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Town of Newburgh man perishestrying to save pets

Town of Newburgh, NY. Aman re-entered his home to savehis pet dogs and perished in a thirdalarm equivalent in the Town ofNewburgh this morning.

Cronomer Valley Fire Depart-ment was alerted to a structure fireat 9 Rockwood Drive at a littleafter 10 a.m. on Friday, October19, 2012. According to publishedreports, a Town of Newburgh po-lice officer attempted entry to savethe resident, but encountered ex-cessive smoke and flames, whichhampered his efforts.

A Cronomer Valley chief ar-rived quickly to find heavy fireand smoke exiting a two storyCape Cod style home. He alerteddispatch of the working structure

fire and the need for mutual aid.Crews pulled lines quickly,

but it was too late for the 20 yearold resident found inside thehome. Reports indicate that he ex-ited the home with his sister andre-entered to save his pet dogs onthe second floor. Firefighters re-moved him, but it was unfortu-nately too late.

The roof was opened and win-dows were knocked out to vent theadvancing fire.

It took firefighters almost anhour to bring the bulk of the fireunder control with water and

foam. Crews were on scene forquite some time for overhaul.

Town of Newburgh Emer-gency Medical Services checkedthe blood pressure of one fire-fighter at the scene and were onstandby with Mobile Life SupportServices for other rehab services.

On the scene were CronomerValley, Good-Will, Winona Lake,Dan Leghorn, the City of New-burgh, Plattekill and Stewart Air-port's Air Guard Fire Departments.Middlehope and Coldenham wereon stand by.

The investigation is ongoingby town officials, fire investiga-tors and other public officials.

- HEATHER PILLSWORTH

HEATHER PILLSWORTH

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The rst emergency 72 hourdeployment (Thursday, November1 through Sunday, November 4) forVails Gate Fire Department was toLIDO Fire Department in PointLookout Nassau County, Long Is-land.

This is the rehouse that losteverything due to the oodingcaused by Hurricane Sandy.

The Vails Gate crew consistedof Chauffeur of Vails Gate Engine478 Sal Gigante Sr., Lt. MichaelOates, Fireghtr Sal Gigante Jr,Fireghter Joey Bedetti, FireghterMike Swankie and Fireghter JohnRindt.

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deployment (Monday, November 5through Thursday, November 8) forVails Gate was to Oceanside FireDepartment in Nassau County,Long Island.

This crew consisted of Chauf-feur of Vails Gate Truck 484 SteveBedetti, Assistant Chief Car 2 TomLucchesi, Lt. Billy Powles, Fire-ghter John Manning, FF- TomFurchak, Fireghter JoeyBedetti,and Fireghter Joe Gebert.

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The living situation at LIDO Fire Department: No power, No heat,No showers. This room had partial ooding the day of the storm.

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Dutchess County firefightershelping Long Island departments

Fishkill, NY. Rombout FireCompany is one of eight fire de-partments from Dutchess Countythat headed to Nassau County tohelp Long Island area fire depart-ments in the aftermath of Sandydestruction.

Equipment and firefightersfrom Rombout, Roosevelt, Pleas-ant Valley, LaGrange, Wassaic,New Hamburg, Tivoli and the Vil-lage of Fishkill arrived at the Nas-sau County Public Safely Buildingin Westbury for deployment.

This coordinated effort wasdone between the New York StateEmergency Management Officeand Dutchess County EmergencyResponse because of the numerousresources and firefighters avail-able and the closeness to Long Is-land.

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Texas: Neal W. Smith. 46 Rank: Captain Incident Date:09/15/2012 Death Date: 09/15/2012 Fire Dept. Info:Chief: William BivensInitial Summary: On Saturday, September 15, during a smoke diver class de-signed to train firefighters advanced survival skills in full gear, Captain Neal Smithpassed out from a heat-related illness. He was transported to a hospital duringwhich CPR was administered. Captain Smith remained in critical condition untilMonday, September 17, when he succumbed to his injuries at approximately 6:30p.m. Doctors reportedly determined that Captain Smith's body temperature wasmore than 106 degrees.

Delaware : Delaware, Justin Townsend. 17 Rank: Junior Firefighter Incident Date: 09/27/2012 Death Date: 09/27/2012 Fire Dept. Info: Chief: Shane Furbush.Initial Summary: IDagsboro Volunteer Fire Department was dispatched for anoutside fire in a wooded area on East Clogg Drive just outside town limits. Whileen route to Station 73 in a personal vehicle, Junior Firefighter Justin Townsendwas fatally injured in a motor vehicle crash on Pepper Road, in the area of JayPatch Road. No details of the accident are available at this time. The DelawareState Police Crash Reconstruction Unit is currently conducting an investigationinto the fatal incident. Incident Location: Fire: Wooded area on East Clogg Drive(USNG: 18S VH 7696 6949). Fatal MVA: Pepper Road near Jay Patch Road(USNG: 18S VH 8015 5977).

