JohnnyOV

man, im missing all the good snow storms

1984 Lincoln Mark VII - the car was a beast, and unfortunatly lost its battle with the Jaws of Life... RIP -

:angry: doesnt look too effective

i give them alot of credit...i just hope they still call 911 if, god forbid, something happens

Of course the news agency that is hosting this story is the one located in daytona beach You would think that they would ban any sexual arousal "drug" near a high school with the most STD : Student ratio in the country

is it EMS 101? I see they have a summer course for EMS, but i want to make sure it for EMT... 9091 EMS 101 EMERGENCY MEDICAL SVC 1 5.0 5.0 MTW 6:30P 9:30P SCI 0367 STAFF $10.00 CLASS SCHEDULED 6/05-8/17/06 NYS WRITTEN EXAM 8/17/06

I had no idea he was a retired(?) member of FDNY.

I am going to have to agree...budwiser in general was great. The revolving refridgerator was the best one. Im surprized miller didnt have any commercials.

Only One Firefighter Initially Responds to Florida Fire Story by wesh.com There was a near fire in Volusia County when only one firefighter initially showed up to fight a fire that gutted a home. That firefighter battled a house fire in Oak Hill all by herself for 10 minutes until backup arrived, but state procedure calls for no less than four firefighters to be at a fire at the same time. The county follows the state fire marshal's standard of two firefighters inside a burning structure and two outside in case something goes wrong, WESH 2 News reported. The lone firefighter who responded said she did not go into the structure, despite reports to the contrary. Rescuers could not save the house or the pets inside it. One firefighter responding to a fully involved house fire was woefully inadequate, according to Oak Hill police Officer Diane Young, who was also at the scene. "For one fire truck and one firefighter, it was very difficult for her to handle. I would say, yes, she could have used more help at the time she arrived," Young said. County Fire Station No. 22 is less than a mile from the house. Firefighter Melissa Drewry arrived quickly but alone because her partner was in training. County spokesman Dave Byron agrees that a replacement should have been called in. "Certainly. I mean, unequivocally, there's no question about it. Backup support and having a partner or having additional partners there is absolutely a better and more safer situation," Byron said. WESH 2 News has obtained the fire dispatch report, which says that one firefighter was in the burning structure by herself with heavy smoke conditions and fire coming out of windows. But the Drewry's statement conflicts with that report. "I stood on the porch of the structure in the open doorway of the front and sprayed water into the doorway to cool it down before reinforcements could arrive," she said. "I did not make entry into the structure, but stood in the doorway for approximately two to three minutes spraying water." The discrepancy may center on the front porch itself. It is covered, with screened walls but not necessarily part of the house structure. Whatever the case, the county admits without the minimum two-crew team, a lone firefighter could have easily have been in harm's way. "Certainly there's some second-guessing going on and we will definitely take steps to see what we can do to prevent this from ever happening again," Byron said. The county said there is some leeway in the two in, two out rule, including if a firefighter thinks lives are in jeopardy or if they think they can go it alone with just one backup and still be safe. The county is hiring 65 new firefighters so they can better staff all of the county's fire stations. I run out of Station 11 in holly hill. Our first responce district has the most fire out of anyone in the county, so our engine is normally staffed with 3 people at all times

negative...we respond 24/7 along with the paid guys...although looks like the vollys will be gone soon

I have no idea why box alarms havent been assigned, but vollys are not allowed to show up on scene PERIOD in their POV...your either in the station when the call comes in and jump on the rig, or your SOoL. We are not allowed to run lights on our POV in volusia county, so trying to make it through "city traffic" to the firehouse is impossible.

We are a combo department, but I have no idea how many vollys there are in that station. Volusia county is trying to rid out the vollys totaly because of unions and other things, so there could be a considerable about less then my station (which only has 5-8 "active" [if we can even call them that] vollys). Thing is, down here, people dont want to volunteer, they would much rather leave it to the paid guys.

