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I have been using a sealing iron (same tool used to apply any brand of coating. eg; monokote) http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...&I=LXB364&P=ML The laminate doesn't need a lot of heat to activate the adhesive, so just heat & apply pressure avoiding wrinkles. Cheers Brad. |
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Hi Brad,
Thanks for the fast response. I have one of those irons in the ad., what sort of temperature are you using with it ( I don't have anything to practice on )and are you placing the laminate over the decals. Are you wrapping the film around the leading edge or using two pieces top and bottom. I don't want to damage the wing or risk the laminate lifting in flight obviously. I and my club love the sound of the fan, do you know if fitting a coffee cup thrust tube alters it at all. Thanks Alan |
I haven't done the thrust tube mod Alan, but early in the thread people reported that it reduced the sound a bit.
As for the iron, setting is around 130 deg C. The V-70 lands on its wings, so I went with laminating over decals to protect them. It just means you wont be able to change the design / colour after its done. Check out page 99 if you want to see laminate over decals. Due to the sheet size I'm using (A3), It required overlapping the laminate to cover the full surface. (first top surface then underside) Edges have a small overlap as well, keep this to a minimum on curved sections, ie wing tips, this should help with the wrinkles. Start buy applying pressure with the iron in the middle of a flat surface of the wing, ironing towards the edges with a bit of tension on the film so it doesn't wrinkle. Just keep in mind, 2D curves are quite easy to apply the film to, its the 3D sections where wrinkles will form. Hope that helps. |
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Please excuse my ignorance in any of this but I'm attempting to do something that I think will be both radical and awesome. I'm attempting to fuse two V70's together while making significant modifications to create a high altitude drone. The main thing I want to add is a systems canopy where I can add various electronics to perform a different array of experiments, including HD video, telemetry, cosmic radiation detection and various other fun stuff. This canopy would sit in the middle.
In addition to adding the different experiments to the systems canopy I will also be using it to add extra batteries to power the custom Zephyr. Not to worry after the prototype is build I will take painstaking care to make sure it's extremely balanced and not overloaded. However I need help/advise with the following. 1. What is the maximum weight load that a normal Zephyr can lift at 50% - 70% throttle? (example 4 lbs). 2. What is the average flight time using a 3300mah 3S 65~130C Lipo? 3. If there was room, such as in my systems canopy and adding the needed batteries, is it ever possible to get more than 2 hours of continues flight time? This goes back to question # 1 as far as weight. Please see my attached concept mock up to get an idea of what I'm attempting. Please excuse it's crudeness. Thank you for any and all help. |
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You've picked the wrong plane for your drone project. The V70 doesn't have what you might call a "high lift" wing. Secondly, EDFs like this are not efficient means of propulsion. They require a lot of power to do what a prop driven plane with a much smaller (and more fuel efficient) motor can do.
High altitude? What do you call high? A V70 will run full tilt on 3300 mahs for less than a few minutes. You won't get very high on that amount of time. And when you get up there, it's going to sink like a perforated manhole cover. It's not really a very good glider. Where a prop driven glider can maintain altitude on very little power consumption, a V70 will need considerable throttle and power to stay up there. I flew my X8 wing this morning to 3330 feet on 1/2 of the safe power drain of 6600 mah. It took over 5 minutes to get up there and just power off gliding, it took almost 15 minutes to come back down. Had I caught the right wind and thermals, it could have stayed up for hours with minimal power usage. And the X8 will carry a huge payload (7' wingspan). X8's have been known to get up to several thousands of feet and loiter for a couple of hours on 20,000 mah. The V70 wouldn't have a prayer trying to duplicate this kind of performance. It can barely carry its own weight, let alone enough batteries to hang up there for many minutes. Doubling the fans while keeping those thin, skinny wings won't even double your carrying capacity or flying time. The cool factor will most certainly be there, but it won't like do what you want it to. |
You would be better off with a frame like a bixler 2 for this sort of project. If you want to reach high altitudes you're going to need to consider extending the motor mount, or other way to facilitate an 8x4 prop. Currently the frame will facilitate a 7" prop. |
Getting 2 hours from a modified Bixler 2 is a far more achievable goal. To best achieve your aims, going for something with a much bigger wingspan would be advisable. |
I finally got my Zephyr in the post.
