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>Fortunately, there was only one minor injury related to an accident caused by rubbernecking.
Very fast response by Ridgewood Fire & Ridgewood Emergency Services. In some towns, it would take 15-20 minutes (or more) for fire & EMS to respond.
Message to Village Council: DO NOT CUT FIRE OR EMS STAFFING!
>Isn’t the fast response due to the fact that the fire department is right around the corner.
What was this driver charged with? Wreckless driving perhaps.
>t would take 15-20 minutes (or more) for fire & EMS to respond. THATS NOT TRUE AT ALL
>It would take 15-20 minutes (or more) for fire & EMS to respond. THATS NOT TRUE AT ALL
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Yes it is. Some towns have tremendous difficulty assembling ambulance crews on weekdays between 6am-6pm. Listen to a radio scanner sometime if you think I’m BSing.
>The fire department should take over EMS. There is no reason we should have to spend all that tax money on all those trucks that emergency services has when the fire department has all that stuff anyway. They are better trained and are better at handling the emergencies.
>I may be wrong, but isn’t EMS staffed primarily with volunteers? If this is the case, to get rid of them would mean that the town would have to hire more firemen which would cost the taxpayers more money due to salaries, benefits, and pensions. It would seem to make more sense to keep the volunteers than to hire more people.
>”The fire department should take over EMS. There is no reason we should have to spend all that tax money on all those trucks that emergency services has when the fire department has all that stuff anyway. They are better trained and are better at handling the emergencies.”
Sounds like the paid fire department is scared of some volunteers, I wonder why? hmm… ::Cough Performance, quality of service Cough:: Before, I supported keeping the west side firehouse a paid firehouse. Now i hope to see it go to the volunteers, its about time they got some respect.
>Anonymous said…
It would take 15-20 minutes (or more) for fire & EMS to respond. THATS NOT TRUE AT ALL
Your Friendly Village Idiot said…
Your Friendly Village Idiot says,
Actually yes it could take 15 to 20 minutes for a Volunteer Fire Department to respond to a call, and possible longer. How is that possible?
Easily explained, lets do some math.… I believe it is reasonable to say that a Volunteer Firefighter can safely travel at an average of 30 miles per hour on local streets responding to an alarm. Traveling any faster and not stopping for stoplights or stop signs is unsafe!
If a Volunteer Firefighter receives a call and he is at his home or work, which is 5 miles away from his fire station, it will take him on average 10 minutes (30 miles per hour = ½ mile per minute) to get to his fire station.
Once he reaches his station it will take him 2 to 3 minutes to get his gear and read the map for hydrant locations (no one memorizes fire hydrant locations) and get on the fire truck.
Traveling from his fire station to the alarm location (again traveling at an average of 30 miles per hour) if the alarm location is 4 miles from the fire station it will take him 8 minutes to arrive at the location.
Total time from alarm to arrival at the scene: 20 minutes
1) Travel from work/home to the Fire Station – 10 Minutes
2) Read map get equipment and start truck – 2 Minutes
3) Drive from Fire Station to the alarm location – 8 minutes
Any increase in any of the distances will increase the travel time by 2 minutes per mile.
Your Friendly Village Idiot
>It would take 15-20 minutes (or more) for fire & EMS to respond. THATS NOT TRUE AT ALL
Your Friendly Village Idiot said….
Actually yes it could take 15 to 20 minutes for a Volunteer Fire Department to respond to a call, and possible longer. How is that possible?
Easily explained, lets do some math.… I believe it is reasonable to say that a Volunteer Firefighter can safely travel at an average of 30 miles per hour on local streets responding to an alarm. Traveling any faster and not stopping for stoplights or stop signs is unsafe!
If a Volunteer Firefighter receives a call and he is at his home or work, which is 5 miles away from his fire station, it will take him on average 10 minutes (30 miles per hour = ½ mile per minute) to get to his fire station.
Once he reaches his station it will take him 2 to 3 minutes to get his gear and read the map for hydrant locations (no one memorizes fire hydrant locations) and get on the fire truck.
Traveling from his fire station to the alarm location (again traveling at an average of 30 miles per hour) if the alarm location is 4 miles from the fire station it will take him 8 minutes to arrive at the location.
