Hey @Southmetrofirerescuepio, you could do a video about PulsePoint. You could give an overview about the different calls you have and which units normally respond to them. Added to this you could explain the abbreviations for the vehicles and neighbour fire departments. Keep up your amazing work, it's really interesting to watch your videos and to learn about your Fire Department. Best wishes, stay safe! Luca
Woohoo, finally a medic unit on fleet friday :D I'm a german paramedic and super interested in the different approaches or systems countries use in EMS, so I've been waiting for this episode since the first fleet friday...
Thank you Jeff and thanks Eric and Conner... They carry more stuff on a wagon today then they did in my days... All great stuff and I learn a lot from these... THANK YOU!
So this is the right guy for the review of SMFR Ambulance. Jeffrey did an excellent job in explaining the equipment carried and the use of same. It is great that every unit carries Wildfire equipment too as well as tactical plus many of pieces of equipment for other applications as well.
It's really awesome that you guys have people's animals in mind when equipping your vehicles, I wish all fire departments would do that. Love seeing your videos!!!
Hi! Your channel came across my feed as a recommendation, after watching this one, I wanted to be a part of your family. Let me just say I live in the east coast, and soooooo appreciate our local EMT/ Firefighters, and personally thanking you from my heart to all of your hearts. God bless and keep you all safe always! 🙏
Hello Medic 16 from Brunswick, OH. and Station 16. Thank you for your service from my wife and myself. I hope to work for SMFR. God Bless You all. Thank you for the tour of the ambulance, Jeffrey. Thank you for your service too. :)
I’m surprised the jump box and airway bag wasn’t in the compartment that is accessible from inside and outside of the bus. That’s how all ambulances, both ALS and BLS are where I’m from.
My dads been a firefighter and so am I but my dad primarily is a paramedic he has been for 30 years and his ambulance is way different they carry nothing besides one blue fire helmet for debree and that’s it I was shocked to see how much fire equipment was in this ambulance
Great walk around. You did not skip the "small" or "big" stuff and you did not dumb down. Q. How much weight can the cot hold?? Q. How much does the cot weigh?? Q. How much weight can the cot lifter handle?? Q. How many medic units does SMFR have?? (Frontline and reserve) THANKS 🚑🚒🚓
Crazy that it is just sooooo empty in all the compartments, especially the medical supplies. In Europe we always wonder why US trucks are that much bigger than our counterparts. And now I start to grasp that we usually have far more equipment on a way smaller vehicle.
Does South Metro not use LUKAS Devices? If you don’t know what a LUKAS Device is it’s an automated CPR machine that gives Automatic CPR to the patient when attached
SMFR does not use the LUCAS device at this time. SMFR is a data driven agency and the current data does not support the use of mechanical CPR devices like the LUCAS. Mechanical CPR devices are very trendy and cool right now, but there have been studies that suggests that they do not improve patient outcomes and may possibly have worse survival rates than manual hands on CPR. SMFR currently has a high survival rate with their current pit crew CPR with manual compressions and would prefer to keep it that way until there is better data that shows mechanical CPR devices results in better patient outcomes during a cardiac arrest.
Thanks for the upload. Very different to here in Australia where ambulance and fire are two different agencies. Instead of firefighter paramedics, our ambulances are always crewed by two advanced care paramedics. Critical care paramedics respond in SUVs and we also have low acuity paramedics who drive vans and treat patients in their home, instead of taking them to a hospital or or local doctors surgery. What's US paramedic pay and conditions like? Stay safe out there.
South Metro is just a single sample in a very large country where different agencies do things differently. Something that may surprise you is that the scope of practice for what a paramedic can do can and often does vary by state. Some places like Denver, South Metro's immediate neighbor to the north, keeps fire services and ambulances separate with a public ambulance agency. Other communities in Colorado utilize a private company like AMR to provide their ambulances. The decision to staff ambulances is also highly variable as even within SMFR there are several ambulances are staffed by two paramedics and others that staffed with one EMT and one paramedic. SMFR has an Advanced Resource Medic (ARM) program that is staffed by an advanced practice paramedic and nurse practitioner that can do similar in-home treatments. The pay is also going to be extremely variable depending on where in the country the paramedic is and who they work for. Last I heard, the salary for an entry-level paramedic/firefighter for SMFR is in the mid $60,000s with the most senior paramedics reaching into the $100,000 range. Some other department and private companies may be closer to $30,000-40,000 as there is no national standard for compensation. Conditions are going to be variable like everything else with some agencies and areas being great with all the equipment they need, support, and the calls they go on are real emergencies. Others can be terrible where the agency attempts to minimize all costs and the paramedics feel that they are Ubers for frequent bogus calls.
