EMS District Supervisor - A Day in the Life
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- On this Day in the Life episode we follow EMS District Supervisor Ryan Knutsen during the second day of his 48-hour shift. This busy ride along immediately begins with a working structure fire followed by several emergent responses to various calls and active shooter training.
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Intro song - "Even If My Heart Breaks" by Loving Caliber
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Dude was in the community for 3 different school shootings as a EMT/Paramedic?! I can't imagine what he has gone through in his life. He was definitely put on this earth for a purpose. God Bless
Respect.
Your department is blessed to have a humble servant who doesn't want to tear people down but lift them with spirit, word and as always a box of doughnuts as they can be an amazing tool. I recall one evening rushing in through the back doors to the ED saying we couldn't communicate with anyone and our patient didn't have long and we pulled the sheet black to reveal three dozen doughnuts for one of the local EDs. And as predicted the "patient" disappeared in a matter of minutes. I think the staff was a little bummed out because we didn't bring coffee.
Even firefighters and paramedics like donuts and coffee. Its a common thread across 1st responders. Nothing brings people together like decent food and good coffee.
Unbelievable how lucky we are to see so much action in this video. So many calls! Amazing video!
Nice
South metro does get busy.
Didn’t realize how busy Med 1 really is!!
You are joking right?…..???
Its bcuz its all fake
What a busy day. He never once lost focus or the need to help. As leaders often times we let the hectic times allow us to lash out or push things off. If we're stressed they're stressed. So it is only right that we keep our cool and continue to help them achieve more! Let's keep the content!
You are so absolutely correct! If the boss, commander, Chief or just the most senior experienced person leading loose it, everyone else subordinate or less senior typically falls apart. If those that are supposed to know what to do don't stay calm, how in the heck are those other individuals going to stay calm! Majority of it is maybe that leader or senior member sees something we don't! There has been many of times in my career I have been to scene that was never covered in training, books or experienced before and had to maintain calm while I am trying to not loose it inside my mind because things are going wrong and it wasn't expected! A call could go from 100% mitigated properly to absolutely becoming a train wreck because of just one leader not being calm and helping those that are on that call!
A man who's value is way more than he gives himself credit for, an inspiration to all.
Fantastic episode Eric. Looks like Med 1 had a fairly busy day which made for a very interesting video. Ryan seems like an awesome person to work around; love his "where do you need me/how can I help" attitude. Again, fantastic episode!
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Ryan is the embodiment of what everyone in patient care can be. "Grace under fire." Well done.
but, many times: stations might have to lay one of their own members to rest
I just watched the MED 1 Fleet Friday to other day (new vehicle I see!) and someone commented “we want a day in the life of an EMS supervisor” I don’t know about you but I call that a freaky coincidence that after I saw that comment this popped up. Keep up the good work guys and well wishes.
that happened to me too lol
Fantastic interview and video. I’ll be sending the request. God bless you and your team for what you do and service for our communities. Stay safe and healthy.
I love watching this channel thank you for everything that y’all do!!! 💪🏾💯
Hearing your story made this video all the better !! Great job !!
Being honest, it is amazing that we are able to watch what goes behind the scenes with all the training and what it trully means to be a proffessional firefihgter whatever the role is. A district supervisor in this case
Incredible video, never experienced a school shooting during my career but I know that you guy's were nothing but the professionals that you had to be too endore such pain, we salute you.
So blessed to have these guys protecting us. Good bless you all 🤲❤️❤️
What a great guy! Thanks for uploading this 😊
Thank you so much for your service
Thank you for your service!!
Thanks Eric for this video 👏👍😎 really cool to see everything he was called to, how he responded or just showed up at, also explaining in detail about each type of call, what is involved and how genuinely caring his personality is 👍😀😀 I enjoyed hearing about his start, and how far his training has taken him ** 😎👏👏 Great that we got to see a variety of calls during his shift ! ! Thanks for sharing your day with us 👍
I Love this Video. This Guys and gals need our prayers and thoughts.