It feels nice and solid but I'm a bit annoyed by the fact it's a bit grubby (like someone with dirty hands built it) and the decals are all bubbly and wrinkly. I may have to strip most of the decals off. I'm not over keen on them anyway. I remember seeing one in the HK videos when they were developing it with no decals and it looked pretty cool. *edit: And the control rods are rusty. Feels very second hand to me. |
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Propagation of decentered elliptical Gaussian beams in apertured and nonsymmetrical optical systems
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A hard-edged elliptical aperture is described approximately by a tensor form, which can be expanded as a finite sum of complex Gaussian functions. An analytical propagation expression for a decentered elliptical Gaussian beam (DEGB) through an axially nonsymmetrical optical system with an elliptical aperture is derived by using vector integration. The approximate analytical results are compared with numerically integral ones, and it is shown that this method can significantly improve the efficiency of numerical calculation. Some numerical simulations are illustrated for the propagation properties of DEGBs through apertured and nonsymmetrical optical transforming systems.
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A temperance movement is a social movement urging reduced or prohibited use of alcoholic beverages. Temperance movements typically criticize excessive alcohol use, promote complete abstinence (teetotalism), or pressure the government to enact anti-alcohol legislation or complete prohibition of alcohol.
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Richard SweeneyProduct Designer (1984–)Designers in Residence – Design Museum Exhibition 12 September – 14 October 2007 Richard Sweeney's Folding Light series blurs the boundaries of design, art and craft. Combining artisan techniques with complex problem solving skills, Sweeney creates lighting designs based on unique sculptural forms. Sweeney's designs are investigations into materials, structure and pattern. Inspired by complex geometries and patterns of growth in nature, Sweeney uses simple materials to explore both the handmade and machine manufactured multiple. Sweeney is interested in the intrinsic properties of the medium he is using — "the objects I create have an underlying simplicity of construction that betrays their complex appearance, which is further emphasised by the use of everyday materials, such as paper.�? Sweeney produces highly detailed drawings and scale models to explore new forms. He also experiments with computer aided design. 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I think one of the most important projects I undertook was one at Art School, whereby I explored the use of tension as a means to create form. I experimented with string, ropes, elastic bands and all sorts, creating a very large body of experimental works which culminated in the formation of two, large-scale sculptures in laminated wood, about two metres in length. They were held together entirely with string, a chord between each end constraining the pieces into an arch like a taught bow (cutting this chord would result in something of an explosion!). This project really defines my experimental process – letting the material and process define the outcome. Q. How have your objectives evolved since graduating? A. My objectives haven't really changed, I just want to keep trying new things and see what's possible. I like to learn new skills, and I consider this an important part of the creative process. Q. Who or what inspires your work? A. As I have mentioned, architecture is a great inspiration to me, but aside from the man-made, I am also inspired by natural forms. It is not so much the organic shapes, but the means by which they are generated that interests me. It makes great sense to borrow from elements from biological structures, as these forms demonstrate the pinnacle of material, structural and functional efficiency. Q. How important is the story behind the work? A. Do objects exist that have no story behind their conception? I cannot see how work can exist without a story, thus I would consider it very important indeed. Q. Where do you see your work going in the future? A. I honestly couldn't say. If I truly knew where it was going, I think it would defeat the point. Q. How did your design for the Designers in Residence develop? A. The pieces developed from my work in paper, which combine curved folding with regular geometric solids such as the dodecahedron. 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Hahah that one is, and is not my fault! I hated having just one city that was stored in the rr.ini, and having to use either notepad or RRConfig to change it. So, I set out and created the dynamic code for the buttons, and the OSK to enter the city names. At the time this was specific to the DFX skin, and thus the settings were saved in the DFX's skin.ini.
Over time, I guess other skinners have copied that code, and now it should be moved to the rr.ini.
Look out for the next version that when you enter a city name, you are presented with a list of matches to choose from (I got sick of typing Miami and RR setting the weather for Miami, Missouri!) This does not use an .ini setting, so no worries there hahah!


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The Iowa Epilepsy Treatment and Education Task Force Initiative is a product of a House File 322, an act relating to the creation of a task force concerning drug product selection relative to antiepileptic drugs for the treatment of epileptic seizures and including effective date provisions.
The legislative intent and charge to the Task Force is outlined in House File 322.
