TylerHastings

First off do not be embarrassed about asking this question I had the same problem when I first became an EMT but I wasn't a member of this site yet so I didn't have anyone to ask I stumbled and bumbled through it. Good on you for using your resources.

So my first question is you say you passed but do you mean you passed your course or the NREMT?

If you passed your NREMT then you can start filling out the forms for your back ground check as well as your EMT-B Certification. I would not start actively looking for a job until you have that because most companies will not even look at your application if it does not have certification numbers on there. First before you do any of the paperwork read this new announcement. EMT Certification Notice

Step One is to obtain and complete all the requisite forms for your EMS Agency which in Sacramento would be SacEMSA. This will include an application for Certification as well as a request for a live scan. The forms can be found as a series of links at the bottom of this post.

Step Two Take the DOJ and FBI Request for Live Scan Services form to a local Live Scan Operator. See List linked below.

Step Three Take all other forms to the SacEMSA office See map link below.

Step Four WAIT.

EMT Certification Application Form

DOJ and FBI Request for Live Scan Services

List of Live Scan Operators in Sacramento County

Map of Sacramento County Office of Emergency Medical Services

I was in my 8th Grade and I had to get up early to be on the practice field for marching band and my father got me up early I went and just like I did every morning I started the coffee for him and I turned on the news on the tv by my bathroom and the tv in the family room and just as I turned it on they were showing a clip of the first plane hitting....my first reaction was a pilot made an error and boom... I went and I took a shower and when I got out of the shower I was wandering around with my tooth brush in my mouth I saw the second plane hit and I ran to my parents bedroom and said....some one is attacking us....and turned their tv on.

He updated his FB yesterday, so we can assume he is fine.

Saw that when I looked after you posted I must have just missed that going through my news feed...

I have sent off an email to scotty however it hasn't gotten answered....I will try calling him in a few days....if I can find where I stashed his number.

<!--quoteo(post=200204:date=Jan 10 2009, 06:25 PM:name=Richard B, the EMT)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Richard B, the EMT @ Jan 10 2009, 06:25 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=200204"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Wow. What does that mean when you have, in a row, Church's, Kennedy's, Kansas, Popeye's, and KFC chicken places? None of them a drive through, either.

We have a few up in Harlem, quite close by the world famous Apollo Theater.

Clarify also: Chicken and waffles, as one offering on the menu, or just available from the menu, near each other?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

He's referring to roscoes! Roscoes chicken and waffles! It is literally, chicken and waffles together, with a butt load of gravy (yes gravy, not syrup)... There's one in East LA that I know of...

There is one in east Compton...company I used to work for there had one right down the road.

Oh Man annie that was great even if I am not married....

I havent yet but will definitely give ya a hand admin when I get some funds in from these recent projects I have been workin on...

I just got done working at a shelter for a brush fire in northern Los Angeles County and one thing that amazes me time after time is that even when people are in a bad spot they always are willing to help out someone who is worse off.

Admin I just went looking to change my sponsorship from the year one to the lifetime help the cause one and...I am not seeing where the option is....perhaps I will after I have got some rest.

Hey Admin any update on tappatalk.....

possibly....

I like the hilary clinton toilet bowl cleaner personally but lets not get into the politics of these things eh???

Mine was unintentional I was attempting to hit the multiquote button I will reverse it when I can in the morning sorry crapmagnet.

Not only does FL have some great points but learn from the ones who have attempted medic before and who have completed medic before you. Ask Dustdevil I used to be very anti two year degree for a profession I never truly thought I would stay in but after having attempted medic school getting part way through and washing out I learned that the two year degree is the only way to go you have to have the solid foundations of A&P as well as psyc comms and other core courses to be a well rounded medic. Now I know that statement is going to create a huge **** storm from some people around here so here is my attempt to head it off. All of you who went through the medic mills your great your competent but unless you have continued your education beyond that medic mill and the required CE's to keep up your license have do you feel like a completely well rounded medic that knows 100% why you did what ever it was that you did?

as would I JP

Hey Ruffles not sure of the acreage but there is a place in pinehurst CA that has a great house and some acreage that backs up to wooded property (maybe includes) I see it when I am driving to my families cabin every weekend if ya want next weekend I can see if I can gather some more information for ya....

