Richard B the EMT

I found it! The (in)famous "Handstand Defibrillation" in the pilot episode of "Rescue 77". Happens 6 minutes into the video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMZddWOWvok Damn, not working. Go to Youtube, search out "Christian Kane as Wick Lobo in Rescue 77 Pilot Episode - Part One"

Island, on a more serious note, a former girlfriend, then living on a Kibbutz in Israel in 1973, was walking with her fiancée in, I think, Tel Aviv, when the two of them were assaulted by a Palestinian with a knife. The Palestinian stabbed her fiancée through the heart, killing him probably instantly, then tried to attack her. Big Mistake. She was a Black Belt in Karate. She managed to not only take the knife from the Palestinian, but killed him with his own knife! (Side note- She's divorced now twice, and currently in her third marriage.)

I had forgotten it was today.

Snowbound: just me, mom, and her home aide. (11:18PM EST, 01-26-2015)

I remember YOUR name, JTPaintball70. Don't recall your last posting, so it must have been a while.

I issue my usual wish for all to have rabbits and kangaroos, that we all may have a "Hoppy New Year!"

Can I make a request? I initiated this string to advise of the deaths of 2 NYPD Officers in the line of duty. The heads of the various NYPD unions, the protesters against the police actions that resulted in 2 civilian deaths, and the decisions not to prosecute them, the Mayor of NYC, all seem to be politicizing this. My request is simple: While I won't ask you not to post in this string, I do ask you to keep it more towards mourning the deaths of two of our brothers in a different branch of the Emergency Services Sector, not politicizing the deaths, until at least after the funerals.

New York City Police Department Officer Wenjin Liu and Officer Rafael Ramos were ambushed, shot from behind, and killed, in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, NY, 12-20-2014. The shooter had apparently shot his ex-girlfriend earlier in the day in Baltimore, Maryland, and posted on Instagram he was coming to NYC to avenge "victims of Police killings" in Ferguson, MO, and Staten Island, NY. The postings were removed. The gunman, after shooting the 2 Officers, fled to the NYC Subway system, where he apparently died of a self inflicted gunshot wound shortly thereafter. One of the Officers was pronounced at the scene, the other, at a nearby hospital. As of the time of my postings, funeral arrangements, if made, have not been publicized.

I cannot comment regarding another state, but hope it has similar to NY State. Here, if you have a felony conviction, you have to advise the state Department of Health (DoH) when applying for initial or renewal of EMT (presuming same for Paramedic). The DoH then considerers each individual so advising on a case by case basis. Wish your friend good luck from me.

Updating my status, Monday, July 28, 2014: Yesterday was "Momma B's" 90th birthday! With my sister and her husband, "Lady J" (my girlfriend, Johanna) and both the daytime and nighttime aides in attendance, we had a bit of a party, feasting on roast beef, turkey, freshly baked seedless rye bread, cole slaw, potato salad, apple pie, and, of course, a Chocolate Birthday Cake, all purchased at the local Waldbaums Supermarket (If you know my family, it HAD to be chocolate, anything else would have been considered family sacrilege!). With "1930s-40s Big Band" music playing, courtesy YouTube, mom seemed calm, and even contributed to the conversations, despite the senility dementia, and being wheelchair bound.

Got a "Tea Cup" Poodle, looking for it's ball. put in another quarter...

Catch up and pass me for years doing the deed, not on assaults, PLEASE!

Assaulted x2 over 40 years.

Transporters? Anyone recall what happened to David Hedison in the 1950s movie "The Fly"? (Never saw the Jeff Goldbloom version)

Early? I thought Bracket was on duty today...?

Those lights remind me of Richard Dreyfus, lost while driving a power company truck, stopped to do a map-check, and a UFO pulled up behind him..."Close Encounters of the Third Kind"?

My information, which admittedly can be flawed, held to retransmissions being delayed, to prevent the "lookie-loos" from running to an incident scene, potentially putting themselves in the line of fire of a shootout, or other dangers like being downwind of a chlorine gas leak. It's nice to know that some agencies providing emergency service communications rebroadcast ARE playing them in "real time", or close to it. Until everyone goes into "scrambled" mode, I'll stick to my scanners. FYI, I used to have a 1947 RCA Console TV. My radio hobbyist magazines both stated that my TV's channel ONE was capable of picking up NYPD radio traffic in that era. All I remember was a neighbor self-imposed "quiet hours" on himself, due to his HAM radio causing massive TV interference.

Just mentioning that I'm trying to get a NYS Vehicle and Traffic Law changed. Currently, radios capable of picking up Police broadcasts are forbidden in cars. As the radio spectrum has shifted, with FD and EMS frequencies, not to mention interagency operations frequencies, being right alongside PD frequencies, I could be ticketed for listening to the JFK Airport Tower in my van. I also want to allow EMS and FD personnel, even the retired ones, and private security and neighborhood watch people to be allowed to monitor, if they want, to PD broadcasts from their vehicles. Currently, the law only allows "Law Enforcement Personnel" to have such radios "installed". Whoever wrote the law also didn't understand that scanners, are, by their nature, only capable of receiving transmissions, not "interfering with" them. Anyone who is interested in my suggested changes, PM me, and I'll send you my file on the subject. Oh, before I forget, my suggestions also mention that any off duty or retired personnel who might respond to a scene NOT interfere with any on duty personnel actually working the assignment, unless requested to assist by those on duty folks.

If someone could get a verification on what I've heard, to wit, services like this delay listeners from hearing the "action" for a period of 15 to 30 minutes after the actual broadcast. I prefer my 1000 channel self programed Radio Shack base and handheld scanners, and my Home Patrol automatically programmed scanner to hear it as it is actually being transmitted.

"Something?" Surely you're not doing that old joke? Yeah, I know..."Don't call me Shirley!"

Radio doesn't have pictures?

I usually add that not all agencies use the same type coding, as some use "A&OX3" for alert to who, where, and when they are. Some use a 4th "A&O". Therefore, I ask all site newbies (or "Noobs" if you prefer) to spell out what they're trying to say before going all alphabet soup on us. I also encourage no name calling. If you want to tell me I'm incorrect on a specific, say something like "You're wrong, as per page *** paragraph *** of the *** textbook". If you say something like "You're wrong because you're an a-hole" then someone's cruising for a bruising, and it might not be someone as usually polite as me. I am NOT the most polite here, but I sure try. As for the "Noobs" telling the long timers how to do something, sometimes the newer person has a newer protocol than the "greybeards".However, protocols can change at the county, state or province, or international border line. AEMTs are accepted in Nassau County, NY, but, technically if one starts an IV Line after crossing over into Queens County (one of the 5 counties of NYC), where AEMT is NOT accepted, said AEMT would be operating outside of "Scope Of Practice". Therefore, as I repeat in my "signature", remember our protocols might be different than yours, and both of us different from a third EMT City dweller. Anywho, welcome to the madness! .

Refurbished. Good as new, less cost.

Before Cable and/or Satellite, who was it called TV the "Vast Wasteland?"

No cable or satellite TV, only broadcast? It's a dirty job, but someone had to do it.