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What kind of little shit life could someone have to tape these sad little kiddie fires. Is this the best you have? Why would you do it? You have to tape yourself at work to show people that you actually did something 18 years and $90 million dollars later as some type of sense of accomplishment. Any high school boy or girl can do a fireman's alleged job. Reporting to the state everytime you stomp out a cigarette doesn't qualify as a fire. This is a very transparent attempt to produce some aura of danger or responsibilty. HOW ABOUT A TAPE OF A HARRISON FIREMAN GETTING DRUG TESTED. I GUARANTEE YOU DON'T HAVE THAT!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
When the statistic were shown they were in the context of the amount of run's the HFD gets. For a town of it's size it would be an extreme burden on Volunteers. By the time the 3rd call and more came around you would have less and less guys. You have to understand the context of the statistic's that were given. People take that statistic out of context and just add it into other arguments randomly.
I'm not a Harrison Firefighter, I just went on youtube and searched Harrison, NJ Fire. Thats what came up.
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If there are 250 to 300 fires a year in Harrison, why don't you show a more current film than an 18 year old one. Haven't you had anything similar happen in 18 years. I know you won't show the film of the one big Harrison Ave. fire becauae all of the engines directly in front of the building were from other towns, not Harrison. Did the HPD even participate at all in that event? I doubt it. Maybe you were in an intense training session while the fire was going on and couldn't make it. You didn't miss much anyway because the buildings were all empty and the FD's just squirted water on them. Very lame.
No one ever once said on this site there were 250+ full blown house fires a year. The statistic was very properly explained as to range anything from a garbage can fire to a brush fire to a house fire and all inbetween. So stop exaggerating. It's getting old.
Enjoy the video's.
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Listen retardo, credit card fraud is one of the biggest crime industries in the U.S. these days. There are almost no cops on the street because of a head librarian at 6 firgures who doesn't meet state qualifications, several assistants at 50K each, and it is closed 75% of the time. The Rec. Center has a 6 figure drector that locks the doors at 3:00 PM so the kids can't use it. Thats because when they sell it they need to have it in good shape. Several 6 figure Directors at the Senior Center to watch a handfull of seniors stop in to play cards, 3 highly paid, one well above 6 figures in the PART TIME Mayors Office, a Health Dept. which has one of the highest paid Directors in Hudson County and several assistants, and for years a 50k FIRE DEPT. SECRETARY. There are too many more patronage jobs that I can't even name them. What the hell are all of these highest paid employees in the town doing all day? Einstein couldn't figure that out. Thats why you have 2-3 cops a shift, garbage broken police cars, no police station, and decades old technolgy.
Didn't they get some new police cars recently? They also got some new motorcycle's as well. Did something happened to the police station? Did it crumble over the weekend and I didn't hear about it? Decades old technology? I thought some of the cars had those new computers? You telling me the cops weren't issued the new laser pistols they got from the star wars production crews?
The biggest concern of mine is that there are not enough cops on the street. And before people start saying it, there are not 10 firefighters on duty every day. Simple fact. Harrision could cut the fat in other parts of the town and hire 2-4 new cops. Hey they make so little money the first few years, if you can't afford them 5 years from now, go the lay-off route, but I think you'll find a way when the time comes.
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Hello Everyone,
Just joined this forum & wanted to say hi to everyone. Looking forward to have quite a few friends.
Welcome. And I must warn you, I hope you have some thick skin because people will rip you on this site, no matter what you believe. And for the most part they don't even respect different opinions. But welcome!!
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Ok since you've decided to come over here and play in Kearny AND because you've seen fit to question my honesty in regards to your query on KFD drug testing.....
Lets cut right to the chase...
You and I will go together and be tested for drugs, you get to pick the date, time and testing facility. I will personally bear the cost for both of us.
Hell I'll even drive us.
However there is a catch.....always is, isn't there?
We both get to go for a psychiatric evaluation and I pick the date, time etc. but will also bear the cost.
After all tests are complete the results will be posted on this and the Harrison site, including names.
Because we have nothing to hide now do we?
No games, no incessant unfounded accusations, the truth plain and simple.
That's how I roll.
