SageVigiles

Well, to be fair, the "kinder and gentler" society we live in has made it more difficult to adequately guard inmates today. Used to be that you kept lights on so you could see them 24/7 but they deemed that unfair so now they turn lights out at night. Guards used to come by and check on the inmates with flashlights but that doesn't let them sleep and is also unfair. Hence you have this ridiculous environment where this can go on.

Now I'm not saying there isn't blame at Dannemora! But there is also plenty of blame outside the walls!

SECTMB wrote:
"Lots of people with NYDOCCS across their backs. Like the public is supposed to know what that means. What's wrong with just plain POLICE. Agencies and their acronyms."
I see your point about confusion, but the reason why just plain "Police" should not be used is that Corrections Officers are not Police.
The term Police should only be used with Police.
They can put "Corrections" across their backs if they want.

Date: 6/6/25
Time: 0530
Location: Clinton Correction Facility, Dannemora, NY
District: NYSP Troop B
Units: NYSP, NYS DOC, multiple other agencies

Description:
2 convicts came up unaccounted for during a count at 0530 this morning. One escapee is convicted for murdering a Broome County, NY Sheriff's Deputy. The second is convicted for 3 counts of murder and kidnapping.
Official NYSP Statement from Facebook:

WABC: Inmates Escape from Maximum-Security Prison in New York

If the drones don't affect our operations, then why would we care? If your firefighters are distracted from the actual firefighting effort, you've got real issues. It's 2015, we're all on camera at all times, get used to it and be a professional- At All Times! If the drone poses a true hazard, then it should be addressed. I can assure you that if our firefighters thought spraying a drone was more important than putting water on the fire, they'd be on their way to being unemployed very quickly.

A volunteer member of Branford, CT Fire used one about a year and a half ago during a fire at a quarry near some explosive magazines. Provided great recon for the IC. There was an article floating around about it, I'll try to find it.

This guy wins.

This guy wins.

North Korea and South Korea will consolidate before Pelham and Pelham Manor

Lets take it one step farther. The town of Pelham is 2.2 square miles. Approximately 1/2 is the village of Pelham and the other half is the village of Pelham Manor. They have an elected town supervisor and four Town Board members. plus Assistant to the Supervisor, Comptroller and ten departments: Town Clerk, Receiver of Taxes, Assessor, Courts, Town Engineer, Buildings, Senior Advocate, Historian, and Controller/Bookkeeper all in one town hall,
Then the villages have 2 of everything:
2 village managers
2 village clerks
2 village Police Departments
2 village Fire Departments
2 village Department of public works,
2 village Building Inspectors.
2 village attorneys
2 village Mayors and Boards
1 ALS flycar
AND is the only community in Westchester county with NO AMBULANCES.

You can explain to me until you are blue in the face what each radio is for and why it's there, doesn't mean I'll buy in.
This is a perfect example of just how flawed EMS in Westchester is. I've worked for privates, publics. ONE radio. Talk to one dispatch center once you sign on the air. None of this bouncing around, checking in with multiple people, wondering which radio I need to grab when I need help.

Yup. Well done.
I bout spit out my coffee at one part though. THREE radios? He has to carry THREE radios? And calls come from any one of those? WHAT. THE. F$&*??!!
Is this 1980? I live up in cow Hampshire. Bout as rural as you can get. My state issued radio can talk to EVERY dispatch center. All of em. All of our 911 calls are answered in one of two places. Then dropped down to local dispatch centers who tone out crews. There's no WONDERING if I should go on a call. If the voice in the ceiling says go, I go.
You folks need to stop accepting your status quo. Step up and lead. Be that guy. How is it possibly better and more efficient to have to carry THREE radios? Do they do this in NEW YORK CITY? Anywhere?
Rant over. Carry on.

