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I don't really see how it's anti-police. The written article was very factual, and the only time they used the word tragic was on the record newswatch. They also went on to say that the troopers tried to use non-lethal methods to bring him into custody and only fired once he became an imminent threat to them. If they were trying to make it anti-police, they wouldn't have included any of that.

1. AEMT-I (commonly known as just EMT-I), is a New York State thing, along with EMT-CC. Basically, it's because the National curriculum doesn't require you to to take CPR as part of the EMT class, just that you have it. New York wanted to have everyone take it in the EMT class, so they put it in and then relabeled the entire ems system. As I understand it though, the NYS levels (EMT-B, I, CC, and P) are equivalent to the National Registry levels. 2. As he stated, take the course upstate where they use EMT-Is, cause they'll have the class, rather than down here where medics are readily available. I would contact whoever your local ems council will be and see if they have any info on where you can take a course. Quick warning; NYS dropped either EMT-I or EMT-CC with this new curriculum, so that may be the reason you can't find an EMT-I class

So with all the arguments lately about how we shouldn't have stop and frisk, here's a great argument for having it. From the NYPD Facebook page.

So because the firefighters and the dispatchers didn't have the ability to see into the future and see this fire was gonna break out and sent the first due company on another call, this needs to be investigated? Secondly, they said the woman went to the fire house to report the fire, that's why you should just call 911 on the phone, cause you know they'll always be there.

The problem with having a paid EMS agency backing up a VAC is that the volunteers become reliant on the paid agency and stop coming out for the 'boring calls". I had one incident a couple of months ago, a neighboring VAC couldn't get out to a chest pains call at a local nursing home around 100 hours, so they went to their commercial service backup. In order to save money though, the commercial service only had a couple of ambulances on the road over night, so all the service had available was a ALS fly car. So they went to the first due mutual aid VAC for a transport unit, who also couldn't get a rig out. Finally, after about 15 minutes after the initial dispatch, they turned it over to my agency for the transport rig. It took us another 20 minutes to get on scene, and then probably another 10 minutes to the ER, for a total of about 45 minutes between the initial dispatch and the time the patient got to the ER. Luckily we stepped on it going to the hospital, because as soon as we got the patient on the ER bed, he coded. So I would rather see paid staff dedicated to staffing a specific rig rather than making a mutual aid agreement with a commercial service.

They're talking about non-fire emergencies like gas leaks though, outside of maybe haz-tac buses, I can't think of any ambulances that would handle a gas leak

The article itself is kind of confusing. First of all, I thought that all FDNY front line apparatus were replaced every 10 years, so are they talking about special units, such as High rise and foam units? This article makes it sound like there's a whole fleet of older rigs being used by the city. Secondly it says the older rigs are used for non-fire emergencies, so there's a whole set of staffed fire companies, with older rigs, that are doing non-fire emergencies, doesn't sound right.

Date: 8/16/13 Time: 16:00 Location: 2076 Independence Drive Units: Vails Gate Fire department (E-478, T-482, E-479, E-481, R-480, Car-1), Salisbury Mills (1 engine), City of Newburgh FD (FAST) Coordinators: 36-13, 36-15 Stand-bys: Cornwall FD (T-402) standby Vails Gate Station 1, New Windsor FD (E-446) Standby Vails Gate Station 1 Description: Vails Gate FD dispatched for a possible structure fire, pd advising "the entire house is on fire" upon arrival. Vails Gate Safety transmitted the 2nd alarm upon arrival. 16:34: per 36-16, Tower in operation, exterior operations, Newburgh FAST has been released. .

Date: 8/11/13 Time: 6:23 Location: Pine Island Turnpike and Distillery Road Units: Warwick FD (Car 2, Car 3, E-634, E-636, R-637, M-644) Warwick EMS (202, 203, 205 (duty officer) 209 (Captain)) Emstar EMS (808) Lifenet (Air 2) Town of Warwick PD Description: Car vs Heavy duty pickup with trailer. Driver of the car pinned, unconscious, unresponsive, driver of the truck self extricated with no complaints of injury. Driver of the car extricated and transported to the LZ (set up by FD E-636) to meet air 2 for transport by Warwick 203 and Emstar 808. Driver of the truck transported to Saint Anthony's Community Hospital for evaluation by Warwick 202.

Orange County will be giving their Police Officer/Deputy Sheriff exam on 11/16, last day to file is 8/14. Exam Announcement: http://www.orangecountygov.com/filestorage/124/1360/1556/1558/Police_Officer-Deputy_Sheriff_%2360682.pdf Application for Examination: http://www.orangecountygov.com/filestorage/124/1360/6762/Employment.pdf

Based on the Promos, The officers are with the Sleepy Hollow Sheriffs department with a brown and black color scheme and red and blue lights, so that throws out any idea of the police in the show being similar to Sleepy Hollow PD. As for filming in Sleepy Hollow, I can't say for sure, but the population in the show is apparently 14.5 times larger than the actual population of Sleepy Hollow, which would lead me to believe no because the actual village probably doesn't look like it has 144,000 residents.

