Holtsville Tank Farm

Nice Job from all the responding agencies that went to the Holtsville tank farm fire today!

The vollies would have gotten better media coverage if the gestapo scpd would have allowed it. The only time the camera were allowed within a mile of the incident was when Levy decided to talk and needed some cameras to do it to. But don't worry he gave most of the credit to the FRES responders and scpd. Good job pigs, You shut down the roads very nicely. Nice flare patterns.

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come on now, do you expect our men and women in blue who make 120k a year to really do something. as for levy, he doesnt need anything from the volies yet, but he will soon enough, thats why we didnt get the credit we deserved. but the public hopefully knows the truth. good job to the boys of holtsville and to the depts. that came in on a 24.

[SaltyProvider]

My favorite is the article last week that read Three Cops deliver child with help of EMS. Yeah OK!!!! It should have read, two medics deliver baby with the PD watching. They never called the FD, just the 6th Pct Desk Seargent. The medics would not have even made the paper if the PO's in the 6th weren't stand up guys. I have worked in a lot of Precincts and I have to say the 6th PO's are great. If it hadn't have been for the officers the medics would have never got some positive publicity. Unfortunately in Suffolk County we need all the positive publicity we can get. All I have to say is we are all out there trying to do the best we can. The news never gives us the credit we deserve, but it is just our turn on the whipping post. It was PD for a long time, now its FD/EMS turn. Next it will be someone else, the Corrections guys maybe. :lol: Who knows?? Hopefully this will pass and we can get off the hook until it is our turn again. Just like working in a Fire District. It goes DM, Paid guys, housemen, mechanic, dispatchers blah blah blah. Then it starts over again. It will pass, just like I hope this site passes its entertainment value. Until then, Good Job Brothers. Way to get the job done. Keep up the good work. Train Hard and Stay Safe.

[GUEST WHO]

Saddly, the reason for the lack of publicity is caused agency size. An agency such as SCPD holds clout because they are the big dog in town. If the FRES was one entity then publicity would be greater. This is based on the readers wanting to know what there agency is doing for them today. Dont worry brothers I am not looking for consolidation or conformity. I like to walk the beaten path at my own liesure. Good Job by the 5-11-CREW.

[SaltyProvider]

TRUE TRUE TRUE. Unfortunately you are right. OH WELL. I think we will always be the unsung heroes. Personally, thats fine with me. I don't do this for medals or newspaper articles. Thank God there are many others that feel the same way. I think the only publicity we will ever get will be bad. Unless real bad things happen like Wildfires 1995, TWA 1996, 9/11/01. Then we are heroes until it is time to conveniently forget. Shocking isn't it. The heroes of yesterday are the zeroes of today. Well I for one don't believe that. Keep up the good work everyone. Train Hard and Stay Safe.

[Iron Cross]

What is the worst thing that could happen at a 16/23 MVA ?
Your there, you have a class "A", heavy rescue and the BUSS.
Who pulls up and screws up everything????
SCPD emergency service.
Man they are bad. Like to know where they got there training and who the hell taught them??
Question?? why the $$%^ do they respond anyway ???? They have less than the FD in training and equipment.
PS I love it
they can't even keep a chopper in the air.
Have to go to NCPD for one.

First of all nobody should be busting on the PD for getting a story out - it happens because they have a full time PIO's who all they do is spread the word and justify the existence of the PD. Many organizations within the Volly service tells us we need to have at a minimum a department PIO so we too can write the press releases and get our word out for all the positive things we do. If we continue to not send out the good stuff media like Newsrag will bash us all day long because it’s the negative stuff that they can sensationalize and sell more papers.
FRES was talking about hiring a PIO for the Fire/EMS service but I'm not sure where that has gone. If they did that person would be able to make press releases just like the PD and maybe we then could get some of the praises we all deserve.
As it has been stated by those above nice work Brothers, it even seemed like FD and EMS got along too that day.
Lastly the ES you speak of was the ES of old, most of the dinosaurs have retired and the present day ES guys under the direction of the current Commander of Special Operations works with the FD and not against, as had happened in the past.

i did not know we had a police dept on long lsland

i did not know we had a police dept on long lsland

Screw up and you just may find out .

Screw up and you just may find out

i guess you have screwed in the past
it seems like we do not have a police dept on long island because i never see one

maybe because they keep getting taken away and off the road

[TV NEWS]

As a member of the media in Suffolk, we have really got to look to ourselves for the answer. I have been in TV news since 1989, I have been a vollie since 1988. There are some Depts that are OK, but generally I have been met with some strange reactions when I show up at a scene. I am very PRO Volunteer FD and only show us in a good light because when we get good press more people will join up.

