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Ok so this isn't exactly an ambulance question but it's really close. This is geared toward those of you that also work the fire side. We have a light duty rescue (Ford F-350 with a 6 door utility box on the back with an open back area. We currently carry all of our EMS stuff on one side (BLS...

I recently purchased a newer vehicle and I stripped all of my lights out of my current vehicle. I have for sale: 2 TIR3's both Blue, no mounting brackets for them as I could't get them off of this vehicle but the gaskets, wires and screws are all present. $85 Shipped for both. 1 60Watt ShoMe...

Ok, I'm looking for some assistance here, my Fire Company does BLS first response, we have EMS equipment on our light and heavy rescues, our boat and one of our engines. Our light rescue is the first response vehicle, I recently took over the EMS at my fire company and it has been hell for me to...

I have a used Green Axixtech Hawk 48 Diode Dash LED Light for sale, the unit is missing about 3-4 diodes but other than that works fine, cig plug is cut off as I did have it wired into a switch. Nothing is wrong with the unit, I am just selling it because I aquired a G/G Dual Talon for a rather...

ok..I just bought one of those metal clipboards that fold out like 3 different ways..I know a lot of ambulance companies use them mines a bit smaller though and I am using it only for the BLS PCR's from my FD, I was thinking because it has so many surfaces on it..I wanted to maybe type up some...

Hey everyone..I logged on today for the 1st time in a few weeks and a message said i should post here so here I am, sorry I havent been able to get onto my account, my work and vol. life picked right up that I havent really even been at my own house recently..its starting to steady out so i...

Ok, after some troubles at my home squad, I have to ask you guys, what is your squads policy on driving the rig? This is mainly for vol. agencies I am asking. The reason being because we have many new members who are not EMTs yet and the officers are sterotyping due to age thinking that they...

ok, I have a new jobshirt for my FD paid for personally so I can customize it myself, I got it embroidered yesterday and I have 3 patches I would like to put on it but recently thought about putting a flag on it also, what my question is...where does the flag go? and what way does it face? I...

ok, we were hanging out at the FD after a call on saturday night (4/20/08) and we are dispatched with the squad for a P1 ALS response to the ******* nursing home 87 y/o female full arrest, CPR is in progress, (at exactly 2300)(witnessed arrest we found out upon arrival) we jump in the rescue and...

Just curious...what section of the US are you from? (If you don't live in the US I put an option for you on the poll.)

I am from Glens Falls, NY (about 45 minutes north of the capital Albany) I'm not sure how many people on here are near my area, but I am looking for a part-time paid EMT-B job, mainly to work weekends and evenings/nights as I am in school during the day...anyone know of any jobs?

Just curious...what was your 1st paid EMS job? and at what age did you start? for myself after 4 years of vol. EMS I actually just got my 1st paid job as an EMT at the Six Flags Great Escape here in NYS (used the search function and couldn't find anything with this type of title, sorry if I...

For all of you members of volunteer EMS agencies what do you do for training? Here we have drill nights the 3rd Wednesday of every month and we get about 6 people out of our 44 members that show up. I am currently trying to get some ideas to make our trainings better and get a better...

As most of you NYS people know, we still have the EMT-D, EMT-I, EMT-CC and EMT-P levels..I am going out to college in the fall and was thinking of advancing to a higher level my 2nd year of college should I even bother with the EMT-I level or just go straight for EMT-CC? Because I know EMT-I's...

Does anyone know if leaving your BP cuff in the cold will affect if the needle will move or not? Reason I'm asking is because I am here in upstate NY (which is pretty cold right about now) and I got to a call yesterday in my POV and went to take the pt.'s BP and the needle wouldnt move no matter...

Hello there, I am looking for a trauma/O2 bag big enough to hold a "D" cylinder, right now I just have a small trauma bag and am in need of a larger one that can also hold an O2 tank, Ive looked online and some of them are priced pretty high, or aren't big enough, so does anyone have one here...

I have been thinking about taking the NREMT test....I want to know what you guys think...is it worth it?

Just thought I should show off my squad in our new building, because thats what the forum said, lol anyways here are our rigs and we are going to have 2 brand new ones with complete LED lighting packages by Feb. of next year. Because the 2 we have now are living very limited lives, we run about...

I'm kinda new to this site, but not EMS, anyways I was wondering how the ranking system works here, I noticed when I first started I was a ride-along and now I've gotten to 10 posts and I'm now a probie, does anyone know what the other ranks are and the number of posts to achieve them? I'm just...