turned in my app for medic school today. i have an interview on monday and have my skills check off on tuesday. if i get in, class starts in jan and runs for the year. wish me luck.
http://cms.firehouse.com/content/article/article.jsp?id=65960§ionId=46
in an apparent robbery, a nurse was shot and killed and an off duty firefighter and his girlfriend, an off duty police officer, were wounded. the nurse identifed as gina stallis, 34, worked at the VA in St. louis...
http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpp/news/dpgo_Skydiver_Survives_10000_Foot_Fall_mb_08162009_2979733
this guy fell approx 10,000ft and landed on the roof of a building. according to a employee of the sky diving place, the jumper doesn't have any broken bones.
not to sure i believe that he has no...
"The military says a soldier who flunked out of combat medic training has been found dead in an apparent suicide at the Fort Sam Houston barracks."
very short story and pretty sad that she didn't think that she could live since she failed...
http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/entertainment/Jacko-Flees-in-SUV-After-Crash-With-Ambulance-EMT.html
wonder if it really was jackson. looks like him from behind.
my prayers for the families.
Two Houston firefighters died battling a house fire in southeast Houston early Sunday.
The Houston Fire Department said in a news release that Capt. James Harlow and Damien Hobbs of Station 26 were killed...
this one happened a few days ago but with all the tragic events going on lately i thought i'd share it with everyone.
This officer was killed by a suspect that was involved in a police chase. Officer White had someone pulled over and was sitting in his car writing a ticket, he wasn't even...
when i've done that in dallas, they tell us not to follow. guess they don't want to really get them off the street.
http://www.abc40tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=10097912
not really ems related, just wanted to see what some of ya'll think about this. just a summary, cop pulled over a Houston Texan running back for running a red light while trying to get to the hospital to see his dying mother-in-law. even after a nurse comes out and says that they are coding her...
Remember that I work on a neonatal/pediatric transport team.
so we get called to a hospital for a newborn whose mom's uterus ruptured. the baby was down for approx 50min before being revived. after being revived the baby's pH was 6.5. we got there pretty much all we had to do was switch over...
ok, so i'm pretty sure that they are wanting to get rid of ALS care all together, which is very stupid i think. unless i'm misunderstanding the article.
http://www.jems.com/news_and_articles/news/09/ohio_debates_als.html
http://www.emsclosecalls.com/fullstory.php?82675
i can't believe these people who were doing this. i guess they thought it would be funny and didn't truely realize that someone was dying. not that i'm saying its ok what they did.
so basically an emt dispatcher was charged for violating a restraining order for sending 3 work related emails to a police dispatcher, which just happened to be his wife, in order to get better directions as to where to send an ambulance. his wife sounds like a winner...
Ok so just to give everyone a little background as to what I do, I work on a Pediatric/Neonatal transport truck with Medical City Childrens Hospital in Dallas. I am an EMT and always have 2 pediatric nurses on every shift. Ok so now the call. One day we get called out to a hospital to pick up a...