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ffemtdrew14

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    Butler County, Pennsylvania
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  1. Thursday evening accident involving ambulance with a patient on board and fire truck full story here. According to what I am told from sources close to those involved the driver was blinded by the sun and did not see the fire truck stopped immediately and attempted to avoid the truck and stop. Assisting Pennsylvania State Police were East Butler VFD, Oneida Valley VFD Fire Police, Butler Ambulance, East Butler Ambulance, and Chicora VFD Fire Police.
  2. Our system uses the orange button "man down" feature on our radios, for all Fire, EMS, and Police agencies. If no response from the crew when dispatch inquires if the button was hit in error, everyone is sent. The other method of requesting help is to just say what you need and what unit you are. Although the system uses an ID for each radio and what unit it should be assigned to, every time the radio is keyed up. The county is trying to eliminate all codes, or as much as possible and stressing using plain language.
  3. The service I work for will do this, once the medic takes over patient care, the EMT in the back with the patient, will drive the medic's vehicle to the hospital. On the rare occasion we get an on duty ALS crew instead of the supervisor for the medic assist, there is no need for one of our crew to drive for them. Either way the following vehicle will go non-emergency even if the ambulance with the patient goes emergency.
  4. state police car to the other state car responding to an incident on a tactical channel: "Watch the deer, what the deer...oh f**k!" A few minuets after head in the background what sounded like another trooper on the phone, while another car was being dispatched, "What, he hit a deer?"
  5. 4 out of 20.... not so geeky when it comes to computer coding, but I can fix the thing better than design on it. Although isn't that what I have the computer geek friends for?
  6. Are we sure he got away with it, and didn't get a warning after the fact? Inquiring mind want to know?
  7. I'm 25% wacker.... but then my wife and parents have bought me collectable emergency vehicles and i own 3 scanners (mainly for amateur radio monitoring), but one is used to monitor public safety when I want to hear whats going on in the county. Though I know Dust will have to argue with me that it should be higher for having FF in my name, but i figured since that is my actual job title of FF/EMT it is a good fit.
  8. Portable Cell phones the ones most of us carry now, are only allowed to transmit at .6 watts to prevent over exposure to RF energy, but most operate between .06 and .6 watts depending on how strong of a signal the phone is receiving back. The pones do transmit the occasional data packet to the cell tower for location reporting, so the router computers know where you are to direct your call to the appropriate cell site for your phone.
  9. I am a Christian, and I believe that homosexuality is a sin. I put homosexuality in the same category as heterosexual sex outside the marriage bed, be it adultery or fornication. God ordained sexual union between one man and one woman, through the bonds of marriage. The Bible mentions homosexuality throughout the old and new testaments and places it in the same category as adultery. I agree that homosexuality has been around since the fall, so has every other sin man can commit. I treat a gay person like i treat everyone else, I do not have to condone or agree with the sin, but I will love the sinner. As I have no reason to dislike or even hate someone because of their sin, for a sinner saved by grace am I. As previously stated, marriage is ordained by the church and the government should not be telling churches whom they can marry. Nor should the church be told by the government as in what the church can teach or having to condone things that conflict with the doctrines and the Bible. I think that the same rules that apply to a man and a woman whom are unmarried should apply to homosexual couples, it the realm of legall and medical decisions. In my opinion, the person chooses this, the same as one chooses to cheat on his/her spouse, have premarital sexual relations, steal , murder, ect. God created us with a free will, the freedom to choose, and we will choose to either do what, or follow God's laws. In short, I see no need for any special classification any more different than anyone else. Homosexuals are still male and female, young and old, and deserve the same respect as every other human life. The issue of tolerance should be a two way street, there should be a tolerance to the level you not have to agree with me, yet should be willing to return the respect that your views are receiving.
  10. Morse code is still used often in the Amateur Radio Community, many of the Salvation Army and Red Cross health and welfare traffic out of disaster areas is often in Morse code. The only use of Morse code in business/public safety radio is as a repeater ID. As far as I know, the only dispatch type use of Morse code was telegraph train messages, long before wireless came about. 73 N3ZRA
  11. Just my .02 cents, but why don't you just buy a good quality scanner and leave the radios for the people that need one. Icom makes very heavy duty scanners that basically cover everything out there (except cell phones), as do most of the major radio manufactures. The only "CB: vhf or UHF frequencies that are out there are GMRS (UHF-requires a license $80 for 5 years) and MURS (VHF-5 license free 2 w limited channels), the traditional "CB" (27 MHz) radios only get the weather and that is if you want to pay for the extra feature. *Side note, any radio programmable from a key pad (without special a special "key" or device) is not certified for part 90 (public safety/business) or part 95 (CB) use, and being caught using said equipment can cost the holder of the license either their license or lots of money.*
  12. My area, Fire and EMS are completely separate. Fire handles extrication/stabilization of vehicle, Haz-Mat, and LZ. EMS does patient care, at times if more than one patient a Firefighter EMT or Medic will assist the EMS crew with patent care, driving the ambulance, etc. The whole thing is run as a team effort, the EMS crew works with fire, and fire works with EMS. The key to best care is training, and team work. Cross trained fire and EMS personnel in my opinion is in the best interest of the patient. I think all rescue squads should have basic knowledge in EMS, be it just familiarity as to what the crew wants done, or minimum state level EMS certification.
  13. Fire:100% volunteer and proud of it. EMS: paid and either posts at our station or posts at the mall close to the city. (ambulance service covering our area covers the city and all or part of 7 townships and medic assist to others as needed, staffing minimum of 4 trucks 24/7)
  14. I work for a private company at a steel mill, we get around the 9.50 mark. Its at minimum 2 dollars more than the 911 services in Western PA get. With the number of EMT's take into consideration the number of Paid FD's that want their people EMT, or for that fact, how many EMT's there are that don't work on ambulances. (Industrial response teams, Police, Search and Resuce, Park Rangers, ect.) Anyhow its just my $.02.
  15. 470 and 453 UHF (regular non trunked) use to use 33 and 155 till about a year ago.. here in western pa... the pagers work better, not to mention the additional range of portables using repeaters, and the interoperability of everyone with only one radio makes things easier. eurolance wrote: "I think you mean 460Mhz not 420Mhz which is amateur radio." 420-430 allocated is secondary non interfering basis, for amateur radio in the area 50 miles around Chininati OH, Erie, PA, Buffalo, NY. Used by Public Safety and Business Band users. (I can't find my repeater directory to see if there is more cities, but I remember those three, and I do have an amateur radio license, call sign of N3ZRA)
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