Balls in your court.
jus sayin
Thats great. Hell as a 3rd party I'll drive just to see that one!
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So last Tuesday our fair town was hit with an 8 inch snow storm, a fairly significant snowfall, and not a word on this board about it. Tells me the DPW guys did another great job, cause let's face it, most of you are here to complain, and there wasn't a thing to complain about. The administration then rewarded us with our first of 26 furlough days Friday. Our mayors idea of shared sacrafice I guess.
In one of the sections I complimented them on a much improved job over the past storm. So there was a word or two about it on this board. You must have just missed it.
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I wonder what the jerkoff who says that fires, not crimes, in bad times is thinking now.
What does that even mean? You trying to say again that I said crime does not go up in a bad economy only fires? Wrong again. I was the one who said it. Again for the record (I dare you to go back and find the posting and show me where I said crime does not go up. You won't because you can't. I was merely talking about fires in that post and yes they also go up in a bad economy just like crime.
I warned you that this was going to start happening months ago and all I got was wise ass answers. Violent crimes, namely with firearms, are going to happen more and more in Harrison and forget about it when summer rolls around. These criminals know that there are only 2 and, if your lucky, 3 cops on duty at a time and they are picking the easy prey in Harrison because their chances of getting caught are virtually impossible. You pay $12,000.00 a year in taxes for the worst police coverage in any town in NJ. Most of the police cars don't run because McMole hates the cops and won't pay to get them fixed even when it jeapordizes public safety, has a "0" overtime policy, and a "no chase" policy even in the event of a possible pursuit of a violent criminal because he doesn't want any damage happen to a police car. The HFD I see has humiliated the town once again, nothing new, and they have no less than 10 men a night sleeping at the clubhouse and believe me, if one calls in sick, he is replaced by another at 24 hours of overtime. McMole has wet dreams about firemen. You voted for McMole and his gang, now when people in your own family are getting shot, raped, or killed in a robbery blame yourself for re-electing this unqualified Mayor. I tried to warn you about this prior to the elction. 2 or 3 cops to protect 16,000 residents while paying $12,000.00 in taxes. You wanted him, now I think you are going to pay dearly for your mistake. The convicts are gonna rip this town apart because they know an easy mark when they see one. I am SO GLAD that I got out of there. Good Luck.
Since again you say "you" you must be talking about me. Again I never gave a wise ass anwser about crime not going up. Infact I agreed with that. I again only pointed out fires also increase. Guess what. I am pretty sure they did not have 10 firefighters on duty that day, as Engine 1 was again not in service.
I didn't vote for him. I am a Kearny resident.
The HPD should have no less then 4 officers on at any given time. At the very least the schedual should be redone so that if anything they have less Patrol men on durning the day. That way if they get back logged a desk guy could be forced onto the road.
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Ok...maybe THIS Brain Surgeon will be able to answer the recurring question that all of the FD_haters seem to ignore.... Kearny Emergency Medical Service was Born from the Kearny VOLUNTEER Emergency Rescue Squad, because that Volunteer service COULD NOT MAINTAIN COVERAGE of ONE Ambulance, with a Minimum of TWO people on board 24/7/365, even with HALF of the day being paid (As North Arlington does)that's TWO people for TEWLVE hours a Day, for Seven Days a Week. 14 shifts total. Now, if this Town, of 40-odd thousand people Could not come up with enough volunteers to cover a mere 14 shifts per week, HOW Do you plan to get enough volunteers to fight a fire? I DONT WANT TO HEAR about how Anyone else does it..I want to know how you plan to have KEARNY do it. I've been a cop here for 23 1/2 years, and I've seen a LOT of stupidity on KOTW since it's inception, but this Nonsense has GOT to be the Pinnacle of Stupidity.... I have become convinced that if Breathing were not an Involuntary reflex most of these Anti-Firefighter morons would suffocate.
Kearny PD and Kearny FD STAND TOGETHER, andb happen to WORK together pretty well..... You Moronic sheep can drag up anything from the past you want..including the letter to the editor from ONE guy that was sent over ten years ago, and it doesn't change that fact. What's sad is that there are so MANY people who are apparently Threatened somehow by the fact here in kearny the PD and FD are not at each other's throats. If you WANT that type of infighting...Move to Harrison.
