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When I posted stuff guys on my job didn't like, they c/o to the boss, who very politly showed my the social media policy. I didn't know we had one. If I am careful, I can still post. I just don't want to hurt risk hurting the sensitive feelings of these brave men, and force them to approach the boss instead of me. Again.

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.

OK, so bringing it back full circle: Using NR as an example, EMS resources are NOT moved into the city RLS or otherwise even when all city EMS is unavailable UNLESS it is predicted to be hours before a city unit will be free. This is despite a constant and predictable steady drumbeat of 911 demands for EMS calls, about 3% of which are truly life and death.
In the Greenville scenario that started the thread (remember back then?) a fire unit had to travel all of 10.2 miles (21 mins per Mr. Google) to cover two (Pelham and the Manor) agencies that COMBINED respond to 2 fire calls per day and maybe 2-3 actual fires per year. The crew used lights and sirens and become involved in a crash that caused $4000 in damage to their truck. (pure guestimate that RLS cut 25% off the response time= 5 minute 15 second time savings)
May I assume that the response was terminated by the crash? And that no alarm came was received by PFD/PMFD while ANOTHER mutual aid company was found to replace disabled the GFD rig?
And, really kidding here, did anyone respond RLS INTO Greenvile to cover until they got their rig fixed?

OK, so bringing it back full circle: Using NR as an example, EMS resources are NOT moved into the city RLS or otherwise even when all city EMS is unavailable UNLESS it is predicted to be hours before a city unit will be free. This is despite a constant and predictable steady drumbeat of 911 demands for EMS calls, about 3% of which are truly life and death.
In the Greenville scenario that started the thread (remember back then?) a fire unit had to travel all of 10.2 miles (21 mins per Mr. Google) to cover two (Pelham and the Manor) agencies that COMBINED respond to 2 fire calls per day and maybe 2-3 actual fires per year. The crew used lights and sirens and become involved in a crash that caused $4000 in damage to their truck. (pure guestimate that RLS cut 25% off the response time= 5 minute 15 second time savings)
May I assume that the response was terminated by the crash? And that no alarm came was received by PFD/PMFD while ANOTHER mutual aid company was found to replace disabled the GFD rig?
And, really kidding here, did anyone respond RLS INTO Greenvile to cover until they got their rig fixed?

Websters defines an emergency as immediate threat to life and limb. A big chunk of real estate that happens not to have any available fire engines in it, but also has no call pending, in my tiny brain is not an emergency. Pretty much everyday (if not all day) in this (Westcheste) County a town or large city may have ALL of its EMS resources out on calls or otherwise unavailable. The likelyhood of another call coming in is high, and the chance of it being serious is also high, yet the thought of moving another ambulance in from out of town to cover would NEVER happen, and when it does it is NEVER RLS. Yet when a Town's fire resources are all commited, it is like, Holy Crap, we gotta get crews and trucks over there ASAP, even though there is amost no chance of another call coming in, and the chance of it being serious is tiny. In the above situation, Pelham gets less than a call a day and less then a fire per year, I believe.
Can anyone tell me why we fear burning to death so much more than dieing of dieing by or sudden illness, even though the latter is like 1000X more likely?

Websters defines an emergency as immediate threat to life and limb. A big chunk of real estate that happens not to have any available fire engines in it, but also has no call pending, in my tiny brain is not an emergency. Pretty much everyday (if not all day) in this (Westcheste) County a town or large city may have ALL of its EMS resources out on calls or otherwise unavailable. The likelyhood of another call coming in is high, and the chance of it being serious is also high, yet the thought of moving another ambulance in from out of town to cover would NEVER happen, and when it does it is NEVER RLS. Yet when a Town's fire resources are all commited, it is like, Holy Crap, we gotta get crews and trucks over there ASAP, even though there is amost no chance of another call coming in, and the chance of it being serious is tiny. In the above situation, Pelham gets less than a call a day and less then a fire per year, I believe.
Can anyone tell me why we fear burning to death so much more than dieing of dieing by or sudden illness, even though the latter is like 1000X more likely?

Websters defines an emergency as immediate threat to life and limb. A big chunk of real estate that happens not to have any available fire engines in it, but also has no call pending, in my tiny brain is not an emergency. Pretty much everyday (if not all day) in this (Westcheste) County a town or large city may have ALL of its EMS resources out on calls or otherwise unavailable. The likelyhood of another call coming in is high, and the chance of it being serious is also high, yet the thought of moving another ambulance in from out of town to cover would NEVER happen, and when it does it is NEVER RLS. Yet when a Town's fire resources are all commited, it is like, Holy Crap, we gotta get crews and trucks over there ASAP, even though there is amost no chance of another call coming in, and the chance of it being serious is tiny. In the above situation, Pelham gets less than a call a day and less then a fire per year, I believe.
Can anyone tell me why we fear burning to death so much more than dieing of dieing by or sudden illness, even though the latter is like 1000X more likely?

I believe the NYSP has divers. Last drill we had with DEC ESU (yes DEC has their own ESU) they were pushing for dive status but were not there yet. Much dive work is in the resevoirs.

