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A prime example of what the "Brotherhood" is all about...

I much as I would love to volunteer WITH the FDNY, there is NO WAY IN H**L I would ever stab them in the back and volunteer in order to strikebreak and I would bet that most volunteers feel the same way. (I hope!)

I am glad to see that we are not forgetting Yonkers Firefighter Patrick Joyce, and his Family. "EMT" Thank you for making this a permanent thread and combining all the post into one.

Check out Chief of Operations Bill Feehan from Mr Doyle's website:
http://doyleimages.smugmug.com/FDNY/2nd-alarm-Flushing-Queens/11706548_PuZAK#826088792_Lj95C
The Chief of Operations gets up on the roof in one photo. Do they make them like that anymore?

As the driver of SFRD Engine 1 this morning I just want to say that ALL precautions were taken while we were operating at a fully involved vehicle fire. The vehicle that was on fire was located in the breakdown lane of I-95 southbound. CSP had two patrol cars on scene , both with their emergency lights operating, both blocking the breakdown lane. As we approached the scene I positioned the engine approximately 75' short of the fire and at an angle that took control of the center and right lanes of I-95. CSP had also put out road flares to warn southbound vehicles of the hazard. Second due SFRD Engine 6 arrived shortly thereafter and also blocked the right two lanes of I95. During the incident the left lane of I-95 remained open and vehicle traffic was passing the scene at full posted speed limit (55) and at much greater speeds, in my estimation.  After extinguishment Engine 6 was clesared and Engine 1 remained on scene. The crash ocurred as the damaged vehicle from the fire was being loaded on a flatbed wrecker. The impact was immense! The tractor trailer continued down I95 approximately 600 yards after impact. Fortunately all three firefighters and our Officer were unhurt by the impact or flying debris. One of the CSP Troopers was hit by debris and was transported to Stamford Hospital for minor injuries. The tow operator was uninjured. The impact from the tractor trailer lifted the rear of the apparatus 1-2' off the ground and forward approximately 4'. The vehicle's maxi brake was applied as well as the rear tire being  chocked. All members were wearing high reflective safety vests over turn-out gear. The cab and trailer suffered signifigant damage as well. The SOG's developed by the SFRD concerning apparatus placement at vehicle fires DEFINATELY prevented injury to SFRD personel. <br>

The rig was positioned between on-coming traffic and operating fire personnel. The rig took the hit and not the personnel.
All Stainless Body.
Way too early to tell if will be repaired or disposed of.
The 2002 HME (former E4) will be utilized.
Fire Trucks can be repaired or replaced. The 4 Fire Fighters working on the other side of the impact zone can not!
A good visual example of why we need to place "big red" between us and them.

OK, Oswegowind, if you believe all that you said then don't file.
I, on the other hand, filed. If I am denied, so be it.
You are correct in saying rates will rise but they will rise with or without the settlement.
I want my rates to decrease so I think I'll run for congress and vote myself exempt from the rules.
Now that's greedy.

Personally, if this is for safety, which is certainly is, as blue makes a HUGE difference both day and night, it should not matter to anybody.

I hate to start another light thread at a time like this but....
N.Y. Passes New Emergency Light Law
http://www.firehouse.com/topics/firefighter-safety/ny-passes-new-emergency-light-law
Blue lights now allowed on NYS apparatus that also has red/white lights.

COME HOME SOON TOM

"CAPT!!! YOU TOLD ME TO NOSE IT IN!!!!!!!

Well, Mid June rolls around and it's time for vacation. I had this trip planned for a while. I gotta tell you, I had no intention of shooting any rigs on this last trip. Well, maybe two or three. Turned into a few more.
I left the Chateau and headed out to Mount Rushmore. After soaking in the sights, I stopped in the Firehouse Brewery in Rapid City, SD. From there it was down to LA via Denver, and Vegas.
My intention was simply to shoot one Los Angeles County Rig. But before I got that, it was Orange County Engine 63 I just happened to roll up on.

I headed over to OCFA Station 61, across the street from Knotts Berry Farm. Spied Truck 46 from the street. Took my shots, and took off for the north County.

My destination was an hour plus away and made it there in pretty good time. Especially for a guy who doesn't like to sit around twiddling my thumbs in traffic. I arrive in the little area called Pearblossom. LA County Station 79. Paid Engine and Patrol, Volunteer Engine in the back.

Engine 79, 2007 KME
This was the Engine 79 that Code 3 did a few years back. It was given to the Volunteers when the KME was delivered, 1995 Freightliner. It replaced a 1970's vintage Crown.

This was all I really wanted, but the bug bit me. So I ran down to Yorba Linda, home of President Nixon, and a special lady friend of mine. Sorry boys, no pictures of her. But while waiting for her to get ready for a night out, I took some shots of OCFA Engine 32.

This was it until I went home. Or so I thought. I headed out to Tempe, Arizona to see another friend of mine. No intentions at all to shoot anything, as evidenced by me driving out with my friends daughter and her boyfriend, and the bf saying, "Hey look, smoke!!" Had to follow, and it was Mesa, Engine 201, and I don't know which Truck. Junkyard fire. Shot taken with the cell.

Finished up my trip with a few days on the shore. Back to work, and in between, a little trip to the city of Brotherly Love.
First stop, Engine 29, Medic 15, and Rescue 1. Rescue 1 didn't come out too good, and you guys deserve a little better from me.


Next stop, Center City and Chinatown.
Engine 20

For some reason, I can't reply to my own topic. So I am going to finish up on here.
Next stop, the Battleship of the West, Squrt 57.

Northbound, Engine 50 and Truck 12.
Brand new KME


We bid Philadelphia adieu..Next stop, next post, the Silver City Fest, day 1.

