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On this episode of The Healthcare Plus Podcast, Quint Studer is joined by Dr. Stephanie Montgomery, Partner, Build a Brain, Build a Life, Build A Community, Dr. Alexander Gumiroff, Chief Medical Officer, HCA Florida Palms West Hospital, and Jason Kimbrell, CEO, HCA Florida Palms West Hospital. Their conversation highlights the transformative “Build a Brain, Build a Life, Build a Community” initiative, which aims to enhance early childhood brain development, and showcases the implementation of the program at HCA Florida Palms West Hospital. Quint shares about the initial research conducted in Escambia County that led to the founding of the program and the difference it has made for parents, children, and communities across the country. Dr. Gumiroff and Jasom Kimbrell also examine the program's broader implications for addressing health inequities and encouraging community engagement through activities like book donations and the education of childcare workers. They underscore the importance of ongoing leadership and authentic community involvement in sustaining this initiative, ultimately aiming to improve future health outcomes and kindergarten readinessAbout Alexander Gumiroff, MD, MBA, MHA, FACOGDr. Alex Gumiroff has been appointed Chief Medical Officer of HCA Florida Palms West Hospital, effective May 15, 2023. After finishing his residency training at New York Presbyterian/Cornell University Lower Manhattan Hospital, Dr. Gumiroff relocated to Florida and has been a practicing OB-GYN for a Federally Qualified Health Center in Fort Myers, caring for the underserved population. During that time, he also supervised the training of Medical, Physician Assistant and Nurse Practitioner students in both outpatient and inpatient settings.About Jason KimbrellJason Kimbrell was appointed chief executive officer of HCA Florida Palms West Hospital in June of 2021. Prior to Palms West, Kimbrell was the chief executive officer for Highlands Hospital and transitioned the newly acquired asset into the HCA healthcare portfolio. Kimbrell has been with HCA Healthcare since 2015. He is a graduate of HCA's Executive Development Program and started his HCA career as the assistant administrator for HCA Florida West Hospital in Pensacola. Kimbrell is a veteran of the United States Air Force and began his career in healthcare in the public safety sector, serving as a firefighter, critical care flight paramedic and EMS Chief.  About Stephanie Montgomery, Ed.D.Stephanie is a native Georgian with over 24 years of experience in education and community partnerships. Stephanie has served Northwest Georgia as a School Improvement Specialist in literacy and academic achievement. She has worked as an ELA Specialist and liaison to help strengthen relationships between state and local school systems. Through this work, she has developed a unique lens for identifying issues related to readiness skills and achievement gaps. She is skilled at working with teams to bridge the gap between knowledge and research, helping put policy into practice. Stephanie has also served as a classroom teacher, district-level curriculum coordinator, and grant writer. 

Northfield Fire Chief Tom Nelson and Northfield EMS Chief Brian Edwards discuss Fall Prevention Week, the importance of checking carbon monoxide alarms in your home, residential KnoxBoxes, and more. 

Northfield Fire Chief Tom Nelson and Northfield EMS Chief Brian Edwards discuss Fall Prevention Week, the importance of checking carbon monoxide alarms in your home, residential KnoxBoxes, and more. 

Brian Edwards, Northfield Hospital Chief of Emergency Medical Services, talks about State licensure changes for Northfield emergency services.

 Brian Edwards, Northfield Hospital Chief of Emergency Medical Services, talks about State licensure changes for Northfield emergency services. 

