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Month: May 2019

  • ELIGIBILITY TO PARTICIPATE

    All active volunteer firefighters are eligible to participate in the LOSAP. Article 11-A defined an active volunteer firefighter as “a person who has been approved by the authorities in control of a duly organized volunteer fire company or volunteer fire department as an active volunteer firefighter of such fire company or department and who is…

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  • CLASSIFYING DEPARTMENT RESPONSES

    Yesterday we discussed how to determine if you should categorize department responses into fire or ambulance. The next question is, how do you determine if the call is an ambulance call or a fire call? There is no 100% correct answer – it is a case-by-case basis that must be determined locally. If the determining…

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  • TRACKING AMBULANCE VS FIRE CALLS

    In the New York State LOSAP Point System, the department responses category stipulates that calls should be broken into two categories – emergency rescue and first aid squad (ambulance) calls and “all other” calls.  A question was raised about if calls be split into the categories, and if so, how. In this post, we’ll handle…

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  • DB VS DC – ONE APPROACH

    Recently, some questions have been raised about which plan is better – the DB or the DC plan. There are a lot of factors to consider when making this determination, and the assumptions you use play a major role. I’m going to look at one example. Let’s consider comparing a $20 DB plan and a…

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  • CAN YOU REQUIRE MORE THAN 50 POINTS TO EARN SERVICE CREDIT?

    A question was raised today about the 50-point threshold here in NY State, and if a sponsor can require more than 50 points to earn service credit and a service award benefit. According to the Office of the State Comptroller, the answer is no.  Opinion 2001-2 states, in part: Section 217(c) of the GML provides…

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