Recent content by cbjfan

71. Passed.

I was in my basic class with guys from Trenton. I know they are volly, you may want to check there.

In my area there are some agencies that one could easily tell are vollies. Then there are those, mine included, where you can't tell the difference between the vollies and the paid. As far as vollies not providing a good level of care, well in our county there are 3 ALS departments, 1 paid and 2...

I agree 100%!!! It is completely agency based, yes we know what the DOJ and some states say. However, it is local government and agency based. The city I work for has a Director of Public Safety, he has 3 agencies that answer to him and they are: police, fire, and ems.

The fire fighter is a first responder, and the person is in a house thats on fire. It makes as much sense as you talking about a doctor cutting a ring off of somebody's finger.

Fire Fighter uses a pry bar to open a locked screen door at a house where there is a person trapped in the burning house. Medical or not?

I didn't say that it was public safety, I simply said that extrication is not medical. The medic in the car doing patient care while we are cutting is medical, but the guys with the jaws and such are not doing anything medical...well maybe its car surgery.:)

I agree with ResTech, some people have forgotten it was personal opinion. I know what the DOJ says, and yes Vent thats fine. However, how can I, and my agency as well as many others, be strictly medical if we do extrication? There is nothing medical about cutting open a car.

So R/r according to your statements, does that mean law enforcement and f.d. are not public safety? Just from what I got out of your post made it seem like they aren't. Also in your last post you said seat belt classes are P.R. but in your post before that you asked if people provide seat belt...

I think it differs between agencies. My agency provides extrication, fire rehab support, and limited SAR, as well as our ALS services. So that is why I voted both, then the ems agency next to us in our county provides just ALS, so they are just medicine. There have been many good points on...

To all the ones who were telling biggee to suck it up, and its part of the job, I have read many "Professional" ems members on here complaining about the same thing or even more pathetic things, like "oh the previous crew went on a late in shift run, and when they got back the rig had a full...

1. Shut off siren, come to a complete stop, if the children are still on the bus and the driver waves us through, then we are to proceed at no more than 5mph past the bus. If children are off the bus and ALL motion for us to proceed as well as the bus driver, then we do the same as above. 2...

We have minimum 5 bvms on our trucks. One in the first-in bag, one in each of our two trauma jump kits, one in our peds kit, and one in the truck in a cabnet.

Ours is by age. Up until 3 years ago, my service was a private non-profit, from what im told, company. We have 3 trucks, an 05, 97, 90...the 97 has 45,000 more miles than the 90 but we are getting rid of the 90 just because of the age. It runs and drives good, it just needs a lot of help that we...

We run extrication and other basic rescue services. Mostly it is extrication when we do something other than typical patient care.