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    Physical Agility Test concerns?

    LIke stated above, it is probably something you have to do twice.
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    Health and Safety-Are your officers involved?

    OP, I have been on departments that have a "health and safety" division as well as protocols and some that have had a need for them but just do not want to waste the time or money on issues that do not affect the rating of the department. My first department in the application said that I would...
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    Social Media Login Information

    What they are looking for is not your login information as much as your username you go by. Most people do not have their facebook set up to www.facebook.com/first.lastname. It helps narrow down the user for background checks. I have to do it when I apply for special jobs and for security...
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    Mystery power port

    Hardwired ports for Zoll monitors.
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    Nicknames. How did you get yours?

    Currently military job I am WaffleFry. Story has something to do with Chick-Fil-A Waffle Fries. When I work EMS, I am called Black Cloud. Pretty much self explanatory.
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    Leatherman Raptor

    Leatherman has them back in stock, REI still has the red ones and the EMS Store has an exclusive blue pair.
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    How long do the live scans take?

    It really all depends on how backed up they are. If you catch them during a peak period wait times can vary.
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    Reimbursement of Volunteer’s uniform gear?

    My previous fire department issued us 2 short sleeve, 1 long sleeve t-shirt for training. Reimbursed up to $40 for pants. Anything over that was the members responsibility. As for Class A, had to have 1 year on the department, along with completion of Basic and Advanced Firefighter. But our...
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    When should I feel comfortable?

    Yes. I have taken it several times. The one I took was 2-eight hour days and the second day 9 of the 10 persons in class were hungover. We went through a crap ton of IV bags.
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    the 100% directionless thread

    Most flights states side are not that bad. Depending on where you are coming from the trip can be over just as soon as you take off. The hardest part is the landing. lol
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    Sleep Schedule?

    I work 3 on, 2 off, 2 on, 3 off otherwise known as the Panama Schedule. After being on days for a year I switched back to nights so that I can go to EMT school during the afternoon. My shifts are from 1800 to 0730 or later depending on when my support staff shows up. Because I go to school and...
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    How do you handle your stress?

    Usually the gun range does it for me.
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    What are your Health tips?

    About once or twice a year I do the Advocare 24 Day challenge. Although kind of expensive it works. Swapping between days and nights is hard but as long as you really watch what you eat, how much you, and exercise daily it will be of great benefit.
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    "One cries because one is sad. For example, I cry because others are stupid and that makes me...

    "One cries because one is sad. For example, I cry because others are stupid and that makes me sad." --Sheldon
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    The Official EMTLIFE Introduction Thread

    Where to start. My name is Dustin and I live in Illinois. My primary job is Active Duty Air Force where I work in Emergency Management. I have been working in the public safety field since 2003 and that is where I got my love for working in the medical field but I have not been able to work on...
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    Bleeding of the O2 regulator

    In my experience I have not seen any mandate that requires the bleeding of the regulator. There are several issues that do arise one of which being a high pressured hose. In the fire service the hose filling SCBA bottles often comes into contact with sharp edges and if the pressurized hose was...
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    Why we don't talk.

    I am the same way. It sucks that there are people out there that treat people like that. Sent from my SM-N920V using Tapatalk
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    Why we don't talk.

    It is very unfortunate that people have to go through life like that because they fear for their jobs. I too have learned to keep things bottled up because I am not the greatest at opening up about my feelings but I have realized that when I start to take my anger or frustration out on whoever...
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    Why we don't talk.

    It is nice to see employers taking an active approach to realizing the issues involved with responder's.
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