Not that I know a ton about the FDNY/NYC ems system other than that its busy, but was there no CFR engine avaliable or assigned? And just my two cents, if someone who you know is going to make a big issue out of a long response time, like a mayoral candidate, calls 911 for ems, send the closest available unit, whether it be an ambulance or a CFR engine or even a truck company. They may not be equipped, but at least they're trained and can provide some level of care till an ambulance can get there and you avoid this whole situation.

As I understand the article, the helmet was in the fire house when it was stolen. Are they thinking that someone broke into the fire house to steal the helmet?

I agree, but if Greenville were to put a truck on automatic response for structure related calls, they would be used maybe a couple of times a year. Just for clarification for everyone, were are talking about Greenville in Orange County, about 10 minutes outside of Port Jervis. A very rural district that would see a significant decrease in calls if they didn't cover a part of Route 84

Yes they do, a 75' Mack tower ladder. I think this is more about getting a NEW rig compared to the height or any other issue. Also, they have 2 75' tower ladders (Mount Hope and Otisville) and a 100' tower ladder (Slate Hill) bordering the district, so is it really financially prudent for them to get a new ladder, even if they need it, or just start using mutual aid?

My point was that according to the Yonkers PD website and other people on this site, there isn't a residency requirement, so I don't know why that was in the article.

Gotcha, Thanks. I don't know why the article lists a very specific residency requirement if there isn't a requirement, but whatever

Is there actually a residency requirement? Cause the mid Hudson news has one listed, but it doesn't show up on the YPD website or the application.

Is this going to include any other fire fighting units they have, such as the engine they have assigned to the GWB, or just the airports? I know they only have to make the change for the airports, but it would be a little weird to have fire fighting units and fire apparatus assigned to a fire unit and apparatus and personnel not assigned to the fire fighting unit.

It's patient/family choice depending on what's the appropriate facility. And I was honestly surprised last weekend when the crew asked my patients wife what facility she wanted to go to, between Hackensack and WMC, and when she asked their opinion, they told her they were both about equal. I was expecting to hear them say Hackensack, but apparently, they don't feel the need/ haven't been told to push going to Hackensack

Date: 6/22/13 Time: approx. 20:00 Location: 17 A and Mountain Lakes Road Units: Greenwood Lake FD, Greenwood Lake EMS (366, 367), Warwick EMS (201, 202, 203, 204 (MCI/support unit), 205 (duty officer)) Mobile Life Support, Hackensack Airmed 1, Town of Warwick Police, Village of Greenwood Lake Police. Coordinators: EMS 1, EMS 16 Stand Bys: Pine Island EMS 302 s/b Warwick's Bay, Tuxedo EMS s/b Greenwood Lake's bay Description: NJ Transit commuter bus went head on with a van with entrapment and serious injuries. Saint Anthony's Hospital on full divert and unable to accept any patients at all, closest ALS unit coming out of Middletown. Total of 14 patients. 5 transported proir to ems arrival, 1 patient transported by Warwick 201 to Greenwood Lake CVS to meet Hackensack Airmed 1. Other 8 patients were transported to either Orange Regional Medical Center or Good Samaritan Hospital by 366, 367, 202, and Mobile Life Support. *Greenwood Lake EMS 365 already enroute to Good Samaritan ALS on a separate call when this incident occured

This artice makes it sound like Buffs are synonomus with badge banger, which is certainly not true. I will say that it is a fine line between letting people into the fire house. I know at least one local department in my area who has a special needs member, who does what he can, and I'm sure that there are similar situations in the FDNY as well, which leads to the question, who do you let in and who do you keep out. No offense, but if someone shows up at my ambulance bay with free food, I'm not turning them away, granted I'm not in a target rich environment like NYC where someone is more likely to harm first responders. On a side note, after looking at the woman's picture, if there are any FDNY fire fighters who "dated" her, I don't get it, unless they're the type of guy who will do anything cause it's there.

Basically Oregon voters don't want to pay more taxes for anything, including public saftey. Therefore, public saftey levels, i.e. manpower levels, response times, etc. have fallen to levels where the aren't effective, such as the example in the article. Thereforte, laws makers want to declare a "public saftey emergency", which would allow them to create new taxes in order to create funding for the public saftey services

Per FDNY, they will be anouncing the civil service tests for EMS end of August, September, and supposedly, while they are not hiring off the provisional list, being on the provisional list will help when they do call backs once the civil service list is created.

The entire thing seems weird, an interfacility transport requiring red lights and siren?! Souldn't they be stabilized first before leaving the original hospital? Also, since it was an interfacility transport, there may have been someone else aboard like a nurse or someone that they would have on the specialized transport rigs who wasn't killed and therefore they weren't mentioned