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That makes me wanna go and vomit in the mayors desk at city hall in Detroit. By all means the dispatcher should be disciplined. I know that this does not happen a lot. But when is too many times too many? How many more have to suffer to such stupidity?

Ever wounder if u lived in middle earth as a hobbit what ur name would be......well check it out and tell all who u are. http://www.chriswetherell.com/hobbit/ I'm Known as BERILAC BRANDYBUCK OF BUCKLAND :shock:

Witness provides gory details at trial KELLY-ANNE DRUMMOND BY MARC LALONDE The Chronicle Kelly-Anne Drummond’s death was so gory it prompted one of the paramedics who responded to the call to snap photos of the scene because she had lost so much blood, the jury heard yesterday in the second-degree murder trial of her live-in boyfriend Martin Morin-Cousineau. “It is unusual that I take photos of a scene, but the amount of blood loss didn’t seem appropriate for someone who had merely fallen, and the patient went into cardiac arrest, probably from the blood loss,” said Urgences Santé paramedic Barnet Wexler. Wexler testified that when he and his partner — the second ambulance on the scene — arrived, Drummond already had no pulse. When the paramedics brought her down the rear stairs out the back door of the Pierrefonds Boulevard building, he began CPR. Wexler said when he heard someone had fallen, the amount of blood seemed excessive for the situation. “The amount of blood lost was more that I expected when I heard she fell,” said the veteran of 20 years and “thousands,” of incidents involving blood loss. “The blood was coagulating already. If the incident had just happened, that (coagulation) wouldn’t be happening,” he said. Prosecutor Helène Di Salvo asked Wexler to describe the blood on the floor after Drummond had been transported to hospital. “It was a large pool around where her head was, about a metre around her head, and about a foot of that on the edges of the pool had already started to coagulate,” he said. Defence attorneys Nellie Benoit and Sacha Blais did their best to trip Wexler up, noting he made no mention of coagulating blood in either of the two reports he filed that night, but Wexler pointed out that since he had the photos listed on the report, there was not much use to repeat what would be entered as visual evidence. On Monday, the seven-man, five-woman jury heard that doctors removed a 9.5-centimetre blade from the base of Drummond’s skull and that Drummond, 24, was planning on leaving Morin-Cousineau, 31, because she felt threatened by him. When the incident occurred in October 2004, police said Morin-Cousineau, who was the only other person in the apartment that night, told them Drummond had fallen in the kitchen while he sat in a chair in the living room. Morin-Cousineau has been in custody since his arrest. A popular local fixture on the rugby and lifeguarding scenes at John Abbott College and Concordia University, Drummond’s death drew a packed house at her funeral. Before proceedings began yesterday morning, Drummond’s mother, Doreen Haddad Drummond could be seen staring holes in Morin-Cousineau as he sat blankly in the prisoner’s box, sporting shoulder-length hair and a dark yellow shirt under a dark grey jacket, unmoving except to take occasional notes. The trial, which is expected to last three weeks, will continue tomorrow at the Palais de Justice in Old Montreal. http://www.westislandchronicle.com/pages/a...noArticle=26053

Toronto theft spurs deterrent By ROSS ROMANIUK, CITY HALL REPORTER A Toronto fire truck theft has driven home Winnipeg's need for cutting-edge engine immobilizers on all emergency vehicles, says a local emergency response official. The Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service is pointing to Monday's theft -- which led to a chase with speeds of up to 100 km/h and collisions between the Toronto truck and two vehicles -- as proof of dangers looming without better security. THEFT-PROOF "In little more than a year, we've had four emergency vehicles taken -- two ambulances and two fire trucks," Winnipeg's deputy fire-paramedic chief, Ken Sim, said yesterday. Winnipeg is on course to become what appears to be Canada's first city to equip firefighting vehicles with transmission locks which, at a price of about $300 per truck, would make them virtually theft-proof. "That's what we're proposing to retrofit about 45 vehicles with -- the large pumpers and aerial ladders," Sim told the Sun. "To our knowledge, nobody uses it yet. It's a different security device than what's currently offered. We would likely be the first." The device is not complicated and could come with keypad operation, Sim said, adding his department is expecting a design from a manufacturer by next month for possible installation in May. The Toronto theft, Sim said, appears to have come through a breach of the same regular keyless ignition used in Winnipeg fire vehicles. Fire trucks generally don't start with a key and require ignition through a series of buttons pressed in sequence. The driver somehow overcame the pumper's keyless ignition while parked at a north Toronto strip mall, then sped off with the vehicle. The driver nearly lost control several times after hitting speed bumps. Police gave chase and took a man into custody after the truck was left at the side of a road. The Toronto incident echoes the danger surrounding last month's theft of a fire truck from the site of a downtown Winnipeg blaze, which ended with the driver crashing into a tree and transit shelter on Sherbrook Street and virtually destroying the $650,000 vehicle. http://winnipegsun.com/News/Winnipeg/2006/...499492-sun.html

