JohnnyOV

Why not keep the taxes lower and save the residents money by either A) not going paid or (edit for unintended smilie) B ) not running on EMS calls or C) only send 1 engine, like any other medical fire department in the country. That makes more sense then charging an excess amount of money to the tax payers and saying "Hey, look at all this money, why not just burn it by over crowding an EMS call and driving around the streets for fun?"

if it is one of those racer car things...I'd be raising hell too if I was a resident and paying for that out of my taxes

question is, would you make the same call?

http://www.nassauems.com/training.html

march 14th 6 posts

thankyou, i needed that

not only is this on firehouse.com, its now on msnbc.com so now the entire world can see.....freaking great

march 17th, 10 posts

i got one on my hand right now...all you have to do is break your medicarpal and it can be yours

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chilling...

March 21st

I was there, up in the nextel tower "working." I was stationed at the finish line and saw the cars crash and burn at the end. Very intense experience watching all the NASCAR officials jump up and the dispatcher start telling everyone to roll for the car fire while its sliding on its roof right in front of you. "Animal kingdom," which is what we call the infield after the race is over, was fairly quite after the race...which is completely abnormal. Everyone was blaming the extreme cold for the lack of medical calls we were getting, which was a good thing since we all got to sleep last night.

"The Triple Threat' - those of you that know what i'm talking about, can 100% concur.

Read it already, and i got fed up with the entire situation. Basically, no one gives a s*** about us, so what its going to come down to is us protecting ourselves.

Once again, are we really fighting over something as arbitrary as SOAP. As far as I know and have been taught by all 4 departments I am affiliated with, regular tide / soap does not do the job to properly de-con equipment. Special soap need to be used in order to properly decon your equipment. Budget for the lowest cost house soap, and the proper de-con soap as well, which will get use less often, because you're not washing your bed spreads with it anymore. In turn you will most likely still be saving a bunch of money. That being said, if all you need to wash with this "high quality soap" is your towels, bed sheets and what not, why spend an extra 4g's a year of your tax payers money on great smelling soap, when after 2 year of saving that money, you can purchase a TIC, or after one year, replace a worn out piece of equipment. I think some departments (mine included) need to get their priorities straight on a couple of issues, and I also think that if you are in the fire department to get a great smelling uniform, you're in it for the wrong dang reason.

And people ask me what I mean when i say being in the fire department down here in FL is A LOT different then back home in NY.

http://emtbravo.net/index.php?showtopic=16250&hl= beat ya to it

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16890732/ Its a 4 page artical on msnbc.com regarding how the government, is trying / has tried to "minimize the fact gathering during investigations" and to restrict investigations to issues relevant "for the prevention of future similar events" regarding firefighter deaths due to a failure of their PASS alarm.

The bears

Great thinking by the instructors. Good job on the save guys!

I hate the colts...and since the jets and giants aren't in it...Da Bears haveta win it

Im almost 100% positive the chain link was in section A...my copy was so bad on the picture looking for the chief, that the only reason I found him was because of his command board. Did anyone else have that problem?

I completely agree...and I asked the poster this on the comments section and this is his reply..

100 firefighters for a mercury spill...is that was you're asking if the media screwed up on?