Early this morning my partner and I responded to a call for a fire on the front lawn at a row house. When we arrived there was a small fire at the base of a cedar tree. We grabbed the pump tank to extinguish the fire but it flared up when the water hit it....Read More
A former Long Island fire chief died while awaiting an EMS response. Apparaently, the chief’s address was the same as 3 other addresses served by the dispatch center, but in other jurisdictions. The immediate response was directed to one of the "other" three. Having similar multiple addresses is not all that uncommon, and so particular...Read More