I agree. I believe you would get about 20-30 members at most. That is about enough to man maybe and Engine and Ladder company 24/7 (sure at night you could man more but with people's works schedules and such how they would probably over lap that's about all you could get during the day). Kearny would not be protected the way it needs to be. East Newark draws volunteers from East Newark, Harrison and Kearny combined and only have in the mid 30's when it comes to volunteers.
I paid fire department is a must for Kearny. I outlined a plan for a combo department, notice why I only replaced one of the current Kearny companies with a volunteer unit? Because anything else would not be feasible.
We have a great service provided by our FD. Our PD is also outstanding.
KPDPipes, I do have a question for you that could put more cops on the street and firefighters back in the ranks. (1 cop per shift and 1 firefighter per shift) Why doesn't Kearny explore merging dispatch with Harrison and East Newark and create a West Hudson Dispatch center?
I understand having a police officer/ff behind the mic is an advantage in some respects but a well trained dispatcher could do the job in my opinion just the same. Look around at all the major cities that's the way they are going these days. Why not Kearny jump in and get another officer on the streets?
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I agree that many professions that deal with the public should be randomly drug tested, such as cops, fireman, teachers, medical personnel, and most of all the politicians. Wouldn't testing the politicians be a hoot. The reason I single out the Harrison Fire Dept. is that when they were first approached to drug testing around the same time as the cops, they initially wanted an extra $5,000.00 per man each year for the "stress" of a drug testing policy (What F**KING stress if your clean?). When that failed, they threatened the town with a lawsuit if the town tried to drug test them. Why all the drama? JUST ACCEPT THE DRUG TESTING POLICY and prove me wrong to the entire town!! You cannot because there is a strong likelyhood that jobs will be lost. Man up or get the F**K out of town. If anyone doesn't believe me about the HFD, the posts I've made about the skeleton manpower rules for the town, if you check, will boost my credibility sky high. I said "sky high" so don't get excited fireboy.
I believe they should have drug testing. But yelling and cursing about it will do nothing. Write to all local elected officials, state senator for the area and the Govenor if you care that much.
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I drove it last night. No, you don't wind up in the middle of the street.
I also drove Grant all the way through East Newark to 280. There are snow piles along the street.
Where do you put over 1,000 cars parked on Belgrove, Kearny Ave, Midland, Davis and Bergen ave? Is your driveway big enough?
6 days of melting does do a difference. It certainly did on my block and certainly did around the Extended Care facility on Belgrove which was the worst with cars parking far from the curb. That was mainly the area I had difficult with from that until the fork at Grant Ave.
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I drove it last night. No, you don't wind up in the middle of the street.
I also drove Grant all the way through East Newark to 280. There are snow piles along the street.
Where do you put over 1,000 cars parked on Belgrove, Kearny Ave, Midland, Davis and Bergen ave? Is your driveway big enough?
I lived on Kearny Ave for 7 years as a driver. I moved it to a side street before the storm began. It forced those people to put their cars in their driveways.
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Ok, why did the other bus get stuck? Can someone please explain that then? Fios1 News reported the reason the bus got stuck was because of snowy streets then showed a video of it.
The town did a much better job this time around. They were salting before the storm hit and stayed on top of it. Granted the storm was smaller in size but was still a storm that could have caught towns struggling to catch up. Good job this time around, I found emergency roads rather passable durning the storm.
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First of all, I got the Jersey Shore thing solely on my own because many have their primary residences there. Secondly, quit the tower ladder, engine #, bus # bullshit because it is a sad attempt to make your 25 year vacation seem so technical to everyone. Now most of all, if the squad commander is at one of the frat houses in town, why did your fellow BS smoke eater even make a distinction between him being notified when "on call" as opposed to him being awakened with everyone else. If he was on this "all call" BS that you mentioned there would be no need to seperate him specifically from the rest of the little rascals, as the author did, when your chime or bell or whatever the F**K wakes you up. Do you send him a picture of a fire on your cellphone and he texts back what to do from whatever bar he's at outside of town or at home. Anyway you try to spin what one of your guys posted, I think the Mayor had better get involved and straighten out this alleged theft of service from the town. I just went by what the guy who was the architect of the post said. One question: Being that it was said that paid fireman "train" everyday, can you post the training schedule for next week to the public as to where, when, and what time this "training" goes on so people can watch it. That shouldn't be any problem, right? The people are waiting, so hurry up and post this training schedule (LOL). Now go stare at your Dennis Leary poster, watch your box set of "Rescue me" CD's you got for Christmas, and shut up.
