MoFire390

Good questions Cogs. In my personal opinion the US should have made that country a parking lot a long time ago. But, with the recent actions by that crazy man they call a leader, sit and wait. play the ally of a country who starts the attack.

Matty O was a great guy. He also did a short stint with us at Montrose FD. From the first time I met him he always made me laugh and smile. Matt was a great guy and had an awesome sense of humor. If you where ever down Matt was the guy to see. And from what I hear from the Boys at the VA that worked on his shift one hell of a cook. GONNA MISS YOU MATTY O!!! RIP

LoHud Indian Point

Many of you might be wondering what the Outreach Program is for. Please allow me to elaborate on what the purpose of the program is for. A committee meets up and decides on what places need AED's. Currently AED's have been donated to Charles Cook Pool for the Town of Cortlandt summer camp, to the new Sensory Gym at FGL elementry school. If you know of a place that needs an AED please PM me and I will greatfully pass it on to the committee.
Ken

Wouldn't planning ahead (pre-planning), knowing your district, knowing your own resources and having knowledge of available Mutual Aid resources be the grounds for calling or not calling in more help?
Let me try to explain this better...
I know my own district fairly well. I know where we have hydrants, where we don't, where I can send units to find water. I know (just by growing up in my town and driving around it) what areas have new construction, which are illegal multi-families with probable ballong construction and exposure issues. I know that certain streets are barely wide enough for our rigs to pass on a normal day and which are impassable when we get snow.
If I get dispatched to a structure fire in our district, the wheels in the ol' noodle start spinning. Based on my information from dispatch, updates from the PD, the location, the time of day, the weather and a few more things - I know whether we need more help right away or if it's something that should be manageable with our usual first alarm resources. If it's in a building that presents itself to be more complex to us or if we encounter exposure issues or some other gifts from Mr. Murphy, then I know I can call for resources to the scene to stage.
But, to be humble and honest, if you give me a "bread and butter" private dwelling fire in one of the capes or ranch homes we have in town - I don't think I'm going to need more to the scene then we already get on a first alarm. In some cases over the years I have called an extra Engine or a Truck to fire scenes because I needed manpower or I wanted to be proactive and have them there in case things went south. But I don't think I'm going to start calling stuff to the scene to stand around if the potential of putting them to use is minimal.
Fire away.... but that's my opinion.

I will happily be the first to trounce.
If you have no reserve and a truck finds extension on the floor above or the cockloft of the adjacent building who stretches the next line?
When a victim is discovered and that seach team leaves the building with the victim who continues the search?
When the nozzle teams recieves burns who takes over their line?
These are all things that happen at fires frequently enough that we should be prepared to address. If you have no reserves I know the answer you end up using the FAST. In which case you have no one available if someone really gets into trouble. Oh and your breaking the law.
If you have reserves in the street behind you all you have to do is look at your clip board see who's up next turn to them and put them to work. Once the fire is under control you can use them for relief or release them. They might actually learn something from just standing there observing.
Call all the help you need and a little more. It's easy to tell from the IA's most departments around here play catch up.
Don't worry about what they say on EMT Bravo worry about the safety of your members and the public you serve.

The county requires you have a basic education for this job.

When I was younger I considered it, but after the training films (they were commonly shown on Saturday mornings in the 1960/70's) I did not know if I had the desire to deal with the trouble makers in the parks.

The clincher that it was not the job for me was when the public schools taught us about the 2nd ammendment and the right to arm bears.

