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You can make over 100k a year as a firefighter/medic

you don't want to go to jersey, come out to Los Angeles and make some serious $$$$$$$.

No there all in LA being heros.

can anyone say Redneck cops or AAA with a gun, I hope this medic sues them to high hell and gets alot of $$$$$.

Hey we all got to get are start somewhere, AMR is not such a place to start as a medic I just wouldn't want spend my whole career there. This movie looks pretty decent from the trailers Ive seen, but too bad there wasn't a national documentry to show ems all around the nation as fars as education, recruitment, private, fire etc etc.

too old is when you die on the job, and not get to the call in the firt place.

not sure of the link, but I found it on emsnetwork.org

I thaught I put this on ed/train, but it is about a socumentry on Alameda county ems. Is anyone going to go see this movie?

I bet you are "funny" steers and queers in texas right?, anywho why does everyone hate on LA? I mean I have a medical director just like every other medic in the US, unless there are other agencies out without any chain of command ie medical director state policies that I am not aware of? please enlighting me.

come out to southern Cali newbie and get on with a fire based ems career and make over 100 k a year, or live like a dirt bag working private ambulance and live from pay check to pay check. Plus we have the beach, = girls in bikinis. and we have PERs "public employee retirement system" get 90 percent of your base pay at age 50.

newbie emt, come out to LA and you can make some serious $$$$ as a FF/emt.

What are you talking about "street culture", last I knew ems wasn't in a downtown corner office with a view and three piece suite.

Look hoodrat why would I drop my cert?, this is the easiest job in world and where else can you make a 100k without a college degree?, and with regards to the OCFA fireman he works in a department with some very high standards I am sure he earned every penny of tha 206k, again the people who give this service away for free are killing ems.

I think it is wonderful that every county can say what goes and what stays, but that is way above my pay grade of who and why those decisions are made, as far as low standards, I bet to say my department has some of the highest standards around, alot of people don't cut the one year probation time because they are slugs and can't hang. About the NR my point is it is a waste of time, again I working without a NR cert as most if not all of southern Cali, we do have in-house ce's taught by RN's and MD's. So I guess what Iam saying is in Flordia paramedics can start Iv's and give, and guess what in California we can start Iv's and give meds all without a glow in the dark patch.

Whine, whine, whine, what a whiny freaking profession. No wonder we remain the red-headed step children of public service, health care, department of waste removal, or whatever your company falls under.

so nothing to worry about, i think my cat even has a NR cert along with all of his vas.

Well, with overtime, of course and maxed out base salaries. Infact there is a huge article about OCFA one engineer/paramedic made 206 k last year, and probably has no NR cert.

What side is this? last I knew all medics had a medical director, unless thing have changed, only differnce is that some of us make over 100k a year.

To the op, in my opinion the NR is the biggest scam in the world, thank god I don't need to have a glow in the dark patch to alllow me to do my job, no one in my department has a NR cert except the new medics who just got out of school, ems does not need another organization to increase standards, I said it once and I'll say it again this is a stepping stone jobe, not a career at least where I come from, but that is just what I see year to year, and nothing has changed.

Don't be hater "hommie", look where I come from every year I must pass a wellnes progam which consist of blood work, x-rays strength test, the works, I am just saying you can't have some one die on the job and wonder why if there should be any concern on when to not let someone work in this field any longer., yeah I know the CPAT is not an age, thing but more or less a weight thing, the better in shape you are then better passing score you get and that copuld be the differnce of getting hire with a nice retirement or not.

I hope the IAFF steps in and give it good to this crazy doc.

I don't follow, so are you saying the emt's and medics caused your fathers death, or somthing else?

I would love to see AAS degrees as the standard; however, I fear it simply will not happen. Take care, chbare.

to the op you refer to filling tubes, are you talking about drawing labs?, and why would snyone drw blood?, do you you guys have some sort of lab in the back of you ambulance?

stupid pigs.