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Tom Giorgi - Photos & Bio

5/28/2012

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 I was the son of the late John and Minnie Giorgi who were born in the USA but both sets of my Grand Parents immigrated from Italy through Ellis Island. They came here in search of a better life and to become Americans. I'm very proud of my ancestors even though I never met my Paternal Grand Parents both having died years before I was born.
 
I went to parochial grammar school and graduated from Port Chester H.S. in 1962 spending 4 years in the Drum Line of the H.S. band. I began school to become an X-Ray Technologist in October of 1962 at The Hew York Hospital School of Radiography. After 2 years of school I graduated in October of 1964 and I was one of the 4 from the class that was asked to join the departments staff. I jumped at the chance loving the challenge of working in one of the largest hospitals on the east coast. 10 months later I was drafted into the Army and a year later I was on my way to Vietnam as an individual replacement with orders for the 1st Cav. My orders were changed at the 90th Replacement Battalion in Saigon and I was assigned to the 3rd Brigade of the 25th Infantry Division which was an isolated task force at the edge of the Cambodian border placed there by General Westmorland to stop the flow of NVA into the Central Highlands of Vietnam.
 
I was wounded on 3 July 1966 earning 2 Purple Hearts being wounded twice on the sane day in the same battle that raged for almost 4 hours! We fought the NVA's 66th Regiment which was made famous in the movie "We Were Soldiers Once" starring Mel Gibson.
 
After the war I went back to my job at NYH where I met my soon to be wife Barbara who after 42 years I'm still happily married to. We have 2 sons Scott and Todd. Todd my youngest is married to my daughter in law Anna Ponieros Giorgi and my first born Scott will marry Laura Ferraro on 11/11 of this year. After 18 total years in X-Ray I was in need of a change in my life due to PTSD although I didn't know or recognize this at the time. All I know is I had to do something more exciting and challenging. They say that once you've been exposed to combat you always are in search of the challenge and excitement that combat offers. I went to school to become a paramedic at Cabrini Medical Center in lower Manhattan and was hired by NYC/EMS after graduation. I started working for them on 6/16/80. Being a paramedic kept me in medicine and gave me that challenge so it was just what I needed at the time. 22 years later and 1 year after nine eleven I had had enough and I'm now retired living in Rye Brook, NY with my wife and family near by.
 
We have a female Basset Hound Chloe who is going on 11 years old this June 21st.

(Scroll down to view the slideshow, hover the mouse over the picture & click 'play')

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One is of me being awarded my Purple Heart in my hospital bed at St. Alban's Naval Hospital, and there are a few of a group I played with after the war. There's a lot so you decide which ones you think will work best with what you will be posting. I like them all and I'm including a fairly recent picture of me with my wife Barbara and my 2 sons Scott and Todd.

 I included an article from a Civil Service Newspaper that has the list of when NYC made the Paramedic title a Civil Service position. I was first on that list so essentially I was the first Paramedic in the history of Paramedics in NYC/EMS to be given a Civil Service title! I was very proud of this when you consider how many medics citywide that applied to be on that list and have some job protection. I beat out my close friend and fellow Vietnam Vet Gus Pappas who was a Combat Medic with The Marines earning a Purple Heart. After 20 years in Harlem I left the street to be his aide at the EMS Academy while he completed 30 years on the job!! He never had an aide but told Chief Andy McCracken he would have one for his last year but it had to be me or no one! Medics were not allowed to be aides but Chief McCracken knew toe connection that we had as Vietnam Vets plus he also recognized that I did 20 years on the Ambulance so he made a one time exception.
 
I included when I received the "Pintchik Humanitarian Award." Mr. Pintchik owned a chain of Paint stores throughout the city and went into Cardiac Arrest at a function. An M.D. at the affair pronounced him but when our Medics Carl Tromantona and Kevin Honig arrived they wouldn't accept his pronouncement and they resuscitated him which gave him an additional 3 years with his family. The Pintchik family to show their appreciation and their father's love for the street workers in EMS, hosted the annual awards banquet that EMS held to honor that year's medal recipients. The first Pintchik award was given to an administrator with BRAVO Ambulance Corps in Brooklyn where Dan began his career I believe. EMS was told by the family that they want the award to go to someone who works the Ambulance because that's who their father was closest to. I was the first uniformed person to receive that prestigious award!!!
 