Total time from alarm to arrival at the scene: 20 minutes
1) Travel from work/home to the Fire Station – 10 Minutes
2) Read map get equipment and start truck – 2 Minutes
3) Drive from Fire Station to the alarm location – 8 minutes
Any increase in any of the distances will increase the travel time by 2 minutes per mile.
Your Friendly Village Idiot
>”The fire department should take over EMS. There is no reason we should have to spend all that tax money on all those trucks that emergency services has when the fire department has all that stuff anyway. They are better trained and are better at handling the emergencies.”
Haha, thats funny. Last time i drove by 33 North Pleasant Ave. It was burned to the very last room along with several other locations around town. If the paid RFD is better trained then it must be in “how to let fires get out of control” and “how to refuse help from other towns”
The paid firefighter that wrote that is misinformed to the last word.
>You people are so dense and so uneduacated about the whole emergency services field it makes me sick. I know firefighters and ems personal from Glen Rock, Midland Park, Hawthorne, and Wyckoff. If you talk to any of them it DOES NOT take them 20 minutes to get there. Lets use a little common sense people. If everything paid was so much better every town around us would be doing the same thing. As far as training goes. All firefighters and EMS personal are trained in the same location. Hence they all are taught the SAME thing. Personally if you ask me I think that volunteers are MUCH more dedicated to thier job. After all if they were not dedicated why would they do it? Can we all think a little before we speak? Would make the world a much better place.
>Anonymous said…
You people are so dense and so uneduacated about the whole emergency services field it makes me sick. I know firefighters and ems personal from Glen Rock, Midland Park, Hawthorne, and Wyckoff. If you talk to any of them it DOES NOT take them 20 minutes to get there. Lets use a little common sense people. If everything paid was so much better every town around us would be doing the same thing. As far as training goes. All firefighters and EMS personal are trained in the same location. Hence they all are taught the SAME thing. Personally if you ask me I think that volunteers are MUCH more dedicated to thier job. After all if they were not dedicated why would they do it? Can we all think a little before we speak? Would make the world a much better place.
Your Friendly Village Idiot said….
Lets examine the above statement(s).
1) I know firefighters and ems personal from Glen Rock, Midland Park, Hawthorne, and Wyckoff. (MY COMMENT: I highly doubt your just knowing someone makes you an expert in emergency services)
If you talk to any of them it DOES NOT take them 20 minutes to get there. (MY COMMENT: OK, I challenge you to prove your statement, I explained above why it could take 15 to 20 minutes for a Volunteer Department to respond, Refute my facts!)
2) If everything paid was so much better every town around us would be doing the same thing. (MY COMMENTS: Each town decides what level of Fire Protection they want. There are benefits and determents to both career and volunteer Fire Departments; one is not necessarily better than the other.)
3) As far as training goes. All firefighters and EMS personal are trained in the same location. Hence they all are taught the SAME thing. (MY COMMENTS: I would expect that the training for all firefighters would be the same, no argument here.)
4) Personally if you ask me I think that volunteers are MUCH more dedicated to thier job. After all if they were not dedicated why would they do it? (MY COMMENTS: Just because someone volunteers their time I am not convinced that makes them more dedicated than a career firefighter. How can I prove that point – I know for a fact that many career firefighters were volunteers before they became career firefighters and in some cases they are still Volunteer Firefighters. Apparently you assume that all career firefighters are not dedicated, bad assumption.
5) Can we all think a little before we speak? Would make the world a much better place. (MY COMMENTS: You really should take your own advise!)
Your Friendly Village Idiot
>Personally if you ask me I think that volunteers are MUCH more dedicated to thier job.
Who are you and can you please provide cold hard facts to support this statement? If you think career public safety employees are not dedicated to what they do, then volunteer and you will see the time it takes to finish the entry level courses(FF 1 or EMT). Then you might understand why no one is willing to volunteer.
If career public safety professionals were not dedicated to their professions, then why the hell would they take the tests/courses and accept employment? With that said, whether paid or volunteer, our public safety departments risk their lives to respond to our homes or businesses when 911 is called. So next time you see one any public safety employee or volunteer, lets all take a minute to thank them for what they do, because they are obviously dedicated to their positions.
