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Where I come from becoming a paramedic is a "step-up". We are all firefighter/emts and then some become firefighter/paramedics. Here the "step-up" means more in your salary. In regards to the photo . . . I'd like to know what book that configuration was learned from.

Having retired from a town owned and operated "9-1-1" system I can truly feel your frustration when having to do a simple transfer ties up your ALS resources. We have a local "care facility" owned and operated by a hospital from the another state (ie 15 mles away). It often seemed like when they needed a patient transferred and the "private" service they generally use had a long wait for time they would call our system to do the transfer. This would leave our town temporarily unprotected and reliant on "mutual aid" from another town.

Welcome Mike. Just read your note and I know from where you speak. Spent the first seven years of my career on our Call Department (ie: part-time/on-call) and the last twenty-three years as a full-time Firefighter/EMT. But now I too am retired due to medical reasons. I still stop by at least once a week to stay in touch.