On February 14, 2016, at 2222 hours, units were dispatched to UCT/911, Box 0086, for a house fire at 49 Diamond Street in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn. This fire ultimately went to a fourth alarm and took just more than three hours to be brought under control. Reviewed in this article are some of […]
Gentlemen, I thought we’d be fighting this fire down the block when I got here. Command Chief, Assistant Chief James Daly, from his opening comments at the After Action Review (AAR) on Brooklyn Box 22-1274. At approximately 1250 hours on March 26, 2016, the Brooklyn dispatcher was notified by the UCT system that they were […]
Responding to motor vehicle accidents (MVAs), particularly on high-speed roadways, is a danger that emergency responders routinely face. This is not an area where anyone should be complacent. Constant vigilance on roadways must be maintained at all times. In an article Keeping Members Safe at MVAs from WNYF, 1st/2010, Lieutenant Christopher Kendall emphasized the following […]
Three men were arrested on charges of domestic terrorism in Kansas this week when an FBI investigation foiled a plot to attack an apartment complex that predominately housed Somali-Muslim immigrants in the town of Garden City in the western part of the state. The men were members of a militia group called the “Crusaders”, which […]
A 36-year-old man driving north in the southbound lanes of I-89 in Vermont on Saturday, October 8, 2016, slammed into a car with five 15- and 16-year-old students, killing them all. While the first-arriving police officer attempted to extinguish the burning vehicle and extricate victims, the wrong-way driver took off in his cruiser. Once additional […]
On February 14, 2016, at 2222 hours, units were dispatched to UCT/911, Box 0086, for a house fire at 49 Diamond Street in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn. This fire ultimately went to a fourth alarm and took just more than three hours to be brought under control. Reviewed in this article are some of […]
Gentlemen, I thought we’d be fighting this fire down the block when I got here. Command Chief, Assistant Chief James Daly, from his opening comments at the After Action Review (AAR) on Brooklyn Box 22-1274. At approximately 1250 hours on March 26, 2016, the Brooklyn dispatcher was notified by the UCT system that they were […]
Responding to motor vehicle accidents (MVAs), particularly on high-speed roadways, is a danger that emergency responders routinely face. This is not an area where anyone should be complacent. Constant vigilance on roadways must be maintained at all times. In an article Keeping Members Safe at MVAs from WNYF, 1st/2010, Lieutenant Christopher Kendall emphasized the following […]
Three men were arrested on charges of domestic terrorism in Kansas this week when an FBI investigation foiled a plot to attack an apartment complex that predominately housed Somali-Muslim immigrants in the town of Garden City in the western part of the state. The men were members of a militia group called the “Crusaders”, which […]
A 36-year-old man driving north in the southbound lanes of I-89 in Vermont on Saturday, October 8, 2016, slammed into a car with five 15- and 16-year-old students, killing them all. While the first-arriving police officer attempted to extinguish the burning vehicle and extricate victims, the wrong-way driver took off in his cruiser. Once additional […]
