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The residence name is sometimes important, although has become less so as street addresses get better.
In the days before every house needed a street address you might have members that know exactly where "Sam Smith's Barn" is or the "Jenkins House" on "Old Route 10". Much of this is a thing of the past although we still have one district in Stamford where addresses like that may still mean something to some members.

Just press them all and muffle your voice. Haven't you learned that trick yet?

Not just the hinterlands. Many apartment buildings have a door buzzer system to get in that requires a last name to get the apartment on the intercom and get the door opened.

In the past these things were necessary to getting the ambulance and crew to the scene in a timely manner. The name was all but eliminated when proper 911 mapping and addressing was completed, but once in a while in the hinterlands they still use names for reference points. Until recently most fire and EMS agencies didn't have MDT's and handheld communications devices that were silent. So a case may be made, though again it speaks to the systems the caller is accessing ad their ability to put the patient and help together.

Private citizens are in no way obligated to protect patient information. Welcome to the digital age of nosy neighbors.
I never understood putting the last name of the residence in a transmission. But the rest of that information is mission critical, is it not? I'm no lawyer, but it would be hard to argue privacy violations there. If someone really has a problem with that information being put over the air, then I suggest they call a taxi to take them to the hospital...

Here is worse yet... Facebook!!!! This screenshot (names anonymized), came right on the heels of a call I ran the other day. Folks in the town I live love to consider it a "small town" and want to know EVERYTHING going on. Many have scanners and love to gossip. This one is particularly bad because a lot posted the persons involved name(s)
Wilma MumduyaDecember 7 at 7:03pmAmbulance and fire trucks just raced down Messick. I hope everyone is ok!!
Like ·Terry Torial and 9 others like this. Bart Ender I heard them..I hope everyone's ok!!December 7 at 7:05pm · Like · Reply · 1 Holland Oats I can't believe how many sirens I heard.... did they call in York Co too?December 7 at 7:06pm · Like · Reply Clara Fication I didn't see ...By the time I looked out the window they were already passing.December 7 at 7:07pm · Like · Reply · 1 Clara Fication Bart Ender , you are closer than I am...can you see anything?December 7 at 7:09pm · Like · Reply Mary Nara I seen 4 cops, the fire chief, and a fire truck go by. Hope all is well.December 7 at 7:10pm · Like · Reply · 1 Minnie Strone Somebody ran off the road next to our house. He is banged up but okayDecember 7 at 7:10pm · Like · Reply · 10 Clara Fication Thanks for the update ! Glad he is ok!December 7 at 7:10pm · Like · Reply · 4 Bart Ender Im on Lodge Road..I just heard them screaming by..December 7 at 7:10pm · Like · Reply Mary Nara Glad he was not hurt.December 7 at 7:11pm · Like · Reply Minnie Strone They took him to the hospital to be checked out.December 7 at 7:12pm · Like · Reply · 1 Bart Ender Definitely glad he is okay..any idea who it was? Everytime I hear sirens down the road my heart skips a beat because alot of my family lives down that way!December 7 at 7:13pm · Like · Reply · 4 Minnie Strone ScottDecember 7 at 7:13pm · Like · Reply Marion Gaze I am glad your house is okay Minnie December 7 at 7:15pm · Like · Reply · 2 Bart Ender Scott Bloxom???December 7 at 7:15pm · Like · Reply Aaron Ottix .December 7 at 7:15pm · Like · Reply Gene Poole .December 7 at 7:16pm · Like · Reply Deb Utant Scott ?December 7 at 7:16pm · Like · Reply Minnie Strone No he lives by BIBDecember 7 at 7:16pm · Like · Reply Mary Nara Thanks Minnie. My heart also skipped a beat.December 7 at 7:16pm · Like · Reply · 1 Barney Cull .December 7 at 7:17pm · Like · Reply Bart Ender Oh ok..thanks for the update. Hopefully he will be alright...December 7 at 7:18pm · Like · Reply Minnie Strone Hope so too!December 7 at 7:19pm · Like · Reply Mary Nara Are you sure he was just banged up? Seen them going up the road code 3. Meaning getting to the hospital is crucial.December 7 at 7:31pm · Like · Reply · 1 Mary Nara Followed by a cop car code 1. Hope you does not get arrested.December 7 at 7:34pm · Like · Reply Minnie Strone He was walking around Sal. They put a neck brace on him just in case. He fell out of his truck plowed over our mailbox on pilings and the truck ended up next door hitting Richard's riding mower.December 7 at 7:34pm · Like · Reply Will Power Went down Messick... Cops were also called.December 7 at 7:35pm · Like · Reply Mary Nara Wow. He must have been flying. Thanks Lori. Praying!December 7 at 7:37pm · Like · Reply · 1 Paul Molive I agree Sal, he musta been moving something fierce. There's no curve in the road there, so what was the causative factor, as they say??December 7 at 8:08pm · Like · Reply Mary Nara There is a small curve. Nothing someone sober or not speeding could not handle though. I feel bad about the property damage he caused. Just sad all around.December 7 at 8:13pm · Like · Reply · 1 Paul Molive Guess I didn't notice the curve. I was down there just as the units were leaving trying to get some pics of the moon. No way to start Christmas for anyone involved!!December 7 at 8:17pm · Like · Reply Sal Monella Just hoping everyone is okay. .everything else can be fixed!December 7 at 8:18pm · Like · Reply · 5 Ray Volver So true Sal. Things can be replaced. That is the main thing. Sorry. Was just thinking if he hit my mustang I would be upset. That was selfish of me.

