Recent content by wwrescueEMT

In the city where I am a volunteer EMT our police officers are incredible. All of them are certified as first responders and go through a lot of training, sometimes even go through some trainings with us, to keep up their skills and increase the amount of stuff they can do to help us. Only...

At the volunteer department i'm on, it happens quite a bit (though not as often as it used to) where we have one hell of a time getting the truck out. Our first rig out has to have an IV tech on it. While I was a basic, it would often occur that I was the only one down at the station paging...

Heck yes, I totally agree with you 110% It's an honor to be able to help people in their time of need, to be an advocate when they can't help themselves. I like the part where you talk about how serving others should be a lifestyle, because its completely true...that's what it seems like we...

You can usually just walk in to most places and ask for an application, emailing the chief or captain is also great for information gathering to find out how they do the application process (and gives them a chance to get to know you a little bit before they look at your application). I don't...

Students get scholorships for school....either full scholorships or $500/semester scholorschips. ...For now anyways, they're talking about cancelling it, which would really, really suck.

Let's try this... hey, cool, it worked. :)

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=30046930&id=1594200017 :)

The best advice I can give you is this: Remember that you're going to college for school, not for rescue. This is a mistake that several college EMTs on my department, including myself, have made. We end up staying up all night running calls because it's just so exciting, and then running...

I was on a call recently with the volunteer department i'm on where the only thing anyone on the crew could really say after it, or when describing the scenario to anybody was, "it was just the wierdest thing." We got paged out for an unresponsive male patient out near the edge of our area, a...

I do enjoy it, and Twix, that was not meant to be a shot at you at all. I was merely describing something I had been contemplating lately, don't jump to conclusions, please. I hope one day that I am able to find the "happy balance" between my work and my personal life, but hey, if there was...

A wise person once told me, "If you're meant to be in this field, doing this work, it will consume you. It will take over your life. It's all you'll think about and it's all you're ever going to want to talk about. If you're not meant to be here, you will leave. You either will leave the...