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Send it back promptly (i think you have like 2 weeks to reply), stay healthy, stay out of trouble, and don't get your hopes up. Hope it all works out for you.

Send it back promptly (i think you have like 2 weeks to reply), stay healthy, stay out of trouble, and don't get your hopes up. Hope it all works out for you.

 
They do not carry firearms, though they do have batons and if memory serves me correctly OC. As far as police powers, they have peace officer status.

 
They do not carry firearms, though they do have batons and if memory serves me correctly OC. As far as police powers, they have peace officer status.

 
Canvass letters don't typically go out that early. It's likely for the fall class.
 
FF1 is right, you're over thinking this. Just forget about it and go about your daily life.

 
Usually Westchester offers the CPAT twice a year, in February and then again in August. Like i said in an earlier post, there are already a fair number of people within the 100s who took the CPAT in February. Just stay healthy, in the gym, and taking tests and you'll do fine.

 
You should still get your hands on a vest and do the stair mill. I'm not sure any particular workout, other than hitting the mill with the vest, will prepare you fully.
 
You'll get a letter if they chose to send you to the CPAT. There are, however, a bunch on the list who have already passed the agility.
 
Good luck.

Interesting, because I took it not as lower on the evolutionary scale and more as thinning the heard/survival of the fitest. If you are dumb enough to think you can put anything into your body without consiquences than you may find you will not live a long life.
I have 2 problems with this:
1) staffed BLS units should get this, but as previously stated you are unlikely to get BLS in Westchester onscene in time to use it,
2) giving it out to junkies so they can us it themselves, why not also pay for their narcotics as its their "medication"? We spend billions on the war on drugs (another issue) and this just sends a message that if you want to shoot up for the 1st time to see if you like it, its safe because your buddy can stand by and save you and no one will get caught.

Won't matter in westchester given the average bls ambulance response time. You're guaranteed an anoxic injury.

Won't matter in westchester given the average bls ambulance response time. You're guaranteed an anoxic injury.

Won't matter in westchester given the average bls ambulance response time. You're guaranteed an anoxic injury.

Won't matter in westchester given the average bls ambulance response time. You're guaranteed an anoxic injury.

Won't matter in westchester given the average bls ambulance response time. You're guaranteed an anoxic injury.

Won't matter in westchester given the average bls ambulance response time. You're guaranteed an anoxic injury.

Your burnt out? Try working 70 - 90 hours weekly in this "system."
That said, forget per diem and forget part time. EMS providers deserve a real career path. Either allow a larger pre established agency (in this case GPD comes to mind) handle it or start going to the media and hope change will begin.

Your burnt out? Try working 70 - 90 hours weekly in this "system."
That said, forget per diem and forget part time. EMS providers deserve a real career path. Either allow a larger pre established agency (in this case GPD comes to mind) handle it or start going to the media and hope change will begin.

Your burnt out? Try working 70 - 90 hours weekly in this "system."
That said, forget per diem and forget part time. EMS providers deserve a real career path. Either allow a larger pre established agency (in this case GPD comes to mind) handle it or start going to the media and hope change will begin.

Every agency develops its own M/A policy and more often than not those policies don't put patient care first. Besides, just because the medic requests mutual aid doesn't mean your getting an ambulance any faster. I can recall many an overnight as a flycar medic and 60 dispatchers putting tones out essentially begging people to sign on. I think it went something like " 60 to xyz VAC is anyone going to sign on or out there to answer this call?" It got so bad I would have them send me however could drive and I would ride BLS jobs in because it was quicker for me to get back in service and quicker for the patient. That's the sort of thing we are dealing with here.

Volunteerism is a honorable thing, i think few would argue that. However, the volunteer EMS system simply doesn't work here - it cannot guarantee a timely and appropriate response to requests for service. Its 2013, enough is enough already.
Have to say that i "face-palmed" quiet a few times watching this video. I think it's honorable that leadership met with the town and was honest about the situation - but i just feel it was a bit too "off the cuff." That said, correct me if i'm wrong, but there currently exists no legal requirement that a municipality in NY State provide EMS service (i remember this being an issue many years ago up in Pawling).

Every agency develops its own M/A policy and more often than not those policies don't put patient care first. Besides, just because the medic requests mutual aid doesn't mean your getting an ambulance any faster. I can recall many an overnight as a flycar medic and 60 dispatchers putting tones out essentially begging people to sign on. I think it went something like " 60 to xyz VAC is anyone going to sign on or out there to answer this call?" It got so bad I would have them send me however could drive and I would ride BLS jobs in because it was quicker for me to get back in service and quicker for the patient. That's the sort of thing we are dealing with here.

