Chief Gorski Retires

Yesterday Chief Gorski, Fire Chief for S.C.F.D. retired after 32 years of loyal service. We will all miss him, it's going to take a big man to fill his shoes.

What an ass!
We would be going to jail.............and who would take the responsibility of the patient I wonder?
Again....what an ass!

Sabotage

Cake

Drawings by Gibby

She is determined!

Installing Smoke Detectors

Today we got the luck of the draw and were called upon to help with smoke detector installation, which can be VERY boring - if you didn't have the great crew we had with us. Here are a few pics

I'm the short one

again, the short one...............see what my day is like with Kerri as my partner.

Something special for Teddy!

Happy St. Paddy's Day

Green beads for everyone!!!!! That includes the Battalion vehicle and the chief!!! What a good sport.

Rehab

What do 2 paramedics do during a fire??? Take pictures of course! Oh and rehab :)

Inferior MI

75 y/o female on a flight into Sarasota developed nausea on the plane, vomited x1 prior to landing approx 1 hour. Pt asymptomatic on EMS arrival w/ no complaints.

STEMI alert

NTG held due to B/P

No Lopressor

ASA 342mg PO

NS 500cc in route to Hospital

pt was in the cath lab 7 minutes after we arrived at he hospital.

Fun with Vinnie & Ted

Sorry, didn't realize I would not be able to turn this video around.

Here is Ted giving Vinnie a hard time.....Ted is always trying to stir him up (and everyone else for that matter). Today Ted had us embroider this statement on a shirt and he gave it to Vinnie (as a joke of course). Here is Vin's reaction...what a great sport he is!

Princess Dark Cloud

You know you are!

Yep, that is the shore line for the rescue.....guess which EVOC instructor drug it for about 5 miles when we were actually responding to a call.

Trespassing

This is how many SSO (officers) you get when you call in a trespasser at the fire station...............WOW, we don't get that many for a simple MVC. No really there have been many thefts of our gear and equipment from the department so no one is taking any chances. We have been watching these kids for the past few weeks, they come out every week and dig thru the dirt piles (we are in a large construction area) looking for scrap metal. We finally had to call it in since the problems of theft are escalating. I know I don't need my bunkergear or helmet out there with someone else in it, it has my full name across the back.....OMG could you just imagine !!!

Bunkroom .....revised

You can say we have finally moved in! Downtime at it's finest.

Troop!

OB GYN call

Training.....Oh no!

Gibby's Obama drawing

We have a new addition

Benderson is starting to move in their construction trailers next to us.....they have a triple wide. Today was day one of their move, these guys did a great job today.





Station 17
Part 1 of the triple wide
Part 2 of the triple wide
Trouble 1 and 2................. Michelle and "W" Wayne.

Station 17 Front entrance

Station 17 interior

New station 17

Finally!

Station 15's crew

We will miss them! BUT not the call volume!

Don't EVER fall a sleep

See what happens when the engine crew sleeps? The rescue crew gets even! YES, she is painting his fingernails. Damn camera phone....mental note to keep digital cam handy !

How we de-stress

X-box fun!

Moving Day! Station 17

Denny, Fred & Zelda

Well how else

How did you think we were going to get all that stuff in there?????????

Our little helpers!

Larry
Eddie

The men behind the scenes.

New station 17

Yes, those are Target carts....the manager DID give us permission to borrow them as our station is on the same property.

Wenchebach

A spoof of Justin Timberlake's song done by the University of Alberta 2010 medicine class. Wenckebach is a cardiac arrhythmia -- type 1 second degree AV block, also known as Mobitz I, as they clearly explain in the clip.

Hillary and Taxes

Abberated what?

Sudden onset SOB rr 24

Hypotensive

Rales lower left

wheeze upper left

aphasic

Cardiac Alert AMI

Reverse RIT drill

This is what happens to the Paramedic when you DO NOT have a key holder and have been lying on your floor for an unkown number of days and all the doors are locked! This medic crawled thru the kitchen window and here are the fruits of her labor.

What would you call it.......

Click on the pictures for a close up view

Make sure you look at the v/s AND 12-lead before coming to your conclusion.

85 y/o male

Chief complaint: episode of chest pressure early in the am, no pressure on our arrival.

Only c/o to EMS was slight dizziness when standing.

Pt presented w/ Skin PWD, clr lung sounds no chest pain or pressure and denies any SOB.

Has no cardiologist and is only on 2 meds for his HTN.

What would you call it?

Confirmed Rhythm: A. Flutter w/ RBBB

Treatment: IV, O2 and monitor only. ER physician ordered for NO meds to be given.

A. Fib vs SVT Adenosine or Cardizem

Used Adenosine

Strip #1 Chest tightness, SOB

Have already given 6mg and 12mg of Adenosine. Pushing the SECOND 12mg of Adenosine.