More training at the old ORCC building…. Love it!!! I did security there several years ago
Great job on this video, nice to see how things are organized in this part of the US.
South metro is first class. I’m impressed by these men and women. Thanks for what you do🔥🔥🇺🇸🇺🇸
This guy seems like aces....type of guy id love to work for. Im from Jersey and I've had some real great bosses and some real shit ones. Best video yall have done so far. Im an EMS guy and being a road boss is probably one of the best jobs in EMS. You get both the clinical part and the operations part of the job.
Active Shooter Training.......one of the many things that have changed the Fire Service andf EMS. I thank goodness for good training and even better trainers. As Chief Knutsen said training and experince matter and sadly he had to learn so much in a time when we didn't know what then we do know now.
I as a EMT am inspired by two things -the people we help and the mentors who taught us. I am humbled to have this job.
I have always loved these types of videos, not just for the beautiful trucks and peices of apparatus but it teaches me a little about what makes each piece of apparatus unique and what they are capable of.
(Just a wee edit) I'm well aware it is a day in a life but that goes with all, because some apparatus are featured in day in a life videos but the more Interesting thing is seeing them in action and what their capabilities are as a unit and a team.
This is a Day in the life not a Fleet Friday?
Hi Eric I think I asked you on the live chat does Med One respond with red one two or three on airport standby?
@@albertomadeirajr7824 I do not think he will see your message because you replied to a comment that was not his.
@@lelandsworldoffirefighting1410 Thanks for that info.
@@albertomadeirajr7824 I feeL like that was a very sarcastic statement, just saying
Another Day In The Life About Time
TALK ABOUT INTEGRITY, THIS IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE ! THANK YOU SIR ,STAY SAFE !🇺🇸
So proud of you guy’s, your state is lucky to have you!
You are all our hero’s!
Thank you for your service!
You Must ne kidding
That was a very good day in the life of an EMS med one supervisor Ryan Newson you are a very good supervisor. Keep it up brother keep our brothers and sisters in red safe.
Loving the sound off signal siren on the Pickup Truck!
Great job, Eric !🇺🇸
Yes!!!! I love these!
Yet another awesome episode 👍
Loved this one, a lot of on scene action!!!
I wish more agencies followed their day to day like you guys do.
Very proud to be a resident of this Outstanding Fire Rescue Dept. !!!!!
Awesome job! Can’t wait for more 😊
Dude has seen three school shootings in his career - I haven't even seen one GSW at all. Y'all's area of responsibility is wild.
Thankfully of 23 years in the fire and EMS services, I haven't dealt with one while not deployed! God bless those responders!
@@AmericaVoice
Greetings from the UK!
I've been a Paramedic operating both rural and urban since 2003 and thankfully have only ever had to respond to a handful of malicious GSW incidents.
The vast majority we respond too over here are negligent/accidental discharges of shotguns and hunting rifles out in the countryside, or sadly, self-inflicted GSW, which thankfully are far less common.
I'm so thankful I've never had to respond to a single active shooter/school shooting, let alone three during my career.
God bless and stay safe out there mate 👍🇬🇧🇺🇲
I had 2 Mass casualtyt events in my life. And thats a lot for german standarts.
Thanks Resident Elect! I have been to several homicides, but not an active school shooting incident and I'm extremely grateful! I am on the line with guns, but also understand that during WW2 Japan didn't try to invade us was because of the citizenship was very armed! Also our government is very corrupt on both sides, so it's a draw for me! School shootings are very hard for me to grasp, but humanity has repeatedly shown we have issues! God bless you too. I am absolutely 100% grateful that I haven't dealt with a school shooting either! Something close, but not with kids!
