FDNY Emergency Medical Service
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- Опубликовано: 28 дек 2010
- Ready for any emergency at any time, FDNY paramedics and EMTs are on New York's front lines. See a typical day on the job and learn what it takes to become a member of the New York City Fire Department's EMS Command.
Great video, public education is so necessary, it's important to showcase the dedication of all EMS professionals, we are frequently overshadowed by the more public figures but our work is imperative for those who love their job and work hard everyday, thank you for all that you do
this video should include FDNY haz-tac, rescue medics.
The FDNY's EMS Command (which include paramedics and EMTs) does handle over a million calls each year. Although the number various somewhat from year to year, they responded to 1.3 million in 2011. The numbers you wrote are the responses our *firefighters* make, as they, too, sometimes respond to EMS calls. Our website has all this information if you want more info.
Joe Fortas actually used to work with my dad. He was his first partner at Station 20 when he graduated from the academy. He retired last year
nice work New York City Fire Department (FDNY)
I'm not sure what you mean? Our paramedics and EMTs work in pairs and one drives as the other treats the patient in the back of the ambulance.
just finished EMT class. i will take my NREMT soon. would love to work for FDNY EMS someday. i have to take my Paramedic course down here in Florida. A girl can dream of maybe one day.
How did it go?
Stopping by to say hello, Former FDNY EMT "The Best" , Batt. 18, graduated TOP 06-03
EMT: basic EMS, nothing invasive... one semester training. Great side kicks to paramedics. Also great for minor calls not requiring any advanced life support.
Paramedic (or EMT-P): Have to be an EMT first, then go to school for another 1-2 yrs (including hospital and field clinicals), able to start iv, do EKG 12 leads and interpret, push drugs, as well as many other invasive skills.
here as an EMT i can set up a 12 lead just need a P to interpret
Become an EMT maybe at your local college, try to get internship working, then if you like what you do and want to do ALS (advanced life support) go to paramedic school takes about one to two years depending the college/program. Good luck to you!
Give us a call at 718-999-FDNY. We can answer all your questions. Or visit joinFDNY on Twitter and Facebook.
The ambulance wheels go round and round
Go Jeff!!
usually what we do is that we take turns. you drive one day your partner drives the next day. the driver is in charge of the vehicle and all the equipment in it, the tech is in charge of the patient during transport and paperwork.
I always thought FDNY was an ALS level agency only. I didnt know they had BLS trucks also.
Correction FDNY EMS goes 1.2 Million calls a year
nice Great Video
Greetings from germany to the brothers and sisters of FDNY EMS. In June im going on a holiday trip to NYC. Hope to get a closer look on one of your ambulances and to have a little small talk with some of these wimen and guys.
All good to you and stay safe.
A german paramedic.
Because its a tiered system where you have a large number of BLS units with a smaller number of ALS units and ALS flycars to handle critical calls. This allows the BLS units to handle the "help I've fallen and can't get up calls" while the ALS units handle the strokes, MI's etc... On a cardiac they will send an engine, BLS unit, ALS unit and or ALS fly car; you can do that when you have hundreds of ambulances and fire trucks in a 12 sq mi area. For the rest of us in the real world you 1 truck
But in NYC BLS handles Strokes and major traumas. There are times ALS handles the fallen or intoxicated
@MrNycEms I got the from the FDNY website
your beautiful and i love you, be safe!
@ldx927 your not going to be buying a bentley, but it is about the people you care for. in about 5 year you make about 50,000
only when they are the only 2 vacancies in the station and they will run BLS happened to me other day
um you do need to still bend down b/c they have a safety that unless you take the pressure off the legs of the stretcher they won't move up or down
I want to be in the fdny ems. It looks so exciting
Me too. My dad is actually retired from EMS after 31 years of service
@@chriscashman3271 congratulations on your father’s retirement
@@msunpredictable86 thx
Miami HA!
What is the process like for a Canadian to move to NY and join FDNY EMS. Not the immigration process, strictly the Canadian EMS -> FDNY EMS. Is there a link that you can provide me with? Thanks!
Shame paramedic pay isn't up there with the firefighters. Here in the UK once your registered as a paramedic and get to the top of Band 6 (including unsocial hours pay) you earn more than firefighters.
sure better than volunteer ems and fd who get no compensation where I live
Become an EMT
RickyWhitefreeze: ARE YOU A FIRE FIGHTER
EVERY INSTRUCTOR I had was HARD on us ALL but made me & ALL OF US THE BEST IN THE WORLD!! Thanks to ALL YOU!!!
+Nycems Christopher hey are FDNY EMS firefighters as well or is it a separate department? like if you get a job with the ambulance side of things, are you also doing shifts on an engine or not?
+Ben Snow it's separate
people in my class cried lol
Did you have joe fortis?
We work in pairs to, heres a question. Is th Guy thats driving in the video, does he always drive and thats it or do they rotate?
Here in NZ, i could be driving one minute,then the treating officer on the nxt job
Marcus Terria usually we rotate. One partner will drive one day and do patient care the next.
so do we down here in Miami
what does an amputation priority 3 mean
Two persons in this vid were later charged with insurance fraud. Caleb Laues was charged with defrauding AFLAC of $41,590 and Melissa Ovalle was charged with defrauding AFLAC of $20,670.
Those chest compressions off the bar were a little sus
The ambo company here has switched to the Stryker electric lift stretchers, man are they cool. No pulling a lever and bending over to raise the legs up.
when you attend the academy do you have to live there or you come and go daily??
carmen ruiz I'd like to know the answer to this too
You travel every day.
ima volunteer in nz for st john ambo amazing to see the difference between them, we dont have drivers we do the driving, and treating, but we onlyget abot 300,000 - 400,000 calls a year in NZ
@ldx927 what do u mean advantage?