Michigan: Riverview, John Grabowski. 49 Rank: Lieutenant Incident Date: 10/01/2012 Death Date: 10/01/2012 Fire Dept. Info: Chief: Chief Mitchell JensenInitial Summary: On Sunday, September 30, during his shift, Lieutenant JohnGrabowski participated in fire department training. His shift ended that day at1800hrs. The following morning, Lieutenant Grabowski traveled to his second job.At approximately 0803hrs, Lieutenant Grabowski was found collapsed in theparking lot of his second employer. The second employer?s emergency responseteam tended to Lieutenant Grabowski and performed CPR. Advanced life supportalso responded to the scene where they treated Lieutenant Grabowski and trans-ported him to Henry Ford Wyandotte Michigan hospital. Efforts to revive Lieu-tenant Grabowski at the hospital were not successful and he passed away withinapproximately one hour of being found in his employer?s parking lot. The officialcause of death has not yet been determined.

Iowa : Gilmore City, Larry D. Nielsen. 60 Rank: Fire Chief Incident Date: 10/09/2012 Death Date: 10/09/2012 Fire Dept. Info: Chief: Assistant Chief Lowell JohnsonInitial Summary: Fire Chief Nielsen was responding to a barn fire riding in firedepartment apparatus when he fell ill. The vehicle operator immediately pulledover to the side of the road and called for help. Chief Neilsen was treated at thescene by EMS responders and transported to the hospital where he passed awayfrom an apparent heart attack. Incident Location: Vicinity of Gilmore City,IA(USNG: 15T UH 81 31)

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HEATHER PILLSWORTH

Maybrook firefighters quell flamesAt a little after 1 p.m. on

Tuesday, October 23, 2012, May-brook Fire Department firefight-ers were alerted to a fire in anauto body shop at 918 HomesteadAvenue.

Incident com-mand, MaybrookChief Tim Hank,found a large com-mercial buildingfully involved. Hequickly called inmutual aid compa-nies to assist as wellas Washingtonvillefor their FASTteam. As crews continued to thescene, smoke could be seen fromquite a distance.

Tower ladders from May-brook and Montgomery placedwater on the fire, with Colden-ham soon thereafter.

The bulk of the fire wasknocked down in approximatelyfifteen minutes according toChief Hank, but a Camaro insidethe building continued to burn.Overhaul took quite some timedue to the amount of debris in andaround the building.

On the scene were Maybrook,Montgomery, Washingtonville,Walden, Otterkill and ColdenhamFire Departments. Other depart-ments were on standby includingSalisbury Mills at Maybrook'sstation.

EMS from Mobile Life Sup-port Services set up a rehab areafor firefighters, if needed. OrangeCounty Fire Investigators were onthe scene trying to determine thecause of the fire.

According to sources at thescene, no one was in the buildingat the time the fire was discov-ered, but an employee may havebeen in the building an hour prior.

Chief Hank mentioned thatthe building was used to constructrebar for the new World TradeCenter in Manhattan.

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Greenport, NY - On October 30, 2012 firefighters from six Columbia County fire departmentsmet with Columbia County Fire Coordinator John Howe at the Paul J. Proper Sr. Public SafetyFacility in Greenport to be deployed to Nassau County. A total of eighteen firefighters re-sponded with five trucks to assist Nassau County after the storm Sandy struck. Four fire-fighters each from Claverack, Niverville, and Stuyvesant and two each from Ghent, Red Rock,and Valatie left just after noon on their journey south. Apparatus responding included Claver-ack 12-1, Ghent 22-5, Niverville 45-1, Red Rock 76-1 and Stuyvesant 52-3. They will be stagingat the Nassau County Fire Training Center and will be deployed from there. The firefighters willeach be working a 72 hour shift.

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Multi-agency technical rescue drillOn October 20, 2012, the

Monticello Joint Fire District con-ducted a multi-agency technicalrescue drill. Monti-cello, along withMechanicstown andGoshen Fire Depart-ments held their drillon Bard Road in theKiamesha Lakeneighborhood ofMonticello. Theteam used an aban-doned and partiallycollapsed bungalow.