It's Die Hard in a tunnel! This week, Phil and Liam dig in, around, and underneath DAYLIGHT, Rob Cohen's 1996 disaster movie starring Sylvester Stallone, Amy Brenneman, Jay O. Sanders, Dan Hedaya, Stan Shaw and Viggo Mortensen!When a freak accident causes both ends of an underground tunnel in New York to collapse, a group of random strangers find themselves trapped below the Hudson River. The only person seemingly capable of helping them is Kit Latura (Sylvester Stallone), a disgraced former EMS Chief seeking redemption for his role in a past tragedy. The guys start by discussing the disaster movie genre in general, placing this throwback film in a wider context, as part of a grand tradition of similar motion pictures that date back to their 1970s heyday. The original DIE HARD has its roots in the disaster movie genre, having been directly inspired by THE TOWERING INFERNO, one of several such films discussed (unflinchingly) in the ‘Die Hard DNA' section, along with the AIRPORT franchise that influenced DIE HARD 2: DIE HARDER.After analyzing the film's premise, hero, and quirky cast of supporting characters (that includes a billionaire rock-climber, an Al Powell-esque uniform cop and a playwright with terrible taste in musicals), Liam presents his Earth-shattering theory that this entire film is in fact a Jesus allegory! The boys bust into ‘Die Hard Oscars' to hand out some action movie awards and cap things off with a mind-boggling edition of the ‘Double Jeopardy' trivia quiz!DAYLIGHT trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRWIfCpxNK4 At the time of release, DAYLIGHT is streaming on Starz in the US, and is available to rent or buy on Prime Video, YouTube, Apple/iTunes, Fandango, and all the usual platforms! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/die-hard-on-a-blank/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

It's NYC in the mid-90s. Everything is awesome until white gang members cause a disaster in the Holland Tunnel. Who will save the survivors trapped inside? Will it be policemen, a group of brave EMT's, or maybe the Ninja Turtles? How about a disgraced EMS Chief who's played by Stallone?  It'll be fine.   

David Burns, who when he wasn't photographing first responders on the streets of New York City as a photojournalist was responding to them himself as an EMS Chief, joins the program. Connect With Mike Colón: X: https://x.com/mikeinnewhaven Instagram: https://instagram.com/mikecolo... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MikeC... LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/newsl... Media Website: https://mike-colon-media.com/ Consulting Website: https://www.mcmediaeditingserv... Business Line: 917-781-6189 Media Email: thecolonreport@gmail.com Consulting Email: mike@mcmediaeditingservicesllc.com Connect With Producer Vick: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/prod... Connect With David Burns: LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/david-b... Website: breakingnewsphoto.com Listen To The Podcast: iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/... iHeart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast... Spreaker: https://www.spreaker.com/show/... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/... PlayerFM: http://front.player.fm/series/... Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/se... Amazon: https://music.amazon.com/podca... YouTube (Video Version): https://www.youtube.com/live/F... Sponsors: MC Media Editing Services: https://www.mcmediaeditingserv... Ryan Investigative Group LLC:https://www.ryaninvestigators.... Outro Song: Jane's Addiction - Jane Says (Live at The Hammerstein Ballroom, NYC, October 31, 1997)Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mic-d-in-new-haven--2828702/support.

Discussion topics:  -Team paramedic and coordinates emergency care for on field.  What are the classifications from paramedic to ECA, EMS, and Paramedic -ECA - first responder. Couple weeks class -EMT basic - everyone starts off at. Full college semester -EMT advanced - Intubate and start IVs, and cardiac meds. Can't RSI or DSI -Paramedic - nationally and state certification; Two-year program and learn advanced cardiology and pharmacology Difference: Licensed paramedics will have an AA in paramedics or a bachelor's in emergency medicine.  ATs are under the direction of a physician, how does that work with emergency medicine? -Work under a medical director. Medical directors must be licensed by the state. Emergency certified physician. Roll of team physician on the sideline? -EAP's  -Get together with all emergency response teams to see what everyone can do or should do.  -Communication -EMS arrives, they take over control of the athlete and their protocols go into effect.  Equipment removal in in-service? -Discuss how far to go with equipment removal.  -CPR of football, don't remove helmet/shoulder pads, just face mask. Open shoulder pads to do CPR and place AED pads. Organizing the annual practice, how should the AT approach it? -Week before training camp starts.  -Coordination through their contact. EMS Chief or president of the company.  How long does the training last? -Depends on how much you want to cover.  -At least CPR, backboarding, trauma injury. 30 minutes each -Debrief before and after.  How can we educate EMS on what ATs can do? -Invite EMS groups to your in-service to participate in the training process.  -Look at each other's protocols.  -Get everyone's education  How much are protocols changing year to year? -Generally, they don't. Just based on technology and medical changes.  Differences between rigs? -BLS is a basic truck with 2 EMTs. Basic first aid/childbirth -ALS truck for higher emergencies.  What does it look like after EMS has taken over care and on the way to the hospital? -After a report from AT, they do their own patient assessment.  -After assessment, determine the care plan. Get vitals and stabilize life events.  What is the most important information coming out of the report from an AT? -Short and sweet -This is what happened, what I did, what I found.  Spine board or not to spine board? -Depends on the medical director's protocol.  -Depends on the situation and if it will make the injury worse.  -For the team, it might depend on the spine doctor/team physician.  -Annual meeting to discuss spine boarding and log roll vs. 6-man lift. Stories -Professional baseball game. Baserunner ran into the catcher. The collision was bad. Amazing that there was only a broken nose.  -Open femur fractures, concussions Anything else to add? -Communication is the number one key. -Reach out to local EMS agency -Athlete/patient comes first.  -Find out each other's capabilities. Contact Brad: bwilson@hcec.com