External defibrillators breathe new life into CPR By Erin Kelley-Gedischk Saanich News Mar 22 2006 Push harder and push faster when performing CPR, says the new Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada guidelines. The new technique is designed to save more lives, but it is still difficult to perform correctly. In event of a heart attack, ambulance response time is generally not fast enough to save a life without some form of immediate first aid. "When an individual goes down you've got 10 minutes to respond," said Gene Hemsworth, CPR trainer for EMP Services Canada. "That 10 minutes goes by very fast." If paramedics do not arrive on scene before then, it's too late.Less than five people out of 100 who receive CPR will survive - even with revamped CPR guidelines, Hemsworth said. However, the number of survivors could increase significantly if people had greater access to automated external defibrillators. "As high as 50 per cent of people will recover if an AED is used correctly," Hemsworth said. AEDs are simple-to-use machines with a set of stick-on chest pads. An automated voice leads the user through resuscitation steps. If necessary, the AED will administer electric shocks to help restart the heart's rhythm. The phonebook-sized machine costs approximately $4,000. "With 100,000 people dying of heart-related incidents across Canada each year, you can reduce that number to 50,000 or maybe even 40,000 people - which is a huge number considering that they would have otherwise been dead," Hemsworth said. Not too long ago, only doctors and paramedics could jump-start a heart with a defibrillator. New technology has made defibrillators easier to use and less expensive. The heart and stroke foundation of Canada is urging businesses to train staff and to install AEDs in public places. "Alberta became the first province in the country to embrace the use of AEDs. They started programs in Calgary and Edmonton and then it spread through the province," Hemsworth said. "Now anywhere there are large gatherings of people, they place AEDs." B.C. Ferries, Victoria police and some recreation centres are outfitted with defibrillators, but the province still lags behind. "It's now starting to spread across Canada, but perhaps a little slower in the other provinces," Hemsworth said. Dr. Greg Franklin is one of many doctors in B.C. required by the Workers Compensation Board to oversee AED use in businesses. "It's a little more structured here in B.C. than Alberta," Franklin said. "I think the B.C. guidelines made by WCB are considered the leading guidelines on public access defibrillators in Canada." The medical director provides assistance with selecting an AED unit and training, offers medical oversight of policies, procedures, laws and regulations, post-incident data management, AED data analysis and technical assistance. Furthermore, all staff must have current certification. Local training programs cost approximately $70. However, if an individual uses an AED without proper certification, they would be covered by the Good Samaritans act. Staff at Pearkes Arena saved two lives since they purchased an AED four years ago.

when u place a mirror under the nose there will be condinsate on the mirror if the pt is breathing. In a sence the mirror will 'fog' up

My advice to you entering the field is to concentrate on your skills not what you look like.....I've known a few that where more concerned about themselves then patient care (at first), especially in front of the news cameras. As time went on this decreased and they turned out to good Medics. The main thing here is patient care.....if u worry too much about what u look like u open yourself to errors in judgment and potentially cause the patient(s) more harm that good. hope this helps keep safe

