mikeinet

Ladle of Love in Mt Kisco is a really good little hole in the wall/mom-pop place. NOT CHEAP... but the food is amazing. It's in downtown mt kisco next to Cosi in that that little walk-thru area between Cosi & the dry cleaners

Syracuse University doesn't have any fire programs... I believe SUNY OCC (Onondaga Community College) does have somewhat of a fire core.. I'm not sure if it's a degree sense though - I have taken a number of classes there, not sure academically how it works though.

Is this really necessary to be made into a movie? Go make money on something else Hollywood.

geesh... its starting to look like the ealier navigators... lets just keep makin' em bigger and bigger n bigger

wow, this just keeps getting better and better doesn't it... I seem to remember a family guy when Peter swallowed a cell phone... haha

IzzyEng4: No doubt there *are* some places that are decent paying... but I'm just saying for the type of training, degree of dangerness (eh), and hours of work/stress... emergency services is one that is highly taken for granted

What's the starting salary for most paid emergency services positions in the tri-state area.... :-/

I understand what you're saying... but I think it helps to depict to the rest of the world the "initial size up" of a scene. If you roll up to a house and you have fire showing out all sides of the house - it draws a different picture than one with nothing showing and then finding a basement fire... rolling up to a fully involved fire where you can see the glow from a mile away vs a basmement fire you can roll up to and hope to get out quickly before it progresses to the above... I don't think it should "slow people down" from thinking its not a fire, but it helps a lot of people... say you say to 60ctl, "xx on scene, I have fire showing from all 4 sides" - they might start the ball on mutual aid or getting ready to roll the mutual aid and be set when you call for it - while this isnt like a 10 minute process... its still the mindset it puts everybody in. Shrug - I see your point too.

I agree danb... I feel like all the written did was re-enforce CPR in my head (mmm good thing to be a CPR instructor before the exam). I've noticed too many book smart v street smart EMTs around... more practicals would be good - but they have to be actual practicals... not "ok you didn't say your transport priority before checking vitals... you fail" - that's not how the field works.

We recently had a bus driver up in syracuse try to move one of our ambulances because it was blocking the path of the bus... Crew came back to the rig to find the bus driver sitting in the drivers seat - EMT ordered the bus driver away from the vehicle and the bus driver stated that he was "going to find the kill switch and move this vehicle so he can get on his way" you gotta love people.

Well... First, i'm happy to see that someone put some facts out there that EMS is falling in NYS... I can't believe it though that they would recommend LESS TRAINING for EMTs at any level... I think NYS needs to investigate some other ways to keep the volunteers around... not by changing the amount we know - that's just going to lead to things like death of pts and death of emergency services workers... but by something to BENIFIT THE VOLUNTEERS... tax breaks... there's got to be some other stuff they can come up with. *that* is what is going to get people to stick around - not "oh our firefighter I class is only 20 hours now!! its so easy!" geesh.

I think a major part of it is the environment - there are a number of college campuses in the Westchester area... but they arn't the same size as say U of Maryland... Many of the firehouses in westchester also arn't equipped with an environment to have 'live-ins' - no showers... living space... let alone all the OSHA regulations you have to follow when someone lives in. I think it'd be a good idea to explore... but not sure how realistic it is.

Has anyone seen this/know anything more about it such as where to get it? http://www.news10now.com/content/top_stori....asp?ArID=54514

Only McNeil and Co clients!? urgh.

I can't find it anywhere... looked through google for like 30min last night and couldn't find a thing about it besides a company that's used it.

EMD is not a cheap tool... training for each dispatcher is $275-$350. Where i'm a dispatcher... I personally was put through the class, but for budget reasons, a large part of our dispatchers were not... we have our own internal training program that teaches the EMD cards and how to use them and they're used everyday in emergency call taking.