I'm going to go in a different direction then I normall do on this topic, being I for a long time believed that EMT-B should be the minimum. But as time has marched on I've started changing some of my thoughts on it and would like to use some comments already made on the thread to put my thoughts and maybe spark some discussion. Before that I would like to say that I belive that the FF 1 curriculum should require CPR with AED (pretty much standard today) for certification. Many states already have this and I in fact had to have it to get my FF 1 in Virigina and had to have an active card to complete FF 2. For the state certification...not national cert (Virginia gives you national cert just for the course, testing and evaluation. No extra testing like NY, which you then have to have CPR w/ first aid).
1. CPR w/ first aid and AED: Great, sounds nice, gives you basics for cardiac arrest and some boo boos. But what happens when it gets beyond a simple minor injury and the person is alive? The addage a little bit of information can be dangerous applies here and I've seen it far to often with civilians, firefighters and police officers.
2. CFR: I've never been a fan of this curriculum. Again, the little bit of knowledge, but the more I look at it, its not a bad basis for those who aren't tasked with providing EMS on a regular basis. It gives an inbetween of first aid training and EMT.I will comment on it in the next item, but I do not feel this should be the level of training for agencies that deliver BLSFR as a regular service.
3. EMTB: To me this should be the gold standard. While not in favor of the curriculum, it gives a decent amount of information for those to make decisions based on symptoms present. Set the expectation and people will rise to the occassion. This to me is the MINIMUM any agency that is delivering any form of EMS response should be at. My opinion but CFR is not the level to be a standard street provider on a consistant basis.

To answer a lot of the comments made about Patterson Fire, as I was the one who took the time to search for the grant, do the research, write the grant and then submit it we just got word of our award several days ago. As the NY Lottery says "you can't win if you don't play"
One of the requirements was to be in the surrounding communities and counties. The other requirement was not to just submit a wish list of useless equipment that would just be cool to have and never use.
Instead we submitted the grant with a plan. We are aggressively working to improve the towns water supply. By receiving these fund we would look to make much needed repairs to drafting hydrants that are out of service and install up to 21 drafting Hydrants in existing sources over the next couple of years.
This plan also consists of an ordinance that is scheduled to go infront of the town that would require new residential and commercial development to install either drafting hydrants in near by water sources or to install inground tanks.
This is all being done to provide the citizens of our town with a sufficient network of drafting Hydrants and as water supply is 40% of a towns ISO rating, we will be ready for them when the time comes to contact the in the far future.

Date: 1/11/12
Time:13:28
Location: 17 Heritage Dr
Frequency: 46.26, Fire 11, Fire ground 5
Units Operating:
Pleasantville FD: E-91, E-259, TL-5, R-47, T-57 - Car 2371,2372
Thornwood FD TL-1, E-89 for manpower - Car 2471, 2472
Valhalla FD - R9 - FAST - Car 2482
Millwood FD - R-36 - Cascade Car 2252
Chappaqua FD - E 146 - Car 2061, 2062
Batt 11
Armonk FD - E-287 to take up hydrant on Crest view and lay in for the TL operating
Relocate:
Potantico Hills FD: T-12 -Relocated, then requested to the scene, feeding TL-5
Sleepy Hollow FD: E-85 Relocated to PHFD
Briarcliff Manor FD: E-91 relocated PFD HQ
Mount Kisco FD: E-106 - relocated to Chappaqua
Weather Conditions: Cool and sunny
Description Of Incident:
13:28 - Dispatch for possible fire, caller sees house fire behind her house
13:31 - Re dispatch - MPPD relaying that DPW on scene with fully involved house
13:32 - Engine 91 enroute 10-75 transmitted
13:34 - Rescue 47 enroute
13:36 - 2371 ascertaining if anyone on scene yet - negative
13:37 - TL 5 enroute
13:38 - 2371 on scene establishing command - 2 story fully involved wood structure
13:39 - Coned electric and PVAC to the scene
13:57 - Command requesting tanker to the scene to feed the tower ladder - PHFD Tanker 12 enroute from PFD HQ
14:02 - Command updating 2.5 wood story 25x100, 4 hand lines in operation, fire throughout and through the roof, TL in operation as well, exterior operations, fire beginning to darken down
14:15 - Batt 11 requesting one Engine from Armonk to Scene - locate hydrant on Crestview before the scene to feed TL, one engine from Mt. Kisco to Stand by in Chappaqua
14:19 - Armonk HQ inquiring if request if for source pumper or attack engine
14:21 - Armonk toning out for Driver - E-287
14:25 - E-287 responding
14:26 - Batt 11 per command, 1 engine from Thornwood to the scene for manpower
14:27: CC1 - 4 hand lines, (inaudible), 1 Tower Ladder in operation, all hands working, structures integrity compromised.
13:32: Hawthorne to standby for Thornwood
14:35 - E-287 proceed up Heritage Dr, make a right on crestview, and hit the hydrant next to E-259
14:38 - 60-control advising CC1 operating time of 1 hour
14:39 - E-89 enroute
15:00 - CC1 - All visible fire is knocked down, checking for hot spots
photos: http://pleasantville...ulfed-in-flames
video: http://www.lohud.com/article/20120111/NEWS02/120111004/Pleasantville-home-engulfed-flames?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|Frontpage
Reporters:JohnnyOV, IzzyEng4, peterose313, Firedude
Writers: Johnny - has the can, so someone else take the - OV