Every agency develops its own M/A policy and more often than not those policies don't put patient care first. Besides, just because the medic requests mutual aid doesn't mean your getting an ambulance any faster. I can recall many an overnight as a flycar medic and 60 dispatchers putting tones out essentially begging people to sign on. I think it went something like " 60 to xyz VAC is anyone going to sign on or out there to answer this call?" It got so bad I would have them send me however could drive and I would ride BLS jobs in because it was quicker for me to get back in service and quicker for the patient. That's the sort of thing we are dealing with here.

Problem not solved, and more problems created. Again, this is lifted directly from the Fitch study that the county government commissioned in 2008.
Anyone who works in a flycar paramedic system knows that EMD in this county does nothing to appropriately manage resources. I work in three agencies that all receive direct dispatching and EMD from 60 control. The first issue is that 60 control is inadequately staffed to provide consistent EMD - anyone that gets the ipage notification on their phone knows this ( the "no EMD due to call volume / staffing" note at the end of the text), the second issue is that many of the primary PSAPs (local PDs) don't properly transfer the 911 caller to a 60 dispatcher. If that weren't bad enough, a medic gets sent on every job because the paramedic is the only resource in this county that is GUARANTEED TO SHOW UP.
I know i'm not the only one who has been stuck on scene for an hour waiting for a bus or has had to RMA patients that require ALS care because they know they can get to the hospital faster than waiting for the ambulance. All any media outlet would have to do is FOIL 60 control response time records (i'm assuming they keep some sort of log) and boy would they have a field day.
I guess the point i'm trying to make is that the problems are numerous and have metastasized across the county. I look at Putnam & Dutchess (both counties i have previously worked in) and wonder how in the hell did they get everyone on board with centralized dispatching, at least for fire and EMS.

Problem not solved, and more problems created. Again, this is lifted directly from the Fitch study that the county government commissioned in 2008.
Anyone who works in a flycar paramedic system knows that EMD in this county does nothing to appropriately manage resources. I work in three agencies that all receive direct dispatching and EMD from 60 control. The first issue is that 60 control is inadequately staffed to provide consistent EMD - anyone that gets the ipage notification on their phone knows this ( the "no EMD due to call volume / staffing" note at the end of the text), the second issue is that many of the primary PSAPs (local PDs) don't properly transfer the 911 caller to a 60 dispatcher. If that weren't bad enough, a medic gets sent on every job because the paramedic is the only resource in this county that is GUARANTEED TO SHOW UP.
I know i'm not the only one who has been stuck on scene for an hour waiting for a bus or has had to RMA patients that require ALS care because they know they can get to the hospital faster than waiting for the ambulance. All any media outlet would have to do is FOIL 60 control response time records (i'm assuming they keep some sort of log) and boy would they have a field day.
I guess the point i'm trying to make is that the problems are numerous and have metastasized across the county. I look at Putnam & Dutchess (both counties i have previously worked in) and wonder how in the hell did they get everyone on board with centralized dispatching, at least for fire and EMS.

Problem not solved, and more problems created. Again, this is lifted directly from the Fitch study that the county government commissioned in 2008.
Anyone who works in a flycar paramedic system knows that EMD in this county does nothing to appropriately manage resources. I work in three agencies that all receive direct dispatching and EMD from 60 control. The first issue is that 60 control is inadequately staffed to provide consistent EMD - anyone that gets the ipage notification on their phone knows this ( the "no EMD due to call volume / staffing" note at the end of the text), the second issue is that many of the primary PSAPs (local PDs) don't properly transfer the 911 caller to a 60 dispatcher. If that weren't bad enough, a medic gets sent on every job because the paramedic is the only resource in this county that is GUARANTEED TO SHOW UP.
I know i'm not the only one who has been stuck on scene for an hour waiting for a bus or has had to RMA patients that require ALS care because they know they can get to the hospital faster than waiting for the ambulance. All any media outlet would have to do is FOIL 60 control response time records (i'm assuming they keep some sort of log) and boy would they have a field day.
I guess the point i'm trying to make is that the problems are numerous and have metastasized across the county. I look at Putnam & Dutchess (both counties i have previously worked in) and wonder how in the hell did they get everyone on board with centralized dispatching, at least for fire and EMS.

This is simply not just an Irvington problem. It's a county-wide problem. Bottom line is those (politicians and governing bodies) with the power to push / demand / enforce real change just don't care. As far as people dyeing or suffering needlessly, we passed that threshold a long time ago. Fitch & Associates did the study in 2008 and no one did a god damned thing about it.
http://www.westchesterlegislators.com/pdf/2008_EMS_Study_Final_Report.pdf
There it is, in black and white.