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  1. Posted · Edited by Oswegowind

    Date: 05/21/2009

    Time: 1858

    Location: 46 Caroline Ave. X of Astor/Robbins

    Frequency: 484.7125

    Units Operating: YFD ENG.S 303, 304, 306, 308, 309, 307, LAD.S 71, 74, 72, BATT. 1 & 2

    Weather Conditions:

    Description Of Incident: Working Fire 3 Story Wood Frame

    Reporters: wind on blackberry

    Writer: O-Wind

    1858 - numerous 911 calls for house on fire.

    1901 - E303 o/s 10-29.

    1903 - B1 10-30, 3 story wood frame (all hands)

    1904 - 2nd alarm. (309, 307, 72 B2)

    1906 - 4 story wood frame, heavy fire 2nd floor & 3rd floor rear.i

    1908 - Car 2 spec call E312 to replace E304.

    1913 - PD closing area to all traffic.

    1924 - 3rd Alarm. (sq11, L75)

    1927 - 310 & 70 o fire hq.

    1931 - Riverdale Ave closed from Vark to Ludlow, lines stretched across Riverdale.

  3. Posted

    I need to know if you can bring a "New" in the original packaging, sealed, Gerber tool on an international flight in the "checked in" luggage. My Brother in law in the Philippines has requested 2 of the tools, ironic thing is he is an airplane mechanic for Northwest Airlines, but forgot to get them when he was here last month for training in Atlanta. Of course, he isn't sure if his mother will be allowed to bring them...he could have put his in the mechanics hold.

  14. Posted

    100% true and well put. Please understand my point though. What does making this public do? Why does the public need to know what this dispatcher did? This screw up should be documented, and spread through the emergency services alone so that we may all learn from it. The same way we all learn from the mistakes we have read about in "close calls" or from "incident reports". It turns out that the dispatcher has not actually been named as of yet. They have been placed on suspended leave and have been offered counseling. She has less than one year on the job including her training time (not that it changes anything). Let's not be so quick to tar and feather people in public. It can be handled appropriately in house.

    Because the public has the right to know. As a civil servant you take a job to work for the public. I understand that it makes all of us dispatchers look like we can't do our jobs, but maybe this is the last time we will read about this type of incident because people will start doing what they are supposed to do. I am tired of hearing about "black eyes", if you don't like it, don't be the reason and don't let the person sitting next to you be the reason. I am a firm believer that secrecy is not the answer, people need to learn from not only their mistakes, but the mistakes of others. If the dispatcher had saved a life, I expect to read about that too. Do good, look good! Do bad, too bad!

  15. Posted

    The man who did the shooting decided to do the shooting on his own. He is still a murderer.

    However, officers may have approached the incident more prepared and possibly in a different manner if they knew the subject had access to a GUN. Many times we get calls about disputes through a third party, not at scene who may not have enough information, however when someone at the scene gives you precise information, that info must be given to everyone involved so that they can make an educated decision as to handling the incident. In cases where it is a 3rd party, not involved, I make sure the officers know that we don't have all the facts and they have to use their heads and take precautions because you never know what is about to happen.

    Yes, everything is 20/20 in hindsight, but the basic notion that this press release take the onus of murder away from the actual murderer is not true. He killed them. However, the inaction of the dispatcher caused these officers to enter a situation without critical decision making facts that may of changed the outcome. I am a dispatcher as it says over there on the left, I worked on the "street" as an EMT for years before I took this job, so my perspective may differ. However, I uphold my self to the same standard I feel everyone should be held to and that is DO YOUR DAMN JOB RIGHT! I don't care what person took the call...if it says something I tell whoever I am sending exactly what the calltaker says is going on. If I don't and something happens, I expect to be held responsible for my inaction!

    If more people took responsibility, we wouldn't have to have this conversation! That person made a conscious decision to omit information, so be it, they have to live with the fact that their inaction may have led to each of those deaths. It saddens me that in this day and age of civil liability and litigation more persons don't "get it". What you do and what you don't do can cost you so much...and if "jobs" would begin to hold their personnel responsible for the smallest things I believe that these types of situation can be avoided in the long run!

  16. Posted

    My gut reaction here is that this information should have been kept "in house". I think that for the Police Chief to make this statement to the press can not help any of the victims families, the public, or the police officers themselves. This dispatcher should have been dealt with internally and removed from his posistion and shown his walking papers. Those officers died because some rat a***ole decided he was going to unload on them. This is monday morning quarterbacking at it's worst.

    "IN HOUSE" What?????!!!!!!!

    It is the dispatcher's RESPONSIBILITY to relay all PERTINENT and IMPORTANT information especially if it involves any type of hazard or danger that the responders may encounter! This is 100% on that dispatcher. I am a dispatcher and constantly see people omit information for what appears to be one stupid reason after another. I have heard things like..."I didn't see that..." or "It didn't sound true..." Come ON! As a dispatcher our 1st and most important responsibility is to provide information to all of the services responding that will keep them SAFE! I don't care what someone's gut feeling is! If a caller tells you there is a GUN then you tell the officer's that there is a GUN! Domestics and traffic stops are the most common types of incidents in which police officer's lose their lives. As a dispatcher I hope that I never have to deal with such a thing, but I am damn well prepared to first give the info, second pay attention, and third get them help when it is needed! I may not know all of the officer's I work with, but I consider them family while we are working together, even if I don't care for them personally!

    I hope every dispatcher on this forum reads this article and gets chills, because if this doesn't bother you, you need to get a new job!

  17. Posted

    Bob is 98 and missed all of last season. Although I am saddened by the fact that his career may be over, I am not one bit surprised. How many of us know anyone 98 years old? Life expectancy is greater than it ever was but 98 is still more rare than it is common!

    And this is another reason they can't move Jeter...poor Bob would have to re-record the announcement and is incapable of doing so at this time from what is circulating!

  19. Posted · Edited by Oswegowind

    Date: 3/27/2009

    Time: 2120

    Location: Clinton Pl/Herriot St (Google Map Link--CLICK ME!)

    Frequency: YPD 1 & 2, EMS 462.950, YFD Ops 484.7125

    Units Operating: YPD 3rd Pct, E/T K9 units, EMS Medic bus, YFD E303 & B1

    Weather Conditions: Fair, but chilly...

    Description Of Incident: Male stabbed in neck during street fight

    Reporters: Anonymous from a payphone

    Writer: O-Wind

    YPD 911 getting calls on 10-17 (large fight), 1 male reported to be stabbed in the neck. PD securing crime scene, FD station down block was summoned by bystanders for help for victim, FD and EMS on scene treating 1 stabbing victim.