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I think they are running out of things for them to do over 6 months. I was there today and the probies were out landscaping, I sh-t you not!

In Virginia, I think Fairfax county my friend tells me it is not only required but enforced that each member wears a traffic vest whenever they leave the apparatus.

Yeah CPAGE cleared it up. E-88 was brought to the convention by Seagrave, not by the job.

PDBuff I see you are in the 14-17 age group so i'll let you slide. FDNY doesn't buy equipment because its the best, FDNY buys equipment from the lowest bidder.

ok that makes sense, i just couldn't imagine the city authorizing that kind of other OT, unless it was the Vulcans for recruitment. Then again I dont think they have white boys from Jersey in mind for that

Can anyone confirm that FDNY 88 Engine was in Wildwood? I'd find it hard to believe the city would send a rig 100+ miles to a volly convention in Jersey. I think maybe it was a vol. dept. that "coincidentally" has a similar paint scheme to FDNY, and also runs an 88 engine.

No actually I was just busting chops on some other over-zealous companies. That was the day of that whole disastorous Kentland 33 discussion. Barb would also make sense though, good pick up!

It seems to me most vfd's and vac's are bending over backwards to allow anyone with a pulse to join if they are somewhat interested. I have heard of a few local departments that are still turning people away, like it was the old days when local youth were beating down the door to ride the backstep.

Just one of many reasons why working for FDNY EMS sucks. However, I always found EDP jobs an entertaining way to break up an otherwise boring day of "domino pains" "siezas" and "Ive fallen and I cant getup".

I remember being 15 years old when Load came out and being so dissapointed. Me and my friend Tommy waited for weeks for the "Until it Sleeps" single to be premiered on the old Q104.3 when it was a hard rock/metal station. We were speechless, couldn't belive how bad it sucked. I was expecting at least the Black Album and got some crappy "lite-alternative" band instead. The logo change, the eye makeup, bad haircuts, new soft sound, no gutar solos, it was definitely the most dissapointing moment of June 1996. I haven't heard the new album yet, but I have heard there new song "Cyanide", and it does sound closer to their early work. It is at least Black Album worthy material.

I was in my junior year of college at Oneonta in a lecture hall class, I think it was Intro to Anthropolgy. I was sitting there and I remember this girl behind me started talking to her friend about a plane hitting the trade center. I wasnt really listnening and I assumed it was just a horrible accident, like a cessna or something hitting the building. I remembered reading about a B25 bomber on a training mission during WW2 hitting the Empire State Building in a fog and I assumed it was similar situation. It was an overcast day in Oneonta(big suprise) and that explanation seemed entirely plausible. After class I was walking through campus and I was hearing bits and pieces of conversations between students. I kept overhearing words like "terrorists", "collapse", "bomb", "trade center", etc. I decided I needed to find out what was going on so I went to the campus library to use the internet. I went to CNN.com which took forever to load, and when the screen finally came up, it took my breath away. I got up from the computer and went to the bathroom and paced back and forth muttering "holy s***" to myself under my breath like a crazy person. When I got back to my apartment I remember like 10 kids I didn't know in my living room that my roomate had invited in. It was a bunch of my neighbors in my apartment complex. I think it was one of those moments, excuse the cliche, where no one wanted to be alone. I remember spending the rest of the day trying to contact my parents and sisters which I remember being difficult since everyone else in the freeworld was trying to do the same thing. I didn't talk to my Father until the next day. He had went with the vollys to the mobilization on Bailey Ave. and then Yonkers Raceway. I was a volunteer firemen at the time when I was home from school, and had always considered taking the city firefighter test. In the days and weeks following however, I knew exactly what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. The way the men of FDNY stood together in spite of this horrible tragedy really touched me, they proved to me "it was still the Greatest job on earth!" I continued on with school and graduated but my heart wasn't really in it. I spent the next few years with the ultimated goal of becoming a NYC fireman getting my chance as and FDNY EMT in 2005 and as a Firefighter in 2007. Today I proudly serve the people of New York and the legacy of those 343 heroes.

Ok like I didn't praise numerous local volunteer and combo FD's in previous pages including Central Islip, Brentwood, Spring Valley, Peekskill and Lake Mohegan that are all extremely busy and get the job done? The members of these departments show up alot of career departments when it comes down to JOBS and the dedication and professionalism that goes into supressing them. They also are "doin it" with actual community residents and not a dorm full of buffs(not the cool kind). They also dont need ride alongs, a cheesy internet documentary, and clownish T-shirts for sale on their web site, all in an effort to stroke their egos. Now I'm really putting this thread to rest, good night and safe tours gentlemen.

