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    I don't want people to think I'm opening a can of worms here, but where does it state a M/A Co. can't break away to respond to an emergency in their own juristiction, whether their responding to the scene as a fast team or to standby in a station. I've been on M/A standby in Yonkers on 2 occassions and returned to MT.Vernon because we were needed at the initial call or a subsequent job. In my opinion, you should protect your own first, whether it be firefighters or the civilians that pay for protection. Is this same Fast Team suppose to pass a true emergency in their own town while enroute on M/A and just radio it in to Dispatch? What say you? <_<

    Maybe I'm missing something, when requested for mutual aid, once called out responding you are now under the control of the requesting IC. Therefore you cannot self dispatch, or release yourself without requesting this from the IC of the incident.

    That said, someone always trys to argue an exception to the rule or some obscure situation like Terrorists taken over a building Energized with bombs strapped to their chests demanding that all pink bunnies be released.

    As for passing an accident/fire, well always an exception to the rule, I'd treat this as common sense, evaluate the situation, you wouldn't stop for a car overheating or property damage accident, although seeing a person trapped in a burning vehicle, or severe accident, then you call out of service and deal with the situation. It is much like blowing an engine enroute, sometimes things are out of your control, use risk/benefit evaluations to determine what to do.

    Leaving a committed incident is just plain dumb, we all know that just because your home company is dispatched to a structure fire, doesn't always mean that it is a working fire. How would you feel for pulling your equipment to respond to a fire that turns out to be food on the stove?

    If do have a Job and the IC knows, provided things are under control, (fires out and there is enough resources on hand to cover your mutual aid assignment) the IC may let you break, but until he does your under his control.

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    Link to article Poughkeepsie Journal

    Thursday, June 29, 2006

    Flooding bars families from houses

    By Dan Shapley

    Poughkeepsie Journal

    ....

    The state's mutual aid plan was activated early Wednesday. And more than 30 volunteer firefighters from around Dutchess County answered the call.

    Volunteers from Roosevelt, Dover, Hughsonville, Pleasant Valley and East Fishkill fire departments reported to the county's Fire Training Center Wednesday evening to deploy to flooded Fonda, Montgomery County. They're taking much-needed equipment, including four-wheel-drive vehicles known as Storm Emergency Fire Units, portable pumps, handsaws and generators.

    The volunteers don't know what they'll find when they reach Fonda, said Roosevelt Fire Chief William Steenbergh, who led the deployment.

    "We'll do whatever it is they need there, help clearing roads and pumping out the areas that are flooded," he said.

    2 days' help likely

    The firefighters are expected to be upstate about two days.

    The last time Dutchess sent volunteers to help other parts of the state was during an ice storm in the late 1990s, county Emergency Coordinator DeWitt Sagendorph said.

    "It doesn't happen every year," said Sagendorph, who added local volunteers also provided assistance at the scene of a drowning in Boston a few years ago.

    ....

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    We don't do "Wetdown's" in the traditional sense, so it'll be a "dedication", "drydown" or some other term. From what I heard I think the plan is mid-August. We are still awaiting the completion of Engine 62-11 which is also getting close to delivery. So it'll be a triple dedication of Tower (62-45), Engine (62-11) and 2006 Ford Expedition (62-2) which recently went into service.

    The Date of the non-aqueous Wetdown, Drydown, Dedication, or anything else you can think of without water will be August 19th. Mark your calender's. 1300hrs to 1900hrs. Rombout Fire District Headquarters, 901 Main Street, Fishkill NY

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    When you call DMV, the calls are answered by prisoners, a little known fact. <_<

    Our District has plates and titles for all of our Apparatus, in 2000 we sold our 1981 Pierce Engine to a company in Ohio through Firetec. It was a pain to get a title in order to sell the truck, not impossible. So with that the District went ahead to get all the trucks title'd and regeristerd such that later sale(s) would be much easier. The plates are normal official ones and are kept in a file cabinet not on the trucks.

    As always with the DMV, it depends who you talk to as some are truly clueless. I have heard of trucks coming back as Sanders, Dump trucks, etc.. A commercial chasis can be converted to anything.

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    When is the wetdown going to be?

    We don't do "Wetdown's" in the traditional sense, so it'll be a "dedication", "drydown" or some other term. From what I heard I think the plan is mid-August. We are still awaiting the completion of Engine 62-11 which is also getting close to delivery. So it'll be a triple dedication of Tower (62-45), Engine (62-11) and 2006 Ford Expedition (62-2) which recently went into service.