tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026214128770026952.post1971196357371313516..comments2023-12-19T22:53:18.256-08:00Comments on the Happy Medic: Sunday Fun - My TurnThe Happy Medichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11521335229435386281noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026214128770026952.post-82984123332044028752009-07-12T20:25:18.718-07:002009-07-12T20:25:18.718-07:00You guys are scaring me .... I think I need run an...You guys are scaring me .... I think I need run and high under my blankets. <br /><br />It just seems wrong to close a fire station, even if its just for 24 hrs. I over heard one of my co-workers saying that somewhere in the continent on North America, the FFs are putting reader boards on the tarmac of the station say 'This station is unmanned! No one will be at this station until X date & time'. <br /><br />I know the agency I work for closed one fire station, but the building was contaminated - the engine was relocated while the city determines where they are going to put the new hall, and sends out for bids to get it built. <br /><br />On a lighter side, we are continuing to open up stations every 9 to 12 months. There are always 2 or 3 station under construction it the city at a time. Even our rural counterparts are opening full time stations every year.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026214128770026952.post-29696898685446873192009-07-12T19:46:13.957-07:002009-07-12T19:46:13.957-07:00"I like your order of things Lt:
"Now, i..."I like your order of things Lt:<br />"Now, i just come to work, write my blog, respond to calls and hold my head high."<br /><br />Not necessarily in that order!Michael Morsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07451637745981389920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026214128770026952.post-59178926940292496832009-07-12T15:02:42.464-07:002009-07-12T15:02:42.464-07:00I like your order of things Lt:
"Now, i just ...I like your order of things Lt:<br />"Now, i just come to work, write my blog, respond to calls and hold my head high."<br /><br />Arrive, blog, calls, self respect.<br /><br />You are not alone. Sigh.The Happy Medichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11521335229435386281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026214128770026952.post-29851957651663045722009-07-12T14:48:11.797-07:002009-07-12T14:48:11.797-07:00Hello HM and Ohio Medic,
Nice story, HM, Newsweek...Hello HM and Ohio Medic,<br /><br />Nice story, HM, Newsweeks loss. I sent one in about my Uncle Tony and how we found out about his WWII heroics 60 years later six weeks before Memorial Day last year. They ignored it. It ended up on my blog, one of the best things I ever wrote, if i do say so myself!<br /><br />Sorry for your troubles, Ohio Medic. If it is any consolation, here in Providence angry mobs are forming in the streets, pitchforks and torches in hand looking to hand us "lucky" public sector union members. Police, fire, ems, teachers...it doesn't matter, nothing will change their minds until the economy improves and they start doing better economically and benefit wise than us.<br /><br />It is truly sad, but is happening everywhere I guess. I used to make the argument that in the eighties when they were reaping the rewards of a vibrant economy and our salaries and benefits were well below average nobody cared. Now, i just come to work, write my blog, respond to calls and hold my head high.Michael Morsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07451637745981389920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026214128770026952.post-19182271062758579552009-07-12T11:22:30.215-07:002009-07-12T11:22:30.215-07:00Your article was thought provoking. We don't ...Your article was thought provoking. We don't "brown out" stations here, we just don't add crews to the fleet despite documented 30% increases in countywide run volume in the last 10 years. Our service is still staffing ambulances for the population are run volume we had in 1987. <br /><br />A funny thing seems to have happened to the public, too. At least in our area, we have shifted from a 'pro EMS, pro fire, you guys can do no wrong' attitude among taxpayers to a to a general resentment from taxpayers aimed at school teachers, street department employees, cops, firefighters, and paramedics. We have the Gravy Jobs (according to a recent newspaper editorial) with good salaries, a state retirement plan, union protection, and built-in guarantees against unemployment or layoffs. <br /><br />I realize the private sector has been hit hard with the recession, but this is the first time I can sense a palpable and seething resentment from John Q. Public. The elected officials have noticed, and one publicly toys with contracting EMS service out to private ambulances to "save those tax dollars". Apparently, one private service made the unsubstantiated claim they could run 100% of the 9-1-1 calls on 3rd party reimbursement only and return all the tax money for EMS back to the county to be used elsewhere. Frightening.<br /><br />I don't know where we go with this. For the first time in my 27 years on am ambulance, I am hearing "suck it up, I'm hurting and you guys can hurt a little bit too" from the taxpayers about our ability to provide timely lifesaving EMS response and care. I am interested in the responses of others.Ohio Medicnoreply@blogger.com