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COME! After all, they're part of our socialistic system that we ALL pay for, and have for years. Just like the cops, the library, the DPW, the snow removal. Democratic socialists …. there when you need them. ;-)
Taxes now according to AL is a SOCIALIST system ! And just look AL has to have SNOW REMOVAL from those evil fossil fuel burning machines !!!!!!!!! ROTFFLMMFAO !
AL are property taxes a part of your Socialist view point ?
When you call the fire department, do you want them to COME, or CHECK with billing?
I want anyone willing to put the fire out to attempt to put it out, seeing that not putting it out would burn down buildings around it.
If they are paid for with taxes, they have no right to charge. If they are not paid for by taxes, they can charge or leave by their own decision making.
They will protect the community from a burning house, but get in their ambulance and see if it’s free. One is a service to the community, and one is a service to you. One is paid by the community, and the other by you. That’s not socialism.
They will protect the community from a burning house, but get in their ambulance and see if it’s free.
The fire department have ambulances? I don't live in the US but over here the fire department and paramedics are a separate service. They'd have to be really, otherwise you'd have firemen turning up to treat heart attack victims.
It varies by district, but yes. Many firemen are paramedics, and most fire departments are more generally Emergency Medical Services (EMS) or Fire/Rescue. So it’s a good thing when the fireman shows up for the heart attack, because that’s their job.
The Baltimore County Fire Department (BCoFD) provides quality fire protection, rescue services, emergency medical services, safety education and mitigation of emergency situations. BCoFD includes the Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, charged with coordinating a response to weather and other community emergencies.
BCoFD and the 29 volunteer companies that work with us responded to 138,147 calls in 2017, including more than 101,000 Emergency Medical Service (EMS) calls.
Baltimore County cannot treat a heart attack victim ???????
Paramedics are cross-trained as firefighters to enhance response to suppression incidents when necessary. So again i ask the dummy are you aware of anything you type ??????
Paramedics are cross-trained as firefighters to enhance response to suppression incidents when necessary, in Baltimore, which is 3,500 miles away from England.
Fixed that for you, you silly little moonshine-drinking weirdo.
Each fire fighter is required to maintain their skills as an EMS provider by completing the competency-based training curriculum developed by King County Emergency Medical Services.
The Operations Division is responsible for safety and emergency mitigation; to protect and serve citizens. The Operations Division is the largest division of the department and is under command of the Operations Chief. This division consists of over 300 firefighters covering three 24-hour shifts in thirteen fire stations. Every day there are fourteen engine companies, nine Mobile Intensive Care Units / ambulances, five ladder companies, five water tankers, one heavy rescue, one training officer and one safety officer. The firefighters are under the direct command of one of nine battalion chiefs. In addition to emergency medical services, fires and rescues, the operations division responds to a variety of unique situations, collectively serving as the department's front line emergency medical, rescue and fire suppression response capability. Each shift is overseen by four Battalion Chiefs (three Fire and one EMS). Also available through cross-staffing are a variety of well equipped specialized units, including dive, foam, hazmat, front-country/rope rescue, urban search & rescue and water rescue. A central 911 dispatch system serves the entire Municipality and coordinates, fire and EMS response to all areas of the Municipality.
In addition to suppression duties, each engine company serves as a non-transport Basic Life Support (BLS) unit equipped with a semi-automatic defibrillator to enhance response to cardiac emergencies. The engine companies supplement the Department's Paramedics, who, in combination with Firefighter/Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT's), provide Advanced Life Support (ALS) care and transport. Likewise, all Paramedics are cross-trained as firefighters to enhance response to suppression incidents when necessary.
The Battle of Gettysburg (locally /ˈɡɛtɪsbɜːrɡ/ (About this soundlisten))[11] was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point.[12][13] Union Maj. Gen. George Meade's Army of the Potomac defeated attacks by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, halting Lee's invasion of the North.
