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In my own opinion, I don't stop when I'm not working (Unless its in my vol. fire district in which case we do 1st response anyways) but depending on whta your state laws are, you may or may not have a duty to act when your off duty. Just to cover my own *** I will not stop on the scene of...

I actually got offered a job there as an EMT while I was still in medic school, I turned it down to finish medic school, caught a lot of crap from people I know for that one, but figured my medic can get me further...

1. Well we cover 2.5 miles of the Hudson River in NY State. We do have a mountian with a ski center. But most of our district is residential with 4 trailer parks and commercial area as well. 2. We are all trained in vehicle extrication, low angle rescue, and surface water rescue, a few people...

The chief has given me full reign on this truck, I'm Lt./Paramedic in the department and I am the officer on that truck (Vol. dept.) so I'm basically gathering ideas to bring back to the line and see which ones we want to go with as a whole. Those are some great ideas, and honestly the weight...

Ok so this isn't exactly an ambulance question but it's really close. This is geared toward those of you that also work the fire side. We have a light duty rescue (Ford F-350 with a 6 door utility box on the back with an open back area. We currently carry all of our EMS stuff on one side (BLS...

Blue Tir3's have been sold.

I recently purchased a newer vehicle and I stripped all of my lights out of my current vehicle. I have for sale: 2 TIR3's both Blue, no mounting brackets for them as I could't get them off of this vehicle but the gaskets, wires and screws are all present. $85 Shipped for both. 1 60Watt ShoMe...

In NYS you have to have a minimum of a EMT-Basic and a driver available for the rig to roll. CFRs can practice but not provide the only care en route to the hospital.

Ha, well I guess I should come forward with my old nickname, when I first joined as a junior member back when I was 14 my nickname was "Angel of Death" simply because whenever I was around or rode calls, bad things happened, we had a large amount of full arrests the first few months I was in as...

IF the pt. is CAOx3 (Concious, alert, and orientated to 3 simple questions) then they can refuse care and you cannot touch them. At least thats what they taught in my EMT class here in NYS.

Ok, I'm looking for some assistance here, my Fire Company does BLS first response, we have EMS equipment on our light and heavy rescues, our boat and one of our engines. Our light rescue is the first response vehicle, I recently took over the EMS at my fire company and it has been hell for me to...

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nice to meet you too!

Hi Hi there, Ive been on this site for over a year, I love it so far, I forgot to do this thread when I first joined. I am an active Interior Firefighter and EMT-Basic with my fire company and a driver and EMT-Basic with my emergency squad. I am a paid EMT with a Six Flags park and soon to be...

I have a used Green Axixtech Hawk 48 Diode Dash LED Light for sale, the unit is missing about 3-4 diodes but other than that works fine, cig plug is cut off as I did have it wired into a switch. Nothing is wrong with the unit, I am just selling it because I aquired a G/G Dual Talon for a rather...