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When we built our last ambulance i did some research, and found currently Australia has some of the most stringent ambulance specs going and has reduced provider deaths with the new designs they have came out with. Australia used to have many (type 1 and 3) ambulances, and is now almost exclusively type 2 with many differences forward facing seats and other occupant protection measures. aaron

So much for trying to keep things the same for training and being familiar with your patrol vehicle.

I would say it might be to little to late. At least in Western CT Stryker has an almost 100% saturation with power pros and a large number of powerloads as well. I don't think I want to be a test bed for this cot for the first few years, it looks like it has plenty of complicated moving parts. Aaron

Is there a SPAAMFA chapter in the Hudson Valley that you could use to sponsor it?

Anyone have contact info for the Chief of the Roxbury VFD in Queens. I think they last most of their equipment too

Does Irvington FD file taxes I cant find them un www.guidestar.com ?

I have to concur, that the cooling chairs are by far the best tool for rehab. Our team has been up and running for 4-5 years, and if you show up with 1 thing, it would be 5-6 cooling chairs. The fans tend to just get the nozzles clogged and then just spew water and get people wet. Part of the CT Region 5 rehab group our unit has 10 Cooling chairs 6 unit cooling vest system 2 10x20 tents with sides 1 10x10 tent Heating unit powered by propane Medical kits Masimo Rad 57 CO monitor Masimo rehab tags 4 large coolers Rehab sector command kit 3 Honda 2000 watt gensets 3 cooling fans 2 folding benches normal folding chairs 1 portable tent privy granola bars 1 ice machine at base 3 folding shelter cots 1 folding table 3 water coolers and a bunch of other small stuff 2011 ford F350 tow vehicle and 14 ft enclosed trailer Aaron Hodge Roxbury Ems CT Region 5 Rehab Team

Its called experiance and you dont have enough under 21 to be responsable for an emergency vehicle. Should a 18 year old with 1 or 2 winters driving experiance be driving in the snow? the answer is no, if you dont have 24/7 365 ability then you need more experiance its got nothing to do with how responsable you are or if you are "a good kid" aaron

Show me the LAW that states you must send everyone to collections? There is none as far as I know. Medicare requires a resonable attempt to recover the outstanding balanceis concerned. Aaron

As the time commitment has virtualy killed off most of the true Volunteer EMS agencies, The VFD's will follow in time. The answer will lie in a full county wide paid system supplemented by the few volunteers that are left. And this is NOT a Westchester issue, its a National issue. At least NY has a county form of Government, CT is a disaster when it comes to consolodaion and looking at county wide solutions. aaron

Provide a completly FREE EMT class for anyone in your district. We did this a few years ago with good results. You will get the wash outs, but you will also get a good group that will stay and join. They are volunteering too many times EMS services make it too hard to join and dont refund the cost of the class for a year or what ever. Pay there way for everything books, BP cuffs ect.. aaron

We have been using EMSCharts for over 3 years yes it takes longer to input the reports, but the back end infor that can be pulled in seconds is well worth the time.

How about offering to house train and maintain the county assets by one of the Fd's in Westchester? Its apparent the County has no personel for the equipment maybe the best option is to assign it to a local FD.

If you are calling a FAST team you should be calling a Rehab team as well. I know the thought proccess of rehab is new to many but it truly is an esential part of firefighting to keep your members safe and ALIVE just like the FAST team.

Most of the views seem to be that Rehab is only needed for 2nd alarms or higher? I would contend that Rehab is an esential part of any initial call of structure fire. I would also tell you that by the numbers Rehab is MORE important than a FAST team. Can anyone tell me how many firfighters are killed from being trapped in a fire every year? and how many die of stress (heart/stroke ect)? If you looked at the numbers and I have. you would see that all this FAST trainning while important, maybe less important on a fire scene than a good rehab sector.