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This is a what a lot of people forget about consolidation and mergers. When you merge multiple smaller agencies you end up with a larger agency. If it is done wrong, you end up with a bloated, slow-moving bureaucracy. Think the kind of place where ordering a roll of toilet paper requires 3 forms and a safety training video

Well it usually takes 5 to 7 business days for accident reports to get entered (possibly longer if a reconstruction was done). Have you tried calling 60-control or TMC, if the accident happened in Westchester County, or if they got the original 911 call. I'm assuming one of you three is next of kin, so legally releasing information to that person shouldn't be a problem. Also, have you looked for newspaper articles? usually serious MVA's get at least a small article that should have the name of the fire company, ambulance service and police department in it

Also NJSP NorthSTAR

We carry hard hats, wrap around safety goggles and heavy leather gloves in our rigs for use during extrication. Basic PPE for us for anyone inside the car or near the car during extrication is: Hard Hat Safety Goggles Long Sleeved Coat Leather Gloves Long Sleeved Pants Closed toe shoes (with several members having safety toe boots etc)

Part of the problem in that kind of incident comes from dispatchers who have no experience in field emergency services or who are required to blindly follow protocol. In one agency outside of NYS that I have knowledge of, any overdose automatically had PD added, but the decision to stage or go in was left with the LT. or CAPT. on the apparatus, not the dispatcher. Most of the time if the caller said the patient was non violent and especially if they were unconsious or CPR in progress they didn't stage

http://www.emsworld.com/news/10932127/reports-cite-communications-failure-in-colo-shootings It seems like there are always mixed messages. Fire/EMS are supposed to wait for scenes to be secured, until a major incident happens.....

From my reading of it, it seems like the confusion came when the police were asking for EMS for at least 7 minutes. The police probably just kept saying "send EMS", which dispatch did, to the staging area; when what the police actually meant was "scene secure, send EMS in". And this isn't the only time that has happened. I have heard a few times on the radio where an officer asks for EMS, then is shocked when he is told they are staging How a scene like that could be declared secure so soon, is another issue

I agree that the situation wasn't handled right, but I wonder if there was more to this story... What happened before the clip started? Was the photographer going beyond the fire line and warned multiple times? Someone mentioned it looked like the photographer had a dash light in his car, did he cross the line into whacker territory? Was the person in the car one of the firefighter's family members/close friends? Not saying those excuse it, but it might explain it

I agree that EMS should have vests. In the Georgia incident where five firefighters were taken hostage, they were responding to a general illness call and the suspect was sitting in a chair. How could anyone have known that scene wasn't safe until it turned bad? Or are people suggesting we send police in first on every EMS/Fire call (good luck with that you would need to hire many more police officers at a prohibitive cost). In fact, if someone was that intent on harming EMS, they would act okay in front of the cops, wait for the scene to be called secure, then pull out the gun. Off topic, but properly sized vests are important. When I was an NYPD Auxiliary I frequently had to wear a vest that looked like it was sized for a 12 year old (I came into auxiliary just after they stopped giving individual vests, when I got there I was told they only had female individual vests left)

I think everyone knows the "real" solution is consolidation and combo departments. But that will never happen. Fire Chiefs and Commissioners would scream about losing their kingdoms Volunteers will scream that they volunteered for X number of years only to be told they are no longer good enough, and enjoy to enjoy their new position in C.E.R.T. Taxpayers will scream about tax hikes to pay firefighters to "do nothing except go on medicals and get cats out of trees"

Why would the TIC Camera need to be monitored from inside the vehicle?

I kind of lump that stuff all together, along with the entitlement society. "You mean I actually have to do dirty, sweaty, grimy WORK, and go into hazardous situations, I just wanted the title and the blue lights for my car"

According to the article, FASNY focus groups said that fear of going into burning buildings is one of the major reasons why people don't volunteer. Why is this such an issue now as opposed to the past? Do the Everyone Goes Home/Victim Survivabilty Profiling type programs have unintended consequences?

Maybe it has to do with what kind of medical director is needed? I was told that a civilian could carry a defib under the PAD program as long as they had a "medical director" to sign off on it, and that it could be any doctor willing to sign the prescription and review AED usage reports. But it didn't have to be an actual medical control doctor

I would assume that the paramedics are operating as EMT-B's, with extra knowledge and assessment skills until/if they get ALS back

So is it confirmed only ALS is affected, not BLS. I just saw a Care 1 rig yesterday in Wallkill headed towards ORMC, with only one person in the front.

Who actually suspended them? NYS DOH or HVREMSCO? If its HVREMSCO, it is very well possible that their BLS operations are not affected in Westchester, which is considered a different region.

Apparently in one paper it says it will take weeks to pass additional legislation to fix all of the problems

I have a question about the magazine part of the law. On one part it says you can't have a 10 round magazine after a year...but on another it says that if you are caught with 8 bullets in the magazine it is a misdemeanor. So if someone has a 10 round magazine, but only loads it with 7 bullets, is that legal or illegal? It seems to be contradictory. Maybe those are the mistakes that it refers to that have to be corrected? They also forgot to exempt active duty police officers from the 7 round limit. They need to do a lot of work on this law to clarify things

I agree that unless you are doing CPR, or the commerical service has no units available. There really isn't a reason to be paging volunteers to nursing homes and urgent cares.

Why use an i-Pad and not something like a mini-toughbook that would actually stand up to emergency services use?

Truck 1 is the tiller. Is the tower still OOS

And i thought 21 on 20 dates was bad !

Does anyone else think it is about time to properly train fire police? At least on a voluntary basis. According to the New York State Criminal Procedure Law fire police officers are full peace officers when on duty, yet they receive one of the lowest amounts of training of any peace officers. NYPD Auxiliary Police (who only have peace officer status during times of national emergency and even then only for traffic control) have more training, 57+ hours worth, as opposed to 24 for fire police.

I don't know for sure, but maybe Yonkers FD is only sent on certain calls based on how EMD codes them