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Old 07-03-2008, 11:52 AM
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I'm new to the whole blackberry craze (so far i'm loving it). I'm looking for ways this fancy phone will better assist me in my profesional life as well as personal. So my question is, have any of the firefighters out there found any really good programs that they find to be useful at work?
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Welcome to CB! I don't know if your department is EMS based, but I use BEIKS Pocket Guide to Medications all the time. Stay safe!
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Hopefully Gregs suggestion will help you out... In the meantime, I'll search for some apps that could be of good use...BTW...welcome to CB...
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I never found anything, unfortunately they never ported any of the apps that were made for palm and WM. There are alot of mobile friendly hazmat sites though, and I keep a ton of reference information in my notes. Good Luck!
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There are alot of mobile friendly hazmat sites though, and I keep a ton of reference information in my notes. Good Luck!
I am also a HazMat Tech/Instructor. Would you mind posting some of those "mobile friendly" sites? Thanks
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I have loaded a bunch of stuff into my memo pad. Command operations and pump info. plus I also you memo pad for recording info.... Wish they had a incident report software I can use... the more I search there is really nothing out there....
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hadn't thought of useing the memo pad. that's acualy a great Idea. And your right, not much out there that I can find directed towards firefighters for Blackberry use..
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Sure, here is a few to get started...

Toxnet Mobile

NIOSH Pocket Guide

CAMEO (They used to have a seperate mobile site, now main site works rather well on the berry)

2004 ERG (Haven't tried any of the 08 sites yet)

Radiation Event Medical Management



I haven't added everything I had in my 8830 in the curve yet, so I'll throw some more up then. Canutec has a nice ERG page that I'm missing and there are some more WMD/Counter terrorism related sites. But these are the guides we all know and love. Also there was a great mobile site safety plan checklist but I can't remember where I found it. Happy HazMatting!
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Here are a few of the things I found that seem to work rather well. GCalc, great fast graphing calculator app that is FREE! Good for calculations on the fly. Also, http://www.skyscape.com Seems to have a number of BB EMS applications that seem pretty decent and look like they are ports from Palm/WM. Once we finally hit OS 4.5, I have an engineers cheat sheet (For Excel) that I would be willing to give to everyone. It has pump calculations for various sizes and lengths of lines. May not work for everyone dependent upon hose diameter, but you can modify it to fit your needs.
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My idea:

Make a recording of your particular station's dispatch tone
Set it as your ringtone
Sneak your BB under a rookies bed
Call your own number

Watch as the rookie trips over himself to get geared up while everyone else stands around laughing at him ....lmao
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Sure, here is a few to get started...

Toxnet Mobile

NIOSH Pocket Guide

CAMEO (They used to have a seperate mobile site, now main site works rather well on the berry)

2004 ERG (Haven't tried any of the 08 sites yet)

Radiation Event Medical Management



I haven't added everything I had in my 8830 in the curve yet, so I'll throw some more up then. Canutec has a nice ERG page that I'm missing and there are some more WMD/Counter terrorism related sites. But these are the guides we all know and love. Also there was a great mobile site safety plan checklist but I can't remember where I found it. Happy HazMatting!
Thanks for the links. I downloaded the HTML version of the Niosh Guide, but am stuck trying to figure out how to map the browser to the guide, which is on the memory card. Any ideas? Or can this even be done? Sure would be handy if I could put the NPG and the ERG on the card for instant access.
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Forgive me for Hijacking the thread.
Just wanna say Happy 4th to all you First Responders, hope y'all have a Quiet and relaxing Day!
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Happy 4th to you and the rest of the gang as well!!


As for storing documents on the card I was never able to get this to work, although I really wanted to be able to access stored PDFs. There were a couple that I converted to images but that never really worked that well.

Now with docs to go it will be easier, I'll have to start converting some of my pdfs over I guess. I did throw a couple powerpoints on just for SandG but nothing that makes a good field reference.

Hope everyone has a safe and enjoyable holiday weekend!!
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you boys have a good 4th
hopefully i wont start any fires tonight
but if i do ive been smoking 30lbs of ribs since 8 o'clock this morning
ill save ya some!ribs.bmp
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Now with docs to go it will be easier
I'm running 4.5.0.44 and the Docs to Go can only read Word, Excel and Powerpoint. Is there going to be a pdf reader? That would be great! Happy 4th to all!!
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