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Thanks for all of your responses. Very helpful.

Well we just recently received a medical director specifically for our department which allows us, as a volunteer fire department, to run as a BLS service. From what I have heard, we are the first volunteer (and I think career) fire department in the state of KY that has our own medical...

As an EMT with a fire department I and other firefighters are often on the scene of a medical response well before EMS arrives. One question that has came up in some discussions amongst ourselves is when do we attempt to resuscitate and when do we say that they are too far gone to attempt. We...

Hello All Hey folks. I am a career mechanical engineer and a volunteer firefighter (3 years now) with a department in southern Kentucky. My department recently offered to pay for myself and 2 other firefighters to go through basic level EMT training. As of now I am just past half-way through...