@@emergcon Those are difficult challenges and will always stay in your mind forever! They are both mentally and physically draining! As a first responder those scenes may come back after many of years after and then bam, it hits you like a Mac Truck going over 100 mph hitting you out of nowhere because of just over a certain smell or sound. I unfortunately have worked a decent amount of MACI's and have been successful in making it forward for one of them just hit me out of nowhere! I am only saying this to give you a tip about it and pray it doesn't happen to you or if it has, I hope you are doing better! God bless
Outstanding!!!!
Man South Metro is top notch professional!!! Awesome crews!!
Thank you!
This is amazing
Can’t wait thank you Kim Connor and Eric your friend kyle hope you guys had a good and safe Halloween and happy very early thanksgiving
IVE BEEN ON THAT HIGHWAY SINCE I LIVED OUT THERE. I MISS COLORADO SO MUCH.
THANK YOU CHIEF!!
Love SMFR, good work!
i been watching you guys for almost 4 years and i super like your cap. i wish i can get one of those for a souvenir and also your patch..
STAY SAFE GUYS COMING FROM RAHA VOLUNTEER HERE IN THE PHILIPPINES
South Metro is so lucky to have you, I wish you were my coworker!!
God bless our brothers and sisters that serve community and country.
I spent 30+ years in the wonderful world of Public Safety including 27 years as a Public Safety Dispatcher. After Columbine, our communications center sent their center a card letting them know that we had everyone there, especially the communication center personnel that we had them in our Prayers, even from 1,100 miles away. No matter what, when, or where, we had our collogues in our thoughts. If I were 35 years younger, I would move and apply.
@dpm1982 Bravo! Good for you. Dispatch is always the last to feel the love, and to be recognized for being the glue that connects the need, the caller, the responders and in many ways, the outcome.
People like you are the problem in this society, you care about collegues but not about those who need help
This is my absolute dream role within the fire department
Those claps brought back memories
I was never a test person wow this almost made me cry like no joke made respect to all first responders
I am a former Fire Chief and I am extremely grateful to see a department that allows camera's! It's a risky process for allowing camera's because of the individual rights of those who request our services and the oops of very small some capacity that could cost that department much funding for there communities! The department I started with before becoming a Chief at a different location always had whomever who was on camera without purposely told too would buy dinner for that station shift or something like that! Before being Chief I thankfully didn't have it happen more than once! My calls I always dreaded was those that we couldn't change the outcome to a positive outcome! Sadly after 23 years I have seen many! I am a Paramedic of 17 years now and so grateful I put myself through the Paramedic training! I love being a Paramedic in both non-civilian and civilian enviroments and experience which is two different worlds! The FTO for Paramedics is such a way to understand your staff and abilities even if they are veteran medics! Being a Chief was my most exhausting, but with major positive results for that community and the department was beyond rewarding for me, except when I was able to save just one or more lives! I always try to learn from my mistakes and try to ensure I don't make them again and train others to not make those same mistakes! The Fire services has grown with such a huge mission profile every member is needed for their unique gift to give that commitment the community expects from us! Just over a Decade ago EMS was the sole job of that field and now its becoming almost 50%-90% of the Fire services job depending on the area it serves! Great job in this video!
Med 1 and district 1 are my favorite south metro fire rescue units
My times in private EMS were certainly unforgettable. Sadly, some workers become calloused and forget each patient is a human being, not a bundle of diagnoses and/or psychoses. Thankfully, I was trained and mentored by Thom Hilson (nee Dick) and Chris Olson. Thank you for bringing back great and a few not so great memories. "HARTSON 4 10-7"
This is my favorite Day in the life video so far, it’s was a great day for a day in the life to show a lot of what Med 1 does, he a very humble person and a great leader! I also play peewee hockey just like his son. Great video guys! ( oh and hope Conner is doing good)🚑🚒🏒
Awesome video!!
I left the coast guard in 2020 and I just started as an EMT with a private ambulance and this makes me so excited for where I can go from here!
What's working for a private ambulance like? I'm in Australia where all of our emergency ambulance services are owned and operated by their respective state governments.
