huzzie59

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  1. Posted

    Date: May 31, 2006

    Time: 12 Noon

    Location: Yonkers Train Station

    Frequency:

    Units Operating: Multiple Canine Units

    Description Of Incident: Unknown

    Writer:

    Multiple canine units operating on the Yonkers Metro-North Station Platform. Units from Yonkers, MTA and others. Saw one unit from Warwick, NY.

    Anyone know what was fgoing on? I assume training of some sort.

  5. Posted

    Bureau of EMS Policy Statement

    Policy Statement # 01-04

    Date 05/16/01

    Subject Re: EMT Staffing

    Standard for Voluntary

    Ambulance Services

    Supercedes/Updates New

    There have been issues raised about the EMT staffing standard that became effective January 1, 2001 for voluntary ambulance services. Article 30 of the Public Health Law states that "the minimum staffing standard for a voluntary ambulance service shall be an Emergency Medical Technician with the patient." The following is intended to help clarify the meaning of the law. This policy is written for ambulance service operation. It does not address first response service operation.

    A voluntary ambulance service must have an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) or higher, attending to the patient at the scene and in the ambulance while transporting the patient to the hospital.

    If a voluntary ambulance service has a written response policy in place in which an EMT is allowed to respond directly to the scene from home or work, the ambulance may respond to the scene of the emergency even if an EMT is not on board.

    If the EMT responding directly to the scene is delayed and the only other ambulance crew available are Certified First Responders (CFR), the CFR may begin care. It is acceptable to have a CFR as a part of an ambulance crew. The EMT assumes responsibility for care upon arriving at the scene.

    If the EMT does not arrive at the scene and another service is immediately available with appropriate staffing, the patient should be transported by that service. If no other service is immediately available the patient should be transported. An intercept with an appropriately staffed ambulance or first response service should be sought while en route to the hospital.

    Continual and repeated failure of a service to assure an EMT arrives at the scene to provide care may result in the Department taking disciplinary action against the service and/or the individual.

    A service may send an ambulance and equipment to the scene of an emergency if they know another service will provide the EMT staff necessary to perform patient care. The service sending the ambulance would share responsibility for the care being provided. These types of mutual agreements to share the staff and equipment must be done in writing in advance.

    The staffing standard requires one (1) EMT with a patient. Therefore, an ambulance must be staffed with at least one EMT. While it is preferable to have more than one EMT if there are multiple patients, the law does not require it. In the event of a multiple patient situation, the EMT would assume supervision of the care being provided to the patients being treated and transported.

    If only one (1) EMT is available to staff the ambulance crew, that EMT must be the patient care provider and/or supervise the patient care being provided. The EMT may NOT be the driver of the ambulance when a patient is being transported. NOTE: In a multiple casualty incident (MCI), local or regional protocols should be followed.

    An ambulance should NOT respond to the scene of an emergency if it is known, in advance that an EMT is not available, as previously discussed in this policy. It is recommended that all ambulance services preplan for the lack of staffing by written mutual aid agreements with neighboring ambulance services and by alerting the local Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) or dispatch authority as early as possible when you know that EMT level staffing is NOT available. Careful pre-planning, mutual aid agreements and continual recruitment programs are necessary to assure sufficient EMT staffing.

    Issued by:

    Edward Wronski, Director

    Bureau of Emergency Medical Services

  9. Posted

    State trooper shot and killed

    Updated: 3/1/2006 4:23 PM

    By: Capital News 9 Web Staff

    A New York State trooper has been shot and killed in the town of Big Flats, just west of Horseheads. The shooting happened during a bank robbery at the Chemung Canal Trust on Canal Street around 1:30 p.m.

    Horseheads Central Schools and Elmira High School districts have been place under lock down.

    There are reports that police helicopters and various police units are searching an area of the town near Interstate 86. Big Flats is located near the Pennsylvania line.

    It's the second shooting of a law enforcement officer in upstate New York in two days. A New Hartford police officer died Monday night after being shot by a robbery suspect who was later shot and killed by police outside Philadelphia.

  14. Posted

    Tarrytown VAC:

    Set Day Crews Monday through Friday - 7am to 7pm augmented with at least one paid personnel.

    Set Night Crews: Monday thriugh Friday - 7pm to 7am

    Weekends are rotated by the 5 night crews (Labeled Crew 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5) plus 2 additional crews ( Crew 6 & 7). They are 24 hours shifts from 7am to 7am.

    Started 20 or so years ago.... Today (Sat. 10/22) happens to be Crew #1, tomorrow Crew #2. Next Saturday Crew #3, etc.

    Generally comes to about 15 weekend shift per year.

    Backup calls/2nd calls are toned out for any available members.

    TPD does the paging.

    After 2 minutes with no responce, they are to go to Mutual Aid.

    One set crew 24/7/365.

  21. Posted

    Are there any circumstances where an ambulance crew dispatched to a call can refuse to transport the person asking to be transported.

    Or in other words, Can we refuse to transport a "frequent flyer" when they trully don't have anything wrong with them; and we've transported them 4 times in the last 2 days for the same issue?

  25. Posted

    I believe 911 cell calls go to the NYS Police. At one time it was in Middletown, NY but now I believe it's the new State Police Facility in Hawthorne.

    From past experience, if you know the municpality you're in when you call, they can transfer you to them.

    If you're unsure, they will attempt to figure out where you are and send the appropriate responce.