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How'd you get a copy? 

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How'd you get a copy? 

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How'd you get a copy? 

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That didn't last long though.  Wasn't it Affiliated in 86/87 when the FD stopped doing the BLS?
 

How'd you get a copy? 

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I wonder if NYS may step in to oversee continuity of operations.  If memory serves they did this once before when another commercial entity shut down unexpected. 

Better cancel your Lohud subscription too...

http://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/2016/02/24/transcare-ambulance-bankruptcy/80868708/
 

You're making your own case for it. Consolidate the five or six different agencies within the town into one and now you're paying one insurance bill, you can probably reduce the size of the fleet, you have all kinds of economies of scale, and most important - all the members would be able to respond to any calls anywhere in the town. Paid personnel could be strategically based to cover the most calls efficiently and volunteers could be used to augment.
I don't really see a downside. As for losing out on money, who's really making any???

Why should Con Ed be responsible for buying equipment for the FD's? 

FD's need to be responsible for their own equipment in their own districts.
 


 

 
 
They go on calls as supervisors, serve as liaison to other agencies and deal with hospital back-logs when EMS units are stacked up waiting for ER stretchers.  They manage schedules, equipment, training, time off, and perform other duties.

To minimize the importance of that in a city like NY is unfair.

 
 
They go on calls as supervisors, serve as liaison to other agencies and deal with hospital back-logs when EMS units are stacked up waiting for ER stretchers.  They manage schedules, equipment, training, time off, and perform other duties.

To minimize the importance of that in a city like NY is unfair.

 
 
They go on calls as supervisors, serve as liaison to other agencies and deal with hospital back-logs when EMS units are stacked up waiting for ER stretchers.  They manage schedules, equipment, training, time off, and perform other duties.

To minimize the importance of that in a city like NY is unfair.

How about the EMS PROFESSION to be respected rather than abused? It shouldn't matter whether you're collecting a paycheck or volunteering. The system is broken and there is nobody on a high level doing much of anything about it.
I HATE when people seek special consideration because they're volunteers. Either be an EMS PROFESSIONAL (paid or not) or rethink your choice of avocation.

What's a "notable incident"?

How about asking how many times apparatus responded without a full crew of properly trained personnel?

Do numbers tell us anything at all tell us about what we do????

Big surprise. Get funding legislation passed using one hot-button topic and then reallocate the funds to other projects that wouldn't get the same level of support.

Typical Albany!

With no other info I would just note that any one of us will pull off our mask when we run out of air. They listed the cause of death, not the circumstance that lead to it.

Poor kid. Horrible way to die.
Very interested in the training records for him and those in the fire with him.
Mind you, it could happen to any of us. Experienced FDNY guys have been found with air in their tanks and face pieces removed or regulators removed.
Sucks all around, for sure.

If you're actually defending the notion that 5.58 FF responding to a fire is acceptable, due respect, you're part of the problem. Read NFPA 1710 or 1720 or whatever applies to that thing you call a fire department.
I am continually amazed that people continue to defend grossly understaffed departments as if what they have is acceptable. This is 2016 in one of the most heavily taxed counties in the country and we still send 5.58 FF to a fire call.
And the icing on the cake for me is that's the AVERAGE. Meaning half the time you respond with less than that. Pathetic!

Even though there's 17 career firefighters, there's only 3 on duty at a time, and they're essentially paid drivers.
And of the 18 volunteers, most of them probably have 9-5 jobs and aren't around for the majority of calls. I'm sure some of them even have second (or third) jobs, too. Which leaves the question, how many volunteers are responding on average to an alarm? 3? 5? 10?
Unless there's a huge volunteer on every alarm, the staffing levels are dangerously low.

In 2016, more so than at any other time in most of our lifetimes thus far, Democrats are going to vote Democrat and Republicans are going to vote Republican. The country hasn't been this polarized and divided in quite some time. Fact is there's nothing any candidate can do to swing voters of the opposite party, the line are too firmly drawn. The middle ground, like the middle class, is disappearing as rhetoric replaces reason and ignorance overwhelms intelligence....and that's bad for the politicos and bad for us.

Every time politics comes up here, people later regret it.

Ya think?

Just when the morale couldn't be any lower...BAM! Boom goes the dynamite! These poor guys.

Where does it say that EMS crews shall use force to remove homeless to a shelter?

If a warrant is signed by the "homeless intervention team" (I'd like to hear more about who they are and how they sign warrants for this) and the NYPD executes the warrant, the EMS crew is really nothing more than a ride.

I'm not a fan of all this "executive action" but it is being sensationalized a lot and misrepresented. I imagine that there are lawyers lining up to challenge this the first time it happens too.

Is there a protocol in place that would automatically call for mutual aid after a certain number of pages w/o anyone going in service?