cutecollege1
Rookie Officer
If you can't beat 'em, shoot 'em!!!
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Post by cutecollege1 on Dec 21, 2009 22:40:13 GMT -5
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-us-emts-pregnant-woman,0,4937498.story This story hits close to home for me. As someone going into this kind of profession, it's known that no matter what, we drop what we're doing and offer aid to the person in need. We know that we're going to be waken up at 3 in the morning, a lot of times, for some bull s**t call. We may be getting ready to have lunch when that call comes in. But we take lunch on the go, or come back for it later, and help the person who needs help. Now I will give the two some benefit of the doubt and say, yes, FDNY does have some dumb policies from what I have read and heard. But if it is the way the story says it is.......don't let those two work with me when I'm certified.
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Post by mirium on Dec 24, 2009 11:21:06 GMT -5
It does make you wonder what was going through their heads. The obvious thing is "I'm on my break, don't bother me." But maybe they were scared -- as dispatchers, they had EMT training but maybe this was the first time they'd been called upon to use that training and they were afraid they'd do the wrong thng and make things worse? So callling 911 and getting competent EMTs there would be better? They didn't take the training because they had the "I want to help" EMT temperment, they took it because it was required. Maybe they thought of that knowledge as purely intellectual, something that made them capable of understanding what the EMTs out in the field were doing, rather than a skill they possessed themselves. I'm not suggesting that would be an acceptable excuse. But it's possible that they aren't selfish monsters. Or maybe they are. I'm guessing that the EMTs they used to dispatch aren't real happy with them either, cc.
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