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Due to the nature of the situation, an adminstrative decision at my level has been made to remove the exisiting thread regarding the Union Vale MVA. I also ask that no photos be posted. This incident has affected several active members of this site. If you wish to express your sympathy or condolences, please do so in the "On The Homefront" section.....someone I'm sure will start a thread shortly to do so. If you have any issue with this, please send me an EMAIL at seth@emtbravo.com to discuss this further, as it won't be hashed out at this time on the forum. This isn't the time to debate what belongs on this site and what doesn't, we can have this discussion as a community at a later date. Thoughts and prayers are with everyone involved in this tragedy. ALSO: Please keep in mind the following forum policy:

We've recently created a new program "Post Of The Week". This post will be selected using a variety of criteria including usefulness of information, starts a productive discussion, promotes EMTBravo site values, helps other members out, or any other post we or any member feels deserves reconition.. You can find the "Post Of The Week" right above your board panel, or at the top of every forum. We hope to continue this program to highlight some of the awesome posts made by our members on this forum.

This week's post of the week is "Boat Fire Scenario - Strategy and Tactics Discussion" Posted by: aacofd40 (Nominated by RescueKujo and Chris192) Chris192: "I think this should be post of the week. It is consistent with the vision Seth laid out and the discussion has been intelligent and insightful." RescueKujo: "Guys, I think some attention to the thread "Boat Fire" by aacofd40 is needed...not because of problems but the sharing of ideas and knowledge. He needs an "atta-boy" for bringing this up and passing on some knowledge to the members...."

Thank You nhfd241 for your donation of Not Available . One of the biggest problems facing EMTBravo is a continued source of funding, to provide domain registration, hosting costs, board license fees, etc... Your generosity and donation is greatly appreciated and will be put to good use maintaining and building a better community for you and your fellow members! Every bit counts! Click Here: EMTBravo Donation Portal (This thank you message was automatically generated by our new donation system)

Members, Please ensure that emtbravo@emtbravo.com is added to your "safe senders" list to ensure you recieve important EMTBravo updates, and emails containing information regarding lost passwords, etc. Also, if you are expecting an email from EMTBravo, please be sure to check your junk or spam folders, as some ISP's tend to put bulk or auto send mail in there. Thanks! -Seth G.

EMTBravo.net-Your Knowledge Helping Others-An EMTBravo Update Members, As you may have noticed, we’ve introduced a new slogan for this site. “Your Knowledge Helping Others” We feel that the new slogan represents what we try hard to make the site about. There are a lot of members of this forum who just browse and read, and have knowledge but don’t contribute. We are looking to improve the amount of knowledge shared on the forum, and encourage more members to join in and post. We’d like to see more members posting lessons learned, training opportunities, experience with new equipment, new apparatus deliveries, safety tips and advice, war stories, etc. We hope the new slogan will continue to remind members to share their knowledge. Over the next several months, we will be implementing some changes to improve the perception of the forum. We realize that there are some people who don’t like this forum or don’t understand what it’s about or what a great potential tool it can be. We’re going to be looking to our members to help in verifying the information posted, and make sure that every relevant piece of information, is posted. We will also try and make the site easier to use, and improve our help section and features. As staff, we’re going to continue to moderate this forum to keep it on the right track, and fight the never ending battle with the “keyboard commandoes” and those wishing to incite conflict. Often, it’s impossible for us to please these members, no matter what we do. We want to keep this forum positive, constructive, and respectful, and some just don’t care about that. We want members to treat each other with respect as our primary principle. We will be re-writing the rules so that they are clearer and easier to understand. We’re going to look at ways to be more transparent so that members understand what we do and why. We’re going to look to address the many misconceptions that people have about this site and reach out to more members about the site and the changes. We are going to give members more chance to give feedback, and help us keep the site aligned. I’d also like to give kudos to the staff of this site. They are the ones who keep this site running every day, and are largely unappreciated. There is a LOT that goes on “behind the scenes” that members sometimes don’t understand, and these guys do a great job interacting with members and trying hard to keep the vision of EMTBravo on track. They also provide a tremendous amount of operational support, since most of my time is spent doing administrative tasks related to the site. If it wasn’t for them, I don’t think I would be able to keep the site online. As for the future of EMTBravo.COM, 3.0 is currently in development. Originally scheduled for a Fall 2009 date, we have pushed back the beta launch to Winter/Spring of 2010 as we continue the research and development phase. We hope the new EMTBravo.com will breathe new life into that portion of the site. In November of this year, these forums will celebrate our 7th year online and we are proud of all we’ve accomplished. I don’t like to boast, but this site has really done some great things and created a new avenue of communication that previously did not exist, and has helped a lot of people out, despite what some people may think. Also, as a reminder, this site runs on revenue generated from donations from our members. Donations are always welcomed, appreciated, and needed, and can be made at: http://www.emtbravo.net/index.php?autocom=donate Thanks for your time -Seth G. EMTBravo Founder and CEO EMAIL: seth@emtbravo.com