Also included is the EMS Magazine article for an annual competition they held to select the best EMS provider in the country. I was one of the runner ups! There's a small interview I did over the phone with JEMS magazine.
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Hub911.com Exclusive Interview with... Dan-O (the 'O' stands for Original) Heidt - The Unique Dichotomy of The Harlem Phoenix. Author of Disposable Heroes and No Back Up

3/24/2012

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Hub911.com Exclusive Interview with... Dan-O (the 'O' stands for Original) Heidt - The Unique Dichotomy of The Harlem Phoenix. Author of Disposable Heroes and No Back Up

1. Where did you grow up & what was it like? I grew up in Brooklyn, NY with a country house in upstate like I mentioned. I am a die hard lifelong Yankee fan. My claim to fame in this regard is I have been in all 3 Yankee stadium's. My first game was in 1971 with my mom. I am what you call a section 39 bleacher creature. And I was at the World Series at the new new stadium. I was at the last game of the old stadium as well as the first game of the new stadium.

2. In your movie script you wrote: "Be a phoenix or a statistic", which are you? I made that up myself and my brother actually uses it. In motivational speeches. Of course I am a phoenix my whole life crashed. And I could have easily become one of these people who drinks 25 beers a day before noon. And does nothing but bitch about how bad life sucks. I define success by inner happiness. Another one of my favorite quotes. Is the mirror accepts no lies. It maybe hard to believe but many people seem to be able to lie to the mirror. I CAN NOT NOR WILL I.

3. How do you define success? My greatest job is not in the movie script. It is in chapter 31 of DH. A baby who was face down in the bathtub. The mother was so freaked out she thought she caused her child's own death. And couldn't bring herself to touch him. The firemen took the baby out of the tub. This is a big problem for me. The firemen get too much credit, paramedics are more than ambulance drivers. No disrespect intended but the only time they save a baby. Is if they pull that baby out of a fire. No disrespect intended to the firemen. I give them so much credit because it takes so much courage to run into a building everyone else is running out of.

4. What have you learned over your lifetime that you'd like to share with the younger generation? I am probably the only hippie who went to military school. I was at Woodstock as a 5 yr old. Perhaps that was the best perspective to see it from. You could literally walk to the stage from our country house in Bethel. Pretty funny cause my parents were hippies and now they are so far to the right they practically tip over. I am an Independent who goes down the lines of common sense. I don't like red state blue state. I say we blend together become 50 purple states. The color of royalty. After all we are the greatest nation on the planet.

5. What is your favorite hobby? I love to read and believe it or not I read Shakespeare. Especially Julius Caesar, For I too have been stabbed in the back by such honorable men. I love Stephen King he is my favorite author. And he is far from all gore and guts. Two of my favorite books are Hearts in Atlantis and The Stand. Throw in Black House and the Talisman. All his books seem to be connected to the tower. The books I mentioned I actually read slow cause I didn't want them to end. When I read I can easily read 5,000 pages a week. I'm starting to like Lee Child a lot. The Jack Reacher stories.

6. Who has had the greatest influence on you? The Kennedy brothers. Especially JFK for obvious reasons. John Lennon again for obvious reasons. I was at the Dakota as a distraught drunken 16 yr old. We all sang "Give Peace A Chance and Imagine." It didn't matter what color lips were on that bottle. And it still doesn't matter to me today. Come Aug 31st I will have 20 yrs sobrerity. I tell people I'm quite capable of making an ass out of myself without alcohol. Ok this is a biggie. Just like I used to go to AA and NA for the hugs. And to see and listen to people WHO I SHOULD NOT BE LIKE!! Adolph Hitler had a huge influence on my life. How so you may ask. Look at my last name. Although I am Irish/Italian/German my dad's father was the German. Hence the last name. When I was 7 yrs old my best friend was name Greg Gunzberg. His family was clearly Jewish and lost many members in the Holocaust. This would be 1971. You know what as a 7 yr old I was embarrassed to tell people that I was German. And asked my mom if I could use her last name Nocerino. We had a long talk about this but you can see how a negative person can influence a child.