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NAFRS Fire Chief Tom Nelson and Northfield EMS Chief Brian Edwards discuss the types of heat-related emergencies (heat cramps, heat exhaustion, heat stroke), symptoms, treatment, prevention, and more.

 NAFRS Fire Chief Tom Nelson and Northfield EMS Chief Brian Edwards discuss the types of heat-related emergencies (heat cramps, heat exhaustion, heat stroke), symptoms, treatment, prevention, and more. 

Northfield Fire and Rescue Service Chief Tom Nelson and Emergency Medical Service Chief Brian Edwards discuss the Rice County Landfill fire, and the best ways to look out for our elderly neighbors. 

Brian Edwards, Northfield Hospital Chief of Emergency Medical Services, discusses the recent training provided for members of law enforcement, EMS, and fire departments in the region about responding to hostile events such as an active shooting event.

Hilley & Hart talk with EMS Chief Eric Hoy about a big Toy for Tots drive in Jefferson City this Saturday, December 10th! Fun for the whole family! Listen now for all the details!

On this episode of Trauma Talk our guest Butler Co EMS Chief and Nurse Frank Williams. We discuss the pros, cons, and pressure sores of Long Spine Boards

Get up close and personal with one of thirteen Black female Fire Chiefs in the United States! Fire/EMS Chief Tiffany Green shares her journey to the top despite the obstacles of being a young, African-American female in a male dominated profession. You don't want to miss her story or the insights she shares for women striving to live their value and worth when others work to keep them down.

Feeling The Pulse is taking the week off, but VB Rescue never takes a week off. This week, EMS Chief Ed Brazle discusses the proposed Fiscal Year 2023 budget and how the proposal could benefit the future of the VB Rescue system.

Eric Hoy joins Austin Petersen and John Marsh to discuss emergency services planning during the winter storm.

Devastation in a matter of moments. The roof of the local fire department, ripped from the building. A community left unrecognizable to people who have lived there for their entire lives. This was reality in Mayfield, Kentucky after deadly tornadoes ripped through multiple states, including right on top of their town. Our guest today is Jeremy Creason, and he was there for it all. He is the Chief of the Fire Department and local EMS, and he joins us on this episode of PICK UP THE SIX Podcast.

Welcome to QMC's 10Q30 EMS Leadership profile.  This month, we are featuring Mitchell Fire Department from Mitchell, South Dakota  Joining us is Fire and EMS Chief, Marius Laursen.  The QMC guys had a great time speaking with Chief Laursen and he didn't disappoint with his knowledge, wit and uncanny ability to field some of our most offbeat questions.  This is a 10Q that is worthy of high marks.  Don't miss out, download this one today.  Your Host:  Gary Harvat and Chuck Humphrey

Episode 243 is Mike Hilley. Mike is the EMS Manager of Whatcom County EMS and my boss. Mike brings over 25 years of EMS and Fire experience as a Paramedic, Firefighter, and EMS Chief to his role here in Whatcom County. Mike takes on his journey from Birmingham, Alaska, King County, and Whatcom County. We talk about his career in the Coast Guard, leadership, and a few of his adventures.

