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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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.

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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 [...]

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Notice about a ground school for a new med evac service being held in East Rochester

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Busted my hump yesterday. Four calls, three transports. Yeah, yeah… I know. You guys from the big cities laugh. Our tranports take 20 minutes. An average BLS call is an hour and a half. If the paragods come to play, all bets are off.
Latest bit of EMS wisdom I’ve learned. If a guy thinks what [...]

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Twelve hours today at the ambulance, with three calls.
The heat was tough, but not the worst I’ve been in.
FYI, when a patient says to you “I’m at extreme danger to hurt myself or other people.” take him seriously.
Never take that same patient’s boots off. Footpowder, dispersal, surprise. I’m just saying.

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Four calls today. One sad one illustrative of the need for more people who care for the left out in our society. I’m beat. Bedtime.

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