I take it that most EMS personnel dislike fireman....although i tend to disagree....us as EMS personnel have to deal with that shit all the time too........I don't know about the rest of u but when ever KIDS see us where I work the expression is always the same.....'mommy look there is an ambulance person'. (most children at the age of 5 and 6, and some times older don't know the words EMT or PARAMEDIC) My intention was not to glorify the fire side of the emergency world. the story in fact can be used for either fire, ems, or police.....man if u can not look past the word fire then maybe your in the wrong line of work. you know what....maybe instead of ranting about the fire side and all the recognition they are getting maybe EMS personnel should get out into the public just like the fire depts do and talk to the public. For instance in my home town the Ambulance service does mock emergencies that they INVITE the public to attend so that the general public has a sense of what its all about. To make it even better they get the public to help out. For instance, they get old car wrecks and have the volunteers sit in the car while it is being ripped apart. Their is always EMT or Paramedic inside the car with the volunteers explaining what is going on. Again, its the EMS dept that heads all of the mock situations with the assistance of the fire dept and the police dept. These situations can, and have included, car accidents, train derailments, explosion at the local high school, natural disasters, etc. The public is made aware that this is going to happen, when its going to happen, and where it is going to happen at least one month in advance and it is reprinted every week up to the the date of the exercise. If some EMS services would get off their asses and do this sort of thing then the public would have the knowledge and the understanding of what EMS is all about. Not only is these mocks a training situation for all Emergency personnel involved but also it is a training and learning experience for the public. In my short life in the EMS field I have quickly realized that most of the fault of the so little recognition by the general public is that they simple do not know. To quote a letter written by a fire fighter to a paramedic. Re: Summer 2004 issue—Letter written by Jeremy Olfert, paramedic “It's OUR magazine, waaaaaahhhhhh." What are you, six years old? In case you missed it Jeremy, the front of "your" magazine reads, "The newsletter for and about prehospital personnel." Well guess what? Fire/Rescue ARE ALSO prehospital personnel. I mean, give us all a break. Get off yourself. Your attitude is what is wrong with emergency medicine today. What are fire personnel, without EMS, going to do for a patient requiring drug therapy? Not much. What are EMS personnel, without fire, going to do for a patient requiring extrication? Not much. These are two very important agencies with a different expertise, but still a common goal of optimum patient care. When we are dispatched to a medical aid call, the first thing I'm wondering is what is EMS's ETA going to be? I want to see the paramedics there ASAP. Paramedics are amazingly trained and skilled people. So are doctors, teachers, police officers and firefighters. I was glad to see the editor direct his response towards eliminating this ridiculous attitude situation that has developed between two professional agencies. However, I think his selection to print the article/story entitled "When God Made Paramedics" only fuels the common perception and joke of "Q - What's the difference between God and a paramedic? - A - God doesn't think he's a paramedic." It's time to come back to reality Jeremy, and any others with the same attitude because it must be getting tougher and tougher to fit that head through the doorway. Jonas, Firefighter Edmonton taken from the Alberta College of Paramedics Emergency Medical Dialog Fall 2004 www.collegeofparamedics.org

Read this question, come up with an answer and then scroll down to the bottom for the result. This is not a trick question. It is as it reads. No one I know has got it right. A woman, while at the funeral of her own mother, met a guy whom she did not know. She thought this guy was amazing. She believed him to be her dream guy so much, that she fell in love with him right there, but never asked for his number and could not find him. A few days later she killed her sister. Question: What is her motive for killing her sister? [Give this some thought before you answer, see answer below] Answer: She was hoping the guy would appear at the funeral again. If you answered this correctly, you think like a psychopath. This was a test by a famous American Psychologist used to test if one has the same mentality as a killer. Many arrested serial killers took part in the test and answered the question correctly. If you didn't answer the question correctly, good for you. If you got the answer correct, please let me know so I can take you off my e-mail list...

Ladies night out >Why females should avoid a girls night out after they are married! > >The other night I was invited out for a night with "the girls." I told >my husband that I would be home by midnight, "I promise!" > >Well, the hours passed and the margaritas went down way too easy. > >Around 3 a.m., a bit loaded, I headed for home. Just as I got in the door, >the cuckoo clock in the hall started up and cuckooed 3 times. > >Quickly realizing my husband would probably wake up, I cuckooed another 9 >times. > >I was really proud of myself for coming up with such a quick-witted >solution, in order to escape a possible conflict with him. (Even when >totally smashed...3 cuckoos plus 9 cuckoos totals 12 cuckoos = MIDNIGHT!) > >The next morning my husband aske! d me what time I got in, and I told him " >Midnight." > >He didn't seem pissed off at all. > >Whew! Got away with that one! > >Then he said, "We need a new cuckoo clock." When I asked him why, he said, >"Well, last night our clock cuckooed three times, then said, 'Oh shit,' >cuckooed 4 more times, cleared its throat, cuckooed another 3 times, >giggled, cuckooed twice more, and then tripped over the coffee table and >farted."

