Ariola confronts FDNY about unrepaired leak at Engine 290
Ariola shows a video of water pouring from a pipe onto an oil burner at Engine 290 and asks why it's unrepaired. DeRacus says work orders are called in immediately and trade staff respond, but with 300 work orders per week he can't confirm this specific one. Ariola expresses frustration that facilities staff didn't bring a computer as requested.
Okay, in this video, we see a pipe along the ceiling of Engine 290, Ladder 103 in Brooklyn.
The pipe has water pouring from it, and when the camera pans down, you can see the water is leaking directly onto the oil burner.
Why has this gone unrepaired?
It's hard to say that it's gone unrepaired.
Whenever something like that happens, a work order is called in immediately to our resource center.
And depending on what the issue is, on an order like that, we would have our plumbers respond, as well as maybe our oilers, which would be the HVAC guys, to make sure that that boiler is operational.
So I wouldn't say it's going unrepaired if it's an active leak like that.
I'm not exactly sure what type of pipe that specifically is, but the water does look pretty clean.
So I'm not going to say it's a sewer pipe.
I just don't know from that picture.
Have you received a work order for that particular engine and ladder company and that particular leak?
With 300 work orders a week, it's pretty difficult for me to answer that question specifically.
You were asked to bring a computer today so that you could look up.
Do not have it.
Why would you not have it when a specific request was made for facilities to bring a computer so that you could look up the work orders?
I just do not have it with me.
I could definitely let you know about this work order.
Commissioner, we let Jason know very pointedly that we needed for facilities to have a computer with them so that they could look it up so that we could know
what's been done and if they had received a work order.
And the fact that that request from this committee was completely disregarded is unacceptable and disrespectful.
Can I just say it?
The request was not disregarded.
I just didn't have the computer readily available to bring today.
Come on now.
No, I'm not going to accept that.
But I do have a staffer back at the office who unfortunately is not there at the moment.
This might be her texting me right now.
No, she unfortunately had to leave the office for a family emergency.
So I do not have that specific information for you yet.
We're happy to get you the information that you need.
We can't change, unfortunately, we can't change the fact we don't have the computer.
We did have somebody at the office that could have answered it, but they're gone.
Well, that was the reason for the computer.
That's why the S was made in advance.
I understand.
And it was made...
To Jason Shelley and Jason, you know, you've been around long enough to understand that when I ask for something for this committee, I expect it to be provided.
And if it cannot be provided, I need to know ahead of time.
But in situations like this where it's expected,
You know, I don't have it because there was not a computer available to me is not an answer.