>Then you might understand why no one is willing to volunteer.
Not nesciarily “no one”, but volunteers are much harder to find due to the expansive time commitments
>For those who think the fire department should take over EMS because they have the same equipment and better training….
1) Last time I checked the fire department has No ambulances. So they do not have the same equipment.
2) The fire department is better trained for fire calls, but they are in no way better trained in EMS. The firefighters that become EMTs take the exact same courses as the volunteers.
– A 5-year Ridgewood Volunteer
>LLet’s break down this misinformed moron, since it seems like it knows the answers to all life’s questions.
Oh and I do have expertise, I was an ex-chief and have been a volunteer for over 35 years on a local FD.
“Your Friendly Village Idiot says,
Actually yes it could take 15 to 20 minutes for a Volunteer Fire Department to respond to a call, and possible longer. How is that possible?”
“Easily explained, lets do some math.… I believe it is reasonable to say that a Volunteer Firefighter can safely travel at an average of 30 miles per hour on local streets responding to an alarm. Traveling any faster and not stopping for stoplights or stop signs is unsafe!”
30 miles an hour, you’re a moron. It’s called red lights, NJ Law requires drivers to yield. In an event of an emergency it isn’t recommended to go over 10mph of the speed limit, and I would agree to that. No one is allowed run red traffic lights not even cops. The ONLY people legally allowed to through lights is a postal truck carrying a declaration of war.
“If a Volunteer Firefighter receives a call and he is at his home or work, which is 5 miles away from his fire station, it will take him on average 10 minutes (30 miles per hour = ½ mile per minute) to get to his fire station.”
5 miles? What are you talking about you idiot. That’s like Ridgewood to Paterson. Most of the volunteers work in town. Volunteers also have blue emergency lights that when on give them the right of way as stated in NJ law. In my town the first engine rolls within 5min of the call 99% of the time. And that’s with a crew of 3. Also the chiefs have no other job, so they get there even quicker.
“Once he reaches his station it will take him 2 to 3 minutes to get his gear and read the map for hydrant locations (no one memorizes fire hydrant locations) and get on the fire truck.”
2-3min for gearing, are you kidding me? Try 45 seconds. Most fire trucks have computers in the trucks that map the hydrant when the calls goes out so you don’t even need to find it, besides the driver drives while then officer in the passenger seat maps so no time is needed to find things.
“Traveling from his fire station to the alarm location (again traveling at an average of 30 miles per hour) if the alarm location is 4 miles from the fire station it will take him 8 minutes to arrive at the location.”
We are not in upstate NY smart one. 4 miles? Like I said before red emergency lights move traffic well. In a town like Ridgewood, if they had a volunteer FD you would see a maximum increase of time by no more then 10min at the most.
“Total time from alarm to arrival at the scene: 20 minutes”
The volunteers with an engine arrive within 10min of the call.
The chiefs and officers within 4.
“1) Travel from work/home to the Fire Station – 10 Minutes
2) Read map get equipment and start truck – 2 Minutes
3) Drive from Fire Station to the alarm location – 8 minutes”
I proved this total BS.
Any increase in any of the distances will increase the travel time by 2 minutes per mile.
Yea if were responding to NYC, you dumbass.
I think it’s safe to ignore what the village idiot says from this post on down. It clearly is misinformed and has not a clue what the hell it’s talking about.
>Wow Mr. 35 Year Volunteer Firefighter, you really intimidated me with your name-calling. It adds so much creditability to your argument!
Having said that I will respond to your misinformation!
1) 30 miles an hour, you’re a moron. It’s called red lights, NJ Law requires drivers to yield. In an event of an emergency it isn’t recommended to go over 10mph of the speed limit, and I would agree to that. No one is allowed run red traffic lights not even cops. The ONLY people legally allowed to through lights is a postal truck carrying a declaration of war.
