Recent content by firetender

Yes, I did DE, and a couple others. I'm learning on the fly everything I can; Keep feeding me, compadres!

In an ideal world we could find a Sponsoring Organization with a track record to mobilize their resources so we could funnel interested Disaster Relief personnel (from here) into the project.

My goal is to get the ball, ANY ball rolling. For now, please feed me with site or e-mail links to organizations that have experience in this stuff so I can at least make initial contacts and request coordination help. THANKS!

Hi, compadres, from Russ Reina, that firetender guy. As some of you know, I moved to Ecuador about three years ago. It is what’s now called a “Developing Nation”. Ecuador is about the size of Colorado with a population of about 14,000,000. On April 16th, the coastal area was rocked by a 7.8...

Following the Snake River from Utah all the way into Montana -- especially this time of year -- is one of the most gorgeous and fun (watch them turns Ninja!) Routes in the U.S.! Go to Glacier following Flathead Lake and make sure to get some of their cherries!

What would you have done? http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CORPSE_PASSENGER?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Focus on you're own breathing is something even I had never thought of before; perfect!

AHA guidelines still call for interposing breaths. I recall hearing about studies showing that persistent compressions well done at the rate of 100/minute with all focus on them and no attention to breaths are what works. Can't find it/them

Could someone please link me to the best study available documenting the efficacy of compressions only (and at what rate) and/or a study that best establishes the optimum ratio of Compressions to breaths. Thanks!

How about "Thanks for the truth!" folks I'll start: Thank you for putting into words things that most of the people on this site haven't had to face (you're obviously in a high volume area and it seems catching a lot of calls dealing with people close to you) and being honest with yourself...

The reality of the little profession that never was is that burnout is so prevalent in it that it's pretty much an if not today then tomorrow thing. Am I lying to say it's only a matter of time before the deficits outweigh the benefits? Typically, that takes the form of at a certain point...

I dunno; stuff like that happened all the time back in the day in my service area!

How many of you have wanted to do this? Of those, how many haven't for fear of doing what this guy almost did? http://www.callthecops.net/paramedic-arrested-attempting-murder-partner-duty/

That's a BINGO!

I'm just wondering what's going on underneath it all. You state you loved every minute of school and loved the job for about six months and then you find yourself with one partner who is doing something "unsafe" and then you start running all these reasons why it's a sucky job and/or company...