Posts Categorized: Ems Topics
Amb. Crew Nabbed Cruising for Pot
TWO NORTH PLAINFIELD (NEW JERSEY) RESCUE SQUAD members have been suspended after being arrested early Wednesday morning and charged with possession of marijuana in their ambulance.
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Alphabet Soup
If your list of certs is longer than 10 letters, maybe it doesn't belong on your business card.
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Must see videos: Scores of explosions at Collingdale, Pennsylvania welding shop fire. Employees injured. Two old fire trucks destroyed.
Blasts forced evacuation of homes in the area.
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Washdown
The frantic, comical waving stopped as soon as I was within a few feet of him. "She just stopped breathing before you got here... and I think she used to have a pulse, too!"
That's probably a safe assumption.
As soon as MPD's latest hero stepped fr…
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A personal note – Wanna “Like” me?
A few random pieces of blog-related information.
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Aiming For Spider, Man Blows Himself Up Instead
AN ESSEX, ENGLAND, MAN WAS DISPATCHED BY HIS WIFE to chase down and kill a spider that was lurking behind the toilet and creating angst in the household.
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Another Stolen Ambulance
A WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, MAN HAS BEEN CHARGED with stealing an ambulance and eluding police on Monday.
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Life-Saving Ambulance Run Brings Speeding Ticket
A MAN WHO DRIVES A SPECIALTY AMBULANCE that delivers live human organs for transplant, and similar transports, is facing the possibility of losing his driver's license and job in Cambridgeshire, England, after a traffic camera caught him speeding on July 7.
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High Ambulance Driver Crashes Ambulance
A MAN DRIVING A VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD AMBULANCE in Long Island, New York, was arrested Monday night after driving his ambulance into a ditch while he was under the influence of drugs.
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Funeral Arrangements Announced for Deputy Chief Jeff Thompson
GOOSE CREEK - Jeffery Andrew Thompson, 32, husband of Brandy Reeves Thompson, of Goose Creek, SC, died Saturday, August 28, 2010. Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon, September 2, 2010, at Pine Ridge Fire Department at 4 o'clock. Burial will…
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Guns & hoses: A redo. Take 2 has more details & videos thanks to BainbridgeGA.com.
Videos showing firefighting in Georgia.
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The Day It Clicked.
I was a very shaky student.
Literally.
The very first third ride I did as a medic student was with a vollie department in the area... It was a call for chest pain, and I was ridiculously geeked. I remember sitting in the captain's chair in the back of the squad, watching the rural landscape whiz by through the small side window feeling like I was ready to jump out of my skin. I was ready to hit that run out of the park.
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Do we really need paramedics on Ambulances?
Does every ambulance need a paramedic on it?
I would suggest no, and here is my rationale:
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Quick Takes
Fire & EMS news fro Tuesday.
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Fireground audio from 4-alarm hi-rise fire in Houston with reported mayday. At least 5 firefighters hurt. Standpipe issues.
Fire was on the 27th floor.
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World Trade Center steel arrives in Arlington County, Virginia
Beam escorted from Brooklyn to Arlington County Fire Department Station 5 near the Pentagon.
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Customer Service: A Bad Concept?
While we can quantitatively point out that having a customer service attitude benefits us in public support, there should be a much more altruistic reason for our embracing that belief.
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Quick Takes
Fire & EMS news for Monday.
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Shining through Suffering – Learning How to Cope with Sadness in EMS
Dealing with the level of sadness we see in EMS isn't something that comes naturally. It's a learned skill. Take your time and find your way. We're all nothing but human.
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Firefighter Killed in Farming Accident
TOWNVILLE - A longtime volunteer fireman from Townville who had also worked for Clemson University was killed Friday in an accident involving a hay baler. Jimmy Boleman, a farmer himself, was baling hay at a friend’s farm on O’Neal Ferry Road in To…
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Fatal wreck in Hardeeville
HARDEEVILLE - A Beaufort man died Thursday after his sports car and a refrigerated delivery truck collided head on in the Okatie area of Hardeeville. Architect Randy Boyles "Brandy" Long, 56, died instantly after the truck, owned by W-East Trading Corp.…
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There’s a Time For Orthostatic Vital Signs…
... and there's a time for common freakin' sense.
I know paramedics who can tell you chapter and verse about their patients, and hand off a thoroughly assessed, neatly packaged, NEARLY DEAD patient. There's a time and place for a thorough history and …
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UKMedic999 AIQ
Control, please show UKMedic999 in quarters, his blog is back.
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Detroit EMS Update