Meeting Reports

The regular meeting of the Long Island Emergency Vehicle Technicians was held on Thursday, September 20 at the Westbury Fire District. Forty members enjoyed an excellent dinner. The LIEVT Fire Chefs Hats were presented.
The president, Steve Velazquez opened the meeting with the pledge to the flag. He introduced Jim Wark, the regional director of Niedner Canada – Tyco Safety Products. He demonstrated Niedner’s Delta Hydro Hose Tester HT-2000SS. This is a stainless steel, electric operated hose tester with a 2” manifold, a 2.5” inlet valve and six 2.5” outlets . The outlets each have fully automatic one way check valves that prohibit water pressure from back into the manifold – this reduces labor and increases safety. It is also available with a 5.5 hp Honda gas engine.
Steve presented the Westbury Fire District hosts and Jim Wark with plaques before he conducted the raffle. Unfortunately, we did not get photos of the meeting for our website.

Hauppauge Fire Dept hosted the LIEVT meeting on May 23. The meeting was held outside – the weather cooperated. The Hauppauge chefs enjoyed wearing their new LIEVT Fire Chiefs’ Hats as they tended to the grill.

Elmont Fire District hosted the last LIEVT meeting on March 22. Fifty members enjoyed the excellent dinner – the Fire Chefs’ Hats were certainly earned! Some pictures were uploaded to the archive (clicking the thumbnails in the righthand column of this site will take you there).The president, Steve Velazquez, opened the meeting and introduced the guests – Richard Cone, Product Support Manager of Detroit Diesel, Richard M. Weber, Jr., Vice President of On-Highway Sales of Atlantic Detroit Diesel-Allison and Mark V. Francis, Territory Manager of Atlantic Detroit-Diesel-Allison. Mark Francis led the presentation which included the 2007 medium and heavy duty diesel emission standards and the technology used to comply with the EPA standards. Every aspect of fuels and filters was discussed. They offered to have a coolant class for the members. There is a link on http://www.lievt.org. The members appreciated the Q & A session that followed.