The legislation charged the Iowa Department of Public Health with the forming of the task force consisting of patients, physicians, and pharmacists within sixty days of the effective date of the Act. The task force shall provide education and information and assess the impact on people with epilepsy of generically equivalent drug product selection of antiepileptic drugs for the treatment of epileptic seizures.
According to the legislation, the task force membership consists of the following members, appointed by the specified organizations:
The Iowa Department of Public Health contracts with the Epilepsy Foundation of North Central Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska for facilitation of the task force.
Contact Information:
Victor Verni, Executive DirectorEpilepsy Foundation of North/Central Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska321 W. State Street, Suite 208Rockford, IL 61101Phone: (815) 964-2689; Toll free: (800) 221-2689
House File 322 requires the Epilepsy Education and Treatment Task Force to submit a report of its activities, findings, and any recommendations to the General Assembly by January 1, 2013.
The Epilepsy Education and Treatment Task Force shall be dissolved on January 1, 2013.
November 13, 2012 3:00-5:00pm in room 201 of the Lucas State Office Building


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How Bucktown Got Boutiqued
From zero boutiques to Marc by Marc Jacobs in three short decades
by Rebecca Little
Back in the day, immigrants—German and Scandinavian homeowners and Polish day laborers—transformed Wicker Park from uninhabitable scrub to a vibrant working-class neighborhood anchored by heavy industry. Marketed by savvy real-estate interests as two distinct areas in the 1970s, Wicker Park and adjacent Bucktown became havens for artists fleeing high rents. Skyrocketing gentrification has given the area its current mix of million-dollar homes, destination shopping, and trendy bars. But the makeover hasn't gone entirely unchallenged.
1970s |
The Old Wicker Park Committee, a neighborhood preservation group, forms to lobby for national and local historic designation. The area starts its slow redevelopment as artists take residence, a trend that began in the 1960s.
Late 1970s
Real-estate marketers begin referring to the area north of North Avenue as Bucktown, a name of murky origin, although residents in the area always considered Armitage Avenue to be the northern boundary of Wicker Park. The redefined neighborhood monikers trickle into common parlance.
Wicker Park receives national historic designation, which qualifies homeowners for low-interest loans and grants. Reinvestment begins in many of the area's historic mansions.
The art deco Northwest Tower Building at 1608 North Milwaukee Avenue sells for $110,000 and back taxes.
1980s |
Four blocks of Evergreen Street are designated Nelson Algren Avenue, commemorating the stretch where the writer lived and worked from 1959 to 1975. The Rainbo Club at 1150 North Damen Avenue was one of his haunts.
The Artful Dodger, a legendary tavern, opens.
Two real-estate developers buy the historic Flat Iron Arts Building at 1579 North Milwaukee Avenue and offer long-term leases to artists and nonprofit organizations for $1 a square foot per month.
Around the Coyote forms under the direction of Frenchman Jim Happy-Delpech; five years later, opponents of gentrification target the festival, which is criticized for helping make the area more attractive to yuppies.
The coffee house Urbus Orbis (1934 W. North Ave.) opens and soon becomes a hangout for artists and musicians. Real-estate companies market the neighborhood as "artist friendly."
1990s |
Residents begin rallying against gentrification, hoping to preserve the area's ethnic diversity.
The HotHouse, a popular venue for world music, opens in the Flat Iron Arts Building.
Manchester Lofts, formerly occupied by artists, are converted to loft condominiums, widely seen as the first domino in a long series of upscale turnovers.
According to the census data for West Town (which includes Wicker Park, Bucktown, and Humboldt Park), the majority of the area's 28,767 residents make less than $10,000 annually. Only about one percent earned more than $100,000 a year.
Northside Bar and Grill relocates from Lincoln Park and becomes the neighborhood's first destination eatery.
Wicker Park is granted landmark status by the Chicago City Council, 12 years after it received national designation.
Liz Phair's début album, Exile in Guyville, takes its title from her experiences in Wicker Park. Billboard magazine touts Phair, Smashing Pumpkins, and Urge Overkill in a cover story about Chicago's music scene, with the headline "Cutting Edge's New Capital."
The Lumpen Times, an antigentrification newspaper out of Logan Square, begins publishing and pamphleteering the neighborhood.
The long-standing graffiti on the exposed wall of Abco Building Supply—which read "Yuppies Out—The Natives Are Hostile"—is erased.
The Double Door, a rock music venue at the intersection of Milwaukee and Damen avenues, opens.
City Soles opens.
