The regular meeting of the Long Island Emergency Vehicle Technicians was held on Wednesday, April 30 at the Coram Fire Department. More than fifty members enjoyed an excellent dinner – the LIEVT chefs’ hats were presented to the hosts.

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The next regular LIEVT dinner meeting will be held on Wednesday, April 30 at the Coram Fire Department in Suffolk. Details will follow as soon as the speaker is confirmed.

On Wednesday evening, May 14, Kussmaul Electronics will host a class at their facility in Sayville to familiarize our members with their products.

The June meeting will be held at the Wantagh Fire Department in Nassau - date and speaker to follow.

We are not doing a regular mailing until we have the details worked out. If you know members without email addresses please share this with them.

Steve Velazquez, President LIEVT
(631) 241-7676

Kit Cafaro
(631) 543-7848

DATE: Wednesday, April 30, 2008
PLACE: CORAM FIRE DEPARTMENT
303 Middle Country Road
Coram, New York 11727
TIME: 7 PM – DINNER

RSVP at left
Kit asked that I set up some way to find out how many folks will be attending for dinner. The best I can do is the POLL in the column at left. If you plan to attend, select the "Yes" radio button and the click the VOTE button. If you won't be able to attend, please vote "No".

Gerry Walker recently pointed us to an important article for anyone working on Ambulances or Rescue trucks. Click this link to read the article, entitled Ambulance Transports by Jason Schneider which appeared on the Fire Chief Magazine website on May 1. The article describes the very real dangers of infectious disease transmission both to EMS personnel and technicians who work in or on our nation's rolling hospitals.

Weldon Technology will do a class on building a working Multiplex system and adding and deleting components from that working system as well as computer diagnosis and programing. This class can be offered to a maximum of ten (10) paid up members. It will be held at Centereach Fire Department - 9 South Washington Ave. Centereach, NY. Cost to the member for the entire course will be $100 including Food and Break.