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CFDMedics.com was started September 24th 2006 to help keep you informed, give you a place to ask questions and get answers. Give your point of view and pass ideas around.
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On this site you will find News, Forums, Live Chat, Calendar Of Events, Links to other sites, Classifieds, Pictures, Suggestions, ConEd, The Sounder, The Octagon, General Orders and much more.
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 | Heroics at Taste of Chicago/Tourist revived after going into cardiac arrest |  |  |  |
 | Friday July 03 2009 - 08:12:31
LIFE SAVERS | Tourist revived after going into cardiac arrest Fri, 3 Jul 2009 04:00 BY MONIFA THOMAS Staff Reporter/mjthomas@suntimes.com A 52-year-old woman who went into cardiac arrest on her way to the Taste of Chicago on Thursday was resuscitated, thanks to a quick-thinking passerby and a pair of paramedics on bicycles. The unidentified woman, an Arizona tourist, was walking to the Taste when she collapsed near Balbo and Columbus around 10:30 a.m., Chicago Fire Department officials said. A good samaritan on her bicycle spotted the woman and began administering cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Shortly after, fire department paramedics Michael Guerin and Elvis Falbo arrived on their bikes in response to a 911 call. The injured woman didn't have a pulse and was not breathing, but the paramedics were able to shock her heart back into a normal rhythm with an automated external defibrillator from one of their bikes. "As soon as we shocked her, we got a pulse back," Guerin said. "I've been a paramedic for 15 years, and this is the first time I've defibrillated someone and had them wake up and start talking." Guerin said the first words she spoke were, "Where am I?" The woman was taken to a waiting ambulance by a medical cart and then to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where she is said to be in serious but stable condition, officials said. The rescue might not have been possible if not for the paramedics' bicycle team, which can weave in and out of crowded spaces like the Taste with life-saving defibrillators and other medical supplies in tow, said Marc Levison, assistant deputy fire commissioner of EMS operations. "You can't beat them. They're just invaluable," he said of the team, which is also used to patrol busy downtown areas. Ninety-five percent of people who go into sudden cardiac arrest die within minutes. The odds of surviving are much better if someone can get blood flowing to the heart by quickly performing CPR and using a defibrillator to restore a normal heart rhythm, as was the case Thursday. Levison said the Fire Department's response time at the Taste is less than two minutes, in part because of the three, two-man bike teams on site. On average, paramedics respond to 15 to 25 medical emergencies a day at the food fest, he said. Guerin and Falbo thanked the samaritan, who appeared to have some form of medical training. "Nothing can be more rewarding than saving somebody's life," said Falbo, a paramedic for 11 years. "I'm just glad we were there." |  |
 | Tuesday June 30 2009 - 11:22:25
FFPM Soto, from E 26 has a daughter who is in dire need of blood donations. She is in the process of going through Chemotherapy for Leukemia and needs platelets. ANY blood type will do.
As members of the greatest fire department we look out for our brothers and sisters who are in need of help. PLEASE help FFPM Soto’s little girl.
Any blood/platelet donations for Angie can be made by appt. at Life Source 847-299-7386 You must specify that your donation is for Angelina L. Soto Birth date: 10/12/2007
Any Question contact Lt. Runas @ E 26 2/C, 312-733-3983 |  |
 | Court rules for white firefighters over promotions |  |  |  |
 | Monday June 29 2009 - 10:05:18
By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press Writer Mark Sherman, Associated Press Writer 2 mins ago WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court ruled Monday that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision that high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor endorsed as an appeals court judge.
New Haven was wrong to scrap a promotion exam because no African-Americans and only two Hispanic firefighters were likely to be made lieutenants or captains based on the results, the court said Monday in a 5-4 decision. The city said that it had acted to avoid a lawsuit from minorities.
The ruling could alter employment practices nationwide and make it harder to prove discrimination when there is no evidence it was intentional.
"Fear of litigation alone cannot justify an employer's reliance on race to the detriment of individuals who passed the examinations and qualified for promotions," Justice Anthony Kennedy said in his opinion for the court. He was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas.
In dissent, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the white firefighters "understandably attract this court's sympathy. But they had no vested right to promotion. Nor have other persons received promotions in preference to them."
Justices Stephen Breyer, David Souter and John Paul Stevens signed onto Ginsburg's dissent, which she read aloud in court Monday.
Kennedy's opinion made only passing reference to the work of Sotomayor and the other two judges on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals who upheld a lower court ruling in favor of New Haven.
But the appellate judges have been criticized for producing a cursory opinion that failed to deal with "indisputably complex and far from well-settled" questions, in the words of another appeals court judge, Sotomayor mentor Jose Cabranes.
"This perfunctory disposition rests uneasily with the weighty issues presented by this appeal," Cabranes said, in a dissent from the full 2nd Circuit's decision not to hear the case.
