Pedro911

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    Nicoli's decisions have left his home community with 1 less life-saver. For those of you that don't know, he has been awarded numerous life saving awards as well as a congressional level award from Congresswoman Dr. Nan Hayworth last month. It is unfortunate that internal FD politics have resulted in his decision to no longer be a firefighter.

    I don't think my own community as a whole is aware of the separation between the the company and the district functions, as mirrored in one of the comments above. I certainly did not understand this for several years after becoming a FF/EMT.

    When we hold fundraising events such as a "boot drive", we get dressed in our PPE and hold out fire boots for motorists to donate money to our cause.... "OUR CAUSE?" Unless they have a personal connection to the FD, I doubt that any significant percentage of the donators understand that this $ is NOT going towards training, equipment or operational readiness. This is straight up false advertising. And I am personally sickened by it. I've told my friends and family that donated money annually to the fire dept through the companies annual fund drive, to stop.

    I have witnessed repeatedly over the years, tens of thousands of dollars getting spent by my company on parades, annual dinners, installation dinners, christmas parties, etc... And simultaneously get turned down for much needed equipment and stonewalled on training funds by the fire commission. Although these are two separate entities, there seems to be something very very wrong with this. I did not join the FD to drink beer either. I did not join to go to parades.

    Ask yourselves: are you going through more cans of ZEP and tubs of turtle wax than saw blades and saw fuel? Our pride should not come from how shiney and clean our trucks are, but rather how dirty and trashed our gear is from having training with it so much. I believe that if we prioritize the trophies that go in a glass case over what we actually signed up to do, we are more likely to end up in a pine box.

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    Wrong. As with any emergency, as long as you have a plan in place, and that plan is to "Contact X resource for their specialty," then your covered. I'm sure you have sewers and confined spaces in your district. Do you have a confined space rescue team in house, in your department ready to go? If someone is digging a trench, are you required to immediately train and supply them with a technical rescue team specializing in trench rescue out of your department? No.

    If the plan in place in your SOG/SOP's is to call for a specialized team, then your department has done their required duty. You can train your members to reach, and throw, but rowing and going is a different skill.

    Just as a friendly correction, it's reach, throw, row, go. dont forget Helo.

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    I see your point of view, and while the reasoning for entering the situation are different, both parties need rescuing. Taxes pay for costs associated with the rescues. The equipment has already been purchased, the insurance is already paid for, the crews have already been trained. All of that sits idle on the tax payers dime, whether it is used or not. Everything is already paid for. Insurance can pick up the cost of the damaged equipment.

    Exactly. The biggest shutter-upper, to me, is this. NO ONE FORCED US TO SAY "YES, WE WILL ATTEMPT THIS RESCUE". Paid or Vol., you have the right to say NO. We all said yes that night. Why are the victims being harassed? Our job titles do not include judging our clientel (victims). So stay the pros that we all are and go train your brains out.

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    The 30K cost was for the entire incident operating expenses, not for radio purchase or repairs.

    The radio/communication issue appears to be everyone was unable to talk to each other on a universal channel.

    why was 60 control mobile comm not on site at this incident? would this have aided in commo? or how about helping to stream video feed from the helos to the trt ic on the ground.

  15. Posted · Edited by Pedro911

    But does every community need a "mission-specific" apparatus? As I pointed out, Bedford is surrounded by communities with heavy rescues. Why do they need one as well? Wouldn't a Rescue-Pumper and dual response be a more cost effective route?

    I think Westchester has more Rescue trucks per capita then NYC, and do less work. Yonkers has ONE Rescue company and does more work in a year then most all of the WC Rescues, and has just a big a district and more population, traffic, etc.

    And what about water? Bedford has little to no hydrants in their district, again, wouldn't a Pumper-Tanker like Tanker 5 be a better choice? I know there is no room in the current firehouse. I'm sure a lot of water upon arrival would be more beneficial to the community, and used more. Bedford Hills has the community support to build a facility to house it's apparatus that is proven to be used often and manpower when needed, why can't Bedford do the same?

    I understand departments use Rescues to carry other items, but usually it's something that should be labeled "Utility".

    I'm not sure, but I believe that Bedford has a shortage of drivers, so perhaps the following is one of the reasons they are going w the full size res44cue. I heard that they are putting a cafs on it (unsure of the gallonage) to deal w mva fire suppression, as they might not get a pumper out as well during the week. As for I-684, Ive recently looked at their fire protection district and as you said, they have much more hwy s/b than n/b, but after having followed the events within the local rescue community for a number of years, it would seem that Bedford FD has their fair share of rescue work, not all of it being mva-related. For whatever reason, they get some very unusual rescue requests. All this being said, as one of the previous contributors stated, I'm sure that their apparatus commitee has spent many long hours designing a rig based on the districts needs. As far as a tanker, Bedford is not alone in their need for on scene water and as im sure you know, multiple tankers get dispatched on any hint of a 10-75 in that neck of the woods... So I'm sure they would very much like to see a tanker in their bay, as would the rest of the Batt. 13/16 "tanker squadron": PRFD, BHFD, KFD, BVIFD, etc... It will be interesting to follow the progress of this FD in the near future as they replace rigs. Does anyone know who will actually be building the new res44cue?

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    I think after a multi agency debriefing, which would be quite benificial in this case (and nothing negative really occured), we can eventually discuss it here. For now, Kudo's to everyone involved, as this was one of the most indepth incidents anyone involved has ever experienced. Class 5 rapids, inacessable victim, night time rescue, ect. ect.

    I personally would like to thank the the Aviation Unit for lighting the way safely home for us and the County TRT boat, we couldn't have done it without you.

    10-4 on that... Thanks to the eyes in the sky, you guys helped me make it home safe that night. We owe you one!

    TRT Marine 77

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    Stabilize BP maybe? Since the heart is pumping with gravity to most of your body most of the time, if you rotate a person 180 degrees the heart now has to use its energy to pump all the blood that was previously moved via gravity below the heart has to now be moved to an area above the heart. Possibly by applying the MAST pants you are preventing blood from having to be pumped to the area above the heart and up gradient thus decreasing strain on the heart and increasing BP?

    interesting thought... research "suspension trauma"...