This was emailed to me awhile back and i thought that i would post it here....(didn't where else to put it)even though its titled Am I A Fireman Yet? I think that EMT's and Paramedic's we can relate to this story as well. Am I A Fireman Yet?? > > HOW BIG OUR GOD IS > > Stop telling God how big your storm is. > Instead tell your storm how big your GOD is! > > In Phoenix, Arizona, a 26-year-old mother stared > down at her 6 year old son, who was dying of > terminal leukemia. > > Although her heart was filled with sadness, > she also had a strong feeling of determination. > Like any parent, she wanted her son to grow up & > fulfill all his dreams. > Now that was no longer possible. > The leukemia would! see to that. But she still > wanted her son's dream to come true. > > She took her son's hand and asked, > "Billy, did you ever think about what you wanted > to be once you grew up? > > Did you ever dream and wish what you would do with > your life?" > > Mommy, "I always wanted to be a fireman when I > grew up." > > Mom smiled back and said, "Let's see if we can > make your wish come true." > Later that day she went to her local fire > department in Phoenix, Arizona, > where she met Fireman Bob, who had a heart as big > as Phoenix. > She explained her son's final wish and > asked if it might be possible to give her 6 year > old son a ride around the block on a fire engine. > > Fireman Bob said, "Look, we can do better than > that. If you'll have your son ready at seven o'clock > Wednesday morning, we'll make him an honorary > fireman for the whole day. > > We can come down to the fire station, eat with us, > go out on all the fire calls, the whole nine yards! > And if you'll give us his sizes, we'll get a real fire uniform > for him, with a real fire hat - not a toy -- > one-with the! e emblem of the Phoenix Fire Department > on it, a yellow slicker like we wear and rubber boots. > > They're all manufactured right here in Phoenix, so > we can get them fast." > Three days later Fireman Bob picked up Billy, > dressed him in his uniform and escorted him from > his hospital bed to the waiting > hook and ladder truck. > > Billy got to sit on the back of the truck and help > steer it back to the fire station. > > He was in heaven. > > There were three fire calls in Phoenix that day > and Billy got to go out on all three calls. > He rode in the different fire engines, the > paramedic's van, and even the fire chief's car. > > He was also videotaped for the local news program. > > Having his dream come true, > with all the Love and attention that was lavished > upon him, so deeply touched Billy, > that he lived three months longer than any doctor > thought possible. > > One night all of his vital signs began to drop > dramatically and the head nurse, who believed > in the hospice concept - that no one > should die alone, began to call the family > members to the hospital. > > Then she remembered the day Billy had spent as a > fireman, so she called the Fire Chief and asked if it would > be possible to send a fireman in uniform to the hospital > to be with Billy as he made his transition. > > The chief replied, "We can do better than that. > > We'll be there in five minutes. > Will you please do me a favor? > When you hear the sirens screaming and see the > lights flashing, will you announce over the PA system, > that there is not a fire? > It's the department coming to see one of its finest > members one more time. > And will you open the window to his room? > > About five minutes later a hook and ladder truck > arrived at the ! hospital and extended its ladder up to > Billy's third floor open window-------- > 16 fire-fighters climbed up the ladder into Billy's > room. > With his mother's permission, they hugged him and held him > and told him how much they LOVED him. > > With his dying breath, > Billy looked up at the fire chief and said, > "Chief, am I really a fireman now?" > > "Billy, you are, and the Head Chief, > Jesus, is holding your hand," the chief said. > > With those words, Billy smiled and said, > "I know, He's been holding my hand all day, and > the angels have been singing.." > He closed his eyes one last time.

The priest in a small Irish village loved the cock and ten hens he kept in the hen house behind the church. But one Saturday night, the cock went missing ! The priest knew that cock fights happened in the village, so he started to question his parishioners in church the next morning. During Mass, he asked the congregation, "Has anybody got a cock ?" All the men stood up. "No, no," he said, "that wasn't what I meant. Has anybody seen a cock ?" All the women stood up. "No, no," he said, "that wasn't what I meant. Has anybody seen a cock that doesn't belong to them ?" Half the women stood up. "No, no," he said, "that wasn't what I meant. Has anybody seen MY cock ?" All the nuns, three alter boys, two priests and a goat stood up......

those where good how ever this one I would of liked to have seen.......(about a firefighter) the pump operator was doing his job at a fire when a drunk came and leaned on the hydrant. While leaning on the hydrant the drunk was slowly turning off the water being supplyed to the pumper. The operator asked many time for the drunk to keep moving and to stop leaning on the hydrant. Finally the operator got mad and layed the drunk out. When questioned about it by a peace office, who had seen the guy go down, the operator replied, " I don't know, he must of slipped or something."

LMAO....those were funny.

it appears that i die a few different ways.....however the most popular seems to be that i am killed by a drunk driver