Fire Police Forum

What we'll do here is to publish the comments we receive about the site.  For example, one of the first things that we received is that some loved but most hated the green front page.  Waa-Laa, we changed it. 

But, what we're really looking for is input about the "state of health" of Pennsylvania's Fire Police.  One guy had responded to the Pennsylvania Fire Police survey stating everything was just perfect in his FD and we shouldn't criticize.  Must be nice.

Another wacky response was when the PennDOT regs governing lights was last changed.  I did a lot of behind-the-scenes things, and we got rid of the "only 2 lights are permitted in a blue lightbar" restriction.  But when the rule-making was published in draft, I wrote in stating that Fire Police blue-lighters who are forced to use their personal vehicles should be permitted the use of Traffic Control Emergency Directional Light Assemblies (SignalMasters, Arrowstiks, whatever you want to call them).  

The response I got was truly a great example of the people making the rules not having a clue - they said we are permitted to have TCEDLA's on our Fire Police Vehicles, because they're red light vehicles and red light vehicles can have TCEDLAs.  Great, but someone needs to throw a rock at that cretin who believes that we all have Fire Police vehicles.  York County, for example, has 71 Fire Departments and around 8 of them actually have Traffic Units...  Why weren't we all writing to express our views?  Probably because we didn't know it was happening. 

This forum gives us a place to vent.  I reserve the right to edit for grammar, spelling, language, but the ideas will be yours.  Just be sure to throw a name (or pseudo-name) and County.

Pa Fire Police Meeting, July, 2008 - Tony Riccardi and Commissioner Ed Mann both speak of the need for Fire Police to be fully trained and actually perform in the manner in which they were trained, also that Fire Police need to EARN the respect from the public.  "Wearing pink spandex shorts, a sleeveless T-shirt and no hat does not engender respect from the public."