MORE EMERGENCY RESPONSE PROBLEMS HEADING TO KANSAS CITY?!?!



Big city problems have a way of quickly finding their way to this cowtown. This morning, an AWESOME TKC TIPSTER sends us an important perspective on a national dilemma that's taking hold on the East Coast and now starting to trend in Kansas City.

The sitch:

Philly short on medics, overloaded with firefighters

"The city has more than 1,900 firefighters and less than 250 paramedics even though 84 percent of calls are for EMS"

A TKC TIPSTER says:

"Sounds like you could replace the name Philly with Kansas City! The only difference I can see is they work 12 hour shifts and the EMTs in stations here work 24 hour shifts."

Now, the plan seems to be to turn all firefighters into EMTs in the long run but there has been ALMOST NO DISCUSSION about even the possibility of a change in the standard of care this long term move will provide.

Real talk . . .

THE DECISION TO SWITCH UP AMBULANCE SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY WAS POLITICAL AND HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH PROTECTING THE LIVES OF LOCAL RESIDENTS!!!

Continued response time problems and so many other issues mostly reveal the decision was a mistake.

Real talk . . . Most firefighters who disagree with TKC threaten to leave me dead in the street and hint that they'll refuse to answer any emergency call that TKC might ever need . . . So, at this point, I'm not sure if the culture of Kansas City firefighters corresponds with the medical care that EMTs provide . . . Sadly, Mayor and City Council would rather discuss toy trains than this important city service.

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  1. The truth is the truth.

    Pretty interesting and at first blush seems to be dead on the money.

    Cronyism, poor service and more cash out of the city coffers for a new "Protected Class."

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  2. That is an excellent article that folks here in KC should ABSOLUTELY read imo.

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  3. The Liberal Disease Is About To Be Dealt With1/9/13, 7:23 AM


    Thank the Democrats for the destruction of our cities.

    Look at Detroit. That is the future of KC if the liberal disease is not eradicated.

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  4. An overwhelmingly majority of ALL firefighters from the very top to the bottom already are EMT's. You really should do your own research instead of using the misinformation that your "tipsters" give you.

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  5. 7:37

    Thats cool, but it sounds like even if they ARE EMTs (What percentage, "overwhelming" is pretty nebulous.), the article, right or wrong, paints a picture of deteriorating conditions for the EMT workers which result in poor care, desultrory job performance and seriouc health risks for patients.

    If in fact, so many firefighters are unoccupied and are in fact EMTs, with the reduction of fires in most major cites, a more reasonable apolication of the labor force available would seem to be necessary.

    A fireman on each Ambulance or any solution that would more evenly distribute labor.

    In fact, perhaps all fireman should be required to be EMTs if and in fact this article is correct in it's assumptions that the lion's share of the work is going to EMTs and NOT Fireman.

    There is OBVIOUSLY time to study at the station.

    True?

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    1. Yea you are right ..... They have to save every drunk homeless guy who rather go to hospital or jail instead of cold street. Get a fcuking clue

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    2. Dont exclude the women they out there drunk too, cloths filthy hanging off their dirty asses they be pissy unfocused and broke down don't care where their kids are or what they are doing. I'm blessed to not have been hooked up into drugs or alcohol, thank you Moma for raising us right and keeping us from harm or bad friends

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    3. All firefighters are EMTs.

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  6. No fire dep guys eant to argur eith Chuck

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  7. I agree, drunk fucks should be left in the streets.

    That still doesn't address the work disparity and solutions for what looks like a problem easily fixed with a little work.

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  8. That's one thing that I can't stand, A drunk ass person talking shit but can't get their life together, they stand on corners of exits to get money from the public to buy liquor thats BS get off that shit its bringing you down or have already sent you to the bottom of the bottle, GET YO LIFE, ALCOHOLICS.

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  9. Somehow I missed the report that AMR Ambulance service has been running emergency calls in Platte County, presumably outside KCMO since October. Dunno how I missed that KCFD's wagons aren't there anymore. Gee, I feel better already.

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    1. They are in S Platte dipshit, and Gladstone, and Riverside. In fact, we exhaust our resources to help smaller entities with their medical and fire.

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  10. Troy Schulte screwed up! He let Local 42 run the table. Watch the next budget, Local 42 will make Schulte cave early.

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  11. how much does an emt with mast make compared to a fireman. I know kcmo cops make more, but I'm curious to know the difference between the two? Thanks homes.

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  12. Depends on seniority

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  13. AMR is in South Platte now and are using their Independence cars to cover it. Then they call KCFD for mutual aid to Independence when they don't have enough cars to provide service, which happens many times per day.

    That's how privatization works. The profit gets privatized and the risk/loss get transferred to a taxpayer. Capitalism doesn't work in medical care.

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  14. 100% of KCFD firemen are EMTs or medics. 100% of personnel hired after the merger are trained for ambulance or fire duty. No one from the FD or MAST before the merger can be forced to learn the other duty, they are both grandfathered, but they can and do volunteer to "crosstrain".

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    1. No, those on the ambulance who wanted to cross train were shut out. Several times. So no, there is not an opportunity for full integration.

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    2. There's been many former mast folks to go to the fire side. They tested. They were hired. Test just like everyone else, go through a full academy. Nothing should be handed to you just because you work as an EMT it medic

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  15. top paid emt makes approx 1500 LESS a month than top paid fire fighter. Fire truck drivers make even more as do capitans!

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  16. Thanks for this post tkc. This brings out the real situation going on in or fire department and not just the bs.

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  17. Firefighter EMTs get paid more then regular EMTs because they have more training and duties then a mast emt

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  18. All firefighters and emts are fucking idiots anyways.....who cares .....they deserve minimal pay...heros my ass.....seems like a bunch of whiney ass bitches who do a shitty job of stabilizing pts until they get to the er where the real work is done.......

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    1. Nurses are sluts. What an EMT give you the clap? Fuck off

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    2. Haha.....i'm not a nurse douche bag.......so go fuck yourself......truth must hurt ......look at you .....getting angry and acting like a little psycho baby! Point proven right here by your actions! Thank you!

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