EMT City Administrator

I changed the join date of you and Richard B, the EMT to 1999. I think that is when I first had a forum going.

Ok.. now thats funny. I do have a second name.... testaccount You can look it up.

I do

Locked at the request of the original poster.

Pics: http://www.wzzm13.com/hospitalcrash/index.htm

Keep it on track please.

Again.... if there are threads / posts that are outside the guidelines of the site rules, HIT THE REPORT BUTTON. It is that simple. Let AK or myself check out the post and we will make adjustments if necessary. Everyone likes to sit back and complain about how there is bashing going on and people are calling names, yet there are no reports about it. No report, no action. WE DO NOT, AND CAN NOT READ EVERY POST THAT IS PUT ON THIS SITE. IT IS UP TO YOU TO HELP US OUT.

Locked... Original poster is a regular on the site that was using a new name. Two names per account is not allowed.

http://www.katu.com/news/3634401.html SALEM, Ore. - Some English-speaking firefighters are losing their jobs because of an Oregon state law that requires them to be bilingual. The Department of Forestry enacted a law three years ago that requires them to be bilingual, but this year they're actually enforcing it. 2002 was such a devastating wildfire season, contractors were scrambling to find firefighters. Hispanics often filled their needs on the fire lines. Jim Walker of the Department of Forestry said "what we do know is 85 percent of the crew make-up is of Hispanic decent." But many of the Hispanic fire fighters do not speak English. Walker says the language barrier is a concern. Those concerns led the state to draft a new rule that all firefighting bosses speak English, and the languages of crew members who don't speak English. Jaime Pickering, a squad boss overseeing 20 firefighters, says the rule means "job losses for Americans. The white people." Because of the state's language requirement, Pickering can no longer work as a crew boss and supervise 20 firefighters, he can only manage a squad of four. Pickering says that "if you have one Spanish guy on the crew, as an English crew boss, you can no longer be a crew boss, you have to step back to a squad boss, which is a demotion." While the state made the rule change in 2003, it decided to strictly monitor the law this year as Hispanics continue to fill fire lines. Jim Walker says "our main concern is that they are safe, and they are in a safe environment, and a lot of that deals with communication." Manuel Franco is a Hispanic contractor for fire crews. He says he thinks the state's rule is necessary for worker safety. "I think that's good, because that's for safety purpose," Franco says. "If there's a rock rolling down, everybody should understand that." However, Manuel did say he felt the situation would improve if everyone spoke English. "We're living here. We should speak the language." Jim Walker ponders the possibility that all fire crew members should be required to speak English, instead of having bilingual crew leaders. "If it comes down to a safety issue, and it's determined that's the only way we can have people safely on an incident, then yes," Walker said. Both Oregon state officials and those in the firefighting business say they do not think there are 'that many' illegal immigrant workers in the fire crews. They say it is more a case of legal workers who do not speak English.

Rumor has it that this may be a great spot for an official EMT City gathering... :wink: Stay tuned....

Since no one has anything to say about the incident except how bad the grammar is, I have locked it. I am surprised the first couple posts after were not jokes.

Now that the jokes are over and the self-moderating is done, perhaps a good discussion can ensue.

Yes the joke a thread is getting a bit tiring and we are weeding them out so that the topics can have some substance instead of the the first two being serious posts and the rest being being Beavis and Butthead banter.

LOCKED. Perhaps if the regulars would just report the offending post instead of participating in the bait that has been laid, it would work better. Everyone wants to jump down everyones throat and play moderator. Funny how those who quote the site rules, often forget what they are. It is easier for me to lock it than go back and delete everything after the first post that went astray.

So.. a new guy comes here, on his first post he asks a question that is EMS related and he just is looking for clarification of something he may not have had a good grasp on in class. So we rip him up, call him names, and then crap on his school. Not here. Help or don't respond.

We have a great place to put these files... in our download area :wink:

Everyone that types in emtcity.com LOL

I am not thinking a magazine in that sense. I was thinking an area that our contributors would be able to post articles as they come up with them. Sorta like a blog, but in a more structured format.

Now I'm going to play with your account :twisted: J/K

Me too..

Well.. I have an area on the front page that would be prime to feature articles if there were some submitted.

Imagine if there was a place for regular people to write articles and get them seen. Perhaps a special area of the internet. I wonder....

You can also click the icon below your post.

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This is not going to turn into a bash EMTs thread. Those posts were headed that way, and were deleted. If you don't think that EMTs are qualified to be on the ambulance, contact your local and federal offices that think differently and tell them to make a change. Any further comments about my decision shall be made via PM to me.