Club Q Q107-Loyalty Club (Southern ON Only) v2

[psells]

I have a question for the fire-fighters here. One of the mayoral candidates is suggesting a sort of merger between EMS & Toronto Fire Services. At least that was the gist of it from the half a sound bite I caught. So, just how would the logistics work of having more equipment on board a fire engine as well as a non-fire fighter on board?

Short answer? It wouldn't.

[Mmmme...]

Apparently, a real ad in Europe





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[psells]

I have a question for the fire-fighters here. One of the mayoral candidates is suggesting a sort of merger between EMS & Toronto Fire Services. At least that was the gist of it from the half a sound bite I caught. So, just how would the logistics work of having more equipment on board a fire engine as well as a non-fire fighter on board?

Long answer:

It wouldn't be a case of placing more stuff and people on fire apparatus, it would be a case of merging the administration and some other functions of the two services. The theory is that there is enough similarity between the services that there would be an economy of scale by merging support functions such as admin, HR (already shared), equipment, mechanical, purchasing, etc. The reasons that this is not a practical strategy are, in no particular order; all of these functions are either shared already where they can be, or are sufficiently different between the two that there is no opportunity for savings; all of the facilities are at maximum use already, and since there would still be the same amount of work to be done there is no potential savings for fleet or equipment; fire is funded municipally and has limited potential for cost recovery whereas EMS receives considerable provincial funding from the Ministry of Health and can recover costs for non-emergency patient transfers; most importantly, CUPE would never allow the medics out of their local without a big fight since they are the only part of Local 416 that is considered automatically to be an essential service, a big tactical chip during every strike.

[Andit]

Short answer? It wouldn't.

Thank you.

Yep, that`s what I figured. I was just curious what the perspective of a professional directly affected would be.

The silly individual touting this is Smitherman (who really should know better, given his background).

Here`s a link to the press release (I dug it up, thinking the reporter had got it wrong):
http://www.georgesmitherman.com/news.html

[psells]

I was just curious what the perspective of a professional directly affected would be.

Thanks, but I can gladly say that I am not affected at all, now that I am on the outside looking in.

[rock lobster]

"Vogon poetry is the third worst in the Universe. The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a recitation by their Poet Master Grunthos the Flatulent, of his poem, Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning, four of his audience members died of internal hemorrhaging, and the president of the Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council, survived by gnawing one of his own legs off... The very worst poetry in the universe died along with its creator, Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Sussex... in the destruction of the planet Earth

[Mmmme...]

Here is a cute little water balloon game with sound.

Have fun!


http://www.gamegarage.co.uk/shooting...-balloon-drop/

[rockit]

The signs said Pete Forever, Ringo Never or vica versa...

Pete Best at J's Place 2005. Awesome

[psells]

Here`s a link to the press release (I dug it up, thinking the reporter had got it wrong):
http://www.georgesmitherman.com/news.html

And here is another link to an article from the September 2008 issue of Fire Fighting in Canada magazine, on the same topic. Author is a bit of a sarcastic smart@ss, though...

http://www.firefightingincanada.com/...view/2504/132/

[rockit]

good night Q-friends

[rock lobster]

It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination

[heartgirl99]

night qt's!


thanks for the codes and ww's!

[6ffightr9]

Short answer? It wouldn't.

What he said.

[rock lobster]

Night Q's, sleep well.

[pipes]

Surveys are up guys and gals