Does each EMT carry a radio?

Mountain Res-Q said:
Almost 5... But I guess that is what happens when everyone keeps preaching "Use the Search Feature"... Someone digs too deep... ^_^ Least you could do is revive a slightly newer radio/pager thread without bumping one from when EMTLIFE was "The #1 Online Related Forum for EMS Discussions" because it was the only one...
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Nice save...

Anyways, EMT City, EMS Village, Firehouse (EMS section), Trauma Central (which later became something else), and several others all existed long before EMT Life...just FYI.
 
akflightmedic said:
Nice save...

Anyways, EMT City, EMS Village, Firehouse (EMS section), Trauma Central (which later became something else), and several others all existed long before EMT Life...just FYI.
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Save?

And the last part was a joke, with no fact to back it as it wasn't meant to be psycho-analyzed... emphasize on Psycho... ;)
 
Save as in the thread being resurrected....not intended for you.

Hey man, any chance I see to share info that newbies may not be privy to...I put it out there whether your intent was humorous, sarcastic, whatever...do not want rumors to become legend thereby historical fact. :)

And yes, I analyze EVERYTHING.
 
At one service, it's two radios per truck. So if we have a crew of more than two, someone won't have one.

At another, all of us have radios and alphanumeric pagers.

At #3, we usually all have radios, but there aren't always enough to go around. Each crew will always have at least two.
 
At my service everyone is required to have a radio and a yellow vest or a yellow jacket for when working on a roadside.

Some people own their own yellow jacket, if you don't have a jacket you are assigned a vest.

Some people own their own radios (people who are on one or more fire departments usually have their own + pagers), if you don't have your own radio you are assigned one. If you run a three person truck whether it's a new hire, a precepting paramedic, or a student doing ride time, you are assigned a radio. Yes we even give radios to students doing their ride time.

Supposedly you must keep them on you at all times, and I'd say the reception/transmission on them are about 50% of the county. It really depends on where you are and how close to the truck you are (I think the trucks act as a boost...atleast in my experience it's better nearer to the truck)

With that said our radio system sucks and 10% of the time the truck radios don't work.
 
Yes. At my campus, each EMT or FR carries a radio.
 
Our ambulances never leave without at least 3 EMTs, including the driver, and it is the crew chief that has the hand held radio.
 
Two radios per truck. Each truck also has two alphanumeric pagers assigned to receive calls, and a Minitor alert pager.
 
My service is fire based, and all of the FD officers, and EMTs are issued a radio. The ambulance has a dual head mobile radio inside, but no extra portables.
 
Even as a student I have to carry a portable, due mainly to the hours I have to log on observation on the calls. Ours are Motorola, with all the bells and whistles. There is even a distress key which you can use to get help if you're endangered. Not all of us carry radios, but those of us that don't have Nextel walkie talkie phones that will connect to the portables. The console units in the rigs are crappy though. They sound like crap on the portables and aren't loud enough at all.
 
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