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    You Might Be A Firefighter if

    in Funny Stuff

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    You know you're a Firefighter if…

    1. You can tell what type of fire it is by the smell of smoke 10 miles away.
    2. You have ever had a heated debate over the color of firetrucks.
    3. You have ever spent 10 min trying to force open a door only to have someone come along and open it by turning the handle.
    4. You have ever taken 10 or more showers in 1 day.
    5. You lay out your cloths from that day so if there is a call at night you can find them quickly.
    6. You take great joy in smashing the windows of a car parked in a fire zone or in front of a hydrant.
    7. 7. You have ever been airborne without an aircraft and water was your thrust.
    8. You always wear red suspenders.
    9. You have ever slept in a hosebed.
    10. You carry a ton of specially modified tools in your pocket.
    11. You ever cursed out someone for armor-alling the seats to make them look nice.
    12. You've ever clung to the air horn chord for dear life because the driver is insane.
    13. You have ever played jingle bells at Xmas time on the air horns to clear traffic.
    14. You double your weight every time you go on a job a building.
    15. You have ever said, "she's hot tonight" and not been talking about a girl.
    16. You have ever had "yoda ears"
    17. You have ever called a person found after a fire a "crispy critter"
    18. You have ever smoked and there wasn't a cigarette in sight.
    19. You have ever stomped out a fire with your boots because you couldn't wait for water.
    20. You have ever walked 3 miles into the woods in 100 degree heat in full turnout gear and a 5 gal or more water can strapped on your back just to put out a fire.
    21. your kids are afraid to get into water fights with you.
    22. "climbing the corporate ladder" has nothing to do with career advancement.
    23. your work gear makes you sound like Darth Vader.
    24. You roll around in anything that just burned to make your new gear look old.
    25. You take pride in the fact that you haven't washed your gear in years.
    26. You carry enough in your pockets to give the Swiss army knives competition.
    27. You carry enough in your car to extinguish a minor blaze.
    28. You have ever juggled hot coals with your gloves.
    29. Your Own vehicle has more lights than a Christmas tree (Volunteers Only)
    30. All the shirts you own say you are a firefighter (Volunteers Only)
    31. You find yourself living at the fire department 365 days a year!
    32. When you go to rent a movie, and they insist on getting Backdraft EVERY TIME!
    33. You are caught on the back of a truck with your girlfriend or wife in the middle of something and the page goes out for a call.
    34. if you have more pagers than than money in your wallet.
    35. if the smell of a fire excites you more than sex does.
    36. if a great stop has nothing do with a moving vehicle.
    37. if assembling a mile and a half of hose to catch fire in running up hill is a good day.
    38. The microwave goes off and you run out of the house thinking it was your pager.
    39. you ever tried to patent a 911 blocker with the phone company
    40. if you can hear that the siren will go off even before your dog notices it.
    41. If you have ever woken up thinking your pager went off and as you look at it, it goes off
    42. if you have ever tested your gloves by putting a fuzzie out on your hand.
    43. If you have ever been awakened with a CO2 extinguisher
    44. If you have ever dried your gloves on the trucks exhaust
    45. You know you're a firefighter when you really think that rusty old hydrant looks good in the garden. :)
    46. All your friends give you t-shirts from their departments for your birthday, Christmas, anniversary, etc.
    47. if your wife voluntarily chooses the lumpy side of the bed to avoid being trampled in route to a call!
    48. your wife/girlfriend has learned to duck and cover when she hears the pager go off for fear of being run down.
    49. if you had to extricate someone by cutting the car doors off on one side and realized there was nothing wrong with the doors on the other side.
    50. If youhave more toy fire trucks than your kids do.
    51. When you have ever made a jacuzzi out of a 2100 gallon dump tank and a rescue boat motor (15 horse Merc). ..It was hot!.............Watch yer toes!
    52. When you take all of your improtant stuff (like wallets and pagers) out of your pockets before going to a training involving a portable tank.
    53. you walk into the station with you belt on and someone yells here comes batman
    54. You eat till you're sleep, then sleep till you eat.
    55. You can blame the 10 lbs that you've gained on the food cooked at the station.
    56. You take your other half out on a date to the fire house/hall.
    57. You spend more time on a holiday with you're fellow firefighter than you do with you're family. (although its a good excuse to get out of going over to your inlaws house)
    58. You know you're a firefighter if you want to keep the fire truck at your house just so that you can be the one to drive it!
    59. you are a ff if you refer to yourself as Satan and the fire as your house
    60. if your house is on fire and you still respond to the station
    61. You talk about alcohol foams and you are not refering to the head of your beer.
    62. when you wish some Fragrance manufacturer would bottle the burnt smell after a fire and used as a mens spray cologne.
    63. Your idea of ventilation is done with a chainsaw and not a bag-valve-mask.
    64. You have ever dressed from head to foot in rubber and it was not a sexual experience.
    65. You run towards a dangerous situation instead of away
    66. if you ever said that real fire trucks/engines are RED DAMMIT!!!!
    67. you have a wreck with the fire chief on the way to the fire trying to beat him there (Volunteers)
    68. All of your calenders have every third day circled.
    69. You've been called a nozzle hog.
    70. If you collect fire helmets and hang them on your bedroom wall and so far have one of each color.
    71. You respond to the fire station during a thunder storm - in case there's a fire started by lightening.
    72. You stay in town during the 4th of July - in case there's a fire started by fireworks.
    73. If you are running in the opposite direction of everyone else
    74. you refer to a room at 1300 F as "Toasty".
    75. you respond to sound better than Pavlov's Dog.
    76. the term "Hard Suction" doesn't make you chuckle
    77. when you are the mother of the bride and you tell everyone in the wedding party, nobody moves when the pagers went off during the ceremony.
    78. you have more lights on your personal vehicle than your dept's trucks (Volunteers Mainly)
    79. If nine out of the ten toys your child receives for Christmas are fire trucks
    80. If you play with the fire toys more than your child does.
    81. You know you're a firefighter if your idea of a water fight includes a 100ft. tower with dual monitors, and several shots of 2.5 inch lines
    82. If you wash your Fire Truck more than your personal vehicle.
    83. If "humping hose" doesn't excite you.
    84. When you call ur friend in Maryland, you live in Nevada, and get jealous and turned on at the same time when he gets toned out
    85. you've ever felt like a ghost-buster while operating a water-vac
    86. you've ever stood on a street corner holding a bunker boot asking for donations
    87. you monitor other city's fire dispatch and miss a call for your own.
    88. you get excited over the color red and the smell of diesel
    89. Your idea of a good time involves soaking the new probies.
    90. if someone starts reciting movie lines from "Backdraft" at a fire.

