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It seems they were going good till about 1973.. then all of a sudden, someone lost their calendar. They're still working on the transition to 1974, but with enough time.*[sup:28044631c4]1[/sup:28044631c4] I'm sure they'll accomplish it. *[sup:28044631c4]1[/sup:28044631c4][spoil:28044631c4]Sarcasm[/spoil:28044631c4]

Yanno.. That would really suck. Like a Hoover. The edge of the steps always look like they're perfectly to a point, like a needle. Of course, one would also assume that they're sharp as a razor blade as well.

Seeing that rescue and EMS seem to always need to work together.. Maybe EMS could take over rescue instead.. Like NYPD.

Personally speaking, looking at what I deal with and nowhere else. EMS pays the way. Fire gets some taxes, but that just takes some strain off. EMS does the fund raising, the ass kissing, and the begging; and the firemen show up for their calls and their parades. To be on a board that oversees both fire and EMS is so goddamn frustrating; because the fire service is so fecking unregulated... and EMS in PA is so fecking corrupted, you can't get anything done with that either. It makes a lot of bad blood. Fire saps a lot of money, then says whooaaa, easy on the spending when it comes to an EMS issue. Like everything; Pros and Cons.. I don't know which outweighs the other, it would slowly kill us from stress, to try and weed that out.

Happy Day Handy Andy.. ... That garage isn't painting itself.. :wink:

While just for the entertainment value, if this were a movie. Just as she carelessly swung her door open and frantically ran out into the oncoming lane, a bus or something would have hit her.. That would have made it a little more interesting. With some creative editing, this could be made into something either terrible funny or slightly gory.

We have wooden boards for patients that are being flown. We also make our own.. as well as use manufactured. Our service made a reputation for always having up to date equipment and supplies. Too bad they can't do that now.

Now if it wasn't locked in an office, it would either be tampered with or stolen by kids. [spoil:60176174b1]You know the ones, they get off on making other people suffer because their parents are ignorant nut balls. They were never taught that somethings affect everyone else, not just themselves. The parents who fight to justify their children being addicted to drugs and alcohol, because they were at that age (and still are). Justify shooting out street lights, then someone walking along the road gets hit and killed, but that's okay.. That's what their crack head, boozed up dad did when he was bored. [/spoil:60176174b1]

You still, didn't have backboards, locally, in the 1980's?

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A padded backboard. Nothing to inflate, or blankets. Like a thin, memory foam, that won't absorb fluids and is antimicrobial throughout. One side normal, the other just padding built right in.

Usually when the bottle is off, and the regulator is hooked to the mask.. You can't breathe, unless you open the purge valve. I get the same way, if someone turns my tank off, it's a natural human instinct to panic when you cannot breathe - at all. However, I don't flip out, I just stick my finger under the edge of the mask, and breathe; or open the purge valve. When you're hot, working hard, hurt all over, and you suddenly can't take a breath, no matter what kind of air it is. That's going to set off your brain, to think, I need to find a way to breathe NOW. I wouldn't be concerned, unless you have a panic attack every time you don an airpack. That could be a problem if the job requires you to work in dark, tight, low air quality environments.

Scuba was the Queen, the Drama Queen, of chat room death. Even sat beside herself, willfully, as she lay in a coma, for sixteen hours.. Before being released, to come home like a Hollywood coma and recovery. Golly gee, aunt Bea, it's touching.. So, touching.

They last for about two years, shelf life. We kept our kit in the "wiring compartment" near the opening between the patient mod and cab. Easy to access, clean, neutral temperature - always around 70F.

Great.. Now we'll have to burn all of our text books and journals! ..and issues of National Geographic.

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HBO is hardly a Porn channel.. Hell, the skin flicks on it are hardly Porn... I bet you support censorship and book burning, too, don't you?

Great, a paid vacation, so they can buy more...

Kutztown, eh? Nasty Birch Beer.. Ugh.. Anyhoo. This, along with the rest of it, which I'm not showing; was purchased from the Lions Ambo by my service in 75.. Drunk driver creamed it shortly afterward.

Has a lil emblem on it w/ a screwdriver, hammer and wrench on a shield. It will go through the metal on a car door, cuts plastic or lite metal like butter, I've used it as a saw.. I was trying to cut neoprene LDH to refit a 5" coupling. It was going through good, despite the hose being stiff from the snow. So, I got lazy and pressed harder. The blade slipped, hit my glove.. and stuck into the frozen dirt.. Didn't even realize that I had cut through a $75 pair of leather structural fire gloves and to the bone of my thumb, nasty cut, burned like hell, but the edges were clean...

Spend more than two bucks on your scissors, and you can cut leather, kevlar, or lite metals with them. We have a nifty pair of shears on the ambo, no idea where they came from. I used them to cut barbed wire and thick leather boots, all in one call. I carry this in my bunker gear. No idea what kind of knife it was, it was free, but it will cut damn near anything.

I hope you're not insinuating that I meant that.. Because I was just talking about what we do in general.. Really not concerning this fire at all. The way we operate, with accountability being one of our strong points, because we want everyone that responded, to also return with us, alive and healthy.. If one of our crew members arrived, I assume POV, sans apparatus, and went in to a working fire with out anyone knowing. IF being the key word, if he survived. If not too badly injured, there's a good chance he'd either get kicked out, black balled and thrown to the curb; or punched in the face. I can't express in words, how angry (for his family and our vascular system) that I would be if someone put their life in such danger, that the outcome would have a 99% fatality rate; when technology and education would have helped him survive. I just couldn't find words to express my anger, I'd probably hit them with something. Something hard.

I love rodeos! I'd be dead, but they go out w/ fractures doctored up with horse leg wrap and duct tape, broken ribs.. Few ever want treatment or transport. They know the risks, and they want to take them. We're just there for the ones who break both legs, and can't walk back to their stall.. But one leg, is a leg to hop on.

I agree that it's inappropriate to make comments like that.. But, anyone who has any expirence in firefighting knows that there is only one reason to risk our lives. When someone else is in danger. But, you don't go about it in a manner that you purposely put your life in danger. It happens, no fire is equal to any of the past. Every home is different, some people can't build, others left things out.. and as a result, we suffer. However, when no life is in danger, no life should be risked. Heavy smoke, heavy fire, no people inside. You make an aggressive, exterior attack. You don't risk life, to save property. That has been one of the golden rules of the fire service for hundreds of years. Some fires, you can go in, knock down and that's that. Some you go in, and things go wrong. But if the place his rockin', you don't go a knockin'.. "Surround and Drown". The first thing we ask when we arrive at a structure fire.. Is everyone out? Where are they? Are they all accounted for.. If we can't get that answered, we'll do our best to try and get a search going... or rescue. If you have people laying inside the front door, by all means, go in and get them. But there is no reason on gawd's green earth to go in, alone, with out a tool, flashlight, buddy or handline.. when nobody is inside, and there is a heavy fire condition. Sometimes, you don't get to learn from your mistakes, and it's an awful shame, but hopefully others will learn.

Since the ambulance has a tool box, as required for licensure.. I really wouldn't need to carry any tool devices on my person. Nor a knife, seat belt cutter, window punch, etc.. As, two of the three are on the list of minimal equipment.. As for the knife, we have a device called "Scissors". With "Scissors", the need to have a huge knife on your belt, for a mental pt. to grab and kill you with, is virtually not necessary. If for some reason the oxygen tank didn't have a toggle, b/c it either fell off (which does happen), or it just doesn't have one.. there are cylinder wrenches in the ambulance. We carry them, because yanno.. It's an Ambulance.