Very crappy CPR…lower the stretcher so you can compress properly… No circulation… no save!
As USUAL here's a PERFECT example of how They treat each other,NO BROTHERHOOD like the Firefighters and POLICE.These guys treat each other like shit then they whine and cry when New Yorkers complain about their sometime lousy patient care.can't expect to be treated with RESPECT if you BACKSTAB Each other day in and day our....
bklynboombox Exactly!
+bklynboombox brotherhood? when a firefighter makes mistakes that costs lives, I doubt they somehow ignore it for "brotherhood" reasons. comon! mistakes needs to be pointed out if overall quality is to improve.
I know what you mean, Im sort of an EMT here in Germany and colleagues mostly think of each other as competition instead of being coworkers, no matter what employer you work for. Kinda sad.
You're an IDIOT Bro!1.NYC has the HIGHEST Pre Hospital EMS Standards most likely in the WORLD!!,,,Don't talk about others,especially if ya can't compete with them,,Especially The men and Women of FDNY/EMS............
why do the paramedics have different colored bunker gear.?
So why is there such a great discrepancy in pay between EMS and firefighters? Don't they both save lives?
r1cknyc exactly...drives us nuts
remeber this movie was made along time ago. people didnt get paid that much back then.
Then become a paramedic
If your not born to do this job keep out 🚨🚑🚨 NYC EMS what we do best
+Nycems Christopher STFU you wannabe Paragod. You are not and never will be in the FDNY...
Who drives? The EMT or the Paramedic?
usually the EMT
@@jmurt99 On a code fire might drive so more hands can be on patient care.
these are our ambo's. "Ambulance Responding, Auckland NZ, 20 May 2010" check it out
What are the age requirements for FDNY EMTs or Paramedics?
18 for both
What's the difference between an EMT and a Paramedic?
CrazyCessnaPilot EMT mostly do initial trauma care, paramedics do IV and administer drugs as well as more advanced procedures. Paramedics do a two year hospital location
Paramedics can poke people... lol
They mobilised a cardiac arrested and interrupted CPR?!?
Emt here, yes sometimes that’s what you have to do if they get pulse back on scene 99.9999999% of local protocols say to immediatley transport. It sucks, yes but cpr isn’t what’s going to save a patient it’s cardiac drugs, and a highly trained and equipped emergency room to try and fix the cause of the arrest! Stoping cpr to mobilize the patient is perfectly acceptable because what you’re doing is getting that patient to a definitive level of care. I’ve had a call where we had a super narrow stairwell and had to go down 3 flights of stairs and then continued CPR it’s just the way it goes sometimes
@@Medix916 that’s old practice, now you work the code on the floor with as much space as possible and if there’s no pulses after 20-25 minutes you terminate care. That’s the best chance the patient has unless it’s a traumatic arrest then you might be transporting
@@parkersmithson6667 bro what?
@@Medix916 yeah load an goes aren’t a thing anymore with medical arrests. Traumatic arrests yes, you need to get them to the hospital. But otherwise some paramedics and some firefighters are just as effective at working a code than an ER room so it’s better to just stay in one spot and work them. CPR, ventilations, early defib, and medications are the patients best chance of surviving medical cardiac arrest
how do you become a paramedic?
Go to medic school, its about 2.5 years
Ah FDNY, how refreshing to watch hahah
theyre both paramedics, one drives while the other stays in the back and treats the patient
Sending a Bls to cardiac arrest really
They'll send 2 BLS to an arrest if there is not ALS which happens all the time in Brooklyn lol. At every arrest there will normally be 1 BLS, 1 ALS and 1 ENGINE assigned.
Dan Fish
Yep, that's how we run ours down south. 1 BLS, 2 ALS and an engine/brush truck.
+bob yes, CPR is tiring. BLS and the Firemen does the compressions and etc while ALS gets the ACLS going on. makes perfect sense.
Danny Lee
Nailed it
Are you new? Why wouldn't bls go to a arrest call? It's never one Unit that goes either. There needs to be enough units so each can take turns doing CPR. Don't know how you do it in your little town but here we have both als and bls respond to arrests.....because it's a smart thing to do.
amputation: police escort makes sense
That first patient/call was total garbage. Transporting an arrest, not to mention the shitty compressions & the total lack of urgency in general. I’d be totally surprised if they got a rosc.
West coast does it way better. Almost every rig is staffed with a paramedic (ALS)
Yeahhh but the overwhelming majority of the calls in nyc are bls ... but I do get what your saying... and in nyc als is usually close by
no seat belt on code 3
1 dislike?? someone wants their house to burn
you dont know the difference btween fire and ems. and theres two kinds of ems. by the way. city ems and private company ems.
FDNY - aprox 500,000 calls a year, 200,000 EMS Calls
London Ambulance Service - aprox 1.5 million calls a year, all of them EMS calls
Good video but this guy needs to get his facts right.
--- do you ems workers realize your guilty of murder in the future of atleast 1000 plus people who have been forcibly detained by you and the NYPD and those with no medical training , these people have lost jobs, their lives, homes animals ect.. i hope you all are medically equipped and trained enough, as will those be who will work around you people when you are all sent straight to prison.... - a lot of you are criminals a lot of you are not --- its a shame half of you are putting on a badge and gun every morning. Targeting innocent men/women/children on a 24/7 basis... thats not legal is it? or are the FDNY and NYPD still magicians at bypassing all laws , this time you are all a safety/health hazards for everyone ect its only a matter of time until this is accounted for and handled accordingly ---
FDNY and NYPD are NOT magicians... there are laws that protect them from legal suits that may arise as a result of their actions... it's called qualified immunity... www.law.cornell.edu/wex/qualified_immunity