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    How To Use Heroin Guide in NYC

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    Posted

    This seems to be stirring up some controversy in the mainstream.

    http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/01/04/ny.heroin.pamphlet/index.html

    New York (CNN) -- A pamphlet designed to help heroin users with advice has come under fire, with some now questioning whether the public health brochure can actually be used as a how-to guide on drug use.

    While concerns over the 16-page pamphlet have arisen in recent days, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene created its "Take Charge, Take Care: 10 Tips for Safer Use" brochure in 2007. Its purpose, according to a statement from the department, is "to help people who are injecting drugs reduce the harm associated with this type of drug use until they are able to get into treatment and recover."

    According to the Health Department, "accidental overdose is the fourth leading cause of early adult death in New York City, claiming more than 600 lives each year." The agency says about 70,000 pamphlets have been produced at a cost to city taxpayers of slightly more than $32,000.

    "The pamphlet provides potentially life saving advice" reads a health department statement.

    But critics such as New York City Councilman Peter F. Vallone Jr., chairman of the council's Public Safety Committee, believes the pamphlet is "an indefensible waste of taxpayer money" and is effectively spreading a lie that there is a safe way to inject drugs.

    "Heroin use is at epidemic levels in New York, and we should be spending money to address that, not teach first-timers how to use," says Vallone.

    Information in the publication takes the form of "ten critical tips for reducing the harm that illicit drug use, and especially injection drug use can cause." Tip topics include "how to prevent overdose," "prepare drugs carefully," "take care of your veins" and "ask for help to stop using."

    Within each of the 10 broad tips, the brochure presents several "simple but valuable" related ideas for users about how to lessen potential problems when injecting drugs.

    One suggestion reads, "Use with someone else. If you're alone and something goes wrong, no one can help."

    Another says, "Use a new syringe, cooker, cotton, tie, and other supplies every time." Plus, "Warm your body (jump up and down) to show your veins." Along with, "Find the vein before you try to inject."

    There is also information regarding HIV and hepatitis-C testing, depression and contact information for emergencies and for finding help to quit.

    New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg addressed the pamphlet controversy on Monday, explaining how "the health department does have an interest in -- if you're going to do certain things -- to get you to do it as healthily as you possibly can."