I had a great view from Montrose TL8 Bucket!

I've been sitting on this one that was told to me.
"2-XXX-4 to XXXX"
"Go ahead."
"Doing a baseball standby at XXXXXXX HS field..........Have you seen my baseball?"
"Funny, gotch-ya doing the standby."
10 minutes later
"2-XXX-4 to XXXX!!!!"
"Go ahead."
"Well my partner found his baseball, line drive to his head. Can ya send out supervisor and another car please?"
Unknown key-up: "At least he didn't catch something in his zipper this time!"

He works for the railroad LOL

DISPATCH: 60 Control to _______VAC, **M1, _____ Main St, 2nd floor unkown medical.
Unit: **B2 enroute, **M1 enroute
60 Control: K both units responding @ time....Units be advised pt has blue hands and blue feet...
UNKOWN UNIT: I sure hope he was finger painting
**M1: (laughing) 10-4 on the blue hands and blue feet.
**11: 60 control show me enroute to the Blue hands and blue feet call
60 control: 10-4 Capt. got u enroute (voice in the background.) He wants to finger paint too!!!
**11: Yes I do. Is that ok with you???
60 Control: thats a negative Capt. as long as you make me something pretty.
**11: 10-4 Making you something pretty.

Heard during an EMS call in the middle of the night:
Unit: Rescue XX to 60 Control, responding to XXX.
Dispatcher: 60 Control to last unit responding, identify yourself.
Unit: Uh, this is Mike XXX, I’m with the XX Fire Department and I’m in Rescue XX responding for the EMS call.
Dispatcher: Ok, that’s Rescue XX responding.

a few years ago:
Unit: "2**1 to 60 control"
60 Control: "control is on chief"
Unit: "Give me a rush on the bus"
60 Control: "10-4 chief Bee-Line notified ETA 10min. Is that ok with you?"
Unit: "Looking for my ambulance responding to the call."
60 Control: "your ambulance just called on scene do you see them?"
Unit: "I do now, Thank you control."

The westchester center assisted living and senior home.

Maybe they sell chrome plated turbodrafts- this way the will look good on the parade trucks barry says we all buy- just a thought

Date: January 6th, 2012
Time: Ongoing
Location: Wells Fargo -> Katonah Business District/Muscoot Reservoir & Farm
Frequency: Bedford PD
Units Operating: Bedford PD, NYSP, Westchester County PD, MTA PD
Weather Conditions: Clear & unseasonably warm
Description Of Incident: Bank Fraud with flight from scene
Reporters: Wells Fargo Bank
Writer: WAS967
Bedford PD on active investigation. From what I could ascertain two men entered the Wells Fargo bank in Katonah (Katonah ave) and are currently wanted for bank fraud (I think I heard possibly trying to cash bad checks). One vehicle fled the scene and was attempted to be pulled over by units in the area of Route 35 @ Woodsbridge Rd (Rt-117) but failed to yield. Vehicle stopped and one suspect apprehended in the area of Route 35 & Route 100 in Somers.
Second subject still at large in the area of the Katonah business district, specifically in the woods behind Peppinos. Hotline description is of a black male 5'11" thin build with goatee wearing dark suit or wind breaker, dark shoes last seen on foot. MTA stopping trains to check for subject.
Aviation requested but have extended ETA for refueling.
We'll have more as it becomes available. Back to you in the studio.....
EDIT: Search called off at about 1600. Positive ID made of the male at large by conductor on southbound train. Made it to at least the White Plains station. Possibly the brother of the first suspect. Surprisingly I didn't see anything on lohud about this.

