Future Fireman

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    Works great till the trooper starts threatening arrests for blocking "his road". We have had this happen many times with the last round (a few different incidents) being within the last 2 years.

    This is why I love Massachusetts. Any incident involving the Fire Department, the FD has command. Once we leave, it's left to the cops for their reports.

    So in short, you don't like NY troopers, come to Massachusetts! :P

    Mike

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    Yes its a good idea for safety, but there are a few problems:

    1) the only nomex traffic vest does not meet the DOT standard.

    2) NFPA says I cant put a 2" nylon patch on my turnouts (it could burn), but is it ok to cover my turnouts in a nylon DOT vest.

    3) it is an unfunded mandate and while we can afford it, it means I have to cut back on something else. One of the 2 state roads we cover is I-95 it is owned by the NYS Thruway Authority. They collect $40,000/hour at the toll booth in New Rochelle. They do nothing to support us. We've asked for a number of things to help us assist them (including hydrants in the toll plaza, which has water supply pipes running under it). They do not want assist us in anyway, so instead of having my tax dollars support them, let them fund there own fire and rescue services with the $350 million they make at the tolls in my city.

    Here's an answer for #2: Obviously NFPA doesn't want a nylon patch on your turnouts because that runs a risk of burning inside a building fire. However, the nice thing about the vest at MVAs with no fire is that you don't have to worry about that happening. However, you pull up to a car fire on the interstate, you're gonna put your SCBA on and forget about the vest until the fire's extinguished.

    This may be common sense, but regulatory agencies for what we do are trying to regulate common sense these days. :unsure:

    Mike

  9. Posted · Edited by Future Fireman

    Well as we sit and reflect on the yourth of today's society; I also have to sit and wonder when is it that we actually sit down and reflect on ourselves? I see all kinds of self diagnosed trends of todays younger generation, when most of you who are trying to recruit "generation why?" are generation Xer's yourselfs or netsters and maybe even still some baby boomers. How well was the fire service doing with our generation when many of us got involved. A few of you who posted on here also wouldn't have a good grasp on how it feels to try to be recruited or how the fire service appears to different generations because we were legacy's from family tradition and grew up in the firehouse. I can tell you the generation gap was fairly large in some aspects when I first joined and I can even see a difference in the generations as an instructor in just a small 5 year gap. Some of the pitfalls of recruiting and management within the fire service comes down on the inability for the fire service to adapt to changes. Society changes, generational mentality changes, but the fire service...hell no...we've been doing things for over 200 years, why should we change. Think about it... my grandfather's generation thought rock n' roll was terrible...my dad's generation had those that didn't understand heavy metal, now my generation thinks that the music my kids listen to (and some would call it "music") is terrible. But the fire service...nope...we're gonna keep beating on with the same mentality in some cases that we've been rolling with since the 1940's and 50's and before that in some cases. Good managers get things out of the people because they know how they tick and use that to get them to perform. Maybe instead of pointing out what are apparant or alledged problems with today's youth...(no offense Mike...but seeing a 14 to 17 y.o. tell me about 14 to 17 y.o. is kind of like taking parenting advice on how to handle one daughter from the other daugther whose 2 years older) perhaps the fire service needs to take a look at themselves and find what best fits for what their needs are.

    None taken ALS! Just remember, hate the message, not the messenger! :lol:

    I only said that from my own observations of kids in high school.

    Mike

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    For those in High School and College and have other friends outside of the depts. station/firehouse/quarters:

    Take a look at some of your friends outside of the firehouse/station/quarters, most of them really have the following problems:

    • Lack Common Sense
    • They think about what's best for them, not for others
    • They always think someone else will do it for them
    • They want to make money without working hard

    That being said, obviously, someone being raised in a tough area, where more people live in poverty, obviously, they're gonna have street smarts and (sometimes) common sense if they stay out of crime.

    Mike

  22. Posted · Edited by Future Fireman

    dillondotcom posted this quote in that topic Bnechis, and to be honest, it's a really good one. Maybe the mayor should answer this:

    Its a shame what that city has done to its department. Anyother shady deal going on and someone is making out on it. They wont care until there is a fire with multiple deaths to civilians for department members. Then someone might finally ask this one very important question. "What the ____ is going on in this city?"

    I've never seen such a poorly equipped FD in my life!

    Mike

  24. Posted · Edited by Future Fireman

    Guys, I've been thinking of getting a either Base scanner or Mobile scanner for a car because currently my computer is in the cellar, and a portable scanner doesn't get good reception down here. That being said, I'm looking for something that is similar, but doesn't have to be exactly like a Radioshack scanner. I don't want to learn a whole new way to program a scanner. I've looked at Radioshack's listing for base scanners, and I don't like the fact that the speaker is on the bottom of the unit. So, I'm looking elsewhere. However, there is 1 catch: It has to be cheaper than $300 and be easy to program. Reason being, I don't want a damn expensive scanner and a POS antenna.

    Any reccomendations?

    Mike