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Safety orange if I can get it. An excellent choice for someone who leaves crap all over the place, forgets where it is, and has to go hunting. I probably should have chosen pink, because then none of the men will ever try to pick it up... and the women treat things well if they borrow them...

Dang, all this class. I can't respond to the thing abour flagpoles now... :P

Yeah, now I am too! D'oh! Never mind....

Just sayin'.

And the *best* part is their new slogan (because I'm 12 at heart): Push hard, push fast!!

Hey! Get your sig back! We could use a little class around here, if only so we have something to make fun of. :P

Welcome! Wait, I'm still too new to welcome people. Hmph. When do I stop being a probie?? I promise not to put any famous philosophers in my sig...

I suppose the walk-ins when I was working in a fire department that shared a building with the health clinic don't count.... but they were still fun to fill out. Time dispatched: 0800 Time out: 0759 Time on scene: 0759 Arrival at clinic: 0759

Wow, you guys are *nice* to each other. That's so cool. Whenever I play this game people assume I look like a wolf or a big fuzzy dog for some reason....

Ow! Ow! Owwwwwwwww! Huh, I think my acting's better IRL than here.

I only ever saw one episode because we have it lying around the station... why? Becuase we have a little red truck that used to be named Rescue-51 that looks astonishingly familiar. Before you as just HOW old our vehicles are, let me remind you that pickup trucks didn't change much for about 20...

One point made here that I never even thought of is the level of care the school health person can provide. There's a difference between an RN, whch is pretty common, and the sort of worst-case scenario (especially likely in tiny schools) where the principal has a CPR class or something. So I...

I guess I would treat him for pain because those symptoms might all be secondary to really intense pain -- saw a guy like that once with stomach ulcers. Of course, we were a couple hours from the hospital, not 5 minutes, so that might make a difference.

I saw that thread on the other forum and was going to mention it, but you beat me to it! Hmm.... do you think they got to see the episode in advance?? :D

We're allowed to clear C-spine, and I've noticed that medics here are all over the map on what they decide to do. We had a 4-year old fall from about 3 feet, land on her feet or knees (can't recall -- I think she landed on hands and knees, definitely didn't hit her head), pain in her hip, and...

What do we all know about overdosing on acetaminophen, ibuprofen, or aspirin? How much is too much? (I'm finding it hard to get actual numbers.) Have you seen any of it? I haven't, but I've heard some extremely unpleasant stories.

I can't find any detailed stories on her, but it doesn't look like anyone's trying to take advantage of (virtually non-existent) free US healthcare. It seems that this International Kid's Fund or whatever it is has taken o nher case and is asking for donations to help pay for the operation. They...

I wish I had a success story, but we're in the same boat. Thank goodness we have good mutual aid -- we just had a structure fire and I think fewer than 10 folks from out department showed up. Which is not to bash our department; it was before 5 on a weekday and those ten people represent most of...

I don't have any good recommendations on what to do, but I do know what not ot do: don't get a sociology degree. It's not necessarily something you can fall back on for any actual jobs, and I'm thinking it won't always look terribly good to employers because it is kind of a random, catch-all, "I...

Oh, don't ask! We're not even running blue lights or anything right now, and the department can't afford to kit anyone out with actual medical supplies... We're just a bunch of yokels in our POVs and grubby Carharrts :) Luckily that doesn't make us look too weird around here! With all that...