Friends don't let friends post/text tired, drunk or angry...

VERPLANCK FD (effective 1/7/12)
2491 - Chief - Holly Haight
2492 - 1st Asst. Chief - John Schembari
2493- 2nd Asst. Chief - Jimmy O'Brien
2494 - Captain - Frank Ramundo
2495 - 1st Lieut. Thomas Breitschwerd
2496 - 2nd Lieut. Tommy O'Brien
2497 - 3rd Lieut. Gabe Hayes
2498 - Deputy Chief Joe Curry
2499 - Deputy Chief Mike Ruh
Safety Officers - Bob Morrison
Bob Daley
8311 - EMS Lieut - John Delaney
8312 - EMS Lieut - Josh Buland
Best of Luck to all the new officers! =)

Well our officers for the 2011-2012 year were installed back in October but thouht I'll put them up anyway:
Mahopac Falls 2011-2012 Officers
19-1-1: Chief Ted Pollack
19-1-2: 1st Ast Chief Ted Finney
19-1-3: 2nd Ast Chief Scott Weber
19-9-4: Captain Dave Lapadula (Station 2)
19-9-5: Captain Brian Sacher (Station 1)
19-9-6: Lieutenant Brian Neary (Rescue Company)
19-9-7: Lieutenant James McGinty III (Engine Comp. 2)
19-9-8: Lieutenant Anthony Nistico (Engine Comp. 3)
19-9-9: Lieutenant Jason Stasiak (Engine Comp. 1)
19-9-10: E.M.S. Captain Anthony Pensabene
19-9-11: Fire Police Captain James Detoma
19-9-12: E.M.S. Lieutenant Matt Mulvaney
19-9-13: E.M.S. Lieutenant Marcello Rispo

thank you kyle...I didnot read the I/A was just going on what the Tanker Taskforce is. and was hoping to get some of it correct

that is correct. the three men who bought the company have many nursing homes. Care1EMS is NOT licensed in NJ. only in PA, and NY. The new owners are trying very hard to expand the territory they have now. Many changes are comming along. I have also heard a possible bid for the Putnam ALS contract when it comes up. The new owners have been intouch with other companies to get a better working relationship between companies. Considering we are all in the same line of work and are here to help people. I hope my input helps sorry it took so long to respond.
Ken

