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101 Things the Fire Department wishes you knew. Tuesday, October 13. My 5 hour day. I was confronted by a citizen recently about how I was paid to sit around and play pool and sleep and that I was robbing the City. She stopped me while we were out doing our weekly hydrant checks, which I explained to her, but she refused to listen. Monday - 7 AM to noon. Tuesday - Noon to 5 PM. Wednesday - 5 PM to 10 PM. Thursday - 10 PM to 3 AM. Isn't it Friday yet? On my Thursday I'm up in the dorm looking for a good p...
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101 Things the Fire Department wishes you knew. Friday, October 9. You Make the Call.Line Up. Nighttime is always good for a few fights and you've caught a decent one. A couple of guys from out of town got mugged and attacked with a knife. Nothing major, but the report in your mind already has the phrase "copious ETOH odor" so both are getting full c-spine precautions with various bruises forming on their faces and some superficial lacerations to their faces, necks and torsos. You make the call. No to th...
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101 Things the Fire Department wishes you knew. Monday, October 5. A reminder on uniforms. I like to think I am a Professional. When summoned to headquarters or even stopping by to see the clerks at payroll, I'm in a new uniform shirt, cap and tie because you never know when you'll bump into the Chief of Department. So imagine my surprise when we responded to our Headquarters on a medical call and I found myself without my button-up shirt. 20 minutes later I was doing a walk of shame. 6 And by all means,...
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101 Things the Fire Department wishes you knew. Friday, October 2. You Make the Call.Brain Attack. Brain Attack is the new stroke. Did you not get the memo? In an effort to expand on our similarities, not just our differences, I thought a straight forward medical scenario would do the trick. You are assigned to your regular response unit and dispatched just after 10 am for a reported altered mental status. You response time is 6 minutes and you are the first care giver on scene. The nearest hospital is 1...
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Happy Medic Head Quarters
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101 Things the Fire Department wishes you knew. Wednesday, February 11. For the abdominal pain. Another vague description of a complaint. These abdominal pain calls really drive me buts, especially when called in by a third party at a local donut shop in a questionable part of town. A shop keeper called stating a man has come in asking for an ambulance for stomach pains. So back to the call at hand. He tells me his stomach hurts and he needs to get to a hospital. Where does it hurt? Here and here" he rub...
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101 Things the Fire Department wishes you knew. Wednesday, October 7. Halloween. All Hallow's Eve. Samhain. Whether you practice the ancient Celtic holiday or just dress up on October 31st, there are certain things you should not do when decorating your home for the fall holiday. Cell phone caller reports flames in the window of a residential building. We're barely dressed when we pull up to the intersection and see flames in a window box outside a window on the fourth floor. Then we looked closer at the...
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101 Things the Fire Department wishes you knew. Thursday, October 8. Oh No Not Again. In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I recently discovered that just saying that phrase, "Oh no. Not again" means your night is about to get interesting. Automatic fire alarm activation. He waves and waves and I lean out the window to ask him his trouble. We don't have medication refills here, do you have an emergency Sir? I ask wondering if I;m really having this conversation. Do you want an ambulance, Sir, you see...
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101 Things the Fire Department wishes you knew. Tuesday, October 13. If you get stopped. The Po-po with the Mo-mo, the Po-po a Go-go is back on the streets after welcoming Baby MC and starts off in a car due to pouring rain. Poor guy didn't even get to fire up the Honda and bust some fools on his first day back? We at HMHQ think that is just a travesty. Welcome back Motor Cop. Stay Safe MC and see you in the report room for cocktails. Oh yeah I did). File Under Mutual Aid News. A Tip of the Helmet. Publi...
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101 Things the Fire Department wishes you knew. Monday, October 12. The mandatory reading assignment for this week is waiting for you at Ambulance Driver. S in response to another excellent post by Rogue Medic. And the comments that followed. Another example of the need to restart this trade as a Profession and lift ourselves out of this "patch and tan box" mentality so many of us are still stuck in. Reboot the entire system. EMS 2.0. They need to take their act on the road together. A Tip of the Helmet.
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101 Things the Fire Department wishes you knew. Wednesday, October 14. Hoseline Placement or How Not to Impress the Public. Trying to keep up with the flood of industry news that is Statter911. Can be daunting and I missed this story not once, but twice. On October 7th DC Fire and EMS put on a demonstration of the effectiveness of fire sprinklers. It also ended up showing the ineffectiveness of modern firefighting. Don't need one. Smooth bore from 20 feet makes short work of this fire without even ha...
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