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Bingo. The original studies that "proved" cell phones to be so dangerous compared divers on cell phones to drivers completely free from distraction. There are some minor differences between cell phone conversations and other in car distractions but unless they block all calls in the car they might as well not bother.

How about fire trucks are not exactly designed for pursuit and fire fighters are not well equipped for armed confrontation. Forget the whole my turf is fires their turf is crime bull. How about not getting in over your head. Cops want to bang on doors to let people know the building is on fire, great and good job. fire fighters want to stop a guy getting beat up or call in a description and tags (hell even follow while going cold) thats all well and good. Once you start pursuing armed suspects, chasing them at high speed, or entering a burning apartment to make a grab you are making yourself much more likely to become the next victim rather than save the day. Once a cop gets stuck in a burning building or an engine gets wrecked in an accident all the focus on the original rescue or criminal is lost and our fellow emergency service worker becomes the priority.

all right, we've got multiple troop 1's on here. Who was troop 1, 01, or 001

Crap, I had completely forgotten about this. They filmed it about a year or year and half ago at St. Barnabas. At the time it was billed as a new show for TLC, but with actual footage as opposed to all the re-enactments used in other shows.

The meals given out in free lunch programs in schools average about $2 a piece. Stop worrying about appeal and presentation and its very conceivable to feed someone on less than $2 a day.

Yankee, they are constantly hiring. EMS is one of the few city jobs that hires almost exclusively from a provisional hire list and grants its members civil service status once they are working with the dept. Call (718) 999-2169 or (718) 999-2179 between 9 and 4, Monday through Friday. They'll ask for your name, state number, driver’s license number, home address and telephone number. Rumor has it the provisional list is lees than one class deep so anyone who calls is likely to be offered a job within the next three months or so. There are medic classes running year round, but that shortage is due to expansion. The new shortage to strike the dept has been clearly coming for over a year now. They have run out of EMTs. For a few years they have been hiring EMT's as fast as possible to keep up with attrition. In the last two years the majority of the new paramedic hires to cover the depts ALS expansion have come from EMT's upgrading to Paramedic and fire is about to take close to 100 EMT's and Paramedics for the July academy. The no raises for the past two years are due to an expired contract that is currently headed towards arbitration. This is only the second contract we have been able to negotiate as an independent city agency (before we were part of DC 37's negotiations). This next contract should show where the job is heading. Our fist contract, while far from bringing us up to par with other emergency service workers gave us respectable raises without any givebacks.

So long as the food is fit for human consumption and there is enough to effectively feed an individual then kudos to Alabama for saving money.

The seat configuration had to change. There's just no room in these cabs. At least now there's enough room to actually sit while fully geared up. I'm assuming it has to do with the extra hard suction being added. They got caught bad on 9/11 when they lost their water supply. The 2000 gpm pumper gives greater cpability with drafting. There has also been a lack of support and redundancy for satellite co's. Now there is back-up readily available should their eng have problems or if they have maxed out their stretch you drop any of these engines into the middle to maintain pressure.

Good job GPD.

FDNY doesn't need a helicopter any more than NYPD or Transit need Haz Mat units. What FDNY needs is a stronger commitment from the NYPD. Waiting 30 minutes to get a chief in the air is ridiculous. I have yet to hear about the roof teams being requested let alone requested and not provided. The excuse that Transit needs a haz mat unit because of the "unique challenges" the transit system presents is such a joke. They could very easily provide trained members to assist FDNY at a hazmat incident much the same way FDNY provides an air-recon chief and roof rescue teams for aviation.

Oswego, was it speed? I have no clue what that turn looks like, so I'm just speculating here but... Could they have gotten off the road onto a soft shoulder? Maybe someone got a little too greedy with the road and didn't expect a garbage truck so they had to cut tighter than normal?

Thanks yankee medic for the info.

First off, where are you putting the second headblock? C-collars are all (as far as I know) designed to fit a neck in which the head is facing forward and at least close to mid line. I suggest you guys try applying a collar to someone who's head is turned. One last thing about the collar, its to protect the cervical spine. Alone it doesn't do anything for an injury to the thoracic vertibra. Don't just be robots and do it because the book says so. Think about what the end goal of your interventions is and if they aren't going to help and especially if they may hurt your patient don't do them. Yeah, it is possible to intubate this guy without removing the blade, I was thinking more along the lines of while transporting if he turns south there won't be enough room to position him where you want to. He doesn't need to be flown or rushed anywhere. So long as he remains stable with good lung sounds he needs a calm easy ride to the Trauma center. One bad bump or too many little bumps could do some damage. I also would refrain from cutting it so long as he can fit into the bus. Shortening it isn't going to change your treatment and tampering risks making it worse. EMT's enjoy this job, its all about BLS as long as his airway remains stable. Stabilize the blade and assess thoroughly and often.

