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PEMO3 Nailed it. Cuffs are both adjustable and lockable to prevent accidental over tightening. Zip ties are not.

NYC has it, but specifically to facilitate restraint. Once they're tied up or bagged we're supposed to just transport. Luckily many docs are compassionate and allow us to sedate pts that continue to risk harm by fighting against the restraints. I saw one guy break his own hand fighting against his cuffs. I didn't like that sound. Illegal or outside our scope? As EMTs we're allowed to dictate restraint. We just require the presence of PD for the act of restraining, but this is along the lines of implied consent. I transported several restrained EDPs across White Plains not knowing the rules. They taught me about restraints in my EMT program, I restrained EDPs as volley, and was handed a restrained patient in the ER. Never thought anything of it till I got to NYC and was told what's up.

Correct, I was referring to the disciplinary side of civil service status with that and over simplified things. If you are hired civil service you are immediately civil service, and therefor are eligible for the Fire promotional. Job protection doesn't begin until after your year of probation.

There was a bulletin out several years ago clarifying that each agency was responsible for determining what was an acceptable method of soft restraint with their medical director. The rules are vague, but clearly put the liability on the agency. If pt's are escaping your cravats then you are tying them wrong. Its not easy, especially skinny people with narrow hands however if done right cravats are effective. I've long ago lost count between EDPs, head traumas and combative intox/od's how many, but after they escape a few times you figure out what you're doing wrong.

After the completion of your 1 year probationary period, yes you are civil service status immediately. In the past we had people here for years without their civil service status because it was assumed that after 1 year you were granted the same protections as Civil Service while you waited out the next test. Several court rulings and a civil service commission decision later and we find out that no civil service means no civil service protections no matter how long otj. This also affects your pension. As a provisional employee you're never required to enter into the fund. Once you're civil service you have 6 months before they force you into the fund. Then after you pay back those 6+ months you have the option to buy back all of your provisional time. Civil service list vs phone list really doesn't affect you as far as getting hired above which list are they hiring off of. Where it comes into play is with your union protection and benefits.

"Ekstrum's crew had been dispatched at 12:03 p.m., seven minutes after the last patient arrived at the hospital, said Joe Gulotta, an assistant fire chief." Sounds like this a whole lot over nothing. This wasn't an emergency at this point. They were likely being brought in for scene support for the investigation.

Correct. The current class that is getting outfitted for equipment next week is allegedly entirely off the civil service list (I don't work in Peggy Quinn's office or Ft Totten so I'm just going by what I was told). If they exhaust this list prior to the next test (they probably will) then they will return to the provisional list.

Mike, things have changed. The educational and experience test is the civil service test. No multiple choice exam like PD and Fire, but when DCAS announces the EMT or Paramedic exam that education and experience paperwork is what they're talking about. The provisional list is now a backup to the civil service list and the wait to get hired is under a year last time I checked.

Because people are familiar with FDNY incidents. Nearly every multiple generates injuries. All of these injuries, no matter how minor are reported(as they should be) and any more serious injuries are reported in greater detail and often over reported. Every incidence of serious illness or injury on here gets an outpouring of support from this site. There's no need to get put off because people are more concerned with the rundown.

Sharpton came and went because the family didn't want this blown up as a race issue. That's the only song he knows, so when he can't run with it he has nothing else to say. If you petition the fed to review anything that could potentially fall under their purview they review the local authority's evidence and decide whether or not further investigation is warranted. Its exceedingly rare to see a convicted perp or dead anybody where the family is reluctant to believe the ugly truth. Its one of the perks of family, unwavering support and belief in you above all else. The grandstanding POS lawyer is a whole other problem. He's gone well above defense of his client and continues to inflame the situation for personal gains. Hopefully the rest of this mess concludes quickly and the officers can go back to doing the job they've done so well.

You have to prove violation of a protected status for an eeo suit. Federal that's only 8, but in NYS you have 13 different groups to try and find a bias. Even if the list doesn't specifically prevent one of the 13 groups you still can get them through "disparate impact".

