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Morbidly Obese and EMS
Keeping all of the Federal privacy laws in mind… There’s overweight and there’s way overweight. When you are morbidly obese, you become unable to stand or move around easily, and for some people nearly impossible. For the EMT, a morbidly obese patient presents several problems. Transportation is one. Most ambulance gurneys are rated at 500 pounds. A much larger patient risks the failure of your gurney and injury to the patient. Such a patient may not fit through doors in his or her home. If immobile, they require six, eight or ten people to move them. Their sheer weight tends to limit how they can be placed. Some cannot breathe any longer on their back due to the weight of their stomachs pressing up against their diaphragm. Taking precautions against further injury may be impossible. … Read entire article »
Filed under: East Rochester Ambulance, EMS
The Value of a Volunteer
Volunteers make America a better place. It may be in a museum, with the Scouts, Little League or the thousands who are volunteer EMT’s like I am. That has value but you wouldn’t know it. Current IRS regulations don’t allow you to deduct your time as a volunteer and you can deduct a measly 14 cents a mile when the deduction for business use of your car is 48.5 cents a mile. Financial accounting standards for not for profits allow them to record the value of your time as income only if you have a specific skill and they would have had to hire someone if you did not volunteer. As an EMT, that would allow my Corps to recognize my time as a donation, income, but not the woman who is … Read entire article »
Filed under: Commentary, East Rochester Ambulance, EMS, Original writing
Government As Thief
The East Rochester Volunteer Ambulance Corps has been in existence since 1938. We were incorporated as a New York membership corporation in 1949. Up until about four or five years ago, the Corps had a contract with the Village of East Rochester to provide EMS and ambulance services to the Village. The Village discontinued the yearly contract and we were told that it was unnecessary and / or improper. We operate out of a forty year old temporary building owned by the Village. The Village allocates, in its general budget, a sum of money from which the Village pays operating expenses for the Corps. That includes building utilities and maintenance, ownership and operating expenses for two ambulances, and supplies used in our operations such as bandages and splints. In 2005, at the request … Read entire article »
Filed under: Commentary, East Rochester Ambulance, Local, Original writing, Politics
Hillary Comes Calling
Democrat & Chronicle Sen. Hillary Rodman Clinton will be in East Rochester on Monday to visit the newly installed fuel cell at the Each Rochester School District, her staff confirmed today. Clinton, the leading Democratic presidential candidate in 2008, also will announce recommendations from a “green†building conference she held in Rochester last fall. She is expected to tour the school district about noon. As for the fuel cell: Democrat & Chronicle EAST ROCHESTER — The East Rochester school district should be generating its own electrical power this weekend because of a fuel cell that has been up and running since last Saturday. The technology is expected to cut the district’s energy bill as well as the emission of gases that, according to many scientists, cause global warming. After seeing a Discovery Channel program on fuel cells about … Read entire article »
Filed under: East Rochester Ambulance, Hard Science, Hillary, Science
Train Wreck in East Rochester
R News A freight train derailed Tuesday night at Lincoln Road and Maple Avenue in the village of East Rochester. Early reports indicate there are no injuries. Eight to ten cars are off the tracks. There’s no word on what caused the train to derail. Authorities tell R News the derailment happened on the south side of the tracks along Maple Avenue. The train cars hit some motor vehicles but no homes. Authorities report some power outages because of the derailment. There are also some train cars hanging over the overpass at South Lincoln Road. R News has a crew on the scene and will update this story throughout the evening. Lincoln Road is the north / south road at the right. The overpass is clearly visible. Maple Avenue is the street running west off … Read entire article »
Filed under: Americas North Shore, East Rochester Ambulance, EMS, Firefighting, Rochester New York
EMS This Week
Three calls last Sunday, all priority one. One patient is still in the hospital. Two calls today. Memo to self: never do four bags of crack. And then get naked. In a shower. And kick the walls out. … Read entire article »
Filed under: East Rochester Ambulance, EMS
Ahemmmmmm
Democrat & Chronicle (November 19, 2006) — East Rochester firefighters rescued a woman from a second-floor apartment today after fire broke out in a downstairs kitchen. Firefighters responded at 12:03 p.m. to 411 W. Hickory St., East Rochester. When they arrived, the woman, who was in her mid-30s, was leaning out her apartment window. Fire crews placed a ladder to the window and rescued the woman. The woman was treated for smoke inhalation. A woman and a small child in the downstairs apartment escaped unharmed, said Fire Chief Ray Cerretti. Cerretti said firefighters extinguished the flames in 15 minutes. The cause remains under investigation. … Read entire article »
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Ground School
Notice about a ground school for a new med evac service being held in East Rochester … Read entire article »
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Massive Motor Vehicle Accident, Professionals Respond
February 10th, 2008 | 13 Comments
UPDATE: Democrat and Chronicle The scale of Sunday’s chain-reaction pileup on Interstate 390 is best described by the numbers: Thirty-six tangled vehicles. Twenty-five people injured, including one teenager who later died. Wind gusts up to 37 mph and blowing snow made seeing past the hood virtually impossible. [snip] Buses that were headed to the Rochester Institute of Technology to pick up hockey teams were commandeered by the Gates Fire Department and used to keep people warm while the temperature slid to 18 degrees. Firefighters had requested buses as part of the rescue response, West said, but those buses “were in the right place at the right time.” R News Emergency crews had to cut four people out of the wreckage. The hardest part was deciding who to treat first. “They might walk and see a person with … Read entire article »
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