The Department’s Board of Instruction will be holding a multi-station drill in the truck room at 103 Maple Ave. this Sunday, starting at 9:30 am.  Among the topics to be presented are the drag system built into our new bunker gear, and foam applications.  I apologize for the late notice, but I only learned about [...]

Posted on November 7th, 2007 by Chris Merlo
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I hope everybody remembered to set their clocks back an hour last night/this morning.  (If you showed up at the firehouse expecting a crowd, and the crowd didn’t come for an hour, that’s why.) Also, I hope you remembered to check your smoke alarm batteries when you changed the clocks.  Maybe you can remind someone [...]

Posted on November 4th, 2007 by Chris Merlo
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Due to the inclement weather on Thursday, our Department Operations session at the Nassau County Fire Service Academy was canceled. The course has been rescheduled for the week following what was to be our last week. So, Department Ops will now take place on these four Thursdays: 10/18, 10/25, 11/1, and 11/8. All members with [...]

Posted on October 14th, 2007 by Chris Merlo
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Now that we have installed smooth-bore nozzles on all of our pre-connected handlines — except for the front trash line — we took advantage of the nice weather Thursday night to get some guys some time with these new nozzles. We also determined the optimal pressure for each line, and we have re-marked the appropriate [...]

Posted on July 14th, 2007 by Chris Merlo
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