The County Fire Department is one of the largest departments in Maryland providing fire protection‚ emergency medical services‚ as well as other services to over 800‚000 citizen. The department is a fire-based EMS system that answers around 130‚000 calls a year‚ with 70% being Emergency Medical Services (EMS) related making EMTs and Paramedics the backbone of the department. There is around 1‚100 employees with 20% of those employees being paramedics. The function of a paramedic is to provide advance
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Joshua Ackerman Jennifer Kyger ENG-012-08 26 October‚ 2011 “Addicted to Your Smartphone? Here’s What to Do.” by Susan Davis In the article‚ “Addicted to Your Smartphone? Here’s What to Do.”‚ Susan Davis claims at first that she did not like her BlackBerry Smartphone until she realized that she could now check email from anywhere. She worried a lot about missing important messages when she was away from her computer. Without even noticing‚ she began to get urges to check her Smartphone
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10/26/2012 Word Count: 810 The Dilemma of our Drink: Investigating The Woodland-Davis Water Project In September 2009‚ two cities of Yolo County‚ Woodland and Davis‚ collaborated to form a “joint powers authority to implement and oversee a regional surface water supply project‚” (www.wdcwa.com/the_project). The objective is to gain a new surface water supply from the Sacramento River and construct a number of joint facilities to pump‚ treat and distribute the water to the cities’ customers
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The New York Police Department has had discrimination in the workplace for many years. Many of the most qualified detectives‚ are not given to opportunity to get promoted because of race. Many of the detective’s white colleagues who joined later in time were given a promotion before the minority police members could. The main reason for this is discrimination. Another way the detectives were discriminated against is that all the detective were put into the same division. All of the qualified detectives
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“Homeland Security” was born of the domestic terrorism incident in Oklahoma City‚ Oklahoma in 1995. With the realization that our national security could really be threatened on any day of the week‚ our government leaders decided to take action. The Department of Homeland Security was born of the international terrorism incident on September 11‚ 2001. There were multiple steps in place addressing our homeland security issues prior to the events of 9/11. Unfortunately‚ none of these reports were effective
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Charleston Fire Department Case Study Columbia Southern University Advanced Fire Administration Charleston Fire Department Case Study On June 18‚ 2007 “the Charleston witnessed the largest single loss of fire fighters in the country since the September 11‚ 2001 terrorist attacks.” (Smith‚ 2011) That day the fire service had to witness the unfortunate loss of nine firemen who died in the line of duty. Some would say that the deaths of these nine men were an atrocity to the fire service. The
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She should have technical knowledge of nutrition as well as administrative ability as she is recognized as the chief of a major department‚ responsible directly to the administrator. The ability to organize and manage is of particular importance since speed‚ coordination‚ human relations‚ and efficiency are essential. MAJOR OPERATING FUNCTIONS OF DIETARY DEPARTMENT * Direct responsibility for menu planning for general and special diets for patients and employees * For selection and purchase
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ED THROUGHPUT 2 Introduction A visit to the emergency department (ED) is usually associated with negative thoughts by most people. It creates preconceived images of overcrowded waiting rooms and routine long waits for treatment (Jarousse‚ 2011). From 1996 to 2006‚ ED visits increased annually from 90.3 million to 119.2 million (32% increase). During this same time period‚ the number of EDs has declined by 186 facilities creating the age old lower supply and greater demand concept (Crane & Noon‚ 2011)
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JOB FAIR 2011… NOW HIRING! MARCH 8TH & 9TH‚ 2011 CONFIRMATIONS Company Name | Representative | 3/8 | 3/9 | # of Positions | Internships | Coral Gables Police Department | Kelly Denham Phone #(305)-460-5403 Fax #(305) 446-0148 kdenham@coralgables.com | | x | Full-time/Open | Part-Time/Open | | | South Florida Urban Ministries | TBD Phone #(305) 442-8306 Fax# (305) 442-9726 STurner@sflum.org | | X | 2/Full-time | | | 22/AmeriCorps | CMG CGM (America) LLC/Compagnie du Ponant
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what has become unintended reciprocity‚ the Holmes County commissioners on Monday agreed to donate to the Danville Police Department a cruiser no longer needed by the Holmes County Sheriff’s Office. Installed in the 2011 Crown Victoria is a K-9 cage‚ which was loaned to the sheriff’s office by Danville‚ following the July 2015 hire of Deputy Ryan Peterman‚ who came to the department with K-9 Rif. Holmes County has since acquired a new K-9 equipped SUV to be used by Peterman‚ and Danville PD‚ needing
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