Richard B the EMT

Roger that. Gonna stay on the dirty side, with dreams of going to the shaky side, but the witchdoctor is clear and monitoring one nine for now. Kisses to the XYL.

Mongoose, look over yer sholder an tell me what's the delay? I'm totally no go in northbound I 95 at the 15 mile marker. Does anyone have any mail fer me? LOL Translation on request, for those not up on 1970s CB lingo.

"Good buddy" was not strictly a truck driver's term (notice I don't say "Trucker's", as that might mean a "Hook and Ladder Fire Company" member), as it was, and is, still used on the Citizen's Band radios. So sayeth myself, the CB "Witch Doctor"! I also mark myself as a begrudging fan, when I also mention the term "Little Buddy", as always used by the captain when talking to Gilligan, after the Minnow got stranded on that island!

I am uncertain on "brief", but I have been advised by many (friends, teachers, and business men and women primarily amongst them), to keep cover letters down to one page. The theory is, more than one, and most folks get bored and won't read it at all.

Wow, I got a promotion!

Yeah, now I remember. CheekyEMT, as per my in house lookup. Here is a link to the 4 pages string on her injury: http://www.emtcity.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.ph...9efb5cf22f931bb

Wasn't an EMT City member and her kids hospitalized for "Airbag Lung" during 2008?

The Hyatt Skywalk collapse was a combination of the aforementioned 3 inch illegally substituted washers, and an overstraining dynamic load. Remember, people were dancing on the skywalk, causing rhythmic vibrations that it was never designed to withstand, plus, many more people were both standing, as well as dancing, on it at the time of the collapse, taking it over the weight loading limit. My mom and dad had been in that hotel a year or so earlier.

Make sure that it is a sandy beach, that way, I could be eating all the Sandwiches (sand which is) there. Also, I'd need a wind up watch, so I could drink from the spring. (C'mon, ya know it's funny!)

From Vegas, Atlantic City, or where?

Mondays through Thursdays, I start my workday at 0700. Sundays, I start at 0600. Friday and Saturday, I get to sleep till 0800, because I'm off (Regular Day Off) those days.

That, indeed, is odd. Most start at 7 AM, not 20 minutes into the hour.

This was revived from July of 2006?

Interesting. With a slightly different wording, it is a greeting amongst practitioners of the Wiccan religion, "More Power to Ye, Blessed Be! (As of this time of posting, I have not been aware of either the song or artist, but will look up both on YouTube sometime later at my convenience.)

For the KEDS (Kendricks Extrication Device), and the IDEA (Iron Duck Extrication Appliance), we used to remember the order of the straps (Middle, Bottom, Legs, Head, Top), we used "My Baby Looks Hot Tonight". Someone (NOT me!) came up with "Marlon Brando Licks His Toes", "Marlon Brando Looks Hot Tonight", and "My Baby Licks Her Toes" Hey, I just report them, THIS time I wasn't the one making it up!

Oops, I was remiss. I forgot the obvious of O2, and totally forgot that we carry glucose paste in the FDNY EMS Command ambulances. Also, notice, even though I am in NYC, it is an ambulance, and not a bus. A bus is something operated by the transit authority.

Timmy, relay the word to all your responder brothers and sisters working that fire to stay safe, so afterwards, they can go back home unhurt to their families! Simplest prayer I can offer, and a mention of "Good, if difficult Job" to all involved.

While not directed towards the OP, I openly wonder how many used Crown Vics and Impalas are sold to members of a VFD and/or VAS? A mention: a former chief of operations at my own VAS (Peninsula Volunteer Ambulance Corps of the Rockaways, Queens County, NY, 1973-1996) bought, NEW, a Ford Crown Victoria "Police Package". Such "packages" are heavy duty electrical systems, suspension systems, cooling systems, well, you get the idea that if it can have a heavy duty whatever, it will be in the package. It also has a heavy duty price of a couple thousand over just getting a regular car. Add to the price that it has a large V8 engine that sucks down fuel like it thinks Donald Trump owns it A second mention: when I was looking for what would become my first new (not previously owned) car, one of my supervisors told me to think of getting a "towing package", smaller size heavy duty whatevers, but not as heavy as the police package, which should have taken care of my needs. It would have been more cost than a regular car, but it would also have been less cost than the Police package. I didn't go either of those ways, and ended up with a nice 4 cylinder Toyota Corolla Alltrak Station Wagon, conventional whatevers, that lasted me 9 years, despite my abuses on it (must have been those most excellent mechanics I took it to).

I don't know the individual. I'll take the spelling error as just that, an error that didn't get caught until just now.

Another thing: check state and local laws on flashing headlights. Using NYC as an example, only "duly authorized" emergency vehicles are allowed to have alternating headlights. I know folks who "got around" this by installing flasher devices that flashed the high beams in unison. I am told by friends in the California Highway Patrol that flashing headlights, either alternating/semaphoring or unison flashers, that the rate that seems to get attention more rapidly is a rate of 2 to 4 flashes a second. One final thing, at least for this posting...Some people don't seem to notice the emergency lights on any type of either marked or unmarked vehicles until the collision is irrevocably imminent. Drive expecting the unexpected, because that is always what you're going to get.

1) Only a strobe light can "strobe", all others blink or glow. 2) If you are going to use any lights other than what the manufacturer put into the vehicle, make certain that each circuit is on it's own fuse or breaker, and on some kind of direct wiring to the battery or generator, so you don't overload the cigarette lighter's circuit. 3) Make sure the battery and/or generator can handle the load from the lights, as someone jokingly pointed out, your battery MIGHT implode from the strain (LOL). At least it will fail a lot sooner than the warranty holds for, and I don't know any location in the country where any of the LEOs have to jump a depleted car battery, and it might be a long cold wait for the road service. 4) If you have an auto mechanic who specializes in car electrical systems, you'd best make a friend of that mechanic, he or she might help a bunch better than I can, or possibly anyone else on this site. We specialize in helping people, the mechanic studies to help with "Medi-Car". (LOL)

This is not only in the small towns. Most everyone in EMT City knows I live and work in a section of New York City, even when I was strictly an EMS "volly". If you work any district, for a long period, you get to know a lot of folks. Some will be repeat "customers", due to true need, others, the BS "frequent flyer" calls, but you get to know folks in the 'hood, and they will know you. When one of the local street intox people died, the beat cop actually said that without him to watch over a particular wall, it would get graffitied up. Regrettably, the cop called it. It is a part of extended EMS life. If there is someone to talk with, talk with them, or get the referral to do so. If it is affecting you, do something, or it will build a lot of tension within you, and who knows when it might cause some kind of emotional explosion, and, as per Mr. Murphy's "Laws", it will happen at the worst possible time. Fatal Flaw? No. It just shows that you are human.

Don't worry about confusion. 2 things that you should know about New York City, at least by my observations: 1) New York City is a law unto itself. As one example, everywhere else in the country, including the rest of the state of New York, you can make a right turn after full stop at a red traffic signal, unless there is a sign saying "No Turn On Red". In New York City, you can ONLY make the turn where it is posted that you CAN make the right turn on red. Same setup on a second example, traffic in a traffic circle has right of way over traffic entering the circle, EXCEPT in the city, where entering the circle has the right of way. 2) I posit that, in the City of New York, if it makes sense, it is against someone's rules, regulations, protocols, or the law.

OK, thanks, chbare, that is the clarification I needed: Europe and the Americas versus Asia and Africa.