I'll be working there...look for me running around in a blue ems jump suit!!

deffinatly the seahawks...my neighbors back home are the biggest steelers fans, and i put up with there steelers crap all the time lol, so naturally im rooting for the other team.

where do i sign up?

i am subscribed to other forums online, and the way they are set up is you have to pay to get some of the advanced features such as an avatar, or a location under your name. Just some ideas.

omg, are you serious?? THis video has been around the internet twice!!

whats his number?

We are looking into getting a pageing system for our campus EMS. We looked into the idea of minitors, but a tone system would need to be set up and that didnt seem practical. So we started looking into alphanumeric pageing. Does anyone know what kind of equipment is needed to dispatch an alphanumeric pager and where we could find out about the equipment? Thanks

As many of you know or might have heard, I along with 2 other friends got bored at my school and started putting together a Campus EMS program. Over the last few months, we have given numerous presentations, schedualed countless hours and paid for things out of our own pockets. Its been a rough ride so far with set backs and uncertainties from certain individuals, but right now we're living the high life. Currently we are not operational because of certain individuals who think that we are a bunch of kids and we dont know what we are doing. This hopefully will soon change. Today however, at our activities fair, where clubs and organizations show off what they do, a student passed out riding their bike, and she hit hard. The Pt has donated blood about 20 min prior, hadn't had anything to eat all day, and was working out in the morning. We were at our booth showing off what our plans are for the campus, and we recived a phone call saying that an individual had passed out. Three of us responded to find this individual totally unconsious in the middle of the walkway. As we checked for A&O, the patient became alert only to painful stimuli. EVAC ambulance had been dispatch and was already 5 min enroute and no sound of sirens yet. Two sets of vitals were being taken and Pt info was being recored while a crowd of curious onlookers and photographers from the campus news paper showed up. About 5 mintues later (total of 10 minutes) EVAC ambualnce arrived. The crew was surpized and excited to hear that Embry-Riddle now has a "quick responce" to provide immediate care. Pt transfer went extreamly smoothly and the crew was extatic that her info and 2 sets of vitals were already taken. Numerous people congradulated us on a job well done, and people were exited to see that we could provide care quickly and well (people actually came up to us and said "Now we know that you guys know what your doing." umm ok....lol) Anyways, it went off so smoothly I could not ask for a better way to let the campus see that we can provide efficent, practical and proper care to thoes in need. Hopefully this event will cause a stir in the higher ranks of the school, and we will become fully operational sooner then we planned. If you have any questions on how we plan on operating, copy's of our By-laws / SOG's or anything else, feel free to ask / email me at firefightervergo@gmail.com Comments and opinions are always welcome. Alex Vergo Proud Captain of Embry-Riddle EMS

of course i chose the one to the north (Station 11, holly hill / halifax) because we run the most structure fire out of any of the departments in the county...DBFD Eng 4 i think is number 67 on the most number of runs in 2005 in the country.

around the campus is compleatly paid, but if you go to the county department, then you can volly. But vollying down here stinks...they dont accept any of my classes...FF I and II so i would have to retake all of them. So I'm just going to be a driver...if they ever offer an EVOC course

will there be a weekend survival/FASTeam class this summer? preferabaly when I am home

Today was 70, sunny, semi-cloudy with a light wind. The last week has been B E A U tiful. Funwise, your not missing too much. The 17:1 male:female ratio deffinatly puts a huge damper on things. Daytona its self is not a nice place to be, its quite depressing actually. The drugs, violence, rednecks and the "ghetto" makes the whole area pretty bad and and the beach itself isnt that nice. Not to much nightlife, but if you get involved with the fraternitys on campus, activites and things to do start to open up slightly. Id stick with going to RIT.

im posting a map of the area im in with the FD locations and EMS posts that i know of...you can click on it to make it bigger http://www.supload.com/free/postFdlocations.bmp/view/ edit: I forgot about 2 FD stations located to the North and East....so new picture The red star is Embry-Riddle University Blue Squares = EMS Posts Red Squares = FD stations Red Circle = Halifax Hosiptal