Deputy Chief Maddox of Merit Matters is having an event this Thursday, January 20^th at 7 p.m. at Labetti Post, located at 390 Hylan Boulevard
Staten Island, NY. All are welcome to attend. See their website for more information .

Engine Co. 28 and Ladder Co. 11 regretfully announce the death of Firefighter Roy Chelsen. Roy was a member of Engine Co. 28 who responded to the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001. His actions that day saved the lives of many of his comrades, but he contracted cancer following his exposure to the toxic environment at Ground Zero. Last Sunday, after a long and characteristically brave fight with the disease, Roy died in his home among friends and family.

The wake will be on Thursday and Friday from the hours of 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Lazear Smith & Vander Plaat Memorial Home, located at 17 Oakland Avenue in Warwick, NY. The funeral will take place on Saturday at 11 a.m. at Warwick Valley High School on West Street, also in Warwick, NY. Check back here for all relevant information.

Members:

• Be in full Class “A” uniforms, including white gloves.
• Start coordinating carpools to get up to Warwick over the next few days. The weather might get bad so the fewer drivers, the better.
• If you are in groups Saturday 9x, Bn-4 has those tours covered. You’ll have to mutual out of whatever other tours as necessary.
• Be dressed and ready at 9 a.m. on Saturday morning.
• Check back here for updates. Email me for routine questions you think should be answered here; certain people have been on the phone all week and the fewer things they have to answer the easier they’ll have it.
• We may need drivers for an additional van on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Volunteer.

Heather Mac Donald on FDNY Lawsuit

Here is a list of union-sponsored candidates together with the UFA’s recommended staging area for tomorrow’s vote drive.

UFA Target Candidate Staging Location For GET OUT THE VOTE

Mike McMahon - US Congress - Staten Island & Brooklyn
Tuesday November 2nd - Election Day - (718) 698-0649
1363 North Railroad Ave, Staten Island

Janelle Hyer-Spencer- NYS Assembly - Staten Island & Brooklyn
Tuesday November 2nd - Election Day
572 Midland Ave (Olympia Blvd), Staten Island
Michelle Feldman (718) 979-2577

Ed Braunstein- NYS Assembly - Queens
Tuesday November 2nd - Election Day
214-26 41st Ave, Bayside
Evan Grauerholz (845) 641-8831

Joe Addabbo - NYS Senate - Queens
Tuesday November 2nd - Election Day
65-17 Myrtle Ave Glendale, Queens

Brian Foley - NYS Senate - Suffolk County
Tuesday November 2nd - Election Day & October 30, 31 & November 1st. 10-8pm
81 Carleton Ave, Central Islip
one block below Suffolk Ave, across the street from St. John of God Church
Tai White (917) 683-1274

Mike Kaplowitz - NYS Senate - Westchester/Putnam County (* NOTE NEW LOCATION)
Tuesday November 2nd - Election Day
* NEW LOCATION: 2 Church Street, Carmel
Alternate Location: 293 Lexington Avenue, Mount Kisco
Brian Pough/ Rasheida Smith (347) 870-6223

A message from UFOA Recording Secretary Patrick Reynolds:

Zadroga Bill:
To access the link simply hold the Ctrl button as you left click. This
will bring you to a petition to sign, urging the U.S. Congress to pass the
James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2009 (H.R.847).
The details of what this piece of legislation covers is included in the
link.
Chiefs’ Representative Rich Alles is the UFOA Federal Legislative
Director, and as such will be traveling to Washington along with other union
leaders to lobby for passage of this crucial Bill. Please take the time to sign
the petition and please also pass it on to all your contacts. Eight years is
way too long for this Bill not to have passed already!

http://www.petitiononline.com/HR847NOW/petition.html

Patrick Reynolds
Recording Secretary
UFOA
225 Broadway Suite 401
New York, NY 10007
Office: 212 293- 9300
Fax: 212 292-1560

Photographer Nicholas Truong captures members of Engine 28 and Ladder 11 after they fought a fire on St. Mark’s Place, November 7^th, 2009.

Today the Department announced the death of Firefighter Paul Warhola of Engine Company 221. Firefighter Warhola had been injured in the line of duty early Wednesday morning. We mourn him.

Funeral Arrangements:

Viewing : Monday 7-9

Tuesday 2-4  7-9

Sinnickson Moriches Funeral Home, Center Moriches Long Island

Funeral : Wednesday 8/19/09 time 11am (tentatively)

St John the Evangelist Church

25 Ocean Ave

Center Moriches, NY 11934

NOTE; DUE TO FF WARHOLA’S FUNERAL, THE COMPANY PICNIC HAS BEEN POSTPONED …NEW DATE TBD