Meeting Reports

The first meeting of the fall season was held at East Farmingdale Fire Department on September 28. LIEVT member Artie Shirreffs and Chief Kevin de Vito arranged to have an excellent grilled chicken dinner with all the trimmings before the business meeting.President Steve Velasquez opened the meeting and introduced Brian Roehrich of FIRE RESEARCH CORP. who discussed the electrical training seminar that will be held at 26 Southern Blvd., Nesconset on October 27 at 9 AM. There will be no charge to attendees - lunch and coffee breaks will be provided. The size will be limited to the first 40 who register. If there is an overflow, FRC may do another class at another time. The members were told to go to the web site http://www.lievt.org for information or contact Brian at (973) 256-0026 or RSVP to fax # (973) 256-0387.

The Medford Fire Department hosted the Long Island Emergency Vehicle Technicians on June 7. The main course of the dinner was a great barbeque of assorted meats. The chefs were presented with the LIEVT Fire Chefs Hats. President Steve Velasquez opened the meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance. He continues to ask members to fill out the sheets to update our database. He discussed the upcoming FIREHOUSE in Baltimore on July 28-31 and distributed tickets for admission to the exhibit halls. The organization will reimburse members’ airfares on Southwest per details discussed at the meeting.

After close to fifty members enjoyed a wonderful dinner, President Steve Velasquez opened the March 24 meeting at the Manhasset-Lakeville Fire Department in Great Neck.

added note: (4/1/05): left out of the original posting! Special thanks to Fire News for the theater tickets given away as raffle prize.

Steve led with the pledge to the flag and told the members that 13 of them had taken 27 tests the night before at SUNY – Farmingdale. Chris Lo Preto, our own Sayville mechanic and former LIEVT president, who moonlights as a professor of automotive engineering, had conducted a class to prepare them for the test. He plans to do the same for the next test which will be held on a Saturday morning in June. Chris had arranged for this past test to be held on a weekday evening which earned praise from member Phil Santoli. LIEVT sponsored the test and paid for the proctor. He mentioned the questionnaire that Kit handed each attendee. He stressed the importance of the website, http://www.lievt.org and urged the members to become familiar with it. More folks seem to be using it. He pointed out the literature that was available for the members.