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08-30-2005, 06:51 PM
NY FIREMEN LEND A HAND
BY JOSEPH MALLIA
STAFF WRITER
August 30, 2005
As Hurricane Katrina bore down on New Orleans, a half-dozen volunteer firefighters from Long Island - in the city for a convention - were stranded when their Sunday outbound flight was canceled.
But instead of trying to leave the besieged city by other means, they offerred their skills to the city, setting up a medical triage unit in the lobby of the Hilton Hotel.
The volunteers were happy to lend a hand, said Robert Gleason, a former department chief whose son, Donald - the current chief of the Centereach Fire Department in Suffolk County - is one of those in New Orleans.
"His friends got through to him a few times today, and every time they talk to him the friends call me and say, 'He's still alive,'" Robert Gleason said.
"He's all right now, I talked to him about 1:30 and he said he was fine. He was in with the triage section, treating people," the father said.
Among the other volunteer firefighters who remained in New Orleans were Raymond Catapano and Dominick D'Onofrio, Robert Gleason said.
Donald Gleason, 44, joined the Centereach department when he was 18 but by then he was already a veteran, his father said.
"I don't know if I inspired him, but he was going out on the truck with me since he was about 7 years old," he said.
Copyright 2005 Newsday Inc.
Yes they did.
And it was already posted under the Centereach thread,
WHERE IT BELONGS.
Thanks.
Sorry...way to go Don and everyone else in our neighboring centereach FD
i love you all
08-31-2005, 05:54 PM
you were editted for using my name you dumbass
After the Rath that Don put over them for the Response time BS..they owed him one...
emtee
09-01-2005, 09:22 AM
Hmm they treated injured people? Do they know there EMT skills are not recgnized outside of NY State?
Im too stupid to register and Im here only to stir the pot please pay attention to me my feeble attempts at an intelligent thought are clouded by the bong resin and fermented hops in my brain....please please pay attention to me.
I got mail !!!, YAYYYY!...I got mail!!!
Hmm they treated injured people? Do they know there EMT skills are not recgnized outside of NY State?
In the grand scheme of things DOES IT REALLY MATTER?? any port in a storm. Your saying that YOU would just sit there and do NOTHING?
Get a life already, and stop the nonsence.
FYI - it's THEIR not THERE.
R U Kidding Me?
09-01-2005, 10:30 AM
Are you for real? You're a real humanitarian, worried about whether an EMT license is valid in the face of a disaster of this magnitude? It's retards like yourself that ruin it for all the great men & women who make the daily sacrifices saving people, not based on who they are or where they live. God Bless those who are assisting in any way they can...
Are you for real? You're a real humanitarian, worried about whether an EMT license is valid in the face of a disaster of this magnitude? It's retards like yourself that ruin it for all the great men & women who make the daily sacrifices saving people, not based on who they are or where they live. God Bless those who are assisting in any way they can...
It just shows you that there are sooo many azzholes out there.
To even say something as STUPID as that is just beyond me.
I hope all the Centereach members get home safe and sound.
God Bless
Did'nt you attend the last meeting? Different states have different procedures for taking blood pressures, treating for shock, and administering oxygen, and transporting to hospitals. Oh yeah.. and if every state, the use differeint methods to keep an airway open, and lung sounds are different too.. Most importantly CPR is not allowed in LA- Only us in Ny are allowed to do CPR, because we are better than everyone else.
k1200
09-01-2005, 06:28 PM
I wonder if Don called Newsday Himself. It was a good thing they were there administering meds. we can all sleep well now.
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09-03-2005, 07:12 PM
http://www.fototime.com/{A14C2BD4-2EC6-4093-9D37-6F9CEB1E6C26}/picture.GIF
get a life and a jobwhat a hoot, a vollie thread talking about getting a job
How is this Vollie Hater NOT BANNED yet??
NY FIREMEN LEND A HAND
BY JOSEPH MALLIA
STAFF WRITER
August 30, 2005
As Hurricane Katrina bore down on New Orleans, a half-dozen volunteer firefighters from Long Island - in the city for a convention - were stranded when their Sunday outbound flight was canceled.
But instead of trying to leave the besieged city by other means, they offerred their skills to the city, setting up a medical triage unit in the lobby of the Hilton Hotel.
The volunteers were happy to lend a hand, said Robert Gleason, a former department chief whose son, Donald - the current chief of the Centereach Fire Department in Suffolk County - is one of those in New Orleans.
"His friends got through to him a few times today, and every time they talk to him the friends call me and say, 'He's still alive,'" Robert Gleason said.
"He's all right now, I talked to him about 1:30 and he said he was fine. He was in with the triage section, treating people," the father said.
Among the other volunteer firefighters who remained in New Orleans were Raymond Catapano and Dominick D'Onofrio, Robert Gleason said.
Donald Gleason, 44, joined the Centereach department when he was 18 but by then he was already a veteran, his father said.
"I don't know if I inspired him, but he was going out on the truck with me since he was about 7 years old," he said.
Copyright 2005 Newsday Inc. :wink:
How is this Vollie Hater NOT BANNED yet??freedom of speech( and its the truth)
obnoxious
02-23-2006, 04:17 PM
It may be his free speech, but he is interferring with other people's ability to obtain viewpoints. Basically, he's a juvenile pain in the ass. Perhaps a job or a another hobby would suit him better. Clearly, he was tossed from some VFD.