After his success at Chancellorsville in Virginia in May 1863, Lee led his army through the Shenandoah Valley to begin his second invasion of the North—the Gettysburg Campaign. With his army in high spirits, Lee intended to shift the focus of the summer campaign from war-ravaged northern Virginia and hoped to influence Northern politicians to give up their prosecution of the war by penetrating as far as Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, or even Philadelphia. Prodded by President Abraham Lincoln, Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker moved his army in pursuit, but was relieved of command just three days before the battle and replaced by Meade.
Elements of the two armies initially collided at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863, as Lee urgently concentrated his forces there, his objective being to engage the Union army and destroy it. Low ridges to the northwest of town were defended initially by a Union cavalry division under Brig. Gen. John Buford, and soon reinforced with two corps of Union infantry. However, two large Confederate corps assaulted them from the northwest and north, collapsing the hastily developed Union lines, sending the defenders retreating through the streets of the town to the hills just to the south.[14]
On the second day of battle, most of both armies had assembled. The Union line was laid out in a defensive formation resembling a fishhook. In the late afternoon of July 2, Lee launched a heavy assault on the Union left flank, and fierce fighting raged at Little Round Top, the Wheatfield, Devil's Den, and the Peach Orchard. On the Union right, Confederate demonstrations escalated into full-scale assaults on Culp's Hill and Cemetery Hill. All across the battlefield, despite significant losses, the Union defenders held their lines.
On the third day of battle, fighting resumed on Culp's Hill, and cavalry battles raged to the east and south, but the main event was a dramatic infantry assault by 12,500 Confederates against the center of the Union line on Cemetery Ridge, known as Pickett's Charge. The charge was repulsed by Union rifle and artillery fire, at great loss to the Confederate army.[15]
Firefighters receive a variety of general training courses including emergency vehicle driver training, basic fire fighter skills training, emergency medical aid, multi-company operations, and rescue (capabilities that include confined spaces, rope rescue, trench rescue, structural collapse, and water rescue). The training includes classroom, drill ground practice, and performance evaluations. Fire fighters must train in all areas where they are expected to perform. This translates into an ever-widening arena in which fire fighters’ must prepare for and act with some knowledge in almost any situation. Training in so many fields requires planning, efficiency, and an energetic and enthusiastic group of fire fighters.
Coupled with fire and rescue is training in emergency medicine – the mainstay of our regional fire service organizations. Emergency medical intervention consistently accounts for approximately 70% of the requests to 911 for assistance. For training purposes, this means that our fire fighters receive initial training and then spend a good part of their available training hours studying, practicing, and being tested on their skills as emergency medical technicians. Each fire fighter is required to maintain their skills as an EMS provider by completing the competency-based training curriculum developed by King County Emergency Medical Services.
Emergency medical aid training is not the same thing as paramedic training you imbecile. Ordinary office workers are given emergency medical aid training. It doesn't make them trained paramedics. It teaches them how to stop people choking and resuscitate victims who have stopped breathing.
Each fire fighter is required to maintain their skills as an EMS provider by completing the competency-based training curriculum developed by King County Emergency Medical Services.
Each fire fighter is required to maintain their skills as an EMS provider by completing the competency-based training curriculum developed by King County Emergency Medical Services.
I've already explained to your stupid ass that you are confusing a bog-standard emergency medical aid certificate sanctioned by a local hospital with professional paramedic training. You have to register as a paramedic. You don't have to register for taking an emergency aid course.
The Medic One Program began in 1970 when the first group of firefighters were trained as paramedics in cooperation with Harborview Medical Center and the University of Washington. Since then, the Medic One Program has gained notoriety due to the training, dedication and pre-hospital emergency patient care paramedics deliver within the community. Medic One provides the community with Advanced Life Support (ALS) activities that, in the past, could only be performed by licensed physicians. In addition to responding to medical emergencies, medic units respond to all working fires, hazardous materials and rescue responses.
To become a paramedic, department firefighters must apply for the position and if accepted, begin a year-long training program under the close supervision of the Medical Director at Harborview Medical Center and veteran paramedics. Paramedic trainees must successfully complete this intensive hands-on training and instruction. After completion of their training, firefighter/paramedics are required to complete 50 additional hours of medical education annually. They are also required to document performance of required skills to maintain certification as an Advanced Life Support Paramedic by the University of Washington School of Medicine. These hours are divided into a formal lecture series relating to paramedicine, other medicine-related lectures, alarm review with the Medical Director and teaching EMS-related subjects.
