masterofmetal85

If that is the case then you are all good (supposing you pass all the tests). In the future I would not suggest publishing all or some of your faults on an open forum. But maybe I am just a little too paranoid or thorough? Good luck.

well no not really step 1 is passing the physical which I did step 2 is meet with the investigator and fill out the packet they hand you at the physical test which requires a SS earnings statement notorized statements regarding whatever happened in your past accident reports pretty much anything and everything about you it wasn't even an interview he just took it from me went over it and saw what I was missing gave me a check list and told me to bring it back to him. To get to step 3 the psych test, the investigator turns over all his work to his supervisor/boss who makes the final decision on whether or not I'll be hired/accepted for the academy (so it's actually someone I never even met who makes the final call) then after the psych test is step 4 a full check up/medical evaluation this is the whole process from what I gathered by asking around.

Killed in a car accident on Route 9. Funeral was in Sleepy Hollow last week.

where on route 9 and what time of dsy

The bottom line dude is that it's going to come up in any interview you conduct with the FDNY, just be prepared to field the questions in a thoughtful, intelligent and mature manor. Avoid sob stories, they don't care.

I would seriously consider making up those packets i mentioned and handing them to anyone you have an interview with (especially the psychologists). It will display honesty and maturity, at the very least.

Good luck.

If I'm not mistaken on the EMS side of FDNY there's only one interview with the investigator (which I did and handed him all the necessary paperwork on the incident that occured) there's only a psychological test no interview with a psyschologist (I could be totally wrong) and then after that a full head to toe medical evaluation.

As many people have suggested to you here, be ready to own up to your actions as "your actions". Justifying them will only appear to shift blame. As far as your statement "I guess you must be one of the people that sees things in only black and white" understand one thing with city agencies like FDNY everything is black and white. If you let a statement like that slip out in an interview you will most likely be looking for work with a transport service. Good luck with your interviews - be honest and accept blame but that does not mean you have to bend over either.

Best of luck.

Thanks for the good advice it'll definitely be duly noted

I'm just curious, why did you wait for over 2 hours with a broken ankle to go to the Hospital?

150$ front and center metallica ticket you'd have to drag me out in a body bag to get me to leave plus i was with a friend and we were separated when the injury occured so he would have been stuck looking for me (he had his phone in the car) plus I'm not familiar with jersey hospital systems etc so all those reasons combined made me feel it would be better to wait until the shows over and hit up a hospital in staten island on the way home... Most painful 2 and a half hours ever making me wonder several times during the concert if the band is really worth the pain just to see them.

What happened?

I completely agree with Goose and weird. They are correct. Have your facts together and be ready to admit "YOUR MISTAKES". I did several oral interviews in Connecticut for Entry Level Firefighters. One of the questions we used to ask was "tell us about your biggest mistake in life, and what did you do to correct it".

Honestly, my friend, I don't know you but just from a few of your responses, about "Not my fault", etc., it appears to me that you just may need to work on your presentation. We all make mistakes. Nobody is perfect. But your story has a few questionable negitives. I certainly wish you the best of luck though. But be ready to accept what you have to.

I never said it was not my fault and passing the blame etc

yea I was fired for not showing up for a day of work but the reason behind is not because I decided to take a day off and go to the beach I had a family emergency that night and had no method of alerting the owner of the pharmacy that I will be unable to come one so there was (i felt ) a good enough reason to not show up ( I did call out early that morning but apparently not good enough)

Yea I cursed out a cop for stopping my car while I was trying to get to the hospital with an ankle that was broken for 2+ hours was I wrong sure I was did she overact, absolutely especially since she called for an 10-85 or whatever newark cops use and my car was surrounded by RMP's and then when I identified myself as an EMS her exact words "Shut the *^%& up you're gonna sit there and suffer" (real professional) and then threatened I was gonna be arrested and giving me the summons was letting me off easy. Every NYPD officer I ask whether I know them or total strangers say that was overkill and a slap on the wrist/verbal warning would have been enough but thats the difference between NYPD and cops elsewhere NY police officers actually do work and bust their a** and know the difference between bs and the real deal.

So I'm not portraying the victim here but I'm also trying to ration that it was just a series of unfortunate circumstances that I got involved in, but I learned valuable lessons from them which is what life is about and I feel that these petty situations/circumstances shouldn't be the judge of my character and prohibit from obtaining a decent to good job like working for FDNY

Employers dont like to hear about how things "werent your fault". Whether it was or wasnt does not matter. Just accept responsibility for your mistakes and if it works out then great, if not then just keep your nose clean from now on and keep on trying.

I guess you must be one of the people that sees things in only black and white

The altercation with police is going to throw a red flag, for sure. Not sure how lenient FDNY EMS is, but times are changing and less and less is being tolerated. They will probably question you in regards to the termination as well as the car accidents. I know the NYPD does. Anything is fair game for these guys, they will know you better than you know yourself.

