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I only thought this was suitable here for it was told to me at our annual squad banquet. The definition of rodeo sex is when you come up from behind your girl and genlty and softly whisper in her ear your friend was better. Now see if you can hold on for the full 8 seconds before your thrown off.

There definately is should be lines drawn. Rigs are bigger and more powerfull. The problem is where to draw the line. Our fire apparatus is governed. The rigs are not. I don't know the top speed, but it will go 80 mph(a demo rig). 10-15 mph I personally feel is acceptable. Opinions will vary. If be with people that they handle rigs fabulously at faster speeds and been with people that drove like crap going under the spped limit. I've seen speed kill in BLS transport. Going back some years a BLS transport company vehicle lost control on the Atlantic City Expressway overturning killing both employees and the patient. Witnesses said that the rig was running at excessive rates of speed. 75-80 mph. That's too much. I too used to work for a transport service many moons ago and I refused to work with someone for I was afraid to drive with him for the rate of speed he drove, would tailgate people and would even high beam them to get them out of his way. It only takes one wrong to completely wash out enomous amounts of right. People today love to focus on the negative. Think, be smart and don't give the generall public any ammunition to fire at you.

[/font:e9b061b88f] I have my Station sticker,9/11 sticker and a memorial sticker for a fire we lost 3 firefighters on July 4th. When I was younger I had all the firefighter, EMS and licence plated plackards.

No beating around the bush. Yes I have. I've been doing emergency services since I was seventeen. I was still in high school when I got my EMT. One incident was the mother of a friend that I known all my life. His mother had severe CHF and coded on us enroute to the hospital and we were unable to get he back. I chose to tell the family that we did our best, but their mother didn't make it. The second was a SIDS case of a four month old male. The mother was holding him outside when we pulled up. The moment I took him from her I knew he was gone. I looked at my partner and he said go ahead for the parents sake start anyway. We did work the baby the whole way to the hospital, but he was gone. The last time was a child that was seven that was struck by a pickup truck. I physically seen the pickup hit him. I was at the child's side in seconds. One of the tires went over his chest. He was in traumatic arrest instantly. I worked him till the local squad arrived. He later died that night in the hospital. My son is now named after that little boy...Tyler. You may cry and you may not. People are different. But one thing for certain never bottle up your feelings and never be ashamed or embarrassed for crying. Does your soul good.

Does you ALS have the ability to transport patients? Do you run combination rigs with an EMT and a medic? What's the breakdown in your neck of the woods?

[/font:e94616b8ed] On the most part in New Jersey the fire side does the vehicle extrication. But there are a few that the BLS provider for the municipality does do rescue work. Probably one of the biggest and impressive I know of in the state would be UMDNJ-Newark does the heavy rescue work for the area. They are career, but they are BLS and ALS providers for the city not the fire department.

[/font:948c497ca8] As far as preference it comes down to need and money. The only con I personally have about class 3's are that if you have a need to get to your partner or your partner needs means of egress from a violent or combative patient they are stuck till you get the rig stopped and you run around to get to them.