-Ray Norton is an O2X Instructor and Resilience Specialist who recently retired from Fire & EMS after 30 years of service-In 1987, he started his career as a volunteer firefighter at Tarpon Springs Fire Rescue in Florida and eventually ended his career as a District Chief with Pinellas Suncoast Fire & Rescue. During his career he held positions as Driver Engineer, Lieutenant, Training Chief, EMS Chief and assisted with the Operations Chief position.-He was also a flight medic at Bayfront Medical Center where he worked with the busiest trauma response helicopter in the nation, having 97% of calls coming as scene responses. The program provided services for All Children's Hospital pediatric and neonatal transports. -In his off time, he joined his wife to start up a nonprofit called Veterans Alternative to assist Veterans with PTS transition back to civilian life and help with stress management.-He's also the author of our newest blog ‘After Action Review: 30 Years in the Fire Service' where he covers his biggest takeaways from over 30 decades of public service'After Action Review: Three Decades in the Fire Service':https://o2x.com/uncategorized/after-action-review-three-decades-in-the-fire-service/'First Responder PTSD Awareness' by Conscious Content Collective:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJZBBFXGorYDownload the O2X Tactical Performance App:app.o2x.comLet us know what you think:Website: http://o2x.comIG: https://instagram.com/o2xhumanperformance?igshid=1kicimx55xt4f 

This episode of Inside EMS is sponsored by Pulsara. Learn more about how you can build a regional system of care for free by clicking here. In this episode of the Inside EMS Podcast, co-hosts Chris Cebollero and Kelly Grayson are joined by New Castle County EMS Division Chief Mark Logemann, who discusses his agency's internal Paramedic Academy, which is currently accepting applications for its new cohort. Chief Logemann discusses the culture of the academy, how it got started, and the application process. According to the chief, one of the great benefits of having your own paramedic program is the ability to set the culture, and not only train the next generation of paramedic, but also grow the type of employee you want to see in the future.

During the Focus On Shelton, presented by Peninsula Credit Union, Central Mason Fire & EMS Chief Mike Patti came on to talk about the fireworks ban in Mason County. There are restrictions all over the area this summer. Please celebrate responsibly. https://sheltonwa.gov/ https://cmfe.org/ https://www.pcfcu.org/ Join Jeff Slakey and Spencer Hughes weekday mornings with the latest in local news around the South Sound and beyond on am1030, fm103.3 or streaming at ifiberonenewsradio.com or via the TuneIn app and others.

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Episode 207 is Tom Cox. Tom has worked in one capacity, or another in the fire and EMS industry for over 33 years. In 1976, at the ripe age of 22, he led the drive to establish a rescue squad in his hometown and became its first EMS Chief. We talk about how an injury to his back led him into medical sales and the Director of Training for Ferno. Tom is here to talk about his career and his involvement in the launch of a revolutionary virtual reality training system by VRpatients. It’s the first VR medical training program solely focused on EMS.  Listen to how VRpatients may take EMS training to a new level of training and education for EMS providers.

Pittsburgh EMS Chief Ron Romano joins Larry and Kevin to discuss their recognition for quality of emergency pediatric care.

AHS EMS Chief Paramedic Darren Sandbeck shares details on the work EMS is doing across the province supporting Albertans and frontline staff during the COVID-19 outbreak, including how staff are protecting themselves, how 911 calls are being handled and how EMS is currently managing events province-wide.

LightfooteIt will take nothing less than 100 Proof Living to restore lives! Life has options and we must take the lead. “Conversation with a Cop and a Criminal” airs on the 100 Proof Living podcast. Co-hosts Brian Yates, Chris Pridmore and Caitlin Meath discuss some of life's biggest hurdles. Through transparency and outreach, they convey the valuable tools and the vast hope they have acquired along the way. The team agrees that they wouldn't be able to cultivate the full scope of resiliency without the input from the array of phenomenal guests. In this episode, Kevin Lightfoote, EMS Chief and Sarah Boyce, RN "Nurse of the Year 2019" join as a husband and wife team representing medical first responders. Kevin and Sarah will discuss the challenges of their individual roles and the strength they draw from each other. Being on the front lines can take its toll on the human beings tasked with saving lives. In this discussion, we will see the value of teamwork, understanding and commitment. Kevin and Sarah are a truly special people and are valuable to the community that they serve.

