Tag Archive for 'EMS'

When the Ambulance Comes

Here’s an article I wrote on the topic “What Happens After You Call 911″.

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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 [...]

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.

Bad Call

My notes on a bad EMS call