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When the Ambulance Comes
Here’s an article I wrote on the topic “What Happens After You Call 911″. LINK … Read entire article »
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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
Bad Call
So I EMT Saturday and not a thing all day. Usually it’s the busiest day. About three pm we wander over to the fireman’s carnival and sit at the ambulance corps’s tent. Watching the crowd, gossiping, and making catty remarks about how thirteen year old girls dress in public. Got myself a white hot and some fried dough. 4 pm it all changed. We get toned out. Some guy hanged himself. We sprint to the ambulance. Run red clear across town. Fire and police are there. The guy is down and they have oxygen on him. Lousy sounding breathing, slow and raspy. Large abrasion circling the neck. Cut to finish. In Emergency Department, still breathing. Many, many people working on him. I’m all hot and sweaty and frazzled. Paramedic was super. Fire … Read entire article »
Filed under: East Rochester Ambulance, EMS, Original writing
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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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