Not positive but I think what the OP maybe referring to is the LA City DOT Ambulance endorsement that allows you to pick up a patient within the city of Los Angeles with out that you and your employer can receive stiff fines and you could be barred from picking up in the city again. Basically it is another way for the city to tax us but with out it you can only drop off in the city of Los Angeles.

Nice ride man take care of her and be safe...remember its not you that you have to worry about. It is all the other idiots.

Hey admin as long as we are adding features can you enable the board for tapatalk....

Wow Congrats to the Little Ruffle thats awesome.

LOL. You mean King Taxi Cab Driver.

Gunter glieben glauchen globen. Alright I got something to say. Yeah, its better to burn out. Yeah, than fade away

dang it I knew I was forgetting something....oh well I shall endeavor to do better next time your royal highney.

Oh boy another language to figure out...it took me long enough to learn how to speak spanish and I live in little mexico AKA California...anyrate Welcome to the city mate have fun sucking up all the knowledge you can from some of us and watch out for the rest of us...and always remember All Hail King Spenac...

Misunderstanding Alert.

I didn't say what was wrong with the patient, b/c that wasn't the purpose of my quip. I don't post when I cut a trauma victims clothes off.. There was swelling, bilaterally, they were stretched so tight I just barely got the tip of the pen cap/pocket doo hickey under them. I cut them so as to restore color and use to the hands. I was just sharing my story of how I coined battle scared silly bandz. They're annoying. If the patient already had them on "tightly" b/c of arm size, consider what will happen if the extremities swell. Thanks for assuming I hate the patient b/c the patient wears black.

Thanks for making me feel bad, I should have said that I cut them off b/c it was medically necessary. But since it's a big fad now, I thought I'd share my first experience with silly bandz. They stretch, but not enough, dozens of tiny tourniquets.. I've been an EMT for eleven years, paid and volunteer. Never had one complaint from a patient. I have my own way to go about things, I'm big on the statement in our protocols that allow to form them for the best care of the patient. I like to be able to go home and ask myself if I did the right things, and I did that best I could. The same protocols, b/c they aren't shaped for rural EMS, ended my week badly. They didn't allow me to save my patient, b/c of a technicality.. I thought this was a funny story, not too often can you get a funny bit out of a horrible situation. They don't teach how you talk to someone who doesn't want to see tomorrow. Nowhere does it say that I didn't like the patient. The pt., lacked appreciation of life, per se. I tried to pull them off, got one of those cause bands off. But the others were screamin', said I'll buy ya new ones kid, but they're coming off. I do that sometimes, if someone says it's my only good pair or.. or my only good.. I feel guilty and offer, once I obliged. I got called stuff that would make a preacher faint. The pt. was pissed, but when I told the pt. what (the pt) could do with them now, well that was funny, and it opened a rapport, more info was spilled out, and that was that. But nobody wants to hear about that.

Chris I have to say I started to write a post about cutting things nt needing to be cut but after I read your explanation I have to say I am sorry for jumping to conclusions anyway I am all for cutting if its necessary.

Your a real winner...........and to support wendy....please....

And I am sorry but who are you and how do you get off putting down Wendy, Almost every post wendy has very valid points very rarely to you see people putting her down. Her post was appropriate prior to a gross misunderstanding by many people being cleared up.

When my old service swapped out there old Ford type 1's we got sprinter type 2's and they have full LED packages. They are great we even had our scene lights as LED's the cool white ones not the warm white of incandescent and they work they are very visible to oncoming traffic or people the only major draw back at least in my area is they tend to reel the drunks in a little bit.

Oh Retread....

One of my most fond memories of Retread or Retired as I called him....I was in Mexico on my tour and I was sicker than a dog I mean it hurt to even think let alone laugh well retread came in and he was havin one of those flu's that did that to ya well....he started tellin a joke and before long we were both laughin so hard we couldt breath it hurt so bad and it was so bad that my host family came up to check on me and see if I was ok. Well I finally got over that and he got over his flu but no matter what we always shared a bond from that. We spoke of that time often and would always get a kick out of it. Retread I know your drivin that big caddylance in the sky but I hope oyu will always remember the joy that you brought us....