I'm not a Kearny Firefighter or a Harrison Firefighter or any town's paid Firefighter fore the record. I used the term "on call" to mean "on duty" all firefighters while on duty are on call, I don't see why it matters how I refer to it. When they are home they are not "on call" or "on duty". You seem confused on that matter.
It's called a tone that wakes them up.
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I was the driver of the Senior bus that didn't get stuck for the evacuation and I had no problems moving those Seniors I think the DPW guys did a great job clearing the roads for me to get threw
Ok, why did the other bus get stuck? Can someone please explain that then? Fios1 News reported the reason the bus got stuck was because of snowy streets then showed a video of it.
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There is no lie in my statements. We have a volunteer fire dept. I wouldn't live in a town or city that has a paid fire Little Rascals at a Keebler Clubhouse. In my opinion, I could have been on drugs, you know how that is (LOL), at the time the post was typed. Do you think I would actually move, as I did a short time ago, to ANY town or city that has a paid Clubhouse? NO F**KING way is that ever going to happen. So forgive me, almighty one for my mistake as nobody at the HFD has any higher education to pick up on that. I am sure that your limited education and eagle eyed fire skills actually picked up on my mistake, not a lie. You are so bothered by my simple opinions that you assholes actually spend what amounts to hours reading my posts. Why don't you do something productive instead, like explain to the residents WHY YOU ARE AFRAID OF RANDOM DRUG TESTING. If I am a liar, my opinions aren't going to cost anyone a cent or a life, but you're REFUSAL TO BE DRUG TESTED SPEAKS VOLUMES AND COULD COST LIVES. If I were a Harrison resident, I would be very concerned as to this behavior instead of a guy who doesn't live in the town. DRUG TESTING is a deterrant to drug use, not a witch hunt, and in my opinion that you fight DRUG TESTING to the bitter end if forced to do so tells the story. I could have went to the fire, but I got high. I could have helped out, but I got high. Now I'm receiving the junkie pension and I know why, because I got high, because I got high, because I got high.
That last part is actually funny... it's a song for those of you who don't know.
I personally believe all First Responders and Emergency Personal should be drug tested randomly at least once a year. Our lives and safety are in their hands. Does anyone actually disagree with that?
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Be realistic - a volunteer fire dept for Harrison,Kearny & East Newark - you have to be stupid - in this day and age you will never get volunteers to put out a fire - every body works either days or nights - and when they are home they are either sleeping or catching up on other things! The day of volunteers is over - Put it this way if Harrison had a fire and we had to have volunteers get together from these towns - the house would burn down!!!! I can merging Harrison & Kearny and getting rid of some firemen, but our houses are too close for a volunteer fire dept. NO matter what you think I'm not willing to loose my house or any of my family because we didn't have enough volunteers to put out the fire!!!!!
You responded to my post which didn't abolish the career/paid fire fighters at all. Did you even read it?
It would be a combination department, which many towns already have in NJ. At a working house fire as you described in West Hudson you would have 3 Engine's and 3 Ladders that are paid and responding. (You would also have an engine from South Kearny coming up to the scene) Simultaneously you would have the page going out to the volunteers to get the other 5 engines and 1 ladder in service. Also you would have Jersey City responding to cover South Kearny. with those 5 engines and 1 ladder you can spread them out to cover the remaining area or send them to the scene, if you sent them to the scene or didn't get enough to man all those apparatus you would then starting calling for mutual aid from North Arlington, JC, Secaucus and North Hudson.
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Hey Doc, there you go again, exaggerating for spin purposes. Seriously, you think anyone will believe you that you're driving down Belgrove Drive on Thursday, January the 6th, and had to drive in the middle of the road? The road has driving lanes in each direction AND parked cars on both sides.
