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Save your $0.02 I'm not sure he deserves it

Agreed, I reference my rant in Ambulance=Mobile love shack

I've been reading this and several other threads you started, trying so hard to keep my nose clean and not jump into them. I think you need to calm your labido and settle down in general. Most of us look to "increase this profession's legitimacy:-(" However, it is not helped by those who look to...

I have come oh so close though. The big fire we had saturday morning came about 8:07. A call I had last night came about 9:30ish as I was sitting down to take out my contacts. I was so happy that I had not started taking them out yet.

In my area, the first responders would be expected to help the lady back up, but then they would have to stay on scene until an EMT or higher (lol or even a deputy) got on scene to have a refusal signed.

Oddly enough we haven't had any calls that have woken me up before 8 in several weeks.

My department will usually have a turnout of about 6-8 at any given fire at any time. If a second alarm is called we will usually see about 5 or 6 more people from our department show when they realize just how big it is going to be. On average we will have nearly 15 members show to multiple...

Something must be wrong with us, I didn't sleep well last night either. Paying attention in class today was zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

As both a FF and an EMT for my local volly dept I feel that I can speak at both sides of the spectrum. First, in my opinion, it is not just the media that throws the behaviours of FFs out of proportion. Our department has about 27 members, however at our last fire we had 8 show. This is an...

Admit it, in reality fire fighting and EMS aren't so different --------------------- EMS: "So why did you wait until 3 in the morning to call us for this chest pain?" Fire: "So you knew it was smoldering mid afternoon YESTERDAY... but you waited until this morning when I was :censored:ing...

Your fire station and half of the equipment in it is older than you are When the tones drop half of the town converges on the station whether or not they are on the department When the trucks pull out almost every son or daughter is standing there waving because they don't have anything...

Sounds like what I went through not long ago. I chalked the headache up to calculus. The hit by truck to lack of sleep, and the fever? Well I couldn't afford to miss calculus at the time so I "never" had a fever.

I too have to throw forward the idea of burn out

Amazing how people will sue over anything these days. Seriously, I don't see smoke really being a problem. If it is blowing from one yard into another house (which I true find amazing) then either they have absolutely no tolerance, or it is terribly poor design by the architects. Honestly, I...

:excl:Warning:excl:: The following is an absolutely useless rant: My life has gone to :censored:. Wanted to go to a party for halloween, so without even mentioning the party tried to figure out how late my parents would let me stay out. 10!?!?! Seriously? I'm :censored: 18 not 13. Let me grow...

Well I had someone in my EMT class that could control their gag reflex too. She took the biggest OA she could find and put it in.

F my life: I've had less than 12 hours of sleep in the past 72 hours. Now to top that, I finally have a chance to sleep and my :censored:ing pager won't stop beeping at me. I'd turn it off, but for some unknown reason I care too much to do that. Maybee I ought to just crank it up all the way...