At West Metro Fire Rescue, we answer more than 32,000 calls a year. The majority of those calls are medical emergencies. That's why we require all our firefighters to be state-certified emergency medical technicians - basic (EMT-Bs), with many of them certified as more highly trained paramedics.
Our EMS crews provide advanced life support to the residents and visitors to our area. Our goal is to provide the fastest and most professional EMS care available in Colorado.
Apparatus Capabilities
Each apparatus in the West Metro Fire Protection District is staffed with at least one paramedic, offering advanced life support. Whether an ambulance or fire engine arrives first, we have the equipment and training to immediately provide the highest level of care possible outside the hospital.
with many of them certified as more highly trained paramedics.
Precisely. They are not all trained as paramedics because no responsibility is placed upon them by the state to be paramedics. They are firemen. It is not part of their job description to be able to administer correct quantities of drugs or use a heart defibrillator.
At West Metro Fire Rescue, we answer more than 32,000 calls a year. The majority of those calls are medical emergencies. That's why we require all our firefighters to be state-certified emergency medical technicians - basic (EMT-Bs), with many of them certified as more highly trained paramedics.
Our EMS crews provide advanced life support to the residents and visitors to our area. Our goal is to provide the fastest and most professional EMS care available in Colorado.
Apparatus Capabilities
Each apparatus in the West Metro Fire Protection District is staffed with at least one paramedic, offering advanced life support. Whether an ambulance or fire engine arrives first, we have the equipment and training to immediately provide the highest level of care possible outside the hospital.
Obviously you are the one with the reading disability, because I've explained to you twice that an EMT is not the same thing as a paramedic (i.e. the people who respond to medical emergencies) and twice that your own source confirms there is no requirement for firemen to be trained paramedics.
You're a retard who just continually spams chat with irrelevant, misunderstood nonsense. Shut it please.
Spokane Valley Fire Department has been providing pre-hospital Emergency Medical Services (EMS) for nearly 40 years. In the early years, EMS in Spokane Valley was delivered by Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) in Squads. A few years later, all firefighters became certified EMTs and the Squads were staffed by Paramedics.
Today we no longer have Squads, and Paramedics respond to medical emergencies with eight of our eleven Engine and/or Rescue Companies. On incidents where the closest Engine or Ladder does not have a Paramedic on board, and the patient requires a higher level or care, an ALS (Advanced Life Support/Paramedic) Engine will respond as well. That is why you sometimes get two fire engines at your house for a medical call. In 2016, 86.4% of Spokane Valley Fire Department’s nearly 16,300 calls for service were medically related.
All Firefighters are certified to provide emergency medical services at one of two different levels of medical care:
EMTs – Basic Life Support (BLS), are trained to perform life-sustaining procedures including cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), controlling bleeding, treating shock, stabilizing injuries and wounds, and other first aid skills
Paramedics – Advanced Life Support (ALS), have a solid foundation in BLS skills, are also trained to perform more advanced life sustaining procedures including airway management, drug administration, stroke and cardiac care, ECG rhythm interpretation, Intravenous (IV) and Intraosseous (IO) access, and other advanced medical skills and procedures
You should get in contact with American Fire Departments and voice your opinion on how they should run their Fire Departments !!!!!!
What do you get if you cross a Fire Fighter with a Paramedic?
No, the title to this article isn’t the opening line of a terrible joke. In fact, it’s a legitimate question. Due to fewer fires, the immense strain currently being felt by ambulance services, and the need to treat accident victims as soon as possible, a lot can be said for merging these two occupations into one profession.
In fact, some fire and rescue services have already started to join forces with ambulance colleagues in order to increase response times and ultimately save more lives. But despite the benefits that this collaboration can bring, some oppose this proposal, most notably the Fire Brigades Union.
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