MY COMMENTS: You must be kidding when you say “it isn’t recommended to go over 10 mph of the speed limit” The use of RED LIGHTS does not give anyone the right to violate ANY traffic laws including the speed limit under NJ title 39. Yes, drivers should, but do not always yield to an Emergency Vehicle. However, even if there were NO cars on the road all Emergency Vehicles are not permitted to exceed the posted speed limit and MUST stop at stoplights and stop signs. Using an AVERAGE speed of 30 miles per hour is not unreasonable and because you haven’t given any evidence that 30 MPH is wrong my statement stands! I suspect that you regularly violate the speed limit, and why not you are a Volunteer Fireman and you have RED LIGHTS!
2) 5 miles? What are you talking about you idiot. That’s like Ridgewood to Paterson. Most of the volunteers work in town. Volunteers also have blue emergency lights that when on give them the right of way as stated in NJ law. In my town the first engine rolls within 5min of the call 99% of the time. And that’s with a crew of 3. Also the chiefs have no other job, so they get there even quicker.
MY COMMENTS: It’s obvious you have a deficiency in measuring distances! Even in the smallest of towns it can be 3 miles to a fire station. Take the Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus for example. The Fire Department is located on Sheridan Avenue. If a Volunteer Firefighter lives on Dearhill Drive in Ho-Ho-Kus the distance he would have to travel to get to the Firehouse would be 2.6 miles and it would take him at least 5 minutes to travel this distance. Having BLUE lights on your car does not give you the RIGHT OF WAY in New Jersey. I suggest that you read NJ TITLE 39, which states:
39:3-54.12 Rights of motor vehicle with emergency lights in operation.
6. Nothing contained herein is intended to grant to any member of a volunteer fire company, a volunteer first aid or rescue squad or a volunteer Office of Emergency Management any privileges or exemptions denied to the drivers of other vehicles, and such members operating emergency warning lights shall drive with due regard for the safety of all persons and shall obey all the traffic laws of this State including R.S.39:4-81, provided, however, that the drivers of non-emergency vehicles upon any highway shall yield the right of way to the vehicle of any member of a volunteer fire company, a volunteer first aid or rescue squad or a volunteer Office of Emergency Management operating emergency warning lights in the same manner as is provided for authorized emergency vehicles pursuant to R.S.39:4-92.
L.1977,c.223,s.6; amended 2005, c.34, s.4; 2005, c.218, s.5.
It is impossible for a Volunteer Department to have an engine respond within 5 minutes of a call, unless their volunteers are at their station, you are the one who is misinformed.
3) We are not in upstate NY smart one. 4 miles? Like I said before red emergency lights move traffic well. In a town like Ridgewood, if they had a volunteer FD you would see a maximum increase of time by no more then 10 min at the most.
MY COMMENTS: Using your example of THE RIDGEWOOD FIRE DEPARTMENT there are many locations where the distance from their stations to locations in the village is over 3 miles. The only way your department could possibly have an engine responding within 5 minutes is if you and your fellow volunteers violate the law and place other drivers on the road in danger.
I believe Ridgewood does have volunteer firefighters and I suspect if you were a local volunteer firefighter and an ex-chief you would know that, which leads me to believe you are not what you claim to be.
Your Friendly Village Idiot
No name calling done here…….
>To our friendly village idiot. Please let me also Inform you with ACCURATE information. I along with my 35 year brother also have been envolved in the emergency services for well over 15 years. So yes, In fact I know very much about it all. I honesly think the 35 year veteran put you to shame with your remarks about the times. You are wrong just face the facts. Take Midland Park, Waldwick, and Glen Rock. What are the towns a mile by a mile big? Where are you getting 5 miles from? To top it all off since you THINK you are so smart with all of your times and think you know them so well, I now challange you as to where you got your times from? Besides you doing your math problems in your head. I must say I agree with you though in stating that “One is not necessarily better then the other” Like I said before they all have the same training. As far as your opion about paid or volunteer firefights. You also are entitled to your opion, But let me ask you this, Would you get out of bed at 3 am and not be paid to do so?
