Mass Casualty Rescue Task Force, formerly known as Counter Terrorism Task Force. Probies assigned to companies with MCRTF collateral duties have to complete the training. The training itself focuses on situational awareness, first aid and patient moving.
At the end of the test everyone was given the opportunity to sign up for a protest review session (which anyone whose serious about getting on should do). During the protest you'll both see what questions you got wrong, giving you an idea how your performed and more importantly an opportunity to...
There are more paramedics and EMTs riding FDNY fire apparatus then on FDNY ambulances. That said firefighters are only trained to the CFR level through the department and operate accordingly, anything else would be acting outside their scope of practice.
A BLS is always assigned with a PRU, if none is available another ALS will be assigned. If another ALS is assigned and they're close enough we will be preempted off. If the other ALS is further we'll do the patient assessment and hand off.
Occasionally we'll have to wait for transport, but...
The fly cars are successful if for no other reason that they ensure a dual dispatch with BLS, freeing up ALS for more actual ALS runs if and when the run is determined to be BLS.
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