DaRock98

You know how it generally works on this site. When it's your own department, it's "Monday Morning Quarterbacking", when it's someone elses department, it's "Post-Incident Critquing."

I guess it's a done deal. If there is a logo it must be happening !!!!!!

The term "Re-Kindle" should never be used.
How can a fire that is extingushed, "Re-Kindle"? It can not.
When a fire occurs in the same structure hours (or days) later, one of three things has occured:
1) The arrsonest returned to complete the job
2) The fire dept. did a poor job of overhaul and missed something (most common with a smells & bells or a small "room & content" incident)
3) The fire dept. made a determination that after a major fire (often with collapse) that there were no exposure issues and no way to do overhaul (without heavy equipment) and often it was in the best interest of the safety of the members to regroup and wait.
Based on the size of this fire...sounds like #3. so it was not a "Re-Kindle".

If you guys want to be taken seriously on here maybe you should type in complete sentences and use proper puncuation. Just sayin.

This is one of the sorriest excuses for a document I have ever seen. All it does is "recommend." Yes, NY is a home rule state, but it does Require 229 hours of training for career firefighters under their document Administrative Standards for Firefighters. Where's the "home rule" in that? I believe the State could require a lot but just chooses not to. Even the 229 hours is minimal. Responsible fire departments are giving their probies somewhere in the range of 400 hours before they hit the street. Along with that, the required 100 hrs per annum cannot scratch the surface of the things they should be training on annually.
Where was home rule when the state mandated PASS devices and personal escape systems? The state jumped right over home rule when enough people demanded these items, and the state can do it in regards to training. All you have to do is get together and make a stink to enough stste legislators.
The argument for "home rule" and "recommendations instead of requirements" over the years has usually been something along the lines of "If we force too much training on firefighters, we will lose volunteers." Well, how would you rather lose them, because you require too much training, or would you rather carry them out in stokes baskets and put their name on that ever growing stone monument in Albany. (By the way, that monument sits in front of the place where they only "recommended" training. Ironic, isn't it?) This is not a salvo aimed at volunteers, either. The vols that see the need for training will stay.
I spent almost 35 years on the fire department and I cannot remember a time when I didn't want more skills and knowledge. Even in retirement, I am still learning. The Authority Having Jurisdiction should be within yourself. You should be begging your department for more training and knowledge.
How would you feel if you were personally responsible for losing a guy because you chose not to train on whatever killed your fellow firefighter? You have to live with that for the rest of your life?
Never let a man say that his training let him down.

My name is Kevin Freeman and it was my house, 22 Woodside Ave, that burned to the ground. Thankfully nobody was home at the time. My wife watched from the street and called me to come home just after 4pm. Longest commute of my life.
We're living in a hotel in New Rochelle now and dealing with all the madness. Obviously our lives will never be the same, but it could've been a lot worse if it happened at night. The house was totally engulfed in a matter of minutes.
I just came from a meeting with investigators who showed me crazy pictures of the incident I could hardly believe. They mentioned this site, but those shots aren't here. The pictures in this thread were from around when I got home and the firefighters were working on saving my neighbors place.
He's hoping they'll tear it down with all the water and smoke damage.
We have a storage locker already filled with clothes. People have been so supportive and generous. I wish I could say thank you to everybody personally. My work set up a site for me www.22woodsidefund.org. We'll take a beating on the contents insurance for sure.
BUT we'll rebuild. Thanks again for all the support.

I'm a member of IFD with 20 plus years and at this point if I did not have to remain a member of the company to remain in the Department I would have already left. I can already hear the company officers saying then leave. I was Chief when this incident took place. That should identify me! First I will Apoligize to Nyq for how he was treated and say I wish I could have done more for you as Chief. At least the Village waited until I was out of office to ask you to resign. It's is actually interesting how you co-existed for almost a year and a half after you resigned from the company and remained with the Department with no issues. If the company did not decide to go non profit (or make it legal) Nyq would probably still be active in the department.Why is the company opening up additional corporations now? I also will say I'm embarrassed at the way the Company states they investigated? they agreed to let the villages investigate as one company officer stated. The Company is a separate entity(With separate company officers) occupying space in a village building should they not have an obloigation(legal) to investigate all claims of misconduct, sexual harrasment etc are they exempt from EEO laws? I took this complaint to the village after I discussed it with a Village trustee who was in attendance at the meeting when Nyq made his claim (I arrived at this meeting late from work however I did hear the tape from the meeting it was disgraceful) and was told if I did not bring the complaint to the village he would have to.I was critized by some of the membership even though as a elected village official I had a legal obligation to bring these claims forward maybe the company needs additional EEO training. I know after this incident we had a couple of hours I'm not sure it's enough. At least the Village's investigation was completed almost over a year and a half later. I think we in the all volunteer services know know how hard it is to find and retain good volunteers or even get our current members to respond as much as they are need. When the Village was trying to find the law that eliminated Nyq from the from the company I made a suggestion to the village administrator and one member of the current board that would have kept these issues in house I hope they and the other board members will do all they can to help find a solution to retain all the volunteers it can. If not I see it as a huge disservice to the Village residents. To the Current Chiefs especially Chief. Ruffler and Assistant Chief DePaoli I will apoligize now for any issues I will cause with this post. I will also thank you both for giving me 110 percent as my assistant Chiefs and only hope that once this is resolved I can continue to serve you and the village residents. As many of the posts state there a many quailfied firefighters in the IFD. Why should it not do eveything it can to retain and recruit all additional members.

