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    Uniden will be releasing the new BCD436HP and BCD536HP at the end of January. The BCD436HP appears to be basically a combination of the BCD396XT and the homepatrol 1 with trunk tracker V (APCO Project 25 Phase I and Phase II, X2-TDMA, Motorola, EDACS, and LTR Trunked Radio Systems). The BCD536HP is a combination of the BCD996XT and homepatrol 1 also with trunk tracker V. The interesting thing about the BCD536HP is that it comes wifi ready and will have an app that can allow any smart phone or tablet as a remote head. The BCD436HP and BCD536HP will retail for $499 and $599 respectively.

    http://info.uniden.com/Newscanners.

    http://www.scannermaster.com/Uniden_Bearcat_BCD436HP_Police_Scanner_p/10-501853.htm

    http://www.scannermaster.com/Uniden_Bearcat_BCD536HP_Police_Scanner_p/10-501854.htm

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    I've never understood the need to staff an ambulance like a clown car. A crew of 5 is just absurd. I've seen a driver, crew chief, EMT, attendant and designated clipboard carrier (all wearing gloves of course but that's another rant). Do you really need someone to just carry the clipboard? What kind of "training" or "experience" are you getting by doing that?

    No ambulance is designed for that and it is just plain dangerous and inefficient.

    If the crew chief is that uncomfortable with his/her skills, don't be crew chief. Don't fill the ambulance with a pep squad.

    Ideal crew size for an EMS call is 2-3. 90% of calls only need one EMT and for the other 10% a second set of hands in the back is nice to have but three sets of hands will just get in the way.

    PS - It's not the BLS crews job to drive the ALS fly-car to the hospital so don't say you brought a valet for that reason. And don't drive to the hospital lights and siren with the fly-car but that is also another topic.

    Agreed. Also, people need to realize their limitations and stop riding when it becomes too much, I've got a few people I ride with who are over 65 and one who's 80. Each crew member should be able to lift and do any of the physical stuff involved with a call, and if you can't do the physical work, then don't come. Unfortunately, EMS is a young persons game and if you can't handle the job, then don't ride.

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    I'm not sure this is a hard and fast rule, but I believe the lemon law is harder to apply to commercial/emergency vehicles.

    It's not that it's harder to apply to emergency vehicles, it's that in most cases, Lemon law doesn't apply to emergency vehicles. We looked in to NY lemon laws for one of our ambulances and were told that a custom vehicle, such as an ambulance, doesn't fall under lemon law. I assume that the logic is that since there are so many choices a customer can make, it's so unlikely that every single piece will fit together perfectly every single time, and you can't hold a manufacturer accountable for the products not working together.

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    The Hose Company provides the man power for the department, correct? The department (fire chief) is in charge during calls and the company (company president) is in charge of the inner workings of the building such as fundraising, elections?

    That's basically it. The chiefs, captains, and any other officers the department has are line officers and handle any operations related situations such as drills and calls. Officers such as president are civil officers and handle any of the non-operational aspects of the department such as fund raising and running meetings.

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    My agency limits crew size to 4 on a call. I personally prefer a 2 man crew, but am just as happy with a 3 man crew. My only gripe is when you get two EMTs on the same crew and both try to be the EMT in charge, however one of the EMTs has no intention of doing the PCR or putting themselves as in charge. In my opinion, if you're not doing the PCR, you sit back and do what the "in charge" EMT says.