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The drill was overseen by Di-vision Chief Les Greenwood,Deputy Chief Carl Houman andDepartment Chief Marc Friedland.Chief Greenwood is the DivisionChief of Special Operations for Or-ange County with Deputy ChiefHouman from the Monticello FireDepartment working as an opera-tions chief and is responsible fortraining. Chief Houman is a well-known NYS re instructor. Monti-cello Chief Friedland and GoshenAssistant Chief Dick Pearson actedas incident command.

This is a unique team for ourarea, because we cross county linesthroughout the Hudson Valley andwe combine manpower with spe-cialized resources in a cost effec-tive manner, said ChiefGreenwood.

Chief Greenwood also saidthat the team uses standard USARconcepts and follows OFPC guide-lines. He said that there are severalteam members who are NYS in-structors and some of them areRescue Techs with the FDNY. TheHudson Valley team has receivedtwo signicant grants from the De-partment of Homeland Security.The team came together in 2006and has had two successful saves.

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Riga, NY - The Churchville Fire Department opened their doors to the public on Sunday, Octo-ber 13, 2012. Visitors were treated to cider and donuts while they toured the firehouse and ap-paratus that serves them. Fire education included hands on training with extinguishers onstoves and ovens. The afternoon concluded with a Hurst tool demonstration and vehicle fire.

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City of Tonawanda firefighters battled an occupied structureat 23 James St. in the City of Tonawanda on November 2, 2012.North Tonawanda firefighters and Sheridan Park were calledto the scene for assistance. A civilian was removed from theburning structure and was transported to the hospital. A livepower line fell on the first pumper on the scene. Damage wasextensive and the cause of the fire is under investigation.

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On Sunday, October 14 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., the Washing-tonville Fire Department conducted fire prevention at thefarmers market on Main Street. They had t-shirts, fire pre-vention materials and one of their engines on hand for resi-dents to check out.

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Pearl River Fire Departmentand Pearl River EMS used chain-saws to remove the tree from the in-jured. One death occurred, whileone patient was critical and two oth-ers were stable.

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High speed chase aftermath for Tupper LakeNew York State Police initiated

a pursuit of a speeding vehicle justwest of the village of Tupper Lake.The chase lasted about twenty min-utes when just two miles inside thevillage limits, the driver of the pur-sued vehicle failed to negotiate acurve and ended up crashing into ahome on Lake Street.

TLFD was activated for an

MVA with re. ETA 167 and crewsfound a car into a home and smok-ing.

Local and state law enforce-ment engaged in a foot pursuit ofthe driver. A police supervisor

grabbed a re extinguisher in an ef-fort to stop the spread of any re.

Tupper Lake Fire crewsstretched a hand line and sprayeddown the engine compartment.

One re ghter was treated fordehydration and transported to alocal hospital.

- MARK PICERNO

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After Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast, Central Valley fire-fighters were in Baldwin to assist their brother firefighters.

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Investigators gather as they prepare to search for the cause of a structure re in Albany

MIKE CAREY

Albany fire claims life of small childAlbany, NY. A three-year-old

child died of injuries she sustainedWednesday, October 17th whenfire ripped through her Albanyhome.

The blaze broke out in a twostory building at 20 Benson Street.A woman and three children man-aged to escape, but the woman wasunable to get a fourth child out.

When the first crews arrived,they were told the child wastrapped inside. As crews fought thesmoke and flames pouring fromthe front of the home, Albany fire-fighters Pete Hall, EJ Seney andRyan French entered the rear of thebuilding in an effort to find the

girl. With the help of Albany police

officer Mike Romano, who's also avolunteer firefighter with theFuller Road Fire Department, theywere able to find the girl and gether out of the building.

Romano performed CPR andthe girl was airlifted to a hospitalin Boston.

She later died, however, aftersuffering smoke inhalation andburns on 70 percent of her body.

According to a report in the

Albany Times Union, the girl'smother says she had turned thestove burners on to warm thehouse before they went to sleepand at some point the girl used theburner to light a stick of incense.She then put the stick near a couchwhich eventually caught on fire.

The woman tells the paper thatthe girl couldn't get out of thehouse because she was hiding infear she would get in trouble.

Authorities won't confirm thenewspaper account and will onlysay that an investigation into thecause continues.

- MIKE CAREY



Buffalo firefighters were called out to a high speed accidenton the 500 block of Amherst St. on November 4th at 2 a.m. Amini van struck several parked cars and then rolled over,trapping the driver. Two engines a ladder, Rescue 1 and the7th Battalion chief were dispatched. The driver was extri-cated and transported to the hospital. The police hadAmherst St. closed for the accident investigation. Initial re-ports said the vehicle was on fire, but it was just steam.

