redtruck75

Worked with Commissioner George Kielb as a firefighter,Lt., Capt., and Chief. He was a great firefighter and officer,always gave 100 percent never a slacker. Good luck in your retirement George.

To comment on 87D124's post, how can you advise people who want to know the "TRUTH" to contact the owners/operators, etc. of Empress for the TRUTH? Wouldn't they have to contact all entities involved to do some research and hear about the different figures, plans, etc. given to the different groups?
First and foremost, nobody in the YFD, the Firefighter's union or the Fire Officer's union blame anyone in Empress for anything, as you insinuate in your "TRUTH" posting.
Furthermore, the rumors are NOT being spread around by people who are angry with the City Coucil about budget cuts because the City Council didn't/doesn't come up with the cuts.
The fact of the matter is that the City Administration are telling the democratic City Council members one thing, the republican city council members another thing, the YFD another thing, Empress another thing, the firefighter's union one thing, the fire officers' union another thing and then the press yet another thing.
No one was angry with the City Council about the budget cuts either because as I mentioned earlier, they did not/do not propose budget cuts. The mayor's office proposed the cuts with "HIS" budget. The city council then has to review the information and either pass it or send it back to the mayor.
Anyone wanting to know the "TRUTH" would have to be in the room with all of the entities involved and that would never happen (even though it was requested).
It wouldn't and didn't happen because how can those in charge of a city give the truth or honest answers to any of these entities when they don't have a real plan nor the first clue about operations, safety or the health and well being of the citizens?

Here is a shot of it getting lifted....Scott

The whole reason for all of the excitement.

We had a great spot to watch at the end of the Intrepid, right by the 9/11 memorial.

OK...we pulled a fast one on my 9 year old today..he got to play hookie, but we surprised him by going down to the Intrepid to watch this whole show...and him being a plane nut - it was awesome. He aspires to do time as a Navy jet pilot before becoming a Captain of a Tower Ladder...I only hope it all comes true for him.
Here are our pics - taken by either my wife or me with a small point and shoot with a decent zoom....
The procession and the FDNY 343

Shots I took of the Space Shuttle Enterprise on its way to the Intrepid taken about 20 min ago.

Mount Vernon FD Foam 1 circa 1970. I believe that this was a 1947 Seagrave. Photo courtesy Joe Pinto.

......let's take the Safer Grant, which is for FD's, and try to figure out how not to use it on the FD......
......we can't? Well, let's not use it, how do we get out of it?......
I was expecting more intelligent moves by the new Administration, Guess NOT!!

Correct! Actually, referring back to the Ridge Hill comments, it was a truck company that was indicated as the needed addition to the department. I'm not sure if you are aware, but there are numerous bad water areas in Yonkers as well. E-312 is an LDH company, and is probably the busier all of the LDH companies.

To quote the artilce from lohud:
"The new budget proposal also restores $560,000 to the Yonkers Public Library, allowing it to stay open Saturdays and evenings.
Erich Schoen, president of the Friends of the Yonkers Public Library, called the restoration “good news” today but said the city will likely have to issue bonds to purchase new books that the library sorely needs.
“We applaud the mayor and the council for putting money back in,” Schoen said. “In this economy, people need the latest library services.”
In my opinion I would much rather have seen more money go to "public Safety" then making sure the public Library can be open on saturday's.
will the yonkers public Library come to your house when there is an emergency?
The last time I steped foot in a library was in college over 10 years ago.
chris

I have een retired from Yonkers for about 2 1/2 years after a 30+ year career. I don't know who writes these things but as over my entire career this story is filled with wrong information. This is typical for the politicians and press in Yonkers, if the facts don't work for you just make it up as you go. The sick leave statement has been wrong in the past and I'm sure it's wrong again here. The line about 10 minutes early for a weeks pay is wrong, to begin with it's 12 minutes, and it's for one crew to pass on information to the next crew, and it's not a weeks pay. Why should that lead to more sick leave, it does'nt make sense? The manning clause is 57 not 54 and is a safety issue. Also talks about preventing "abusers" from working mutual shifts, makes it sound like 25% of the job are abusers, which is total BS, not to mention mutuals are contractual, but they have been trying to rip up the NEGOTIATED contract for years. The City negotiated the contracts and now they want just throw them out, very typical from politicians.

Bill Tompkin's photos:
http://www.btfirephotos.com/Category/Yonkers-NY-5-16-12/23023853_VXL5X6#!i=1855169811&k=Dzjqmx4

Do you mean this one XEastchester Fire Dept [gas job ] in my driveway with Rescue40 [Member here] with the flag ! mid 90's

Why does the City and the press automatically come after our contracts and say they need to be re-negotiated? Let's talk real money and discuss the deals made with developers that continually use high priced attorneys to get the best deal for themselves. No mention of re-negotiating these contracts because those same high priced attorneys would tie the City in knots in a court of law, and the City would eventually lose. When a union threatens the same we are called greedy but when a developer does it, they are just using good business sense. Amicone gave this City away to developers and got squat in return. Yes we get some sales tax but there was no benefit to the City's infrastructure. The people employed are mainly from the Bronx and Yonkers taxpayers get the short end again. Spano should assemble a commission to look into how Yonkers was raped under the previous admin and if they can't file criminal charges then use a publicity campaign to expose the one sided benefits that developers got and what the taxpayer paid. Not really expecting any of these cowards to do anything even close though. Government is no longer about serving people, it is self serving.

Truck 5 sitting in quarters at station 12, home of Engine 312 , TL-75, and Battalion 2 Yonkers Fire Department.

Here is Yonkers 1952 ALF 700 series.

Truck 5 sitting in quarters at station 12, home of Engine 312 , TL-75, and Battalion 2 Yonkers Fire Department.

I wanted to share some of my pictures of Wilton, NY’s 1944 International. Currently serving the WVFD as a brush truck, it was originally a crash truck for the U.S. military before being bought by the FD in 1948. It recently came back from being refurbished and is back as a frontline piece. It holds 500gal of water and some other forestry gear.

How does busing rectify that? All we are accomplishing is moving kids all over the city but that doesn't speak to the quality of the education in any of the schools.
Shouldn't all schools be sustained so none of them are "failing"? Is it a better idea to bus all the "smart" kids to one school and bus all the "dumb" kids to another? That's no

It has nothing to do with poor neighborhoods vs. wealthier neighborhoods and better schoold being located in better neighborhoods. Each school should have the same ciriculum and oppertunities for the students. There are also certain schools, such as the Charter School and Yonkers High with the I.B. program, that those honor students can be enrolled in. I just feel that there is no reason to bus a student across the city to get the same education as he could in his or her own neighborhood.
Its a total waste of tax dollars.
I don't want this discussion to go in the Yonkers Public School direction thought. I feel that is simply one way that tax dollars can be saved and jobs could be saved.

Saw the smoke from this job 3 miles away.

Here is one of the water tanker cars being towed by work engine #106 at the Brewster yard 3-31-2007

The Detroit Firemen's Fund member started this ambitious project several years ago to restore the former Detroit Engine 13 rig to be used as funeral caisson throughout the state. The body of the 37 Seagrave was removed from the Seagrave chassis and retrofitted to the chassis of a late model Freightliner that is powered by a Mercedes Benz 4 cylinder turbo charged engine and an automatic transmission, enabling the rig to travel long distances under its own power at highway speeds. I think the pictures below will give you a good idea of the great job that was done as it would be hard for the average person to know that this is not the original chassis without opening the hood or crawling under the rig. And yes, it still has (limited) pumping ability.

News 12 also said that the car hit the trucks gas tanks, when in fact there are no gas tanks on a truck.