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To work in the Rescue Battalion or Safety Battalion or Hazmat Battalion, you need special training.

Any Battalion Chief can be designated the "Safety Chief" at a 2nd Alarm or special incident, except if it is an "ABC" which is a captain who is an "Acting Battalion Chief" just for the tour. They will make the "ABC" the Resource Unit Leader.

Newly promoted BC's are assigned to a Battalion, but probably will hardly ever work there. They spend most of their time travelling the entire city.

As many of you know, the FDNY & NYPD will be the host of the entire WORLD of emergency services, for this year's 2011 World Police Fire Games.

I am running the GOLF portion of the games, and we are looking for volunteers.

Anyone can volunteer, and knowledge of golf is NOT IMPORTANT!!!!!!!

We have many jobs that can be handled by anyone who has a few hours to volunteer.

The GOLF games will be held on Monday, August 29th - Wednesday, August 31st, at Split Rock Golf Course, which is located on the Bronx/Westchester border.

Volunteers are needed thru-out the day. It is all shift work, so you can do as much or as little as you like, from 4 hours, to 6 hours, to 8 hours, to 16 hours!!! LUNCHES & DINNERS WILL BE PROVIDED!

If you have a partner, or a large group of volunteers, we will accomodate you so that you can all work together, relieve each other, etc.

While we understand that this a late notice, and you may have already made plans for vacation/work, we appreciate any help you can provide.

Please let us know ASAP so we can come up with a schedule that is suitable for you.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR DEDICATION & TIME,

Kenny Knapp

nap72@aol.com

On a run (FDNY), I asked CON-ED supervisor what these were. He knew the answer! He said that they are repeaters/antennas for CON-ED's new MDT system. That was last summer BTW.

Anyone know if that place in White Plains is still around that sold models and collectibles? Was it like Westchester County Collectibles or something?

I think it's long gone....Did it move?

Thanks guys.

It's the law in New York City.

Nice website.

Just wondering....

Engine 21 (E-21) is the busiest unit in the City responding to over 2,600 runs last year.

Engine 22 (E-22) is the busiest unit in the City, responding to over 1,850 runs last year.

Getting the kinks out i guess......

Looks like it would/could be used to run hoses/ropes over a surface to prevent them from contacting it and damaging them (i.e. a 90* angle/edge), or to just get them up off of the ground.

Just my thought...

They have a cut-out on the rim. The rim is placed around a car tire so the line doesn't get caught up when you're stretching around a car.

Stop sending companies to the box when no one answers it. That will reduce tons of false alarms.

My question is, is if they are no longer carrying these channels, where is my refund from the fee I was being charged to view these channels? Oh yeah, I'm just the sucker, I mean customer.

Engine 65. Right on 43rd Street. Between 5th and 6th.

Without going into specifics, there will be more heightened security measures for the near future. The best thing you can do if you are traveling is: get to the airport early, pack smart for carry-ons, not a lot of clutter and listen to the directions that are being given. When in doubt, put it in your checked luggage.

I hope you feel alot safer when you see my 90 year old grandmother in an isolation booth and no shoes on, getting the metal detector wand treatment, WHILE two, 20 - 30 year old, middle eastern men look on with smiles on their faces, knowing that their "civil rights" were not violated.

FDNY used to be 10-30 - Working fire.

LCC was red-tag according to NYC EMS

Dr. Lombardi. Simply the best.

Outside of work, went to a couple of NY Ranger games with him. Great guy.

Sad........

Agreed.....great video.

We often throw around the word hero on this site but I think this maybe one case where it maybe deserved. This would have been the call of the year or lifetime for some firefighters....smoke and flames pushing from a OMD with persons trapped, sounds like every probies fantasy. Yet, a man, a stranger, with no experience, training or protection did something that those with the experience, training or protection did not do. This is not to say they too might have pulled the boy from the fire but the fact of the matter is this man did it first and quite possibly saved the childs life because of it. Some say we attach the label hero to emergency services personnel too easily but this man is not in the category, he is your average joe six-pack New Yorker who did what he thought was right. He is a hero in my book, just like the guy who saved the man on the subway from the train or kid from harrison who saved the person in Mass.

Couldn't disagree more.

The child was handed to him by FF. Jimmy Senk, L-47, who crawled in and found him. This guy carried him down the fire escape. I'm assuming that the FF thought the guy was another FF, and handed him off.

That's just lending a hand, as far as I'm concerned.

Check this out from Statter 911. scroll down to smoke explosion video

http://www.wusa9.com/news/columnist/blogs/davestatter.aspx

Link is no good.

"not allowed to take vacation in January."

BEAUTIFUL!!!! Something other Depts. to look into.

Hmmmmm....lay on the beach, go fishing, or go golfing in June, July, August, September??? or January???

Only change is box 8555 on the parkway, which is a dual response.

Not to nitpick. This is only for insane buffs.

The box is 8999. 1 & 1. FDNY N/B FROM E 233 ST.

sorry tom

nvm

How about more points for posting and increase the membership levels to become the different colors.

Seriously???

Maybe I've got it wrong, but I think you are missing the point of this website, which to me is: A.) Trying to desiminate information to our brothers. B.) Make us better firefighters. C.)Keep us well informed/entertained.

