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8/20/07- Many of Suffolk's FOOLS were seen with their Departments at the State parade hosted by Selden. A nice job was done and a good time was had by all.

8/18/07 - It can happen here! Earlier this week during an evening rush hour, a FD was dispatched for an MVA/Overturn with entrapment on eastbound Sunrise Highway. A 1^st Chief (Assistant) arrived on scene within 5 minutes. During his response he overheard PD units on scene requesting Emergency Services for a victim trapped within the overturned vehicle. Upon arrival the Chief observed a vehicle overturned in the right lane of a two lane highway partially obstructing the left lane of traffic and leaking fluids into the left lane. The Chief positioned his vehicle in the left lane to diverting traffic to the left shoulder of the median. EMS was set up on the right shoulder and a rescue truck was set up in front of the Chiefs vehicle to further protect members operating in both lanes. Prior to the Chiefs arrival, PD units on scene had only the right lane closed and traffic was allowed to proceed in the left lane. The Chief of Department arrived on scene, positioned to the S/E side of the incident, and assumed Command. The Asst.Chief became Operations Chief.

During the operation, he was approached by a SCPD Highway Patrol Sgt who requested that he have apparatus moved to reopen the left lane to traffic. The Chief explained that traffic was free to move on the left hand shoulder at a reduced rate of speed but he felt that opening the left lane would present a safety hazard. The Sgt persisted his priority was to keep traffic flowing. The Asst. Chief again refused stating that his priority was the safety of personnel. At this point the Sgt returned to his vehicle only to once again approach the Asst. Chief requesting his name, rank and date of birth. The Chief provided the requested information and the Sgt returned again to his patrol car.

After operations were terminated, about 18 minutes after the first fire vehicle arrived; Asst. Chief left the scene in route back to the fire station to complete the necessary reports. While eastbound on Sunrise Highway a police vehicle rapidly approaching from behind with its emergency warning lights on and sounding its siren. He pulled to the side of the road with the police vehicle behind him. The Highway Patrol Sgt from the previous incident walked up to his vehicle and requested his driver’s license to which he complied. The officer went to his patrol car and after a few minutes returned with a summons for violating section 1102 of the New York State Vehicle and Traffic Law, “Failure to comply with the lawful order of a police officer”.

It is not our plan to condemn the SCPD. 99%of the officers give us a great deal of support. We feel this incident was caused by one Sgt making a bad decision. We want this message to get out to the fire service community so that we can ensure that in the future fire officers can do what’s right to protect their people without outside interference. Our concern is the disregard for the safety of personnel operating at the incident scene in order to 'keep traffic moving'. Too many Police officers and firefighters have been injured and killed too many times while operating on roadways. We need to protect each other in these situations.

Hopefully, this matter can be resolved if not, this volunteer fire chief will now have to take time from his job to go to court and fight this ticket. Let's clear this up so the next time one of us is looking out for his guys (& the police) we don't have an incident like this again.

8/10/07- Watch this Video containing the radio transmissions of a Houston F.D. Captain transmitting a mayday. (Click on the video at the web page, it's approx. 20 minutes)

6/30/07 Anyone with an announcement or training article/topic please send it in to the president so they can be put up on or linked to the training page.

6/30/07: The Annual Convention was a rousing success and several items of interest were covered, they will be discussed at the next meeting in September at Farmingville's main firehouse. Kudos to the Jersey FOOLS on a spectacular convention- one that will be the standard for a long time to come.

The educational seminar was outstanding and parts may be posted to our training pages if we receive permission.

5/20/07: As forwarded to us by "the secret list" a slideshow of the Waterbury Ct. accident between two rigs responding.

Please remind your members that we accepting applications for the Terry Farrell firefighters fund. they can be downloaded at www.terryfarrellfund.org. I am including some of the recent stuff and happening that we have not posted on the web yet.