Inside EMS: Chief Marc Bashoor on fire-EMS crossover, Side Alpha podcast by EMS1 Podcasts

Commissioner Dan McDonald and EMS Chief Jeff Lindsey join Steve in the studio for an update on Bonner County.

Show Transcript:Episode 09: #1 Show me our joint Active Shooter Response policy - "10 Questions from the Mayor" Series10 Questions for the Mayor to ask the Police and Fire Chief SeriesQuestion 1:"Chiefs, please show and review with me our joint Active Shooter/Hostile Event Response policy."*Bill Godfrey: *Welcome to our next installment in our podcast series. This time we're going to be doing something a little different. We're actually going to be kicking off the beginning of a mini series where we're going to talk specifically about the topic of what kinds of questions the Mayor, the City Manager, or the County Administrator should be able to ask their police and fire Chief together, and really be able to judge what their readiness level is to be prepared for an active shooter event or to judge where they may have some gaps. We're going to take each one of these questions, 10 questions here, as a separate topic. Our first question in this series is," Chiefs, can you show and review with me our joint active shooter hostile event response policy?" To talk about that tonight and got with me, Tom Billington, retired Fire Chief. Welcome, Tom.*Tom Billington: *Thank you.*Bill Godfrey: *We got Adam Pendley, Assistant Chief. Adam, thanks for coming. We've got Pete Kelting, Lieutenant from the Sheriff's Office. Pete, thanks for being here. Of course, my name is Bill Godfrey and retired Fire Chief myself. So with that, Adam, let's start with you. Why is this such an important question for leadership of a city or county to be able to ask the police Chiefs and fire Chiefs, why the focus on a joint policy?*Adam Pendley: *Well, I think this is probably one of the first indicators as to whether you actually have true integration between your fire police and EMS services in your town or community. If someone has taken an effort to sit down together and write a policy that is literally on the same sheet of paper that avoids contradictions, it avoids assumptions or disagreements or agreements about what another agency is going to do, if you haven't sat down and had a workshop and put those agreements on paper to de-conflict the issues that the different agencies can have, then that's kind of indicative that maybe you are agencies that share the same community haven't been talking to each other as much as they should.*Bill Godfrey: *Pete, tell me from your perspective, how important is that that the law enforcement agency and the fire EMS agency, the medical agency, actually have a shared policy that's been written together and signed off by the leadership?*Pete Kelting: *Well, Bill, that's a great question because policy supports training, it supports purchase of equipment and it supports the end result of what we do together and disciplines. Being able to work with your partner from fire or EMS or emergency management and know that our training efforts and our purchase of equipment all are supported by policy and that we have the goal to manage incident the same so that it alleviates any type of hurdles as we move forward going down the road.*Bill Godfrey: *Tom, what Pete's talking about raises kind of an interesting challenge. Pete's of course from a Sheriff's Office and I know you were fire Chief of a county department for many, many years. In that context, the fire Chief and the Sheriff aren't necessarily in the same chain of command answering to the same person. What's your takeaway on that? Is it still, you think, important to have a shared policy and and why?*Tom Billington: *Good point. A shared policy is badly needed. However, traveling around the country, there is no one size fits all. This policy can not be something that you go online and download and change the names. It is a policy that the law enforcement and fire or EMS agencies have to actually sit down together, come up with responsibilities and how to operate. It's an important time to get with your counterpart and figure out things beforehand. As Pete was saying, very important.*Bill Godfrey: *Where do you start the conversation? If you're the fire Chief and you've got, whether it's a city police Chief or county Sheriff or some other type of law enforcement entity that you're going to be working with, and I guess we guys, we'd probably need to talk about mutual aid and the importance of that as well. Tom, how do you start that conversation?*Tom Billington: *Well, the first thing is, as the fire Chief, he better know the police Chief or Sheriff by first name. You better have that relationship. If not, you need to build that right from the start. You need to be able to go in his office or her office and vice versa, shut the door and say, "Hey, we have something we have to work on here.", and make sure you approach it that way and start the ball rolling. I guess the relationships are so important to build beforehand.*Bill Godfrey: *It really does come down to that. Adam, it reminds me as we're sitting here talking about this, I recall you were actually a part of a training incident we had where in a training session, the law enforcement agency was talking about the EMS teams going down range and the EMS team said, "What are you talking about? We haven't trained for that', now for the benefit of the audience, this was quite a number of years ago now, and the law enforcement folks said, "Well, it's in policy." It turned out that it was in the law enforcement agency's policy, and the fire department, it was news to them. Talk a little bit about that surreal moment.*Adam Pendley: *Sure. That's absolutely true. Through training law enforcement has received, again, you talk about certain assumptions are made and if those assumptions are not shared with your fire EMS counterpart, you may find yourself standing alone. I'd like to add that in many communities, we already have a structure in place to have this workshop together and start sorting through these policies and we do it with natural disasters. In my area in Florida where I'm from, we already have management from the various agencies involved sit down in a pre planning sort of way and put together a comprehensive emergency management plan for natural disasters. I would think from kind of back to the original question, the City manager or some executive level person who's in this community might ask, "Have we done a similar process for a crime of violence, for an active shooter event? Have we had that same level of comparing notes together to come up with a shared policy that we do with other natural disasters that we have in on the rest of the country?"