It's not to say, you're more important, impressive, knowledgable, because you're at a higher membership level or have more "points". To me, that only serves to divide us more.

6. We hold our members to high standards, and willl continue to do so. This includes DECENT spelling and grammer, and positive/constructive/respectful behavior. We expect ALL members to follow the rules and policies. Ignorance or dislike of the rules is not an excuse for not following them, so the staff can not be blamed for enforcing them.

Seth, if you wrote that statement I quoted above, it's funny!!!

Come on, you say that you "hold our members to high standards, and willl continue to do so" then spell grammar wrong.

As the husband of an English teacher I found that hysterical. Just breaking balls.....

Admittedly, I don't post enough, I'll try to do more.

ON ANOTHER NOTE.....

You guys do an incredible job moderating. I check the site everyday, and I have no idea how much work has to be done to keep it going, but I know it's a hell of alot.

For those who don't like the site and complain, good-bye. Just like Howard Stern used to say, "If you don't like me, DON'T PUT ME ON!!! WHY ARE YOU LISTENING?!?!"

Guys, keep up the good work.

Sorry for this guys but it's bothering me, and isn't this a place where we can vent?!?!?

While I can understand the fun of this game, as I'm a bit of a video-game junkie, it really annoys me that people from the United States find it funny that a foreigner was throwing his shoe at Our President, the ultimate insult in his country.

He was throwing his shoe at the President, but what he was really doing was showing his lack of respect for the United States, OUR COUNTRY!!! Despite your opinions, and mine, of President Bush, he is our leader. We are told to respect and unite behind our new President-to-be, but it's ok to disrepect our current one?

Seeing this animal throw his shoe at my President made me want to kick his a$$. Americans should have caused an uproar at this the ultimate act of disrepect and demanded justice. If Iraq's Prime Minister Maliki was at a press conference in NYC and I threw something at him, what the hell would happen to me!?!?! What would Iraqis be saying about me? Instead, we have come out with a GAME that we can (playfully) do the same thing. Only in the U.S.A.....

It's easily related to the Fire Service: You don't like your Chief/Officer. He's a coward, empty-suit, never-put-out-a-fire, from the "other regime", career vollie, know-nothing kind of guy.......He gives you an order......Do you not do it? I hope not. Firefighters follow orders out of respect for the rank, their department, their company, and their fellow members regardless of personal views.....(or you look like that FF who was going crazy outside the structure fire fighting with fellow firefighters....THE ULTIMATE IN RIDICULOUSNESS!!!!)

Maintain respect and back our leaders regardless of your political views.

(I know it's just a game, and if after reading this, that is what you're saying........you missed my point.....continue to enjoy.)

Another King Bloomberg idea. City Island is a 3 minute response time for the next closest ladder and comprised mostly of wood frame houses put so close together that every fire is an exposure problem. As usually this is more than likely a decision by a group of pencil pushers looking at numbers on a spread sheet and no real grasp of reality. Bean counters: No fires in an area = No need to resources. The Response Community: No fires in an area = We are overdue for the big one.

The Bloom-turd administration and Commissioner Clueless must have given you that thought.

The residents of City Island only wish that was true!!!

Look up any incident history and you will see it takes 8 or more minutes for 61 Truck to get there. Mapquest it, and it will tell you 11 minutes to 70/53 from 66/61.

That idiot, Magoo, was on TV today saying that "Every company we close has another firehouse within 1 mile." Maybe that's what they turned the old landfill into!!! Or did they put one on the golfcourse!?!?!

As many of you may be aware, the 9/11/01 attacks occured on the night tour.

Oh yeah, every politician who said, "We'll never forget!" has long forgotten....We will have to remember.

Great pictures...

And not to criticize, BUT....

I love the guy walking right through the steeple collapse zone wearing a white helmet, coat, JEANS, and bunker boots! Never ceases to amaze me!

I am writing this carefully, because I don't want to offend anyone, and I don't think I will.

I'll say, I am in a paid fire service and an officer, who doesn't NEARLY/NOR CLAIM TO know everything.

With all due respect to you, I feel I must defend this guy in the white helmet, This Chief is not in the collapse zone of this steeple. YET.

I realize how "unpopular" it is to go against ANYTHING in the name of "SAFETY", (it's like the FD magic word, say "SAFETY" and there's no rebuttal) but I BELIEVE this piece of structure is not yet involved in fire. While early collapse zones should be established, and Firefighter safety is the paramount (and apparently the ONLY consideration) at the time of the photo in this incident, I BELIEVE as seen from the smoke, (amount, color & condition), the steeple is not in danger of collapse.

Although his choice of gear may be questionable, at the point he is walking past this steeple, I BELIEVE it is not in danger of collapse.

Yes, let's learn from our mistakes, but let's also learn how a fire progresses and be able to recognize the signs of imminent, possible and potential collapse.

Yes, SAFETY is a key, but signs and experience are great teachers too. Let's learn from them too.

Just a thought. Am I ranting? Sorry, but sometimes I BELIEVE we are cautious to a fault. (Yes, that's possible in some cases.)

By the way, these pictures are ridiculously good! The clarity and effects just make you go WOW!