7. What will be your legacy? Is the world better because of you/your work/your influence? Once a person has my loyalty they have it for life. I give everyone basic human respect. And I expect the same. If someone gets a lower level of respect from me. It's because they earned it. If someone wants a higher level of respect from me. Then also they have earned it. Respect it's more than a 7 letter word to me. And this has always been a problem for me. Because I could never work for somebody I didn't respect. In my books I mention that Lt bars are not based on experience. Intelligence or merit they are based on a 75 question multiple choice test. I'm sorry that's not enough to qualify you as my leader. And it certainly doesn't mean you can tell me how to be, what to say and how to do things. Especially when it comes to a triple shooting up on the 15th floor. I would like to be remembered as someone who did the right thing. Just because it was the right thing to do.

8. What's the funniest work story/ event you remember? I mentioned that I went to military school. That would be Xavier in NYC. That didn't work out to well cause you know what. I am a lone wolf and all of NYC was my backyard. I hung out in the Village at the age of 14. And hit all the clubs all the time. I can't tell you how many bands I got to see. Before they hit it big. This will make you laugh and then I have to stop typing. Electric lady land is on West 8th street. That was Jimi Hendrix's studio. I saw Bob Dylan playing harmonica and acoustic guitar on the street. He looked like a bum and people were just passing by and throwing change in his guitar case. I put a dollar in and I said I know who you are. He laughed and said don't tell anyone. Then he told me that song wasn't worth a dollar.

As for funniest job I had two floaters in my career. Both with Jason. The first one central asked over the air. "16 Victor do you have a drowning on that scene?" I responded back "No I think he's just been doing the back stroke for the last 12 days." That went out over all of Manhattan North. And Brendan said he nearly crashed his rig when he heard me say that. He laughed so hard. A few months later. We had another floater. And Jason said to me "He ain't doin the back stroke is he?" We went down on the rocks and I saw that his wrist watch was still working. I held up a purple bloated arm and did my impersonation of the Timex man. Standing over him saying, "There you have it folks it takes a dippin and keeps on tickin." Jason nearly fell into the water he was laughing so hard. There's really nothing funny about EMS but like I said. Sometimes you have laugh to avoid going crazy.

Brendan had a funny job that I showed up on. A known drug dealer was shot in the head behind the ear. Then rolled up in a rug. They left him under a giant billboard that had a picture of McGruff the Crime Dog. And that billboard said take a bite out of crime.

9. Is there anything I haven't asked about that you would care to comment on? I have some tattoo's one on my forearm is Japanese. It means, "Great talent; God given." You might know where that came from. The other is Celtic I wear it on the right side of my neck. It means, "Protector of Peace." If you're familiar with Stephen King then think of me as an Eddy Dean. If you're familiar with the Godfather then think of me as Clemenza.
I have a rare talent. Did you ever hear someone say they can slow the game down? Yes, I can do that -I can go on auto pilot. And think in pictures. Slow single frame pictures when everything around me is turning to shit. On that baby job my partner asked me. How did you know what to do so quickly? I told him the kid was the same size as my daughter. I knew what I would do if it was my own child. And I instinctively put that plan of action to purposeful use. I will also tell you when it comes to partners give me a street rat. With a GED who cares over a Harvard education every time.......

I would like to add. Is the world a better place because I am in it? You may never hear this in your life again, but getting busted was the best thing that ever happened to me. And I did tell my lawyer that. Before I got busted the answer would be a definitive NO. But after one day at a time. Sometimes one minute at a time. That will be for my higher power to judge. And I hope what I have been doing will tip the scales slightly in my favor. When I have to stand before him.

