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It sucks because the management sucks. They place routine runs ahead of 911 calls. They run as close to the % allowed for over the certain minute response time (eg 90% of calls on scene in under 8min). I got hired with a medic from there, and he is a good guy. Their medical director refuses...

There is no real effective solution in Pinellas County. Sunstar sucks, and there are a ton of ineffective fiefdoms around.

I'm sorry, but that really is bullsh!t. I got hired with HCFR while I was living and working in NEW JERSEY. Some people aren't good test takers, or interviewees, or in shape.

I just went out and bought 52 cans of the stuff, with another case of Blue Raspberry and Fruit Punch coming to me Tuesday.

And who says that I have to drink it back in one gulp? Marketed? I have yet to see ANY marketing on it, and the sales people card whoever I come in with as well, then swipe my DL on the register. I know what I get into when I drink 4loko. The govt had no right to do what they did.

I dunno, we have had plenty of kids of members not get hired on with us. And I think Hillsborough County is Central Fla. Granted its west and we don't get CF News 13, but its still in the middle part of the state. I tried for OCFRD last year, and got eliminated on a technicality. btw...

Look bro, its a gamble. If you are strong, smart and have lots of common sense, you got a shot. But have a backup plan. Get a degree, and have something else you can do. I got hired on a FD down here while I was living in Jersey, so its not impossible. A lot of the "FireMedics" that are...

Do you have a backup plan? Why do you wanna get into Fire/EMS? How strong/tough/smart/common sense smart are you?

And do what up there? Fire/EMS? Forget it. I moved (back) to Fla from Jersey. All they are going up north is laying off.

Sasha my love, how are you!? Still in the area? I got hired over in Hillsborough. You do have good advice. Something like 40% or so (from what I was told, how true it is, idk) of those that go through the academy do NOT make it. When I was in medic school, I met lots of certified FireMedics...

See if there is a study guide included, or you need to buy that on your own, or even better, you can pick up your textbooks early. If you have any questions, feel free to PM me as well.

Crap. More toys for those wack jobs who call us more then enough as it is........

I <3 my purple gloves.

Do you know what books you will be using yet?

CFFA is one of the BEST Fire Academy's in the state. I can not vouch for their EMS programs, but I have attended many continuing Ed classess for Fire at CFFA, and will be back in Feb for Orlando Fire Conference. Print this out, and follow it like it's your new bible. Cause it is...

Wah wah wah, boo hoo hoo. I just came back from BU, and while they were about a buck more then Fla, where I live, they were still about $3 a can. The g*ddammmed govt has no business with this. Kids need to learn, and if killing a few off is what it takes, well, survival of the fittest. I...

Staged a mile away? I hope that was a new misprint, and not actual info. Where do most of the assault on EMS provider incidents occur? At shooting/stabbings or at routine medical calls? We can't clamor for more "safety" on the gory sounding ones then go solo on the ones where we get injured...

And THAT exemplifies what is wrong with Jersey.

Who do you know or blow to get that?

If I am not in uniform or IDing myself as such, who cares what I wanna do in my off time, provided it is not illegal.