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- Upcoming Press Release. Stay tuned
- Let's "sideline" them for violating an FDNY protocol that did not exist before the August 18, 2007 fire: Chapter 6, or, How do we protect them?
- Let's "sideline" them for violating an FDNY protocol that did not exist before the August 18, 2007 fire: Chapter 5, or , What's your plan, Pete, er, I mean, Michael?
- Let's "sideline" them for violating an FDNY protocol that did not exist before the August 18, 2007 fire: Chapter 4, or, Tell us how to do it PESH.
- Let's "sideline" them for violating an FDNY protocol that did not exist before the August 18, 2007 fire: Chapter 3, or, Toxic Building Inspections must be done in a way acceptable to the NYS DOL
- Let's "sideline" them for violating an FDNY protocol that did not exist before the August 18, 2007 fire: Chapter 2 or 'The Bastards Knew They Were Innocent
- Let's "sideline" them for violating an FDNY protocol that did not exist before the August 18, 2007 fire: Chapter 1 or FDNY seeks help from PESH
- Let's "sideline" them for violating an FDNY protocol that did not exist before the August 18, 2007 fire: Introduction
- It's unconscionable!
- Who was responsible for the standpipe? FDNY or Galt ? OSHA says Galt.
- Who was responsible for the standpipe? Part II
- Who was responsible for the standpipe? FDNY or Bovis? OSHA says BOVIS
- Haz Mat and 130 Liberty Street
- Innocence languishing on the "sidelines": What does OSHA know that FDNY does not?
- Who dropped the ball? FDNY institutions failed not FDNY fire officers
- FDNY waffles on 130 Liberty Street Again
- COSH - Citywide Office of Occupational Safety and Health: Where was COSH?
- OSHA issues fines: What is their significance from an FDNY perspective?
- FDNY inspections of 130 Liberty Street: The Ten House is still banned from the contaminated areas.
- Inspections in ordinary work clothes & the 'snowball effect'
- Scoppetta mishandled other FDNY resources beside know-how and knowledge.
- FDNY's 'Know-how & knowledge' distribution infrastructure was broken before the August 18, 2007 fatal fire and Scoppetta dropped the ball by not fixing it
- Déjà vu all over again!
- LMDC & NYS Urban Development Corporation Act and Immunity
- The October 9, 2007 Weinlein Memorandum Revisted
- Monkey in the Middle
- LMDC to hold a public meeting 1/24/2008
- Upgrade to Website
- Mayor Bloomberg's 11/22/2004 Executive Order #53
- Is there a double standard? Do only the "little guys" get "sidelined" for violating 3 RCNY § 11-01 or do the "big guys" too?
- There are rules and there are exceptions to the rules. Even the 15 day inspection rule found in 3 RCNY § 11-01 has exceptions.
- Bloomberg's & Scoppetta's rush to condemn three decent fire officers
- FDNY forbids the wearing of P.P.E. during inspections of toxic buildings
- Has FDNY now become a Regulator of the Decontamination - Deconstruction of the toxic Deutsche Bank Building?
- The January 10, 2008 NY City Council Hearing
- The Planners
- Batberg
- Clueless in NYC
- Testimony given on September 08, 2004 - "Untrained", "Ill-equipped" and ""without logistical support". The testimony speaks for itself
- Jurisdiction Revisited
- A TALE OF TWO MISSIONS (or One Hand Can't Clap)
- The Smoking Gun! Scoppetta himself knew what was needed to enter the toxic Deutsche Bank Building, and despite his knowledge, he did nothing to train and equip the Ten House
- The lesson taught by the case of OSHA vs. Tyler-Conner Inc. dba Eddington & Assoc. Security. Does NYS DOL have a conflict of interest?
- "In the Know" said to find out who is truly responsible, go bact to 2003
- INORDINATE REGULATORY INTERFERENCE
- Official Deconstruction -Decontamination Plans do not assign FDNY inspectional responsibility
- LMDC is trying to dodge the Regulators. It does not have to dodge FDNY.
- Who were the "Regulatory Partners"? It wasn't FDNY.
- New York Post, Editorial, 9 November 2007
- FDNY Press Release about Name Change to FDNY's Building Inspection Program
- Is Captain Peter Bosco being framed for violating rules that did not exist during his assignment to Ten Engine?
- Why is FDNY trying to come up with a plan to inspect toxic building? Is it because FDNY lacked such a plan while Captain Pete Bosco was assigned to Engine 10
- Who had the Authority to Stop Work at Detusche Bank? It wasn't FDNY.
- Its time for the uniformed leadership of FDNY to act like men and stop acting like frightened little boys
- FDNY was not invited to sit at the table.