You should look into your laws a little better though. Like he said before NO one at anytime except for the mail man can run a red light. It is violation of NJ state law not to yield to a blue emergency light. As far as knowing where the hydrants are. Well if you ask me the chief should in fact know where the hydrants are and if it slips his mind he should be the first one on scene to give orders to the responding trucks. No offense Village Idiot but if you have that much free time on your hands to look up all kind of laws you really should start looking for a hobby. Hopefully PJ will stop posting the non-sense you have to say.
Again no name calling here either
As far as the 35 year veteran and chief. 4 words for you. Thank You and God Bless
>The Ridgewood Fire Department dislikes volunteerism. It gives them competition. So dont say the V word around them.
A few years ago I and a neighbor of mine wanted to join Volunteer Fire Department. This was in 2001 after 9/11. Working in NYC i wanted to do my part to help the public. I asked someone who used to be on the volunteer fd to see his view on what it was like.
He told me that some of the career guys dislike the volunteers and give them hell whenever they are around.
I asked them how often they went out on calls. He stated that they rarely do anything and that they only get called when the career guys get overwhelmed.
He stated that the amount of disrespect the volunteers get wasnt worth the time he had spent training.
I and my neighbor decided to join another towns FD and are happy with it.
If the volunteers got more respect and a HQ of their own, i would join and so would other people i would think.
Just my 2 cents.
>To the Volunteer and his brother who posted above….
Thanks for your comments. Your volunteer service is appreciated. You cited towns such as Midland Park, Waldwick and Glen Rock as being less than a mile big, which may be true, but not all towns are of that size. Take Paramus, Mahwah, Franklin Lakes to name a few. I respectfully disagree with you that 5 miles is unreasonable. If a Volunteer lives in Paramus and works in Paramus his home may very well be close to his fire station but he may work on the other side of town, which could easily be five miles away. We haven’t even considered or discussed the Volunteer Firefighters who work outside of their town in this discussion.
You stated “I now challange you as to where you got your times from.”
It’s a simple calculation. All you need to know is the distance traveled at an average speed of 30 miles per hour – at 30 MPH it would take 2 minutes to travel 1 mile. No magic here!
You implied that I said someone could run a red light.
YOUR QUOTE: You should look into your laws a little better though. Like he said before NO one at anytime except for the mail man can run a red light.
I challenge you to find anywhere where I said that someone could run a red light!
Regarding my posting on here and my free time, what I do and how I spend my free time is my decision. It would appear that you would like to have my opinions silenced. I am sorry if my statements are upsetting to you and maybe others. But the facts I have presented have not been successfully disputed yet. It’s obvious the reason you would like to have me silenced is you don’t want to face the fact that Career Firefighters can and do respond to alarms faster than volunteers. That is a fact. However, that fact doesn’t diminish the value of a volunteer fire department.
Your Friendly Village Idiot
>Quite the interesting chatter here. I would challenge all involved to quit the math and do the research. All town FDs keep response time information.
The issue shouldn’t be between career and volunteer. There are circumstances in which career departments don’t have optimal response times because they are out drilling or on inspections. On the flip side, one of the benefits of volunteering is the comraderie at the firehouse which means there is manpower in a volunteer house very frequently.
In addition, there should be no doubt as to the dedication of any firefighter. It takes a special sort of person to be inside a burning building with just a flame retardant suit and a 2 1/2 hose to protect you. Fire can kill you whether you are paid or volunteer.
As for Rwd Fire “taking over” EMS, that is a discussion that has been had and discarded several times. You don’t want to open that can of worms again.
>It is incredible to see all this garbage thrown around after a simple rear end motor vehicle accident with one minor injury.
>In case you guys missed me proving this person wrong the first time, ill do it again, this is tiring. I quoted the idiots writing, i know its long, but its the only way to gid rid of this troll.
“Wow Mr. 35 Year Volunteer Firefighter, you really intimidated me with your name-calling. It adds so much creditability to your argument!”
I say what you are; you’re a misinformed idiot who knows nothing about public safety, read above, and no ones on your side. Oh look at that, I called you another name. I want to know what you do for a living; I bet you’re the lowest on the totem pole so you vent all your anger here.