This is simply a question that really can't have a finite answer. First, the ability to transport more than one patient is heavily dependent on the situation at hand and the design of your ambulance at the incident. With the current trend in ambulance design to move away from the traditional bench seat style, the ability to transport more than one pt on a backboard is not going to be possible in those designs. If backboards aren't needed, then you're going to be limited in part by the number of seating positions available.
Beyond that, the condition of the patients and number of providers that will be in the unit are going to be a big factor. If you have the seating for it, taking 3 people complaining of headaches with a single provider at a CO call may not be much of an issue, but in my opinion and experience, if one patient requires ALS treatment, you shouldn't transport a second patient regardless of condition unless you have a second provider in the back. If the second patient also requires ALS treatment, then they should be in a separate transport unit. To do otherwise, unless we're talking extraordinary circumstances necessitating it, you simply can't provide each patient the care and attention they deserve.

Ive done 4 guys at once, all had lacerations on their hands from trying to grab a knife from a drunk guy at a party, they were all ambulatory and they all got their hands cleaned and wrapped and 3 sat in seat belts and 1 on the stretcher, was it a good idea? I thought so at the time. We can play the what if game all day, my commercial service company was out of units and we weren't waiting 20 mins for another truck so we did the 3 min transport to the ER.

Prior to the formation of the Peekskill Volunteer Ambulance Corps in 1964, Emergency Medical Transportation in Peekskill was provided by the Peekskill Fire Patrol which at that time operated with a walk-in rescue truck. Patients were loaded into the back of the rescue truck and transported on the squad bench. Even after the PCVAC was formed, and the Fire Patrol received a new apparatus, a pumper, Fire Patrol continued to be dispatched to accidents. It wasn't until a car pedestrian accident involving a relative of a Peekskill police officer that a new policy was implemented designating PCVAC as the Medical Response agency for Peekskill. In that accident, the victim was transported on a stretcher atop the hose bed of a pumper.
Back in the 60's and 70's, transporting more than one patient in a single rig was common. Anyone who worked on an ambulance back in those days will remember that most, if not all Cadillac ambulances came equipped to transport four patients on stretchers. One on the standard wheeled stretcher, one on a folding stretcher placed on the squad bench and two on folding stretchers hanging from the ceiling. The ambulances generally carried the three folding stretchers and the hooks that suspended the stretchers from brackets built into the ceiling of the ambulance. I can not ever recall using the hanging stretchers. I can only imagine what a struggle it would have been to lift a patient onto those hanging hooks! But many times we transported two patients on stretchers.

