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Great website!!!!....and EMS program!!!! While we're on the College EMS website subject, gotta throw out a link to my friends at Villanova EMS: www.vems.org

I took a trip today and went to this, had a good time. The new VEMS bus (And the new Radnor bus!) are pretty sweet! Thanks goes out to RadnorCo15 for the invite and tour. Photos were submitted to www.emtbravo.com and have been posted.

"6.3 Obtain a computerized unit deployment and tracking program" Would this be a new CAD system?

Here's a photo of the rig in question, from www.firenews.org : http://www.firenews.org/mass/NatickL1new.jpg

Just a bump/reminder for this coming Wednesday.

Saw the other day, the Shell on 172/22 in Bedford $2.15 for 87....now thats crazy....seems like that station always has the most absurdly highest prices anytime. They say it's only going to get worse, and the price mentioned above will be a bargain soon. :sad:

I don't get it.

I'd say there should be a "Welcome Home" party at the least, lol!

Dobbs Ferry Ambulance corps fighting shortage of personnel: http://www.thejournalnews.com/newsroom/031...dobbscorps.html

Listing of current available CT PD jobs: http://www.post.state.ct.us/Jobs/cover_page.html

NICE Rigs and photos!!! Two questions though..... How could you take a picture of Quint 9, when it is here sitting on my shelf? Where is the pump on that engine???? I love the layout, with the easy to see tank levels, eyebrow lights, low hosebeds, "smokestack" exhaust, light tower, etc!!! Also I like the "Top Gun"...is there any story behind that?

I recently read an article on this subject in one of the magazines, I wish I could remember where. I feel Mini-Attacks should be a suppplemental piece, or utility piece, but never replace a front line unit. I think the are useful in certain situations, such as narrow driveways/limited access (parking garages, trails,courtyards) where they can get closer to the fire and act as manifold units, as brush rigs, to sit at a wires down call, to respond to EMS calls as a first responder unit. If you have the staffing, then there's no need to put wear and tear on a $400-$700,000 piece of equipment. It also keeps the other apparatus free for fire calls. (As for the EMS comment,note that this concept only applies to volunteer response. Career department response should be determined by closest available unit) You should never deplete your crews for your true first line units, and as said before this should only be a supplemental piece. I believe it is Rochester, NY that runs a Midi Pumper/Quint concept like this. As far as chasis are concerned, what does everybody feel is the most appropriate chasis for a mini attack?

I agree with ALSFF that public education is a problem. One step towards better public EMS education is during EMS week, we should go out there and do similar activities such as go to the schools, host health fairs, etc. It's also a very fine line, as we don't want the public to ever question whether or not they should call us. Unfortunetly, despite all the education we may give the public, 911, the way medicine works for urban areas, and sometimes others, is that we are first line health care. Whether or not we are volunteer or paid should not make a difference, but sometimes it does. BS calls do burn us both out, but you are their to do a job, and people depend on you to do it regardless of the call, and, oh yeah, TREAT them like a human being. Every job has its BS, and EMS is no exception. Unfortunetly, one side of this equation can select calls they want to go on, and most of the times the exciting calls at a good hour win out. With the issue of tying up buses, your system should be designed to handle that (Priority Dispatch, Enough buses, Quick Turnarounds,Good Crews). This is one of those things why we need to start more political lobbying, but I'm not going to get into that issue now. As for Intoxication is a medical problem.The main reason for that is you have to rule out other causes that it may mimic intoxication, such as a diabetic emergency, stroke, seizure, poisoning, etc. However, when the mayor has developers coming to town, and he orders PD to "clean them up", it not only falls in and overloads EMS, but also the ER's. Having worked in an ER, the intoxicated patients often tax your resources night after night. This is not an only an EMS issue, but a social service issue as well.

I'm sitting here listening to the radio scanning noise box, and I had forgotten how many seperate departments/PSAP's conducted daily tests at various times throughout the day. Many of these departments use their radios quite frequently daily. One of the departments I heard had just returned from a call that they used their radio's quite extensively, and they had to "test" the radio again 2 minutes later! I've often wondered, are these tests obsolete? In today's day and age, are these really neccasary? Will these continue with the new improved slicer-dicer county radio system? If department's feel it neccasary to conduct radio or rig radio checks, why doesn't weekly suffice. It's my opinion that these tests are useless, for the most part, and serve no purpose other than to clutter the airwaves and add yet another responsibilty to the radio operators job. It's been stated volunteers among others, use this oppurtunity to test their pagers, which is somewhat the only valid point I can see. However, most pagers feature a self-test (that "beep" when you turn it on), and if pagers are that unreliable that tests need to be done daily, then new pagers need to be issued. If the reason is that the pager might break during the day, then it's not a valid reason to me.Be more responsible with your radio equipment With the advent of emails, nextels, etc it's no longer valid to use these tests to pass along messages to members either. If it's because "What if the radios broken?", their should ALWAYS be a backup means of communication in this business. Again, just my opinion. Maybe somebody could shed some more light on this subject, as my opinion is based on one side of the radio.

On Saturday, I was in NJ.....price per gallon of Mobil 87oct unleaded was $1.69

Extreme History With Roger Daltrey Surviving the First 100 Years of the FDNY Saturday, March 20 @ 5:30pm ET/PT On The History Channel Roger Daltrey joins New York's Bravest as we recreate life in the early days of the FDNY. Roger goes on a mission with one of the most decorated firefighters, Paul Hashagen, to find out how the FDNY evolved from a bunch of unruly hooligans with buckets to highly trained professionals. At the legendary New York Fire Academy, Roger, Paul, and FDNY firefighters battle conflagrations through the centuries using a broad range of period gear and techniques.

This is all I have. I'm sure others on this board have some further info. Port Chester: 24 dead, Gulliver's Discotheque in Port Chester, N.Y., June 30, 1974. Arson fire in nearby bowling alley spread to disco. Harrison:Stouffer Inn Fire, Harrison, New York On December 3, 1980,at around 10am, less than two weeks after the blaze at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, a fire erupted in the Stouffer Inn Conference Center in Harrison, New York, killing 26 people and injuring several dozen others. The fire started with an explosive force and spread in seconds through the hallways and meeting rooms of the third floor, asphyxiating most of the victims.

There's also one at www.NYCFire.net

From: http://www.njfirephotos.com/

Photos from this event submitted and posted, www.emtbravo.com I had a decent time. They had some really intersting apparatus there. My favorite had to be Englewood Cliff's new Pierce Dash.

Word is Rye Brook has broken ground on their new firehouse.