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Are they reopening the application period or just postponing the test?

Or for 20 trucks plus their normal orders would Smeal flatbed the aerials to La with their own mechanics? Ferrara in the field, over a year. At the rock for testing under.

http://www.emtbravo.net/index.php?showtopic=36366&pid=207604&st=0entry207604 Posted by Markmets415 We have some openings in this class, send me a PM or post here if you are interested in attending or have questions. The classroom training will be held at the Wassaic Firehouse on Thursday April 8, 2010 @ 19:00hrs and the hands-on training will be held on Saturday April 10, 2010 @ 9 am at the Wassaic Train Station. Metro North Railroad presents this course. Content includes familiarization with railroad systems, equipment, and operational procedures; operation of normal access and egress devices, as well as emergency operation of the equipment; power systems including locomotives, electric powered equipment, and third rail precautions; search and rescue procedures for rail cars (this includes a practical application from a smoke filled rail car); and victim removal from rail cars using various rescue procedures. All students wishing to participate in the hands-on portion dealing with search and rescue of rail cars, along with victim removal techniques, are required to bring firefighting OSHA compliant protective equipment, self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA), and one spare air bottle. Designed For:All emergency response personnelCourse Length:8 hours

But this thread is about how agencies are doing it, not how we all wish it could work. My reference to big bad FDNY is the general belief that FDNY is the biggest and baddest agency in the land. Not a dig. FDNY has functional mentors. The system is shot. New FDNY Medics now do 6 months assigned to mentor unit as interns. There is a list of skills, like assessment, presentation, IV access, intubation, pacing, etc that interns must track. However at the end of the 6 months or when the next medic class comes out (which ever comes first) all the medics are released to potentially become mentors themselves. For example, my internship was 5 months and one class later many of my classmates were mentors. As for the skill sheets, they all have ideal skill quotas, but how many people are pacing 5 patients in 6 months? Luckily no one cares. As long as the mentors don't raise serious objections to the intern moving on, away they go. Many of the good mentors are burnt out after the parade of interns and have been asking for transfers to different units. The crap ones don't care so don't get burnt. The program is at the point where interns are now being assigned to a unit for 2 weeks before being rotated to another station. The plan is to minimize the impact of poor mentors and quiet areas. Its been a while since my BLS internship, but it was a similar format, intended to be 6 months with required skill sheets (although I didn't know about them and never submitted one, so how required are they). After 3 months there were a few vacancies and I was taken off my internship and assigned to a unit. As far as the ride alongs go, I have no clue how they chose those. As a first year medic working with a miserable prick of a partner I was frequently assigned students for ride alongs until enough complained and the academy sent them elsewhere.

Ferrara went through a pretty substantial expansion 2 or 3 years ago and their in production page is a lot shorter than it use to be. They may be able to accommodate the orders with the space they have for the time being.

and according to the CBO the bill will reduce our deficit. Sounds like a 938 Billion well spent as opposed to the 168 Billion that Bush spent to stave off a recession that was so much larger than the American consumer. If I remember correctly the CBO stated Bush's rebates were not nearly enough to make a measurable impact on the economy.

In a perfect world, absolutely. However who has the resources to do this? Even you're former employer big bad FDNY can't get any kind of functional mentor program for their medics let alone the revolving door that BLS is becoming.

Isuzu and GM started building Diesels together all the way back into the 90's. However in 2001 or 2002 when GM reorganized Isuzu bought back the shares GM held and GM got Duramax. I believe Isuzu still builds a line of DMAX engines for their uses that is essentially a Duramax.

He's right, it is a popularity contest. The most popular posts and threads get the most reps.

You might be seeing Isuzu and not realize it. The GMC Topkick and the ?? Kodiak are both Isuzu H-series trucks.

Another great example of republicans and democrats working together to shaft the average citizen. Tort reform is one the few issues that both sides do their best to let die in committee.

Of course unions back Liberals. Conservatives are usually out there to gut union and worker rights in favor of business rights. They have their say and you have yours. Why the hell do conservatives make everything so black and white. Every issue is an effing mush of perspectives and partial truths. This healthcare bill is massively far from perfect no matter which part of the political spectrum you're from. However something has to be done about healthcare in this country. Since Nixon no Republican has made a push for any type of healthcare reform other than cuts to coverage.