The Clock Tower Lofts, once a garment manufacturing center built in the early 1900s, is renovated into 113 condominiums, with an average price of $152,500.
The seminal Bucktown boutique Phoebe45 opens. It is later renamed P.45. Robin Richman and Pagoda Red also open stores.
The Busy Bee at 1546 North Damen Avenue, the neighborhood's most beloved diner, closes after 33 years.
Urbus Orbis closes.
Police bust 21 men—including leaders of the Maniac Latin Disciples gang—and charge them with controlling drug traffic in Bucktown and Wicker Park since 1992.
2000s |
High Fidelity, the Hollywood romantic comedy starring John Cusack, is set in Wicker Park, showcasing exterior scenes of Championship Vinyl shot at the corner of Milwaukee and Honore.
Median value of single-family homes in Bucktown and Wicker Park rises 198 percent since 1990, to $382,895.
Starbucks opens in the former Café Caffeina spot at the corner of Milwaukee, North, and Damen.
During the summer, MTV's The Real World begins filming in the former Urbus Orbis coffee shop space; rankled residents throw bricks through the windows.
Filter coffee shop opens at 1585 North Milwaukee Avenue, directly across the intersection from Starbucks. It is embraced by patrons as a rebuke to the growing corporate presence in the neighborhood.
The Artful Dodger closes.
Scoop NYC, a New York–based apparel boutique reviled as a carpetbagger by some locals, opens a 10,000-square-foot store on Milwaukee Avenue, across the street from the new Bucktown branch library.
The Wicker Park/ Bucktown Chamber of Commerce records 255 members, up from 55 members ten years earlier.
Marc by Marc Jacobs boutique signs a lease for a 4,000-square-foot storefront space on Damen Avenue.
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Imagine having to choose between paying rent or buying food for your children. This was the nightmare Tanesha faced before coming to Raleigh Rescue Mission. Her job didn't provide enough to make ends meet and Tanesha didn't know what to do. Read more about how this hardworking mom found hope at Raleigh Rescue Mission in this issue of the Opening Doors Newsletter.
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Firehouse Interview: FDNY Commissioner Thomas Von Essen
Photo courtsey of FDNY Thomas Von Essen |
As head of the 9,000-plus-member firefighters union, Von Essen completely revamped the organizational structure of the UFA and implemented a number of modernization programs. He was the driving force in the re-affiliation of New York City's firefighter Local 94, the largest firefighter's local in the world, with the International Association of Firefighters (IAFF), and is responsible for the restoration of the fifth firefighter to 61 of the city's busiest engine companies. Von Essen has also been chairman of the New York City Pension Fund and is a member of a number of national and international firefighting organizations. He holds a bachelor's degree in economics from St. Francis College and a master's degree in education from C.W. Post College.
The commissioner met recently at the FDNY's new headquarters in Brooklyn with Firehouse® Magazine Editor-in-Chief Harvey Eisner and Executive Editor Jeff Barrington.
Firehouse: You respond to all third alarms and special emergencies. Could you explain your presence at those scenes?
Von Essen: I think it's important. It makes me understand better what everybody's dealing with in the field, not just at the chief's level. I try to get inside, if I can, to see what's going on on the fire floor. And I do it to understand what everybody's dealing with as far as confusion inside, bunker gear, how hot it is, stretches, boots, the helmets, the hoods.
Do the troops like that?
I think most of the guys know that I really care about safety more than anything else.
There was a five-alarm fire at the Lincoln Square residential high-rise in Manhattan. Did you go upstairs there?
Sure. That's the other place that I think makes a tremendous difference, the fact that you've gone up, you've seen a hallway that's 80 feet long, you've seen paint and metal doorways buckle, four inches of plaster fall down so you know how hot it was. When the press asks you what happened up there, you can really describe to them in more accurate and better detail what the firefighters had to accomplish.
The FDNY has been awarded the use of Fort Totten by the U.S. Army. What will that do for the department and what functions will be moved there?
We look forward to having almost all of our training out there, a high-tech facility where we can do training for all types of occupancies, schools for EMS, fire and hazmat. We hope to have the quartermaster and everything else that we can out there.
I don't think we'll be able to break ground for at least three years because we have to finalize all the leases and then we have to draw plans, send out for specs and hire contractors. It's going to take a while.
But I want to get the construction started while this administration (under Mayor Rudolph Giuliani) is still around because it's been just unbelievably supportive of the department.