@@Spitfire8520 Thanks for the insight. Made for very interesting reading. In most Australian states, our ambulance services are owned and operated by state governments. Imagine a single "Colorado Ambulance Service", where irrespective if you're in Grand Junction, Denver or Wray you'll have the same skill set, ambulances, equipment and pay. In four Australian states, skill set is very similar, so a paramedic in Victoria could do a lateral transfer to Queensland and only need the standard 2 or 4 weeks induction training. A university degree (Bachelor of Paramedicine) is a pre requisite for potential recruits. In my state pay level varies by years of service and rank. $46/hr and about $115k/year is normal, with 8 weeks annual leave and the employer pays $2 for every $1 you contribute to your superannuation scheme (retirement fund). All uniforms and PPE gear is supplied free. Sad to read some US EMS providers don't respect their workers with better pay.
Hi south metro I am from wales my dad and my two uncles ar firefighter my uncles ar fire fighter and my dad is a safety firefighter and I would love to meet you and give a tour of our local fire dept we call it fire station but call it what ever you like and you can get a patch to add to patch collection 👍
Station 34's area is the busiest covering commercial, residential, and portions of interstate highway as well as being centrally located in SMFR's district. Station 34's area recorded more than 2,500 calls in 2019 with 2,123 being emergent calls. Tower 34 is SMFR's busiest unit with 2,741 calls in 2019.
Do you guys still back board? We no longer backboard any patient. We collar but no longer back board. I find it difficult not to back board a MVA patient with severe back pain. I guess on my part old habits die hard.
LOL lots of unnecessary stuff for paramedics in this ambulance. But the stryker powerload is a nice piece of gear. We are using them too. You should definitely change these bad LP-15 ECG! They aren’t state of art anymore... Corpuls C3 is the best ECG!
@@matthewassell6471 The LP-15 and Corpuls C3 are both essential, they are electrocardiogram monitors. Whether or not SMFR uses the new ECGs has to do with budget, not neccesity.
@@denverfirebuff Corpuls is not sold in the US and is not approved by the FDA. The only 2 options for a monitor/defibrillator approved by the FDA are either the LIFEPAK 15 or ZOLL X Series.
1:26 Keeping the fire PPE in medical cabinet that is accessible from outside and inside the rig and has medical supplies, doesn’t seem like a good clean cab design, especially for a medic unit.
Spike59 South Metro does hands on CPR from the ting they arrive on scene all the way to the hospital if they need to. Please let me know if you have any other questions.
The vast majority of all patient reports are called in by phone in Colorado. Occasionally patient reports will be relayed by MetCom if all hands are working on a patient or the phone does not work. There are hospital radio channels available, but they are almost never used and it can be hit or miss if the hospitals are actually monitoring the channel due to how infrequently they are used.
A Battalion Chief at south Metro oversees a Battalion 5-6 station. And a district chief is the shift commander for SMFR he oversees the 5 battalions at SMFR. Let me know if you have any other questions.
Camden W. Copenhaver yeah, I got it, I’ve only seen one or the other at departments not both at the same one. Where I am there are just battalion chiefs, but another department near us has district chiefs but they basically do the same thing as a battalion chief over there so I was curious.
@@nicktaylor6960 Syracuse New York, has 3 districts which is the equivalent of a battalion chief and 1 duty deputy per shift, Syracuse has 6 deputy chiefs.
South Metro ambulances are staffed by firefighter/paramedics so that they can do either at a fire scene. If there is no patient at a fire, then the medic crew can be used for fire related tasks such as accessing a hydrant or searching a building instead of standing by and watching the fire.
The LIFEPAK 15 cardiac monitor/defibrillator that he briefly showed at 10:23 would be the AED. It has a mode to operate as an AED if the user is not a paramedic, but a paramedic will use it in the manual mode to provide manual shocks as needed.
