mikeinet

Actually to everywhere I've seen in CT, they require you to be at least an MRT to ride somewhere on the rig (driving/etc.) - I had figured it was a state mandate, but maybe just most depts adopt it?

Can I get 23?

NY -> CT is even easier Just need to send a form to NYS DOH and send CT a copy of your EMT card.

So why can't the new haven line go into Penn? I'm guessing these lines are not electrified?

I think the page is still VERY busy with too much on it...but TONS better than it used to be

How about this one... I really question if they could have stopped and not hit that tanker truck:

Everything I have to recommend has already been said... but i'll just say this: In my opinion... there's two types of EMTs. #1: The one who does everything to the state practical sheets #2: The one that acts like a street-EMT. Once I got out of my EMT class... I feel like I had to re-learn a lot of "everyday things" as the way you act on real calls day in and day out are not always as they may be on the practical sheet. (if that makes any sense)

Seth, Have you checked this out: http://www.wcb.state.ny.us/content/main/wo...juredWorker.jsp They have a whole section on volunteer firefighting/ems (interesting for others... doesn't apply to you though) Regarding Lawyers... I know it often seems like they're just trying to get your money or this or that... but hey, they go to school for a reason. They get paid to know everything and everything about their area of work. Would you want a laywer coming to fight a fire if you're house was burning down? ;-) Just my $0.02.

Fascinating Article. It's too long to post -- but here's the URL. Discusses what insurance companies are doing and private fire depts and the concept and its effects. http://rawstory.com/news/2007/As_public_fi...ollar_1210.html

that's a pretty good question... one thought could be that garbage men generally travel only a block or two at a time on the backstep while fire apparatus are going a lot faster... going through intersections against traffic (so higher potential for accidents) and travel longer distances...?

http://www.myfoxcleveland.com/myfox/pages/....1.1&sflg=1 Pretty crazy! And it's definetly true in many of our areas.

http://www.history.com/media.do?id=shockwa...amp;action=clip Amsterdam, NY. "He took a house to the face"

Wow... that's just wild. 'Deep in the heart of Texas'

when on an ambulance... always in the front I'll wear a seatbelt... responding in the back to a call (if I am) I'll wear it as well. When tech'ing a call - - I agree w/ everyone, it's virtually impossible with the way current ambulances are designed to fully work up a pt and maintain a seat belted environment. Fire apparatus... can't lie, I rarely do wear a seatbelt. POV... every single time.

I had the opportunity to do a ride-out with the LAS a little over a year ago. This is considered a pretty big deal over there. They have bumper stickers in all their rigs (INSIDE their rigs) saying how it's punishable by jail time to assault an EMS worker... etc. etc. I remember haivng some converstations with medics/EMTs how there really is a violance problem among pts and ems crews in the London area.

http://gigglesugar.com/753054

I'm pretty famailar with the town... not the FD. They do have a lot of lakes in the area that i'm sure they get calls for here and there. It's also more of a rural area...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/arti...in_page_id=1770

Doctors orders! :-) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21219366/

no no no nutty... you got it all wrong. The engine was trying to PICK UP another rig and was trying to fake drowning to get 'someone' to come save her

Article is too long to paste: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-09-09-911_N.htm I'm really quite stunned right now. Driving to work, I get a mix of CT and NY radio stations as I'm right on the LI Sounds in CT. The *ONLY* radio stations that held a moment of silence were Z100, and 95.5 PLJ... 95.5 even went to NYC to simulcast the memorial. The other radio stations did not even MENTION 9/11. The majority continued to play music, talk about the new rap albums that come out today, or random garble about how somebody's sister slept with their brother who ended up having the kid of their daughter who did it in the bed with grandma. Yes, 9/11 was six years ago. How can society just be like "eh whatever" to something that was SO CLOSE to home? I could understand if I was in rural Nebraska (not to knock them) but within a 1hr radius of where it happened? Mind boggling.

"We are becoming" ... no, I think we long surpassed the "becoming" in that

I love it!!!

well, I guess there's a reason that new yorkers have a sterotype?? :angry:

wow... I was stunned when I read this article. Not to say who's at fault or what my opinion is (though it's obvious) - I can totally see this playing out as I've personally seen similar things happen between law enforcement and EMS. I think the bigger issue here is that everyone needs to remember we "play on the same team" and one cannot stand taller than the other because they took them to a cell or they took them to a hospital... You can very easily handcuff someone at a hospital and put them under arrest