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good luck , no light bar?

it is illegal to smoke in the bus,and in the ambulance corp building and that is the bottom line. this is according to the D.O.H and the smoke free work place laws, and while in the corp it is illegal to smoke in a municipal building even if the building is leased or controlled by a volunteer agency.what this guy did was wrong he owned up to it , lets learn from it and prevent it from becoming a news worthy story again.

this was a news worthy story this is a problem in some agency's and maybe this will help them to follow the NO SMOKING laws.

Ed is there anything out there you can not find , if it exist you locate it. GOOD WORK. Long overdue and on the anniversary of his death.RIP

J.T.

I'm very surprised to hear any FF take this position.

Herein lies the problem. Next time the FD arrives, for a LEGITIMATE reason, this guy (or any other criminal pyscho) who thinks it just may be the PD, there to "trick him" again, is going to do something extreme, such as open fire upon the FD crew, who is only there for some BS legitimate FD function.

So you want to jump out of your engine in front of this guys apartment in the future? If he assumes you to be PD (in disguise), he may just take actions that your not prepared to handle.

this is all you have to read and it sums it all up, lets assume Yonkers fd pulls up to school st and a tenant inside the building has wants and warrants and now he thinks this is a yonkers pd trick and opens fire on the fd personnel, it was not a wise decision to allow it to happen and some fire dept somewhere will catch backlash for this , sad work by that chief

I always have it on more than one occasion, have forgotten to pull it up over my neck (oops)!

i have to wear one now , i was at the seminar in elmsford and they gave away at least 25 door prizes and great prizes at that, but me i won a hood something i get for free, but it was a great seminar

-OK, Here's my take (I was there) It was a woodworking shop in an industrial complex.The fire was knocked down in the pix. The guy w/o helmet was driving the Engine, and did not enter the building. Hoods are a personal preference and not required. I'm not gonna comment on the waiststraps, it's been discussed many times on here before. A pic is a moment in time, a few minutes after pic, things may look totally different.

why are hoods a personal preference , can i get batt 2 to confirm that the hood is not required to be worn , i just find that hard to believe.

I believe the story of this captain has been posted here before, however, these developments im sure are new and quite eye-opening for those involved on the cities end.

sorry should have clarified that there were new developments to the story

PATERSON, N.J. (AP) - Paterson city officials say they have fired a New Jersey fire captain who was commuting to work from a Pennsylvania prison.

Paterson fire Capt. Thomas Alala was serving a year for drunken driving when city officials discovered in May that he was commuting roughly 70 miles from the Northampton County Prison in Easton, Pa., for his 24-hour shifts

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that was funny , i'm going to do that to my daughter in the morning

we use it in Dobbs Ferry for the ambulance corp. the system is outstanding for the $900 a year it cost plus the cost of the 800 number. This is how it works after you are toned out if you are going to respond you call the 800 number assigned to your department and you have a choice of pressing responding to scene , or responding to the rig, whatever you decide. so now you call in and you are an emt and when you arrive you look at the screen and see only you called in and you still need a driver so you repage for a driver lets assume after 1 minute you see john smith's name pop up on the screen and he is a driver it will tell you approx. how long before he arrives at the bay and you now know in 2 minutes you will have a crew. with this system you can see how many calls a member has been on, schedule night crews bulk email all members at once, text all members , print reports and much more. in a nut shell it tells you who is responding and keeps all of your call reports and points in order.

it is a clean engine, 81 mack redone in 96 and purchased from a mack dealer in New Hampshire, clean rig perfect buy from our chiefs for the money. was the dealers pet project and pumps and drives great .

Taken off Yahoo News...an AP photo.....

great pic, thank god everyone is ok

RIP CHIEF , may your memory live in the wisdom and knowledge that you have passed down to all the firefighters you have come across in your short time on this earth

is it worth the paper work and time, the judge will give him 20 hours of community service if that, you gave him the ticket as the trooper you won so he flipped the bird now when you go to court you dont plea the seatbelt ticket down thats the revenge. we dont need to take an officer off the street for this do we.

Manslaughter Charges Brought in Fatal Ground Zero Fire

NEW YORK (AP) -- Three construction supervisors and a subcontractor have been indicted on manslaughter charges in the 2007 deaths of two firefighters at a skyscraper at Ground Zero, capping a complex 16-month investigation that exposed numerous failures by city officials

http://www.1010wins.com/Charges-in-Deutsch...nk-Fire/3538030

Here In Dobbs Ferry we are expecting delivery of a mack any day now. I believe it was purchased in New Hampshire from a private collector and it is a 81 mack that was restored in 96 and is a six seater, i know i dont have alot of the info but i will get it and post it along with the pics.

It will be replacing the old engine 49 and will be our 3rd due in.

if i am wrong on any info please correct me.

i agree call any mutual aid department you like, but keep one thing in mind there are a handful of instructors that teach the volleys at the training center and they are top noch and i have trained with WPFD and was tought by their instructors. So i think they would trust the vollys the truth is when Yonkers stopped using volleys for mutual aid so did most career departments which is their choice and i respect that. Good job WPFD

Haha i feel like an a**. I was in WP yesterday with my buddy and i couldnt figure out what the hell was going on, now i know. It took me over an hour to get into WP because of the traffic on I-287 and all the gridlock in WP. I was actually at the corner of Main & B'Way (i think thats the intersection) and saw all the apparatus (FD, PD, Con-Ed) and didnt think much of it. Lots of PD units for traffic diversion, thats for sure!

As far as the mutual-aid and who was called and who didnt get called goes, we're beating a dead horse fella's.

Jay, while i hear where you're coming from, Barry has some excellent points. Could NWPFD or any other vol. company get a rig on the road with a full crew that has the proper training in an adequat response time? Maybe they could, maybe not. But when you have a working fire, thats not the time to be wondering if your incoming m/a is up to par ya know?

Departments all over the place call in certain mutual-aid for one reason or the other. This fire was no different. WPFD called in who they did because they knew what they were getting and knew they'd get them in a reasonable ammount of time. Career depts. usually call in other career depts. on mutual-aid for good reasoning and who could blame them?

Anyway, looks like WPFD and their M/A did a fine job, so kudos.

sorry- it is in service

Here a few few pics a Dobbs Ferry's new 2009 Suburban - first assistant chiefs car 2092 will become 2091 when our chiefs move up in ranks April 2009

delivered Saturday December 13th

i wish i had more info on what light bars were used and so on but sorry i don't.

But you can only use your screen name!

might be a bad idea some of our discussions get pretty heated

Best Wishes

way to go YO

I was on I-95 today near Pelham parkway and the hutch and I noticed that all the buses had 2 flashing blue lights on the body and another one on the window. Why do they have these and why are they allowed to have them?

no they are not , i was talking with andrea stewart cousins about the whole blue lite issue and she said she was already asked by a few chiefs ( i dont know names) to look into the blue light issue and she said she has had conversations about the law with state law makers and she says they are looking into forcing agencies that are breaking the law to remove all front facing blue lights

Arrested for repairing a car in the street? anyone one know what that's about?

only guessing, but i will bet there was some kind of action towards the police , if not sounds like a waste of time arresting him for that. can we get an officer to weigh in on it

WOW! it gets better by the day, if i did any of that i wouldn't even get hired at mcdonalds.