Tag Archives: firefighter

Building Security Tips for EMS and Fire Stations

Horrific stories like the ones below, highlight the need for improved security measures and mindset for EMS and fire stations. In the early morning hours of Feb. 8, 2018 surveillance cameras at a Terrytown fire station (LA) show what appears to be a man enter through a door to the bay area. The suspect then [...]

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Firefighters Use of Force Captured on Camera; Is this a win?

I say, if you never trained them, how do you blame them? FFs, while heroic and courageous, they are still human. When faced with a use of force situation, they will respond. How they respond will be based upon their training- or lack of it. The pendulum of force swings in both directions. Too little, […]

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Should EMS/Fire Personnel Be Armed?

Should EMS/Fire Personnel Be Armed?   The topic of “Should EMS/Fire be armed” has been around as long as I have been teaching DT4EMS/EVE (and probably longer). The question will also have to take into account the feeling of the “average” provider about having to carry a firearm on duty and the responsibility that comes […]

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Rescuers Removing All Airway Devices from Units Except Surgical Cric Kits!

In an unprecedented move to streamline airway adjuncts and oxygen use, several EMS agencies and fire departments have removed all airway devices from their units except for one. The only emergency airway intervention left on their rescue trucks and ambulances is the surgical cricothyrotomy kit.  These seemingly progressive departments filled with educated administrators felt there […]

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Unique Missionaries in Medicine

During a break in an instructor class, a salty, well seasoned medic from the night-shift streets of Denver told me he was my disciple.  Before I get to far, let me take you back to a class I taught in Denver back in 2010. This class was filled with seasoned EMS providers from the busy […]

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