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  2. Posted · Edited by BFD2553

    I guess it would be better if you just let your children play in the playground with the tainted soil. Did the reporter cross police tape to obtain the soil sample. It sounds like a cover up by the school district, but lets blame the media for trying to do their job and expose this potential hazard. Your comment about the " trained camera equipped fire chasers" being slanted towards the media just shows how little you know about the people you were referring to. Anyone that knows myself or BFD2553 knows that we would put down our cameras in a second to help a brother firefighter at a scene, weather it be changing a bottle, helping to pull hose or even giving some oxygen.

    And have done so quite often like x2321 did at yesterday's fatal on I-684

    Or help a cop. Like say...YOU Chris (now that I found out who you are). Remember asking a photographer to hold stabilization of a patient at an MVA on the Hutch a while back? Or when you asked me to photograph your class at Butterfield? No tape there. Same guy doing the same job to support his family. This is my paycheck- not a hobby. But we're people just like you who may and have come to your aid whenever asked.

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    We should let photographers, or the general public determine what is "too close" and what is "safe enough distance" from a fire, Haz-Mat, shoot-out, etc? Why even put up any tape, surely the public can be trusted, no?!?

    Don't be silly- I said legitimate media. Those trained and experienced in covering the news. With that job comes an implied assumption of risk covering news events- same as a cop or firefighter, risks that professional journalists are well aware of. I don't see police tape up in Iraq or Afghanistan.

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    And how well could you do your job- whatever it is from a block and half away? The article reads the cop in question delibrately obstructed the photographer (not the other way around) while pedestrians passed through. I'm sure there was a crowd gathered inside the tape directly across the street from the house in question. Why keep legitimate media behind the tape and let every buff with an FD jacket and a camera onto the fireground? For the record- I am a professional newspaper photographer and an active firefighter and former chief- so I'm well aware of "both sides of the issue". It's become the popular choice to restrict access to and then bash the media, but many of us have been on as many or more emergency scenes than all of you and are quite capable of working safely while being able to do our jobs properly and professionally. Showing a little professional respect at a scene goes a long way for both sides.

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    I'd imagine that just like any other "documentation" you need, it costs money. If it didn't - this wouldn't be Westchester County, New York!

    Actually, they do not cost anything. They are issued to those members of the working press corps, i.e. TJN, News 12, RNN, etc... who work a full time job as a member of an accredited media organization. A letter from the organization's editor and employer id are required.

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    Before everybody takes the moral high road, Id find it hard to believe the majority of the guys on this board career or volunteer have not had a few beers in their class A's after a parade, funeral, memorial day, etc. In my 9 years of paid and volly experience I have seen dozens of guys say and do moronic s*** at such functions. Was it at times childish and perhaps innaprpriate(especially at funerals)? Yes. Would I trust many of these same guys with my life in a fire? Absolutely.

    I will agree that it was especially stupid to film this behavior and post it on youtube. I noticed the West Hempstead HS hockey videos on his site, so Iam guessing he is from an LI department which makes it even dumber since his local paper(newsday) has had a vendetta against the volunteer service out their for a number of years.

    Yes it's a L.I. Dept. I wonder if anyone from the V@$$%Y S@#$%M FD would care to say what if any action was taken by the department .

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    Buchanan Engine Co. Engine 161 1998 Sutphen Rescue Pumper

    We were restricted by our HQ's size so ours is a little short on the wheeelbase and we sacrificed a crew compartment but it specs out as follows

    500 gal Water Tank

    50 Gal Foam Tank

    Amkus tools on both sides work off on-board generator

    1250 GPM pump

    3-man compartment / larger wheelbase would add 3 man crew cab

    3 preconned 1 3/4 handlines @ 200' each

    Deck Gun

    4 Scot pack and 4 handlight compartment

    4 Spare bottle tubes 2 per side

    Fully stocked forcible entry compartment

    Ladder Rack w/ 24' Extension and 14' Roof ladders and 3 Pike Poles

    Front bumper 2 1/2 - 1 3/4 discharge

    2- 10' Hard Suction 5" sections

    2- Backboards

    EMS compartment

    Brush Fire equipment

    Extinguisher (4) compartment

    Cribbing compartment

    Chain saw

    You get the idea. Come take a look www.buchananfire.org

    Our department is writing specs for our new Rescue Pumper. This will be a first for us as we've run separate peices until now, but space and long-term cost of ownership has us consolidating.

    I am looking for dept's in the Westchester/Rockland/Orange Co. area as well as southern Ct. that have rescue pumpers that a few of us could come take a look at. For our purposes I'll list some of the musts that ours will have:

    1250 or greater pump

    650 gal. tank

    hydraulic rescue tools system (preconnected tools)

    engine and truck Co. hand and power tools

    light tower

    10K + generator

    4-6 man cab

    Other factors we're considering: low hose bed wanted, as short as possible, possibly CAFS, as mush compartment space as possible.

    Here's a short list of units I gleened from this site:

    Pleasantville Rescue 47

    Washingtonville 583

    West Harrison Rescue 35

    New Rochelle Squad 22

    Yonkers Squad 11

    Goshen E-931

    Orange Lake 329

    Thornwood R75

    Spring Valley Rescue 17

    Nanuet ?

    Anyone else have such an animal? We're looking to make a trip in late September.

    Thanks

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    I really don't know anything about this, but I can say that
    over the years or reading the Poughkeepsie Journal I have noticed that they don't really publish any good that comes out of the public safety community.
    Good old Poughkeepsie Journal, unless its bad news they don't publish it,
    or unless the get the right picture to make firefighters look bad (City of Poughkeepsie Fire a few months back), they don't publish it either, but hey no news is good news right. They always seem to leave out the major incidents around the county and how well departments handled them, but when they can bite there teeth into something juicy they will. This is really just from personal experince that I have noticed this, not so much within the fire service mostly because I have been in it for less than 2 years so I can not and will not comment on it from that aspect.

    So are you saying that because it's "bad news" they shouldn't publish it either? Kind of hypocritical, isn't that?

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    Jim and Gina-

    Your courage throughout has been an inspiration to all who know you. What I will remember about Jimmy is him just sitting in front of the TV watching his cartoons and playing with his sisters. With all he endured, it seemed he just wanted to be a six year old boy. We are all here for you. God Bless Jimmy Boy.

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    The Villages of Buchanan, Montrose and Verplanck have automatic mutual aid for any type of structural fire call- 24/7/365. The jurisdictional department is toned out first and the two others immediately afterwards to report for stand-by at their stations. It's called a "tri-village response". It's been in place almost five years and has proven to work exceptionally well. It proved most beneficial in late Dec. '02 at the Albany Post Road fire when the wrong department was dispatched. As members from all three depts. responded, there was almost no loss of response time to the scene despite the error. This also led to the renumerization of all addresses along the Albany Post Rd. corridor between Croton and Continental Village ( Town of Cortlandt).