Richard B the EMT

1) Per popular stories told, when FDR died, Truman had no idea that the Manhattan Project existed. 2) The Nagasaki Bomb was the same type as the "Trinity" test in NM. 3) There had been discussion if the Allied Command should do a "Demonstration" bombing of an unoccupied area of Japan, to give them an idea what they potentially would face if they didn't surrender. They decided to do a surprise bombing, instead. 4) If the "demonstration" bombing had gone through, it would have been the then untested type dropped on Hiroshima. They had no clear idea if the device was going to work. 5) The Allied Command was drafting invasion and occupation plans when the 2 devices were used. Had these plans been utilized, an unknown large number of both attacking and defensive personnel would have died at each other's hands. (While everything on the bombs is available for research online, a great deal of speculation on the invasion/occupation plan suggests we might still be fighting somewhere in Japan today, per what I have seen and read, but am unable to document here specifically.) 6) The United States is the only nation to have ever used an Atomic weapon against any other country. 7) There were American POW casualties in both cities, as both had POW camps on the outskirts. 8) I am trying to verify a story, that a survivor of Hiroshima got out, and was telling the story of what had happened, to friends or family in Nagasaki, 3 days later, when it happened again. If this tale is true, he is (or was), perhaps, the only person ever to survive 2 atomic bomb attacks. 9) Tibbits, piloting the "Enola Gay", dropped his device on target. Bock, piloting "Bock's Car", missed his intended target, but caused more damage and death than originally estimated, where the device he dropped actually exploded. 10) The "Thermonuclear" or "H" bombs now in the arsenals use Hiroshima or Nagasaki sized "A" Bombs as the triggering device. Consider them to be "blasting caps" for the bigger bombs. Not to make light of it, but speculation has the US arsenal of Atomic and Hydrogen weapons as being enough to wipe out all life on the planet times 7. Add the former USSR's, Israel, India, Pakistan, China, and whoever else has one... We got big bombs, bigger bombs, and "didn't there used to be a planet here?"

I saw John Wayne, and separately, Bob Hope, Perry Como, and Janis Joplin on TV, and they looked great, too. In all these cases, how long ago were the tapes made?

You have no choice but to love someone's determination with that sort of thing!

Uh... As I understand the scenario as created by the OP, this is a wilderness rescue of a parachutist, unconcious, and dangling from the chute shroud cords (would a parachutist please tell me if I am using the correct terminology?). The team has already hiked in to find the chutist in this situation. You are an EMS part of the response team from local fire/rescue, so the FD has already been called...It's YOU!

I think he wants to meet up with Israeli members of EMT City. The last contact with one I remember was just after several months of Rocket attacks on her settlement had ended, but I don't recall her on line name.

Unknown if the 'chutist is still up there. As for fighting wildfires, Timmy has had some recent experience with that in Oz, perhaps he can give the BC fire crew commanders some contact names and numbers to get his teams over to you.

Must be a British Columbia terminology. What is a/an "interface Fire"? I'm guessing it is combined forest fire/built up residential area fire. Is it?

1) Best answer, while calling in that you're "flagged", with the location. 2) Not that good an answer, but at least the crew is doing something, even if it is requesting another unit to handle. 3) Per the ethics I was trained on, and raised on, not the answer anybody wants to hear when asking for help.

1) With all my friends and associates who are HAMs, I have to admit I never heard that restriction, which does seem to make sense. 2) QRZ de registered monitoring/SWL "station" KNY2SC ? PM if you don't want to publish to the site.

I have transported one sufferer several times a month. For him, the pain was so intense, 10 on a scale of 10, he was actually in tears.

(Billy Joel)

Without bringing trauma/conscious/unconscious into my entry, I note that I have had a few patients that I screen for B/Ps, all uniformed members of the FDNY and FDNY EMS (with a few fire marshals here and there), who I would admit mentate better than I do on any given day, have sometimes shown up in my screening room exhibiting systolic pressures of 80 MM. I contact the nurses for further advisement, and a surprising majority of these patients have had the low BPs for years; for them, it's normal. I have to clarify that I am doing the screening in the duty determination clinic area of the FDNY's Bureau of Health Services, second floor of FDNY HQ, 9 Metrotech Center, Brooklyn NY.

OMG! You're all talking about killing and eating Bambi! So kill a deer that you don't know.

She has a good, strong alto voice. The arrangement seems to be a contemporary pop/country blend, but then, I am an early 1960s to mid 1970s "Folkie/Bubble Gum Rocker" Baritone in what I perform, to my own guitar's accompaniment. Instead of the series of still shots, when is moving video going to be added? Back to the sound: I am out of touch, and have no real clue what sells nowadays. I do, however, wish her luck. If a solo act doesn't pan out, she can still do quite well as somebody's backup singer, IMHO. (PS: I don't listen to, or watch "American Idol", or "America's Got Talent", by personal choice.)

