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More EMS Than Fire? I'm Shocked!
Below is a great link to a great bunch of people in Washington DC.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/09/03/us/national-houseofpa...
When you do something 6000+ times a year I would dare say you become an expert on it. But is there any question that there are more EMS responses than Fire responses? Even in my little 1600 call station we are 1200 EMS and 400 Fire. Sure we like fires (not in a sick way) but let's not discount the opportunities that we have to present ourselves to the public in a good way and in Eng 10's situation continue to protect those four jobs that the firefighters have on that engine. Jeez, I sound like former Chief Alan Brunacini. Before I get to the customer service and feedback loop talk I'll stop and just say I doubt that there are many folks here that started their career before the transition to Fire/EMS started. What do you think?
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/09/03/us/national-houseofpa...
When you do something 6000+ times a year I would dare say you become an expert on it. But is there any question that there are more EMS responses than Fire responses? Even in my little 1600 call station we are 1200 EMS and 400 Fire. Sure we like fires (not in a sick way) but let's not discount the opportunities that we have to present ourselves to the public in a good way and in Eng 10's situation continue to protect those four jobs that the firefighters have on that engine. Jeez, I sound like former Chief Alan Brunacini. Before I get to the customer service and feedback loop talk I'll stop and just say I doubt that there are many folks here that started their career before the transition to Fire/EMS started. What do you think?
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Permalink Reply by EngineLadder on
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I will say this my comapny runs around 3800+runs and I can feel for E10 picking up the same drunk and the same junkie 4 days in a row gets old
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Permalink Reply by Loyd Dittfurth on
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up here weve had about 200 runs this year and only about 20 have been fires
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lol i think i might like that i mean cute college girls drunk and vonerable just kiddn but i can understand where ur coming from
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i bet lol i cant handle spoiled lil rich brats that never have ever had to work for anything there whole life. I was at a friend of mines in ok and he was on a vollie dept there and they got paged out on a wreck. I naturally went just to see if there was anything i could do. It was a 24 year old female hit a cow in a new porshe at about 100 there were only 3 of us there untill ems arrived i was in the back seat holding c spine(crawled threw the lil bity back window) the whole time. she was cussin us out and screaming dont touch me. we extricated her and put her on a backboard loaded her up and away she went. john called me about a month later and told me i need to come back down. i went back down and we went up to there station at about 6 and there she was she apoligized she just didnt understand y people would take time out of there day to help somone like that for free and she walked away from that station with a different view of things and attitude on life
Background story on that chick
24 year old daughter of some big wig director in hollywood got more money than sence and couldnt get a flight out of denver to florida to go to spring break out there decided to drive out there thats how that chick came that way
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ya that dam john got a date with her 2
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oh that was last march i dont know if she still has that same attitude
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You know what the best is WestPhilly? Sitting on a mandown waiting 30+ min for a medic because its so busy and having a box come out or haveing an actual medic run around the corner like a non-breathing or cutting...
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Permalink Reply by Ben Waller on
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I started my career in a station that had an engine and a tanker. We fought fires and provided fire protection for extrications. We also pumped out basements after a few floods...and that was it.
The local EMS system had two high-top Cadillac ambulances. When they got a new heavy rescue truck and two modular ambulances, I decided that just running engine calls wasn't going to satisfy me for an entire career.
Now, I work for a Fire/Rescue/EMS system that's participating in this project with our local hospital and a neighboring 3rd service EMS system.
Even without the system being fully implemented, we've documented door-to-intervention times almost an hour less than the 90-minute target on several calls, due to good technology, a good system, and excellent work by our firefighter-paramedics and firefighters. (EMT-B certification is a job requirement for every firefighter here.)
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Permalink Reply by Cody W. Nelson on
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I have been in the Fire/EMS world for a relatively short time, only 12 years. In those short 12 years I have seen a great change in our Emergency Services in our area. I have seen my paid fire department realize the need to aid the local EMS system and start a 1st responder service. This added some 30,000 calls to the run total starting in 2001. I have also seen the local EMS service see the need for HAZ-MAT and sepcialty rescue training. I am now in the middle of developing a new standards for EMS and rescue response. Our chiefs, who in the past assured all of our older members that EMS would never be a possibility, have now seen the need to hire or train paramedics. Our job across the country has changed. Yes, we still fight fires, but they are few and far between. Our emphasis in now rescue. Either medical or technical. The world has changed. We will always fight fires, and continue educate the public on how to prevent them. We should take the same outlook on EMS, educate people in healthy living. Just think, if we did this as well as we have with the fire education, we would be able to eliminate a lot of medical runs. We are life long students. Not because we are interested in learning, but because the world is ever changing. We either change with it, or let the world win. Me....I will continue to learn and adapt and be prepared for anything.
Good luck and stay safe.
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