Richard B the EMT

Pave-Exile, I'm asking of your nome-de-computer (on line name): Is the "Pave" from what this ground gripper would know as a "Pave-Low" airframe, perhaps known to most as a "Blackhawk"? My "Rotorhead" associate (that's what he refers to himself as!) advise me there are several models, for several military agencies.

Green, just like my eggs and ham, Is green the color, Sam-I-Am?

Supporting the above statement: Just about a year prior to the EMS/FDNY merger (1996), my union, local 2507, went to a reporter with WABC-TV7 New York, and told him, The reporter turned it around, and made it into an attack on us, saying Understandably, the union has instructed it's members to not cooperate with any reporters from WABC-TV7, but due to the time elapsed, I don't know if that is still in effect.

For the record, I am an EMT working in a dual level response matrix, now operated by the FDNY. On specific call types, a "Certified First Responder-Defibrillator" engine goes, too. FDNY might have both outside agency trained and practicing EMTs and Paramedics working for them as Fire Fighters, but will only utilize them as CFR-D/Fire Fighters. I also know several EMTs and Paramedics, from outside agencies (volunteer fire departments, mostly from Nassau and Suffolk county, NY) cross trained as Fire Fighters, but the FDNY EMS Command uses them exclusively on the ambulances. EMS folks are mission specific, Fire Fighters fight fires, "Jaws" open cars, and do the "FR-D" as their mission. Fire Fighters get a bit more money if they do an "EMS Run". There is nothing comparable for the EMSers. Just after the merger, when the Fire Fighters discovered they wouldn't be assigned EMS Runs if they had anyone on the crew let their CFR-D cards lapse, so they became compliant. While what is now the FDNY EMS Command started out as a hospital based service (New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation), we are now fire service based. We wanted to split from HHC, and become a 3rd Service, but it didn't happen that way. So, I state FDNY EMS Command personnel, and FDNY Fire Fighters, do their respective jobs, and do them well! I believe our medical control, and our medical director, support Dr Tober, even if I cannot document this.

Possible worst case scenario of "Do what I say, not what I do".

While he was far from perfect, can I ask for the nay saying to be withheld until after the funeral? Agree with his politics or not, the Chapaquiddich (Spelling?) Bridge incident, his drinking, and whatnot, He deserves the respect of being the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts!

Gee. Someone who is supposed to maintain levels of standards on their training, doesn't, and then gets punished for it? It's called "The Actual World"! If I don't maintain my level of training, or my driver's license, I would get suspended, pending either getting back up to my level, or renewal of my driver's license. Within a set time frame, if not accomplished, I'm looking for a new line of work, with no income in the interim. I was under activity suspension, but still on payroll, when, on 2 occasions, my EMT card lapsed while I was either recovering from illness or injury. This was different from simply being lazy and not taking the training, which I will presume was offered in a timely fashion to complete prior to license expiration. I see that as the word for EMS, Fire, or LEO, whether they are cross trained, or mission specific. PS: I just looked up Dr Tober on our own EMT City, and this is the 6th string on him "doing the right thing" for that area of Florida!