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Buffalo firefighters were called out to battle a structure fire ina two and a half story frame house at 111 Gorton St. in Buf-falo's Black Rock section on November 4. The fire started onthe front porch and extended to the first floor apartment. Fire-fighters used three one and three quarter inch hand lines and40' of ladders. Division Chief Patrick Brittzalaro put the dam-age at $55,000.00 to the building and $20,000.00 to the con-tents. No injuries were reported and the Red Cross was calledto assist the occupants. The cause of the fire is under inves-tigation, but appears suspicious.

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On Friday, October 26, the members of the Winona Lake En-gine Company has a work detail to make sand bags. Theirstation took on quite a bit of water last year from the Quais-saick Creek, that runs behind their fire house. They madeover 100 sand bags in preparation for Hurricane Sandy.Luckily, the water did not rise as far this time, but they weresurely prepared.

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Franklin County departments respondto Nassau County mutual aid

Six two man teams were de-ployed from Northern NY to assistfellow reghters in NassauCounty after Superstorm Sandydevastated the area with hurricaneforce winds and ooding.

They arrived at the emergencyoperations center, signed in and hitthe cots for a little rest before beingassigned duties with different areare departments.

Tupper Lake 2nd Asst ChiefRoyce Cole advised his chief thatTupper Lake and Saranac Lake hadbeen assigned to the Freeport Hookand Ladder #1 Company. Colestated "it doesn't look to bad inland,but they told us we were headed to-

ward the shoreline and it was justtotal devastation".

Each department vehicle wasloaded with generators, lights,portable pumps, SCBA, chainsawsand anything else they might needto assist. The county sent crews oftwo from each of the following de-partments: Tupper Lake, SaranacLake, Malone, Constable, Bangorand Hogansburg. The deploymentlasted approximately 72 hours.

- MARK PICERNO

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Two person fatal in ClarenceOn October 13, 2012 at

around 12:35 p.m., the New YorkState Police of Clarence, NY withassistance from the Amherst Po-lice Department are investigatinga two person fatal that happened infront of 6241 Transit Road inClarence just north of MuegelRoad.

A tractor trailer driven by,Steven C Reitz, age 58, from Cato,

NY was heading South on TransitRoad, when he veered into on-coming northbound traffic andstruck a 2009 Honda Odyssey van.

The van was pushed through atelephone pole and into a veteri-nary business at 6241 Transit Rd.

The two occupants of the van,Howard, age 75, and Barbara, age68, Vahue of Amherst were pro-nounced dead at the scene.

The driver and passenger ofthe truck were not injured.Charges are pending the final out-come of the investigation.

- LARRY KENSINGER



During this crisis, the 1st Responder News family would like for all of

you to know that you and your families are all in our thoughts and

prayers. We would also like to thank all of you in the emergency

services community who, once again, have worked so diligently in helping

others during this time of overwhelming need.

Your tireless effort and selflessness continue to inspire all of us.

1st Responder News staff will continue to think about all of you

during this difficult time.

Unfortunately, many

members of the

local emergency services

community have been

personally affected by

Hurricane Sandy and

her aftermath.

The sense of loss is

enormous, overwhelming

and painful.

To see your Feature photos in the newspaper upload them on our website www.1stResponderNews.com oremail them to [email protected].

Departments in neeD of assistance

We are still in need of coldweather gear, (hats, gloves, socks,boots,) for the members. We alsoneed paging systems for the de-partments. We have supplied thesedepartments with temporary com-munications, however, they haveno way to contact their members inthe event of a call. Roof alarms,pagers, etc.

We received donations frommultiple volunteer ambulanceservices and volunteer fire depart-ments throughout the state, PA andas far as Indiana. Contact informa-tion is [email protected] [email protected]. The mailingaddress is POB 863991, Ridge-wood, NY 11386.

Gerritsen Beach Volunteer FireDepartment at 53 Seba Ave,Brooklyn NY is in desperate needof assistance. Their fire depart-ment was totaled in the flood fromSandy. Their one and only engineis out of service due to salt waterdamage to the electrical system.Their TOG was soaked in saltwater and sewage backup. Anyhelp would be awesome. They arethe only volunteer department inBrooklyn.

Contact information is Ger-rittsen Beach Fire Dept. Lt MikeCastro 718-552-6959 or ChiefDoreen Garson 718-332-9292 53Seba Ave Brooklyn NY.

For those interested in volun-

teering to help with HurricaneSandy assistance, please contactthe New Jersey volunteer emer-gency response hotline at 1-800-JERSEY-7 or backup hotlinenumbers (which are being an-swered): 609-775-5236 or 908-303-0471.