It may be his free speech, but he is interferring with other people's ability to obtain viewpoints. Basically, he's a juvenile pain in the ass. Perhaps a job or a another hobby would suit him better. Clearly, he was tossed from some VFD.How did he interfere with anything, just pass the post and read/post you own or the next opinion.If anything the children responding to him, ala travis are the ones who should be banned.
September 20, 2002
Dear IAFF Affiliate Presidents:
I am writing to you in order to clarify and correct a letter I authorized to be written and sent over
my signature to Congressman Felix Grucci on July 25, 2002, relating to IAFF members serving
as volunteers. This letter has unfortunately been used and misused by those who wish to create
difficulties for IAFF locals exercising their rights under our Constitution and By-Laws in dealing
with IAFF members who choose to volunteer. I regret that, as prepared and sent, the Grucci
letter has caused serious concerns for some of our affiliates. I want to set the record straight.
Earlier this year our friends in Congress had been strongly warning us that a campaign of
confusion and misinformation regarding the IAFF's position on volunteers was underway. This
campaign, in their judgment, would jeopardize our standing on Capitol Hill, and thereby
seriously threaten our entire legislative agenda, including national collective bargaining and our
staffing initiative. With increasing impatience, they encouraged us to respond to these issues,
both to protect our legislative interests and to alleviate the extreme pressure that our
Congressional allies were confronting for supporting the IAFF's position. The letter was
generated in response to those concerns.
I can recall few issues during my thirty-two year union career that have caused as much scrutiny
and searing public criticism as this issue has created in the last year. This attention was the
product of an outside smear campaign focused on several factors. Among these were the IAFF
Executive Board's rightful decision to declare a number of volunteer fire departments as rival
organizations in December of 2000, as well as the decision by several locals in the United States
and Canada to appropriately exercise their rights under our Constitution to file charges against
IAFF members who were serving as volunteer, part-time or paid on-call fire fighters.
Both of these situations resulted in intense media coverage. Much of the media attention had
been generated and aggravated by a few national volunteer fire organizations in an effort to
undermine the IAFF's historical stance on this issue. Newspaper editorials condemned the IAFF,
and the volunteer organizations orchestrated a letter-writing campaign of misinformation to
Congress, and to state and provincial legislatures, demanding a political response. In the wake of
September 11, some politicians even had the gall to suggest that IAFF members who sought to
enforce our Constitution lacked community spirit. Some Congressional opponents also attempted
to paint our position as a deliberate affront to President Bush's call to the nation for every
American to volunteer their time to some public service.
Consequently, our opponents in the United States Congress were poised in early July to
introduce an unprecedented Congressional resolution that would have censured and condemned
the IAFF. Recognizing the Congressional action on the resolution was imminent, I authorized
senior staff to draft and send a letter over my signature which was intended to deal only with the
employment rights of career fire fighters under U.S. law if they were expelled from the IAFF for
serving as volunteers.
Although the letter was intended to clarify the confusion and misinformation that had been
generated on Capitol Hill, unfortunately it did not accurately reflect the union's or my position
regarding this matter and created more problems for some of our affiliates, than resolve the
narrow issues it was intended to address. Due in part to the extraordinary time constraints
involved, the letter was poorly written and hastily sent. In retrospect, it was an ill-advised effort
to mollify our opponents, and the letter should never have been sent.
As straightforward as I can be with you, I should have been more diligent to ensure that the
process of drafting and sending a letter of such importance, over my signature, reflected the
union's as well as my personally held views.
I can think of no other issue that has aroused as much passion, or has been the subject of such
strongly held beliefs, as the issue of IAFF members who volunteer as fire fighters and
paramedics. Perhaps because of my own early struggle to create an IAFF local in a combination
fire department that was forced to compete with volunteer fire fighters for equipment and
resources, I am particularly sensitive to the internal strife that can arise when our members serve
as volunteers.
The IAFF Constitution makes it clear that IAFF members can be subject to charges and internal
discipline if they serve as volunteers. The Convention delegates who added this provision to our
Constitution clearly recognized that, all too often, jurisdictions rely upon the services of
volunteers to undermine the efforts of our own members to obtain the resources necessary to
support a properly staffed and adequately equipped full time career fire department. As a union
representing the interests of paid professional fire fighters, we can and must promote the
interests of our members by strongly advocating career fire departments across North America.
Let me be as clear as possible. We as a union, by Convention actions, do not represent or
condone volunteer, part-time or paid on-call fire fighters. This is also my personal position, as it
has been from the time that I first joined the IAFF. It remains my position today as your General
President, and I have reiterated this position to affiliate leaders on a number of occasions.
As General President, I have the responsibility to interpret the IAFF Constitution and Bylaws,
and to decide any appeals brought before my office from a trial board's decision regarding a
misconduct charge. Though I have not yet been required to decide an appeal from a trial board
decision pertaining to this issue, you should harbor no doubt that I shall apply the foregoing
principles to any dispute that is brought before my office involving an IAFF member's support or
participation in a volunteer fire department or association.
It is time to reaffirm the provisions of our Constitution on this critical issue to those both inside
and outside of our organization. Although an IAFF member may make a personal choice to join
a volunteer fire department, that personal choice is one that can have serious consequences under
our Constitution, including the loss of IAFF membership.
In closing, as the General President of a union charged with promoting the interests of paid,
full-time professional fire fighters and paramedics, I will continue to work vigorously to make
certain that all IAFF members enjoy a safe working environment, just compensation, and are
afforded the rights they deserve.
Fraternally,
Harold A. Schaitberger General President
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