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    Here is a video released by WCPD of the crash and fire at the Mobil station on the Hutch in White Plains last week. Great job by the state police investigator pulling the driver from the car. A few questions though. Why wasn't the fire suppression system activated and who is responsible for inspecting the safety equipment at this gas station, the city of White Plains or since its on county property, the county of Westchester.

    http://www.lohud.com/videos/news/local/2014/06/10/10307559/

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    I did not jump to any conclusions, I asked a question as to who wrote the captions that used the words. Those words could have come back to bite the dept on the ass IF someone got hurt. NFPA 1403 2012 edition is more strict than the previous versions because of acquired structure live burns. Glad everything went well, but nobody's live burn exercise ever started out with the statement "we will kill or injure a firefighter today".

    For everybody reading this, Chiefs, commissioners, company officers, you HAVE to read the new standard to understand YOUR personal and dept. liability. The game has changed even for training facilities.

    Martha Stewart wrote the captions under those photos, they were on her blog. I don't think she has much firefighting experience.

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    Complete silence is not the answer. If there is an incident the media is going to want to talk to someone. If no one on the fire side is going to talk to the media than they are going to talk to some PD desk Sgt. who wasn't even at the scene, or even worse some neighbor standing in the street who knows nothing of the incident but wants to see his name or photo in the paper. Each department should have a PIO (Public Information Officer) an ex-chief would make a great PIO. Listen its not just the Journal News and News 12, there is Patch, The Daily Voice, Hudson Valley Reporter and several other on-line news outlets trying to be the first to get their story out there.

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