@@coover65 So the benefit of a private ambulance company is that they take the strain off our municipal resources and handle the majority of non-emergent calls. Unfortunately there is rampant abuse of the 911 system in the US so having a lot of BLS units to respond to less serious calls will keep our ALS units available to handle the serious calls. We also get called upon to do most of the inter facility transports for patients that are not necessarily in critical condition but would benefit from care at a different hospital. My company does have ALS rigs as well, but overall way more BLS.
I would say the biggest drawback to a private ambulance is that it is a company at the end of the day, therefore they are driven by profit and are more likely to nickel and dime patients. They come to expect large payouts from insurance companies. Privatized insurance companies and privatized emergency services are not a good combination.
And in terms of which is better as a career, working for a city/county is going to be better than a private company. Retirement benefits, health insurance, better work environment, more manpower. At a fire department you also get a place to call home, whereas my company for example has 12 different bunkhouses around the city, so in the rare event we get a break on shift we could end up really anywhere. We also get called to “corner post” and can’t standby at a station.
@@brandilynn7509 That's one big difference I guess is that we don't have BLS/ALS ambulances. Basically all of our ambulances are crewed by two advanced care paramedics, and you do job about. Then we have Critical Care paramedics who respond in SUVs to back up ACP crews when necessary. Some CCPs are also trained as flight paramedics. We also have High Acuity paramedics who are upskilled in such procedures as blood infusions, field amputations and so on. They also respond in SUVs and are in the larger cities. For those in the bigger cities who have been in the job for a few years, you get a home station. Newer staff are regional "floaters". Most non urgent hospital transfers or hospital back to nursing home jobs are handled by our non emergency Patient transport crews. They're not trained in emergency paramedicine. As far as work environment goes, we get our uniforms supplied for free. Easy to make US$80k a year, and that's with 8 weeks annual leave, and a generous superannuation fund. It's a good career here, but very competitive for those wanting to get on board. Many take a posting in some small town hundreds of miles from home (remember our state is about 3x the size of Texas), and after a few years try to secure a position back in their home town.
@@coover65 Wow, yeah I don’t think that system would work here. It would take changing not only our entire system but also societal use of 911 completely in order to have only paramedics in the prehospital setting. My city gets approximately 7,000 calls a day and they estimate only 20% of those are true emergencies. Our Paramedic salary starts at $32K.
@@brandilynn7509 7,000 calls is phenomenal. We get about 2,500 through the whole state of 5 million. Here when you call our equivalent of 911 (which is 000, or triple zero) the operator asks which service; police, fire, ambulance. When you get put through to ambulance the AMPDS system is used, and often a critical care paramedic will be in the room to make the decision with triaging cases. Probably 40% of jobs are code 1 (our version of code 3) with the rest code 2 which are non life threatening urgent or semi-urgent jobs that are non L&S responses. Minor cases get a LARU paramedic who will dress wounds, treat minor burns, suture, prescribe meds etc. on scene rather than take them to hospital. $32k sounds so low, but I know taxation and living costs are lower in the US.
Finally another day in a life!
Hi
at 0:00 I like how yall had him put his active shooter gear on.
South Metro is hands down one of the best departments in the USA.
Good job I love the video
Columbine shooting is something I’m never going to forget. That was the first school shooting I can remember in my life and for sometime after that I was really scared to go to school.
Again, an amazing video! I love the day in a life series. I'm a volunteer firefighter in Germany, and I like to use your videos to learn more about the American EMS and fire system. Because off this, my question. Does the medic supervisor have the medical operations management on scene?
@@SouthMetroFireRescuePIO okay! Thanks for the awnser
@@SouthMetroFireRescuePIO
Effectively this is the same role as our "Clinical Supervisor" over here in the UK.
The CS will book on at our divisional HQ and make his/her way around the "patch" checking in with paramedics and EMTs, but also be deployable as a Fast Response Vehicle (they drive high performance estate cars or SUVs with ALS and all the other kit a single crewed paramedic will require) and attend major incidents, cardiac arrests, multi-agency response incidents or any other call for service which may require his/her advanced clinical skills.
