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Anyone know where the other two high pressure pumpers went? Ferrara built 5 of them.

I was mistaken in what I said before. There were only two seperate cases. The third case was a new set of charges for a crew. After the pt neglect was dropped they were charged with abandonment.

I think Mr Glickman's question was more focused on wether or not to follow the order to respond with lights and no siren. When deciding wether or not to obey an order you step on a very trecherous ground. Generally speaking if you must obey the order given. If you choose to to disobey you are usually assumed wrong and will be punished accordingly unless you can prove the order was illegal, reckless, what ever it may be ( and you may still be punished just not as harshly). If you follow the order and something happens you are both responsible, but the majority of the blame will fall to you the driver. Most important is for you to sit down and discuss this with the chief, the officer in question and any other officers and make sure the issue is clear to the entire dept. If one of you are unsure, then I'm sure others are too.

Several times now people have brought up the legal repercussions of restraining a pt. I can't find any cases where someone in EMS got screwed when they did their job properly. Several cases of pt's being txp on their chest and suffering injuries or death resulted in legal action. EMT's not sufficiently restraining a pt has been brought to court several times but in the three instances I found a result the crew was cleared on those charges but were twice gotten on other charges. Does any one have an example of a crew getting jammed up for excessively restraining a pt? Something more than a guy I worked with. A searchable case.

I'm not talking about strapping them down to the point where you're causing injury, but to the point where they are snuggly secured ie can't fit a finger under the strap

To all those in the know in FDNY...Why was Rescue 4 on the job comming all the way from Queens? Were 1 and 2 on other Jobs?

The buliding collapse is one of several in the tri-state area this year alone. Most recently was a house that was leveled on long island a few months ago. And while were on gas calls, don't forget CO. Westchetser has all ready had a CO explosion this year. We are really good at running head long into scenes with a high potential for catastrophy.

You don't need cuffs or pepper spray or anything like that. Just properly strap your patient in (one tightly secured above the knees, one across the hipsand one across the torso) and stay vigilent. There is no f*cking way someone can undo the three straps let alone jump you without if you are being vigilant. Finish your paper work either before you load up or after and keep your eyes on your pt. All of my partners knew that when I yelled stop they were to hammer on the brakes right then and there cause i was getting out no matter where we were

No one is sugesting PD withhold dispatching their units. And with priority assignments the time it takes to transfer critical info from PD (who recieves all the 911 calls in NYC) to fire or ems is seconds. A few key strokes and you can send over the location and call type. You can all ways update as more info comes in. And JBE...don't worry. Every dispatch problem will be solved once everyone dipatches from the same room as one big happy family. Rumor has it the next phase will require the three branches to actually sit in each others laps when dispatching calls to facilitate information sharing

In the three medivacs out of Mt. Pleasant I am familiar with one was medical and one was a decent extrication that was still completed before the bird was overhead. The third, I believe was also medical. I can't for the life of me imagine any excuse for the bird to be used for in a medical anywhere in westchester.

How does that change the use of an AED?? You shouldn't even be touching the patient when it is analyzing, charging and shocking. And besides, in all the times you've performed or seen CPR performed can you honestly tell me you're compression rates are accurate?? Between the adrenaline loading and unloading the pt, bouncing down the road to the hospital, and ridding thestretcher into the ER that rate is all over the place.

They don't work because ER staff was removing them too quickly and in some cases field units were delaying txp to put them on, they were rarely used and without practice can take a while to get on right. As far as preventing access to the abdomen, you can inflate only the legs or deflate only the top portion. In most situations that call for mast to be used you taking serious internal injuries. And unless you're stabalizing a pelvic fx with mast there is no such thing as short term. It can take hours to remove them properly.

Bubba Clinton is my boy...15

I say go by the intentions of the person displaying the flag. If you follow the flag code then pretty much every use of the flag outside of traditional displays is disrespectful. So where is the line? At flags tied across the hood of a car of at images of the flag on a napkin. In this case you're actually wiping your face with the flag. Outside of burning it doesn't get much more "offensive", yet you can find flags all over nap[king and disposable dishware come the 4th of July.