*Bill Godfrey: *Pete, something Adam just said made me kind of click and thinking about this. He made the comment about, "We make assumptions in our policies." I know I've seen more than I would care to admit, fire policies that law enforcement shall do this, we'll do this, shall do that and never vetted with that law enforcement agency, never signed off. How common is that on the law enforcement side? What do you see at the county level, at the city level with those kinds of assumptions that people put in their policies that weren't cross-checked with the people that they're assuming they're going to execute?*Pete Kelting: *Well, we certainly hope that we are sharing information and writing policy together, but that is common, Bill. You find that from local jurisdictions, from cities to county Sheriffs, from Sheriffs to state police and other fire agencies around our region, that if we haven't worked together ahead of time to vet those policies to know that we're again, going to train in the same dynamics when it comes to response to these incidents, is crucial. I think there's committees going on now as we know through NFPA and being able to look at standards. Not only do you have the standards nationally, but you also have cultural issues in a sense, are training ways of things. We always have joked in the past a little bit about the East coast versus the West coast of how things are done. They're done differently across the country, but I think we're making great strides and coming together on training committees, on think groups through safety summits and so forth where we know we need to sit down, look at each other's policies, write them if we don't have them, vet them and make sure that we're all on the same.*Tom Billington: *If I can jump in Pete because there's two things that you said make sense. One is, you want to see the fire Chief and the police Chief or Sheriff's signature on this thing, both of them. The other thing that happens so many times that we want to make sure does not happen with this policy is, when you ask the patrolman on midnight shift or you asked the firefighter who works at a station 10 miles away, "Tell me about your active shooter policy" and they say, "I have no idea what you're talking about." This is something that it can't go on the shelf. Everybody has to know about it and it has to be drilled and trained as so.*Adam Pendley: *It's interesting that you say that because I think it's also important to include your nongovernmental organizations and your private entities that might be involved in these things as well because I can give you a recent example where, again, this was more of a natural disaster example, but every week, we got everyone at the table to start discussing policies and how they would approach the plan. We had some special needs folks who ran some facilities and it was in their policy that law enforcement would transport anyone that has a need to a special needs shelter. Law enforcement had to step up and say, "We would not have the resources for that. That's something you're going to have to be responsible for." So the same thing is going to happen, if you're successful in getting people to sit down, what's everyone's kind of touched on is, wanting to sit at the same table to make sure you de-conflict each other's policies and that you come up with a shared policy that matches industry standards. Like Pete mentioned, you get a better outcome. You're prepared for when that day comes.*Bill Godfrey: *Pete, I'm going to point this one to you. I think we've all talked about the importance of having a joint policy. It's just the easy way for the Mayor, the City Manager, the County Administrator to be able to know that those policies had been de-conflicted at the very least, as police Chief and fire Chief were on the same page. What should the Mayor, City Manager, County Administrator key in on when they run into the inevitable situation that the police Chief, fire Chief, EMS Chief, walk in, sit down for the meeting and say, "Well, here's our policy." "Well, here's our policy.", and they say there they're not going to do a joint policy, that this is fine and doesn't need to be a joint policy as we're discussing? What are the things that the Mayor or the City Manager, what do they go look for that tips them that there's still problems?*Pete Kelting: *I think when you see that trainings aren't happening together, when you have full scale exercises being conducted in regional settings and agencies aren't participating because they don't believe their policy fits that or they haven't trained to that, if they're seeing that their agency's not purchasing the right resources, that they just don't seem to have the awareness of where the active shooter response from an agency is headed across the country. You look at the recent incidents and the after action reports are clear, when we can learn from previous incidents where we can improve. Time and time again, often that failure to train together, that failure to participate in exercises, failure to support the agency through purchase of equipment, and stay on top of that readiness, that operational need to be responding to an incident, we all, you hear it again, we all say that it's never going to happen our jurisdiction, but look what's happening. It is. It's happening in our jurisdictions.*Pete Kelting: *We've got to be ready, our mayors, our Chiefs, our Sheriffs got to work together. They've got to support us with budgets and equipment and training and joint policies.*Bill Godfrey: *I think that's very succinctly put and focuses on the right thing. Well, gentlemen, let's wrap this one up here and I thank you very much for your time. For those of you that are still listening, we got nine more questions to go, so please tune in for the other nine part in this series of 10 questions that the Mayor, City Manager, County Administrator should ask their police and fire Chiefs. Thank you.

