From: Henry J. Fackovec (hfackovec@easternems.com)
Date: Tue Feb 11 2003 - 04:56:21 PST
Dear "Jay"
That's it, I am sick of the garbage that is spread here.
First: There is no such thing as an " Ambulance Driver" At least not
since 1974. By Federal DOT and State regulation Ambulances are staffed
by licensed EMTs or Paramedics. (Unless you live in a third world
country in which case disreguard the following)
I have worked in several EMS systems over the last 23 years and while
there are good Paramedics and Bad Paramedics, I know very few lazy ones
at an accident scene. (Try to get them to clean the bunkroom, or make a
fresh pot of coffee, that's another story...).
Second: Seatbelts ARE there to save your life. Your best chance of
surviving an impact comes from being retained inside the structure of
the vehicle. One of the points that I stress when I meet a new driver,
and to new employees is that in 23 years " I have never unbuckled a dead
body." I have found them in the street, in trees, under seats (usually
babies that were not in car seats), thrown 100 yards from a Corvette
into oncoming traffic (The autopsy showed that he would have mearly been
a parapeligic had he not gotten run over by 2 other cars) ... Making
irresponsible statements like yours KILLS people. If you like I can
point you to stats about morbidity and mortality secondary to vehicle
impacts.
"Buckle Up"
HJ Fackovec
Chief of Technical Services
Eastern EMS
Retired NYC EMS Paramedic
-----Original Message-----
From: Military Vehicles Mailing List [mailto:mil-veh@mil-veh.org] On
Behalf Of J Travis
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 12:16 AM
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
Subject: Re: [MV] M728 question - mechanical
It's like seat belts. They don't put them in the car because they care
about your health; the ambulance driver is just to lazy to have to go
look for the body!
Jay Travis
Rikk Rogers wrote:
>Yea, they can help when you run your creeper under the moving duals and
>shoot yourself into the shop wall.
>
>rikk
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Military Vehicles Mailing List [mailto:mil-veh@mil-veh.org]On
>Behalf Of Patrick Jankowiak
>Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 10:51 PM
>To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
>Subject: Re: [MV] M728 question - mechanical
>
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>
>
>Everette wrote:
>
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>>Lots of possibilities -- axle bearings, as he suspects, ring and
>>pinion, inner bearings, pinion bearing, spider gears, One of these
>>stethoscope things might be handy for pinpointing where noise is
>>coming from -- NO I
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>do
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>>not mean ride creeper under vehicles as it goes down road, jack it up
>>and secure very good put in gear and run engine.
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>AND ALWAYS HAVE A HELPER STANDING BY READY WHEN DOING A DANGEROUS JOB
>LIKE THAT!
>
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