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For No Really Good Reason…
June 15, 2015 | accident, Emergency Medical Services, emotions, EMS, EMS Topics, Paramedic, professionalism, psychology, sadness | Ckemtp | No Comments
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For no really good reason, I left work a bit late the other morning. Sure, we caught a call 16 minutes before the end-of-shift, but the great guys on “A” shift were already there and ready to go so we didn’t have to take it. I could have left right on time then, but for no really […]

Red Lights to the Left of them, Blue to the right! – Coloring Emergency Lighting
April 7, 2010 | 911 fail, accident, Administration & Leadership, Ambulance, Ambulance Driver, Ambulance maintenance, ckemtp rants, code-3, Command & Leadership, drive fast, Emergency Medical Services, EMS, EMS Health & Safety, EMS Management, EMS rant, EMS safety, EMS Topics, Fire Rescue Topics, In the Line of Duty, Iowa, Iowa EMS, lights and sirens, Line of Duty, Management, politics, Technology & Communications, technology-communications-ems-topics, Vehicle Operation & Ambulances, Vehicle Operations & Apparatus, volunteer fire department, volunteer firefighter | Ckemtp | 45 Comments
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Ever pull over for a tow-truck or a snow plow? What’s up with the lack of a standard for emergency lighting colors? It’s confusing as heck..

Be The Glow Worm – HazMat for EMS
January 20, 2010 | accident, disaster, EMS safety, EMS Topics, EMS training, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, HazMat, Major Incidents, Special Operations, training-fire-rescue-topics, Uncategorized, Videos, volunteer fire department, volunteer firefighter | Ckemtp | 9 Comments
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HazMat for EMS and Volunteers. This is a repost of one of my most popular posts ever. It includes an amazing and real video of something that could happen in your service area tomorrow. Are you ready? Terrifying.

The day I didn’t die – Firefighter Close Calls
November 25, 2009 | accident, EMS Health & Safety, fire, Fire department, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, training-fire-rescue-topics | Ckemtp | 12 Comments
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This is my post for the November edition of The Handover Blog Carnival, hosted this month by The Happy Medic. The theme? Close calls. I’ve not been much closer than this.

Wow, that takes me back… A paramedic ruminates
August 4, 2009 | accident, Ambulance, EMS, EMS paramedics, EMT, Fire department, Firefighter, roll-over, stories | Ckemtp | 3 Comments

The other day I was up at the station having a conversation with one of our firefighters when she described a call where she found that “this guys legs were like, all messed up. They were like every which way and stuff. Gross” Now while I have to give credit to great medical terminology where […]