Strip #2 Product of our effort

Between Strip #2 and strip #3, approx. 8 second pause.....3 times around the monitor screen.

Strip #3 Coming back

Strip #4 Pt feels the break then

Strip #5......back into it! Already at the hospital.

STEMI

A&O, Stent x2 hx, Diaphoretic, Pale, Hypotensive, Epigastric to jaw pain

ST Elevation

Can you say CARDIZEM!

GCS 14, Pale, diaphoretic, audible stridor from the doorway as if aspiration, lung sounds clr.

A. Fib

We're moving...time to pack it up!

Packing the important stuff first!

Our new station?

More Gators!!!

Bill, since moving out to station 18 & 19

Looking good! Station 53

Updated pictures of Fire station #3/53

Fire bunks

EMS bunks

Will take another picture of this kitchen, have NO idea what happened with my lense here.

YES, we have a mama Gator & her 12 babies at our station!

GATOR!.....and she has babies!

How's the weather Jeff?

The boys are hunting again...

Station update as of 9.6.07

West side of building

Fireman Ross - too funny

Our New Bone Drill................

And he is AWAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Left alone...

What happens when the Engine crew leaves the Rescue crew all alone for a few hours..................



What??????????
They started it!!!!!!! We're just getting even.

Progress on Station 53 as of 8.14.2007

Fire side
EMS side

Maybe October?

Station 53 progress

As of July 18th , 2007

B O L O G N A ???

A partial amputation AND Vienna sausages all on scene at the same time???? !!

Progress on Station 53 as of 6.20.2007

EMS quarters


Fire quarters

Station 53 progress

Scheduled for completion in the beginning of July 2007.....here is the progress as of June 1st.

FDA Recalls

Here is a link to the FDA's Recalls, Withdrawals and Alerts in the Last 60 Days.
FDA
This list also includes medical products.

Anatomy 101

40 hour girls OOS

Party at Pete's house?

Strawberry Meth.....get informed!

Be on the lookout for a new form of Crystalized Meth that is targeted at children and to be aware of this new form if called to an emergency
Involving a child that may have symptoms of drug induction or overdose.

They are calling this new form of meth "Strawberry Quick" and it looks like the "Pop Rocks" candy that sizzle in your mouth. In its current form, it is dark pink in color and has a strawberry scent to it.

Story below
WILLARD, Mo. -- A new twist to an old drug may make it more appealing to children. It's called strawberry quick -- strawberry flavoring added to methamphetamine to make it taste more like candy -- and it's already made its appearance in the Ozarks.
The first sighting of strawberry quick was in Willard, not too far from the town's debris dumpsite. It's strawberry flavored and it could be the first of a new trend. It's causing a major buzz with law officers and community groups.
It looks like rock candy, the kind someone might buy as a treat, but there's nothing sweet about these crystals.
"It has a more user-friendly appearance, if you will,” said Capt. Randy Gibson of the Greene County Sheriff’s Department.
Strawberry quick is basically meth with pink coloring and strawberry flavoring to remove the bitter test of just plain meth. It showed up on the west coast in mid-February and, in almost no time, wound up here.
“It was almost overnight,” said Gibson.
Greene County officers recently pulled over a car for a traffic violation and found about two grams of it in a seat. So far, detectives think it’s the only case in this area but that doesn't stop community leaders from worrying about the drug's impact on kids.
"When it's put in that kind of format, people often think it's less hazardous,” said Melissa Haddow, executive director of Community Partnership of the Ozarks. "This may appeal to kids that meth or crystal would not appeal to.”
Haddow compares it to how kids think of alcohol. Many see hard liquor, like gin, as dangerous but, at the same time, see drinks like wine coolers as safe.
"I don't know if it's deliberately targeted to kids but certainly it's going to be more palatable for kids,” said Gibson.
"I don't think it is huge right now in the Ozarks at all,” said Haddow, “but we don't want to glamorize it, that's for sure."The Community Partnership is sending out surveys to area schools to get an idea of how bad meth is among students and to see how much they know, if anything

Water Balloons

LMA insertion

New Rescue....NO BRAKES!

How big is too big?

Pay Raise

Singing a code

Gibby's protocols

Gibby calling multiple times trying to get in the station

Dog Bite

V. Fib.

Which protocol

One bad acid trip...

New Blue Bag

Dr. Jekyll (driver) & Mrs. Hyde (passenger)

Long winded

Scene Safe?

Pay me my hireback!

Can't breathe-smoker

New ACLS guidelines

Uniform General Order (1st day)

Love Bugs 2

Love Bugs 1

Hazmat

Grim Reaper

EKG interp.

ETOH

Col. Sanders

CHF

Everybody wants to help!

Bone Gunnin with the IO

Bella Bella

One Tooth Intubation