Gamewell, a one for one replacement of volunteer depts with paid depts is outrageously expensive and also incredibly inefficient. Going paid is feasible alternative because it also allows consolidation of depts requiring fewer resources and drawing from a larger tax base. Now you combine this with a system where paid firefighters only replace volunteers where the volunteers can not meet an established performance and staffing standard and you have a cost effective system that maximizes the benefit of volunteers and guarantees an effective level of protection.

Stabilize the object and transport. Even if it was possible to effectively immobilize him, spinal immobilization wouldn't do much. The goal there is to prevent injury by providing stability so what ever damage done by the blade isn't going to be made worse so long as that blade stays exactly where it is. Besides the pain of a large knife in his back should be enough motivation for him to keep still. If he stops breathing bleeding and spinal injury become less important so feel free to play excaliber, pull the knife, flip him and begin airway management. Difficulty breathing, sucks for him all you can really do is oxygen and an NRB. At some point if it becomes so compromised that he is no longer able to sustain life see above.

I thought Medibart covered it pretty well. Anytime the number of patients exceeds your capacity. One medic with a complicated L&D you potentially have an MCI. 5 stable patients complaining of headaches because of Diesel fumes not an MCI because I had 5 seats available (and they say there's no room to work without a super mod). It also doesn't mean you have to bang out the MCI task force.

Since there are all ready exits at 233rd and oak I'm guessing the new exit will be between there. My guess would be Wakefield.

We have the oil, but do we have the infrastructure to extract it and process it in time. Hell, we have the largest strategic oil reserve in the world and we could run it dry in 60 days.

The only cuts to career I see is in the chiefs and commissioners.

Every day average people are forced to deal with horrendous garbage. Some nut with an ax breaks into your home so you call PD. They show up, nut goes after cops, and now you have a dead nut IN YOUR LIVING ROOM. This whole time the family was stuck in a bedroom, had escorted out one by one around the body and then hours later had to return home. I'm not aware of a crime scene cleaning unit in the NYPD, so I'm willing to bet the family was left with that burden to. If anyone has a right to sue for PTSD its them, but who are you going to hold responsible for it? Maybe the White Plains cops were inconsiderate and didn't do more to remove the witness from the area but I am willing to bet they didn't park him right next to body and make him watch. It sucks being him but that doesn't mean someone should pay for it.

Care on scene is a completely different story. If they were that interested in treating this patient on scene they would have stayed in the house and begun treatment. Once you start moving to the ambulance the next stop is the hospital, not the curb in front of the house. STAT, coming from a large service where even working within my regular area there are many times that I have people I am completely unfamiliar with driving my vehicle. Thanks to the voluntary units I have people driving where I know nothing about their training outside the state requirements. You have to assume that they found their way to the job, so they must be able to get me to the hospital (all thought there have been a few times I've had to give directions from the back or let PD lead the way). Either way it was a much better option than sitting on scene for 20 or even 10 minutes.

Gotta give him credit for coming up with something new. This is exactly why there needs to be a consequence for filling frivolous lawsuits.

Give it a day or two most people try and live a life on the weekends. Others sit inside on a beautiful Sunday and post on message boards. A depts only motivation for providing mutual aid is to ensure they receive aid when they need it. Otherwise they have no obligation to assist. Why doesn't anyone reach out to NYC unless its a full blown conflagration? It seems to work well enough when due to address confusion FDNY and a Westchester dept get assigned to the same job.

Yes they're used for manpower, observation platform, structure protection, etc.

There are so many reasons why we cannot be self reliant with gas production that it will NEVER happen. Forget Liberals, Conservatives, and environmentalists. First and foremost we consume far more than we could ever produce. Next, the Crude we do have is better suited heavier molecules like those used in heating oil, diesel, and lubricants. Another problem is much like their military we're also primarily responsible to Japan for much of their natural resources. We all want more refineries until someone tries to put in our community. Natural Gas terminal for the sound, no go. Blame all the whiny not in my backyard liberals, then why do they have the same expansion problems good old Texas. Its nearly impossible to build new refineries. Just shutdown and rebuild on top of the old ones. So lets go and tap into ANWAR. They are 5 to 10 years away from any production, another 5 to 10 from peak production and even if the best case scenario is right using current consumption and future extrication technology production begins to decline after only 50 years of operation. In short I love my 32mpg with my little civic.