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Middleboro and I hear that they have Plymouth now.

How much experience do you have and is it 911, transfer or both. Armstrong - metro north of Boston, 911 and transfer work. 911 is a lot of intercept work, medford is a transporting unit. The transfer ALS trucks see 50/50 911 and transfers. BLS do mostly transfers. Action - have a fair amount...

Their last orientation was mid-March, so expect the next orientation to be in mid-May. Call Erica in HR, or stop by, if you haven't heard anything about back by next week. You should get an e-mail about orientation days for BLS, Tue-Wed-Thu. Add Friday for ALS. It runs 8-4. It will run until 5...

Maybe I'm playing devil's advocate here and hate that some of my close friends did this, but some of these people were amazing EMT's and medics. Some took shortcuts and some had personal things going on in their lives where they couldn't take off from work to take a refresher. Also it is...

If you are wondering about suspension lengths Permanent - running the whole thing 2 years - involved, handling money and the paperwork to give to Leo 9 months - signed the roster and used it towards recertification 45 days - signed the roster but didn't need it refresher to recert yet...

I know 36 people on that list and have worked with most of them. My paramedic instructor is on that list. And I've worked with 2 of the 4 people with 2 years suspensions. I worked with one of them as recently as last Saturday.

False.

I did my medic ride time with the FDNY they explained that hospitals cover about 40% of NYC's 911 calls. For the most part, it seems that the hospitals prefer FDNY work experience before hiring.

I live in east cambridge. It is worth getting your MA ticket. To my understanding the pay is far better in the Boston area than it is in NH.

^ Everyone that signed up for the "recert" classes that never happened knew what they were doing.

You realize MA OEMS only has about 4-5 full-time employees to take care of everything OEMS related. The office is probably going to use this to their advantage, so they can get more funding so they can ACTUALLY oversee things. One of my BLS co-workers got his NH medic a few months back...

OEMS has been doing that con-ed thing for years. I know people that haven't been to a recert class in years. If you needed a CPR card by TOMORROW, you knew who to go to. If you didn't want to take the 24 hour BLS refresher or the 48 hour ALS refresher, you also knew who to go to. If you...

I just read that article a bit ago. 200, even 600 EMT/paramedics is such an understatement. In MA alone, so far about 2500 people falsified their recert. It was so widespread and widely accepted that even almost every private company and FD knew it was going on. Honestly, something like...

Get your MA ticket and work in MA. Also, skip the intermediate and go to medic school.

The last truck that was purchased with the side window was in late 2005. It cost extra to have that put in, but that is being done away with for privacy and cost. Lifeline and Trinity have them too, but the Lifeline trucks that have them used to be Trinity trucks. I know there is one more...

Typically the MA EMT patch is on the right shoulder, but I've seen it on the left on some services. The duty to act thing is only if you are on the clock in MA. I could be in my uniform before/after work and walk past an unresponsive person in a grocery store with no repercussions. Now the...

Some places like to hire college students. It cuts down on giving out overtime. A lot of college EMS that I've seen is non-transporting and hand it off to us. I have to give Tufts University EMS props on a call that they handed off to us this past Saturday night. I've worked with a lot of...

The majority of accidents at my work are people backing into or hitting stationary objects. I can only think of one accident recently that happened while a crew was occupied with a patient. In that case the state police ruled that the intersection lights was faulty as they witnessed after the...

The average starting pay in the Boston area as a Basic is 13.00/hr. I did fine on that paying 500 a month plus utilities working overtime and still have money to go out and spend. I'm not saying that was good pay, but for 26/single and no kids I'm fine.

I know in mass, care starts once you see/talk to your patient. Responsibility is transferred once they are on the receiving facilities equipment. Care is transferred full once a report is given to a nurse or higher.