A friend of mine works with AMR and he says they don't issue portables to the medics so a lot of people buy their own.
I consider that to be Unsafe working conditions. Going into some of those places, everybody should be carrying portable radios.
Then I remembered, I have a brother-in-law who has worked as an EMT for AMR in Bridgeport for several years. Just a few miles down the road from New Haven. So I called him. OF COURSE they issue portable radios to their employees. At the beginning of a shift and he turns it in at the end of his shift. Unless New Haven AMR is completely different from AMR in Bridgeport, everybody gets a portable radio.
My brother-in-laws biggest complaint is - he wishes they issued a case with strap similar to what many fire departments use.
So if employees at New Haven AMR do NOT get issued portable radios, they need to find out why. If somebody wants to listen for their own use, that's a completely different story. But employees should definitely NOT have to buy their own portable radios for work. I would suspect that AMR is a lot smarter than that, to require employees to buy their own radios. One of their employees get injured and is not able to call for help, would certainly open up a huge liability case for AMR.
"shadowman", tell your friend about this. Either he is stretching the truth a little OR he really needs to get the AMR employees of New Haven together and find out why they do NOT get the use of portable radios while working like their Brothers and Sisters of the Bridgeport AMR Service.
I am of course for Employee Rights and Safety. And while I'm at it, portable radios or not, let me Thank those AMR EMTs and Medics for the work they do. They save lives and help us everyday of the year, while we sleep and while we are awake. GREAT JOB GUYS and THANK YOU..
My name; Willy "D"