Well Done!

On behalf of Local 628 , Yonkers Firefighters, I would like to express my condolences to the Bridgeport Fire Dept
for their tragic loss of two firefighters.
May God be with all of you and the families of these two brave firefighters.
José A. Caraballo
President
Local 628
IAFF-AFLCIO

Seems like only yesterday Police Officer Reid was patrolling the Village of Tuckahoe. But time marches on, Don retired and picked up this gig with the Prince William County, VA., Police Department. In the end, he was doing what he'd been doing since Vietnam, responding to an incident. Rest in Peace.

http://www.moonhowlings.net/index.php/tag/donald-reid/

A friend found this in his house. It lists Box locations in Scarsdale. The card states, "Effective May 15, 1927."

Keep Jimmy in your prayers!

Looking back at the long storied history of Station 11, having grown up just down the street from it, it will be hard to imagine that great station might be closing. From those days back in the 1950's/1960's when that "War Horse" Ward LaFance proudly wore the Circle 11 on its front along side the Great 1950's ALF Mid-Mount Truck 3, with its Gold Leaf YFD 3 on its doors. The time when the Viet Nam war ended and both rigs came out of thier respective bays and blew the siren in celebration. Then the sad ellimination of Truck 3 (then Truck 11). Then the happiness to see Ladder 76 being brought into service to see it sadly go away as fast as it came. To those days when both A A Ambulance or Empress housed their East Side Ambulance there. To the evolution of Engine 11 into Engine 311 (The Old Mack C Engine 1 running as Engine 311, to the Lime Green Compac Continential, to the various Mack CF's, and then Engine 311 turning into Squad 311 then Squad 11, now with the Collapse Unit. The Citizens of the Armour Villa, Birch Brook, Iraquis Road, Mountainvile Road, Lawrence Park West Communities will certainly suffer without a front line rig running out of that station, especially as it relates to the First Responder Program. Call up the Mayor and City Council and voice your complaints. Don't let this happen

Here is a photo I took of the Supercell Thunderstorm over Bridgeport, CT as viewed from Rockland County, NY while they were getting all the storm related calls.

The potential loss of jobs and the potential closure of station(s) is a highly emotional subject and one that should be discussed with sensitivity and concern. Off-topic remarks in which members "flamed" each other for their opinions were removed from this thread. If you have personal issues with someone they should addressed via PM or e-mail NOT in a public thread.
If you have issues with this, address your concerns to a moderator or administrator for a solution. Posting such things in a thread is not the appropriate venue to have your concerns addressed and these too have been removed.
This thread is to discuss the station closing concerns/issue in the City of Yonkers. Feel free to discuss this as you wish.

I'm picking this thread up, I don't know what was removed according to Chris, but I'd like to pipe in here. If there is "chatter" of a firehouse closing (I haven't heard about anything like that in Yonkers myself, except here in this thread) then let's please not be offering up thoughts like this one. To reduce the idea of a fire station closing to the simple idea of one being architecturally superior in your opinion, is quite insensitive to the idea that there might be firefighters, human beings and good ones at that imo, whose jobs could be jeapordized as a result.
I've followed your postings in the Stamford thread, you seem to have lined up with this FPCoggs fella, so you might be expressing your talking points that you believe in regarding the Stamford situation, but try not to let it bleed over into Westchester County.
Everybody is facing challenging financial situations right now. Municipalities are doing things, they are making cuts, they have laid people off; the fire service and the police departments are always first on the target list when the times get tough. It received little attention here when a post showed the tax collection revenue breakdown for Westchester County. The school budgets are incredible. Well over 50 percent of every tax dollar collected in Westchester goes to schools. 2 percent goes to fire districts. Cities break down from their own budgets. The percentages are different, but the attacks are always the same.
The gains that professional firefighters and cops have made over the decades are impressive. We and the generations before us, fought and went to courts and built our jobs into respectable careers. Naturally, when the economy goes down, and it always eventually goes down, just like it always eventually goes up, the "civil servant" comes into the headlights when things go down, and governments run their budgets down. The politicians, and their supporting casts of political appointees protect themselves by pointing a finger at cops and firemen who they just sat across a table from and negotiated a contract a few years ago. Everything was rosy for the economy, the plans were large, etc. And then the pile on begins. People are outraged by their tax bills on their homes in Westchester. Fair enough, but come up with smart solutions. Emergency services should be DEAD LAST on the target list for politicians. But, people forget. Their memories are short. They forget about 9/11, they forget about the homegrown terrorists who are spreading all over the country planning to do harm on our citizens again.
But, complacency on the part of the general public eventually leads them to point the finger at the firehouse. The disgruntled guy down the street who got screwed out of his job by the greedy corporation he worked for, who sent his job overseas to Bangladesh, he's usually the first guy complaining about the cops and firemen. Then there's the envious, the ones who couldn't make it, couldn't score well enough, whatever. You can count on a percentage of those guys to be loudmouth whiners about civil servants, complaining about taxes, etc. Then there's the "monnied" amongst us. Suprising how the richest, the elite, wind up holding most of the political seats. Nah, I'm not saying they "buy" their positions of power.
It's funny though how so many times, a firefighter local ends up sitting down across the bargaining table from the well heeled crowd. The "elected." Laughing out loud.
Okay, so that's my soap-box entry, good luck YFD, keep safe out there.

Due to the city's budge problems, these expensive vehicles will be bringing these older models back:

A friend found this in his house. It lists Box locations in Scarsdale. The card states, "Effective May 15, 1927."

Next year YFD will bring the HazMat Task Force!

YFD has access to a helicopter anytime they need it. There mobile command post can receive downlinked video from it and all the radio frequencies necessary are available onboard.