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So the shipboard simulator was built with Port Security Funds and is a regional training asset. Newark FD is part of the NJ Metro USAI region which has a fireboat TF and a very robust USAR program and a large foam program among other assets and equipment. Almost every NJ USAI Region Fire Dept...

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The 911 system is too big and busy....1.6 million calls a year.....Cross training and staffing will not happen due to collective bargaining agreements.....You will see different response policies and alternative response programs and alternative destinations before anything. EMS and FD are and...

219 is going to 102

don't be so sure.....

FDNY will be getting encrypted NYPD channels.....Lots of logistics involved reprogramming a several thousand portable and mobile radios.....

explosive escort......city line to NJ......

NY-TF 1 has been deployed with a type 3 team for about 10 days now to NC. The IMT is also deployed. The FDNY denied a EMAC request for EMS resources and is seeking availability for another deployment for Milton. I could see NY TF 1 going out the door with another Type 3 team.

It is a basic entry level civil service exam. Reading comprehension, memory section, listening comprehension sections.....prioritizing information etc......

Plans are still being finalized to send additional FDNY resources to North Carolina.

It is low tide ....they should have PFD's on..... but where the dock is at low tide its 3-4 feet max......very shallow......

There are about a dozen boxes used for mutual aid depending on the location and resources requested. There is a little more involved then just assigning a box number to a surrounding municipality....

It is busy....the local units are not always available and units have to come from further.....we could have 50 more fire units and 100 more ambulances and it still would be busy and at times we do not have enough

It is programmed to do just that....but 89/94 was on an Arrest which gets a response no matter and 96 and 64 were on other EMS runs that came in a few minutes before fire....The CFR threshold is determined by Battalion Groupings....ie 2/5 or 3/6 engines avail for EMS......The Engines on EMS runs...

yes the area was covered by relocators

it was a pipe dream and pet project of previous SI Boro Presidents......never got capital funds and there was talk at the time of building a SOC FH in Fort Wadsworth that also never went anywhere.....

a limited amount still in Staten Island. Maybe a dozen in Brooklyn which are not operable. The rest of the city is all ERS....the outside plant focus has been running fiber optic cable to all FDNY facilities. not maintenance of boxes .....the boxes are old technology that relies on Verizon on...

At least once or twice BC33 recommended over the HT that a 2-2 be transmitted to the IC.......The job is a rudderless ship and now they are playing games with multiples and incident escalations......It is a shame what the job has become......

TA have been OOS since yesterday.....not assigned on this box

There is no rhyme or reason with the Staff Chiefs anymore....Command Chief goes at his discretion on 2-2, has to go on 3-3.....COO and COD on 4-4 but do what they please. As far as SOC and Safety....Usually they go to 4-4 and higher more so in an unofficial capacity....nothing official as part...