Regrettably, with the information you've provided, even Sherlock Holmes would not be able to assist. Any further information, exclusive of the individual's real name?

I am sorry to say that the public's perception sometimes trumphs reality. That is why when someone pulls a blunder reported in the news medias, I declare myself to have a defacto "black eye", even if I have never heard of the individual, or their department, even their location, prior to that minute. Never underestimate the power of large groups of stupid people. (Author Unknown)

As for the video Dusty posted...

For the "Classical Thunder" music fans, such as myself, there is The "Odyssey" For the Disco Feverish, there is the newer "Odyssey" (Not a disco fan, but I like it) But for the "Oddity"...

Actually, if you have points, they get reduced by taking these courses, and your personal auto insurance will go down even with NO points on your driver's insurance.

Could someone comment on something I recall, but lack any documentation on, that alcohol consumption causes inhibitions to be inhibited, causing people to do and say things they normally wouldn't? Consider this to be tied in with injuries and deaths as might be reported on the Darwin Awards site (http://www.darwinawards.com/), usually preceded by the victim saying

I think every EMS agency in service for more than 30 years has a version of the story... An appropriate patient is placed into a MAST, which is inflated per protocols, and does as advertised. On arrival at the ER, a doctor comes to the patient, says, "lets get him/her out of this thing", pulls out scissors, and slices the device, to the sudden outrushing of air under pressure. The patient crashes. The Paramedics punch out the doctor for damaging the device, and killing their otherwise potentially viable patient.

From 1973 to 1996, I was a member of the Peninsula Volunteer Ambulance Corps of the Rockaways. I have also been in what is now the FDNY EMS Command from June 1985 to now, spending my first 11 years in the EMD, where one of my tasks was "running" the MARS "desk". Surprisingly, the first time the MARS was activated, they contacted PVAC. However, as I was at the EMD, but assigned other duties, I cannot claim any bragging rights to either responding to the assignment, or handing it to PVAC. PVAC went "under" in 1996, a victim of the "M&Ms". Without money, you cannot get members. Without members, you cannot get money. All vollie squads operating within NYC are funded by direct contribution, and/or assorted, limited grants. They get no city government monies. I mentioned, under the FDNY, discussions are going on between them and the 2 NYC area districts of the New York State Volunteer Ambulance and Rescue Association, as to how and when they will assign VAC/VAS units to calls, and keeping the squads operating within their community areas. FDNY units, and all units under the NYC 9-1-1 system, are considered fair game to respond to calls anywhere in the city. For example, if 47 Adam, an FDNY unit normally operating in the Far Rockaway area, transports to the Jamaica Hospital Trauma Center, which is outside of their Far Rockaway service area, when they clear from the hospital, can get assigned to pick up a call in the geographic area of the hospital. Hopefully, another unit will be temporarily moved to cover Far Rockaway in 47 Adam's absence. FDNY wants to do the same with the VAC/VAS units. Again, using my locals for examples, if ROCK VAC does the transport to Jamaica Trauma, FDNY wants to assign them to a call in Woodhaven/Richmond Hill, ROCK VAC has to take the assignment, and not cover Far Rockaway, where the good folks paid their money for ROCK VAC to be in the first place. Likewise, Bay Ridge Volunteer Ambulance Volunteer Organization (BRAVO), in Brooklyn, takes a patient to the burn center at Jacobi Hospital in the Bronx, and could get stuck for hours then doing assignments in the Mott Haven section of the Bronx. Again, this is using names of actual squads, but in fictitious calls for purposes of illustration of what might transpire. THAT is why discussions continue between NYSVARA's districts 4 and 18, and the FDNY. As for the KDT's, the FDNY wants to charge the VAS/VAC organizations to install these KDT's in the ambulances. Such installations would be done at the FDNY EMS' Radio Repair shop. They apparently wouldn't allow the VAC/VAS squads to have their own radio repair outfits, or even trained "HAM" radio operators, do such installations. Before the KDT, everyone was read the assignment, and confirmed with the dispatcher that they both had the assignment, and were responding. Voice radios cost a lot less than KDT radios, which is the reason that this is also under discussion. FYI, I use KDT (Kinescope Display Terminal) interchangeably with MDT (Mobile Display Terminal). My usage might not be what the department uses. Disclaimer: All things stated here are my own understandings and opinions, and might not reflect the viewpoints of my employer, the FDNY.

I should have qualified my answer to indicate, "as under my local protocols."

Dragoon, thank you. That puts it totally in the Bronx, but not the I-95, known in NYC as the Cross Bronx Expressway. The Bruckner connects to the Cross Bronx Expressway, however.