It seems like too many state groups focus all their development efforts onto law enforcement and neglect smaller departments.
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Iām on mobile but itās absolutely great that a CCEMT-P class is opening, but please whatever you do, hand select or hand select some people from an application based off of activity and medical competency. All we really need at SCFD, and Iām sure other departments alike, is a few active CCEMT-Pās ESPECIALLY if EMT-P curriculum become easier.
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Well Iād hope they didnāt but Iāve not seen any evidence of them being hostile toward you without provocation. Like I said earlier, I didnāt make this thread for people to talk about which command members they donāt like. If you have ideas for SCFD to improve its public image beyond replacing high command please feel free to leave more comments and Iāll read them and discuss any good ones with the rest of PIO. Please donāt reply if you are just going to talk about your dislike of the chiefs.
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didnt think this would get 70+ replies but im going to bed goodnight firestone
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What Cirt said in his statement the other day is that they will need at least a month of EMT-P experience and a recommendation from a department supervisor.
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The stuff isnāt hard if you care to learn it. People are already incompetent. Dropping the scope of practice and level of education further wonāt do any good. EMT-B is pretty bare-bones already.
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well, everyone is talking about the departments internal issuesā¦ but im gonna say why i dont want to join SCFDā¦
The reason why I donāt want to join SCFD is because i personally am a lazy personā¦ I donāt want to learn so much (again im a lazy person) SCFD requires you to have some common scenes (which I lack). Something else is that you need dedication to finish FFA with the exams and etc.
I mean the job looks cool driving around big rigs rushing to fire and etc
Another thing is SCFD is just boring (no offense) as someone who just walks around in v2 I find SCFD to be typing and more typingā¦ (no action like whipping out a gun and nerfing people or pursuits)
(Me being a lazy person or the game being boring is not anyones fault im just giving my opinion on why i dont want to join SCFD)
Last but not leastā¦ Im sure SCFD deals with more trolls than any other department. Someone would reply saying there pulse is 500.
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from my experience recently candidates are held to a MUCH higher standard than what a recruit fresh out of ffa would knowā¦ now i maybe partly at fault for mine and Vehicle_law 's implementations however (whilst this standard is great for competentcy, instilling leadership qualities and all that jazz)
if you graduated ffa two weeks ago, itās your first time in firefighting or medical then you need someone to nurture you through the process to full competency. thats fine, scfd does it. but then you have to learn a LOT of new material to meet these higher standards that scfd requires. you have a month to learn this all and also reinforce existing knowledge to a high level. see the issue now?
with what Iāve said, and knowing i hold no power to make differences, i still have a proposal that I wish i implemented somehow before I left scfd;
lower candidacy standards, filter new employees through a standard that ffa, not scfd, teaches
the month after commission, or however long the employee needs, use to build on this newfound competency by teaching them this new material and methodology that is often required of candidates
tldr people dont join scfd because candidacy is rather daunting fresh of out ffa
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Yeah we do get a lot stupid ems rp. Yesterday I turned up to a 911 and the guy just spammed dies and Iāve been to calls where someone has high blood pressure despite major bleeding.
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Yeah, more CCEMT-Ps will be good. Itās normally not worth paging for them because there arenāt very many and you shouldnāt delay transporting them so critical care medics can attend
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Honestly Iāve seen many people talking about how itās just too much information, and are too lazy to relearnā¦
I want to show you some differences with what we teach today, and what we teached during the āgolden ageā
I will be referring to SCFA documents in comparison to the revised medical documents and firefighting documents.
FFA Session 2 - 44 Pages (Slightly smaller font size (more information per page))
SCFA Session 2 - 17 Pages
FFA Session 3 (fire) - 17 Pages
SCFA Session 3 (fire) - 8 Pages
FFA Session 4 (fire) - 19 Pages
SCFA Session 4 (fire) - 7 Pages
SCFD was at an all-time-high back when this length of documents was in use, and now, we see curriculums steadily becoming harder, SCFD candidacies becoming longer, and SCFD members declining (45 members right now)
Why do you think people rejoined during the summer? becuase they could. They could think back to the fun they were having, and prepare to rejoing in 1 week, Now? They open up the dreadful documents that they will never understand and just close them right back as they could be relaxing instead of this.
