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… after they see Paris

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How will you keep them down on the farm, after they have seen Paris?

Popular 1919 song reflected on the results of farm boys seeing the sights as World War I soldiers.

San Francisco Paramedic/Firefighter Justin “The Happy Medic” Schorr spent his first day riding with North East Ambulance Service Paramedic Mark “999 Medic” Glencorse.

He may never be the same.   From his post:

I was able to have a quick interaction with some of the Firefighters assigned to the station with Mark and the Ambulance crews, nothing more than a quick introduction between calls, but it was later in the morning when I learned I don’t have it nearly as good as I thought.

While heading out to the pouring rain, I bumped into the station cleaning crew mopping the floors. The fireman don’t do the big housework. No wonder mark was so surprised when I gloved up and cleaned toilets back home.

Later in the morning still, I met the Station’s French Chef. They don’t cook their own food either. These are two things I think identify the firehouse as a home. It seemed more like a school than a fire house.

Mike “FossilMedic” Ward

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Posted by on November 20, 2009 • Filed under: EMS Topics • Tagged: , , , ,
  • http://twitter.com/tbouthillet tbouthillet

    Wow!

  • http://twitter.com/firehat firehat

    I wouldn't trade their comfort for our commonsense regs and SOP's.

  • EMT

    “I wouldn't trade their comfort for our commonsense regs and SOP's.”

    Considering their LODD numbers versus ours, I wouldn't get too uppity about SOPs and regs.

  • Dal90

    >Considering their LODD numbers versus ours, I wouldn't get too uppity about SOPs and regs.

    LODD is not the metric we should be evaluating fire service performance by.

    If you want to criticize things like civilian death rates, then you have a much more important metric and one that you could still zing (at a high level) the U.S. — but even that zinger doesn't take into account significant differences in geography (lower population densities –> longer response times and smaller percentage of population covered by staffed firehouses) and building construction / usage (floor plans, door usage, and building materials) that impact event outcomes.

    Comparing property damage, civilian injury severity, and civilian death rates are more important metrics.

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    Connecticut State Police Barracks, back in the day they were true barracks where the Troopers slept when not on patrol, did have cooks.

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