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If they utilize Unreal as listed in the job descriptions, that would be pretty awesome.

As a firefighter / paramedic those posts come off as arrogant to me, and that's not what we see our job as really. The vast majority of firefighters I have worked with like helping people, but the like breaking stuff and playing with fire more, but its not politcally correct to say that to the public lol.

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Just to add on about NE Ohio FDs & Volunteers Ohio Volunteer Firefighters are trained and certified after a 36 hour course (Just enough to get you hurt they say) They may go on to FF1 (120 hours) or FF2 (240+ hours) if they choose to. There are 100% volunteer departments which leave the station unstaffed and most respond to scene or station when the call comes in. There are departments making a transition to day-time staffing of peak hours in which they pay 2-3 vollies to man the station. More departments are doing this as volunteers (especially in NE Ohio are becoming more rare) There are combination part-time/volunteer departments which is self-explanatory. And there are Fulltime (Career) departments and combination Career/Part-time Departments. These departments put out "manpower" pages when a call comes in and the duty crew leaves the station, at which time the part-timers and full-timers that are off duty respond in to man the station and get paid by the hour to do so, if it is a decent call they may end up going as well and another manpower page goes out or a mutual aid company covers their district for other calls. Career departments may also operate an "auxillary" which doesn't do emergency responses but more of a support role including anything from fundraisers to on scene rehab / red cross type duties. All departments in Ohio (and the country really) utilize automatic & mutual aid. Automatic aid being when a certain type of call comes in such as a structure fire, the dispatch protocol is to dispatch the nearest Mutual Aid department the same time as the home department. Mutual Aid being when other departments are called in on MABAS boxes (Mutal Aid Box Alarm System which much of NE Ohio utilizes) or special called to help. Problem I see AHA & NREMT- First Resonders aren't cleared to do very much as far as scope of practice and when not operating under Medical Control amount to about the same as a savvy bystander. The only gear they would carry if any at all would be simple first aid kits and a CPR mask. So they wouldn't be able to do much as far as medically stablizing people, AED & CPR for cardiac arrest and C-Spine or Bleeding control for trauma is about it. If you're going for realisitic game play the only calls they could make a marked difference in (generally) is cardiac arrest or MVCs. Just my opinion.

The trooper I was talking to on a crash scene one day made it sound like it depends on the year of the cruisers as to who gets what first, which makes sense. I imagine central Ohio will see a lot more than the rest for now obviously, but I know there is at least one in service at all the posts near myself.

They've already started, many areas already have at least one in service.

My speculation is not until they go out of service or they can't maintain them anymore. Doesn't make sense to retire working vehicles, they'll just replace the ones that go OOS with the silver chargers. Too costly to replace everything all at once since they have a 1200 vehicle fleet. Eventually they'll be forced to retire the crown vics entirely as they aren't being produced anymore though, and it really is about time anyhow.

Silver Chargers and SUVs and of course the existing white crown vics they have. You should already see the new silver units in service throughout the area. To touch on motor carrier enforcement, they are generally anywhere an OSHP post is, but fewer in numbers and tend to hang out in the truck stops on state highways and near weigh stations Vs. sitting in turnarounds or patrolling.