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Just last year or So there was a heated topic about the Town of Colonie, NY and the paid staff programs that many of the departments have. Well some of the paid staff programs have organized under one local of the IAFF, Colonie Professional Firefighters Association, Local 4924. We are holding a Memorial day Raffle and any support would much be appreciated. please see the attached flyer....

raffle_flyer.doc

I was just wondering what makes up the hands on portion of the test?

They all have boat loads of automatic aid to make sure somebody shows up. If things were rosey, they would be able to cover their calls. A cpl of depts have some paid folks in house for janitorial, administrative tasks, etc. And when a call comes in they become ff's and go. So, if they get injured on a run are they considered vol ff's and get vfbl? they dont get 207a.

this is true for a few of the departments where the paid staff are volunteers that work in the fire house and when the tones drop then become firefighters but there are also a few departments that have paid firefighters whos only job is to respond to alarms and daily maintenance of the apparatus. these departments employ full time janitors to do fire house up keep. the departments are also the ones that have to highest budgets to cover the cost of 5-6 day time firefighters and other paid personnel ie secretary and janitor. most of the residents are unaware that during the day when the trucks come to there house that it is almost all paid firefighters on the rig as the volunteers have regular jobs and are unable to respond.

as for the redundancy in apparatus, there are currently attempts to reduce this for example one of the busiest departments just got of rid of their rescue and a engine and only replaced it with a new engine because latham rescue 4 borders them. there are in fact only 2 true heavy rescue company's in the town, rescue 2 (colonie village) at the south end of the town and rescue 4 (latham) on the north side of town and they split I87 in half for extrication calls.

I also saw that someone posted run numbers for latham and they are a little off as they are now at 300 ems runs and 240 fire.

Does anyone have pictures from millwoods fire on sunday morning?

Date:5-9-10

Time:0910

Location:483 claybird rd

Frequency:46.26

Units Operating:E93,E92,TL40,

2051,2053,2056,53B1

Weather Conditions:fair

Description Of Incident:fire in a 1 story P/D

2056 on location with fire on the 1st floor. Request EMS for party with burns. Home owner attempted to put out fire and received 2nd degree burns or arms and face. Small fire started by a cigarett that dropped on the floor. Fire knocked down quick all units back in service in about a hour. Home owner transported BLS to WMC.

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this is insanity!!! can anyone say reverse discrimination? Someone please tell me when this is going to end because the way i see it being a healthy white male I'll never get on the job if this keeps up!!

I also have a BCT15 and it does a custom scan and scans "fmr" or something like that, how do I stop it?