Once again, Iām not shitting on the FFA staff, and the SCFA documents arenāt perfectā¦ but if we just lower the amount of information SUBSTANTIALLY then the number of people joining SCFD and passing FFA will boost significantlyā¦
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It seems actually, looking through these documents, that what Iām seeing here isnāt even the standard Iām seeing now within county, or throughout my time as the training lieutenant/captain. I have a feeling that even right now with more advanced documents, people have an even lower understanding of the curriculum due to the information overload.
If the curriculum was less advanced, we could more easily pinpoint cases of incompetency rather than how it is right now, where almost anything can be markes as incompetent by a paramedicine junkie. A smaller curriculum would mean less cases of incompetency too.
Iād say more advanced stuff should be taught in the form of training in SCFD, and SCFD should create itās own extra-curriculum, however, it should only be in bite sizes, meanining we only want the extra stuff youād learn in SCFD to be maybe 1/3 more than FFA, and thatās only if you want to advance in the department to senior positions, people should not be forced to learn these things if they just want to be the regular old emt-p or firefighter.
This extra curriculum that SCFD would teach would also help with dealing fairer promotions, e.g. Firefighter 2 or whatever you want to call the SCFD extra stuff would be dealt as an inner-department certification which would grant a person a path to seniorship.
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I like this idea
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was told by a redacted informant that the command r 2 big for their boots L
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another reason why activity is low,
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Honestly candidacy is hard if youāre fresh out of FFA or youāve been certified for a while but apps didnāt open for 2 months (my case :D). Itās definitely a learning curve from simulated people who have a relevant idea of what theyāre RPāing and we have a solid idea of what it is and how to treat it.
All that simulated shit and realism? Down the fucking drain in county.
I saw a seizure patient on Ativan (a sedative) still up and talking whilst intubated
Now obviously medics canāt expect every person to be a solid EMS RPāer (because some of them are underage e) but it would be really good if we had some realistic EMS calls once in a while. Either game generated or actual player calls, it would make the experience a lot better.
Ok ly bye
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As I have said a few times previously, through PIO I am gonna try to encourage more varied scenarios
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Department of Boating and Waterways.
Jokes aside, the tactical community has always been the most āspiciestā, not the least. I donāt really need to go into further detail.
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I believe they should improve their training (like they even know how to do it anyway), they should improve department communications (again they donāt know what communication is), they should remove some unnecessary ranks that donāt exist in the fire service (I.E: Special Operations Captain (never heard of such position managing divisions (usually you would just have a division coordinator that would correspond with high command)), they should keep the Chief Paramedic position (designating just 1 person to EMS), they should do some staff replacements, they should give me CREDIT for the training center I programmed, they should give me credit for my training material, and a whole lot more.
You asked for what you wanted changed and thatās a huge list that I can come to off the top of my head. I know none of this will be taken into consideration but I thought itās worth it to share my opinions anyways. Iām really not that bad and everyone just says I am because I have a huge passion for the fire service and have a lot of knowledge which changes my views on certain decisions and or material the SCFD has. Anyways, canāt please all and have a nice rest of your day.
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It does sound like you are knowledgable, but this is roblox. You have to have a balance between realism and fun. Not many people want to join a department that does absolutely everything āby the bookā in terms of being realistic. I understand your point, but high command have to work within the realms of roblox and how much knowledge can actually be passed onto children who might not share your passion. Sometimes you have to be willing to deviate from real life stuff because you canāt really replicate a real life fire department in roblox. In my opinion the rank structure SCFD has now makes sense and works pretty well.
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