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Certs...
< on 10/8/2004 4:26 PM >
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Just curious what others have. I have the following:

OSHA 40 Hour HAZWOPER, 29CFR1910.120
First Responder (Awareness), 29CFR1910.120 (q) (6) (i)
First Responder (Operations [FRO]), 29CFR1910.120 (q) (6) (ii)
First Responder (Incident/Scene Commander) 29CFR1910.120 (q) (6) (v)

I am aware that these are more in line for an industrial/environmental response situation, but I am also an EMT with the State of California (through my company) and Am part of the local Confined Space Rescue Team with our local fire department.

Looking to get involved with the Urban SAR Team with San Jose Fire, but as of yet I am a little to busy. Hopefully soon though.

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Re: Certs...
< Reply # 1 on 10/8/2004 4:45 PM >
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I dont have much offical certs...

I founded and ran a small volunteer emergency response group in Ontario. It was founded to provide emergency traffic control under the direction of a police officer at various fire / accident scenes where traffic control may be required. during the time i ran the group we earned a lot of respect with the authorities and fire dept - to the point where we got ourselves sponsers and began to work large high profile events. since then, someone else took it over and i quit because of his childness (he took it over because he wanted to be the boss... i had tried to kick him out numerous times but the board of directors didn't want to because they claimed he had important police contacts... lol - yea maybe because he was arrested and charged for assault times 2, against 2 members of another emergency response group in our area)... the group has gone downhill... the company that sponsered us went under (possiabily because of the fact that the group stopped working those high profile events and the sponcering company was held responsiable)

I am still fully equipt to respond to calls if i was required, but i dont do that much anymore.

anyhow, yea... anyhow, its sad when people get so childish that they ruin a good thing. but what ya gonna do.




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< Reply # 2 on 10/8/2004 5:16 PM >
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Right now I'm working on my EMT-Basic and First Responders classes, our high school offers college classes, so I get credit for high school and college, and ,get this, I dont have to pay the 1000$ fee, its all covered. I also get a head start on what I'm doing. I hope to get a job with an ambulance company here in dever, and work for them while I work on becoming an RN. My brother is a certified EMT and he's Interior Qualified, he works with a volunteer fire department here in denver. My friend Brandon is looking at becoming a police officer for Lakewood here soon, if he lays off on all that weed he smokes.




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< Reply # 3 on 10/9/2004 12:49 AM >
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I have my 2 year Ambulance and Emergency Care Diploma as well as my Ontario Advanced Emergency Medcal Care Attendant Registration (Primary Care Paramedic....equivalent in skillset to a US EMT_ Intermediatte) and my Advanced Care Paramedic Certification (Land) which would be the equivalent of the US NREMT-P which took another 6 months to complete. I was also a volunteer firefighter for East Gwillumbury Township for 5 years and have my 100 hour Recruit Firefighter Training Program.

I worked for 10 years as a Primary Care Paramedic (PCP) and 4 years as an Advanced Care Paramedic (ACP). The skillset included:
IVs, IOs, oral and nasal intubation, needle cricothyrotomy (basically an emergency tracheotomy), needle decompression of the chest, ACLS meds, narcotic and sedative administration (Fentanyl, Morphine, Versed, Valium), cardioversion, cardiac pacing,
12 lead ECGs etc.




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< Reply # 4 on 10/9/2004 11:49 PM >
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How long have you been working on all those? Thats alot of certifications.




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< Reply # 5 on 10/10/2004 8:59 PM >
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The Primary Care Paramedic Cert in Ontario is a 2 year community college program, then you write your Advanced Emergency Medical Attendant (provincial certification to work as a PCP). Once funding was anounced for ACP training, I entered the selection competition and was picked to take it at the expense of my department while being paid. The firefighter training was paid by the town and I went 4 weekends a month for 10 weeks.

Aside from the PCP which I took before I started working over 14 years ago, everything occured over the years.



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< Reply # 6 on 11/5/2004 5:47 PM >
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I'm a EMT-Cardiac Tech, which in the state of Virginia is just slightly below an EMT-Paramedic. I also have the usual slew of alphabet soup, ACLS, PALS, PHTLS, EVOC, CPR-Instructor, Extrication Tech, HazMat Awareness. The only really interesting extra cert I have is Wilderness EMT. A far more worthwhile course than anything that the AHA has taught me. I used to be active in SAR, and am a field team member under the appalachian SAR conference. For that matter, I'm also trained to 'level 0' by the National Cave Rescue Commision, but its a worthless cert from an organization that I'm not fond of.

I'm doing my best to claw my way up to paramedic, but without spending a costly two years at private school. I'm too close to burned out to sink that kind of money in this field.