Obviously, I wasn't on the call in question, but I now add comments based either on NY State DoH, or FDNY EMS Command protocols, and personal opinion/experiences. As one who has worked both the field and the EMD, as has been pointed out on numerous threads, callers to 9-1-1 sometimes lie to get an ambulance there sooner. The flip side of the coin is, the caller may not have a clue to what the situation is, and from inadequate information given to the EMD, in dual level systems like the FDNY EMS, a BLS is sent, solo, and on arrival, realizes that ALS is needed, and then requested. However, the ALS is already a duo of Paramedics, and already in their ambulance, so they will respond. This may not match the situation of the OP. A protocol I am used to operating under is, even while doing BLS patient care, if the ALS is further away, time-wise, than either awaiting ALS arrival, or meeting up in an intercept while on the way to a hospital, ALS is canceled off the assignment by the BLS, and the BLS continues treatment while doing the diesel drip therapy (please note that nowhere in FDNY or NYS DoH literature does it ever mention such in that style wording) to the hospital. If someone is on call to respond from either beeper or telephone notification of an assignment, then they are to respond, with no difference held as to volunteer or paid. This kind of coverage is usually prescheduled, so childcare should have already been arranged, even if it is on less than 24 hours notice. No childcare? Let a scheduling officer (under whatever name the local agency's position carries) know that the individual is going to be unavailable, why they are going to be unavailable, and make arrangements for someone else to cover. If we are talking of a person being on paid standby to respond, they have the full duty to act (respond). If in that status, the individual refuses an assignment, I see it as malfeasance, unless there is a damned good reason why they are unable to respond. Note that I say unable, due to circumstance or condition. I use the following to illustrate one type "condition". In an Inter-facility transfer service I used to work for (now bought out at least twice following my leaving), on "night call" (pager or telephone notification of assignments, and paid by the assignment), the ambulances went home with the EMTs, the "ambulette" wheelchair coaches with usually non EMT drivers. A call came in, they'd meet up, the ambulette driver would take over the wheel after locking up the "'lette'", and do the call, later drop the driver back to the lette. I was working an ambulette one night, and was paged to locate another ambulette that had gone "missing". Unfortunately, I found the driver. A block from his house, where I had picked him up to go to the base when neither of us was on the night call, I took a chance that he was in the local tavern. He was there. Drunk. After advising the dispatcher, I was told the drunk personnel was not being paged for the remainder of the overnight, and I ended up being given his calls, making some profit for myself. The drunk was suspended for 2 weeks without pay, after the assistant manager was driven by the general manager to the ambulette to bring it, and the pager, back to the base. The man was lucky he still had a job.

It IS my hope that I am NOT the only one on the planet that is "Michael-ed" out.

Google for the web sites of "Popular Communications" or "Monitoring Times". I feel sure their advertisers would have a product you could use. While there, check the letters to the editor, I sometimes show up there, with tagged onto my full name.

I thought Red Velvet was cake, not pie. What is Millionaire Pie? Never heard of it. Despite being a "Northerner", I've heard of "Scooter" and "Moon" pies, both supposedly southern United States delicacies.

Someone mentioned doing the "beefcake/cheesecake" fundraiser calendars without invoking the name of the LEO, EMS, or FD agency. Regrettably, that misses the point that the agency is the one doing the calendar as a fundraiser FOR the agency, or for a related benefit utilized by the agency, like FDNY supports the Fire Fighter's Burn Center, as an example. TYPO ALERT! Who committed the error, RFDMedic3D or 4C6? I've never seen, let alone met, a but have seen a few in my time, in magazines, newspapers, and on TV, despite living in New York City, one of the fashion capitols of the world.

The video is somewhere in Midtown Manhattan area of NYC. Traffic is usually clogged, but we seem to bring out the nastiest folks sometimes. In the combined Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and Bronx counties that make up New York City, we got about 8 Million people, and an additional 2 million transients each 24 hours who work there, or are just passing through. I've been yelled at for blocking a street with my ambulance. Hey, it's only a truck with red rotating, flashing and strobing lights... Someone actually asked me what I was doing, blocking a street, and didn't like the answer that I was blocking the street as it was necessary.

While not Irish, or of Irish decent myself, you're going to find a number of Irish members here, and might even know them yourself. Anyway, welcome aboard!

For riding with the Fire Department's EMS Command, contact our Public Affairs office, at Fire Department New York 9 Metrotech Plaza Brooklyn, NY 11201 (Attention:Robert Domingo) Hope that is helpful. Contact them as soon as possible, as there are necessary papers that must be processed in advance.

While I cannot say for sure it doesn't happen, the only 2 incidents I know of are both in "Mother, Jugs and Speed". 1) Murdoch rapes an unconcious female OD patient. 2) Jugs and Speed have sex in the back of a Caddylance, as "Peaches", the service owner's wife, radios them to at least change the sheets before bringing the vehicle back to base.