10. What is your favorite dinner & what do you drink with it? My favorite drink is Pepsi you know why. Because they donate literally thousands of cases a week. To all sorts of self help groups, local churches and low income people. My favorite meal is baked lasagna with giant meatballs. I refuse to eat veal for obvious reasons. And the best meal I ever had in my life was baked Swordfish with a secret sauce, under the palm trees in Aruba.

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Addressing Urban Legends - Ignore or Post?

2/18/2012

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It seems like urban legends spread more rapidly than wildfire in this age of internet & texting. Should departments address the rumors and post them on their websites, while stating 'Although this is myth, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction so be aware at all times'.

Here is an approach one department takes... Quebec provincial police, increasingly bogged down with tips and complaints about such urban legends, are trying an innovative approach to nipping the tales in the bud.The police have added a link on their website devoted to educating Quebecers about urban legends and hoaxes in hope the public will do a bit of research before forwarding dubious messages.

Or should they ignore them and hope the public doesn't freak out?

Here is an example: http://www.crime-safety-security.com/Myths-and-Urban-Legends.html and Urban Legends vs Myth Busters

This is a great site for debunking rumors... http://www.snopes.com/

Please post your comments, we would like to hear your opinion.

Also, do you think the hub911.com should add a page on our site addressing these rumors?

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Tactical Fitness: Do This, Not That by Bryan Fass

2/14/2012

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I do not have time to exercise; I am too tired from my shift; my back is too sore to work out; the list is endless.  How many times have you seen an officer join the force fit and eager and within a few years they are out of shape and stressed out.

While teaching a tactical fitness class a few weeks ago I was amazed at the lack of conviction the training officers had.  Not in their dedication to fitness and injury prevention but in the follow through and dedication of their peers to stay the course.  While teaching these officers and operators how to improve physical performance through corrective exercises we stumbled into a discussion about good versus dangerous exercises.  I specifically recall one participant getting frustrated as I essentially told him that almost every exercise he did was not in his best interest.  This discussion rapidly led into a do this - not that training session which we all enjoyed, so let’s take a look at some of the exercises we dissected.

As I have discussed at length in this column MANY times the first exercise we suggest doing less or never is the abdominal crunch.  Instead of the crunch we prefer exercises that stiffen the spine and brace the abdominal wall as these vastly improve performance, power and stability in the torso, spine and core.  The abdominal exercises here are fantastic as they force you to use every muscle in your body and this will help boost anaerobic capacity or short burst ability.  The key to these exercises is simple.

1) Feet must be straight at all times with the legs hip width apart.

2) You must squeeze your glutes with each rep, imagine holding a gold coin between your cheeks.

3) Your hips must remain flat at all times, no rocking side to side.  Imagine a carton of eggs on your lower back.

4) Your spine needs to be neutral at all times, so a broom stick on the back in contact with your head-mid-back and lower back will do the trick.

5) Control is the key here so the repetitions are not important, the technique is.  If your glutes are tight, spine neutral, feet straight and still and your speed is constant trust me your abs will quickly let you know that they are working hard.

As a side note all these moves can be combined with a push up movement to increase the intensity and the difficulty.  Perform this type of training one to two days per week at the end of your workout.  Training abs first is a fitness myth, we do not want the abs fatigued early and then ask them to help give torso/spine stiffness through a workout.  Training abs last or toward the end of a workout makes a lot more sense and means that you have to do a lot less abdominal work as they are already fatigued from the workout.  Next month we will look at back extensions.

About The Author:

Bryan Fass is the author of “Fit Responder”, a comprehensive wellness plan for the first responder, and the Fit Responder Blog. Bryan has a Bachelor’s Degree in Sports Medicine and is certified as a licensed athletic trainer and a strength and conditioning specialist. He was a paramedic for over 8 years. Bryan has authored four books regarding fitness, wellness and human performance. Bryan is available for Consulting and Speaking on Public Safety Fitness Testing along with Fitness, Wellness and Injury Prevention Programs. Contact him via email to bryan@firepoliceemsfitness.net.

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