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Daytona Beach Fire has a motor medic unit that works the special events.

Working the NASCAR races 3,4, and 5 July. For a few days Daytona International Speedway becomes the largest city in central Florida... now add heat, EtOH, fireworks and Darwin and it tends to be a busy couple of days!

FD Leatherworks in Ormond Beach FL is awesome. Firefighter owned and operated custom work and fairly priced. here's the site http://www.fdleatherworks.com/

Rinker does a bunch of the certificate programs for UF and already had emergency management stuff so that's where they stuck it. IT's still a UF course taught by UF faculty.

written test, strip test if you're a medic, scenarios, and then typical interview generally by field personnel including the usual HR " tell me a time you did..." etc.

intermittent is an employment category not a certification level. EMT can get hired full time or intermittent, medics just intermittent. As an intermittent you pick up shifts casually to fill in and are limited to 1560 hours in a year. Once hired as intermittent you can get advanced to part...

The state college system will be very expensive if you are forced to pay out of state tuition. One of the privates may be cheaper however your schedule may become overloaded quickly between school, clinical time, and work at the mouse. Good luck!

Chantix worked like a charm for me... been clean for 5 years now. I was a two pack a day smoker for 20 plus years.

You MUST be employed by a Volusia county agency as an EMT ( or be a "on the books" volunteer) to be considered a "cleared" EMT. So the short answer is you are not cleared by the VCEMS medical director.

There is nothing in the Daytona area for you. Volusia County just did an EMT hiring. There are privates in the Orlando area that will hire new EMT's but not sure if they will work around your medic school. Try Rural Metro or American. Pickings are slim as most EMS in this area is either fire...

Working tonight at 1800. First Christmas Eve and morning off in many years. Stay safe out there everyone and have a good day!!

The FL state test is easy as pie. There is a crib sheet floating around that gives some questions and answers or at least the perceived answers in the "my best recollection of that question is". If you are a practicing medic you should be able to pass it cold...if you actually study a little bit...

Most EMS in FL is fire based. There are exceptions which include Lake County, Lee County, Volusia County, Sunstar, and Rural Metro ( who has parts of Orlando metro area and Sumter County) The market here is saturated as the medic mills pump out litters of providers every semester. With that...

In Volusia County your options are numbered. Apply to the county but it is a long and winding road. I would apply to the Orlando companies American and Rural Metro. They are private companies but Rural Metro does have some 911 contracts. They are almost always hiring. There is Coastal in Brevard...

TXA is cheap, effective, and has been used in the transplant community for years. The studies have been favorable, as mentioned above listen to the EMCRIT podcast on it.