and not interchangable, but the same Remington model does come in a dynamic model that uses magnets, such as the two new units Mt Vernon PD has recently bought.

As RWC130 stated, Troop K has it's own shop at Troop HQ in Poughkeepsie. Any warranty-covered work goes to a local dealer, Ford for Crown Vics, Chevy for the Tahoes. Several local shops have State contracts to handle routine work. Locally, AA Auto Tech in Cortlandt and Taconic Chevy in Yorktown. All Troop T vehicles are maintained by the regular T-Way shops. And Troop F has an AMI in Middletown.

2K63 in the photo is from Stormville. Remington.

NYSP in Westchester has three: 3K16 in Hawthorne covering Sprain/Taconic 3K21 on I-684 and Somers area 3K42 in Cortlandt

Generally respond in thier POV's which are equipped with radios, RLS.

There is none. They always drive like that. To every single call they get. Very, very reckless. I have seen it first hand, more than once.

Spitzer names panel to study consolidating local governments By JAY GALLAGHER ALBANY BUREAU (Original publication: April 23, 2007) ALBANY - Former Lt. Gov. Al DelBello of White Plains was among those named to a panel by Gov. Eliot Spitzer today to study ways to consolidate local governments - and possibly cut property taxes. The panel, which has a year to develop a report, will be led by former Lt. Gov. Stan Lundine. "New York is uncompetitive with other states largely because of our property taxes,'' said Lundine, 68, former mayor of Jamestown, Chautauqua County, and a former five-term congressman who served as lieutenant governor from 1987 to 1994 under Gov. Mario Cuomo. "We need to improve the efficiency of local governments.'' The 4,200 taxing jurisdictions and 6,900 special districts in the state "has led to a significant degree of overlap in public services, which has had a devastating effect on tax burdens,'' Spitzer said. "Something has to be done.'' Lloyd Constantine, a top Spitzer aide who will oversee the project, pointed out that Westchester County alone, which has about 1 million people, has 322 taxing jurisdictions. Spitzer said he realizes that consolidations have been discussed for years, mostly without changing anything, but added that "there comes a time when you can break the gridlock.'' In a later interview, Lundine said "the most likely strategy'' for consolidations is for counties to take over functions now performed by cities and towns. Along with Lundine and DelBello, the 15-member panel includes: — SUNY New Paltz Dean Gerald Benjamin. — Former Rochester Mayor William Johnson. — Brighton (Monroe County) Supervisor and former candidate for lieutenant governor Sandra Frankel. — Corning Inc. official and former Chemung County Executive Thomas Trantor. — Buffalo Assemblyman Sam Hoyt.

In an unrelated story, the US Dept of Justice is filing similar lawsuits against the National Hockey League, citing the historically low numbers of minority hockey players.

a ) Tpr's father, not the Tpr himself. b ) Didn't go to Court, it just occurred the other day.

Wow. I don't know where you work, but maybe all those "Cops" should be eating donoughts with less testostorone. They sound like animals down there! I can honestly say, I have never been involved in a single 'argument'/shouting match' about opening/closing lanes. And I have never once had a Supervisor instruct me to get traffic moving.

The company is "Goretex".

I believe a bigger insult is allowing a "boring/uneventful/routine" call go mutual aid, yet 10 minutes later when the "exciting" call, i.e. PI/Structure Fire, etc. comes in, units are absolutely stepping on each other to respond.