White Rose Ambulance EMT/Paramedic (Recruitment Video)

[DrWalrawc]

All states I know of are 18 yoa, w/ insurance limiting it to 21...thus, you can be employeed, but not DRIVE. That is the usual problem.

[maximunOD]

Great job on video! Gets me fired up. T minus one year till I'll be in a rig! Keep on keepin on!

[110518jo]

how old do you have to be to become an emt? i heard 16 but do different companies have different rules?

[medic415]

Depends on what state you run in. I believe in Pennsylvania you have to be 18y/o to hold a cert. An now a days most places are looking for people that are 21 and older due to insurance policies.

[JohhnyApocalypse]

I turn 17 and I'm currently certified as an emt-b I can't run till I'm 18 though...

[JohhnyApocalypse]

I turn 17 tomorrow*

[firedragon869]

in pa you have to be 16 to hold a cert and you can run and provide care as long as there is a senior provider who will take responsibiliteis for your care

[EmergencyBLS]

@medic415

In PA, you must be 16 years of age to start an EMT course, and may become one at any time after you are 16. However, most companies will not offer a job to you due to the requirements of EVOC, which require you to be 18 regardless if you hold a PA SR driver's license or not.

[Lawmaster1702]

@EmergencyBLS most companies won't give you a job now till you're 21 due to insurance companies. No insurance company will insure a 911 EMT till they're 21, only places that will insure under 21 EMT's are transport only companies, no 911 stuff. Atleast, not in PA

[medic415]

@Lawmaster1702 This is absolutely correct, it is amazing how much the EMS landscape has changed over the past 5-10yrs. Most places are looking for at least a years experience, a clean driving and criminal record, and like you denoted 21 years of age. Hopefully these changes are for the better to help EMS to be viewed as a professional career, not just a job!

[Lawmaster1702]

@medic415 well it will help make the job look more professional by helping to weed out the younger teenagers who aren't serious about the job, it does make it alot harder on EMT's like myself, who are only 18, but are serious about the job. White Rose and many other places in york county have turned me down due solely to the fact that I'm not 21.

[theycallmedwayne]

@110518jo 18 in NY to become an emt, and some companies will take you at 18, but 21 helps so you can have a CDL (that's the age in NY, dunno about other states)

[mbfd5130]

great video!

[emsmh2]

What they do not show you is how many transports they do!! Trust me I have been around paid EMS enough the transport load out numbers the 911 calls.

[EMTi99JH]

Awesome :D 9/10

[mnstrgarge]

that is exactly what being an EMT is. it's not what you see on ER, but its real. great video.

[howlindawgs]

Hey Guys!!! Boy that brings back memories... York Hospital EM Residency Class of '04!!!

Nice work, fellas.

[roofuslwinn]

meh! i hate private ambulance companies, work for your county rescue, not a bad vid though.

[emt62]

@roofuslwinn PA doesnt do the whole county wide rescue services, every county has multiple fire depts and EMS services throughout the communites of that county. The whole county wide thing is non existant in this state

[coolluke10]

nice video and song great 24 hour servie

[110covey]

hey gauge I think you watched one too many emergency shows from the 70s

[APO15332]

Nice video, Wanna swap out "jobs" you get with some of the jobs my corps gets in Rockland County NY??

[izuki27]

spare me twoid. the footage is from multiple calls then cut and pasted together. i think they know what they are doing.

[twoid]

spare me. going to a code with no backboard or cot??

[mjkraska]

Anytime you wanna hang with the "Big Dog" ... gimme a call!

[Lawmaster1702]

@twoid they always send two rigs to a cardiac arrest..so the first rig arrives and starts pt care and the second rig arrives for transport and assist. but izuki27 is right,,the footage is from multiple calls then cut and pasted together where actual footage couldn't be obtained.

[Rescue2000]

Oh PLEASE! They should do a video of all the accidents they have had!

[dynex265]

Nice video.......but how do you treat someone who has been shot in the But.

[Adam2334]

irrigate with sterile water, cover with gauze and keep patient off the injured buttock. where i was we weren't allowed to remove anything from the patient unless it was obstructing the airway, but this video is in NY and they are paramedics, so they might do something different.

[emt62]

@Adam2334 this video does not take place in NY, it takes place in York, PA. Pennsylvania medics and EMTS cannot remove an impaled object from the body unless its in the airway, PA protocol states control bleeding, stabilize the object if sticking out, and transport. Along with that you may need to give fluids via IV if there is blood loss, and everything else that goes along with an ALS call.

[fabifly]

That's a really cool video! I appreciate it especially since I'm thinking of becoming a paramedic :)

[nfd162red]

Nice Video, Love the dispatches

[Adam2334]

dude those dispatches blow. take to long and difficult to understand... probably a bitch, too.

[Lawmaster1702]

@Adam2334 they're shorter then the old dispatches and we still get all the information we need...and they're alot easier to understand since we switched to the new digital system..and now our pages are text instead of audio.

[DFD57]

Cool video. I'm out of NE AR. Stay safe up there. I work in Fire and EMS as well.