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I got a 90 on the test and am 22 on the list.

that looks like the old E-193 from Rye FD

I think it is. I remember a yellow Rye engine sitting in the bay by the cascade for a while. I think it was donated to DES for training, etc.

Croton is not alone...Briarcliff has the same problem...spotty coverage of calls...OVAC to the Rescue. 15 years ago OVAC was mostly volunteer with few shifts being covered by paid personell. Now due to erosion of the volunteer base OVAC is covered nearly 24/7 with paid crews both ALS and BLS. OVAC also contracts with Briarcliff and Croton for an ALS flycar. Call volumes are thru the roof and even with 2 buses and the flycar OVAC is sometimes stretched too thin to cover calls in either village for transport. Solution, hire a paid driver in both communities and they will have coverage.

Briarcliff has a paid EMT on staff 2 days a week, 8 hours each day, to combat the problem with not having enough responding EMTs during certain days. And you can't even say there is a problem with Briarcliff EMS in comparison to Croton.

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Believe it or not there is a big difference between having clean airflow over the roof and having a very minor obstruction, as roofs are designed very precisely to maximize aerodynamics. I've heard that the difference in fuel economy between a slicktop and low profile-lightbar equipped vehicle is as much as 2 MPG.

Of course a good amount of the time that these vehicles are being driven are at "higher" than posted speed limits and hard acceleration which destroys the gas mileage anyway so MPG should really not have a bearing on putting the lightbar inside or outside. 2051's Tahoe has interior front and rear bars. At night it is just as bright and just as effective as an exterior light bars and only a little bit diminished during the day as opposed to other chief cars. (don't have any pictures)

Does anyone know when Westchester County is running the next Police Academy? I know a class is going now and finishes this week or next, so I was trying to figure out when the next one is.

Thanks.

The next test isn't until Fall 2012 so probably not until after that.

http://humanresources.westchestergov.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=171&Itemid=1826

2. An auto body shop that is only one story, roughly 50' x 75', and basically 100% involved should never be an offensive, interior attack. What is gained putting your guys in there? Salvaging the charred remains of some cars? We had a body shop on fire in February, with apartments upstairs. Initial crews reported fire in the rear and middle of the building with extension to a loft storage area. Two 2 1/2" lines made the push and knock down which worked. If we had fire conditions like Briarcliff did this morning, we would of gone defensive.

there were some beautiful cars in there

As someone that was riding the second Engine on scene, I can say that your aerial map isn't correct, the house was at the corner of Scarborough Station Road and Beachwood Way. The call originally came out as a Vehicle Fire and was then changed to a Structure Fire when the fire spread and eventually involved the entire 3 car garage, both the first and second floors, and the roof. The heat played a large factor in the amount of manpower needed as it was very hot today and extremely humid. On scene there was already one Rescue from Briarcliff and 2 Rescue/Engines also from Briarcliff. This did not "strip down a large portion of the county if another fire or major EMS incident were to occur" as all the companies that responded, besides all of the BMFD apparatus, whose Ladder is currently OOS requiring the use of Ossining's Ladder 42, were only a small fraction of their overall companies and coverage areas. Westchester is a large county and would have been fine had another fire or major EMS incidednt occured. Overall, it was a good burn. Everyone worked well, it was well organized and everyone did their jobs. The biggest problem of the incident was the heat and humidity, which put many on scene on the sidelines for longer than normal, but everyone was able to work through it with very few people needing medical attention to deal with dehydration, overexertion, etc.

Here's a picture I snapped after the majority of the fire was under control/knocked down. The garage to the right was where the fire originally began, spread to the middle garage and eventually blew out reaching 4 cars, 3 parked to the right and 1 to the left of where the picture was taken, which are some 35 feet away from the structure. A few more spots popped up and the whole frame of what was the garage was knocked completely down, can't speak on the condition of the interior not scene here as I did the majority of my work during the initial attack before aiding with exterior and clean up operations.