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  1. Posted

    Date:10/15/06

    Time:0430

    Location: I-287 Eastboud at Exit 9

    Frequency: multiple

    Units Operating: NYSP - County PD - Harrison PD - Purchase FD - Harrison VAC - WP EMS - AND Supervisor

    Description Of Incident: serious 2 car mva with ejection - 1 subject doa on scene - 2nd extricated by Purchase FD - Harrison VAC transported to WP Hosp serious trauma - 287 east closed at exit 9 for Accident Investagation.

    Writer: pjm1733

  2. Posted · Edited by pjm1733

    Keyport Fire Department

    About Keyport Fire Department:

    Keyport Fire Department proudly protects 7800 people living in an area of One square miles. We operate out of Six stations that protect a primarily residential area. Our department is a public department whose members are on a volunteer status.

    This summer has been a busy one. Although our in town fire actvity has dropped our FAST Team has responded sevral times, only to be placed into service as interior teams in nneighboring Matawan. Our CFR/AED unit Eagle Hose 22-76 has responded to nearly one hundred calls since December of 2000. This unit has worked in unison with both local BLS, Paramedics and NJ State Police Medevac units. Our recent aquisitions of a a schoolbus and van will enable us to knwo provide canteen services to firefighters, ems or any other agency requiring such a service in the area. Our new First Responder Unit will take over dutines from the larger Seagrave Engine, which enable more drivers and allow us to more quickly repsond to EMS calls. The KFD is always moving ahead. A big thankyou to Chief Larry Stonerock for his hardwork in bettering the department this year.

    Department Type: All Volunteer

  3. Posted

    Date: 08-09-06

    Time: 1405hrs

    ocation: 538 N. Main St.

    Frequency: Putnam 46.38

    Units Operating: Brewster FD

    Description Of Incident: Working Fire

    1405 Brewster FD dispatched confirmed structure fire

    1408 Re- dispatch additionial man power and ems

    1412 Carmel FD requested to go on stand by in Qtrs ems still needed to respond

    1414 Lake Carmel FD requested w/ fast team

    1415 Re- Dispatch ems still needed to respond

    1418 Re-Dispatch Lake Carmel fast team additionial man power needed

    1424 Re-Dispatch Lake Carmel fast team additionial man power needed

    1430 17-1-1 advises Putnam 911 they are unable to provide fast team

    1431 County Car 7 advises lake carmel to respond w/ what they have

    1445 Carmel FD requested to scene

    1450 Putnam Lake requested to relocate 1 engine w/man power to brewster station on 312

    1455 Fire Investagation Team requested to scene

  5. Posted

    it goes on in 2004

    Three firefighters were killed when fire apparatus backed over them.

    A Pennsylvania incident occurred at the fire station and was not associated with an emergency response.

    Five firefighters were killed when they were struck by passing vehicles at the scene of an emergency.

    Additionally, four firefighters were killed in falls from fire department vehicles.

    Firefighter Statistics - 2004

    USFA Counts 107 Firefighter Fatalities In 2004

    Department of Homeland Security

  6. Posted · Edited by pjm1733

    MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENTS

    Melinda Ohler of the San Francisco Fire Department died from head injuries received after she fell out of the back of the open cab of the fire apparatus she was riding as it responded to what turned out to be a false alarm.

    In a somewhat similar incident, Jason Lee Ellis of the Loretto, Tennessee Fire Department was critically injured when he also suffered head injuries after falling from the back of a moving vehicle. Ellis fell out of a pick-up truck and hit his head on the road while traveling from the training grounds to the front of the campus at the Tennessee Fire Service and Codes Enforcement Academy. He died a week after the incident.

    Other fatal falls occurred when two firefighters fell from ladders, another passed out due to a cardiac arrhythmia and struck his head on the pavement, and another suffered a head injury after falling from a lawnmower while cutting the department's lawn in the area of an incline.

    After heart attacks, motor vehicle accidents were the single largest cause of death for firefighters in 2003, claiming 25 lives. These include accidents involving fire apparatus as well as firefighters' personal vehicles.

    The eight Oregon firefighters killed in a van crash on their way home from a wildfire in South Fork, Idaho comprised the largest multiple fatality incident of 2003. Conflicting results from several blood tests done on the driver have raised the question of whether alcohol was a factor in the crash. Charges of reckless endangerment and drunken driving were filed against the firefighter's employer, First Strike Environmental Co.

    Alcohol was confirmed to be a factor in the rollover crash that killed 16-year-old Wyoming fire explorer Anndee Huber. Huber, a 10th grader at Newcastle High School, was ejected from the cab of a tanker and trapped underneath when the driver lost control of the vehicle. The firefighter at the wheel pleaded guilty in July to aggravated vehicular homicide.

