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Subject: Protecting Our Nation’s Treasures. Presenter: Elliot Paisner - Paisner, an Eagle Scout, is majoring in Fire Protection Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park in the A. James Clark School of Engineering. He is a 4th-generation volunteer firefighter serving and...

There is too much info missing. It looks like they had to advertise the job publicly to meet their requirements & most likely promote within.

Congratulation and the best of luck!!!

WHEN: TUES EVENING, 2 JAN 2024 at 1930 HRS, Eastern Time. SPEAKER: Wayne Powell SUBJECT: A Historical Look at the National Fire Academy The U.S. National Fire Academy (NFA) of the United States Fire Administration (USFA) will celebrate its 50th Anniversary in 2024. As an entity of the Federal...

Monthly Meetings are held on the first Tuesday of each month at 1930 Hrs (Eastern Time). Changes are printed in BOLD and will be normally announced in advance. Meeting dates for the remainder of 2024 will occur on: 06 Feb 05 Mar 02 Apr 07 May 04 Jun 02 Jul 06 Aug 03 Sep 01 Oct 12 NOV 03 Dec...

Deadly blast at hotel in Pennsylvania's Amish Country By The Associated Press • Published December 18, 2023 • Updated on December 18, 2023 at 4:44 pm One person was found dead after an early morning explosion and fire at a hotel in the heart of Pennsylvania’s Amish-related tourism area...

There is a Batt Chief assigned to the safety command working daily around the clock. 24/7. However years ago there was always extra Batt chiefs in Safety working on investigations or special projects. I do not know if this is true today. Remember, at times FDNY will activate a second Safety Batt...

Normally the staff chiefs can respond at their pleasure. If they feel that their presents can help the situation, they can respond. Remember that a staff chief assigned to a Boro Cmd can go to any call they feel their services can be use full. A Boro Commander is responsible for making sure that...

The 4th Alarm Chiefs rotate the duty and respond either from their office or home. They are one of the senior staff chiefs, such as the Chief of Training, the Assistant Chief of Operations, & Chief of Fire Prevention. At once time they were called Bureau Chiefs. The 5th Alarm chief is either...

Sorry guys, the secret is the water that goes into NYC pizza. You can not match is any where. Sorry Willie!!!! Next time you are in Yonkers please try the pizza at Carlos on Central Ave. near YFD station # 11.

This website has members that come from across the United States but also from around the world. Their departments use different terms. FDNY has stations, they are know as EMS Stations. As I travel I automatically call a one story building that houses fire apparatus a fire station but if the...

At approximately 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, 09 Dec, the Oneonta Fire Department and multiple mutual aid departments responded to a reported explosion and structure fire at 18 Richards Ave in the Town of Oneonta. Upon arrival, they found multiple residences with severe damage and one active...

Man facing 105-count indictment over Tioga Downs racetrack arson NICHOLS, NY (WBNG) -- The Tioga County District Attorney’s Office announced Friday, 09 Dec 2023, that Boyd H. Fenton of Athens, Pa. was arraigned on a 105-count indictment. Fenton was arrested and charged in connection to a...

MONTHLY ZOOM MEETING THIS COMING TUESDAY NIGHT, 5 DECEMBER, 2023 @ 1930 Hours Topic will be ‘MANUFACTURING FIRE APPARATUS – TODAY’S PROBLEMS’

I have to ask one question about this reduction. What is the source of this information? As far as I can remember, this is all part of the UFA contract with the city.

MCI = Mass Casualty Incident can be a fire, accident, medical facility evacuation, explosion, transit incident, collapse, power failure, and any other possible major incident that can generate five or more patients. Even a normal two vehicle accident is capable of having numerous amount of...

The ordinal plan stated that fire companies were not permitted to cross the path of the race unless for a multiple alarm incident. So with that in mind, additional companies were spread out on both side of the race path in all boroughs except Staten Island. Predesignated companies would be...

FDNY defines an "ALL HANDS" as either 3 engines & 2 ladders OR 2 Engines & 2 Ladders & a Squad at work. In this case with a box on the VZ bridge Rescue 5 would be on the road (10-8). So seeing that this was not the normal response of E-161 (0.2 miles), E-152 (1.3 miles), E160 (1.7 miles), E-159...

Multiple Alarm Fire in Schoharie County in the village of Cobleskill. Structure fire reported adj to 102 Spring St. Mutual aid from adj towns.

RIP brother.