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That's exactly right, the transport rig (ambulance) will show up with 2 EMT-B's, while the paramedics will show up in an SUV with all of their supplies and gear. If it's a life threat, one Paramedic will ride in the back with the EMT, while the other EMT drives the ambulance, and the other...

I'm saying that every state appears to have a different program for the 911 service is all. I understand your post fine.

I suppose it's different all around the states, because even when I'm driving us to the hospital and my partner is in the back with the medic, I'll see ask them, then depending on the answer will do a number of different things: hooking up the EKG bits, BP cuffs, hanging the bags of saline or...

I think you mis understood my post as being some cocky jerkoff. I know I don't know much, as I said I've only been doing it for a bit over a year. I ask, because like you said, some want you to just sit there. It's only polite, and the last thing I want to do is step on someones toes in the rig...

I run in a tier 2 system. Recently in the last few months, I've come across paramedics who for lack of a better sentence: Would just rather not have me on board. They have this poor attitude when I whole-hardheartedly ask in the back of the ambulance "Do you need anything man, I'm here to...

Howdy, I'm employed in New Jersey, which uses the tier 2 system of EMT-B's getting both the life threats, and the not so life threats. When a life threat is dispatched, so is ALS, and we assist accordingly, frequently applying the EKG bits, blood pressure cuff, exc. Along with doing the obvious...