This has been a fascinating watch, as I love seeing how EMS works in other parts of the world.
God bless, stay safe and all the best from Yorkshire, England 🇺🇲🇬🇧
I can't wait for a District Chief - Day in the life
This reminds me of Manatee County EMS they also have District Chiefs just like South Metro.
Everytme i watch these i keep looking for Cody Peterson. My childhood best friends older brother.
I'm amazed you guys work such long shifts. I did a stint doing our equivalent of your role here in Australia. We however only do 12 hour shifts, and from the moment you log on to end of shift you're constantly on the go, and 9 jobs per shift isn't uncommon. I'm too old to try and do 30-40 jobs over a 48 hour shift! With the workload these days, even getting a meal break in is a luxury. Like in most countries we're not affiliated with our Fire Service. Best wishes and take care out there.
We do have 12 hour shifts for mostly EMS because of that certain area run volume! EMS however wasn't as integrated into the Fire service as much as it is now until just over a decade. Mostly it's because of funding is very low for EMS, EMS was thrown at the Fire Department to figure out and the general public are becoming aware of the abilities EMS and Fire Services can do without having to throw someone in a vehicle and make a beeline to a hospital or doctor, so the run volume typically increases year by year or when either the population grows or travel through it! Great job my friend and brother or sister of the team! Greetings from the 🇺🇸!
@@AmericaVoice Many thanks for the clarification. Sad to here EMS funding is low. We're lucky here that funding isn't an issue; our fleet of about 950 ambulances, plus SUV response units, bicycles, choppers and fixed wing aircraft are constantly replaced regularly, and they're always equipped with the latest and greatest gear. In our state, ambulance service is free for residents, and like anywhere COVID has seen our workload soar. One of our goals is to help reduce the number of patients that need to got o hospital. Cases like minor burns and injuries are usually treated by low acuity paramedics. A patient with a rusty fish hook embedded in a finger for example; local anesthetic, remove hook, clean wound, tetanus shot if needed, and a prescription for ABs. No hospital ER presentation needed, but in the old days we'd transport such cases to an ER. Take care out there, and I hope your funding improves too. I've heard of some shocking wages being earnt by US EMS crews.
@@coover65 Thanks and you as well! Typically the higher paid are either from a good sized city that actually has decent budgets for emergency services or hospital based services with the benefits included! Private services may pay more but with 0 to a very small amount of benefits. COVID is so like a war, but effects everyone directly with no barrier. We call the program you are talking about as a Community Paramedic program, but those have very little state and even smaller local communities even less funding. I think if the big hospitals groups would stay out of it and that our medics would want the training, it would grow faster. The training is a lot for an individual with a family to do on there own and almost not smart to do unless that community they work at provides or will for sure provide the program to do so. It's so sad that we have a lot of funding so messed up on other ridiculous priorities rather than helping people! I have quit a service because they wouldn't replace expired meds after many of times requesting new or just non expired meds. I would then personally get shamed by the other staff because they apparently wasn't properly checking their drug boxes. I couldn't and wouldn't ever stay with a company like that! I care about my patients and the general public, along with my protecting my Paramedic license. I still to this day couldn't understand there mindset. But thankfully we as a country may be able to right the ship if we wanted too. I am extremely privileged and proud to be an American, but we as a country do some very stupid things just as any other country I suppose! Safe travels and wish you the best!
I love pierce velocity
Awesome this is super interesting to see :)
OMG the plane on 🔥
I love EMS
@southmetrofire nicely done guys, one safety note.
please inform Ryan and all personnel that the way he is wearing his vest at 4:35
(without lifting the the front plate and fully attaching the Velcro) doesn’t allow the side plates to be used a effectively and reduces the coverage ability overall. It’s also good practice beyond that as the plate carrier is the first thing someone will grab to hold onto you if you fall, drag you out of danger, etc. and won’t be able to help you if it’s not properly secured.