Antique, you nailed it. ER's already treat all these people, so we're already footing the bill. Much of the projected savings comes from getting these people into a doctors care before they require some sort of life saving intervention in the ER. People will still abuse the system, go to ERs for nonsense, and not take care of themselves. Those people we paid for before and we will continue to pay for them. The goal of this legislation is to give the people who want to see a doctor before they need a doctor the means to do so.

I'm sure it has to do with the delay in getting that request approved by the duty chief and FDNY's refusal to provide mutual aid for coverage.

In this country insured or not when you are having that MI, need 2 stents and a pacemaker put in you will receive it. If you have no insurance and do not care about your credit then it will be free to you tanks to the taxpayers. In theory if you give everyone health insurance they won't need 80k worth of surgery and medical devices and another 5k per year of healthcare now that they're disabled. They instead get the 5k worth of healthcare now and the statins and anti-hypertensives can stave off that MI. In NYS, yes. Few states are as Liberal as NY with healthcare coverage. Its why we're dying under a massive medicaid system that eats up half our budget. A lot of problems that are unique to NY disappear when everyone has healthcare. They don't just get redistributed, they flat out get fixed. Things like double dippers, people leaving jobs or defrauding the system to get coverage, etc. You're fully within your right to let yourself die.

In February 2000 2 Houston firefighters died while fighting a fire in a McDonalds. The NIOSH report highlights much of what has already been addressed here, but is still worth reading. http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/fire/reports/face200013.html

The don't care what the product is. Their job is corporate structure and management. Kind of like how a corporation like Proctor and Gamble produces batteries, toothpaste and pringles amongst thousands of other products.

Wether its through CME or refresher you will only get as much as you want to out of it. You can find plenty of hands on, obscure topic, or just CMEs that cover areas you think you're weak. Refresher, you're just covering the same info you covered 3 years ago. You can read the EMT textbook and do that. As for the nulk of your hands on training, that has to be done and maintained in house. The state stuff is just an intro. I'm still waiting for the MVA where I can immobilize my patient working right in front of them while they calmly tell me which toe I'm touching. Something as simple as fracture immobilization they teach you plenty about mid shaft, but what about a broken wrist. More than one new EMT has tried to place that cravat across the wrist like we do for forearm fractures. Bad idea and the patient will make that very clear. How about your traction splints? I'm unusual in that I did 3 in 2 years. Even then, each time I missed a step that I had to go back and correct. Each time it went on right and in a timely manner, but it could have been smoother. I know plenty of people who haven't touched one since their last refresher. If you're really the self starter you say you are then you should be fighting to keep PVAC accepting CMEs. If you're doing more than the minimum and pushing your knowledge wile maintaining fundamentals then the refresher is just going to be a waste of your time.

NFPA doesn't become mandatory until you get to court, its a guideline and the industry standard. So as long as no one gets hurt or worse there's no penalty for not following it. As for OSHA, PESH, DOL or whatever a state uses, it all depends on how the rules are written.

Safety and Survival on the Fireground. Usually goes for 25 to 30 dollars new. Buy it and keep it. You're going to want to re-read it.

Dumping your pack wastes valuable time in an emergency. You're also losing going to take a feed while you're setting up and then bailing out. The face mask also protects you from the wall that you very well may bump into.

Yep. Its an ALS intervention. Chris 192, here you go... http://www.nyhealth.gov/nysdoh/ems/policy/10-01.htm

Its more than encouraged. Its required come May 1st.

Public or private sector you can be axed for speaking in a way that can cause harm to your employer. Depending on the laws of his state, he may not even have been able to go with it to the city council/legislature. Some places have very little whistle blower protection. Generally speaking using facts and going to the people responsible for those decisions is technically safe, however it could also likely be a career killer.

Isn't that the same Baker/Aerialscope that was slapped onto Pleasntville's old TL5? If it is, there's all ready an engineer's work-up of how to upgrade the boom to the latest Aerialscope specs. The final blueprint was awaiting P'ville choosing to re-chassis.