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what no video this time

Gonna carry any LDH?

for the more urban enviorments....with FD as a first responder to calls....can they pick up the pt and place them back in bed or chair or where ever they want and cancel EMS?? I say this because waterbury FD responds to all medical calls if available as the first responder except psychs and all 911s at skilled nursing (except codes). If its a "help me i cant get up" and put me in bed where as farmington FD they can cancel and obtain a refusal

Its like the accident in hastings 8-10 years ago on the saw mill, tree fell down, SUV hit and flipped it, both parents passed away, child survied but after that, every tree that was leaning or looked dead from yonkers to mount kisco was cut down. Its a shame something has to happen for a change.

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Dont belive thats it....is more of a 2 door short body commercial style engien

When hastings received there newest ambulance, they did not put the extrication equipment on the ambulance as they did it the past, this engien was replaced in 2006 by E45 a seagrave, so they made the spare eng(E43) into a rescue type vehicle, when they bought their new tiller they traded there old lafrance tiller to norwalk for a utility and boat, the utility now acts as the rescue vehicle.

Ok so its a dept policy not some nfpa standard, my appologies read it wrong, but how can you walk through the woods, moving hose and raking for 6-8-10 hours and maintain body temperature, there are more injuries from hyperthermia and trying to stay cool then actual fire exposure.

All we required is work boots, long pants (jeans), long sleeves, gloves and a helmet and i belive this is per NFPA as well. Bunker gear is just to bulky to be in the woods all day and fatigue will kick in much more quickly

News said it is an 86,000 Sq ft building.........still flowing master streams as we speak

Waterbury is big mix of ghetto, sub-urban and rural area, they have a busy FD with 8-9 eng co's (driver/officer and 2) and 3 truck co's 2 rear mount straight sticks and a mid mount tower (again driver/officer and 2) and they have a heavy rescue (driver/officer/3?) they cover 28sq miles with population of 110,000ish, this is a great busy dept, its roughly the size of yonkers but half the population, when they call mutal aid you know its a big incident, i live 20 miles north and can see the header.

This video is from our own locally grown firefighters from Islip,NY

Here's another

Heres a few from earlier this evening sorry there sideways idk how to rotate them.

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Date:2-22-2012 Time:1830hrs approx. Location: 2150 Corbin Ave, Hospital for Special Care, Staging at Corbin and pearmount Frequency: Units Operating: Multiple PD, State PD, regional SWAT, Multiple EMS, NBFD Weather Conditions: Description Of Incident:Ukn Gunman in hospital with 2 confirmed victims with multiple GSWs Reporters: Writer: Level 1 MCI declared. http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/Police-Respond-to-Incident-at-Hospital-for-Special-Care-140066573.html?abc=yyz

Im one in CT. IMO strictly opinion, Go big or go home. get your medic. yeah as an aemt its something extra cool to do on a call prior to a medics arrival. But there's more to doing an IV or advanced airway or breathing treatment or D50 or narcan (depending on what standard your tough 1985 or 1999). you need to the physiology behind it, not just give a drug because the scope of practice says so. My volley town uses the aemt level and many other towns do as well as we are rural area. When i work in Waterbury (inner city ghetto) we aren't recognized but medics can still use us if there a little tied up. Is it worth it? Depends, if you use your basic skills a lot and know what your doing then yeah go for it. Many members who just volley one day or night a week who don't do the call volume, their skills show it and then to me its more of hindrance. Blowing lines and improperly placed combi-tubes causes more of a problem i think. Again just my 2 cents.

In my department (Harwinton,CT) we have NO ladder/tower/tiller/snorkel device. Our tallest building is a 2 1/2 story residential and 2 churches with large steeples. We are surrounded by 2 towers 2 straight sticks and a quint, but that doesnt matter when neighboring town mutual aid is 15 mins on a good day away, like someone said before start laying LDH and setting up tanker shuttles its over. you cant utilize it unless room is left and that is the last thing on some peoples mind. We do however carry a 14' 24' and 35' extension ladder on our Engine, 14' and 24' on our rescue. The other dept in town YES i said dept not company but thats another story carrys an 16' 26' and a 36' on one of the engines, another 16' and 26' on another engine and on the 3rd engine (pond engine) has a 14' and 24' and 36 feet of hard suction.

That maxim is in awesome shape, beautiful piece

Hartford fire photos

While you were in wtby should of dropped off an app at AMR on East Aurora st, Im not sure if your familiar on how waterbury works but campion covers the "east side" of the city and transfers outta st marys and AMR covers the "west side" and do the transfers outta wtby hospital, but both do intercepts and do full car responses into neighboring towns, back to the CT ems topic you started i mentioned a few other things, such as pay, union vs non union. Campion also covers torrington and has medics in Cheshire and woloctt and fly cars (medic 1 is wtby, 2 is torrington area, 4 is new milford aread, 6 is winsted area. Bristol Hospital EMS is like you said a small tight nit company, they have about 25-30 employees, Bristol covers just the city of bristol they also staff burlington FD ambulance 24/7 with a paramedic and emt durring the day, volleys at night. Im not 100 percent sure on there pay but i believe there above campion but below AMR. The woman who took your app at campion mentioned Bristol because Campions dispatchers (which is upstairs to where you were) also dispatchers Bristol EMS. any other questions PM me, i have a good idea on how everything up here works.

uhhhhh i know things are different outside the northeast part of the US but uhhhhhhhhh

Campion is on the lower end....my girlfriend make $4 less an hour then i do and we do the same thing, but there also non-union.

Also VinTech is a staffing service. They will staff a town's ambulance corps for them. Derby and North Branford are two i can think of who's paid staff is is provided by VinTech. I know their EMTs are, as for North Branford's medic, I think they are also but I'm unsure (Derby is a BLS and Intermediate service, a regional paramedic service is in the area). ahhh the true meaning of earn money sleeping.....we at vintech covers Brookfield and North Brandford for medic services, as well as new milford, georgetown, litchfield, morris, harwinton, north canaan, winsted, canton, thomaston, glastonbury, derby, and a bunch of others west of I-91 that i cant think of at the moment. Medic pay starts at $21/hour At amr-waterbury division we cover half of waterbury as well as all of watertown, medic intercepts with thomaston, morris, plymouth, becon falls and anyone else who calls, also cover the towns of southington, plainville, farmington and avon. the medics here start at $24/hour and we are in a union.