Edit: when you see his vest at 4:45, the portion of the vest on the left of the screen (his right side) sticking out just above waist level should be snug against his side and the Velcro attaches between the two front plates
This, this right here.
I actually meet this guy today at wings over the rockies and he was hanging out next to an F16. Engine 14, Tower 35, And Red 3 showed up to the airshow of ww2 aircraft
Awesome video keep up the great work guys! Can you do a day in the life of a district chief?
A day in the life of a District Chief is planned
@@SouthMetroFireRescuePIO - NICE FIRE VEHICLE - I don't understand the Blue Light's thought, but it's still a nice looking vehicle, here in Concord, New Hampshire, we don't have Blue Light's on any of our Fire Vehicle's, we have Red, White & Amber Light's & the same thing goes for all the unmarked vehicle's too.
Police Vehicle's are all Blue Light's including the unmark's & Security Vehicle's are all Green Light's.
STAY SAFE & SOUND OUT THERE.
I always wondered what you guys did, because I've seen these EMS vehicles where I live, but I didn't know what they did.
Awesome 😎
love it
"So, uh, guys....just stay exactly where you're at and, uh....keep doing exactly what you're doing." Sure beats the brass that doesn't feel like they're being sufficiently supervisory unless they're making you move the rig to the other side of the street and rearrange the water bottles in the cooler twice.
100% sympathetic
We will also need to train for active shooter incidents in the fire rescue field.
I wish my local fire dept would do some thing like this
How do you remember all the codes for you how do you remember all the information that you want to learn how to find it really hard and stressful but rewarding thank you for what you do and amazing person🥰🥰🥰🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻I pray for you every day so that you are protected have an amazingly blessed time
FINNALY
I know right! I’ve been waiting for a DITL especially for Med 1!
This is on my list of “Jobs I would do for life”.
South metro fire rescue Nice😍😎🔥
Someone must've mentioned how quite it was today
I live in that fire district!!!
I have a question for the PIO's. Does a lot of you photos and videos you capture on scenes go towards training for the crews, not just social and tv media? With all of the crews doing a lot of online or video based training, I would like to assume that some of the content you capture as a PIO would go towards that.
Great video, what a wonderful human. School shootings break my heart and brain each time I hear about them, and we have been fortunate here in Australia that this is not part of our history so far. That’s not to say that our first responders are trauma free. What is your jurisdiction doing for trauma and other long term effects experienced from first response?
Thank you for watching and commenting. South Metro has a Wellness Division both for physical and emotional well being. Therapy dogs, trained peer support personnel and professional mental health personnel are available to employees anytime. Common therapy includes in-house neurofeedback and several local EMDR providers.
@@SouthMetroFireRescuePIO thanks for the reply, great to hear about the investment in your wonderful people. I’m loving the videos so much!
Hello SMFR -
First I like to say I love the videos, great job and keep them coming. Second would you be able to share where you purchased your command board used in this video?
I think it is a great tool I can incorporate within my fire department's Command vehicle. Thanks in advance
Thank you! Here is a link to the command board vendor - idlhtechnology.com/
i missed it yesterday
Can you show your medical simulation lab in one of your next videos, please?
How different things are in the UK 🇬🇧 supervising Paramedics rarely leave the office. When I was a Manager I was told to stop answering emergency calls. There is a huge disconnect between Paramedics and Managers in the UK. Your Dept looks really good I also don't think any Paramedic Training can prepare you for the mass shootings that you have been to.
let's go SMFR
Day in the Life Idea:
- District Chief
- Other Chief Officers
- PIO
@southmetrofireReuse update when Conner is coming back
You guys need to a day in the life of a Pio
Hey can you do a video of checking in with the recruits from 19-1, or where they are now
Do firefighter/paramedic do more medical related things fire or is it a mixture of both ?
im a fan