Its happened on a number of occasions. And in police cars even more often

Can anyone recollect (and some may have to go back some 40 to 50 years in Westchester County) if a patient had to be transported to an Emergency Room in Westchester County either inside of a Rescue Rig or on a backboard on top of the hose bed on a Pumper Truck, because a BLS or ALS Ambulance Rig (and going back to the 'Old Days" just a plain old Ambulance) was not available for transport? (Back in 1963, I had to be transported inside of the Old Yonkers Rescue 1 Mack Rig due to an Bycycle/Auto Accident, to Lawrence Hospital, because all of the Yonkers City/Hospital Ambulances and the Old Lawrence Hospital Ambulances were all unavailable, due to being tied up on other runs
Does anyone have any recollection of other incidents that required transportation to an ER on a Fire Rig?

Just saying

My thoughts and prayers for all of the MOS and LEOs that have to deal with the uncalled for but mostly planned violent anarchy and chaos, and hope most of them make it through unscathed, but unfortunately from listening to the dispatches that doesn't seem likely unless they withdraw completely, which we all know they cannot for the people caught in-between's sake. My heart goes out to all the responders in this no-win situation.
Alex and BFD389RET - thank you for the updates. We all have to be alert, because it will spread before it dissipates, and we all could be caught in the repercussions caused by the actions of these mobs if others get the idea they can get away with it "in support" - like they really care what happened in Ferguson. But they will use it as an excuse, and some areas are not used to handling this kind of violence aimed towards them.
Stay safe everyone, and keep your eyes and ears open.

My thoughts and prayers for all of the MOS and LEOs that have to deal with the uncalled for but mostly planned violent anarchy and chaos, and hope most of them make it through unscathed, but unfortunately from listening to the dispatches that doesn't seem likely unless they withdraw completely, which we all know they cannot for the people caught in-between's sake. My heart goes out to all the responders in this no-win situation.
Alex and BFD389RET - thank you for the updates. We all have to be alert, because it will spread before it dissipates, and we all could be caught in the repercussions caused by the actions of these mobs if others get the idea they can get away with it "in support" - like they really care what happened in Ferguson. But they will use it as an excuse, and some areas are not used to handling this kind of violence aimed towards them.
Stay safe everyone, and keep your eyes and ears open.

You probably won't find much, Wallingford is lacking in internet accessibility because the Mayor is perpetually stuck in 1970. However, if you have your medic this is a GREAT job, since everyone on the line is a Paramedic, you won't be stuck riding a boo-boo bus for the next 20 years because you have that license. You'll actually get to ride suppression pieces, unlike most "Firefighter"/Paramedic jobs in the state of Connecticut.
I used to volunteer there so if anyone wants any info on the department feel free to PM me.

You mean the "ambo", You gotta use correct terminology now that your in PG

Units responding to multiple reports of shots fired, looting, and rocks being thrown at MOS throughout Ferguson. Tactical units en route from staging to assist field force teams.
1 Journalist injured after being hit by a brick
At least 1 STL County Police car has been destroyed

http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/2418/web

National Guard now being deployed to the street.
Fire department retreating from one of the scenes due to shots fired.

Departments sharing resources? Crazy idea.

Working the midnight shift in dispatch, I can tell you how easy this is to happen. There is clearly a need for some sort of SOP/SOG that requires communications with all field units, especially single man units like safety officers and fire marshals. In this day and age when we have cell phones in addition to radios and many vehicles are equipped with GPS tracking it should be fairly easy to check on someone. If I call someone on the radio and they do not answer, then call them on the phone. I would rather wake someone up over and over again than miss a injured or dead MOS. That being said, some of these units have traditionally not bothered to clear verbally when leaving a scene and that has to stop also.
I would suggest that a few things be put into place.
1) all units must report when they are clear from a scene wither by voice (recorded radio or phone) or by data (MDT/computer).
2) all single man units must be checked for status every 20 minutes, just like a MARC time for IDLH operations. However incidental communications can count for this and reset the clock.
3) If a unit fails to check in or contact can not be made at appropriate interval, attempt to contact by other means. If you can't get them by radio try the phone. Send a message to the MDT, try any and every method you have.
4) If all contact methods fail, then a unit from some agency needs to go to the last know location to make face to face contact. This could be sending a police car to check on a fire marshal or if necessary send a suppression unit back to the scene.
Eventually like with all regulations updating status will become commonplace and the alternate communications methods will be needed less and less except in true emergencies. However I personally don't care how many people it takes to make make sure everybody goes home.