Monday's decision has its origins in New Haven's need to fill vacancies for lieutenants and captains in its fire department. It hired an outside firm to design a test, which was given to 77 candidates for lieutenant and 41 candidates for captain.
Fifty six firefighters passed the exams, including 41 whites, 22 blacks and 18 Hispanics. But of those, only 17 whites and two Hispanics could expect promotion.
The city eventually decided not to use the exam to determine promotions. It said it acted because it might have been vulnerable to claims that the exam had a "disparate impact" on minorities in violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The white firefighters said the decision violated the same law's prohibition on intentional discrimination.
Kennedy said an employer needs a "strong basis in evidence" to believe it will be held liable in a disparate impact lawsuit. New Haven had no such evidence, he said.
The city declined to validate the test after it was given, a step that could have identified flaws or determined that there were no serious problems with it. In addition, city officials could not say what was wrong with the test, other than the racially skewed results. |  |
 | Wednesday June 17 2009 - 09:37:46 Going to start revamping site over the next few months seems I put in a number of areas that no one is using. Sad that with so many Fire Fighter medics and Paramedics on the job we have very few that use the forums, I guess we have no problems its a perfect EMS? We have no News to report? No one using Classifieds No pictures, Movies or YouTube uploads? No Union issues? Seems its a perfect world for us, funny I don't hear that in the ER paramedic rooms. Its Great and I welcome all the new medics and those that are looking to join us.
I want to thank the few that have sent/posted to site.
Maybe I did not express this at top of site:
CFDMedics.com was started September 24th 2006 to help keep you informed, give you a place to ask questions and get answers. Give your point of view and pass ideas around.
THIS SITE IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC PLEASE REGISTER. JOIN US TODAY. WE WELCOME ANYONE LOOKING TO BECOME FIRE FIGHTERS, EMTS, OTHER DEPTMENTS, ALL ARE WELCOME.
On this site you will find News, Forums, Live Chat, Calendar Of Events, Links to other sites, Classifieds, Pictures, Suggestions, ConEd, The Sounder, The Octagon, General Orders and much more.
All of which you can freely post yourself. In fact I ask that you do.
The best source of information and concerns will come from you.
I have only so much time and hoped there would be move of you posting to site. Just maybe the new EMT's using the chat so much will keep site going?
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CFDAdminJul 03: 07:58Up and untill a class starts anyone has a chance to be called. I can tell all of you we on the Dept are working are asses off with overtime.
jdl32778Jul 02: 20:47Can someone please answer my last question. Any kind of response would be greatly appreciated.
jdl32778Jun 30: 10:38I meant do they have everyone they need for the next medic academy?
jdl32778Jun 30: 10:37What did they do for final processing on Monday? How do they have everyone they need for the next medic academy?
cfd0503Jun 25: 08:42No news is good news.....have patience.........
jdl32778Jun 25: 08:29Plus, I have not received a letter for the next academy on July 16th. I heard some already have, anyone know my chance of getting in the July 16th academy if I already took my medical?
jdl32778Jun 25: 08:26I took my medical on Wednesday June 17th and still I have not heard from the city, does this mean I am O.K. with my physical, or is it still early, it's already been over a week.
cfdhmtJun 25: 05:4636 crossovers, rumor is 40 next class!
meJun 25: 01:25Has CFD changed their EMS evaluation tests in light of that Fire Paramedic Candidate that suffered the kidney injury/problem & is now sueing the city ?
meJun 24: 23:34Just curious, any reason/s why people I know that have been on the EMS list for years that are FF/Medics on Suburbs are still waiting to be given a call if they're still interested in CFD?
jdl32778Jun 24: 21:33Another question I took my medical on June 17th, and I have not heard from anyone yet if something was out of range, is this a good thing or a bad thing?
jdl32778Jun 24: 21:09The July 16th academy
jdl32778Jun 24: 21:06Does anyone know how many will be in the next academy? I took my medical on Wed, June 17, what is my chance on getting in the next academy?
JMW1981Jun 23: 23:15Any word on when the medic list will open for CFD?
firemedic244Jun 23: 19:15my number was 71. My paperwork got delayed a few months ago because of an investigator. No big deal
mac22Jun 23: 18:26congrats Firemedic, what was your number?
firemedic244Jun 23: 17:36Just got my letter this afternoon. Have to report for final processing on Monday and the academy does start July 16th
firemedic244Jun 23: 13:44I went through my medical mid may. But there are some guys that went through their medical in January and haven't been hired yet...I met them at the last processing for CE. Probably about 8 of them. And, there are some who are going through their medical now. I have a friend that just went for his on saturday
mac22Jun 23: 12:30Firemedic
when did you take your medical?
adam871Jun 22: 21:30my guess is we will be getting a call this week
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