The Glen Oaks Volunteer Am-bulance Corps was having a sup-ply drive to help the victims ofHurricane Sandy. Donations werebeing accepted at their headquar-ters on Union Turnpike in FloralPark, NY. Please call them at 718-347-1647 for more information.

We were advised that BroadChannel Volunteer Fire Depart-ment lost a fire truck when itcaught fire. West Hamilton BeachFire Department lost two trucks,two ambulances, a brush truck anda chief truck. A department in PAkindly donated a truck to them.

The Berlin Volunteer Fire De-partment located at 700 NorthStreet, Berlin, PA (SomersetCounty, Pennsylvania) is donatingone of their equipped fire enginesto the storm ravaged West Hamil-ton Beach Volunteer Fire Depart-ment in Queens, NY.

The receiving volunteer firedepartment lost everything duringHurricane Sandy. The Fire Chief,Fire Department President along

with a fire truck driver from theBerlin Volunteer Fire Departmentwill be driving the fire truck fromBerlin to New York on November16th.

Berlin Area Ambulance Asso-ciation, Inc. is donating variousemergency medical equipmentsuch as stretchers, splints and backboards.

An 18 wheeler brought reliefsupplies to the Bergen County Law& Public Safety Institute in Mah-wah. Supplies, including palettesof water, non-perishable foods aswell as other items, were truckedfrom the Harvest Hope Food Bankin Columbia, SC.

The coordinated effort wasmade possible by Rich and NadineDemczyszyn as well as severalother first responders. Their coor-dinated efforts can be viewed ontheir Facebook page, Immediatesupplies for NJ EMS and FireDepts affected by HurricaneSandy.

If you have a story to sharewith us, please email us [email protected] are an incredible amount ofstories to be told.

Do you know a fire, rescue orEMS department in need of help?Please send along any informationyou have to [email protected]. We want to get theword out!!!

JUSTIN DEREVYANIK

Moonachie seeks helpafter hurricane

During the night of hurricaneSandy, the members of theMoonachie Fire Department wereout operating at numerous emer-gencies across the town when theunthinkable happened and wouldchange the history of theMoonachie Fire Department andthe borough of Moonachie.

While members were return-ing from a run around 2300 hours,they noticed water rapidly risingon East Joseph Street heading intothe town and right to fire head-quarters. Within minutes, waterwas rushing into the firehouse,giving the members very littletime to remove apparatus and per-sonal items.

The water rose so high and sorapidly most of the towns includ-ing fire headquarters were underbetween 3 and 6 feet of water inunder an hour. Members and ap-paratus found higher ground inanother town, so they could assistin rescue operations with otherMoonachie agencies and numer-ous mutual aide companies.

Members operated overnightand into the next day even know-ing most of their homes where se-verely flooded. When the waterreceded, companies returned tofire headquarters to find total dev-astation.

Water levels in the firehouse

were near six feet, causing severedamage to radios, computers,turnout gear, personal items andseveral pieces of apparatus in-cluding our 1953 Ahrens Foxpumper. The apparatus could notbe removed in time due to the rap-idly rising water.

Due to the extent of the dam-age, MFD has a temporary fire-house which we are making duewith, but we need to rebuild ourMoonachie Road firehouse.

If you would like to help inthe rebuilding of Moonachie FireDepartment, PLEASE make a do-nation to assist us. There are manyitems that insurance won't cover100%.

Please send any monetary do-nations to Moonachie Fire De-partment 70 Moonachie RoadMoonachie, NJ 07074. Or via PayPal athttps:/ /www.paypal.com/cgi-b i n / w e b s c r ? c m d = _ s -xclick&hosted_button_id=Q3XUT2YZ5LSFY.

All donations will go to thehouse, apparatus and equipmentfund. Thank you all for yourthoughts and help over the lastfew days. Thank You From theMembers of the Moonachie firedepartment.

1st Responder Newspaper - NY December, 2012 PAGe 17

DAVID KAZMIERCZAK

The Greater Buffalo Firefighters Pipes and Drums Corps helda fundraiser at the Buffalo Irish Center on Abbott Rd. on Fri-day, November 2, 2012. The evening was full of entertain-ment. Buffalo Fire's own Billy LaRusch & Friends providedIrish folk songs and music. Hundreds of theme baskets andBuffalo sports memorabilia were auctioned. Refreshmentswere endless. A large quilt, made by one of the memberswives had the logos of all the different departments thatmake up the Pipes & Drums, was part of the auction. Thegroup also had t-shirts and patches available.

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Members of the Grand Gorge Rescue Squad presented a volun-teer recruitment program at Gilboa Conesville Central School onWednesday, October 10, 2012.