You're gonna hear far worse in the years to come, one day it's going to be "wow, Major Department Still Cares About Hiring Standards", or "Wow, Major Department Still Goes INSIDE to Fight Fires"

From my understanding, it was a union issue related to the PPE policy.
A lot of the guys there have bought their own and worn them, but HFD has never issued hoods. Its stupid and reckless, but it sounds like its FINALLY being addressed.

From my understanding, it was a union issue related to the PPE policy.
A lot of the guys there have bought their own and worn them, but HFD has never issued hoods. Its stupid and reckless, but it sounds like its FINALLY being addressed.

http://www.newstimes.com/local/article/T-J-Lobraico-s-act-of-uncommon-valor-4812911.php

http://www.newstimes.com/local/article/T-J-Lobraico-s-act-of-uncommon-valor-4812911.php

Classmate of mine in Westchester County Probationary Fire Academy 1-94. He was a good firefighter. Those of you in the business know that is the ultimate compliment. RIP Tim.

They think they are police officers hence why they want to keep the uniform. This will all change when they get mistaken for a real cop and get seriously hurt or killed.

I have 2,700 posts here and I have been here for over 9 years. That is 300 posts per year, a little under 1 a day, average. In the past two years I have posted here less than 100 times, or a little over once a week. To say this site has died is an understatement, of the top ten posters that are not Seth, only 3 post anymore. 1 is me, 1 is a moderator and 1 is Bnechis. We have lost more quality posters than we have gained by leaps and bounds. The reason why we do not have the posting that used to occur is simply we do not have the same caliber of people posting over and over again. Yes there are a few quality people posting out there but those who post talk past each other, not actually to each other.
Quite simply it is impossible to engage in conversation if no one is listening. It is even harder/more frustrating when any conversation here occurs past eachother and not too each other; very quickly you loose anything to talk about.
I am not sure there really needs to be another generation of EMTBravo. What would it accomplish? We have tried using EMTBravo as a training site with no success, we have tried using EMTBravo as a incident alert site with no success, we have tried using EMTBravo as an emergency service community platform with no success. After some point you have to say that the site had a good life but has been eclipsed by other more modern platforms (Think of EMTBravo as MySpace) and you need to let it die. Maybe it is time that efforts get channeled somewhere where they would be more effective like emergency services activism or public education as opposed to a forum with only 1.5 new topics daily?

So maybe you just need a more simplistic numbering system. The whole ladder size pump size numbering system is stupid in my opinion. I have heard people tell me well you know how long the ladder is or how big the pump is. When you hear them call mutual aid they don't ask for a pump or ladder size-they ask for an apparatus type. Rockland's numbering system is unique but it's in no way pragmatic. I believe in the most simple method possible. Fire Department + Type + number. Works fine in lots of areas of the country and no need for a decoder ring to figure anything out. Plenty of places type apparatus and inspect them which keeps departments from miss-classifying them.

Engine, tanker, pumper,....what ever you call it, it has a big hose bed with not much supply hose on it ???

Call it what ever you want, but at only 1,000 gallons and no side or rear dump valves and no direct tank fills in the rear and NFPA says that's an engine.

This has already been discussed here. Basically a handful of the several hundred registered users actually check this site. FB and Twitter have made the incident alert obsolete on this forum. Social media with quick updates posted under initial post make this forum extinct. And again people left unhappy with the administration running this site so many people said screw it and left and many people followed who agreed. They since started the sites I mention above on Facebook and Twitter. Thank you and don't forget to tip your waitress.

See you've been a member of this site since 2007, yet I don't see a single incident posted under your account. Why not contribute ?
I used to contribute incident alerts on occasion, but really don't have the time to sit and listen to the scanner for hours on end anymore.
Being that most of these incidents are now instantly posted up on Facebook these days, whats the incentive for users to spend hours listening to an incident rather than spending time with their families or other hobbies just so grateful users like yourself are satisfied ?

BCFD units are taking airmail at several fires in the city.
Baltimore City has requested 20 Engine Companies and 10 Truck Companies mutual aid from surrounding counties.