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I agree that EMS should have vests. In the Georgia incident where five firefighters were taken hostage, they were responding to a general illness call and the suspect was sitting in a chair.
How could anyone have known that scene wasn't safe until it turned bad? Or are people suggesting we send police in first on every EMS/Fire call (good luck with that you would need to hire many more police officers at a prohibitive cost). In fact, if someone was that intent on harming EMS, they would act okay in front of the cops, wait for the scene to be called secure, then pull out the gun.
Off topic, but properly sized vests are important. When I was an NYPD Auxiliary I frequently had to wear a vest that looked like it was sized for a 12 year old (I came into auxiliary just after they stopped giving individual vests, when I got there I was told they only had female individual vests left)

I kind of lump that stuff all together, along with the entitlement society. "You mean I actually have to do dirty, sweaty, grimy WORK, and go into hazardous situations, I just wanted the title and the blue lights for my car"

I kind of lump that stuff all together, along with the entitlement society. "You mean I actually have to do dirty, sweaty, grimy WORK, and go into hazardous situations, I just wanted the title and the blue lights for my car"

Why would the TIC Camera need to be monitored from inside the vehicle?

I kind of lump that stuff all together, along with the entitlement society. "You mean I actually have to do dirty, sweaty, grimy WORK, and go into hazardous situations, I just wanted the title and the blue lights for my car"

I kind of lump that stuff all together, along with the entitlement society. "You mean I actually have to do dirty, sweaty, grimy WORK, and go into hazardous situations, I just wanted the title and the blue lights for my car"

I have a question about the magazine part of the law.
On one part it says you can't have a 10 round magazine after a year...but on another it says that if you are caught with 8 bullets in the magazine it is a misdemeanor. So if someone has a 10 round magazine, but only loads it with 7 bullets, is that legal or illegal? It seems to be contradictory.
Maybe those are the mistakes that it refers to that have to be corrected?
They also forgot to exempt active duty police officers from the 7 round limit.
They need to do a lot of work on this law to clarify things

I have a question about the magazine part of the law.
On one part it says you can't have a 10 round magazine after a year...but on another it says that if you are caught with 8 bullets in the magazine it is a misdemeanor. So if someone has a 10 round magazine, but only loads it with 7 bullets, is that legal or illegal? It seems to be contradictory.
Maybe those are the mistakes that it refers to that have to be corrected?
They also forgot to exempt active duty police officers from the 7 round limit.
They need to do a lot of work on this law to clarify things

The problems keep surfacing!! This shouldnt have been so rushed! Cuomo was trying to make a name for himself and pushed through rushed legislation. This should be repealed and done the right way.

I agree that unless you are doing CPR, or the commerical service has no units available. There really isn't a reason to be paging volunteers to nursing homes and urgent cares.

I agree that unless you are doing CPR, or the commerical service has no units available. There really isn't a reason to be paging volunteers to nursing homes and urgent cares.

I agree, but I don't think that those topics are mutually exclusive.
Why can't one both grieve and talk about ways to prevent the next occurance at the same time

I agree, but I don't think that those topics are mutually exclusive.
Why can't one both grieve and talk about ways to prevent the next occurance at the same time

So do lockdowns really work then? The main reason I was given for locking down is that there might be other shooters outside and that school shooters are looking for easy targets and wouldn't go through the work of breaking down a door.
But if that is the case, that is like saying don't evacuate during a structure fire because there might be power lines down or a plane might fall from the sky. With a lockdown you are essentially saying "cower in a corner and pray PD makes it in time"

I would agree to all of that
Also, I would probably say that locking down is effective in most circumstances, but we should try to plan for all circumstances, not just most of them. Even if it is as simple as keeping an object near the door that could be used as a prop or barricade, or if you have interconnecting rooms, moving between them if someone tries to go into one of them.

Our AED's still have a screen to view rythyms, and we still have quite a few people who were EMT-D's or higher who know what they mean

If they claim it has to do with HIPAA, they are mistaken. HIPAA has very limited applicability in the dispatch enviornment to begin with, especially when dispatch is by an agency that doesn't bill health insurance, and an age isn't considered identifying information that would be covered anyway.
I think it has more to do with the fact that the person's age range is more important than there exact age. Yes it is important to know if you are deailing with an infant, pediatric, young adult, older adult(due to EMD having cut offs at age 35 for a lot of things) or geriatric patient, but does it really matter that it is a 66 year old with chest pains as opposed to a 65 or 67 year old?

If they claim it has to do with HIPAA, they are mistaken. HIPAA has very limited applicability in the dispatch enviornment to begin with, especially when dispatch is by an agency that doesn't bill health insurance, and an age isn't considered identifying information that would be covered anyway.
I think it has more to do with the fact that the person's age range is more important than there exact age. Yes it is important to know if you are deailing with an infant, pediatric, young adult, older adult(due to EMD having cut offs at age 35 for a lot of things) or geriatric patient, but does it really matter that it is a 66 year old with chest pains as opposed to a 65 or 67 year old?

Probably with the desk officer just hanging up on those people.
It's windy out? Yep, sure is *click*

Why is anyone advocating in favor of laying people off? Shouln't emergency services be sticking together not turning against each other?

Why is anyone advocating in favor of laying people off? Shouln't emergency services be sticking together not turning against each other?

Why is anyone advocating in favor of laying people off? Shouln't emergency services be sticking together not turning against each other?

New York State Criminal Procedure Law Section 2.10 Paragraph 28:
28. All officers and members of the uniformed force of the New York
city fire department as set forth and subject to the limitations
contained in section 487a-15.0 of the administrative code of the city of
New York; provided, however, that nothing in this subdivision shall be
deemed to authorize such officer to carry, possess, repair or dispose of
a firearm unless the appropriate license therefor has been issued
pursuant to section 400.00 of the penal law
I don't know what the limitations of the administrative code are, but I always understood it that all firefighters are Peace Officers. This power is mainly to enforce fire lane regulations, the parking self enforcement zone around firehouses, and to issue fire code violations when on building inspections

If the Newburgh City government is unable or unwilling to do anything, then maybe it is time that the Orange County Sheriff's Office or New York State Police step in.

Date: 08/13/2012
Time:
Location: 711 State Route 211
Frequency: 154.205; 46.16
Units Operating: Montgomery FD, Circleville FD (FAST Team), Campbell Hall FD(Tanker), Mechanicstown FD( Ladder)
36-101, 36-111, 36-11
Weather Conditions: Sunny
Description Of Incident: Structure Fire at AHRC (Developmental Disabilities Group Home)
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