Recent content by Spider2891

Fish, I printed up the EMS rates as of August 2009. these are the latest rates that we have on our intranet. This is for New hire Medics only and is the bi-weekly base salary minus any other monies that might be added as well as the hourly rate as best as I can tell: New Hire $1675.78 -...

To be honest, I'm still trying to figure out how my pay is figured out. I still can't find a chart that accurately depicts my current scale.

If you are already a medic you go into the academy in a PTOP class (Paramedic Training Orientation Program) The FDNY has 3 ways of getting medics on the street, PTOP which is for outside medics to enter, Medic Basic which is for existing FDNY EMT's to go through a pretty intensive 9 month medic...

Junkie, remove the spaces in the link, the website wouldn't let me post a link because I don't have 5 posts yet.

Junkie, a cursory Google search gave me this: www . health. ny.gov/nysdoh/ems/certification/reciprocity.htm I know several people that came from other states as EMT basic or better and had no problem with the reciprocity. The fact is, NYS has been dumbing down it's curriculum for some time now...

I am brand new to this message board. Yes, I work for FDNY-EMS. Ask away, I'll give you the best answers I can or find out.