EMTBravo Outstanding Member Award Winner: efdcapt115 efdcapt115 Posts to date: 153 Joined:4-November 04 Previous Member Group(s): Certified Member, EMTBravo Investor New Member Group: Award Winning Member Member #: 163 Click Here To View efdcapt115's Profile Page efdcapt115 was chosen because he recently hsd been contributing quality information in a positve, constructive, and respectful manner. Congrats! -Seth G. & the EMTBravo.net Team

Thank You PVFD113 for your donation of 50.00 USD. One of the biggest problems facing EMTBravo is a continued source of funding, to provide domain registration, hosting costs, board license fees, etc... Your generosity and donation is greatly appreciated and will be put to good use maintaining and building a better community for you and your fellow members! Every bit counts! Click Here: EMTBravo Donation Portal (This thank you message was automatically generated by our new donation system)

EMTBravo Outstanding Member Award Winner: mfc2257 mfc2257 Posts to date: 756 Joined:6-January 04 Previous Member Group(s): Verified Member, Alpha Member New Member Group: Award Winning Member Member #: 163 Click Here To View mcf2257's's Profile Page mfc2257 was chosen because he is a longtime active member of this forum, always contributing quality information in a positve, constructive, and respectful manner. Congrats! -Seth G. & the EMTBravo.net Team

Recently, the EMTBravo websites suffered some downtime, and we were unable to communicate this with our members. If we are suffering downtime that we are aware of, we will post status updates to our Twitter feed, for which you can sign up for at the link below: http://twitter.com/emtbravo We will also be posting it to our EMTBravo fan page on Facebook (still in development): http://www.facebook.com/pages/EMTBravocom/40451344703?ref=ts or our EMTBravo Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/pages/EMTBravocom/...5068&ref=ts

I truly apologize on behalf of the site for the downtime. It does happen from time to time, and usually there's nothing we can do to prevent it. When I am made aware of a situation, especially the server being down, I do whatever I can ASAP to get the sites back up as soon as possible. Today took a little longer then I would have liked, but I had to be 100% sure that everything was OK before I brought the server and sites back online. Please note that I am working on several things for this site, one of which will include a way to get news to members if the site/server is down. I appreciate everyone's patience during the downtime. If you notice any issues with the site, please email me at seth@emtbravo.com Thanks! When the server is down, that means the email system is down as well.

Thank You efdcapt115 for your donation of Not Available . One of the biggest problems facing EMTBravo is a continued source of funding, to provide domain registration, hosting costs, board license fees, etc... Your generosity and donation is greatly appreciated and will be put to good use maintaining and building a better community for you and your fellow members! Every bit counts! Click Here: EMTBravo Donation Portal (This thank you message was automatically generated by our new donation system)

EMTBravo Outstanding Member Award Winner: grumpyff grumpyff Posts to date: 691 Joined: 11-October 04 Previous Member Group(s): Verified Member, Alpha Member New Member Group: Award Winning Member Member #: 917 Click Here To View grumpyff's Profile Page grumpyff was chosen as this week's Outstanding Member because he is active in discussions, is friendly to other members, enages positive discussion, posts photos, and provides accurate information. He is a vetran of this forum and deserves this honor..... Congrats! -Seth G. & the EMTBravo.net Team

Members- To post new topics or reply to topics on this forum, you MUST be a Certified Member. To learn more, click on the link below: http://emtbravo.net/index.php?autocom=dstaffapp ***IF YOU'RE ALREADY CERTIFIED, PLEASE ENCOURAGE OTHER MEMBERS TO JOIN IN!*****

Thank You GPDExplorers for your donation of 10.00 USD. One of the biggest problems facing EMTBravo is a continued source of funding, to provide domain registration, hosting costs, board license fees, etc... Your generosity and donation is greatly appreciated and will be put to good use maintaining and building a better community for you and your fellow members! Every bit counts! Click Here: EMTBravo Donation Portal (This thank you message was automatically generated by our new donation system)

