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You have a choice to make. 1) Smoke Pot or 2) Work for a major company, government or in the medical field. No way to do both. On the upside your free to dump a bottle of scotch over your head every night so long as your sober when it is time to clock in the next day.

How many rigs does FDNY run daily? Even if they are all kept in perfect shape, odds are this will happen every so often. I wouldnt get within 100' of a burning ambulance unless I personally had just removed all of the O2 tanks. (skip to 1:05) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4hvxGMpwHk

935: 935 to Fire control FC: 935 935: 935 is back in town, back in service. FC: 935 935: 935 is back in town, back in service. FC: 935 935: 935 is back in town, back in service. FC: THANK YOU 935. THE TIME IS NINE THIRTY FIVE AM.

I really want my BLS squad to start putting monitors on the rigs. We average 15-20 minutes from on scene with a PT to when we see an ALS intercept. Being able to hand a medic a strip as soon as they get out of the fly car is valuable. My own personal want extends from having a monitor and can...

Not a fan for the above reasons. At somewhere around $3 grand each, my $1200 Samsung Ultrabook is miles a head of it and an Ipad with a $100 case sounds like a steal.

Ive run calls with my wife. I hate it. She loves to calm/distract patients by pointing out the driver is her husband and then going down the laundry list of my flaws. We also have a teen boyfriend / girlfriend combo that developed in our Corps. Long story, but lets just say they were good...

When dealing with drunks and druggies on scene I always find it useful to clear the room out. Get their friends out, get all the other responders away. Keep your partner just outside the door or LEO near by if they show signs of violence. But the more 1 one 1 you can make it, the calmer the...

I like to take it a step beyond that and play Ice Cream truck music over the rigs PA. Its great fun when you post by the town park on a sunny Saturday afternoon.

New York's patch. But I never see it worn by any agency or private company. Whackers love it because it looks a lot like the NYS Trooper Patch.

I was at a company roll out meeting with 300 co workers, my VP is speaking on stage when he drops. 300 people stand there looking at him lay there. Nobody knew what to do. Turns out he had a massive heart attack. I was upset nobody knee what to do so I took CPR at my Vol Ambulance Corps...

My system has no ALS. We can intercept with medics from a nearby city while in transit. But those medics work for the PD and cannot cross town lines to meet a PT. Because of transport times my patients can be well over 40 minutes from dispatch to seeing a medic with no on scene hang ups.

http://www.toughtraveler.com/remed.asp Tough Travler is a local company to me, they make everything here in Schenectady and their EMS products are developed with and field tested by area FDs and Ambulance Services. But honestly, you should be asking what to keep in the bag more than what the...

We just put a powered ferno chair in service last week. Its HEAVY but I had one PT to bring out of a basement and the heft was well worth it.

There is a Hatzalah service not far from me in the Catskills during the summer where a large Jewish population comes to vacation. They double the population of the town, and as far as I have heard the local EMS community has few qualms about Hatzalah. The local rural EMS system would be over...

Where in Upstate NY are you? Do you do 911 or IFTs or both? What type of business background do you have? With insurance companies our $ per ride is more or less fixed. So to maximize profit you either have to find better ways to transport for less and/or find ways to have less downtime on...

My area sees winter temps as low as -20f and -5 to -10 on a regular basis. I buy cheap pairs of lined leather gloves from the army navy store. I use them mostly at winter MVA's. Id rather keep my hands cut free and deal with a slightly higher risk for exposure. My logic is that as long as I...

Im one of those freakish homing pigeons that not only knows every road, but where the bad pot holes, frost heaves, dips and mile markers are. I haven't gone near a GPS, phone or map in well over 12 months while covering 911 for a 72 sqmi town.

a quick blip of the siren or air horn will clear up an confusion of Ambulance vs plumber. They also tend to motivate unaware pedestrians. Your school probably has a strong preference that you run quiet.

http://youtu.be/jlJMlK4VwoU My little town gets swamped very summer with an electronic music festival and we end up with a lot of very interesting calls there. I was in the rig on site and we got all call from the security staff stating that a tent went flying with a person inside. You can...

That sounds like a lot of work. My cot is: Sheet PeePee Pad Sheet Lay the sheet across cot, add pink pad, lay 2nd sheet across. Grab ends of sheets and flip over cot and fold back neatly, repeat on other side. Strap jump bag to foot of cot. Takes about 30 seconds.