At one time, you estimated the training center would cost $100 million.
It's hard to put a price tag on it. That's a number that we've used as, we hope, an outside number, as the most it would be. We think it will be somewhere between $60 million and $100 million, depending on how extensive we get into technology.
Regarding new equipment, you're buying integrated PASS (personal alert safety system) devices for the firefighters?
This is a real personal project. Because I am so concerned about firefighter safety, I thought that if there's a little thing that we can do that's going to make a difference and maybe save one guy's life, let's do it. We raised about $750,000 from private sources on the outside through our Fire Safety Institute to equip every firefighter with an integrated PASS alarm.
The department is testing Nomex hoods, as well as the SmartCoat System. Could you comment on those?
The hoods have been slow in being utilized in the department, but we're no longer testing them - everybody's been issued a hood.
I think the department made a mistake several years ago by putting the word out that a wet hood was unsafe. We've recently done some new studies that show that whether you have a wet hood or a dry hood, you are still seven times better off wearing a hood. And that's the message we want to get to the guys. The burns we're getting are on ears and on the neck. We're never going to see burns disappear, but if the guys would just wear the hoods, it would make even a greater difference.
The SmartCoat is still out there as a pilot program (see Tools, Techniques & Innovations, September 1998).
What is the status of burn injuries in the department?
Serious burns, where we see people hospitalized, are down. I hate to use a number, but I think it's 90 percent. Burns with heavy grafts that keep a firefighter in the hospital for two months are almost nonexistent, thank goodness.
There's always a question about dual notification. The city came out with a plan to designate the police to be in charge of certain incidents and the fire department to be in charge of certain incidents. What is your feeling on the the departments working together and on dual notification?
It's much, much better than it ever was. Police Commissioner (Howard) Safir's relationship with the fire department and our ability to work together is at a greater level than it has ever been in the past. (Editor's note: Safir preceded Von Essen as fire commissioner.) We still run into times when ESU (police emergency service units) or fire rescue will be arguing whether or not someone is particularly in charge. Those situations are really at a minimum.
The firefighters and the police officers in the street are working very well together. We do get isolated incidents where personalities come into play, but the fact that the Office of Emergency Management from the mayor's office has made a big difference in trying to focus on who is really in charge of particular incidents. We're in much better shape than we ever were.
The Phoenix Fire Department and the FDNY have exchanged firefighters. Can you tell us how that program came about and how it benefits the departments?
It came about just from a casual conversation that (Phoenix Chief) Alan Brunacini and I were having. We were talking about things that we were both doing and I said, "Why don't we switch firefighters and see what happens?" And he immediately said, "That's great. Let's do it." We both checked with our lawyers - they said it would be OK, so we did it.
I picked a guy from an active company in Harlem who is a supporter of the department, an active supporter of the union and an honest, intelligent kid. He went out there, he came back, he wrote some reports, went to union meetings, told the guys what's true and what's not, what's so terrific in Phoenix, what's not so terrific. I think it was helpful as far as cutting down on some of the rumors that you always get in the field - rumors that things are this way here and that way there.
We're getting calls now from other cities that would like to participate. What's going to come from that? Let's say you get a chief who's interested in high-rise operations. I say send him. Let him come for a week, ride in Manhattan in the Ninth Battalion. Let him work days and nights or whatever, and then send him back. We can probably get more specific benefits from participation by people at a higher level, from the management side.
We've talked about exchanging experts in physical fitness or experts in other areas, particularly terrorism response, or in different areas where you can get somebody with a real skill. I think that's an area that we'll just grow in.
Fires and fire deaths in New York City are at a 38-year low for civilians. Is the department changing its priorities?
I can't say the priorities are changing. We've given a greater emphasis to something that we've been, I think, really weak in the past and that's preventing fires. We're committed to doing a better job of making sure that older people are aware of things that they should be. I can't think of a better $5 tool than a smoke detector. It's just amazing how important it is and how helpful it is, so we educate people on the significance of having batteries that work. I can't emphasize it enough.
The department's priorities have not changed, but we definitely are going to put a greater emphasis on trying to prevent fires than we ever did in the past.
Now that the EMS Bureau has been merged with FDNY, what has that meant to the citizens and also the FDNY's EMS employees? In particular, response time is always a critical factor.
