grumpyff

Remember that when you take your department car to the NYS Chief's Show at Turning Stone Casino. And you guys are worried about a commissioner's car at Woodbury Commons.

Lowest qualified bidder, on a Performance based spec

Current E259 will be retired (its a 1984 Pierce). E260 will become the spare. The new Engine will be assigned to DP Hayes Hose in place of E260. Unsure what number the new engine will take (my guess is E90)

The old 90 has been in private ownership for the last 7 years or so, it is down in Virginia. Current owner is looking to sell it , due to another purchase he made. When sold it had a full lightbar, which the owner replaced with a more period correct rotator. rear lights were replaced as well

IIRC it is a Hale two stage 1500 pump. As for the Detroit, 671 I think...not totally positive on that

Wish I could, but no money, or place to store. My Homeowners Association would flip their lid (it was bad enough when I had the chief's car)

Passed in on Route 22 in Pawling. Looked Great!

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AS a former member of Patterson, here is what I remember about it: Right off the bat, the motor is seized. It will need new tires all around(one of the fronts is gouged down to the belts). Front drum brakes are leaking. Transmission is an unknown. There are some issues with rust...small hole near headlights, lumpy body in spots, around the rear tires has been painted a different color red, compartment under driver door, and underneath the body. Given the dis function of the dept I don't think I can be fixed (truck or dept)

I recommend selling it to Andy Leider

Federal Vector, all LED with LED pop up bars

There was a ruling back in February, for New York City, that an employee who retires with a medical disability due to a line of duty incident, is no longer entitled to have the city pay for further medical treatment, including doctor visits, medications (prescription included), therapy, etc. The retiree, or his personal insurance must cover the costs.

Here is an article in the NY Post http://nypost.com/2013/02/20/finests-benefit-of-doubt-retiree-med-lap/ The PBa was looking into appealing the decision.

Hope things work out in a positive way for him. Remember this when someone says unions are not needed and part of the problem.

Ex-Ladder 79

Yonkers?

Ex-NYPD ESU Truck 10

Truck 12

The newest addition...the 2013 Ford Police Interceptor. The first marked units have arrived and entered service within the last month. Here is a cell phone pics of one assigned to Highway 1 in the Bronx. The size of it surprised me at first, almost the size of the outgoing Ford CVPI. The inside looks well set up (no photos at this time)

Personally to me it is dead. Stabbed in the back to the point I left, and haven't looked back

FASNY might not ever change but that doesn't stop agencies from starting probationary firefighters with Firefighter 1 and then awarding full interior member status when 229 equivalent (or similar adopted standard) is acheived. Can't blame that on FASNY.

Not training your people isn't being easy on them, it's putting them in danger.

Thats great, but what happens when the department or departments around you do not share your desire for training? Do you as an officer in charge call them for mutual aid, or do you bypass them. Just search for topics on this board using the term 'Yonkers' to get your answer. It happens frequently in Westchester, and is one of the problems facing the fire service in Westchester

Sadly yes, in NYS the only mention of firefighter training relates to professional (paid) firefighters. A professional firefighter in an academy in NYS will receive 200+ hours of training, plus mandatory refresher training every year they are on the job. A volunteer firefighter will get around 90 hours in Firefighter I, with refresher training a bare minimum as required by OSHA (in NYS..PESH), with no requirement to train further. Some, like myself are grandfathered in, I took the old Basic Essentials of Firemanship, a grand total of 39 hours of training, with no requirement to take additional classes. I cant remember the exact numbers (or legal statutes off the top of my head) that mandate training.

In NYS, many volunteer fire departments are a taxing entity. They determine their budget, and tax rate, and submit to the town to collect it for them. Some towns/villages have no say in the fire department budget, either in the tax rate collected, or how the money is spent. Others are controlled by the town/village with input from the fire chiefs, or a board of commissioners (or trustees, whatever system the use). IN the lower part of NYS (Long Island, Westchester, Rockland, Putnam) it is not a lack of money or access to equipment that is causing problems.

I think the position of Fire Chief should be a full time paid position for all fire departments, volunteer, career and mixed.In way too many departments the Chief is the most popular guy or the only one who volunteers for the job. Fire fighting and the safety of firefighter has become a science these days. The person in charge has to have a level of education and devotion, not to say that some volunteer chiefs aren't educated and devoted, but unless "Fire Chief" isn't your full time job it's tough to do everything you need to do to make sure your department is operating properly and safely.

Just another paid position on a rotten fish. Being paid is not always the answer. How about every volunteer on this board, or better yet in this area write a letter and make a copies. Send one to FASNY, and the others to your elected officials demanding the same training as our paid counterparts. Professional firefighter training (and yearly refresher training) is written into law, remove the professional (paid) label so that firefighter training for both volunteer and paid is the same. The state will have find additional funding in the budget to accomplish this. FASNY would also have to be persuaded to support this. I think a lot of the problems we see in this area would improve. Might put a dent in some of the recruitment efforts, but maybe the ones who complain about training are not the people we want joining.

When I was still volunteering, my pager would only activate from Putnam911 if it was on the left side of my window sill. If i moved it 3 feet over to the other side, nothing, not even the tones. Its all about location, location, location

Had an older lady walk into the Transit Manhattan Task Force base to make a complaint that there were no donut carts on the streets, and that the same thing occurred on 9/11. She wanted me to notify the FBI and CIA, to prepare.

I was in the shower in an apartment in Bedford Hills, that I had just moved into a few weeks prior. I heard my kids arguing about a DVD, and noticed the lights flickering. I thought it might be the wiring/circuit breaker was bad. The everything went out, and I heard one of my neighbors yelling that the whole East Coast was out. I made my way into work, and spent the next 12 hours securing the 42 st/8 subway and standing by with a response van of 1 sergeant and 8 cops. Had a blast as everyone was in a good mood. We learned that our radios only worked a short distance without the repeaters, and that the battery powered emergency lights in the command only lasted around 20 minutes. I do not think anything was done about that (although for a few years after, we had a stash of glow sticks pre-positioned around the commands that were underground.

You can fit 2 in a firehouse where only 1 can fit now and double the ladders in the county .

It would never work in Westchester, there is no bucket.

I'm "assuming" this is Pleasantville Westchester...but you know what happens when you do that. ALF factory photo.

Yes, That is Pleasantville, NY. 1958 American LaFrance. The company has an almost identical photo in its company room. The bell from the ALF carried over to the Hahn in the next photo, but was too tall for the current Ferrara.

Very generous offer, although it probably would have ended up as scrap if sold to the highest bidder. Here is the last photo I got of it during the 2013 Mt Kisco FD parade. May it give its new owners many years of safe operation

First 4 door one I have seen. Might be a test bed for future units, although i cant see them patroling with 4 guys. They would either have to expand greatly to do it, or reduce the overall number of REPs out at one time.

Westchester, repeat after me, "People are stupid. Very Stupid."

The roads we have, pretty much have not changed greatly in the last 10 years or so. It is not an engineering problem for the most part. You can spend all the money on signs,lights and reflective striping, but the stupid driver that is in a rush, on a phone, laptop, ipad, just too self absorbed to say they are a bad driver, just plain too stupid to not understand how to drive will continue to do stupid things behind the wheel. Just take a walk through a mall or a store, people are too stupid to keep to the right when they walk. Ride a bus or a train, yup there is Mr. Stupid trying to push his way onto the bus or train before letting others off. Society has taught these people their s*** does not stink, and that they are the most important person in the world. It is always someone elses fault, never there own.