My advice is to try and beat them at their own game. Dunno where you are in the process but i would have all of those explanations/depositions and what have you copied into packets. If you need to go to the investigator, psych etc. give them each a packet when you go for said interview. Being upfront and forward is going to only help you. Thats the advice i got from a close friend for the NYPD process.

Again, i don't know how FDNY handles these things, so the above may or may not be totally applicable. I think generally, though, you need to make sure you have all your "t's" crossed and you're "I's" dotted and make sure you stay out of trouble.

I got pinched at one job for something stupid which wasn't my fault in Sept 08 I was working in a small private pharmacy I had a family emergency one night and wasn't able to show up for work the next day and i had no way of contacting the owner so i called out in the morning as soon as the store opened. The next time I showed up for work I was fired in a not so nice way.

The nj summons I was coming out of a concert in Feb 09 where I just broke my ankle and me any my friend were driving away in my car when we were stopped by a traffic cop or whatever she was, I assumed she worked for the arena and was just directing traffic I just wanted to get to a hospital after sitting with a messedup ankle for 2 hours and just yelled and cursed at her she flipped out and a chaos ensued which ended up with me getting the summons 20 min later.

So I wrote all this into different statements with more details had them notorized and handed em in hopefully theyll see past the black and white parts and just see the grey area in this

The PTOP for incomming medics is on for this summer. Things could change, but the city just committed FDNY the money for a new station on the West side of Manhattan, the dept is picking up the Vinny's ALS units, possibly some Brooklyn units, and maybe even an added unit or two in Manhattan to make up for extended transport times now that Vinnys is closing.

Great so now all I have to get past is having the investigators supervisor (who makes the final decision for recruiting)to accept me for the position. Any reason why he/she wouldn't?

( In a nutshell I got fired from only 1 job , i was in two auto accidents, and had a slight altercation w/ newark nj police last year after a metallica concert which landed me a disordely summons . I was told to have statements explaining the circumstances behind each incident along with accident reports court dispositions etc and have them all notoroized and hand them in.)

Anything stated there that could potentially disqualify me or make the recruiter not accept me for any position?

Anyone know whats the story if FDNY is doing an ALS academy in july for incoming outside medics to get into the dept? I heard its tentative depending on many things and its only done once a year so anyone heard anything

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Did you call the recruitment number for FDNY? As screwed as the city's budget is, they're regularly hiring EMTs and pick up a class of new medics every few months.

I took the physical and met with the investigator he did all the paper work and said the psych test is in may probably and the ALS academy for incoming outside medics tentative in july ( which according to the investigator only comes once a year usually around the summer they run 1-2 medic basic classes a year and a handful of internal upgrades for EMTs that got their medic outside the dept) depending on budget needs of the dept etc. So, so far I haven't received any letters about the psych test who knows what could be happening there might be an academy and i might not be picked to be in it for whatever reason, there might be no academy due to budget whatever the case I need to have some sort of job to keep me busy.

I believe Access briefly had a minor 911 contract in the Fairfield County area way back, but now I believe they don't. If you're a brand new EMT, you're probaly going to have to do some time doing transports, especially nowadays depending on who's hiring. If you're looking for commercial entry level (transports first with chance of 911) in CT, try AMR in Bridgeport or New Haven.

I'm a brand new medic well since august. I live in nyc and the situation is rough down here our hospitals are deadlocked you either have to know someone or get lucky most want a ton of experience and so many medics take up per diem spots for 3-4 hospitals which takes it away from the new guys and if you are lucky enough to land a spot with a hospital which I was lucky enough to do (Brookdale in brooklyn) 99% itll be per diem work. The FDNY is sort of in a mess with the city budget so I could be waiting for a while before I get called. Transcare has several contracts with hospitals providing them with employees and ambulances and putting them into the city 911 system with the employees wearing all hospital markings patches id etc but paid from TC. I kinda went down that route and it didn't quite work out well mostly because TC sucks and there reputation is known to many. There's always the option to working the handful of privates in the 5 boroughs but I'd rather sit at home and do nothing then be a paramedic and drive grandma to dialysis every other day as most privates in the city don't do a lot of ALS transports they are far and few between so the medics get stuck doing the BLS transports on top of who's buddies with or sleeping with the dispatchers and if its not you then you're screwed.

I've expanded my horizon to agencies "upstate" and elsewhere ie AMR in CT MLSS and HV/Regional in Orange/Dutchess Empress in yonkers, mostly looking for a good mix of transport vs 911 as opposed to nyc privates that (exception of TC hospital contracts) do stictly non emergency transport. I just started training with MLSS and will being training with HV/Regional in a few days and my CT reciprocity is pending. Hopefully I'll be able to sort out a decent schedule but I'm still doing my Homework and asking around about various agencies and trying to get the best info there is on them. My only grievance with MLSS HVP and AMR in CT is that they are roughly 80 something miles from my house.