Date: 1/2/2012
Time: 1150hrs
Location: 22 Eastern Ave (Between Linden and Churchill St.) - across from St. Ann's School
Frequency: 46.26, Fire 12, EMS 12, Fire 11, EMS 11, FG 3, 154.115 (OPD), 460.6125 (Fire-Police), 453.075 (OVAC), 156.225 (TFD), 453.200 (BMFD)
Units Operating on Scene: [Ossining FD: 2331 (IC), 2332, 2334, E96, E97, E98, E99, E100, E101, L41, TL42, R14], [Croton FD: 2081, E119 (FASTeam)], [briarcliff FD: 2052, R37 (Cascade)], [Ossining VAC: 74A1, 74B1, 36M1, 74-05 (EMS Command)], [Croton EMS: 55B1], [WCDES: Bat 12, Bat 11], Ossining PD, Con Ed (Electric and Gas)
Unints on Standby at OFD HQ: [Millwood FD: 2251, 2253, E247], [sleep Hollow FD: 2311, 2313, TL38]
Unints on Standby at SHFD HQ: [Tarrytown FD: 2461, 2462, L37]
Units on Stanby at OVAC HQ: [briarcliff FD: 53B1]
Description Of Incident: Working Fire in residential Structure. 4 L/S/O, 2 story wood frame
Reporters: Bigbuff, peterose313
Writer: firedude
Ossining Patch Article
Lohud Article
1146hrs: Ossining dispatched to a reported structure fire
1150hrs: Ossiing Command confirming 10-75, requesting Croton FAST to sceve via 60 control
1152hrs: Croton FAST Dispatched
1153hrs: 2081 reporting crew is assembling
1159hrs: Bat 12 Dispatched
1202hrs: 2081, E119 responding
1205hrs: Bat 11 dispatched
1206hrs: Ossining Command requesting E119 set up in St. Ann’s School Parking lot
1208hrs: 2081, E199 on scene
1210hrs: 74A1 and 36M1 reporting they are treating homeowner, requesting Croton ambulance to standby in OVAC HQ
1212hrs: Croton EMS dispatched for 1 Ambulance to standby at OVAC HQ
1218hrs: Ossining Command requesting Millwood Engine, Sleepy Hollow Ladder to Standby at OFD HQ, Con Ed to scene
1220hrs: Millwood Engine, Sleepy Hollow Ladder dispatched
1223hrs: 74-05 requesting Croton EMS to respond to scene, Briarcliff EMS to standby at OVAC HQ, 74A1 transporting homeowner ALS to Phelps Hospital
1224hrs: 55B1 responding to scene
1225hrs: Briarcliff Dispatched for 1 Ambulance to standby at OVAC HQ
1226hrs: 55B1 on scne
1225hrs: TL38 relocating to OFD HQ
1227hrs: E247 awaitng crew, retone for additional manpower
1228hrs: Bat 12 requesting Con ed Gas
1230hrs: 2253 out at OFD HQ
1220hrs: 2311 relocating to OFD HQ
1231hrs: Bat 12 reports 4lines, all units operating, 2 story wood frame, continuing to operate
1231hrs: 2461, L27 responding to Sleepy Hollow to standby
1239hrs: TL38 out at OFD HQ
1241hrs: E247 out at OFD HQ
1241hrs: Bat 11 reporting fire under control, checking for extension
1243hrs: 2461, L37 out at SHFD HQ
1245hrs: Bat 12 reporting Con Ed Gas on scene, requesting ETA on electric, 60 reports they are enroute from Yorktown
1254hrs: Bat 12 reporting IC requesting Briarcliff rescue-cascade (R37) to scene, set up in St. Ann’s School Parking lot
1300hrs: R37 awaiting crew
1302hrs: R37 responding
1304hrs: 2313 responding
1311hrs: 2312 out at OFD HQ
1359hrs: 74-05 reporting Briarcliff ambulance can go back in service
1400hrs: 53B1 back in service
1401hrs: 2081 reporting all Croton FD units back in service, FASTeam released
1424hrs: Bat 11 reporting Croton EMS ambulance can go back in service from scene
1427hrs: 55B1 back in serice, returning to croton
1428hrs: 74B1 back in service, 74-05 still on scene with 74A1
1429hrs: Bat 11 reporting Briarcliff R37 released from scene
1434hrs: 2052, R37 clear from scene. R37 going to St. 2 Millwood to fill up
1435hrs: Bat 11 requesting Red Cross, 1 family displaced
1436hrs: Bat 11 reports IC releasing SHFD & MFD units from standby
1437hrs: 2311, 2312, TL38 back in service
1440hrs: 2251, 2253, E247 back in service
1442hrs: Bat 11 back in service
1447hrs: 2311 reporting TL38 back in Sleepy Hollow, releasing tarrytown from standby
1447hrs: 2461, 2462, L37 back in service
1448hrs: E97 back in service
1449hrs: E98 back in service
1452hrs: TL42 back in service
1452hrs: 74-05, 74A1 back in service, all EMS units clear
1453hrs: E98 back in quarters
Please PM me if you have any info to add. Happy New Year!