Before the merger, EMS response time was nearly nine minutes for segment one, two and three, which are more serious problems. Since the merger, our response time for EMS is down to nearly seven, so there's almost a two-minute difference in just EMS' response time.
We have 209 fire engines that are carrying defibrillators with certified first responders on them. Their response times are around five minutes. If you combine the response time, we're getting somebody to you, either an EMT or a certified first responder, in around six minutes. You're either getting a fire engine at five or an EMS person or team at seven, so we're averaging around six minutes, which is an unbelievable improvement in response time for the person who really needs it.
The fire department, between EMS and fire, used the defibrillators 2,500 times last year. EMS used it 1,200 times or 1,300 times and the fire engines used it 1,200 times. That's phenomenal, the ability for us now to be able to give 400 people an opportunity to live that didn't have it before. We're going to continue to work to drive that response time down even further. Our long-term goal is to get advanced life support to people who really need it in a more effective fashion.
We need to figure out a way to not send so many resources to people who have sprained fingers or who have cramps. These ailments might appear serious to them, but they aren't, and we're sending a fire engine or we're having two paramedics arrive. We've got to do a better job of getting advanced life support to people who really need it and I think that we're on the right track.
To the EMS employees, I think that we've done a better job of making them feel that they're part of a terrific department. There are critics who will say, "They're lost in the fire department," but I don't think that's the case. They're a terrific group of people. They're raising their standards, their level of expertise, their training, their motivation. And we've improved that. We're trying to give the people who are out there on the street on these ambulances the best people to work with and the best fire department they can work for.
Do you have additional plans for new apparatus? Last year, you put in several brushfire units and there was talk of buying some fireboats. Anything specific? Do you continue to buy new apparatus as you need it?
We're doing pretty well. All our engines that are coming in now are air conditioned. We put brand-new pumpers in service before the summer, air conditioned, which is important. We're changing the ambulances every seven years now. They were in service for 10 years when they were with EMS.
As for fireboats, we're in the process of putting specs out to get one 120-footer or 100-footer and two 70-footers built on the style of the Kane because we've been very happy with the Kane.
Are there plans to expand the FDNY's role in hazmat and terrorism response? Are you going to give companies some additional responsibilities?
We just decided that we're going to establish eight squads instead of the two that we have right now. We're going to spread them out throughout the city. We're going to make them backup hazmat units. We're going to make them a mobile medical strike for terrorism and all the other things that we need them for. They're also going to respond to all-hands and I think that we'll have eight more units of people that are really ready to mobilize when we have disasters of that type.
How did the FDNY expand into nighttime training and who is involved?
This is another thing that I couldn't understand - why we never trained at night. How you could have a job as dangerous as ours and have a facility where nothing is going on at night, but not use it? It was mind-boggling for me. We just implemented it and it's been terrific. We even have probies training at night.
We bring out a first-alarm assignment every night. We bring out a chief. We bring out three engines and two trucks. We set up a scenario where we have some captains that we've used that think it's great to get people motivated in these things and use them, rather than just forcing people to do it. They're motivated. They tell the guys "OK, pull up, you've got a fire and it's in a one-story commercial and you've got a report of somebody in the back room or in the basement," and they go through that fire. They have smoke and it's terrific. It's been great training for a lot of people who think they're really up on all their skills, but aren't.
We also set up a roof out there. One of the ladder companies will practice cutting holes in the roof. And we have smoke coming up there, so they can't see what they're doing. We try to have the same conditions as you would have in a fire and that's been very helpful also. We started another thing too - we do a search drill.
Please explain the probationary rotation program.
FDNY Photo Unit Von Essen, left, says he responds to all third alarms and special emergencies. "I try to get inside, if I can, to see what's going on on the fire floor. And I do it to understand what everybody's dealing with." |
It's the active companies that everybody wants to go to, but what's happening is that at the less active companies nobody's getting any experience at all, so I decided to make everybody get at least some (experience in busy companies). Some of the officers hate it because they're constantly getting new people, but that's the job. I think of the good bosses out there and everybody's job is to train.
Now you get a kid, he's there for a year and you lose him, but that's your job. You've maybe made him a better firefighter and you might have saved his life five years from now if he's working in a less active company that doesn't get the opportunity to train and practice as much as some units. Now he's got to remember something that he learned that year that he spent in a more active company. The fact that you've got three times as many people going through the more active companies is very positive for safety.