A case in point just happened last week when a Chief of a south shore, eastern brookhaven FD stopped me from shooting from across the street and told to wait until his "guys" were off the scene of a house fire. I told him, with respect, that I wanted to give the guys some air time to show what they do, but he was adamant about not letting me shoot. As much as I had the right to blow him off I honored his request and stopped until they were gone. Those guys probably went back and turned on News12, but were pissed when only arson investigators were on air.

Last week News 12 called me and asked if I could get a rep from my department to go down to the 112 town yard to be on TV live and talk about the importance of shoveling out hydrants, not only was no one from my dept willing(even though they were available) the surrounding depts did not muster anyone up.

The cops do have a public info office but so does the FRES. At least it did under the former administration.

If you want to get a story out to the local stations or newspapers I will be glad to help out volunteer FD members and departments. Feel free to email me at Stringertv@aol.com, I am the owner of Stringer News Service and employ only FD members as my camera men.

ps tell the old guys blocking the road off that we are there to help not "get in the way".

[TV NEWS]

My favorite is the article last week that read Three Cops deliver child with help of EMS. Yeah OK!!!! It should have read, two medics deliver baby with the PD watching. They never called the FD, just the 6th Pct Desk Seargent. The medics would not have even made the paper if the PO's in the 6th weren't stand up guys. I have worked in a lot of Precincts and I have to say the 6th PO's are great. If it hadn't have been for the officers the medics would have never got some positive publicity. Unfortunately in Suffolk County we need all the positive publicity we can get. All I have to say is we are all out there trying to do the best we can. The news never gives us the credit we deserve, but it is just our turn on the whipping post. It was PD for a long time, now its FD/EMS turn. Next it will be someone else, the Corrections guys maybe. :lol: Who knows?? Hopefully this will pass and we can get off the hook until it is our turn again. Just like working in a Fire District. It goes DM, Paid guys, housemen, mechanic, dispatchers blah blah blah. Then it starts over again. It will pass, just like I hope this site passes its entertainment value. Until then, Good Job Brothers. Way to get the job done. Keep up the good work. Train Hard and Stay Safe.

I heard that call and said to myself "how long will it take before the scpd baby delivery fax hits my machine?" It wasn't long at all, I emailed it to one of the cops in the 602 car and she didn't even know it was being released even though her name was on it. Problem is....Coram should've sent out their own press release before the cops did.

[Coramfd]

Coram would have sent a fax out, but the fax machine in the Chiefs office is broken. :oops:

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[guest7]

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My favorite is the article last week that read Three Cops deliver child with help of EMS. Yeah OK!!!! It should have read, two medics deliver baby with the PD watching. They never called the FD, just the 6th Pct Desk Seargent. The medics would not have even made the paper if the PO's in the 6th weren't stand up guys. I have worked in a lot of Precincts and I have to say the 6th PO's are great. If it hadn't have been for the officers the medics would have never got some positive publicity. Unfortunately in Suffolk County we need all the positive publicity we can get. All I have to say is we are all out there trying to do the best we can. The news never gives us the credit we deserve, but it is just our turn on the whipping post. It was PD for a long time, now its FD/EMS turn. Next it will be someone else, the Corrections guys maybe. :lol: Who knows?? Hopefully this will pass and we can get off the hook until it is our turn again. Just like working in a Fire District. It goes DM, Paid guys, housemen, mechanic, dispatchers blah blah blah. Then it starts over again. It will pass, just like I hope this site passes its entertainment value. Until then, Good Job Brothers. Way to get the job done. Keep up the good work. Train Hard and Stay Safe.


First of all the SCPD did nothing on this call but stand around, It was an off duty sherrif that helped deliver the baby, and if not for the medic and EMT the baby would have died. The kid was blue from head to toe and cold. Good job to the crew of the holtsville FD ambulance

[/quote]First of all the SCPD did nothing on this call but stand around, It was an off duty sherrif that helped deliver the baby, and if not for the medic and EMT the baby would have died. The kid was blue from head to toe and cold. Good job to the crew of the holtsville FD ambulance[/quote]

totally different baby, totally different town, totally different time. Good job though.

[Mad a SCPD]

That is all the SCPD is good for, standing around doing nothing, getting in the way, and taking 3 hours to answer a simple call when they can't get their asses out of the firehouses, behind the dunken donuts or sleeping at the end of a dead end road in the woods of manorville. So why would you expect them to do something with this call. Oh unless there was media around then they will jump in and push the emt's and fire department away to get all the glory.

[never realized]

Its funny, but I lived in central Brookhaven, and have since moved to eastern brookhaven, and I see more suffolk cops on the desserted roads around Manorville, ridge, wading river, and center moriches, then I ever saw on nichols rd, or portion rd, or 347. It really makes you think. These roads are not the most direct routes to precent houses, neither.

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