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    EMT-B companies closest to the Boston area to apply to?

    Brewster Ambulance is located in Boston Alert Ambulance is a small one I see sitting outside of the Faulkner quite a bit. Other than that it seems like you have the major ones down. It never hurts to walk in with your application. When I applied in person at Armstrong, I got interviewed...
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    First Shooting

    This occurred before the second medic had arrived. Per our protocol, if time permits in a traumatic arrest situation, and if the action of defibrillating does not take the place of proper care or transport time, then one can attempt defibrillation. We attempted twice during the boarding process...
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    First Shooting

    I agree scene safety was neglected in this situation. There was, as usual, very little information on the incident at the time so I suppose another gunman could have been running around. There were multiple police units on scene at the time, however, so we weren't necessarily running into the...
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    First Shooting

    My partner and I were driving back to the base after a fairly slow day. We were late for shift and stuck in traffic driving back to base. Probably about a mile or two away from the base, the fire radio starts blaring for the "unknown medical" about two blocks from our position, dispatching, in...
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    need job help

    If you've already applied to most of the companies in the area, I would just recommend that you be persistent. I contacted every company I applied to at the beginning of each week to remind them that I still existed and was still interested before I finally got a job. In the Boston area...
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