    Another 16-year-old youth firefighter, Karlton Allen Cole Briscoe of the Hickory Flat Volunteer Fire Department in Mississippi, died after he crashed into a ravine while responding to an alarm in his private vehicle.

    Another unusual motor vehicle accident occurred when firefighter Shane Brown of DeSoto Parish Fire District 8 in Louisiana was killed when he crossed railroad tracks in front of a freight train and was hit.

    STRUCK BY VEHICLES

    Six firefighters were killed in 2003 after being struck by motor vehicles. Most of these deaths occurred while firefighters were working at incidents along the side of the road and were struck by passing motorists.

    One of these tragedies claimed Assistant Chief Don Billig of the St. Cloud Fire Department in Minnesota as he was replacing a barricade blocking a construction zone. A passing pickup truck struck his crew's truck and then struck Billig, killing him. The driver of the pickup left the scene on foot but then turned himself into law enforcement officials the next morning.

    A more unusual accident occurred when one firefighter was struck and killed by his department's apparatus. Barry D. Lutsy of the Racine Volunteer Fire Department in West Virginia was struck by the apparatus as it backed into a bay at the fire station after a call.

  7. Posted · Edited by pjm1733

    I agree with you Bob. There is a certain amount of iniating done when joining any orginization, FD, PD, EMS or the Elks. If things are done in a certain manner it can't be considered hazing. If things are done in a sophmoric manner such a fraternity when people are hurt either physically or mentally it crosses the boundaries. I think we are becoming too Politically Correct and the only ones benifitting are the lawyers/

    In all the departments I have been with over the last 10 years, I have never seen any act of "hazing" or "initiation" going on. Simple, harmless pranks yes. In departments that still do practice hazing, etc. ZERO TOLERANCE should be imposed by the Commisioners/Chiefs. No matter how innocent the act, someone inevitably get hurt in one form or another. This does not promote trust within the department. This only promotes destitution within the ranks. In this day and age where we are watched with scrutiny by the public, we should not allow them the opportunity to cast another bad stone at us. It takes one bad apple to ruin the whole apple tree.

    As to punishment. It's a coin toss. I personally would fight for immediate dismissal. Some may say extended suspension in conjunction with the attendace of a class/seminar regarding hazing.

    WELL STATED

    sorry

  8. Posted

    1239 I hope this helps you below is some of the policy of a dept. near you. Should you need some help pm me and I will gladly help you out any way I can. In short hazing is not allowed in any form.

    The purpose of this policy is to maintain a healthy work environment in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity and to provide procedures for reporting, investigating and resolving complaints of harassment and discrimination. Federal law provides for protection of classes of persons based on race, color, sex, religion, age, disability and national origin.

    It is the policy of this department that all employees have the right to work in an environment free of all forms of harassment. This department will not tolerate, condone or allow harassment by employees, whether sworn, civilian, volunteer or other non-employees who conduct business with this department. This department considers harassment and discrimination of others a form of serious employee misconduct. Therefore, the department will take direct and immediate action to prevent such behavior, and investigate all reported instances of harassment and discrimination.

    1. No employee will either explicitly or implicitly ridicule, mock, deride or belittle any person.

    2. Employees shall not make offensive or derogatory comments to any person, either directly or indirectly, based on race, color, sex, religion, age, disability or national origin. Such harassment is a prohibited form of discrimination under state and federal employment law and/or is also considered misconduct subject to disciplinary action by this department.

    1. Each supervisor shall be responsible for preventing acts of harassment. This responsibility includes:

    a, Monitoring the unit work environment on a daily basis for signs that harassment may be occurring.

    b, Stopping any observed acts that may be considered harassment, and taking appropriate steps to intervene, whether or not the involved employees are within his/her line of supervision; and

    c, Taking immediate action to prevent retaliation towards the complaining party and to eliminate the hostile work environment where there has been a complaint of harassment, pending investigation.

  13. Posted · Edited by pjm1733

    I have never seen 60s center but i can tell you the new center at Putnam 911 is very nice. I have been touring new 911 centers all over. A major upgrade is in the works for us. We to will be kickin and screaming into the eighties.

    PC 420 I also toured the factory thats makes your radio consol. Wondering how you like it ? any problems, lesons learned. Any feed back would be helpfull.

  14. Posted

    Mike, I have no problem with emd, but for me its the minimum national standard. I try to go way beyond them. For many departments with slow response time they are needed, Face it, If you retone for a driver for the ambulance on a heart attack call for the 5th time or go mutual aid 3 departments to cover the same call or just have a very large area to cover. You need to do a little more phone work. I am lucky enough to "most" time's have trained personel on scene with in seconds if not minutes.

