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It is!?!?!?!??!?!

Like, their own kids? In the car? Driving emergent?

Hi gina. Sorry. Still interested in the "19 year old girl" above you. Ah hah hahaha :twisted:

Rawr.....

And this folks, is why Richard is one of the most beloved members of the city!

Is that above hot but below phat?

Dust, you act like this is some professional forum, with standards and codes of conduct. How dare you give us EMT-B's that much respect! :violent2:

Isn't that what you get commuting too and from work?

I usually pull this out.... [spoil:2b4d55c150][/spoil:2b4d55c150] Props to this place.

Eh. Spell check can't fix stupid.

I don't have much to say about the topic at hand. But I want to offer a condemation for this thread staying on topic after 9 pages. Truly a feat here at the city. Is intolerance and discrimination the same thing? I don't belive or tolerate homosexuality, but I don't discriminate or offer hate either. Even if that is a group of people doing something, I don't belive is right, I don't treat them as any less of a human being. I reserve that treatment for people that do deserve it, like child molesters, or baby killers.

My unrelated question here.... How is that a $75 procedure. The only thing lost is a disinfectant wipe when you clean it afterwards, and a few C batteries after a couple of months.

Sir Drivealot here.

Captian, all of the above toys don't make a diffrence if they don't know how to play with them.

He did make a good point with the color ink thing though Anth. Got to give that one to him.

Maybe we can leave Mr. Conley an E-Mail or two and find out what the true mission of IMERT is? If they are there to take over for local EMS. I don't know. Tomorrow when I have some more time and review this thread I may ask him my questions. Illinois Medical Emergency Response Team 1 S. 280 Summit Avenue, Court B-2 Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181 TELEPHONE: 1-866-99-IMERT toll free Tim Conley IMERT Administrator Team Commander timc@imert.org

That extra joint looks pretty cool though.

In the reports to congress I was referring to earlier, National Guard was refrenced more then any other agency. Pubilc Health Crisis... Call NG. CBRNE incident.... Call NG. Natural disater eliminating local resources.... call NG. For every thing out there the NG has specialty teams that are ready to go. They are trained, cross-trained, and educated in policy, procedure, protocols, specific trades, and everything else needed.

Not to debate the merits of IMERT, but since it is our example of the hour, Doc, how can we say IMERT is anymore prepared, when on its website it says they are required to train 2 days out of the year?

Let's start our own journal?

Good thing none of those people conceal carry!

Wow. Thats a bump!

Its amazing. With all of the hooplah about the IMERT in this thread, I was doing some research. Maybe this team really does have its place. I read a few reports to congress about bio-terrorism, a few about homeland natural disasters. Searched the House, Senate, CDC, DHS, and Suregon General websites. No where was IMERT to be found. As far as the Ill. state government website, besides all of the patting themselves on the back from Katrina, the only mention was in 2004 where the following amount of pork was distrubuted... [*]Illinois Poison Control Center, $500,000, to have in place trained staff that can respond to public and hospital inquiries, and help with rumor control, in the event of a terrorist attack. The center also will develop printed information. [*]Illinois College of Emergency Physicians, $500,000, to assist Illinois Medical Emergency Response Teams (IMERT) positioned in Chicago and north, central and southern parts of the state, and help train emergency physicians on how to deal with and recognize symptoms caused by weapons of mass destruction. [*]Illinois State Emergency Nurses Association, $75,000, to develop a database of volunteer nurses available to deal with a surge in victims and to train them in disaster response. [*]Illinois Council of Health Systems Pharmacists, $50,000, to create a pool of pharmacists and pharmacist trainees that could help distribute drugs in the event of an emergency.