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Rescue Co. 1 of the Buffalo Fire Department was respondingto an auto accident on the Route 33 Expressway. While north-bound on Jefferson Avenue, a vehicle stopped on East UticaSt. rocketed forward striking Rescue 1. The driver of the ve-hicle, along with a small child, ran from the scene. The carwas stolen. The rescue was driven to the repair shop and theexcellent mechanics had it back in service the same day.None of the firefighters were injured and remained on duty.

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Buffalo firefighters of the 6th Battalion 4th Platoon were called out to 311 Holly St. in Buffalo'sKaisertown section on October 20, 2012. Firefighters of Engine Company 35 were met with firein the basement and first floor kitchen. The fire also spread to the second floor. Firefightersused several one and three quarter inch lines and 40' of ground ladders. The cause of the fireis under investigation and no injuries were reported. Damage was listed to the two story framestructure as $60,000.00 to the building and $20,000.00 to the contents.

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Early this year I read a Letterto the Editor from a weekly up-state New York County newspa-per.

The writer indicated that hishomeowners insurance policy hadgone up from $600 per year toover $1,000 per year. When hecalled the insurance company, hewas told that his re protectionclass rating had gone from a 6/7 toa 10.

I doubt if most property own-ers, or reghters for that matter,realize that insurance carriers basetheir overall policy fees on theseratings of the local re depart-ment, which in this case, are doneby the Insurance Service Organi-zation, known as ISO.

A 10 is the worst rating as-signed to properties that are farfrom any re station or re hy-drants. An ISO rating of 1 is thebest, with very few re depart-ments achieving this prestigiousrating.

The writer of the Letter to theEditor challenged the $633 in-crease.

He just so happened to be thechairman of his local re districtand knew that his home was actu-ally an ISO rating 6 because hewas less than 5 miles from the rehouse and there was a hydrantwithin 1,000 feet of his home.

After checking on his com-plaint, the reghter and his fam-ily are receiving a refund. Theinsurance company claimed therewas a computer error. He ends theletter by saying, please checkyour bills for accuracy, especiallywhen you see a jump in your rate.

I checked my own insurancepolicy renewal and noted that Iwas listed as being an ISO rating4 when, in fact, the re departmentwhere I reside and serve as a vol-unteer reghter has an ISO ratingof 3.

I called the insurance com-pany, and they reduced my insur-ance premium by $140. I urge youto do the same with your most re-cent annual bill.

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Battalion 4th Platoon were calledout to battle a blaze in a large twoand a half frame dwelling at 20Kermit Ave. in Buffalo's BaileyDelavan neighborhood on October20, 2012.

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Damage to the main structurewas listed at $50,000.00.

No injuries were reported andthe cause of the fire is under in-vestigation. While companieswere fighting the blaze, a levelone haz-mat was dispatched to theold AM&A's department store onWashington St.

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IN SERVICE

Tupper Lake NY recently placed into service a 1975 Refurb 1995LTI 85' Tower.

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Brighton Fire Companys Engine 3 of Tonawanda, NY. was repairedon Tuesday, October 16, 2012 at the boat launch at Sheridan Driveon the mighty Niagara River.

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Recruitment campaigns for ourvolunteer ambulance corps will de-clare that we are valuable componentsof our communities; governmentagencies from local to federal willchime in after major disasters and ap-plaud our noble commitment. Ourmembers do serve selessly to pro-vide quality pre-hospital care to resi-dents and visitors in our respectiveareas of service.

Most volunteer EMTs and ambu-lance rst responders do it unselshlyexpecting little to nothing in return and that is about equal to what is ac-tually received.

So why do we volunteer in a eldthat is commonly undervalued evenin the paid industry? We want to helpour fellow neighbors. And yes, ithelps to keep our taxes down and a biteasier for homeowners and others toremain in our communities. We feelgood when weve helped save lives,delivered babies, made a real differ-ence and even sometimes just pro-vided some comfort for a grievingfamily. A few communities have en-couraged discounts for volunteerswhen shopping, use of communitypools and parks, and some even offersmall property tax benets. We dobenet somewhat. Feeling good is ba-sically our biggest reward.

But that doesnt pay our bills, ourpersonal bills, and it doesnt give usback the time we give up with ourfamilies. No matter how giving ourvolunteers may be, morale is seri-ously undermined when the supportof the local government and commu-nity is missing. Without a decentmorale and that feel-good-reward, re-cruitment and retention efforts fall bythe wayside and the volunteerism thatbenets our communities is seriouslyjeopardized.