“MY COMMENTS: You must be kidding when you say “it isn’t recommended to go over 10 mph of the speed limit” The use of RED LIGHTS does not give anyone the right to violate ANY traffic laws including the speed limit under NJ title 39. Yes, drivers should, but do not always yield to an Emergency Vehicle. However, even if there were NO cars on the road all Emergency Vehicles are not permitted to exceed the posted speed limit and MUST stop at stoplights and stop signs. Using an AVERAGE speed of 30 miles per hour is not unreasonable and because you haven’t given any evidence that 30 MPH is wrong my statement stands! I suspect that you regularly violate the speed limit, and why not you are a Volunteer Fireman and you have RED LIGHTS!”
One day you will eat your own idiotic words. Sooner or later your going to need to call 911 for something, and god forbid if its serious like a loved one choking or not breathing or even your house on fire. Would you want the emergency personal stopping at red lights? Going 25mph when you might have seconds to save life or property? I think not. I might not have hard evidence; I got something better, its called logic.
“MY COMMENTS: It’s obvious you have a deficiency in measuring distances! Even in the smallest of towns it can be 3 miles to a fire station. Take the Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus for example. The Fire Department is located on Sheridan Avenue. If a Volunteer Firefighter lives on Dearhill Drive in Ho-Ho-Kus the distance he would have to travel to get to the Firehouse would be 2.6 miles and it would take him at least 5 minutes to travel this distance. Having BLUE lights on your car does not give you the RIGHT OF WAY in New Jersey. I suggest that you read NJ TITLE 39, which states:
39:3-54.12 Rights of motor vehicle with emergency lights in operation.”
Ok here you are totally wrong. Did you really read title 39? Look here http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/mcs/svbs_12-03/pt1_a.pdf
Look for N.J.S.A. 39:3-54.12
What this means: Under New Jersey State Law, drivers of non-emergency vehicles shall yield the right of way to the vehicle of any member of a volunteer fire company or a volunteer first aid squad or rescue squad displaying emergency warning lights as in the same manner as authorized emergency vehicles. Where is your link?
“6. Nothing contained herein is intended to grant to any member of a volunteer fire company, a volunteer first aid or rescue squad or a volunteer Office of Emergency Management any privileges or exemptions denied to the drivers of other vehicles, and such members operating emergency warning lights shall drive with due regard for the safety of all persons and shall obey all the traffic laws of this State including R.S.39:4-81, provided, however, that the drivers of non-emergency vehicles upon any highway shall yield the right of way to the vehicle of any member of a volunteer fire company, a volunteer first aid or rescue squad or a volunteer Office of Emergency Management operating emergency warning lights in the same manner as is provided for authorized emergency vehicles pursuant to R.S.39:4-92.”
I agree all emergency personal are not above the law. However they all have the right of way as as stated above. Here is another link to support my argument. https://www.nj.gov/cgi-bin/governor/njnewsline/view_article.pl?id=2705 However realistically, I would doubt that the FD or Ambulance would go to 25mph to a CPR call or a working fire. They would go the safest speed to both protect other drivers and get to scene as soon as possible.
Note: My links are from the state.
“It is impossible for a Volunteer Department to have an engine respond within 5 minutes of a call, unless their volunteers are at their station, you are the one who is misinformed.”
Actually a lot of times they are, let’s remember I have been in the field for 35 years, probably longer then you have been alive by the sound of things. Like I stated before Officers are full-time, that means if the call is BS then there is no need to roll the engine. So manpower is not wasted. AKA more efficient. It also allows for less emergency traffic on the road. Unlike the career FD’s where all apparatus is on the road at most times, putting more harm to the public, using your argument.
“MY COMMENTS: Using your example of THE RIDGEWOOD FIRE DEPARTMENT there are many locations where the distance from their stations to locations in the village is over 3 miles. The only way your department could possibly have an engine responding within 5 minutes is if you and your fellow volunteers violate the law and place other drivers on the road in danger.”
Like I stated 5 times before, officers arrive first to see what they need. An engine, ladder, rescue ETC. rolls within 10min pretty much 90% of the time only if they are needed. They respond with caution if something is minor: NO lights. Or with lights if an emergency situation. They respond obeying the law, however here comes logic…They need to get to the scene as quickly and as safely as possible. I don’t ever recall a cop pulling over another cop for going faster then the speed limit, which they do all the time for serious emergencies. LOGIC LOGIC LOGIC, get some.