They go to three different types of companies. The idea is to go to A, B or C and it's determined by the amount of activity, the amount of fires, the building construction, the locations, everything else. They do a year in each. And then they go back to their first company. That's their permanent company.
The department has begun using a building at the Brooklyn Navy Yard for truck company search operations. What do they do?
When I became commissioner, I was bringing in battalion chiefs every day, five chiefs. I asked them, "What are the problems out there?" They would all tell me that there are no more vacant buildings, there's no place to go and practice.
So I said, "Well, let's find some buildings that aren't vacant or maybe they are vacant, but they're controlled va-cants." Somebody told me there are some buildings over in the Navy Yard. We went over there. We asked them if we could use a building. They said we could. It's in great shape. It's vacant, but it's in good shape. We just couldn't use water. We couldn't start any fires. We couldn't destroy it, but it was perfect for doing search operations.
FDNY Photo Unit Von Essen, center, confers with chief officers at the scene of a fire. "We've been doing a lot of training for the chiefs…We're trying to give them as much training as we can." |
We closed some doors and ran some lines, and now we fill it up with smoke, make it dark, and we can clear the smoke out right away. We take the firefighters back through and they said, "See that? You thought that was a doorway, but it's an elevator shaft. If you had pushed, taken another step, you would have gone down four flights," that type of thing. It's been very helpful as far as safety.
In the last several years, special schools have been made available to rescue companies. Will that continue?
The rescue units in this department are just a fantastic group of really highly motivated, tremendously skilled firefighters and I intend to continue all the extra training that they get.
Many fire chiefs have retired recently, and the new chiefs have had extra training. Will you continue to provide that special training for the chiefs?
We've been doing a lot of training for the chiefs. We bring three or four of them down to headquarters every night for fire simulations, which is really making a difference in the field. We're trying to give them as much training as we can out of the Division Of Training.
We just had a tour of the new headquarters. We visited the TV studio, the "war room" and some other special areas. Any other specifics that make this place really impressive?
I think the medical office being here is a big plus for the guys. We got all new equipment, all new X-ray machines and we're going to have physical therapy here in the building. We have an orthopedist now almost every day. That means that a guy won't have to wait two weeks to see an orthopedist if he's got a ligament injury that, you know, you have to do something about right away - either start therapy right away or see an orthopedist right away, or get an operation. That, I think, is better service to the firefighters. The physical therapy is a big piece. The studio, the auditorium, the control center, the war room - that's pretty much the sexy stuff here in the new building.
Many of the city's firehouses date back to the 1800s. The department is renovating several houses. Are there plans to build any new stations or to move companies, for example, to other parts of a borough?
We have, first of all, renovations. We have a terrific program of doing design builds, where we take five or six firehouses, relocate the guys for a year and completely redo the building. That's like having a new firehouse. We've applied for more money from the city. It's about $40 million to do another 15 firehouses or so. I hope we get that. We don't have that resolved yet.
There's only one new firehouse in the works. That's 75 and 33 in the Bronx. That should be opened, I think, in a year and a half. They've finished the design. We're working on fine-tuning some changes, then they'll go out for bids and they'll start construction.
We attended the opening of the fire safety education center at the Fire Museum in Manhattan and you said you want to put one into each borough.
We haven't found the locations yet. But it is in the works and it will happen.
That's to teach young schoolchildren? Do you have a lot of schoolchildren coming through the center?
When I was in Indianapolis, I videotaped the one they have out there; I like the design even better than the one we did at the museum, but we were limited to the amount of space. We just filled the courtyard and did what we could. The one in Indianapolis is designed like a top floor of a firehouse so you now have a lot to work with. They made a courtyard and an outside telephone and I think that there's a lot you can do. And I think we'll be able to do that in each borough. We'll do one at Fort Totten. Kids can go out there and picnic and maybe sit by the water. It will be great. And we'll find some places here in Brooklyn and other places in Manhattan. I would hope that before I'm gone we get another five of them in operation.
You made a point that day about not only having the kids go through, but also older people. It goes back to what you said before about training people.
Big problem. For senior citizens we really have to do a better job. It's just different than it was when I was a kid. I mean, when I was a kid your mother was home. Society's different today. You don't have a young mother watching the kids. You've got maybe a 70-, 80-year-old person who's now watching grandchildren and everything else and you got to make them aware that you can't put aluminum in microwaves, you can't overload sockets and you can't forget about water on the stove. We just have to do a better job. We've been reaching out to a lot of senior citizen centers and doing a much better job than we ever did.