    If i have to look up how to handle CPR,Heart Attacks,Child Choking,Missing,Bank Robbery,Fires or your everyday may'hem. well whats the sense in going to work

    pull the relief valve

    go back and look at my original posts on how i would dispatch this call.

    no doubt about it, send them out

    everybody go's

    the original poster stated something like if no protocol in place what would you do in this case. makes me wonder

    Muiltiple calls of the same incident take experience and more. Maybe i did not make clear all the follow up but i asure you it was done. It was accurate the original caller a home run means someone who knows what they are talking about.

    No body follows, when in doubt, send them out ,more then I do

    when your going out, your going with the best possible information.

    Departments respond to situations differently and rightly so.

    my remarks reflect my own opinion

  16. Posted

    .

    I have to constantly second guess and evaluate information given to me.

    A quick example, Saturday I reiceive a report of a car into a tree transferred to me via sp cell phone 911. The caller, a home run, giving me the exact location, minor injury, hes standing by at scene, radiator leaking causing steam. Only problem its not in my juristiction. Just over the line, but still not are call.

    I take all info and personally call proper authority.

    Minute or so later phones lighting up(all cell Phones) reports of car accident w fire at two different locations but all in the immediate vicinity of the original caller. one report on my side

    (who is transferring these calls to me ! )

    Different versions of the same incident.

    What do you do ? :-k

    Sent the pd to CHECK AND ADVISE

    CHECK AND ADVISE

  18. Posted

    Its an easy call for me

    Sector car Going First

    ESU is going to respond automatic to the radio traffic

    Ambulance next

    Nearest Engine and the Rescue "roll over"

    Even if no injury the Engine is going to stand by till the car is right sided and removed from road.Rescue back in service asap.

    NO DOUBT ABOUT IT SEND THEM OUT

    On the other hand we deal with thousands of minor accidents a year and all type callers and other agency giving information. it comes down to training like everything else. Personally i err on the side of caution.SEND THEM OUT. Realistically deploying resources to minor or unwarranted calls increases liability and delays real emergency response. Try Straddling that fence.

    :peace:

    edited for clarity

  20. Posted

    This thread is a lot like another in ems- fire communications. I was recently involved with upgrading our cad system with incident types and automatic upgrades. Previous to the upgrade, we had one incident type and you would select the appropriate apparatus to send. With the new upgrade, we came up with 20 incident types. Type in the incident say its "structure fire" This starts the ball rolling on 1st contact with the 1st caller. Automatically the cad reccomends the right and enough appartus for that incident type on the initial alarm. 2nd and 3rd alarm upgrades if needed. The IC will then designate what apparatus would be Fast Team-RIT- FART-or what ever name is being used this week.

    WCDE talks about run cards they really should be done by all departments. Get everything rolling in the incipient stage. You can always send them back if not needed.

    A local news paper reporter often writes how the Fire Chief arrived on scene confirmed a working fire and sounded a general alarm. I wonder if this is how the public thinks a call is handled ?

    4 bits worth

    about fitty cent

  21. Posted

    ALS FIRE,

    sorry its been a while. I know cad but not westchesters. its funny i was on sixties web site reading about the upgrades in place and it looks like movement. "some" departments are going to get access to the county cads system, after training, for records and other functions. Also in place a text messaging system that departments can sign up for. I would like to reccomend that departments use the messaging system good for alarms,announcements,dates for training.

    I have had an all call system in place for a while, you can go Chiefs only,Officers,Total Recall or get down to special squads. It works well saves alot of phone time and air time.

    As far as dispatching with the cad system. Yes it works well computers dont crash.. Most are dumb terminals you cant do anything else other then cad. Its survived fire,flood and even blackouts. If for any reason it did go down. We have back ups in place.

    I have only recently became interested in county dispatch has alot to do with this forum and listening on scanstamford . With no names mentioned. I was scanning a working fire and it "seemed" that the additional call out and call for aid was a little slow. A lot of air time wasted signing on enroute blabla bla do this do that.

    What i would like to see,

    if any department had a stucture fire and regardless of who dispatches that job.They enter incident type "fire" into a county wide cad system That would automatically recommend enough "in service units" to work that job. With automatic upgrades notification for 2nd and 3rd alarms. No thoughts needed.

    A system like that would put enough resorces on the road for each department specific to there needs in the fastest time possible.

    a northern westchester dept would get enough engines ladders tankers and a fast team on the original dispatch with out delay. obviously overrides in place so an ic could use better judgement.

    its all just talk