We just finished a great fundraiser for the Buffalo firefighters in Buffalo.

any questions you can always reach via terryfund@verizon.net or my cell XXX-XXX-XXXX (if you need it contact the president). I am leaving for California 5/22/07 to accept the donation of a 1962 pumper to be used by the Fund at tournaments and parades etc.

Brian Farrell

Check it out, they are 'for the brothers'

4/11/07: Here's a game to keep you occupied at work when the boss isn't looking:

We send our condolences to the brothers and families of all the lost brothers from Charleston S.C. and FDNY E-229/L-146.

6/30/07: Greetings all. After a server change and some issues, we're back on line and wil be updating in the upcoming days. Anyone with an announcement or training article/topic please send it in to be considered.

The educational seminar was outstanding and parts may be posted to our training pages if we receive permission.

5/20/07: As forwarded to us by "the secret list" a slideshow of the Waterbury Ct. accident between two rigs responding.

We just finished a great fundraiser for the Buffalo firefighters in Buffalo.

Brian Farrell

Check it out, they are 'for the brothers'

5/10/07: Sorry for the lax updates, it's been a busy month. The June Meeting is confirmed for Friday June 1st at the Brookhaven Volunteer Firefighter's Museum at Fireman's Park in Ridge. I've heard from a few western Suffolk members about most of the meetings being centered in Brookhaven town. We are always looking for meeting places so if someone's department would be willing to host a meeting contact the executive board. We have no problem moving the meetings around the county so everyone can attend.

Also any new training ideas forward to the president so they can be put up on or linked to the training page.

Don't forget to buy Mother's Day presents. We get in enough trouble on our own.

4/11/07: Here's a game to keep you occupied at work when the boss isn't looking:

4/1/07:Birthday wishes go out to our 'sister' organization over in Nassau County- Nassau FOOLS celebrates it's 2nd today.

Elections of officers is on the bill, we wish them luck on the new board and will continue to work with them and attend when possible

3/31/07: Anyone going to the FDIC contact the El Presidente, the Vice President or trustee K. Caron and we will get together out in Indy. As always we will be supporting the Indy Metro FOOLS on the Rally in the Alley for the Peoples Burn Center. See WWW.FOOLSINTERNATIONAL.com for details.

3/12/07: Centereach is hosting a St. Baldrick's day celebration at their firehouse on this coming Thursday 3/15/07 at 6PM. If you can spare a few bucks we've got some brothers goin' bald for a good cause:

2/17/07: Meeting info update. Suffolk FOOLS has been asked by the Peoples burn center to screen and evaluate an advance copy of "To Hell and Back-Part 2" . It's a continuation of the acclaimed video "To Hell and Back" that was distributed to firehouses last year by the People's Burn Center. It stresses situational awareness for firefighters by going through six scenarios highlighting situations we may find ourselves in
This new segment runs about 40 minutes of video with a comments form to be filled out so they can do final edits prior to releasing it to F.D.'s at the FDIC in April. We will do this instead of a short presentation from the boys of CeMo, but they have politely accepted to do a presentation for the June, 07 meeting (well you guys know now)

Help us to make this presentation better, for all of us.

The BEACH PARTY!!!! The Westhampton Beach F.D. proudly presents: Chief Billy Goldfeder

Saturday, February 17th 9AM-3:30 PM $25.00 bucks per person included snacks & lunch

1/19/07: Check out this Web Page: Vententersearch.com It's got amazing coverage.

1/12/07: A brief message from our Brother Rob "Squid" Wilson (who gave an awesome presentation on the Suffolk Burn Center at the December Meeting) Let's help him (& childhood cancer research a boost!!!)

12/29/06: Next Nassau County Fools Meeting; Friday 1/26/07 at East Meadow F.D. Station 2 @ 7 pm. All Suffolk Members are welcome to attend. If you want to carpool email the president as I'm planning on attending to say 'hi' to the boys from the west. Nassau's web page should be up & running again by 1/1/07 (still not up as of 1/5/07).

