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My Vollie Dept. issues 2 screen printer dept. t-shirts 2 screen printed sweatshirts on with fire on the back one with out 1 Pager 1 set of bunker gear(coat, pants, helmet, boots, nomex hood) 1 Polo shirt with dept. emblem 1 Class A dress shirt with dept patch and American Flag Sewn on 1 badge(for class a shirt and jacket) 1 set of F.D. pins(For class a shirt) 1 Eisenhower jacket with dept patch and American Flag sewn on If you are an FR or higher you will get a pager with repeat, radio, and radio number dependent on availability. The member must provide dress slacks without a crease, dress shoes, and any other equipment/clothing they want. I have bought a couple pairs of EMT pants for event standby's and training with the dept.

Ridryder 911 has a good point, you should use something to help hold the glass together and make it easier to remove as a unit, plus less glass gets on the pt reducing the chance for additional cuts. I use duct tape, make an x with the lines going from one coorner to the opposite corner, then run to vertical strips to cut the window into thirds and leave some excess at the top of the window to grab and pull later. Grab the punch in the hand you are going to use and put the pointed sharp end out the pinkey side of your hand. now place the punch in a lower corner and make sure your hand is resting on the car door somehow to help prevent your hand from going through the window. Apply increasing pressure gently until the punch pops and goes through the window, the window will shatter. Now use the two handles of tape created earlier and pull the glass away from the patient and clean out any remaining bits in the window frame. It should be noted that window punches only work on the side windows not the front or back windows due to their construction technique, it is actually a two pieces of laminate sandwiching a piece of glass. Increasingly this laminate type construction is being seen on the side windows as well.

I was also taught that the KED is just a tool to get the person out of the enclosed space while still maintaining an inline spine with a minimum of movement. And that once the patient was out of the enclosed space they needed to be put on a LSB to fully imbolize the patient. With the KED the legs are left to move and wiggle which can manipulate the spine, at least that was how it was explained, and when you place on a LSB and 8 the feet you keep the legs from moving.