r/Firefighting • u/thisissparta789789 • Jan 06 '25

News FDNY slams congestion pricing, warns of delayed responses, millions in overtime

https://www.yahoo.com/news/fdny-slams-congestion-pricing-warns-000900318.html
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u/J_TheCzech Career FS | EU/Czech Jan 06 '25

Have all of this at the station and when you move stations just take the van at work, or just pack up a shift prior and arrive there in the morning with the stuff, we do that all the time, dunno why they couldnt

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u/yeet41 Career truckie Jan 06 '25

What? Gonna take my gear the shift prior when I’m just getting off a shift and have to go to another right after at a different house? This is asinine.

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u/J_TheCzech Career FS | EU/Czech Jan 06 '25

Youre serving A shift at house 1 and then serving A at house 2, u pack your gear and essentials at house 1 after youre done, take it home and then pull up to house 2 in the morning with everything Or arrive at house 1 in the morning, pack your things into the van and move out to house 2. We do it all the time across one of the country's biggest fire districts and it works, dunno why it wouldnt in NYC.

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u/DIQJJ Jan 06 '25

That’s not how staffing works in NYC. For starters, there’s no A shift. They also don’t project details out multiple shifts in advance. Staffing for each shift is finalized the shift prior.

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u/J_TheCzech Career FS | EU/Czech Jan 06 '25

Ah I see, gotcha thats what i needed to hear. I still think this can be done with duty vehicles by the sound of it, or at least from now on, but you do you

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u/KmacL122 Jan 06 '25

The department has 1 maybe 2 vehicles per division. A division covers multiple boroughs. It’s logistically not possible how the FDNY has it set up and that’s on NYC, not the employees. Any one here who is not FDNY or major city doesn’t really get a say because township logistics doesn’t even hold a candle to the size of FDNY response areas, let alone the size of their battalions

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u/J_TheCzech Career FS | EU/Czech Jan 07 '25

Im sure this could be negotiated and changed potentially. If FDNY is one of the few institutions complaining, then Im afraid FDNY is going to have to have to adapt to the evolving city, rather than the city adapt to the FD. You could ask for extra budget to buy more duty personal vehicles, or negotiate a tax exception for fdny members- im sure its doable