Tell us about your policies and procedures for newly promoted officers.
What I'm going to do is take the guys from the busy companies and when they get promoted, we're going to make them cover out in companies where there's less fire duty. Some people aren't happy about that, but I think that's a terrific way to share all these terrific guys who get promoted. And it's going to work.
That's going to take some time, but we'll see a difference as time goes by. They can cover in these slower areas for a couple of years and then they'll still have the same opportunity to get back to the other, more active areas, later on. And maybe hopefully some of them will want to stay out there. And that will begin to upgrade the safety in these less active areas.
How about lieutenant to captain? Do a lot of these newly promoted officers come to headquarters?
We have a captain's manager program which is really a terrific program - it's expensive - where we actually take 40 captains and don't send them out in the field right away. We keep them off the line. It's supposed to be for a year, but it's really not. Nobody's been spending more than six or seven or eight months off the line.
We teach them how to work computers. We teach them how to do operational things, how the department really works, how the budget system works. They'll do projects for us and you'll have a captain help you do the plans for the new firehouse, get his input. We have 10 of them now doing the training I talked about, the night training. We have them going around to firehouses doing drills with laptop computers. They're helping us fill a void and they're also getting a lot of extra training which will make them better chiefs later on for those who go forward.
What about the mentoring program for a captain who is about to become a battalion chief?
When we were trying to figure out ways to pick the brains of our really good battalion chiefs, this was one of the suggestions - we would take a captain who was close to being promoted to battalion chief and, before he gets promoted, have him go and ride with a battalion chief for 90 days. It's 90 days to make sure that he's exposed to the chief at a fire. Take a guy like (Battalion Chief) Tommy Kennedy, now you work with him in a fire and you watch him, you see what he does, you go with him, you sit with him in the office. He's going to bombard you with questions and you can really benefit from him as a mentor. There are a lot of terrific chiefs out there, but the ones we picked are some of the best.
Editor's note: After this interview was conducted, three New York City firefighters died in the line of duty. Two were killed in a collapse of a burning building and one died of a heart attack at the scene of a fire.


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LUBBOCK, TX -- The Lubbock City Council voted Thursday to make some changes to their citizen comment.
It was a 5-2 vote in favor of making the changes. Councilman Todd Klein and Councilman Victor Hernandez voted against the changes.
The changes now make it so the agenda will typically come out on Friday's, and then people will have until Monday at noon the week of a City Council meeting to sign up to speak during citizen comments. They will be posted on the agenda.
Anyone who signs up after Monday at noon, but wants to speak on an item listed on the agenda, will then be allowed to speak during the citizen comments at the beginning of the meeting.
Anyone who signs up after Monday at noon, but are not planning to speak about an agenda item will be asked to speak at the end of the council meeting.
All comments will be televised, though anyone speaking at the end, when city council cannot respond, will have some kind of disclaimer on the screen that explains that council cannot respond and the views are only of that speaker.
Many people signed up to speak about the proposed changes, leading to at least an hours worth of citizen comments, as well as discussion between council members and those attending the meeting. At one point, the discussion even got a little heated, with Mayor Glen Robertson using his gavel to interrupt one woman.
Mayor Robertson's reasoning, he explained after doing so, was to interject during what he considered an accusatory or out of line comment. While he was not able to respond to the woman speak, he did interrupt to try to clarify her comment.
The Mayor, as well as other council members, agreed there needed to be action, at times, by either the Mayor or City Attorney, to interrupt someone when they spoke in that manner.
"Getting some clarification from our legal department as to what's permissible, and what's not permissible, because there are positions that are being taken that are completely wrong," Councilman Victor Hernandez said at one point Thursday.
According to state law, council can only respond to those citizens who are either on the agenda or who signed up the day of, but are speaking about an item already posted on the agenda.
"This council has been very open in allowing people to say some stuff that is just totally out of bounds, and I think we're trying to reign it in," Councilman Hernandez said.
Many people did get up and give Council some constructive advice on what they might want to consider in changing things. "Whether you sign up in advance, whether you sign up the night before, you must sign up to talk about an item that's posted. and that is to allow everyone in the room, not just those sitting on this side of the microphone, but to allow everyone in the room a chance to participate in the conversation," one person told Council.