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    What's wrong with this picture?

    What does that mean? If the National Registry (or your state) says people passed their certifications and can be EMTs at the age of 18, what's wrong with that? If they're EMTs it doesn't matter what age they are... Unless you're referring to uncertified youngsters, in which case I don't want...
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    Forum Game... "Good Wish/Bad Wish"

    Wish granted, but during your haz-mat ops testing drill you realize the 'dummy' can of hazardous materials has been replaced with a can of chlorine gas stolen from your local research facilities. You quickly put on your gas mask but as you do some reducing agent reacts with the gas and an...
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    Rural Metro

    Atlanta is fairly fast paced... anyone ever heard of Grady :rolleyes: ? For those of you that know or have heard about it it's certainly... something. As far as fire goes, most of the counties do have fire and ems combined. I'd love to work for the county and do fire, too. I love hanging out...
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    Good START Triage site - with good training video.

    This is the triage our service uses. I've got the video practically memorized I've seen it so many times (which is probably a good thing skill-wise, but for my mental health I could use an updated video with better acting...). It seems to work pretty well for us, honestly the only time we ever...
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    What's that red button on the radio for?

    I know on our radios (model MTS2000) it does show up in dispatch as an alarm. I can't remember if it locks the system or not, but it's basically worthless since no one knows which radio is carried by which person. So you can push the button to let them know you're in trouble, but they'll have...
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    Rural Metro

    So I've been an EMT for... 3 years now (doesn't seem like it) but I work for the volunteer service at my university. This summer I was looking to get a job at a city/county ambulance service to get more experience and see some more interesting stuff. I get tired of the drunks and the whiners...
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