Discover the team of college students working around the clock for your safety in this interview with Ryan Klimkewicz. As the chief of EMS here at HWS, Ryan oversees more than twenty students and liaises with various community resources. Taking some time from his sleepless schedule, Ryan gives us some insight into what life is like juggling the responsibilities of college and EMS. He also …

Episode127 is Jon Politis. I could tell you that Jon retired from EMS and Public Safety after starting his career in 1971. I would be not telling you the truth. Jon is an engaging educator who has presented at many state and national conferences across the US and Canada. Jon has served in many capacities: firefighter, ski patroller, Paramedic, Paramedic Program Coordinator, State EMS Training Coordinator and EMS Chief. He was the first Chief of EMS of the Town of Colonie EMS Department Jon continues to practice as a Paramedic, continues as an active volunteer firefighter and alpine ski patroller. In the summers he works as a Seasonal Ranger/Paramedic in Grand Teton National Park, Jackson Hole, WY. Jon and I talk about bringing 6 EMS agencies into one, leadership, politics, ski patrol and his Boot Camp Educational Program for supervisors.

Episode 69: Everitt Binns has 50 years of EMS experience. That is a lot of years and time in this profession. He has held all positions and he is currently the EMS Chief for Grand View Health is Sellersville Pennsylvania. HIs experience as a leader, executive and professor has provided his employees, students and the EMS world with a wealth of knowledge and teachable moments. Ev as he likes to be called was one of my professors at Hahnemann University (now Drexel) and provided me with not just education, but lots of wisdom. We discuss Ev's leadership style, how he got into EMS, what I was like as a student and many other topics.

This show will be geared primarily toward our MCFRS personnel. Assistant Chief Mike McAdams, our EMS Chief, will be the guest and will discuss all things EMS. Phone lines, email, and IM will be opened up for a Q & A for all MCFRS personnel. Tune in and learn what is, and what will be, going on related to EMS in MCFRS.

This show will be geared primarily toward our MCFRS personnel. Assistant Chief Mike McAdams, our EMS Chief, will be the guest and will discuss all things EMS. Phone lines, email, and IM will be opened up for a Q & A for all MCFRS personnel. Tune in and learn what is, and what will be, going on related to EMS in MCFRS.