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The only time this should be ALS is if an arterial bleed is uncontrolled...maybe for no exit wound or long txp time(30min+)?

I am aware of these things, he just made the tone of the post sound as if he was ok with allowing someone to RMA with a pulmonary embolism with a trivial issue such as lack of insurance, like he was dealing with a stubbed toe or something. I worked in the NYC system where you had to spend 30 minutes on the phone with telemetry to even consider an RMA like that or it would be your a$$.

You allowed someone having a possible pulmonary embolism to RMA???

Beacon is the big city? But seriously that is a long trip from PV down to Beacon

Though I don't envy that job in this day and age it is definitely on of my favorite genres...they are usually better than fd movies LOL. I don't think Training Day, Fort Apache, Copland or Colors have been mentioned. On a side note I always thought report from Engine Co. 82 with the right director, lens and ADVISORS would make a great movie.

I think you have to pay for parking too

Dont worry they will still be allowed to do whatever they want...

I am as politically conservative as anyone else on this board but my feelings when it comes to property taxes is that you get what you pay for. When I was young and dumb I bought a home in an area where the taxes were low around 3k a year and basically everywhere I went around town it felt as though an episode of COPS was about to break out. I had halfway houses and section 8 on my block. While there were many good families around, there was enough skells to keep me looking over both shoulders day and night. Now I live in a town where I pay closer to 10k in property taxes but the piece of mind is worth every penny. I don't worry as much about my families safety and I can go to the supermarket without feeling like I am going to get car jacked in the parking lot.

What makes you think none will be in wealthy neighborhoods or Manhattan? Engine 4 which was saved from the chopping block at the last minute last year is first due on Wall Street!!!

I have lived my entire life in the nyc area and I have never seen a "Tefillin" in my life. If a guy like me who grew up in an area with more Jews than anywhere outside Israel doesn't know what they are, how is a 25 year old stewardess from Kansas with a junior college degree and an 8 hour course in diversity gonna know what they are?

The physical agility is easy. The academy is pretty far from a bootcamp, but was academically challenging. In 2004-05 it took me about a year from when I initially applied to when I was hired. Good luck.

I don't think you understand exactly what I'm talking about. If you have a minute look up crossfit on youtube. Any serious crossfitter would have no problem climbing 6 flights of stairs and going to work. I rarely run but when I do I still post ridiculous times. Crossfit is fast becoming the workout program of choice for military special ops and emergency services personell all over the country because it works. Unfortunately it hasn't caught on as much here in the northeast but it is gaining poplarity everyday.

Do lots of deadlifts, squats and kettlebell swings. If you can afford it go to a CROSSFIT affiliate...if you can't follow their workouts as best you can on the crossfit.com website. Cardio is OVERATED, take a run through the woods every now and then or jump on stairmaster with a waited vest once or twice a week. Also climb ropes and do lots of pull ups and push ups...when you get tired do some more. Eat natural food..don't eat processed crap made in a science lab. Follow this advice and you will be a beast at the academy.

I got to do this for EVOC in FDNY EMS. I think this simulator and the one at the rock were donated by NASCAR after 9/11. I remember the instructors saying and I dont know if this is BS or not but most of the people who get sick tend to be older. Younger people especially males tend to do fine and they were saying this is because we grew up playing Nintendo, play station etc., and we are "condtioned" to immersing ourselves in a video screen. I know I did not feel any dizzyness or ill effects.

I like the idea...makes a safer spot for non essential family members to sit than in the back of bus.

Good to hear it is going strong, I had a good time there as a kid.

Sort of off topic, but that place is still around? I went there twice 20 years ago, once with my elementary school and once with cub scouts. I figured it was McMansion development by now!

A lot of people forget that many countries including those in Western Europe are not democracies as we think of in the American sense. They don't have a bill of rights or a constitution garunteeing freedom of speech, miranda rights etc. quote name='abaduck' date='13 November 2009 - 11:11 PM' timestamp='1258171913' post='196597'] PFDRes47cue, you were lucky not to end up in jail. OK OK slight exaggeration there, but there IS a new law in the UK which can be interpreted as making it illegal to take photographs of police if such photos could be 'of use to terrorists'. It's a VERY controversial topic in the UK at the moment, and some elements in the police there are already pretty hostile to photographers.

A picture of 75 engine hitting a hydrant "backdraft" style may be too buffy even for this site!

They could never get this project off the ground when the economy was booming how do they expect to get the ball rolling in the current fiscal climate? Yonkers is too far and seperated by its most unfashionable borough from nyc for the yuppies and hipsters to invade. It just doesn't have the sweeping skyline views and proximty to manhattan that gentrified communities like Hoboken, Jersey City and North Brooklyn have.On the other hand Decades of "percieved" high crime and political corruption have given Yonkers somewhat of a poor reputation among more affluent families.in Westchester and the Hudson Valley. It is difficult for me to imagine the average young family in Westchester traveling to downtown Yonkers for anything let alone spending the evening at an entertainment complex. I hope the project works out bit I think its going to be a hard sell.

17.) More guys paying attention to Phsysical fitness. 50 years ago guys were doing "12 oz curls" washed down with "liquid bread" protein shakes. I'm guessing guys started getting involved with "Arnold" inspired weight training in the 1970's, which has now progressed to members doing more functional fitness stuff today like CrossFit and P90X.

The comissioner in FDNY does not so much run the dept operationally, as he is a more of a business manager. IMO I think it is better to have someone with firehouse and fireground experience who understands what it is like to crawl down a hallway what the culture is like in the firehouse kitchen. This however is not how a business man like Bloomberg thinks, he just wants his represenative yes man in the comissioners chair.

You can have him...by the way he currently is not a firefighter, nor was he ever. He is however a career yes man and bueracrat.

When I was in EMS a few years back I was fortunate enough to be the standby for it. When(if) I have kids I would definitely take them back. I was 25 years old and I had a blast, I can imagine an 8 year old would be on cloud 9!

Another member added to heavens fire department...RIP FF Joyce