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Exactly why some departments are looking into outfitting brush fire rigs as sprinter units instead of sending the big engines.

I would have to say that they have helped me on occasion, primarily with lifting 300-700lbers.

Yea I almost bought a old crown vic as my first car but it just had too many miles on the damn thing, I think it was like 250k-350k miles.

No choice for my clinical's, I was on a fire engine with a medic, emt and a emt captain, if I had a choice I would have wanted to run a shift or two on the engine, ambulance and at least one in the er.

Ew Jersey, get a lot of roid rage calls? lol.

I dont know, I don't want to turn into a robomedic!

I had 6 different FTO's at my first company, all had different training styles.

Yea from what I have always heard if your questions just kept getting harder and harder then you were getting all or most right, which when I went in for my test I had almost every question just seem as if it got harder and harder but they were not too hard because I reread the brady emt book...

Yea I have never had to restrain a single psych pt, as long as you can talk to them and keep them calm its all good.

Oh first i'm not professional now I don't take pride in EMS okay.....lol.

Never been called an ambulance driver and what we call ourselves has no bearing on our personal professionalism also I have no problem with correcting anyone who thinks were simply ambulance drivers with simple professional conversation.

Okay....then I am the only one who didn't hear they changed EMT to EMA (Emergency Medical Attendant).

Nope. :)

Haha.....you wouldn't believe the concentration it takes not to when nearly your whole class is girls. Almost every group I was in was with the girls having difficulty doing trauma assessments, you would not believe how many times I was strapped to those boards....girls girls girls....haha.

heard of code 3 but my area and all the EMT's and medics ive talked to just say going priority.

Attendant? there ain't no stinking attendants here.....were all techs, we TECH.

I wouldn't even bother stating anything about something that you did not DO or find out in history, cuz I was with a 911 company that did a lot of IFT and we would focus simply on what they were sent to the hospital for, whether it got better and how they are atm along with vitals, other HX and...

There was one in my company's fleet in olympia, funny thing is most of the emts did not like it due to the smaller amount of space in the back although I thought they were okay since I am not a big person and rarely had more than just myself and one PT in the back with me.

Yea I know who works there.....the difference is all the jobs are there. Also Tigger I am not waiting for outside factors, these are simple statements about what I would LIKE to happen not what I am WAITING for....cuz I dont expect anything to fall perfectly into place, I have to get it myself...

That's exactly why I am going to Longview/Kelso, I am not waiting because I doubt anything will happen the way I want here but as I said if Oregon would fix their ****hole of a freeway I would not mind working there. This is not your ******** entitlement, this is simply a states lack of giving a...