Looking for a Vollie in brooklyn?

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I'm looking for a vollie in Brooklyn NY. I'd like to be somewhere where they do a decent amount of calls.I used to be at another Vollie, a couple years back but as much as I liked the people, we never did any calls, and when we were we were always racing FDNY to the call. And it's not someplace I really want to go back to. Is there a vollie where I could get a good amount of truck time? And would only require only a weekly or bi-weekly shift?
 
Here's a list of all the volly ambulances in NYC off of Flatlands website.
http://www.fvac.org/vollylinks.php

I think I remember hearing that some of the more outlying companies are tied into FDNY dispatch (Rockaway maybe), maybe see about getting on somewhere with that setup?
 
I didn't realize the number of volunteer services in NYC. I just assumed FDNY was primary to everywhere. How do contracts and response work for all these random vollies?
 
rwik123 said:
I didn't realize the number of volunteer services in NYC. I just assumed FDNY was primary to everywhere. How do contracts and response work for all these random vollies?
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Listening to police scanners and flagdowns ;)
 
rennex said:
Yes.

FDNY and hospital-based 911 trucks aren't everywhere, so volunteers race to buff calls they hear on the scanner.
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And FDNY along with the other Hospital services are OK with this?

That's super sketchy. No thanks.
 
FDNY emts and medics are fine with it. FDNY might not be.
 
How do they get licensed and such? What is there official response or service area. I don't know of anywhere else in the country where its legal or acceptable for a service to jump calls they heard over the radio.
 
For the record, some of them have their own "private" 911 dispatcher... and residents are told to call there, not 911. Also very questionably legal.
 
firecoins said:
FDNY emts and medics are fine with it. FDNY might not be.
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I'm sure they are. Those guys work their butts off.

I wonder how much revenue the FDNY loses annually to these services.

It sounds sketchy to me, I wouldn't personally be happy to have a service who jumped the dispatch call show up at my house but that's just me.
 
NVRob said:
I'm sure they are. Those guys work their butts off.

I wonder how much revenue the FDNY loses annually to these services.

It sounds sketchy to me, I wouldn't personally be happy to have a service who jumped the dispatch call show up at my house but that's just me.
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Again, I'll share only a sense from being around some volly services in the city and knowing some EMTs there... but they seem more legitimate and stable than many of the NJ First Aid Squads i've seen...
NYC volly services seem to scare their residents into calling private 911 or allowing them to jump the calls by saying "we've been providing proud service in this community for 40 years!" or "All of our members serve their community out of the goodness of their hearts!" And this fluff satisfied most in a medical emergency...
 
You don't need special training besides your EMT class to board and collar your FDGB 911 call. Or strap the KED on a MVA.

EDIT: I think some people might be happy that the volunteer ambo in their neighborhood was able to apply an AED and do CPR earlier by arriving 2 minutes faster than the nearest FDNY bus.
 
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rwik123 said:
How do they get licensed and such? What is there official response or service area. I don't know of anywhere else in the country where its legal or acceptable for a service to jump calls they heard over the radio.
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NY is different. Neither in a good nor bad way. Just different.
 
Many volunteers are dispatched by FDNY on the mutual aid system. Some stand by at public events. Some get flagged down. They get called directly because frequent flyers don't want to go to the closes facility. Cancer patients frequently call volunteers or private ambulances because they want to go to Memorial Sloan Kettering which does not have a FDNY approved ER but an "urgent care facility" which is better than many of the ERs and is designed to the specific needs of cancer patients.
 
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