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    Date: 11/16/13
    Time: 23:18

    Incident Type: 2 car head on mva
    Location: State Route 94 North and East Ridge Road

    District: Warwick Fire District, Warwick Ambulance
    Units: Warwick FD (T-633, E-634, R-637, fire police, car 2), Warwick EMS (201, 202, 203, 209 (captain)), Greenwood Lake EMS (365), Emstar EMS (809, 811, ?), Town of Warwick PD
    Stand-Bys: Pine Island EMS (301) standby at Warwick's bay
    Description: Initial dispatch for a 2 car mva with unknown injuries. Warwick PD communications advising they are taking multiple calls on the mva, still unsure on injuries, 209 requesting his second rig be dispatched, 811 placing medevac on standby. PD on scene reporting at least 2 patients pinned, multiple patients self extricated, multiple injuries. 209 and FD car 2 on scene, assuming command (of respective agencies), 209 requesting all three of Warwick's rigs to the scene, and one rig from Greenwood Lake to stand by in Warwick. Warwick FD working on extricating the two pinned occupants. Orange 911 advised no med-evacs due to weather. 209 requesting 365 move up to the scene, backfill Warwick with a rig from Pine Island, two additional ALS units to the scene. FD extricated both patients in approx. 20 minutes, one patient transported ALS to Orange Regional Medical Center (202, 809), One patient ALS to Good Samaritan (201, 811), 5 patients BLS to Saint Anthony's (203, 365)

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    I think any radio system you look into will have problems somewhere. Orange County has a decent system, but base station radios are call portables in the system, i.e. department x portable 1 would be a base station in department x station 1. Also, you never know what people are going to want numbered, such as slate hill who has a trailer with an apparatus number (m-737) and Town of Warwick PD dispatch, who dispatches Warwick FD, is assigned an apparatus number (632 Base).

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    i have heard the FDNY EMS tac gear is bright colored tooo?? doesn't seem like a great idea.. you don't need a medic just do a fast trauma and pull them out

    I'm sure it's bright colored to prevent the medics being identified as cops and then becoming targets themselves. Also, FDNY doesn't run tactical medics, especially since all NYPD ESU is minimum EMT, so what ever tactical gear FDNY is wearing is more for everyday protection, I.e. someone takes a shot at them as they get out of the rig at a call or a similar situation, rather than in a tactical/swat situation..

  12. Posted

    The Orange Lake Fire District published a Pierce spec, and the previous KME tanker was published as a Spartan/US Tanker.

    Walden's last spec/purchase was a Spartan/Rescue 1

    Middletown's last spec/purchase was a Seagrave.

    Not sure about Warwick's most recent engine purchase, but the Raymond's published a Spartan/4 Guys, and got a Spartan/KME.

    Pine Island I don't know much about. But it seems none of those departments you listed are trying to push towards a KME fleet.

    I meant that a majority of the fleet was KME

    Walden has purchased exclusivley KME since 2000 until the new rescue, which was made by a company that only does rescues.

    Middletown has three out of the five engines are KME, a majority of the fleet.

    Warwick has two KME engines, the spartan /KME, and from what I heard they like the KME tower and will probably be looking to get one when the time comes to replace the current e-one tower. The tanker was just a rechassis onto another freightliner chassis.

    And Pine Island is a fully standardized fleet with KME with the exception of the Unimog.

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    What is Winona Lake replacing? And I thought they liked Pierce as they had just "standardized" their fleet.

    From what I heard Winona Lake is replacing E-320. Winona Lake is part of the Orange Lake fire district and both departments were fully pierce til 2010, when Winona Lake got their pierce heavy rescue and Dan Leghorn got a KME tanker. It maybe that the Orange Lake fire district has decided to go with a KME fleet now, as a number of departments seem to be heading towards KME fleets, i.e. Middletown, Pine Island, Walden, Warwick, etc.

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    Date:11/11/13
    Time: 13:00

    Incident Type: 2 car mva with rollover and entrapment
    Location: Warwick Turnpike and Bowen Road

    District: Warwick Fire and Ambulance District
    Units: Warwick FD (T-633, E-634, M-644, Car 2) Warwick EMS (202, 203), Emstar EMS (892) Town of Warwick PD (Patrol)

    Description: Mini-van vs. car head-on mva. Mini-van then rolled into the woods and came to rest against against a tree with the passengers side on the ground, driver pinned. FD extricated patient in approx. 20 minutes and patient was transported to Good Sam by Warwick 203 and Emstar 892. Driver of the other vehicle transported to local hospital by Warwick 202

  16. Posted · Edited by EMT111

    Thanks a lot.

