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CO w/ No Symptoms - 1 Engine & Rescue (Non-Emergency response) CO w/ Symptoms - 1 Engine, Truck, Rescue, EMS (Emergency response) All three Engines, the Truck and Rescue have CO meters & fans.

I'm posting from my iphone so please bare with me. I sent a request to our Village Manager to know what exactly is going on, the road closures/detours involved and what is expected from us. This past Wednesday, I attended a staff meeting and finally got the answers to these questions. If there is a fire or other emergency that we need to get to, we can access Route 9 southbound at Croton Point Avenue. There's more info, and that went out in a department email on Thursday. My other concern that nobody has answered as of yet was the request of other fire departments to "assist us." i am not against te help, but those requests should come from our Incident Commander, not the person organizing the event. But I will digress, and likely turf this detail to another Chief Officer next year so I can sleep in.

Station #6?!

Eliminating roughly half of the current cops, no shift differential pay and no holiday pay?! F*** that!

Disrespectful - yes. Would you expect anything less from people - no.

Hope he has a couple of portable ponds up his sleeve... Congratulations and good luck. Hopefully he can be the leader Yonkers FD needs to keep their City from trying to downsize them, despite the continuing growth in population and call volume they have.

Great information, but I would personally suggest that one should call 911 BEFORE attempting to turn off the source. That's just my opinion - I am a proponent of getting resources going sooner than later. Thanks for posting this - very good information!

The brothers from Continental Village FD have posted some pics of the escort detail HERE.

The steel, which came from the North Tower, was escorted to Croton Landing from Continental Village FD. It is being used as part of the Croton/Cortlandt 9/11 Memorial currently being constructed. Continental Village 2131 & E232, Peekskill R134, Verplanck E128, Buchanan E161, Croton EMS 55B1, Croton FD 2081, E118, E119, E120, TL44, T10 & R18 as well as police units from Croton PD, NYSP and WCPD participated in the escort. Here's one quick photo I took with my iphone of it being placed. For anyone interested, this memorial is going at the far north end of Croton Landing Park.

Like the old rig, it too is a Tanker/Pumper. Old Tanker and New Tanker:

As of Monday, August 20th, we retired our 1990 International/EEI Tanker 10 and placed our new 2012 Seagrave Tanker 10 into service. Like her predecessor, may she bring us a lifetime of dependable service!

To be fair to everyone that joins, or for that matter, gets hired by a fire department - we should lay it all on the line the second they come to us. Let them know that they are expected to participate in xx amount of drills, xx amount of courses, etc. Let them know that if they don't come around to learn, that they will lose their privileges (freeloads at the volley house, OT details at work, etc.) and the respect of their colleagues. Of course you won't get through to the cement-heads, but if you set precedence up front, they can't claim they didn't know... ...A mistake I am sure most of us have made. I am sure there's guys in my department counting down the days until I am out. But the number of people that call, text, email and talk to me asking how they can get in a class, when we're doing a drill, etc. far exceeds that number. (I think / hope). As Aristole said, "Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way." If we keep training to do our jobs, we'll become excellent at it when we need to be.

I know nothing about the weather, but I do forecast another GIANTS Super Bowl victory!

Once someone stops training, it's time for them to retire.

I guess to make sure everyone was healthy?!?!

Health Department 1.

I whole-heartedly disagree with you, with all due respect of course. Those that want to really, REALLY do something in their life will find the time and make it happen. People with disabilities overcome them and go on to be successful athletes, right? To say if you increase the training standards for firefighters is going to result in less new people, I disagree. If you think it's going to cause senior guys who don't think they need this to pack it in, then so be it. They did their time, probably fighting more fires than most of us or future generations will. Everyone is so afraid that losing some members is going to destroy their departments - what kind of department do you have if everyone is satisfied being minimally trained? Let me know if you're one of these departments so we know not to call you Mutual Aid. Luckily, most of the departments near us go above and beyond the minimal expectations of the volunteer fire service.

Here's a couple of the completed Tanker 10. Many thanks to J.T. Camp for taking these photos for us.

After months of work, one of our members recently put together this video "trailer" to help us attract some newer members, and to show people what we do and who we are. We are in the midst of a recruitment campaign that will be unveiling soon. It will feature a new website (I hope), a recently created Facebook page (facebook.com/crotonfire) and signs/posters put up around our community. Please check out the video and let the creator, Meraash, know how nicely done it is. Thanks. -2081

He did it that way to highlight the "Vette."

Sounds like those people may be telling you a lie... a higher score means a better ranking on the list.

Thanks. I watch the video almost daily just to hear my son say "car" while looking at Engine 118. Call me biased, but that's my favorite part.

Better get the carboatfax!

I find that all of the training I offer to my department garners certain people to certain training. And I attribute this all to what I learned in FSI 1 - Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Every single one of us wants to feel comfortable, accepted and safe. We all have boundaries, we all have self-doubts and we all know the s*** that scares us. At the same time, each of us has a niche or a special talent that works to the advantage of our department. For the longest time, I would get so very annoyed with the lackluster turnout for training and drills I scheduled, thinking we would never get better. A lot of my mentors and good friends kept telling me to just keep doing what I am doing, because even if 5 guys come to a drill, that's 5 guys that learned something. So now, I still feel a little discouraged when I don't get a larger turnout, but the average number of attendants has increased quite a bit. And, here's my favorite thing about it - the mixed level of experience of those coming out. My youngest members love it when the more senior (cough, old, cough) guys come out to play. It's an inspiration to us to see that 30 year member come out for an all day Saturday drill. We see them at meeting nights, picnics and calls - so it's nice to see them at training too. It helps us all become a more cohesive unit, with the careful balance of experience, training and new ambition that every organization needs to survive. I have been around for 20 years, starting out when I was 14, and look forward to doing it for a long time. I honestly cherish the times I get to spend with my guys at training - it's the best bonding experience (besides actual incidents) for all of us to get to do what we like to do. So in a nutshell - just keep running your drills, and don't be disappointed if the turnout is small. If you keep doing it, people will start talking about what you did at that last drill, whether it's something new that was learned or just something hysterical that happened, and eventually curiosity will bring more people in. If that doesn't work - offer up massages with happy endings at the end of every drill... (I'm kidding of course, but if you do, call me, )

May God look over FF Rodriques, his family and brothers in the Yonkers Fire Department. A true tragedy to lose someone who obviously touched so many lives.