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Archived Posts May 2008 911/ambulance problems
May 6, 2008 | 3:32 AM
Category: News

Edit | Delete First thing is obvious here, the Fire Comm needs to go away, way away from here. Putting aside all jokes for now, this guy is NOT QUALIFIED TO RUN/MANAGE OR DICTATE ANY EMS ISSUES OR POLICY. He is not, has not, nor will he ever be a Paramedic so why is he managing issues in EMS and Paramedic work. Obviously, he is doing a poor job, just the same as all previous Firefighter Commissioners have done in past concerning EMS issues. It makes no sense to place a person in command of something/someone that has never done, nor will he ever do that type of work. This is what citizens need to know.



The city will continue to foul EMS and ambulance deployment as long as they continually place uneducated, ill experienced and re-active rather than PROACTIVE people in ranks of Administrative commands.



Now, I hear and have read of a young lad in the PFD(A Medic) that has gone out of his way to address concerns with a real solid plan to help PFD EMS with both issues and solutions for the PFD and the City in an educated manner. He has reached out to and tried to voice all immediate pertinant issues for the people that need to know what is happening here with this. Will they listen?



I read his document on EMS, it is solid. The Mayor needs to talk with this guy. The Mayor should appoint him as the Deputy Commissioner of EMS in the PFD and then you will see changes. He works in a fireh

fighter's Blog
by fighter from 1111

Last Post 6 minutes Ago

Archived Posts May 2008 911/ambulance problems
May 6, 2008 | 3:32 AM
Category: News

Edit | Delete First thing is obvious here, the Fire Comm needs to go away, way away from here. Putting aside all jokes for now, this guy is NOT QUALIFIED TO RUN/MANAGE OR DICTATE ANY EMS ISSUES OR POLICY. He is not, has not, nor will he ever be a Paramedic so why is he managing issues in EMS and Paramedic work. Obviously, he is doing a poor job, just the same as all previous Firefighter Commissioners have done in past concerning EMS issues. It makes no sense to place a person in command of something/someone that has never done, nor will he ever do that type of work. This is what citizens need to know.



The city will continue to foul EMS and ambulance deployment as long as they continually place uneducated, ill experienced and re-active rather than PROACTIVE people in ranks of Administrative commands.



Now, I hear and have read of a young lad in the PFD(A Medic) that has gone out of his way to address concerns with a real solid plan to help PFD EMS with both issues and solutions for the PFD and the City in an educated manner. He has reached out to and tried to voice all immediate pertinant issues for the people that need to know what is happening here with this. Will they listen?



I read his document on EMS, it is solid. The Mayor needs to talk with this guy. The Mayor should appoint him as the Deputy Commissioner of EMS in the PFD and then you will see changes. He works in a fireh

i also am a paramedic with the PFD. As the other member commented on the commissioner and the problems, I believe that Fox 29 and the City of Philadelphia would be better equipped with knowledge if they do a ride-along and see the problems for what they really are and how unsafe it is to have a "real emergencey" in Philadelphia. The lady died on New Years Eve...Why is the PFD not held responsible. That is the busiest day of the year but still no extra ambulances where deployed and one ambulance from 4th and Girard was detailed to Penns Landing for fire works. PFD is poorely managed and it starts with the Ayers. You dont hire an electrician to do a capenters job. Ayers is not a paramendic and as long as EMS is guided under the Fire department, the systems is going to FAIL!

.....The public, the hard workers and all the true city depts, that somehow manageto keep this city together which always is thru the cost of OUR BLOOD, never yours!!!! Yeah, Ayers, keep smiling andf talking about smoke detectors, Big Accomplishment. Thats all he has?, Thats is what he gets top salary for? To tell people to put smoke detectors in homes? NO BLEEP!!!!!! We knew that when we were two years old!!!!! Why dont we actually start to help and serve some of the people that actually contribute to this city, rather than everyone that just takes,takes,takes abd never ever contributes ANYTHING> The public needs to know that the EMS systems is being sucked up, the medic units getting sucked into the communities of the abusers and takers and this withholds resources from the real emergencies and the PEOPLE THAT ACTUAL PAY TAXES!!!!!!!

Does the public know that the new medic units that were added are staffed with EMT's not paramedics. Or that they are only on duty Monday to Friday from 8am to 6pm.

What the public really needs to know is a concept or philosophy which should be titled , "What the Public Really Needs to Know". This, an educational platform for the true inner workings and guts of the current City Depts. Common, lets give it to 'em, why not- the City is giving it to us(right up the ...)

So, here it is. An awakening......The main issue both the PFD and PFD members (both fire and medic) have in this city is that the public only cares when either something tragic happens (such as the murder of Officer Liczbinski) or a firefighter gets hurt/killed during rescue. All to often, the normalcy suggest you (the Public) dont care for us unless we are needed. That hurts.

I got news for you, (average Joe out there) it isnt just these criminals on the street in ski masks and illegal guns wrecking this city. Theft is theft, dishonesty is dishonesty. We want reform so we can do our jobs and do 'em well. Why are we riskin our necks out here day in day out, we are doing it 4 you. Believe me, I know you have all been fed that city workers are overtime bandits and make a killing in salary....NOT TRUE. For most of us, we do what we do because we love what we do and helping people. But the main reason we see so much harm and injury within our field is because the upper management is not the BEST OF THE BEST.

Now, dont we all know it should be though. Nope, people get hired because of favortism. People get hired because of gender and race and quotas that the media nevr talks about.

Now, what happens when all of these people hired for the wrong reasons get a few years on the job. Same as usual, hand shakes/backscratches/deals/ are made. The undereducated and underqualified person that was hired because of his color or gender becomes promoted for the same reasons/methods....because "hey , we would like to get a female or at least x amount of minorities in these positions" and politicians dont want this "bad press" and dont get involved in sensitive racial matters. so eventually, they are they underqualified and uneducated leadership of the PFD and so on and so on and so on. Yet we all wonder, so perplexingly ......why is the city and its structural components failing?????

For the public, average Joe out there.....What do you think happens to a PPD or PFD (Fire or Medic) member once he/she leaves the offical training at the academy and it is discovered that he/she is a weak link or bum or such a liability to the City (in legal terms) to have him/her perform on the street in the profession and publicly viewed arena????

Guess what, they take 'em and hide 'em somewhere.. The city demands nothing from them in return for the paycheck they are getting from you!!!! So some bum that is always faking an injury is making the same salary and takin home the same $$$as FF brothe Harvey (R.I.P) and honorable Officers such as Skerski/Cassidy and Liczbinski.

Then they put em in administration positions to get em off the street. Jeeezzzzz. Why doesnt the public do more. Or should I say why doesnt the administrations do more....Oh, I know...because they are these people!!!!!!!!!!!

or the Union is afraid that, if the privates start handling calls and cut down on the 911 volume the brass will start shutting down fire houses-- the answer to this is: too bad. The people of this city have a right to a reasonably rapid ambulance response to true medical emergencies.

To me, the most telling part of this story was when the reporter asked the representative of the Fire Department, "Why do you continue to send out a unit for calls that aren't true emergencies?" The response, "Because that's the protocol that we operate under." This captures the essence of the unthinking, closed-minded, Neanderthal-like mentality of the Fire Department in this city. Why? 'Cause that's the way it is.

Brilliant.