Empress would be the best choice in terms of distance because its the closest agency by NYC but theyre on a hiring freeze as I asked in another topic I posted. I actually passed an oppurtunity to work for them in Oct which was when they had there last orientation I was asked to come in for an interview which I did and then enter the orientation but my response was that I wanted to give my current employer (TC) a lil more notice that I was leaving (Empress required me to quite them) and not to burn my bridges make a long story short I parted ways from TC for other reasons and then Empress turns around and says they're not hiring and since then I've been checking in every so often but still nothing.

Access is owned by Nelson Ambulance. They do mainly non-emergency and CCT transports.

So no 911 at all?

I was just watching a movie and it showed an Access Ambulance in the middle of manhattan. I googled and looked into them a lil and found they are located in stamford CT does anyone have any knowledge about this company. Good opinions, bad opinions, do they have 911 contracts or are they just transport etc. Thanks for any and all responses

Regional in Orange County has, (all ALS intercept or if the vollys don't get out) Florida, Chester, Warwick, Pine Island, Greenwood Lake, Minisink (aka. Lenape VAC), Greenville, Port Jervis, Deerpark. Some private contracts as well. They place "paid volunteers" in Chester VAC. They also cover Matamoras, Westfalls, and Hemlock Farms PA as "403" on the Pike County Radio System. They do provide quite a bit of Mutual Aid to "401" when Pike ALS (private company) has no units available. That is why they have the PA state certification seals on their front doors. Talking to the employees, the "old Regional" employees don't care to be associated to the HVPS side that much. It is a tight ship in Orange County with their supervisors.

When you say private contracts what are you referring to.

56-79....they dont have Pawling no more

I dont think they can afford to staff that second unit on nights anymore right?

What does 56-79 mean?

HVP provides coverage from 5am-5pm Monday through Friday as 54-79 as well as ALS Coverage 7 days a week.

Regional covers Florida, Warwick, Greenwood Lake, Greenville and Port Jervis areas

Now those places in orange county are they contracted like the pleasant valley contract where they are the primary response and have to provide coverage etc?

I heard from a few people that HV medics have 911 services in middletown & florida in orange county through mutual aid and pleasant valley through a contract that once was transcares can anyone confirm or clarify this

I believe they are in a hiring freeze after they lost Mt. Vernon, but you can check their website for employment opportunities. I believe its www.empressems.com.

I checked they don't have an employment opportunities section just an online application to fill out which I did.

Anyone know if they're hiring or will be hiring in the near future?

Ok I'm sure this has been talked about before and I apologize if it stirs peoples emotions but I'm looking to work upstate I'm currently a NYC Paramedic so I was taking interest in companies in westchester and hudson valley.

The two westchester companies I know of are which I also filled out applications are EMPRESS (which from what they said have been on a hiring freeze since october) and Westchester EMS

In Hudson Valley I put applications in Mobile Life Support, Northern Dutchess Paramedics, Hudson Valley Paramedics/Regional EMS and Rockland County Paramedics

So I know there a lot of people here with several years if not more of experience in some of these companies so if anyone has any insight, opinions, stories, etc whether bad or good do share. Take into consideration I'm looking to do mostly 911 work I don't mind some transport.

PS negative opinions are fine as long as they have substance not just oh that company sucks instead of I don't like them because of x y and z

Ok I'm sure this has been talked about before and I apologize if it stirs peoples emotions but I'm looking to work upstate I'm currently a NYC Paramedic so I was taking interest in companies in westchester and hudson valley.

The two westchester companies I know of are which I also filled out applications are EMPRESS (which from what they said have been on a hiring freeze since october) and Westchester EMS

In Hudson Valley I put applications in Mobile Life Support, Northern Dutchess Paramedics, Hudson Valley Paramedics/Regional EMS and Rockland County Paramedics

So I know there a lot of people here with several years if not more of experience in some of these companies so if anyone has any insight, opinions, stories, etc whether bad or good do share. Take into consideration I'm looking to do mostly 911 work I don't mind some transport.

PS negative opinions are fine as long as they have substance not just oh that company sucks instead of I don't like them because of x y and z

Ok I'm sure this has been talked about before and I apologize if it stirs peoples emotions but I'm looking to work upstate I'm currently a NYC Paramedic so I was taking interest in companies in westchester and hudson valley.

The two westchester companies I know of are which I also filled out applications are EMPRESS (which from what they said have been on a hiring freeze since october) and Westchester EMS

In Hudson Valley I put applications in Mobile Life Support, Northern Dutchess Paramedics, Hudson Valley Paramedics/Regional EMS and Rockland County Paramedics

So I know there a lot of people here with several years if not more of experience in some of these companies so if anyone has any insight, opinions, stories, etc whether bad or good do share. Take into consideration I'm looking to do mostly 911 work I don't mind some transport.

PS negative opinions are fine as long as they have substance not just oh that company sucks instead of I don't like them because of x y and z