12/21/06: A new photo page has been installed, anyone with training pictures, pictures of members, or anything that would look good up there, please email to the web master.

12/20/06: A power point from a brother in New Jersey regarding gusset less trusses has been put up.

12/19/06: Training page has been updated with a few Power points, a few videos and a few articles. Check them out and let me know what else you'd like to see up there.

12/18/06: Links to the 2 power point presentations have been fixed. Save them from below or from the training page.

12/17/06: J. McDermott has been kind enough to let us put up his Power Point Presentation from the December Meeting for members to download and use within your Departments for training. As Billy G. says "Just give credit to where it came from, if not we'll find out". We've put it up on the training page, Right click & save it to your computer, it's a keeper. We're still gonna make you give it again Chief.

12/15/06: Suffolk FOOLS gets a My Space Group for those that may be interested.

12/15/06: Go to the training page for firehouse magazine's 30 training subjects and a PDF link

12/12/06: September meeting at Farmingviile confirmed (9/7/06). Awaiting museum approval and still looking for a December host and/or a backup in case the Museum doesn't pan out.

12/10/06: Next Meeting is 3/2/06 at Center Moriches F.D. Headquarters. Directions will be linked in the near future. Anyone wishing to do a 15 minute presentation please email the president. Anyone is welcome ( & encouraged) to present a topic.

12/10/06: December 7,2007 Meeting location still up for grabs, if your Department can host us, please contact an E-Board member.

12/2/06: A huge thanks to the Centereach F.D. for hosting the December meeting the hospitality was awesome. The two presentations: Fire Fighter Survival 2007 by J. McDermott & The Suffolk County Burn Center presentation by R. Wilson were amazing. I hope we can get them to reprise them for the benefit of others at some future meeting. The tour of the Departments training facility was icing on the cake. I hope you guys saved Xmas for Macy*s last night. Stay safe and we'll hopefully see you all at Center Moriches on March 2nd.

Stan was reelected V.P. and J. Nizza will continue on as sec./Treasurer. Congrats or sorry.

We'll see who's going to the FDIC at the March meeting and coordinate meeting up out there.

11/7/06:This is most of the Chicago convention crew (including Suffolk's Pres. & V.P.)

What kind of photographer cuts off the top of the Sears tower in a picture like this one?

Next years convention will be held in Seaside Heights N.J. from June 21st to 24th.

At the December meeting we will have elections for the offices of Vice President and Secretary/Treasurer. If anyone is interested please contact the President.

10/16/06- If you have not received your membership card please email the president and we will look into the matter.

10/14/06- All the link buttons have been activated, however a few still need work and will be up and running soon...hopefully. Anyone with photos, training announcements, fundraisers or general information please email them to: FFDNappi at optonline.net

10/13/06-Click on the Red "Get Application" button above this section and download the new application form to apply for membership. You can mail in the application and fee or bring it to the next meeting, which is:

10/07/06- The next meeting: Friday December 1st, 8 P.M. at the Centereach Firehouse, located on S. Washington Avenue . A member of Centereach will give a presentation on the Suffolk County Burn Center at Stony Brook University Hospital. All are welcome.

10/06/06- At the September meeting we have decided to have meetings quarterly in the months of March, June, September and December. If interested in hosting a meeting please contact the president or vice president.

10/6/06- All at Suffolk FOOLS wish Secretary/Treasurer Jim Nizza good luck on his nuptials on this date.

A Suffolk FOOLS meeting was held on Friday October 6th, at 8 P.M. at the East Quogue Firehouse.

9/19/06- As a goodwill gesture to the Jersey FOOLS, Suffolk FOOLS President Rich Nappi went to RiRa Irish Pub in Atlantic City to participate in a '1/2 way to St. Baldrick's Day' fundraiser for childhood cancer. A great time was had by all and over $12,000 was raised for the St. Baldrick's foundation. A great time was had by all.