StevieB

hey Dust, this wouldnt be the accident you were refering to would it? I always feel like a bad person for laiughing at bisected bami

Bump! Read this on a TOStar article forum and had a good laugh over it: Folks, understand there are two levels of Paramedics serving you - Basic Life Support ( BLS ) crews[PCP], and Advanced Life Support ( ALS ) crews [ACP]. ALS crews can start I.V.'s, administer drugs, intubate & perform a host of other delegated medical acts. A BLS Medic cannot do these skills, & essentially has a First Responder skill set, with a whack of pathophysiology knowledge thrown in. [Toronto] Fire Services train their F.F.'s to the Basic Trauma Life Support level already, it wouldn't take much to get them to BLS status. It would be much more time consuming to train Medics to be firefighters, but the idea of the merger is sound, and, IMHO, inevitable. So let's get it done! Just for reference, TFS training runs for a total of 16 weeks The article Comments?