    Don Des Jarlais, research director for the Chemical Dependency Institute, said the principle behind the pamphlet has always been to emphasize treatment and to reduce the spread of disease like HIV/AIDS. However, if people still engage in risky behavior, the "Take Charge, Take Care" information is meant to mitigate risks associated with intravenous drug use and present guidance for people to partake in the safest manner possible.

    But Vallone believes the pamphlet goes "well beyond clean needles" advice, providing anyone who wants to experiment with information about how to prepare drugs and find veins -- information that an already-using addict would find useless.

    New York state's top Drug Enforcement Administration official, John P. Gilbride, echoes Vallone, saying the pamphlet is essentially a "how-to guide" for drug use. Gilbride expressed his concern that the pamphlet could send a message that leads individuals to believe they can use heroin in some safe manner.

    "Using heroin can never be safe. It's akin to playing Russian roulette with a loaded gun" Gilbride told CNN.

    Indeed, "there is no safe way to inject" agreed Des Jarlais, in response to criticism that the pamphlet presents heroin use as harmless. "I think the word 'safely' is wrong," he said, but if people do inject drugs, he hopes large information campaigns can help lessen risks.

    "Using hard drugs is just not a smart thing to do," Bloomberg said Monday. "But we have an obligation no matter what the people do in this city to make sure they do it as safe as they can."

    Vallone, meanwhile rhetorically asks, "What's next, a kids' guide for playing safely in traffic?"

    Vallone said he sent a letter to the city's health commissioner Monday to immediately cease circulation and funding for the pamphlet, and he plans to "hold his feet to the fire during upcoming budget meetings" unless the health department admits its mistake.

    The pamphlet is just one component of a larger municipal effort, explained Des Jarlais. Along with the informational brochure, there are also face-to-face community outreach initiatives, expansion of drug abuse treatment facilities and 47 state-authorized syringe exchange program throughout New York City's five boroughs.

    Des Jarlais points to an 80 percent reduction of HIV reported among new drug users in New York City as proof that programs such as needle exchanges are working. The health department reports that overdose deaths have declined by 25 percent from 2006 to 2008, representing at least 200 fewer deaths.

    "I don't think there is a healthy way [to use heroin[, but there may be less dangerous ways to do certain things," Bloomberg said.

    Why do we insist on sticking our head in the sand!!! We Have addict better teach them how to be safe&not spread diseases by sharing needles?

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    Getting your foot in the door

    in General EMS Discussion

    Posted

    Just want to get your opinion on the best ways to get your foot in the door. I just completed the TN EMT-IV program and passed my NREMT a couple of weeks ago. I am coming into the world of EMS a little later in life (age 43)and want to get on to Paramedic school as soon as I can get some good practical experience under my belt. I already have a bachelor's degree in Marketing- contemplated a bridge program for nursing but fell in love with EMS. Husband is active duty Air Force, so I don't require benefits. What is the best way to go about networking? Volunteer with the Rescue Squad? Ideas are greatly appreciated.

    Leanne

    Volunteer if your town has one, as for getting experience for Medic school, get a job as an ER tech in a busy trauma 1 hospital. That's what I did while I was in paramedic school, learned a lot working with excellent doctors&nurses. Best Of Luck

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    FireFighters

    in Funny Stuff

    Posted

    You know you're a Firefighter if…

    1. You can tell what type of fire it is by the smell of smoke 10 miles away.

    2. You have ever had a heated debate over the color of firetrucks.

    3. You have ever spent 10 min trying to force open a door only to have someone come along and open it by turning the handle.

    4. You have ever taken 10 or more showers in 1 day.

    5. You lay out your cloths from that day so if there is a call at night you can find them quickly.

    6. You take great joy in smashing the windows of a car parked in a fire zone or in front of a hydrant.

    7. You have ever been airborne without an aircraft and water was your thrust.

    8. You always wear red suspenders.

    9. You have ever slept in a hosebed.

    10. You carry a ton of specially modified tools in your pocket.

    11. You ever cursed out someone for armor-alling the seats to make them look nice.

    12. You've ever clung to the air horn chord for dear life because the driver is insane.

    13. You have ever played jingle bells at Xmas time on the air horns to clear traffic.

    14. You double your weight every time you go on a job a building.

    15. You have ever said, "she's hot tonight" and not been talking about a girl.

    16. You have ever had "yoda ears"

    17. You have ever called a person found after a fire a "crispy critter"

    18. You have ever smoked and there wasn't a cigarette in sight.

    19. You have ever stomped out a fire with your boots because you couldn't wait for water.

    20. You have ever walked 3 miles into the woods in 100 degree heat in full turnout gear and a 5 gal or more water can strapped on your back just to put out a fire.

    :ph34r:

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