In todays current economy andbudget concerns, money sometimesoverrides the otherwise good rela-tionships between volunteer ambu-lance corps and their localgovernment. Corps throughout thecountry have varying nancialarrangements with their towns withsome receiving total funding, otherson strict but funded budgets, and stillothers that are nancially self suf-cient. There may be variances de-pending on tax-districts and whether acorps is stand alone EMS or part ofthe local re department. When theEMS budgeting is questioned pub-licly or even insultingly by the localgovernment, public condenceerodes and gives the volunteer evenless desire to give up free time toserve the community.

I spoke to various EMS respon-ders around the country and therewere some prominent and repeatedconcerns. More than half of the re-spondents complained that local gov-ernments micro-managed,scapegoated, cut or reduced fundingarbitrarily and did not appreciate theservice and commitment. One totallynancially self-sufcient corps evenexpressed the feeling that the townwanted to make money off of their

backs; this agency supports itselfthrough private donations, grants andfundraisers. Another corps complainedthat every nancial report they makeavailable is picked over, scrutinizedand criticized, and yet the local gov-erning body will not answer direct

questions regarding monies collectedthrough a tax district or alleged com-plaints often inferred but never re-vealed.

Community support is vital to themaintenance of a volunteer rst re-sponse agency. Most volunteers live in

the communities they serve and real-ize the need to tighten budgets and beanswerable to the residents, but therecomes a point when there is just toomuch pushing and bullying.

Volunteers are crucial to the well-being of our home-towns. Its time to

encourage open dialogue and an ac-knowledgement that there are no op-posing sides. Full disclosure on bothsides will help reality set in and hope-fully provide the impetus to work to-gether with a common goal ofbenetting the community.

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Ulster Hose Co #5 remembersSeptember 11th

It had been almost 12 yearssince the September 11th tragedyand the volunteers of the UlsterHose Co. #5 in the Town of Ulsterknew they needed a way to expresstheir sincerest appreciation and re-spect for the all of the FDNY mem-bers and their families that gave theultimate sacrice that day.

After many months of dealingwith the proper authorities, the de-partment was notied that theywould be receiving a very generouspiece of the World Trade CenterSteel.

In early June 2012, reghterstraveled to NYC and delivered thesteel back to their department.Shortly after returning, a commit-tee was formed and constructionbegan on the memorial and prepa-ration for the dedication was underway.

During the construction proj-ect, everyone began to realize thiswas not going to be your averagememorial, but would become aniconic piece for the entire commu-nity to enjoy.

After hundreds of manpowerhours and countless donations, theday of the dedication September15, 2012 had arrived.

Joining the members of UlsterHose Co. #5 were members of theFDNY, surrounding Ulster Countyre companies, surrounding policeagencies, area EMS agencies, town,

county and state political guresand most importantly over 500family members and members ofthe community.

The 9/11 memorial dedicationwas like something out of a story-book, everyone joined together toremember the men and women,who gave their lives on the tragicday.

There were many differentspeakers during the ceremony andeach and everyone expressed theirsincerest gratitude and remem-brance of the things done that day.

After the conclusion of the ded-ication everyone was welcomed towalk through and admire the pieceof steel and the names of all themembers of the FDNY who madethe ultimate sacrice. Every volun-teer from the Ulster Hose Co. #5 insome way gave their time to thismemorial.

Today, the memorial standsoutside the rehouse and the mem-bers are reminded everyday whatkind of sacrices they make everytime the pager goes off and theyjump on the trucks.

God Bless the FDNY, 9/11 re-membered forever.

- MATHEW MOLINARO

NYSAFC remembers Past President Walter R. BellNYSAFC mourns the loss of

Past President Walter R. Bell,who led the association from1973-1974. Bell, the associationssenior past president, passedaway on September30, 2012, at the ageof 95.

Rememberedas an innovator andrecalled in newspa-per accounts as"the father of thecitys modern-dayfire department,"under his leader-ship the New Rochelle Fire De-partment purchased newapparatus and developed proce-dures to greatly improve emer-gency services. A native of thecity, he was well known through-out New Rochelle and Westch-ester County for his volunteerefforts with numerous civic andcharitable organizations.

Bell was appointed to theNew Rochelle Fire Department in1940. He rose through the ranksand was appointed chief of thedepartment on July 1, 1959, retir-ing as fire commissioner twodecades later.

He joined NYSAFC in 1966and served on the Annual Budget,Executive Director, Manual, Pub-lications, and Membership Com-mittees before joining the boardof directors. After his term aspresident from 1973-1974, hecontinued to be actively involvedwith the association, most re-cently attending the Annual Con-

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ternational Association of FireChiefs, served as chairman of theWestchester County Fire AdvisoryBoard, was a past member of theFire Safety Advisory Committee tothe New York State Department ofHealth, and was appointed by

Governor Nelson Rockefeller tothe New York State Fire SafetyAdvisory Board in the early 1970s.