Pre-Arrival Success Story: http://www.syracuse.com/search/index.ssf?/...40.xml?syrnemad

Date: November 17-18, 2005 Time: 1830pm - ongoing (written @ 1400 11/18) Location: 621 S. Midler Ave - Syracuse NY Units Operating: Multiple Units + Car 2,3,4 Description Of Incident: Large abandoned warehouse - in the process of demolition - defensive attack only due to building status - unk. chemicals inside building, feared explosive Photos: http://www.syracuse.com/news/photos/galler...id=2587&index=1 Writer: mikeinet -------------------------------- writeup from syracuse.com: Midler Avenue warehouse burns Friday, November 18, 2005 By Delen Goldberg Staff writer Syracuse firefighters early today were battling a warehouse fire on South Midler Avenue. The vacant warehouse at 621 S. Midler Ave. - the site of a proposed new strip center - housed propane and other explosive chemicals, complicating firefighters' job. "We're losing," Syracuse fire Chief John Cowin said. Firefighters tried to enter the warehouse when they arrived about 6:30 p.m. Thursday. But when they learned that chemicals were inside, Cowin said, they took a defensive approach. "We're not going to risk any firefighters' lives when the building is being torn down anyway," he said. "There was no economic value to the building, no people at risk, so we decided to take a defensive stance." Workers already had begun demolishing the warehouse to make room for a Lowe's Home Improvement Center. The building's dozen tenants had moved out by Oct. 31, said former tenant John Fitzsimmons. Cowin said propane was in the building because workers use it for demolition. More than 40 firefighters remained at the scene. Investigators had not identified the cause. "But if I were to guess," Cowin said, "I'd say it has something to do with the demolition."

uhh... well, its' listed as HEA300 which is a "special topics" class - its under health & physical education - I can't even find it listed in a course catalog... its pretty much only availiable to ambulance core members. if you private message me I can get you in touch w/ our manager though - she is in charge of all that and is listed as the "professor"

Syracuse University allows for EMT class to be counted for 6 credits (2 classes)... grade goes into your GPA. nice A!

To be honest, i'm not really sure the downfall of the system in Syracuse... I think a major part of it is there's a number of hills in the area and coming over the hill and just getting at that right point of contact for the strobe & reciever can be a problem... also, being a very windy area (oh yay) - non-stationary items tend to move around... so if the wind is blowing and the traffic lights sway, then the reciever may not be head-on as positioned for the strobe to hit it... so that could be another issue.

The city of Syracuse has this fully implimented and is used by every piece of fire apparatus (inc. chiefs) - its not 100% reliable due to angles and the way light travels. What happens is there's a reciever on each traffic signal that faces each direction of oncoming traffic - then each vehicle has a strobe that's programmed at a specific rate that triggers the light to quickly change to a green for oncoming traffic. In one sense - this makes it "safer" as now a rig is always passing a green light... but I feel like it creates somewhat of a false-sense of security. I've seen SFD running through intersections WAY too quickly and not "clearing their intersection" correctly... just worried one day a rig will be blowing an intersection at 40mph and someone's going to run the quickly changed red light because they didnt have enough time to slow down (ie: if they were speeding) Overall though, very cool system for larger cities. In smaller rural areas, I don't really think it's worth the money.

ill do pertinant negatives... and if say its a medical call put "no tramatic findings found" or something like that but still go through the negatives like CP/LOC/NVD etc.

I'm not sure if i'm embarassed that I laughed or what...

I'm trying to redo some dispatch protcols for my ambulance corp - we're a self dispatching agency. Syracuse City Ambulance (Rural/Metro) does not page ambulances when they have calls - its more of a "control 132 priority 2 south state street" ... "132 at erie and midler" "132... priroity 2... 30M....etc." We've been thinking about taking this type of approach rather than paging the vehicles (simply a radio tone - we have crews on so don't really NEED for a tone to go off to say set off a pager). Currently, we'll send the tone, then say "a1 priority 1... university ave" then say "a1 in the driveway go ahead with the call" "a1 you'll be responding priority 1... 500 university ave... xxxxxx etc." - so we drop the tone and it just wastes about 20sec for no real reason. Someone told me though that its actually a FCC regulation to page a vehicle/agency for an emergency call? Is there any truth to this? anyone have any background on this? Thanks, Mike