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Permalink Reply by Russ Marks on March 2, 2011 at 12:30am

I agree,
#1 how do I recruit new members when I have to tell them it will take at least a year to get your going. They need 200 hrs of training just to start. Vol. FF - 80 hrs, Med First Responder - 56 hours, HazMAt FRA 8 hours, Wildland FF 32-67 hrs, Then we add Driver/Operator 40 hrs., RIT, AutoEx, Low angle Rescue. The job has gotten so complex for people whom give they free time.

#2 - due to #1 there is a reduction of membership, so how do we ensure the truck goes out the door every time with engough trained staff to meet ISO requirements.

Central Rural CA.

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Permalink Reply by James Burton (Jamie) on March 2, 2011 at 2:30am

Our EMS service works very well, but on the Fire Department side I would say:

Recruitment - Trying to find more able bodies in a small rural town can be extreamly hard, every year we send out flyers trying to find new firefighters and filing the spaces of members that have left can be difficult.

Daytime Response - My Department is paid on call, I work nights so I spend a lot of time responding to daytime calls with one or two Firefighters and many times alone. Last year Myself and one other firefighter responded to a 8100 Sq ft mansion Fire, we fought the fire for 11 minutes defensively until we ran out of water, and mutual aid turned up. This is our biggest problem, we do not run enough calls to dictate a duty crew, so we rely heavily on Mutual aid, as does most of the Departments in our area.

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Permalink Reply by Todd Seaney on March 2, 2011 at 5:48am

1) Money for things we really need. It looks like we can get all kinds of things we may never use. The items we use everyday are harder to get funds for.

2) People who are able to respond during daytime hours. We are ful vol department with most people working their money job out of the area.

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Permalink Reply by Izzy ( J. Bade) on March 2, 2011 at 7:44am

this is definitely the case here as well.

Northwest Indiana

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Permalink Reply by Zach Pfeifer on March 2, 2011 at 4:13pm

1 no one shows up
2 there r only like 9or10 people that show up

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Permalink Reply by Ken Wilson on March 5, 2011 at 9:57pm

#1 Scope of practice- The NJ scope of practice for an EMT is way to weak. We should be able to use KING-LT airways and LMA's. we should also be able to start IV lines and be able to "assist" with more than Epi, MDIs, and Nitro.

#2 EMTs who do not care about their Pt.s, such as recently, a crew I know of wanted to make an MVC victim get out of the car and walk to the stretcher. If i hadn't been there they wouldn't have had to board and collar the guy. I don't see why they did this. But more frequently, EMTs wont give O2 to someone who needs it even if they ask for it. Our state's standing orders allow us to give O2 for whatever we feel necessary.

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