Thank You Reliance for your donation of 20.00 USD. One of the biggest problems facing EMTBravo is a continued source of funding, to provide domain registration, hosting costs, board license fees, etc... Your generosity and donation is greatly appreciated and will be put to good use maintaining and building a better community for you and your fellow members! Every bit counts! Click Here: EMTBravo Donation Portal (This thank you message was automatically generated by our new donation system)

Thank You Anonymous for your donation of Not Available . One of the biggest problems facing EMTBravo is a continued source of funding, to provide domain registration, hosting costs, board license fees, etc... Your generosity and donation is greatly appreciated and will be put to good use maintaining and building a better community for you and your fellow members! Every bit counts! Click Here: EMTBravo Donation Portal (This thank you message was automatically generated by our new donation system)

Some of you have reported security issues on EMTBravo.com I have resolved a majority of the problem caused by a hacker, and am continuing to repair the extensive damage. However, EMTBravo.com is safe to visit , and I am working with what little time I have to make sure that it stays safe to visit. As with internet security, this is always evolving and I'm doing my best to stay on top of things....this recent exploit affected thousands of other websites across the web. http://www.emtbravo.com If you have any problems or notice any security issues at anytime on any EMTBravo site, please contact me ASAP at seth@emtbravo.com. Please include the link to the affected page, and, if possible, the type of security alert you are getting. Thanks for you anticpated cooperation and understanding! -Seth FOR WHY ALL POSTS FROM YESTERRDAY ARE MISSING, PLEASE SEE THE FOLLOWING THREAD: http://www.emtbravo.net/index.php?showtopic=32671

Thank You WassaicFF for your donation of Not Available . One of the biggest problems facing EMTBravo is a continued source of funding, to provide domain registration, hosting costs, board license fees, etc... Your generosity and donation is greatly appreciated and will be put to good use maintaining and building a better community for you and your fellow members! Every bit counts! Click Here: EMTBravo Donation Portal (This thank you message was automatically generated by our new donation system)

Members, I truly apologize, but while attempting to fix a security issue, we lost ALL posts made today (Wednesday, July 8th 2009) If you posted in a thread today, we ask that you re-post. If you created a thread or posted an IA, we ask that you please REPOST the topic or IA. Again, I apologize and will ensure that this does not happen again. Thanks for your understanding! -Seth

Thank You FIRECHIEF63 for your donation of 40.00 USD. One of the biggest problems facing EMTBravo is a continued source of funding, to provide domain registration, hosting costs, board license fees, etc... Your generosity and donation is greatly appreciated and will be put to good use maintaining and building a better community for you and your fellow members! Every bit counts! Click Here: EMTBravo Donation Portal (This thank you message was automatically generated by our new donation system)

Thank You xchief2x for your donation of 25.00 USD. One of the biggest problems facing EMTBravo is a continued source of funding, to provide domain registration, hosting costs, board license fees, etc... Your generosity and donation is greatly appreciated and will be put to good use maintaining and building a better community for you and your fellow members! Every bit counts! Click Here: EMTBravo Donation Portal (This thank you message was automatically generated by our new donation system)

I deleted the "Which Random Celeb Will Die Next?" thread because the staff felt it to be in very poor taste. What if there were to be a thread entitled "What Department Will Suffer An LODD Next?". That would be horrible. Death is a tragedy, and banking on which celebrity is going to die next is morbid and isn't very respectful, or what this forum is about. Many great people die every day, and just because they are celebrities, in the public eye doesn't justify it. Members banking on which one will be the next to pass on is just...well, wrong. Any issues, please feel free to EMAIL me, my email addy is seth@emtbravo.com

Thank You mbendel36 for your donation of Not Available . One of the biggest problems facing EMTBravo is a continued source of funding, to provide domain registration, hosting costs, board license fees, etc... Your generosity and donation is greatly appreciated and will be put to good use maintaining and building a better community for you and your fellow members! Every bit counts! Click Here: EMTBravo Donation Portal (This thank you message was automatically generated by our new donation system)

Thank You PVFD113 for your donation of 50.00 USD. One of the biggest problems facing EMTBravo is a continued source of funding, to provide domain registration, hosting costs, board license fees, etc... Your generosity and donation is greatly appreciated and will be put to good use maintaining and building a better community for you and your fellow members! Every bit counts! Click Here: EMTBravo Donation Portal (This thank you message was automatically generated by our new donation system)