celticmedic643

This one is my favorite. Bendels face is priceles Nice job guys

Great find Goose. Very interesting read.

Alamo has a black box system known as "Road Safe". Before you operate a vehicle you key in with a magnetic key. This registers you as the driver. The system monitors everything you could think of from seatbelt use, hard braking, hard turns, speeding ( speed set at 72 mph ) can be changed. It also monitors lights and sirens. It is a pretty neat system. Employees recieve a score from 0-10 based on thier driving. If you speed or brake too hard ect. the box buzzes and takes points off of your score. The more miles you put on " your key " the better your score becomes. The button on the back off the ambulance needs to be pushed prior to reversing. There is also a button inside the vehicle above the back window that can be pushed if your partner is with a patient.

Believe me this kid is beyond help. He has been given too many second chances already. :angry:

BIG Blue all the way. I hope the Pats like the #1 next to the 15. 15-1

I am Irish and a medic. The 643 is my old Sloper RIN#

Much faster. Looks good. Excellent job.

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It dindn't take the jury very long to come up with that verdict. I just wish the death penalty was an option. And the jury says NEXT

Hey Merlin there are a bunch of old uniforms in the laundry room at the station. All you gotta due is change the patches and get some of those non company issue ties. I'm sure no one will even notice. Hows that for a cheap alternative?

Gotta love the fact that the guy has a security camera for his mobile home. Great video. He is very lucky the fox didn't put up more of a fight. That could have been messy

Date: 11-17-07

Time:0112

Location: 1 Reade Place Poughkeepsie

Frequency: 453.650

Units Operating: CPFD E1 L1 E2 TL2 E3 Fairview 41-11 FAST

Description Of Incident: Working Fire on arrival. All occupants out.

Writer: Celticmedic643

WOW unbelivable. Darrell was a great guy. I did many a call with Darrell in the day. Darrell was always a class act, always willing to give you hand on any EMS job. I don't even know what to say right now. Rest in peace. God bless you, your family, friends, the officers of CSPD, and Duncan. Gonna miss ya man.

I keep hearing they got it they got it ( Empire ) but I have not seen anything official on paper yet. How do we know they got it? So far all it is is people talking. Why has there not been an official annoucment on paper from the county?

My question is why does it not say anything about Empire State in this article? If Empire State was awarded the contract dont you think it would have said something about that in this article? Did Empire really get the contract or is this all a BIG out of control rumor?

The concern for the putnam medics is the benifits as a whole. The medical benefits as well as time off,paid cme training, 401k, ect. When Alamo took over Sloper as a good will jesture they accepted your years with Sloper towards your vacation time with Alamo. So even though many of the medics have only been with Alamo for a couple of years some have over ten years of Vacation and PTO time. The other big one is the health benefits. Alamo has Health Quest medical insurance. Zero employee contribution for Single or family plan as well as Zero co pay if you use a Health Quest facility (Vassar, Putnam, NDH). You really can't beat the benefits. When you have a wife and three kids that is a BIG plus.That is the reason Why many of the medics would rather stay with Alamo then go with Empire and lose all their beniefits. No one said That Alamo ( The company)did a great job in Putnam, the question is did the Alamo medics do a good enough job to make up for the company. Because I am afraid the county as well as all the FDs and VACs have lost both. I know I as well as many of the other putnam medics will dearly miss all the friends we have made in Putnam over the years.