As to East Newark, Grant Avenue between Kearny and Central Avenue had the snow piles on the side yesterday.
Hey Doc, my advice to you is to take 2 aspirin and deal with the fact that Santos did good considering it was a 2 foot blizzard that paralyzed half the State.
Oh, and I'm still waiting for you to tell me which of my facts in my posting above about the nursing home are not accurate.
On that date and all the days prior (once the storm hit) driving down in the evening when cars are fully parked all over Belgrove from Bergen ave until the Grant ave fork I had to drive in the middle of the street. (At least 1/3 of my car over at many points)
The snow piles you speak of are all near the railroad tracks. Once you hit Sherman ave on Grant there are no sizeable snow piles taking up parking at all.
Patients were not transported promptly many of them not until over an hour and a half into the operation. I think they did a good job with it under the circumstances but If the second senior bus (from Harrison) didn't get stuck on the Corner of Elm/Bergen it could of been done faster and more efficiently.
I don't blame Santos specifically for any of this. There are a lot of people in the town that make decisions. Somewhere along the line someone dropped the ball. People should have been told to remove their cars from emergency roads before the storm hit.
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Whichever fire frat house underachiever responded to the post about them not responding to a dangerous situation, just read the post he left. Its not typing errors, they happen to everyone, but the whole grammatical structure of the post is not correct. Thats where I get the underachieving, limited education comments from. Now, why is the Chief at the time of any incident "on call" at home or wherever he is instead of being able to immediately respond to a serious emergency. You are saying that Kearny pays the shift commander like $150,000.00/year to be "on call," probably at his house down the shore. He has to be able to see the fire or other situation first hand, looking at it with his own eyes, to make a proper call when peoples lives are on the line. You are saying that shift commanders do not even have to set foot in Kearny anytime during the year unless they want to stop in and say hello from the Jersey Shore and grab their $3,000.00/week check. My God, what a disgracefull display of irresponsibilty that is. Getting paid $150,000.00/year from the Kearny taxpayers and not ever having to go to Kearny from down the shore for the rest of their lives. OMG, unbelievable, and you are stupid enough to put that info. out on a public forum. How brainless is it possible for a person to be. Another patronage appointment folks.
Umm... idiot... the on call Deputy Chief is in Station 2, with Squad 2 (an engine) and Tower Ladder 2. He responds in his own veichle from the station, not from his home. All firefighters are "All call" in the stations overnight while sleeping. The tones wake them up and then they respond.
Where did you get the idea that anyone was responding to an emergency from down the shore?
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You should believe me because its true. Go to the next council meeting and bring it up, or ask the patrol on the streets about it instead of administrative bosses and if they don't confirm it, they're lying. Better yet, its public record, go the the HPD and ask for a copy of the minimum manpower requirements. Seek and you shall find and believe. Also, on a very rare occasion that minimum manpower falls below due to someone being sick nobody is called to replace the sick guy without direct authorization of the Mayor. If you can't reach him, thats all you get for the night. In my opinion, he hates the cops, always has and doesn't want to pay overtime with town funds even if it jeapordizes public safety. Although out of the 10 fireman every shift, if 1 calls in sick, they replace him with someone getting 24 hours of overtime in a heartbeat. Instead of 2 cops would you feel better if it was 3 to protect 16,000 residents. You voted for him, now comes the consequences.
Well Harrison residents should be getting on the PD/Town for this. That is just not right or safe.
As for the FD part you mentioned that is not true. If you listen to there morning radio checks often they have less guys then 9, many days only 7. A good portion of the time they only have E3 and L1 in service no E1. E1 would be in service with 9 or more guys and 5 out of 7 days it's not. HFD doesn't have the man power for this any more and they aren't hiring anytime soon.
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I have posted this ad nauseum, and nobody ever seems to have an answer. If the town of Kearny Could not keep TWO PEOPLE on ONE Ambulance 24/7/365 using Volunteers, WHAT MAKES ANY OF YOU THINK You will get enough Volunteers to Fight Fires?????
