Recent content by dcemr7

My test cut off at 68 or 69, not sure exactly and I passed.

All the new units the county and cities bought are all LED. The only ones with strobe lights are the reserve trucks. Most of the fire trucks and police cars are LED also.

I am currently an EMR. I want to be a medic and this is good experience. I took EMR because I was 17 at the time and to take EMT-B you have to be 18. I'm an EMR with a vol. fire dept. and a lot of times we beat the ambulance there by several minutes. Which as you know makes a lot of difference...

They are from the Dallas/Fort Worth area and recently came to the Memphis, TN area which is where I am.

Anybody have any info on Medic One EMS? They recently came to the area I live in and I've been thinking about getting a job with them as a driver while I go through EMT-B and them EMT-P. I was wondering if any of you guys (or girls) have any experience with them.

Of course we won't hold that against you, the cops keep us out of trouble.

I've been on here for a couple months and finally decided to post here. My name is John and I will be going to EMT class this coming fall. I'm currently part of a volunteer Search and Rescue unit as well as a vol. FF/EMR with a local FD. I start fire class in a couple weeks. After EMT I want to...

I don't know what kind of situation he is in, but I carry a jump kit in my truck because as a volunteer FF/EMR, I don't know when I will need the medical supplies. It seems like some of the people on here are dead set against the idea of carrying your own kit. I agree that if your not on duty...

Both the fire department I am on and the Sheriff's SAR unit I am also on use map books instead of GPS. I've used GPS in my pov before and actually prefer the map books but I was wondering what you guys use/prefer.

A paramedic friend of mine was transporting a patient code 3 to the hospital one day and she got rather flustered with the traffic so she grabbed the "PA" mic and yelled "What do you think this is a m----- f------ ice cream truck?!?!" The only problem is that she grabbed the radio mic instead...

The paid departments around here like it when you have had previous experience volunteering. I just got accepted as a probationary ff on a local vol dept and my captain is also a full time ff for one of the city dept's. Many of the career ff's I know started out as volunteers. Around here, the...

I'm only 17 now, I'm gonna go to EMT-B next year and then later go for paramedic. I want to start out as a volunteer first to get experience and then maybe go paid.

Good luck with getting on FDNY. Hope it works out for you. I myself will soon (hopefully) be a vol. ff in Mississippi. Might go career ff as well as medic.