Once in a while you'll hear about a dispatcher recieving accolades. The problem is people are generally rewarded for going above and beyond the call of duty. Unless dispatchers are going start leaving their desks to handle calls they rarely have such an opportunity. It sucks, thats the way it is.

Articles like this really bother me. They throw out all of these numbers with no separation to delineate which incidents occured insipte of appropriate safeguards and procedures, those due to victim error, and those due to negligence or some type of preventable deficiency. For example, aneurysms are rarely detectable or preventable while heat exhaustion/stroke are easily detectable and extremely treatable.

I wasn't making any statements about the govt. This adminstration is very adamant that national security is their top priority. They play their hands very close to their vest. You all need to relax and be a little less defensive.

Only those on active duty, so once you, as a reservist, are activated and deployed you are exempt. As a volunteer, I was exempted when I was called up for federal Jury duty in 2002

Please, judging from this administrations record, I'm sure when necessary they will withhold the appropriate info from public view.

A few points: If you are consuming alcohol you shouldn't be ridding on the apparatus for any reason. How is someone falling off the back of the rig any different from someone falling down in line? We don't even need an injury to drop someone. How many depts have had memebers pass out durring the march? I've seen three and heard of more in my few years. Why is it we're considered yahoos and idiots when we're ridding on the back step but we suddenly become responsible professionals when we're tasked with fighting fires. In all of the storys I have read and heard about ff's being crushed under apparatus, none have fallen off durring a parade. I've got getting ready to board the apparatus, operating at an alarm, backing up a rig, and responding to an alarm all covered. I'm not saying we should be tooling around on the back of apparatus, I honestly couldn't care less what my or any other dpet were to decide was appropriate. We also have this wonderful penchant for making excuses for the behavior of idiots. Why is it an accepted fact that members are gonna be drunk and doing stupid things? More of what bothers me is that a topic like this gets so much attention when it is truely a non issue. FF's are not getting hurt by apparatus at parades. However we are dying from accidents on the way to alarms and from cardiac related problems at the same rate every year.

While it doesn't necissarilly apply to our area it does address the much larger issue of transport abuse. Any one who has done transport can attest to the large number of 'lett jobs and cab rides we end up giving out only to hope they get covered by medicare. As for abuse of stat flight outside of a couple of short trips a year, I don't see much abuse. But maybe I'm missing it.

You can not have reached your 29th birthday by the start of the application period. You can however can recieve an age credit of up to six years for each year of active duty military service. So if you have 6 or more years in the military your cut off is 35. But sorry, 39 is too old.

What point?? That bad sh!t happens. Yeah, ridding back step durring a parade is not safe and it does have acertain amount of risk associated with it, but so does fire fighting. And apparently marching in parades according to your story. While I absolutely agree that ridding back step to alarms and at regular travel speeds is dangerous, I don't see the problem with ridding durring parades. Durring parades we rarely even match a fast walk. If someone does fall off, they're not going to get run over and tehy are not going to get sucked under the truck. They will hit the ground and the truck will continue foreward.

paramedico987 has hit the nail right on the head. More importantly points one and two. If you were to look at it in a cost vs reward scenario(EMS, PD, and Fire), EMS would lose out every time. We are irreplaceable to a very small segemnt of society. To everyone else we're not necessary. PD and Fire have a much broader affect on society.

The reason people choose ED's over office visits is very simple...money. There are many programs out there to help cover the cost of ED visits for those who can't afford to pay or are uninsured. Even for the insured, often times an ED vist is cheaper. With my curreny insurance, its a $25 co-pay for ED visits. Its $20 for a visit to my primary care physician and $10 for each referal visit. If I hurt my knee, I first have to go to my primary provider, then an orthopedist, then the radiologist, and if they feel like sticking it to me, they can charge me again to go back to the orthopedist. So I'm looking at spending between $30 and $50 along with the hastle of possibly traveling from facility to facility. The ED is cheaper and its all wyas one stop shopping.