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No one should be homeless in this county, especially those who served for this country!

Definitely does not sound right, something is fishy......

"Papered" is a term used by certain PD and EMS agencies up here when a police officer feels the patient is of unsound mind and might pose a threat to them self or others. They are basically being forced legally to be checked out. Usually this is only done in the case if a patient is violent, severely intoxicated or under the influence of drugs and needs to go through detox. It is a legal document used, not often so that it does not get abused, for implied help. That is about the best I cane explain it.

You guys should come by my house when Sikorsky and USGC GLIS are flying over testing their choppers, I live in between them, shakes the house!

10-Buff-4, Firsts off I think I know where you area talking about, very ugly situation. The question I have is did this patient get "papered" by the police / security department for psychological evaluation? If so, the EMT's are covered but the problem is why the person was papered by the pd / security and if it was wrongful, they they area liable. If there is no injuries and the patient refuses treatment, then they are in the wrong. If they are put on a watch paper by the PD then that is a whole other can of worms.

Thanks Jim!

Lad22der you have it right on. No matter what type of service (career of volunteer EMT or FD or even PD's too) it is the same people all the time that are doing the work. Keeping in line with the topic: Also to as a former line officer in a volunteer department, you get burnt out dealing with the "glory hounds" and we all know who they are in the department. These members are the ones who talk the talk but don't walk the walk. They don;t go to drills, take part in functions ect, ect, ect but always show up for the big one and get in the way. Now how to combat volunteer burnout, simple, pace your self. You don't need to go to every call and don't get upset that you missed a "good" call. Remember the rule is always family and yourself first and don't forget about your job / school commitment as well. Never let being a volunteer get in the way of your major commitments, not say that being in a VFD is not one, you need to learn to allocate your time. For VAC's or FD's with corps, they should have shifts, this also might be a good idea for volunteer FD's for the routing calls as well. One night a week is fine and a weekend day in rotation. With a shift crew on for the night for a few hours or overnight crew, you make your commitment but you don't over do it. But also in case the major alarm comes in, you don't feel the pressure that you have to do everything. Its a matter of involvement and if you stress out over it, you become effected and burnout, especially in high run departments and corps. Take a step back an make other people the up to the plate. We all want to wear that big "S' on out chest but sometimes putting on the suit, glasses and hat is better too.

Bachelor in Science is the way to go. UHN like Baba said is a great school. Its not far from where I live, actually I went to high school across the street from the UNH campus and they use our old HS buildings. Really good school and easy to get too. Its at the Corner of Route 1 (Orange Ave now called Boston Post Road) and Route 122 (Forest Road in the Allingtown section of West Haven. Plus they have one of the best college baseball teams around.

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Oh Thank Heaven for 7-11!!

They go through this every year around this time, its nothing new.

GOOD!! You don;t know how many times I've encountered a near crash because someone not paying attention while they area driving has nearly caused an accident and it usually 1 out of 10 that are like this. All of us drivers here have experienced this especially when we are trying to get our crews there safely. Its about time.

I hate it when the weather makes a statement. It's never good !

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Ok, who did the body work on the Mack L's then in the 40's / 50's? I though that was all Mack?

I was going to say MEAT WAGON!!!!!

I was just going to post this. Pretty cool. I got the link to it from Yahoo Groups. They only keep a current list of incidents and clear them out after a while. Cool idea though.

SWEET PIC!!!

I'm just gonna explain out the way I think apparatus should be called. A truck is any heavy motor vehicle with two or more axles with six or more wheels due to size and weight. Any truck that is a triple combination should be called an Engine (traditional name) or Pumper (more descriptive) Any truck that is a quadruple combination truck (pumper, water tank, hose, NFPA full compliment of ground ladders) should be called a "Quad" Any truck with an extending and elevating aerial device more than seventy five feet working height should be called a ladder or tower ladder depending on the configuration. They may also have a pump and be called Quints also. What about reverting back to "Hook & Ladder" like the old days? Any elevated water delivery or master stream device that is less than 75' and is mounted on a pumper should be called an Engine or pumper, or even Squirt or Telesquirt. Rescue should be a truck with specialized equipment for the sake or extricating patients / victims to saftey and carry extra firefighting equipment for department members. Squads can also be acceptable but I tend to lean to the use of Squad if there is some sort of pumper (at least 500 gpm or higher) installed on the truck. If it is an air filling unit, AIR or MASK is OK with me. If it has no fire fighting, rescue capability it should be Support or Service. Ambulances are Ambulances, not rescues. Marine is just fine for water rescue boats. Forestry and Brush are the same thing Any truck that carries water to fires without a pump (1500 gallons or more with porta-ponds) is a Tanker. Engine-Tankers or Tanker Engines should have a 1000 gpm pump and at least a 2000 gallon water tank with a dump valve and porta-pond. I think it is easier to describe what the apparatus' main function is that just giv eit a generic term. "Truck" seems to be used for everything and you sould be able to tell what kind of unit is responding to you. No brain cells were hurt in the thinking of this, but if this was a Friday night, Break out the Jim Beam!!!!

I didn't take it as a dig at all or even though of it as a dig, hopefully neither did anyone else. We all would like something brand new and I firmly believe that is the way it should be especially if a department is very busy or has older apparatus say at the 15th year mark. But I understand where your coming from.

Not for nothing, I thought the Harvey was dock at the Bridgeport Dry Docks for a while earlier in the year for work. I though they already did some major work on her? Anybody know?

Not for nothing, look at Noroton Heights, all rebuilt (except for the rescue) Macks. And they have good luck. Hey if a community, affluent or not, doesn't have the budget to purchase new apparatus well then there is really nothing to do about it. My company had to wait to replace 3 trucks when they reached 25 / 26 years of service and all three were well used and well worn and constantly going out for repairs, we just didn' t have the $$$ and we had a decent tax base for a while but things change. The problem is with us is that we are not "supposed" to by refurbished frontline apparatus, a decision made by the chiefs and commissioners. For Pelham Manor but I wish them luck with the new truck.

If you want to see the Maxi-Water 207 what it looks like now, got to Long Hill FD's website www.longhillfd.com. They own and operate the truck out of their station 1 and it is Trumbull Satellite 203

Over her, we just use the traditional "Engine 1", "Ladder 7" ect. The problem is though we do not have a county numbering / area numbering system, well since we have no county government or true regional dispatch center. The numbering is different for some towns, mine we gor 1,2,3... Our two neighboring towns start at 10 and work their way up. One town designates in the 30's. Another goes by the first number is the station number and the second is the apparatus number (example Ladder 33, Engine 52, ect.) We also don't have the same radio system but if I'm on the neighboring town's radio or frequency we simple go "Ansonia Engine 4 to Derby Rescue 18" for communications. A little long but it works. Once you start going out east, they have a great numbering systems. Valley Shore runs a system where its three section system Department number - Apparatus type number - Unit number. For example 3-7-1 would be Old Saybrook's Ladder 1 or 6-5-3 would be Essex Engine 3 for example. You go into New London County, each town has a letter designation and a two digit apparatus number. "R" is Ledyard's designation and R-13 is Engine 13 from the Ledyard Fire Company while R-22 id Gayles Ferry Fire Co.' pumper. Northeast CT is a little different though. Towns in Tolland, Windham and parts of Eastern Hartford and northern New London County use station ID's. For Example, Scotland Fire Department is Station 16. Their apparatus numbers are Engine 116, Tower 116, Rescue 116, Rescue 516 (ambulances are called rescues and use the numbers 5, 6 and 7). It works for them.

How is it working out for you, I might be upgrading from my i870. Need your opinion. Let me know.