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  1. mikeylikesit

    Cooking at a firestation...

    if you chew gum while you chop onions it will keep your eyes from watering.
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    Thankfully, I didn't drop it!

    congrats! slippery little buggers they are.
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    woman went unresponsive at my job

    I have rarely had to respond or act on my off time, and never when working another job, i am kind of jealous.
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    Counting down the days

    It will all be over before you know it...good luck.;)
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    What to wear to a Firefighter written exam?

    Same as for the police written exams because you may end up in an integrity interview following the test. High shine shoes, Grey or cream color slacks, white shirt, blue blazer or a sport coat of some type, and very importantly a red and blue stripped tie. no piercings showing and hair trimmed...
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    Da Demiz uf r language

    yeah i blame technology for all the youth these days relaying on shorthand.
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    Volunteer Fireman

    Good luck, i hope you live close enough to the station for it not to be an issue if that is the way they operate.
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    Insurance Insurance Insurance

    don't feel bad i carry it to for the exact reason that rid mentioned. Insurance has some wired way of being needed after you drop it. i have a friend that paid off his car loan and dropped the full coverage for liability, a week later his car got stolen:unsure:
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    Dispatched to residence "person not breathing"

    Just so were all clear, an AED is not a diagnostic tool to determine a death. i don't care if you have the new one that can show a rhythm off of two leads it is not definitive enough. I will not waste the pads on something that i feel is irrelevant for the matter, i will use my monitor.
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    Determining MI with LBBB

    A lot of classes that i have attended making claim of that and stating that it can show exactly the site of the infarction. the only one who elaborated and went in depth like Rid was a cardiologist, he said that most people including him have difficulties in proving this.
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    Induced Hypothermia for Heart Attacks

    So do they have something like a DNH(do no Hypothermiate)?
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    EMT-B Pay

    8 an hour out here. get your medic and you make more;)
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    New Member EMT Question

    never too early to start working on your CEU's either.
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    No ambulance drivers cert in CA, am I screwed?

    Yes there are, you can work on a air ambulance or become a paramedic...they never drive anyways.
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    Earthquake rattles L.A.

    Thank goodness i live out here in colorado where we don't get those things.
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    I made the news!!!!

    A 104...im glad that it hasn't peaked too many days above here in colorados western side.
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    Hey guys...

    Welcome to the Life.
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    Dispatched to residence "person not breathing"

    Cover up the patient, call med control. the patients family will usually look at you in horror saying that you're not doing your job, you have to explain to them that if the patient had been discovered sooner you may have been able to do more(without making the family feel like it was there...
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    EMT-Basic Textbook for school

    i had to do it to. Sorry Rhan but just study what your told and believe what you can. hopefully the book doesn't contain quite as many fallacies as the pretests.
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    Narcan for Peds??

    i have had to push narcan on children a few times when like Kevd said when they get into mommy or daddy's pills. For the life of me i don't see how a child could possibly out one of those in their mouth without spitting it out. Children don't dry swallow pills often so they usually have to taste...
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