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As long as they are a resource requested by the race coordinators, they should be in the IAP. If they aren't then that's on the incident commanders and planners. If they're just randomly showing up, that's a little more of an issue, because they're outside of the loop and are now possibly a...

It depends heavily by area. The feds dropped a lot of money post 9/11 on hazmat and many agencies simply couldn't or can't sustain their teams and equipment as the funds dried up 5 years later. If you're in a metro area with a career team you have a good chance of an FTIR, But outside of a metro...

There's a chance a hazmat team your calling won't have a system like that. Spectrometers run $20,000-$100,000. Plus if you start to factor in response and setup time it may not be worth the delay to identify the specific chemical over standard decon and transport.

They're still defining our roles a little bit. Believe it or not we operated with no shift supervisors in our center until last year. It's definitely been rewarding and educating. At least I'm only starting a few months behind our other supervisors, so we're all doing a good job supporting each...

I've quickly come to realize being a supervisor is a real pain sometimes... Being accountable for another persons performance is... yeah, no fun

Just a few quick things, as I am not familiar with AZ, and also not in the field game much these days. -An EMT class will be around 120+ hours of course time consisting of instruction and practical application -These classes are developed for a high school level student to pass and understand...

Our agency policy is no imbibing in alcohol when in an identifiable uniform, and you are generally discouraged from even being in a place that serves it. We issue T-shirts I see maybe a few people wear outside of work, and occasionally I'll see a job shirt around. Personally I shop at the...

The blanket implementation of a priority dispatching system is a huge failure. If systems look internally and evaluate their responses, capabilities, etc. It can be made to work. The problem is agencies lack that level of motivation and thought, so they use the default A&B= BLS, C,D&E= ALS, and...

Given that description, and that you're familiar with the area, I'd assume it's a privately owned piece.

Damn you only get a stylus pen... I got sytlus/pen/flashlight for Telecommunicators week.

Our county actually produced custom map books that are very detailed and honestly contain more information than what you'd ever need for 2 reasons. 1. GPS files for the county have been rarely updated and are very spotty in some areas. 2.We have also learned that many road names are not in...

The biggest thing is if you aren't trained to play in the hot zone, stay back and let us "glow worms", "glow sticks", or what ever you want to call us play. I think I may have had a question on that back when I took my NREMT. -Park Units upwind and uphill -Don't do this:

I'll mirror the sentiment. As long as we know where you are, and have an idea what you're up to... we're fine. Especially when we fly blind it's nice to know when you're out and about. One ambulance in my area has probably the largest first due area in the state. There are a handful of...

Glad you had good experience. It's always good to have people with experience on both sides of the radio.

Better than most things I can prepare in our microwave... I'd also be fine with getting it stuffed and having a new mascot.

If only we had a kitchen...

We aren't just the DC metroplex... We're also pretty sure one of the geese landed on the roof

You know you work in a rural agency when: You can sit in the dispatcher center and listen to the sporadic bursts of gunfire from the goose hunters in the field next door.

Just to clarify this anymore... It seems most people with facebook and instagram have more info then we do. Because you know the first step anymore is to post pictures, text your friends, and then call 911 complaining why it is taking so long... Then they hang up after barely giving an address...

Cool, have fun. Also: -Make sure you verify the info, (address, pt info, etc.) callers will mess, and neglect to tell you things special required info -CAD systems will crash, always be ready to work off the grid