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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! =)

Verplanck will have their parade on Saturday July 14th.

Dawn was just a good person. That's how I'd describe her. She'd do anything for you, she was thoughtful, caring and kind. But, most of all dedicated to serving the community....her community even as she battled through her medical issues, a warrior if you will. I will miss her. She is resting now in a better place. Thank you Dawn.

The Fire District just sold this a few weeks ago to a private buyer and I guess this guy is now going to try to flip it and make a profit!

With the case of the Entergy Fire Brigade, they are interior qualified and I believe they have at least 5 brigade members on site at all times (correct me someone if I am wrong!). My position with rspect to IP is that while they are located in the Village of Buchanan they fall within the Verplanck Fire District,pay taxes and we are ultimately responsible for incidents there. Their on site fire brigade (and I was not there for this call) handled the fire and no "external" apparatus were needed at the incident site. Eventually within 10 minutes after arriving the Chief was escorted to the fire site to evaluate the incident site and was briefed about the incident (but only after he became vocal and this has happened before). All Verplanck fire apparatus remained at the gate. As for security, all of our guys and girls are badged to facilitate access to the site. Of course, our apparatus would still have to be screened by security and with any incident fire or ems, we are escorted by security. With respect to Buchanan FD's response (someone said something about this), this came in as a structure fire, not a transformer fire which it turned out to be. We have a tri-village response for structure fires which includes Montrose FD and Buchanan. The primary agency responds to the scene and if additional equipment/personnel is needed, the other two departments are already in their respective quarters with their crews ready for assignment. I tried answering or touching upon questions in everyone's posts. Better communication and getting the FD OIC to the site in a timely manner is key here.

At work "websense" picks up emtbravo.com as a "malicious site", emtbravo.net works fine............

One price for all.

The Verplanck Fire Department will be hosting a paintball outing on Saturday, April 24, 2010. click on link for more information!! VERPLANCK_FIRE_DEPARTMENT_PAINTBALL_OUTING1.doc

With respect to the EPCR, I have my benefits and my issues with the use of this item. We are in the computer generation and while most of us are quite adept in the use of a computer, some in the earlier generations and those who don't use computers on a daily basis(and I've seen this in action), have a great deal of difficulty navigating through the tablet . Hence, you are trying to enter information on scene or in the back of the ambulance instead of providing continued patient care. And, as we know, if you're on a call, you're out at least an hour on the call from start to finish and everybody wants to get back and there you are struggling to get the EPCR done and get signatures from both the patient and the hosp. Like everything else though, it's new . It's change. For a large volume agency, I think it'll work. For a small volume agency, the question has to be put forth "will it be cost effective.? My agency does not use this but I was exposed to it doing my ride time with Empress. I was able to pick it up quickly. As many have said on this post, alot of the drop downs don't fit the situation. Also, many do not type!! And the hunt and peck on the narrative or to add meds, etc. is very time consuming and frustrating to some. Add-ons, maybe a little more user friendly geared toward those who don't use a computer each day but most of all training before sending it out into the field for all the use. So, there's alot of negatives but at the same time there's benefits as well in my opinion. The less paper for me the better.

I will never drive to Yankee Stadium again. The train is so convenient right out of Croton. One game though, we were packed tighter than sardines for the "local" trip back to Croton . Other than that it was a breeze.

Nice pics. Thanks to all who were there!!

Nice truck.................. and it's green!!!

Easy there!!! the Snorkel was a great truck!!! As long as we keep Irish Fire off the Bronto................ it's a great truck too!! LOL.

In agreement with Mcfuzz and daddy........... John you did you and what you felt was necessary. Everyone has a different opinion how to handle the same situation. Utilize all your resources necessary, and if you don't need them, like you did, send them back. Better to have more than not enough.

VERPLANCK FD Chief Paul O'Brien 1st Asst. Chief Joseph Curry 2nd Asst. Chief Holly Haight Captain John Schembari 1st Lieutenant James O'Brien 2nd Lieutenant Frank Ramundo 3rd Lieutenant Rocco Lepore EMS Lieutenant Sandra Cotic EMS Lieutenant Christopher Neimenski