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Fire Dept. Ambulance Firefighting Tools
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Shareef Abdu Nur Oct 17.
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Congratulations, awesome work. Keep it up.
We have a General Order on cardiovascular fitness stating that one should be able to run on a treadmill for 12 METS and stay below your maximum heart rate. We have recommendations for working out on duty, but not mandatory as long as you meet the ...
What a great topic for a group. I'm looking forward to participating in some discussions. Just to throw something into the mix, How about two words Katy; Nicotine and Hyperinsulinemia, See Metabolic syndrome. Just as we talk about exercise benefit...
This group will be used to promote fitness and wellness among firefighters to prevent injuries and deal with the rehabilitation of the injuried firefighter.
In our areas the ambulances are all ALS and are called Squads. They are staffed with at least 2-3 Firefighter/paramedics. the equipment carried is 2-3 SCBA's, irons, pickhead, sledge, water extinguisher, some companies carry roof hooks as well. Wh...
Hello guys,here for soe information,
pulaskis, McCLeods, chainsaws, shovel's, monkey paws a little rake, bent shovels bosleys, pin shovels, whompers a tool used for pounding wedges into trees, regular shovels, falling axe. Some crews have devised...
SCBA, Irons that include an 8 lbs force axe, a 2 1/2 gal can and a 6 ft steel hook.
We run ALS Rescue Trucks that both transport to the ED's and also are dispatched on House or Building Fires. Depending on the order of arrival, usually the Rescue is the Truck company. They will do the primary search, ventilation, or RIT. Dependin...
In our area, Squad(Ambo) crews respond to a working structure with every intent on going to "work." When the crews arrive on scene, Command will tell them if they are a working crew or an EMS crew. If they are assigned as a working crew, Command w...
Erik,
The post by Micheal Bricault makes the most sense to me. He states that the equipment must be dictated by the mission and I couldn't agree more. However I keep hearing the same thing from all of the posts. It appears to be the consensis tha...
On are department it is required for all of us to have are emt-b. The crew that will make entry is the passenger on the pumper and the passenger from the tanker. Then when the equipment truck shows up we will have more personal on that. When the a...
Thanks for the post, I've never thought to bring it up before. We are also dispatched to fires with our ambo. One house brings the engine with at least two and the other brings the ambo depending on the still. We carry irons and air packs with esc...
We are an all volunteer fire and ambulance service. We don't carry any tools on it but we roll it to fire scene's for rehab. We don't have any room on are rig to carry any tools.
Currently, we carry SCBA (2), full PPE, and halligan bars. Usually, we have one member who is cross-trained as a FF/EMT who supports the engine or truck crews staffing and an EMS member (EMT) who has completed our in house 60 hour PreFirefighter B...
We carry all the tools you have mentioned, plus rehab. supplies. Ie. water, gatorade mix, coolers, etc.
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- At 11:06am on July 17, 2009,
Michael Bricault said…
- Eric, check out this blog. I think you may find it helpful. http://community.fireengineering.com/profiles/blog/show?id=1219672%3ABlogPost%3A130323
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