There's an old addage... "Never assume, because when you do, you make an Ass out of you and me..... apparently a Dispatcher Might be taking a hit In Baltimore, a safety officer was located in a vacant dwelling next to the fire building....hours later.........
http://www.goheroes.us/last-alarm/actions-of-dispatcher-may-have-kept-fallen-baltimore-city-firefighter-from-being-found-sooner

I give the LeLand Fire Department a lot of credit for having members who realized after one of their members had gone down on a scene that doffing gear from a downed firefighter can be a tremendously hard thing to do. The 10-step method they devised seems to accomplish doffing gear and providing immediate care while minimizing how many people would be drawn away from the other tasks at hand on a fire scene and actually looks great and very easy to accomplish. I can't wait to ambush some unsuspecting firefighters who wander by the firehouse on a slow day to practice the method on a mannequin and see the plusses and minuses. Immediate compressions (if he does not need it, I'm sure the firefighter might let you know quickly enough) and it is through gear at first, so no additional damage, plus it has you remove the helmet and mask fairly quickly to see how responsive or not the FF is and provides clear access to airway in case there is vomit in the mask or air gone and mask sucked to face, etc. The video shows the procedure can be technically done by 4 firefighters, and once the FF is removed from pack and coat, the EMS people can swarm over him and take further measures.
Always wondered how we would be able to get gear off quickly enough. Luckily, have never had to find out... May even work to get gear off collapsed heat exhaustion FF much more quickly than the lengthy time it usually takes to strip them down - minus the compressions, of course .
Worth looking into, at any rate. Kudos to them for thinking outside the box. Gets cramped and stuffy in there sometimes.

I give the LeLand Fire Department a lot of credit for having members who realized after one of their members had gone down on a scene that doffing gear from a downed firefighter can be a tremendously hard thing to do. The 10-step method they devised seems to accomplish doffing gear and providing immediate care while minimizing how many people would be drawn away from the other tasks at hand on a fire scene and actually looks great and very easy to accomplish. I can't wait to ambush some unsuspecting firefighters who wander by the firehouse on a slow day to practice the method on a mannequin and see the plusses and minuses. Immediate compressions (if he does not need it, I'm sure the firefighter might let you know quickly enough) and it is through gear at first, so no additional damage, plus it has you remove the helmet and mask fairly quickly to see how responsive or not the FF is and provides clear access to airway in case there is vomit in the mask or air gone and mask sucked to face, etc. The video shows the procedure can be technically done by 4 firefighters, and once the FF is removed from pack and coat, the EMS people can swarm over him and take further measures.
Always wondered how we would be able to get gear off quickly enough. Luckily, have never had to find out... May even work to get gear off collapsed heat exhaustion FF much more quickly than the lengthy time it usually takes to strip them down - minus the compressions, of course .
Worth looking into, at any rate. Kudos to them for thinking outside the box. Gets cramped and stuffy in there sometimes.

I give the LeLand Fire Department a lot of credit for having members who realized after one of their members had gone down on a scene that doffing gear from a downed firefighter can be a tremendously hard thing to do. The 10-step method they devised seems to accomplish doffing gear and providing immediate care while minimizing how many people would be drawn away from the other tasks at hand on a fire scene and actually looks great and very easy to accomplish. I can't wait to ambush some unsuspecting firefighters who wander by the firehouse on a slow day to practice the method on a mannequin and see the plusses and minuses. Immediate compressions (if he does not need it, I'm sure the firefighter might let you know quickly enough) and it is through gear at first, so no additional damage, plus it has you remove the helmet and mask fairly quickly to see how responsive or not the FF is and provides clear access to airway in case there is vomit in the mask or air gone and mask sucked to face, etc. The video shows the procedure can be technically done by 4 firefighters, and once the FF is removed from pack and coat, the EMS people can swarm over him and take further measures.
Always wondered how we would be able to get gear off quickly enough. Luckily, have never had to find out... May even work to get gear off collapsed heat exhaustion FF much more quickly than the lengthy time it usually takes to strip them down - minus the compressions, of course .
Worth looking into, at any rate. Kudos to them for thinking outside the box. Gets cramped and stuffy in there sometimes.