I really liked all the guys name dropping FDNY in their defense of Kentland like it means something to someone who is already on the job. Don't get me wrong, Im as a big a buff as anybody. There will always be a little kid inside me that likes to see big red trucks racing down the street, but I got over the hero worship of FDNY and places like Kentland about the time I was old enough to get a drivers liscence. I would never go down there and stroke these guys egos when I am justifiably proud of my own achievements in both the civilian world and in the fire service. I am living my dream in a "middle of the road" FDNY engine company that racks up 3000+ runs a year. Maybe those aren't Kentland numbers...but those guys are never carrying roll ups and a standpipe kit 11 flights in the PJ's and then going to work. They also didnt go through hell at the rock, or get their balls busted by psychotic maniacs for their entire probationary period, or have to worry about jobs in hi-rises undergoing various phases of construction, demolition and renovation. This isn't even getting into terrorist threats. I rest my case, and I am putting this slow motion car wreck of a thread to bed. By the way Yonkers FD is top notch, my Dad's cousin was a Yonkers Firemen for 30 years. I also have a few family friends that are or were on the job. All great guys and really into the job.

Thats funny since according to the Brentwood LI FD website they average 1600 runs a year, with no EMS. I know because the EMS in that neighborhood is handled by Brentwood Legion Ambulace. Wow a dept as busy as Kentland in our own backyard that doesn't need a dormful full of out of state workers to get the job done.

no 75/33 is 2nd due over there, and 290 is 3rd due

Im not really bashing anyone from Kentland, Im just not all that impressed with them. Is it a requirement for me to bow down to the almighty altar of Kentland? This board is frequented by many FDNY, Yonkers, FDMV, NRFD etc Firemen that have been in and seen some crazy sh*t. Hell in our own backyards we have volly depts like Spring Valley, Brentwood and Central Islip and combo depts like Peekskill and Lake Mohegan that run their balls off day in and day out without the benefit of dorms to house out of state resident buffs. This isn't EMTIowa.com. If you think you are gonna impress guys here with Kentland 33 action you are sadly mistaken. I said it before, Kentland does run and are good at what they do, but they are not gods. Most of the guys I saw in the webisodes would wash out at the Rock on the mile and half run, let alone FST or motivation alley. From what I heard Pete Lund (RIP) was a hell of a fireman, if he was involved with Kentland that was his business.

I thought Kentland 33 was first due over there. j/k

Wow I must have touched a nerve! All I had to see was a helmet come out of the oven during the promo webisode and one word came to mind "tools". I'm sure these guys are good at what they do, fighting contents fires in private dwellings and pin jobs on the beltway, but to act like this bunch of 22 year olds with salty staches and scally caps are the most professional firemen you've ever seen is ludicrous. What a slap in the face to a lot of career and volly firemen all over the country who are also "doin it" on a regular basis. I also don't need the "BFD" stamp of approval about guys carpooling down there. I don't know how things are over in the 15th division but where I work if you had any association with these guys you would be laughed out of the kitchen.

Then you haven't seen or heard much. From what I've heard they are a bunch of primadonnas and clowns. They are a mix of off duty DCFD guys with no life and college kids who get their rocks off chasing fires rather than girls. I was, and still am a little buffy, but these guys take it to the extreme. The community is a low income, low density cesspool similar to some towns on LI like Brentwood or Wyandanch. Nobody or very few members of the community are involved with Kentland. It is all whitebread suburban guys who spend their weekends or live at the firehouse. Do these guys see fire? Yes and lots of it, but mostly at private dwellings and low rise town homes. Big deal. Its not like these guys are charging into OLT's and hi-rises. They are busy but dont get it twisted its not Report from Engine Co. 82.

Ah New Orleans "America's Bogota/Rio". You can put me down in the who f'n cares column in regards to the fate of this national embarrasment...I mean city. I do feel bad for the normal hardworking Americans who live on the Mississippi gulf coast and the fishing villages south of N.O. These taxpayers put up with hell after Katrina with very little attention from the media or politicians.

The jails on Rikers are the only ones ive ever been in, was kind of wondering if it was the same everywhere as far as the incompetence of the medical staff?

During my FDNY EMS days I conducted literally hundreds of prisoner transports out of Rikers. Aside from the time an EDP spit in face, I generally had more problems with the "third world" medical staff in the prison clinics than any inmates or officers. Lets just say the doctors and RN's working there weren't exactly from the top of the class. I always loved the upside down longboard, followed up with the backwards upside down c-collar. It was no use trying to be a patient advocate, the one time I tried, I almost started a race riot(thats a long story for another day). Most of my transports I was escorted by 2 officers, each armed with a 9mm. One in front and one in the pt. compartment. Once for a high profile inmate, I was escorted with an additional 2 officers in the patient compartment. I thought the inmate transfers were pretty exciting the first 2 or 3 times, but after a while it just became a 2 hour inconvience that always came up at tour change.

When I use to summer as a laborer I operated plenty of chop saws(K-12's) with street clothes, work gloves and safety glasses. I've seen much bigger safety violations than this guy. His lack of eye protection is really the only red flag I see.

As corny as it was sometimes, I think that show inspired alot of us coming of age in the 1980's and 90's to pursue Fire/Ems careers, like Emergency! had for previous generations.