A pilot in the U.S. Army AirForce from 1943-1945 duringWorld War II, Bell achieved therank of lieutenant.

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Winter operations andpersonnel safety Part I

Just the thought of many yearsof cold weather reghting sendschills up and down my spine as Ithink of the extreme conditionsreghte r swork undernormally andthen includeall that a win-ter environ-ment can addto the mix.

For thoseof you whoare fortunateto performyour role as areghter or EMT in a warmer cli-mate, enjoy the benets. Snow,sleet, ice, freezing rain and hail,along with some extremely coldtemperatures can make the toughjob of reghting extremely haz-ardous.

Winter weather conditions canhave an impact upon your safetyand overall operations in a varietyof ways; from slips and falls on iceto frostbite, hypothermia, in-creased re calls, delayed re-sponses, fatigue and increased timeframes to perform specic tasksthat would normally require halfthe time and physical exertion.

Wintertime also generates anincrease in residential res due tothe increased use of replaces,wood burning stoves, space heatersand normal heating devices subjectto malfunction and or inappropri-ate operation, generating an in-crease in home res.

Your personal protection in awinter environment requires you tostay warm and dry for as long aspossible through the layering ofclothing under your bunker gear.

The wearing of a sweatshirt(for many years when turning outat night I would wear my sweat-shirt backwards as it afforded moreprotection to my upper chest andneck), hooded sweatshirt, annelshirt or a woolen turtlenecksweater under the turnout coat willhelp preserve body heat. And dontforget to use the ear aps in yourhelmet, nomex hood or some otherform of head and ear protectionagainst the cold temperatures.

EMS personnel should wearsome form of shoe/boot for protec-tion of the feet and water repellingclothing to help ward against theelements of winter, along with awarm cap.

Remember what your mothertold you about wearing a hat whenthe weather is cold; you lose a lotof your body heat through your un-covered head. She was right then,and now!

Make sure you are completelydressed against the elements andwearing all your protective cloth-

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STAYINGSAFE

ing properly before heading outunder adverse weather conditions.Be prepared!

It may take a minute or twolonger to get into the additionalclothing, but if you dont do it priorto responding, you may not get thechance to do it later.

It is also important during thewinter months to have an additionalspare change of dry and warm cloth-ing available. Fireghters and EMSpersonnel should have a completechange of clothes, including socksand underwear, preferably stored ina small container or nylon bag onboard the apparatus. If not on theapparatus, keep them in your privatevehicle or in the station becausewhen the clothing you are wearingbecomes wet and loses its effective-ness in keeping you warm you willbe glad you have them.

You can change clothing on therehab bus, ambulance or warm ap-paratus cabin if need be. An extrapair or two of dry gloves is anothermust, and remember, no matter howwet and cold your hands may get inwet gloves, dont take them off un-less you have a dry pair to replacethem with. Some departments carryadditional gloves on board appara-tus for replacements when originalsbecome wet, a good idea.

Physical activity during winteroperations, especially with snowfalling and/or on the ground, is verystrenuous and taxing on the humanbody and additional resources arerequired to help stretch hoselines,place ladders, perform rescues andre connement and extinguish-ment.

A task that usually takes two orthree reghters may now requireve or more, so dont be afraid torequest additional resources. Anyworking structure re with snow ac-cumulations on the ground shouldrequire a second alarm at minimum.

Icing conditions on apparatussteps and running boards, ladders,hoselines, SCBA, and tools will addto the need to move cautiously inorder to protect oneself againstslips, trips, falls, and ying tools.

Fire escapes may freeze and be-come inoperable prior to your ar-rival due to inclement weatherconditions blocking escape routesfor occupants and placing you andthem in a more perilous position.

Roof operations when coveredwith snow and/or ice present addi-tional hazards to the reghters op-erating at a structure re.

Be aware of your footing andsurroundings and limit the numberof personnel operating on the roof ifit is snow covered due to the addi-tional weight load placed on theroof by the accumulating snow.

Till next time, Buckle Up, StaySafe and God Bless!

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Vacant house destroyed by blaze in RichmondRichmond, NY. At approxi-

mately 7:30 a.m., on Saturday,November 10, Richmond fire-fighters were dis-patched to areported structurefire at 9472 AshleyRoad.

Fire units ar-rived on locationand found the va-cant home fully in-volved in flames.

Mutual aid wasrequested fromBristol, West Bloomfield, Livoniaand Hemlock Fire Departments.

The blaze was brought undercontrol in about an hour.

The cause of the fire remainsunder investigat

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