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The state is Pennsylvania, but i do not want to name the service for obvious reasons. Also I must admit, I do not know the other female, so it is possible that she is a diva who doesn't want to break a nail, so the company has a good reason for not giving her a female partner, but my friend presented this as a blanket policy (she had not realized that this was the policy prior, as the men outnumber the women 3 or 4 :1 at that service). I just remember seeing double female trucks in an urban service back in the 80s, of course they always had plenty of firemen around to assist in that department, so it seemed odd that it would be that backwards in this century. But I must defend whoever stated most women do not measure up to men in lifting ability and are often NOT required to take the same physical agility test as men, that has been the case almost everywhere I worked. I also have to take exception to whoever said 400lb patients are rare. I can remember early in my career, if we lifted someone over 300lbs, it was either a wrestler or a professional football player, and it was rare. These days, you get a 350-400 pounder at least weekly if not daily. So I can see both sides, but I am not sure a blanket policy is the answer to any perceived problem

Have you ever sat down with your medical director and asked him how he felt about protocol deviations with sound reasoning? Reason being I've found it's not usually the medical director that has an issue with protocol deviations, it's the "can't think out of the box" supervisors who do.

It would be complete anarchy and bedlam. Fire, brimestone, cats and dogs playing together... the coming of the Apocalypse. Sorry, couldn't help myself. I thought they do have units like that. I'm probably wrong on that. I know Philadelphia will pull a firefighter/EMT off the engine and put him/her on the Medic unit when they are short a paramedic. I don't think it interferes with care any. Devin

You'd have a lot of FDNY medics leaving to work at the voluntaries. Higher pay, more flexible schedule, plus you get to work with another medic, rather than, as on medic put it some "Wannabe firefighter with a yellow patch." "For over 1,000 generations the medics were the guardians of peace and justice in the city. Before the dark times, before the mensa medic program. A young medic named Darth McFarlen, who was a pupil of mine until he turned to evil, helped the department hunt down and destroy the medics. McFarlen was seduced by the dark side of the budget commitee." ----------Paramedic Kenobi