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Taking lessons from DC?

Save your money. The food sucks

Thanks to improved building and fire codes, fire departments lost a lot of business. So they grabbed up EMS to keep run volumes up and secure funding, manpower, equipment, etc. So we now have EMS departments with an occasional fire. Forget her appearance and politics. I dont care who she...

Now they need a write an Extraordinary Circumstances protocol to cover something like this in the future.

I'd like to see it. Always said, never see a motorcycle outside a shrink's office.

You walk away from it.

Pay EMS less than firefighters? Cheapskates!! https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2025/04/02/fire-department-may-recruit-civilians-to-staff-ambulances/

A bad supervisor is when you roll up on a scene and the first words from the supervisor is taken him to xyz hospital and not the trauma center.

Really pisses me off, this " paid suspension". So put him on vacation until he retires? I heard of a department that would suspend you, and you spent your shift in a room. No cellphone. Professional publications.

Home Depot has a Ryobi set of screwdriver bits and Allen bits. Less than $10.00

I initially thought scud running but it looks like weather was CAVU. My area lost a medical helo back in the late 80s scud running and had that" gottagethome" attitude. Blade just nicked the edge of the tower. Tower stayed up, helo not so much. Kobe Bryant died in a scudrunning crash...

I have a cousin who is using it for Type II and he has had diarrhea for two years. Watch out.

Always do part time in theED

Go for it. I left the service at 65, with all my recerts finished for the next two years. Just remember the new guys works nights and weekends

Oh crap. Quit whining! It is what it is! Call the company to complain and and leave the OP alone. Get off my lawn!