Psych is just a version of the MMPI. Its the standard psych evaluation used most in municipal and private sectors in a variety of industries. Its nothing to worry about because its incredibly difficult to out think. Just take your time and answer honestly. Its basically several dozen questions asked in a variety of different ways over and over. EMS background is very basic. If you have a solid history without large unexplained gaps they confirm your education call a couple employers and run you through PD. As long as there are no flags that's about it.

I wouldn't call it treachery. Bloomy has been after FD reductions since he got into office. Even when the economy was good he was trying to close houses. I never understood why the FD backed him.

2/2/11 134 Bard Av Rear access is a narrow alley lined with trees and power lines severely limiting truck placement. Thick icing on the roof severely hampered lateral movement once on the roof, so members had to improvise this less than ideal transition. http://www.firstonscenephotos.com/FDNY/FDNY-Staten-ISland-2nd-Alarm/15686981_MZQfN#1175780474_WZFqE http://www.firstonscenephotos.com/FDNY/FDNY-Staten-ISland-2nd-Alarm/15686981_MZQfN#1175779856_vi3kt

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/feb/07/local/la-me-texas-budget-20110207 After 2 years of republicans touting smaller government and free market economy saving the day, the best example of Republican policy in the US is forced to show its true colors. After balancing their budget with the evil economy crushing stimulus funds last year Texas is facing a $27 Billion budget deficit or 30% of the current state budget. This problem isn't an issue of healthcare, pensions, welfare, social reform, education or any other societal woe people try and peg this on. The problem is politicians spending money like a kid with daddy's amex during economic prosperity. Republican and Democrat led states have all fallen into the same hole and followed the same exact path into this nightmare. They spent more than they had and when faced with looming revenue shortages worked the numbers and shuffled their debts hoping the shell game would outlast the economic down turn. What is most distressing, is that since neither party has a proven solution and neither side is willing to negotiate it is becoming increasingly clear that the working class is going to get murdered. The left cares only about the poor and the right only wants what's best for the wealthy. Their version of compromise screws us royally and we continue to dig in behind these animals on the grounds that Obama is after going to tax us to death, Boner is going to take our pensions, Pelosi is gonna blah, Palin, is going to blah blah...and on and on we go. What is the solution? If all sides are apparently doing their best to sink us, who is going to screw us the most gently?

Aside from the running knock, thebreeze wasn't trashing anyone's operations. It was not a text book fire. The engine had to stop before the building, was boxed in, and a couple of guys were moving with more haste than everyone else. It appears that the conditions present did not allow for a text book operation. They rarely do, and he was accurate in pointing that out. This is good discussion, but people get all in a tizzy over critiquing people. It should be pointed out that ideally the engine would pull past the building, because now there's room to discuss why an engine might not, what they need to do instead, and how that changes things for other responding units. Or we can just say good job, fire went out, and move on to the next video.

as fyrlt17 pointed out, capacitors will not drain back into the system. That defeats their purpose. If the positive to negative connection worked, simply leaving the ignition on after disconnecting the battery would drain those capacitors. You just have to allow them the time to naturally lose their charge. I pulled the service manuals on a couple cars I owned and the longest wait after battery disconnect was 5 minutes and one was only 90 seconds. A BMW service advisory stated all cars before 94 required 30 minutes and all cars after required 1 minute. So it seems they're becoming safer for us, but there are still many out there that would be a problem.

