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Can't say I have ever seen or heard of anyone getting into a barfight over impersonating an EMT. Cop/firefighter, all the time.

The NYC-FDNY EMS system usually has 300-400 ambulances patrolling the city. 1/5 of those are probably ALS units. We have a population over 8,000,000. In many areas they have quite a bit of down time. We also run dual medic exclusively though and only send ALS units to calls triaged for them by...

Municipalities that run EMS often lose money vs gain it. FDNY EMS actually costs NYC around 200,000,000 a year to keep in service. (its really 400,000,000 but we usually generate half back in transports. Meanwhile 90% of the service is convinced they make bags of money for the city left and...

Hey now, don't exclude the bucket fairies... And don't be jealous that the firemen have bigger hoses.

Work 24 off for 72? Do they get to sleep at all in that 24 hour period or are they running constantly?

Ah gotcha. So the "in" crowd working on the ambulances for the money, simply doesn't want to let anyone in their sandbox.

VERYYYYY rare that an EMS union is able to overpower a fire union. I've actually never once heard of that until now. Not that I am implying anything against EMS, but usually the "years of tradition" line comes on 3x as strong from a fire side.

Im confused. You work as a medic on an engine or flycar type vehicle and as a firefighter but if you work solely on an ambulance you are promoted? Less duties = promotion?

Fashion statement.

In these parts they're usually so dumb they can't remember what unit pissed them off regardless of it flashing on their screen when you key the radio.

Unmotivated undereducated providers. Pretty sure it's not just my system...

What is my EMS system? A non-progressive disaster.

I believe in my volunteer region that awareness is the requirement. I took hazmat operations (all 14 hours of it) voluntarily.

Yea yea yea. Showoff. For the record, in no way am I advocating that EMS is stupid and can't learn it blah blah blah. What irks me is that people learn it once and never care to learn it again. If firefighters here do understand it, it is for the simple fact that they have trained and refreshed...

I can't speak for that one yet but I don't doubt it. Its not exactly a complex system... You understand the index of color coding and you find your answers. If nothing else I'm sure the Hazmat companies do. :rolleyes:

FDNY EMS provides hazmat awareness training but realistically it is worthless. Being taught BASIC as possible hazmat 5 years+ ago when you were in the academy and never hearing about it again is just wasting time. We all know what the DOT ERG is but people knowing how to read and utilize it? Ha.

Really? They allow up to 3 years to get your BASIC training requirements done? That is insane. Then it is a bit silly to force you to go through FF training.

With a quick scan of the pages I didn't find the answer to the below... Is the OP a volunteer FF or EMT... If you only volunteer as an EMT then that makes no sense though you should be trained on operating on the fireground. If you are a firefighter/EMT then I have no remorse for you as 99% of...

Don't they always?

I'm not really into the whacker gear. Nothing personal but im certainly not buying a $70 metal beaver...