- WTC Contaminated Buildings: FDNY: ALL BARK; NO BITE and NO JURISDICTION
- CIDS: Critical Dispatch Information System
- Bloomberg & Bovis
- 12/13/2004: LMDC's Power Point Presentation to the Community Board I WTC Redevelopment Committee.
- In the aftermath of 9/11/2001, Inspections of WTC contaminated buildings fell through the cracks
- A different time; a different place
- The fifteen day rule: the mystery is the starting of the inspections not their stopping
- The fifteen day rule
- November 5, 2003: The Reopening of FDNY's the Ten House
- The misadventures of Batberg and Boy Blunder - Part I
- The mine field and the General Part V
- The mine field and the General Part IV
- The mine field and the General Part III
- March 2006: FDNY fades from the picture.
- The Duty to provide a safe workplace
- The mine field and the General Part II
- A toxic cloud engulfs the Deutsche Bank Building: that's why it's poisonous.
- The mine field and the General: Part I
- The LMCCC
- August 5, 2003 : LMDC and FDNY interact
- Viewpoint from Metrotech - The Newsletter of the NYC Fire Department - September 2007
- In Search of the Truth!
- Help the Mayor conduct his investigation
- Bloomberg's Double Standard: One for Scapegoats and one for his Pets.
- FDNY IS SLOWER THAN AN ELEPHANT: It only takes an elephant 22 months to give birth. It took FDNY 32 months to issue an S.O.P. for the über contaminated Deutsche Bank Building. If you start counting from 9/11/2001, it's 72 months!
- The origin of FDNY involvement with Deutsche Bank Project - Part II
- The origin of FDNY involvement with Deutsche Bank Project - Part I
- The Duty to Inspect
- Protective Suits - FDNY didn't give Engine 10 any.
- The Trap Doors??
- Former FDNY Commissioner Von Essen defends Captain Peter Bosco. He who has ears to hear let him hear!
- Avi Schick Speaks!
- Listen to Bob Hennelly of WNYC on the Brian Lehrer Show
- When did LMDC stop talking to FDNY?
- Who at FDNY has been thinking about toxic buildings?
- The Sept 16, 2006 130 Liberty Street Abatement Plan
- Deep Throat Reveals More
- 12/5/2006 Memo from LMCC re lack of resources
- 2 + 2 = 4 even within FDNY
- FDNY vs. LMDC: Who is telling the truth?
- FDNY Engine 10 ordered back into 130 Liberty Street
- Given that .....
- FDNY Commissioner caught with pants down; All the City suffers
- FDNY's OSHA Coordinator
- What did The Mayor of Chernobyl and Boris, his Fire Commissioner, say to their firefighters?
- The basic right of all employees to work in an environment that is free from hazards and risks
- OSHA says its employers responsibility to ensure the safety and health of employees working at 130 Liberty Street.
- New York State Labor Law 27-a(3)(a)Duties
- 130 Liberty St.: A complex trap for honest firefighters and an honest fire department
- OSHA is asking. Will FDNY answer?
- Dioxins
- How? Did anyone ask how?
- Some People Speak Out
- Jurisdiction over the demolition of the Deutsche Bank Building was allocated to NYCDOB not FDNY
- Former FDNY Commissioner Von Essen defends Captain Peter Bosco
- Time is running out, Mayor Mike
- Thank you Ten House
- Is Mr. Bloomberg a big enough man to admit a mistake was made?
- Al Baker Pullizer Prize Deserving Journalist for the NY Times writes today 9/8/2007
- How Many?
- Conflicts of Laws
- "They wrapped 130 Liberty St. in a Haz-Mat Suit"
- June 11, 2002 NY Daily News " Bank Blocks Hunt for 9/11 Remains"June 11, 2002 NY Daily News " Bank Blocks Hunt for 9/11 Remians"
- FDNY Coverup
- Follow the money ...
- Fire Protection
- The LDMC 12/1/2005 News Release
- Health and Safety Plan of the LMDC 130 Liberty Street Deconstruction Plan
- Dunleavy Article about another Passenger on the "Ferrovia di Scoppetta"
- New York 1 talks about Firefighter D'Ancona who had courage to speak out
- NY Post 9/1/2007 Scoppetta's Responsibility
- Steve Dunleavy of the NY Post: "Memo to Scopetta: Keep your Stories Straight"
- Steve Dunleavy 'WE WERE TOLD: DON'T GO IN' THAT MOLDY HELL'
- Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta reassigns Captain Peter Bosco
- The 8/20/2007 Mayoral Press Release about the Fire
- A NY Times Report on the August 18, 2007 Deutsche Bank Fire