    I always thought that ALS weren't supposed to be command or triage, but instead in the treatment sector? Or maybe that was just triage but not command

    That would be when you only have one or two ALS units coming in and the majority of the resources are BLS. An agency like Empress that has multiple rigs plus supervisors and everything, what are they gonna do, call mutual aid BLS and turn command over to them?

  17. Posted · Edited by EMT111

    Not that this is new, but did anybody know that West Point FD got a second ladder (T-466) about a year ago? It's a pierce 65' straight stick quint, former Fort Monmouth Engine 3.

    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152232624415537&set=pb.277336965536.-2207520000.1384066727.&type=3&theater

    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152232622315537&set=pb.277336965536.-2207520000.1384066727.&type=3&theater

    http://www.fdnytrucks.com/files/html/otherstates/Monmouth%20County/Fort%20Monmouth.htm

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    Is it just me, or are some of the reports coming out of the shooting at the Garden State Plaza a little creepy? Who would enter a mall, dressed at least to conceal his/her identity, if not in tactical gear/body armor like the reports suggest, with an assault rifle, fire shots, but not at people, and then walk around the mall, not shoot anymore, and vanish despite the massive police response in progress? Also, the reports of the shooter talking to himself and even waving (as in hi) to people (reported by at least one witness)? In my opinion, the suspect came in and followed whatever his plan was (whether it was to scare a lot of people or test police response for future reference or something else.) This has crazy/nut job/EDP written all over it, to the level of James Holmes in Aurora last year and they need to find this suspect before he comes out again, because if he gets the chance, he'll probably try for bigger and better, in his opinion.

  21. Posted · Edited by EMT111

    I swear I posted here earlier. Whoever was the staging officer/ directing incoming unit was not doing the greatest job. CNN had a reporter on the highway going into LAX and you could see the traffic at a stand still backed up for miles, where as the side of the highway coming out of the airport was empty since the airport was on lock down. Some how though, both LAPD and LAFD were fighting their way up through the traffic, rather than going the wrong way on the empty side, something to think about for future incident planning. Otherwise it looked like a well rehearsed, well run unified command with everyone (LAWAPD, LAPD, LASO, FBI, LAFD)all working together to get the job done quickly and efficiently. I'm sure that the active shooter drill LAWAPD and LAPD ran at the airport three weeks ago was a great asset and helped prepare the officers for today and shows just how important these drills are for everyone

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  22. Posted

    I know it was a pretty stupid question but I just feel like literally anyone in Emergency Services can operate them. Sucks that its only limited to the FDNY. In a situation like hurricane sandy having a list of disaster volunteers to assist with logistics and moving of vehicles and operations would be very useful since they basically the OEM of NYC.

    the unions would never allow it. They want their paid guys doing the work so their members get more money and possibly have more opening to hire new people to bring onto the job and their union. Also, I'm sure the city doesn't really want to deal with the mess of having volunteers doing active rescue work since then they would have to worry about training, keeping people qualified, LODDs, etc. when they have and still do put all that training into the fire fighters and police officers, as well as pay and give benifits

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    Not for nothing, but this is a story from another site, and the person on the other site probably heard it from someone else, meaning were at least 3 people removed from the original story. I would think that there's a chance that the physician ordered the the 5 mg of morphine every 5 minutes until the pain went away or he stopped breathing (meaning the patient probably had the limit on the morphine and any more would overdose him.) Then again, there are just some stupid medics out there, I had one a couple of months ago give nitro to a patient with a systolic pressure of 100 (technically within the ALS protocols), then be genuinely surprised when the patient started going in and out of consciousness, and then decide that we should bypass the local hospital to go to the patient's choice facility (another 30 minutes away) even though the patient was basically unconscious.