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< Reply # 7 on 8/24/2005 1:21 AM >
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I just passed my OFA level II (Workplace First Aid Attendant). I got really interested in First Aid and medicine taking this course, but after taking four years of [non-medicine] school already, I don't think my brain could take any more.




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< Reply # 8 on 3/10/2008 8:41 PM >
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My certs are pretty basic as I'm 15 and don't meet most of the minimum age requirements. I have my bronze cross, SFA, and AWSI. I'm planning to be a lifeguard so I'll be getting my NLS pool and waterpark as well as my WSI next year.




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< Reply # 9 on 1/6/2009 8:43 AM >
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I have my Wildland red card (Wild land FF)
And a bunch of other wildland leadership and aircraft safety/Hazmat certs
Hazwoper
EMT 1 Starting my two next week
ICS 100, 200, 700
Envirmental safety
Oilefield safety
Driver safety
Leadership essentials
Gang awareness for first responders
And some other shit
Getting my Ice rescue tech in a few months
And this Spring im Getting my Swift water rescue tech Basic and advanced, And Technical Rope rescue tech, Aswell as my FF 1 and 2 for State of Alaska, and this sumemr am trying out for Seattle fire dept!




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< Reply # 10 on 12/20/2009 2:03 PM >
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Standard First Aid & CPR level "C"
Advanced Medical First Responder
Health Care Practitioner level CPR
Oxygen Administration
Semi-Automatic External Defibrillator
Symptom Relief Drug administration (Nitroglycerin, ASA, Ventolin, Epinephrine and Glucagon)
Search and Rescue (land)
Search and Rescue (marine)
Advanced Amateur Radio Operator
Restricted Maritime Mobile Radio Operator
Monadnoc Friction Lock ASP Baton
Pressure Point Control Tactics
Spontaneous Edged Weapon Defense
Verbal Judo / Tactical Communications
Tactical Ground Defense
WHMIS / HazMat

And likely a few others I'm forgetting.




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Recently finished my Fire Science AS Degree at the local Community College.

In 2008 I participated in the semester long FFI Academy and through this I was able to obtain these Certs:

Incident Command 200
S130/S190
Rapid Intervention Crew Tactics (very fun, but tough)
HAZMAT - Operational
Confined Space Rescue Awareness

Hopefully will obtain EMT-B in the next few years as there are no jobs available where I live in California right now, I see no need to take the course.


Other Certs I have obtained not related to school:

Basic Emergency Response Training (96 Hours)
Safety Through Maintenance and Construction Zones (16 Hour Flagger Training)
Various CPR cards that are all expired (need to take a refresher course)


Hope to join the Fire Service someday as my father and grandfather have both been members of 2 diff. departments here in the Bay Area.




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< Reply # 12 on 5/21/2011 2:05 AM >
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I would post, but that would identify me...

All that I will say is that I have enough to be a instructor for EFA and soon to have enough to instruct SFA.




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BMOQ (how to march, make a bed, clean and shoot a rifle and write a memo)
Common Army Phase (fuck yeah, rockets n shit)
Infantry Officer crse/phase III INF (more fuck yeah, LAV's and more rockets and HMG's n shit)
phase III and V INT O (My knees and back where getting a bit to worn (phase IV is on the job training and not really a formal course)
QL 3 and 5 Med Tech (open crse spots that looked interesting) QL5 is roughly (again QL4 is OTJ) ACP/EMT-I for Americans, with a bit extra and the associated mix of letters like ACLS, ATLS extraction team, and most interesting surgical assistant. (really just handing instruments or pushing meds into the IV block..)
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CBRN responder.
Rappel and rappel rescue. (Inf days)
Falling thought the sky for 30,000+ feet and hoping a sheet of nylon will make everything okay.

Best of all, Commander of an office tucked away in a big building that most people don't even know is there but call it a lot for assistance when they accidently their /dev/sda1 and need techint to recover the data.




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(IL) First Responder cert
(IN) FF Mandatory
WOrking on FF 1 & FF 2 now one month to go
Arson investigation course work "check"

I have to redo all my first responder classes for Indiana because they say I am not qualified enough, however the corse uses the same book as Illinois and I was approved to do twice as much in IL that want a FR can even do in IN. I don't get the state border thing when it comes to emergency response, peoples bodies don't change when you enter a different state.

sorry for the rant...




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< Reply # 15 on 2/21/2013 11:50 AM >
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I'm a security guard and I was going to school to be an EMT. I got as far as getting first responder certified (which is its own thing in Minnesota). Going further was a little too much for me after all. I do want to be a street medic, though (at protests and whatnot) which I think would be a lot of fun and help people who aren't always able to get the help they need right away.

Alas, I'll never ride the rig or get to carry cool stuff on my belt. Just wasn't meant to be, I guess. Pretty neat that there's so many first responders into UE, though!




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Updated a bit... Emergency First Responder and International Trauma Life Support now too.




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