That is a very interesting observation. There would bet there are more water fatalities than fire fatalities. In my town that is the case. It would take more time than I have to research it. But I don't think more dive teams would mean fewer water deaths. Many are in swimming pools, and some are jumpers that are dead from the fall height, so dive teams wouldn't help save those people.
Maybe some one can or will correct me, but I believe the biggest wate rescue operation we have, The Coast Guard, does not have divers. They save by surface rescue only. That is per the book, "Dead Men Tapping", which is a few years old. (real life story of 3 men dieing in an overturned boat while USCG rounded up private divers).

The legislation was intruduced by SENATOR Pataki. Older folks here may recall he was Governor Pataki AFTER he was a Senator, but that was 4 governors back. So I would urgently ask that you not hold your breath waiting for that change to come through.
A Fire District can push to form an Ambulance district. The Town has to do the actual forming. That would involve admitting you can't fix it yourself and also the possibility of giving up a portion of your domain (providing EMS). Therefore I don't think you will see it often. I did read about one NY FD that did do that, though. Not sure who or where. NYS has an awful lot of special districts- sewer, water, fire, EMS, streetlighting, lake, business improvement, sanitation, school... There may be little willingness to make yet another one, even though in this case it makes sense.

I find PL Custom and Braun to be very good. Any builder can aquire a lemon chasis and build a nice truck on it.
Electrical systems have come a long way, especially with LED lighting taking less power. With the federal KKK requriements having expires, there are a LOT of cool efficient ans safer designs coming. DO NOT get mired in tradition; it only impedes progress.
Stuff I would focus on: Real seatbelts that are easy to use. That means the harness type that buckle in front and have room to let the crew move. Seatbelts will save you more than anything and face it, most of us just don't use them. EMS folks who die either get hit at the scene, or die in the ambulance, unrestrained.
Get the best available hardware for the exterior compartment doors. Cheap hardware breaks and takes trucks out of service.
Same for interior compartments, and MAKE SURE you get harware that snaps shut hands-free when you shut the compartment door. It SUCKS to have doors banging back and forth open while driving and you are grabbing stuff. If the hardware latches self-lock, then you just push the door shut and it stays shut, like a refrigerator.
Get the thicker plexiglas interior doors, and full length handles.
PL custom makes a nice cage for the on-board O2. It allows for a very secure tank but one single easy-open latch to change the tank. Those three strap deals that self-loosen totally suck, as do the three split-metal rings that never match up and you lose the nuts when you open them.
Get LED interior lighting, a timer for doing rig checks and another timer that shuts it all off after 10 minutes of the engine being shut. No coming out after a bad job and finding your truck dead in the bay.
Why oh why do so many squads put the portable suction deep deep inside the rig? If you need it, you are OUTSIDE the rig. Mount it where you can get it while standing OUTSIDE the rig.
See if the dealer will give you a spare rig for long OOS periods. If they won't, ya gotta wonder why they won't back up what they are selling you. Ask for references you can call.
Install external speakers for your radios and put them on the bulkhead behind the driver facing forward. The folks in the cab need to hear radio traffic; for they guys in back it is just a noisy distraction.
Good luck.
Bill

Based solely on media (we know how that goes) sounds like SCHOOL buses would be fine for this case. Since we are not talking about elderly or othewise compromised folks.
Even better, a TAXI to bring a doc and two nurses and a registrar with a laptop to the school, out of the hot/warm zone. Treat and release in place.

Based solely on media (we know how that goes) sounds like SCHOOL buses would be fine for this case. Since we are not talking about elderly or othewise compromised folks.
Even better, a TAXI to bring a doc and two nurses and a registrar with a laptop to the school, out of the hot/warm zone. Treat and release in place.

Based solely on media (we know how that goes) sounds like SCHOOL buses would be fine for this case. Since we are not talking about elderly or othewise compromised folks.
Even better, a TAXI to bring a doc and two nurses and a registrar with a laptop to the school, out of the hot/warm zone. Treat and release in place.

The original post had a link that mentioned "Licenced" dispatchers. In CT is there such a thing and a dispatching license? Can you get a ticket for dispatching too fast, or changing channels without signaling?

Sorry, but I can't get enough of this clip:

Sorry, but I can't get enough of this clip:

Sorry, but I can't get enough of this clip:

Sorry, but I can't get enough of this clip:

In Hawthorne, Empress EMT's staff the ambulance, and Transcare provides the medic. So if you see an Empress EMT driving a Transcare flycar, now you know why!

Sorry, but I can't get enough of this clip:

Sorry, but I can't get enough of this clip:

In Hawthorne, Empress EMT's staff the ambulance, and Transcare provides the medic. So if you see an Empress EMT driving a Transcare flycar, now you know why!

In Hawthorne, Empress EMT's staff the ambulance, and Transcare provides the medic. So if you see an Empress EMT driving a Transcare flycar, now you know why!

Well, is still it a violation if they don't transport anyone? Can they get paid to just drive around in an area outside their CON? And if the president just happens to be driving in the same direction, on the same road, at the same time... and then he needs an ambulance and flags you down....? Is THAT OK?