I am unsure of the manufacturer, but there is some company sells o2 masks designed for fitting the snout of dogs. I have seen the ads, but that was a few years ago. Also, I once got drafted to drive, on my own time, in my personal minivan, a friend with a dying cat to a 24 hour Veterinary Hospital. I put a baby sized Non Re-Breather (NRB) on the cat, @ 4 LPM. (The cat died on the exam table, the friend hated me as I didn't disobey red traffic lights on the way to the vets, "delaying" us. Sorry, but animal lover that I am, my personal, vehicle, and passenger's safety, in that order, takes precedence!)

Eydawn said She was when I dated her...LOL Lone Star said Some things that "shouldn't need to be said", need to be repeated! And, specifically to Christopher.Collins, have you ever noticed the SG teams, when firing at "Replicators", "Genii" (spelling?), "Wraith", or other bad guys of the episode, only reload their sidearms, never these PS90s or FN P90 weapons, which seem to have an inexhaustible magazine?

As I didn't really know what a PS90 was, I confirmed my suspicions by googling it. Yup, a firearm, which I now ask, could that be what the primary firearm used on Star Gate One and Star Gate Atlantis is based on?

I want to add to my previous list, Failure to safeguard assigned weapons. If anyone wants to photoshop me, give me Robert Redford's body from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", as, unfortunately, I'm "Paul Blart, Mall Cop".

As one who has not piloted a cycle from 1972, as I understand the wording "Off Road", it means the machine is not intended to be used on "a public thoroughfare", I E, the streets, but is for use in fields, meadows, forests, and other places that are not paved, where you'd meet up with Bambi and friends.

OK, the Stella Awards exist, the material they issue the awards for, is, if I understand the Snopes link, combined actual occurrences and urban legend stuff.

1) Unauthorized use of departmental equipment (camera, firearm, vehicle). FAIL! 2) Security issue of civilian holding (undetermined loaded, undetrmined safeties on) department issued firearm. FAIL! 3) Mentioning in passing that 2 actual NYPD officers were allowed, by the department, to pose with NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg for an election campaign commercial. The NYPD vehicles and the uniforms they are wearing are rented, as departmental equipment is NOT allowed to be used in such manner (electioneering). 4) The FDNY "Fire Fighters" calendar, while having "Hunk" firefighters posing without shirts, but otherwise covered in turnout or "Bunker" gear, used to be sanctioned by the department, as a charity fund raiser for the Burn Center. I don't recall what happened, but the sanctioning was removed. The calendar continues, as a fundraiser, but is no longer supported with permission of the FDNY. Fire Fighters posing in it, however, as long as they make like the cops mentioned in item 3, not using company issued equipment, it seems to be cool, with nobody in trouble with the department. 5) I won't be posing, as I'm more towards the "Blobindale" dancers than the "Chippendale" dancers in my dimensions.

Similarly... In the 1967 Arab/Israeli "7 Day" War, an Egyptian Army division was advised that a lone Israeli soldier had been spotted in the desert near them. They sent out a 2 man team. Neither returned. They sent out a 6 man squad. None returned. Then, they sent out a 50 man detail. One returned. When He reported to his general, he said Same time period, an Israeli recruit, after 3 days in basic training, requested a 3 day pass, which was, of course, denied. The next morning, the lookouts reported a lone Syrian tank, flying a white flag, approaching. It stopped just outside the gates to the camp, and when the hatch was opened, it was the recruit! He got a 3 day pass! 3 days after his return, he asked for another 3 day pass, which was, again, denied. The next morning, the recruit showed up in an Egyptian Armored Personnel Carrier! He got another 3 day pass! On his return, other recruits surrounded him, and asked how he was able to do what he had been doing. He said

Mitchb: Per your reply, is there even a "Stella Award"?