I don't see pulling fuses as being in any way practical and have never heard it mentioned in any lecture or training session. I'm at work, so I pulled my truck's diagram, and its a regular 10 Amp fuse. No special markings or anything to indicate it being the airbag fuse. Took me 5 minutes and a flashlight to look it up and find it in an undamaged F250 without a pinned drivers legs in the way (by the way, impossible to get to the fuses with the driver's legs there. Big ol' piece of plastic panel in the way). The only thing thats works in every car most of the time is kill the ignition, strip the plastic, and know the usual suspects. Pillars, door trim, dash, seats, seatbelts, and steering wheel. As cars get lighter and more efficient they're flimsier. Luckily airbags are cheaper than structural integrity. In the multi stage systems I've seen none leave more than 30% of their capacity behind. While thats still quite a shot, it would be into an already deployed bag with the vents already opened. I was told, and haven;t heard otherwise that once the partial charge goes off, thats it. There is no secondary trigger. They are allegedly designed to be non-functional after deploying. Since I don't hear about many of those random airbag deployments these days I'm going to put some faith in their engineering.

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Wait a few months. You've made it 6 years, in less than 6 months the 4G phones will be out and you can wait for the initial verdict on them in that time. While photounit is correct that the 4G network being rolled out is not actually a 4G network, it still will be. They changed the definition of 4G because none of the networks were going to be able to meet the specs any time soon. 4G was conceived well before the iPhone and no one foresaw the data demands exploding like they did. All that aside, 4G is the future. LTE (the network Verizon and AT&T are building) is an intermediary between 3G and 4G, is fully compatible with the real 4G network(LTE advanced) and being used as a stepping stone. It is also the European standard for future cell networks. Everyone is going 4G with the next round of phones Apple, Motorola, Samsung, etc. Everyone but apple is promising 4G phones after March and I believe apple does their iPhone roll outs in July. If you like android (like I do) I'd say give any new phone a month or two on the market and enjoy. if you go apple you might as well pre order and get it out the gate. Their tech stuff is pretty bullet proof. If you're not streaming movies, heavily cruising the web, or using much data you can get some great prices on full featured 3G phones. Because there are still so many 3G phones out there providers are still expanding their 3G networks and the biggest data hogs will be rapidly moving on to the 4G servers as they become available so your download and upload speeds should increase in urban areas.

http://fdnyemsrant.proboards.com/index.cgi? Look around here. The answers to all your questions and more are there.

So there you go, by my extremely precise guestimated perception statistics a generous 30% of the calls are accurately typed and get the paramedics they need. The system is toast and I'm sure M'ave can attest to all the improvements UCT has made. The future sure looks rosy for NYC.

Dany Pujdak in Brooklyn. He fell 50' to the sidewalk below while transitioning from the ladder to the parapet.

The city does have to maintain the current level of staffing plus the grant funded firefighters for two years, right? That would ensure no lay offs or closings for at least two years.

Because its not a fire based EMS system. Its a fire dept run EMS system. Bellow COD Killduff, we're as separate from Fire as we are from PD. Hell asside from the buried CFR frequency we can't hear what's going on with FD, but I have every PD frequency except CityWide2. 14 years later its still a merger in progress. A lot of factors combined to kill the 12 hours. Rather than being optional or only affecting some units it was imposed across the entire division. Many people have set up their whole life around a certain schedule and now with only a few weeks notice they were expected to change. So from the outset there was a lot of animosity and resistance. One of the upsides was built in OT to increase our annual hours worked to match Fire and PD. A few chiefs took it upon themselves to do everything in their power to curtail this OT and in the process took away another perk to the program, consistent schedule and regular partner. In the end, the members came to generally support it but so much damage was done by management that the members torpedoed it by banging in sick (the typical EMS response when angry). Quite a few medics have gone over. We've even lost a couple Lts to the fire side. In the last fire class there were two guys that finished 9 months of medic basic on Friday and reported to the fire academy on Monday. For a little while there was a back and forth about staffing the EMS rooms on the 343 and Firefighter II and Fire had more than enough medics with NYC REMAC cards to put a medic on the boats right then. Too many ALS units and not enough specificity in call triaging. M'Ave what percent of your calls do the medics keep you around to help? I figure half of the time its a real medical emergency I need the CFR to stick around and maybe you can double that for the calls that should get ALS and a CFR assigned. Then there's the litany of calls where CFRs should be assigned but aren't because the moon is 3/4's and its an even day, now all my cardiac jobs magically become diff breathers.