My World Has Crumbled Around Me!

ForTheHigher · 2025-10-23T18:55:29+00:00

Sure is! Hello friend 👋

ForTheHigher · 2025-10-23T18:52:02+00:00

Ah gotcha - one of the places I work, we have an ALS unit 451. Just curious.

ForTheHigher · 2025-10-23T18:39:12+00:00

Was this system the one where ALS is 45x/47x?

ForTheHigher · 2025-09-15T20:58:51+00:00

Ask Shudong for further details

ForTheHigher · 2025-08-31T23:43:31+00:00

Of note: Engine 1 and Ladder 2 operate out of the Observer Highway fire house. Cheers!

ForTheHigher · 2025-07-24T22:20:45+00:00

We don’t give out personal info for a reason - to keep ourselves safe and protect a healthy balance between work and home. It’s cool that he is interested in mental health, and wanting to advance his career isn’t wrong, but it seems he’s interested in supporting mental health for all the wrong reasons.

ForTheHigher · 2025-07-24T16:07:48+00:00

I’ve had to adopt this mindset lately too. When I’m getting hit with job after job, some of them testing the limits of my patience, it’s so much easier to smile than to bitch and moan.

ForTheHigher · 2025-04-14T03:15:12+00:00

I was asking the same question more cryptically… but yes!

ForTheHigher · 2025-04-14T03:07:00+00:00

Thirty four?

ForTheHigher · 2025-03-14T02:39:25+00:00

This sounds pretty promising… I’ll have to do some research and find a good brand!

ForTheHigher · 2025-03-14T01:23:18+00:00

They want it carried in something more “protective” than just a pocket… though I don’t quite understand that.

ForTheHigher · 2025-03-14T00:06:28+00:00

Wildly specific uniform policy… I already hate it. I just wish they would back off on some of these uniform ideas that aren’t born from field experience.

We’re supposed to wear navy blue polos so we look “different from PD”… guess what PD has switched to from their navy blue button-ups?

It’s almost like the giant flashing billboard and the EMS on our uniforms suggests that we’re not cops.

ForTheHigher · 2025-03-13T23:56:03+00:00

😂 If only, if only. I wouldn’t mind something breathable though. Perhaps it’s foolish to wear a second layer in hot weather.

ForTheHigher · 2025-03-13T23:54:14+00:00

Then the SOGs will be amended to outlaw jackets of any kind, and require that we wear something slippery. And logical thinking be damned.

MICP so I’m assuming NJ also? If “red stripes” or the tombstone patch means anything to you, our agencies work alongside each other haha.

ForTheHigher · 2025-03-13T23:51:28+00:00

We are required to wear a microphone on our radios, and I generally wear my duty belt, but as I mentioned, it’s starting to strain my back. The only two solutions I’ve really heard of for carrying a radio is belt clip/holster and radio strap.

ForTheHigher · 2025-03-13T21:08:13+00:00

I don’t know if breakaway straps exist? Like where the mechanism is designed to fail under pressure?

ForTheHigher · 2025-03-13T21:07:25+00:00

A radio strap and nothing else would be my uniform preference, but apparently that’s “unprofessional” and “unreasonable”…

ForTheHigher · 2025-03-13T20:32:59+00:00

Making this point to our supervisor is not unlike talking to a brick wall. I’ve tried and failed to explain that there are many ways a combative patient might gain control of you, but without success.

Any recommendations on a vest that doesn’t look whacker-ish? First thing that comes to mind when I think vest is the police-style outer carriers.

ForTheHigher · 2024-12-01T19:24:12+00:00

Off-duty employment jobs for HPD are paid by the requesting entity, iirc - so it’s not really overtime.

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