firefighter0727

They must have one hell of a savings account ? Makes u wonder

The Port Jervis Volunteer Ambulance Corps has been losing more than $100,000 a year for four years and can no longer survive without city financial support, corps operations manager Sean Aumick told the Port Jervis Common Council this week.

The corps receives reimbursement for only about 38 percent of its services, Aumick said, while annual costs run over $600,000.

At Monday's Common Council meeting, he suggested that Port Jervis and Deerpark contribute $130,000 a year to the ambulance corps, with 60 percent coming from Port Jervis and 40 percent from Deerpark,

He said the costs of training, fuel, equipment and ambulances have increased, and growing certification requirements have led to more hours of training.

Private ambulance services have worked in Port Jervis for a year or two and then left, finding no money to be made in a population with so many low-income people lacking health insurance, Aumick said.

Fourth Ward Councilman Stanley Siegel said later that contributing $85,000 would raise city taxes by 2 percent.

"The problem is demographic," he said. "In the second and fourth wards, people have no health insurance, no doctor and no car. They may call ambulances for a bloody nose, broken arm or internal bleeding."

More information needed

Mayor Kelly Decker said that before the city could consider providing financial help, the ambulance corps must first provide detailed information about its financial situation, especially since the city is already "hundreds of thousands of dollars in the red," and additional costs would raise taxes.

Instead, he suggests relying more on Bon Secours Community Hospital.

"Port Jervis Volunteer Ambulance needs to weigh the need for the costly advanced life support over basic life support," he said.

Lesser training suggested

Basic life support requires only 150 hours of training, while ALS requires 1,400 hours of training, but enables more life-saving procedures. Decker questioned whether ALS is needed when Bon Secours Hospital is so close.

"As the response time in Port Jervis is only minutes, the turnaround to the hospital is only minutes, too," Decker said.

"ALS is definitely the bells and whistles to ambulatory care, but is it necessary so near a hospital?"

The paid services left once port became ALS because the need was no longer there...

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its all rps. Medic one requires an ambulance for the contract as per the towns. so the ambulance is from rmc. which is a sister company of rps. as far as medic 31 the truck you may have saw was a captain's take home vehicle that is letter as an rmc vehicle. I hope that this helps you out...

Description:Two Hurleyville firefighters were injured Friday morning when a tanker truck rolled over on Divine Corners Road while responding to a fire in Loch Sheldrake, fire Chief Chris Gibson said.
The accident happened as firefighters raced to a structure fire at 707 Divine Corners Road. Gibson said he is unable to provide much information yet, but both firefighters were treated at Catskill Regional Medical Center and released.

Ga-Lin, on 16 Mar 2014 - 11:14 PM, said:

You just need to be careful about MLSS. From what I understand, MLSS now forbids you from working for a competitor. That's just about anyone in Orange county, EMSTAR, and maybe anyone in the HVREMSCO region.

Not sure that's true. I know at least one person who works both Blooming Grove and Mobile Life.

As far as I know it's only goes to eMstar not the volunteer ambulance that have ALS

So does that mean that towvac first rig is going to be paid 24/7 and then they are going to have the vollies pick up 2nd and 3rd rig jobs?

That is not how tuxedo works with the medic. The medic is contracted by the town and is housed in tuxedo ambulance building with them. Yes if the call is ALS the medic while ride it in with a driver only. This is going to be interesting to see how this works for towvac. Does this mean that they are going paid 24/7?

I have one question how is a 20 year old a cop in New York State. When you need to be 21 years old to carry a gun. Something not right with this article. I really think that there is more to this story and that's why they suspended him .

I was talking about rockalnd fire depts that serves the bridge

Then every fire dept and ambulance corps should get the same thing just not Tarrytown. Rockland sends boats out for the bridge and fire depts sends trucks and the ambulance corps sends ambulance just not Tarrytown. What about them?