In a town like Kearny. You would get some volunteers no doubt. Enough to staff the requirements of our Fire Department not nearly enough!
Having a paid fire department in Kearny is so crucial and it drives me crazy that people don't realize that. Many of our larger residential buildings are practically built right on top of each other. There was a huge fire in Newark last night in a taxpayer (which is almost every building on Kearny Ave) people were trapped on the fire escapes, Newark's quick response was key to saving all those lives. Kearny would be there doing the same, I have no doubt about that.
Oh and imagine a fire in South Kearny awaiting residents from the residential are to wake up in the middle of the night staff the fire rigs and then drive down there? Forget about it!
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I agree with guest about it would be good for the cops/fire to live in town, people always take better care of their own things which they all have a stake in. One thing doesn't make sense. At some point in life most couples have children who are attending school, but just because your kids aren't in school anymore doesn't mean you obligation is over. When other people with no kids were paying taxes for your kids to go to school everything was fine. Now that this has changed don't you think its your turn now to support the school system for the kids that are going to school now even though yours are not. Its the circle of life like in The Lion King. My point was if that you are paying $12,000.00/year in taxes don't you want the most productivity out of the people taking home your tax money? For example, having two or three cops on the street to protect 16,000 people while paying 10 fireman just to sleep is just wrong. I would much rather have a well conceived volunteer fire dept. and 10 cops on the street. Things are getting more dangerous. You probably didn't hear about the incident involving guns on Kingsland Ave. very recently one night because the politicians keep you in the dark purposely to give you the feeling of safety. On that night, both Officers were dealing with that situation and if you needed help from a home invasion, robbery, rape, or whatever you would have had to wait for a Cop from Kearny or Jersey City to get to you. Probably 1/2 hour. By then, the damage would have been horrible to you or your family with no one to help you. All the cops could have done when they got there is to call an ambulance to scoop you or your family members battered bodies off the street and file a report. If you don't do the best with the money you pay or demand people to be accountable, its over. Next year aid from the state willbe $0. What then, 1 cop. use your head.
I don't believe that Harrison only had 2 cops on duty. Most of the time East Newark has 2 cops on duty and that department is 1/4 the size. If it's true there were only 2 cops on duty that an issue for who is in charge of scheduling.
I do however believe the HPD could use some more cops. It's a shame with the layoffs in Newark PD crime is over flowing in the area.
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First of all, I said fires moron, so the answer is none. As to the shooting, the KFD masters (Chief, Batallion Chiefs, Captains) only let the dogs loose outside of the locked fortress of solitude frat house until they report that the scene is completely safe. What the hell is all this supposed danger you face. I have never in all my years seen a fireman go into a burning building or anything close to that. Without the 911 crap and 100 years of war stories passed on and growing taller on down the line, your whatever you do is no more dangerous than a paperboy delivering on his route.
What in God's name are you talking about? All the FD units are dispatched and are responded at the same time as the on call Chief. They never wait. Also to further that point the Captains are on the rigs themselves, so unless they are walking to the scene they are holding no units back.
I have never in all my years seen a fireman go into a burning building or anything close to that. Without the 911 crap and 100 years of war stories passed on and growing taller on down the line, your whatever you do is no more dangerous than a paperboy delivering on his route.
Are you serious? Either you are like a year old or really ignorant. I'm going with you act more like you are a year old and are also really ignorant.
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I would actually address the portion in Blur to YOU, Not Doc..although I have my issues with him.
What I find MOST interesting about your post is that You have NO ROLE HERE..you freely admit you are niether a Resident Not a TAXPAYER in Kearny...therefore. STFU and worry about your Own Town. Just another Jackass whining about Firefighters for no reason. So what was it?? Did you fail the Test???, Blow the Physical?? Piss hot?? or did some Paid Firefighter steal your Girl?? Come on Skippy...tell us it's ok.
lol what are your issues? I'm assuming you're a Kearny cop, which I've always supported on this forum and you seem to back the FD, which I always do. So I'm curious to where your issues are with me. Maybe because I think the town did a horrible job with this past storm? I am a resident and a taxpayer I have the right to complain.
Example of What HFD Does
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Please explain what exactly you mean by this. I do not want to just assume.