Some harsh facts: would you want someone or something you have die or be destroyed because they obeyed the traffic laws and stopped at lights and waited till green. Or went 25mph? I think not, or you might know your thinking.
“I believe Ridgewood does have volunteer firefighters and I suspect if you were a local volunteer firefighter and an ex-chief you would know that, which leads me to believe you are not what you claim to be.”
Ill pretend you didn’t write that, I know you didn’t mean it. Oh, and way not to answer all of my responses. I see you like to answer only the ones you think you have the answer to. It doesn’t matter as it seems that you’re not fooling anyone, pretty much everyone is against you here. I read other topics too you know.
Some final advice for you… Go back to High School, learn reasonable logic. I bet you where the kind of guy that got the crap beaten out of him in High School for being a jackass. I know your trying very hard to be smart, but you’re not fooling anyone.
You know nothing about NJ Laws. You know nothing about Public Safety. Time for you to go find another topic you troll.
In the words of Steam, Nah Nah Nah, Nah Nah Nah, Hey Hey Hey Goodbye
“No name calling done here…….”
Try and stop me, you’re a moron.
>Thank you for comments. It’s obvious you haven’t figured out that calling me names doesn’t bother me. Why is that …well it’s a case of mind over matter; I don’t mind because you don’t matter to me. It does, however, show your elementary mentality. Name-calling is something that most people leave behind in elementary school. Could it be you never graduated to high school….Hmmmm.
Your reply reveals your arrogance and holier-than-thou attitude. You know nothing about me, period. You demanded to know what I do for a living and in the same sentence you bet, and this is your quote “you’re the lowest on the totem pole so you vent all your anger here. The fact is I have not vented any anger at anyone in anyway. Can you make that statement? I think not! I have just stated facts, which clearly have angered you.
You stated:
“One day you will eat your own idiotic words. Sooner or later your going to need to call 911 for something, and god forbid if its serious like a loved one choking or not breathing or even your house on fire. Would you want the emergency personal stopping at red lights? Going 25mph when you might have seconds to save life or property? I think not. I might not have hard evidence; I got something better, its called logic.”
I hope you are not a Firefighter in my community and I hope that you never have a chance to drive any emergency vehicles. To specifically answer your questions, yes I would want the driver of an emergency vehicle to come to a full stop at a stoplight or stop sign, check to make sure that it is safe to precede and then continue on their way to the location of the call. Yes, I would expect the driver to drive as quickly as possible within reasonable limits of his abilities and with care for the other drivers and children in the neighborhoods but not drive with the attitude that I have the right of way so I can drive at any speed I want and not obey any traffic laws.
The fact that cannot be disputed is that when firefighters are at a fire station they can respond quicker than if they are at work or at home! Career Firefighters are on duty 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Volunteer Firefighters may spend time at their fire station but unless they are there 24 hours a day 7 days a week they will not be able to have the same response time of a career fire department. You just refuse to acknowledge that fact!
Given the choice of you driving with the attitude you apparently have and having my house burn down, I would rather have my house burn than have you kill someone driving recklessly trying to be a hero. My home and its contents are insured and replaceable, the person you may kill is not replaceable!
Thank you for your advise about me going back to high school. I take it as a complement that you believe I graduated from high school. I would extend the same courtesy to you but I would rather not lie to you. I see you posted your comments at 4:54 AM. I hope all of this has not caused you to lose any sleep……
Your Friendly Village Idiot
>wow,! this all above is quite funny. Calm down all of you!
>Hey Chief, Thanks for once again making this guy look like a dope. I could not agree with you more and hats off to you sir. As for the village idiot. The towns you related your comment to is too far off. Franklin lakes is a mile big and towns like paramus and mahwah have their fire houses spread out though town, Not a block away from eachother like our town does. Therefor making everything much closer. Just goes back to what the chief said. LOGIC LOGIC LOGIC. Most of all lets be honest with outselves. We can all sit here and crab about what goes on in town. But do you really think anything will get done about it? Get Rid of Shagin and Harlow and we will be set!