Hello 33%'er!
LOL

This thread is fantastic.
First, everyone overreacts over what now appears to be a miscommunication.
Then, the proposed solutions basically include harassing the toll-takers, because let's be real, we all know they are the ones making the policies. (Let's not do something drastic like make legitimate contact with the powers that be and explain why this is a bad policy.)
Then if that doesn't work, we advocate just blowing through the toll plazas. No big deal there, so a DOT worker or two gets blasted. No harm, no foul. Or maybe just destroy some DOT equipment.
Just brilliant. Let's keep these good ideas coming!

Date: 06/16/12
Time: 0516
Location: TSP NB on the ramp for 9A NB
Frequency: 46.26, Fire 11 and 12, EMS 11, and 12
Units Operating:
Briarcliff: 2051, 2052, 2053, E94, E92, R37 and 53-B2
Hawthorne: 2193, E155 and 63-B2
Medic- 36-M1 and 37-M1
NYSP
Weather Conditions: Sunny and clear
Description Of Incident:
05:26-Briarcliff Fire and EMS with Hawthorne Fire and EMS dispatched to TSP NB in the area of MM 4.9 for MVA with pin possible fatal injuries.
05:28- 2193,2052, 63-B2 responding
05:30- 2193 on location updating location to be on the TSP NB on the exit ramp to 9A NB
05:31- 2052 on location
05:32- 2193 reporting 2 people pinned 1 possible DOA
05:33- E155, E94 responding, 63-B2 on location
0535- All units on location
0555- 1 pt extricated in the process of extricating 2nd pt.
0559- 53-B2 enroute to WMC ALS
0556- 2nd pt heavily entrapped prolonged extrication
0700- 2nd pt extricated
0705- 63B2 enroute to WMC ALS
0730- 2193 reporting all Hawthorne units clear
0745- 2051 reporting all Briarcliff units clear
Reporters: DaRock98
ALL TIMES ARE APPROX.

These are my photos from Katonah FD’s parade last Wednesday. Weather wasn’t the best and I didn’t have a great spot but the parade was great. Photos are certainly not my best but I wanted to share. Anyone else who took photos, please share them in the thread. Some videos are bellow too.

Don't try too hard to follow his logic. First off, it's difficult for anyone who appreciates the rules of grammar and literacy, and second off, it's all plagiarized. So basically, all of his "thoughts" are stolen. That makes him a thief. There no lower creature in academia than he who passes off others work as his own. I just picked three random sentences in that post, and they are all, verbatim, off the internet.
http://www.ehow.com/list_6683091_negative-effects-labor-unions.html
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100921054610AAA0to0
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091019184208AA8AYGx
If anyone wants to have an honest discussion about the pros and cons of organized labor, please step up, but if all you can do is steal others thoughts and pass them off as your own, your making yourself look like a fool.
(Besides, doesn't plagiarism violate forum rules? If not, it should.)

Thank you! There'll be a little something extra for you in your spam folder later.

"Funny thing about firemen...is night and day...they're firemen."
Good work!

Totally thought this was going in a different direction....

Maybe you should take the test to be the next police chief......you seem to know what's best for this city

I believe the county gators are housed at DES. Individual departments may have them but the county operated ones are at DES only.

The water rescue teams are located where their sponsors are based. For example the County Technical Rescue Team is located in Valhalla. That's pretty centrally located.
Yorktown, Somers, Mahopac Falls all have water rescue teams because those departments have committed to the expense, liability and obligations of sponsoring a specialty team. Do you think Yorktown should base their team in Mamaroneck just because Mamaroneck is on the Sound?
Not everyone can be all things to all people. Leave the specialties to the departments willing and able to make the commitment to them. Not just doing them because its "cool" or they want the new patch.

When you open a topic it brings you to the first post in the thread not the last post you have read.

When you open a topic it brings you to the first post in the thread not the last post you have read.