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That's a theoretical possibility, not a practical one. Unless you've got a lot of tampons ready to go you're not going to get enough volume to compete with oral consumption. Again, not new. There's also fruit saturated with booze, Skittles dissolved in vodka, vaporized alcohol, etc

Its been a while since I used a tampon to stop a bloody nose, but I don't see them holding more then an ounce or two of fluid. Anyone who's pregameing before hitting the bar can handle one or two shots. This is hype and people are not getting hammered off these.

This is nothing new. The majority of alcohol and most fluid absorption occurs in the small intestine. By skipping the stomach you can enjoy larger quantities in shorter amounts of time, but enough "practice" and you can consume just as much orally. Years ago reports of alcohol enemas were related to efforts at defeating breathalyzers while today it seems to be the misguided notion of rectal or vaginal gets you drunker. Vaginal, while bypassing mesenteric portal and first pass through the liver can't overcome the greater speed with which the intestines can absorb booze. Vodka in the eye was about as popular as the cinnamon challenge. For such a national scourge that was going to blind America's college age youth it faded away pretty fast. Vodka tampons are at best just as popular, but probably much less.

What is the end purpose of this vehicle?? If its being used as an engine you cannot transport the patient. The same is true if it will be an ambulance, you cannot utilize it for firefighting. Rescue/engine or quint, far from ideal for equipment capacity but it can serve both capacities at the same time.

You can have all the policies in the world covering every scenario, you're still not going to stop someone this dumb from doing these things. NYS laws concerning arson weren't enough to slow him down, I don't think a youtube policy would be any more helpful.

Due to the packed conditions at most stations and a projected growing share of the EMS pie the dept is currently building 1 station in Greenpoint Brooklyn and preparing to break ground on another in the Bronx soon. Including station 7 there are 3 locations currently using temporary facilities, but those becoming permanent will have little impact on crowding. The facilities are now all being designed with locker rooms, showers, and kitchen area. While were still stuck on our street corners the stations are more than just a garage we turn out of. Pay still sucks. Long story short pd and fire work more hours than we do. We attempted to address the gap with an alternative work schedule, but were unsuccessful. Fixing the hour disparity goes a long way towards bringing medic pay in line with pd and fire. Not quite there yet, but it's a start.

Because the site is not suitable for a permanent structure. As soon as location is acquired they will be building one. From identifying a location to opening a station its currently taking about 5 years. Longer if they have to use eminent domain. The station isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

I know almost nothing about the tri-villages, but was curious how your $200k budget compares to the other depts on a per capital level. The cost per resident is the real measure of efficiency.

Of the thousands of people who've come and gone through there, there have been many pieces of garbage. This is not the majority. By your logic all cops are murdering, thieving, rapists. Every firefighter is a drug dealing thief. Every EMT is a pedophile and thief. The worst of any group is always hyped and this group has absolutely done themselves a great disservice by rallying behind everyone with the same fervor. The group has recently received an injunction preventing their eviction from the park for the time being. I truly hope the groups takes advantage, holds out till their two month anniversary and packs it in. They can then hopefully regroup and find a more productive next step. They started a conversation that was not happening in the mainstream media before this began. The news is now focusing more on them than why they're there.

So, its an important variable whether or not the victim was aware of the hazard. If the victim ignored barriers and traffic tape, but the FD was still liable then that presents a very real issue for the way we currently operate. If this was an issue where the established procedures were not followed, then this becomes more an issue of awareness than complete overhaul.

Who is in charge of that refrigerator? Is it secure? Does it have enough space? How many outlets does the school gym or firehouse have? People need to charge cell phones, agencies need computers, etc. How reliable is and how much capacity does the shelter's emergency power supply have? How are you going to get these non-ambulatory patients to the proper destination? These are issues applicable everywhere and should have been addressed long ago. From the hospitals to the EMS agencies. These people have to go somewhere and hoping the local ER can take them is no more appropriate than telling them, sorry you're not an emergency yet call back later.

We're getting away from the article here. In this case the hospital was turning away people who needed medical care unavailable at your typical shelter.

According to multiple articles citing the police report, the couple was attempting to exit the driveway when they noticed flames and sparks. They then pulled back into the driveway and the victim stepped out coming into contact with the live wires.

Why? At first glance it appears the damage is to the pedestal controls.

You said it yourself. The members who are making it happen, showing up, and keeping these depts alive are not going to do it for LOSAP, a gas card, tax deduction, or whatever. No one you actually want around saw those benefits and decided its time for me to join. Your example of the gas card for the top three responders isn't about the gas card. Are these cards anywhere near the actual annual cost of using you're car for the various FD activities? Its about the thank you. People want their hard work and extra effort acknowledged. A little friendly competition never hurts to get people involved either.

That's just vodka. People have been putting booze anywhere they can think of for quite a while now. I've seen rectal, ocular, inhaled, and IV used with varying levels of success.

I'm really surprised these hospitals didn't have plans for this. Every hospital has a different variation, but in NYC in the event of blackout patients that can no longer stay home but not in need of the hospital are kept in the er. If the incident is too large or persists for to long to be handled in the ER these patients are transferred to nursing facilities. The plans have been used for neighborhood blackouts, and work well. A few years ago when the north Bronx lost power the ERs were filed with beds and staff awaiting the flood of patients. The incident generated maybe a dozen of these types of patients and didn't come close to overwhelming the ER. As I wasn't in NYC during the last widespread blackout I cannot speak to how well everything went then.

That'd be a good writeup for firefighter close calls.

As others have pointed out, I haven't seen a retention program yet that actually retains members. No active member that's already given up dozens of hours of his time to training, respond at all hours of the day and night, and that shows up to house duty and all the other regular obligations is not about to resign over 50 cents a gallon for regular or diesel. If you want to retain members do things that help them do the job. Spend money on the faulty equipment that guys are sick of dealing with. Ensure members have up to date gear that fits. A real bunk room for standbys in that new fancy firehouse. New and different ways of approaching the same old drill topics. There are better ways to spend retention money than on parties and pension programs.

Discharging is easy from what I understand. Like all things related to the big automakers you just have to over pay for the capacitor they sell to do it. Recycling is another issue and a big secret the green movement isn't fond of. Gas and diesel are still greener vehicles than hybrids and a electrics over the entire life of the vehicle from construction through destruction.

Plasma cutters should have no problems with boron or other ultra high strength low alloy steels. The bigger issue is when do you use them? They're not safe in your typical vehicle extrication where you're most likely to encounter these metals.

Having the fast requested to standby initially is not necessarily a delay because all of you are responding to the firehouse first. This gets your resource ready to go for when you need it.

Large capacity lithium batteries have been on the market for years. They're well tested. The only thing new is the packaging. In this case, these batteries store a substantial amount of energy that is supposed to be discharged before storage after an accident. How does this make the product itself unsafe?

I don't know the specifics of your municipality but in NYC the pension obligation of the city has jumped. That is because Giuliani and Bloomberg both cut their contributions to the funds with the agreement that they would pay just enough to maintain whatever the current rate of over funding. So now that the inflated gains of the stock market have collapsed the city owes what it was supposed to paying all along. Some smaller communities have faced increased payments because of early retirement incentives to slash their operating budgets.

I'm all for holding people accountable for their actions. 0% liability on the victim is wrong. But if you have a live primary down on someone's driveway, wouldn't you go tell them?