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| 30 | <apocsantos> portuese standards for emergency personel are all clearly defined by law, and eveyone has diferente ID numbers for each specific trainning and an identification card |
| 31 | <apocsantos> for example my EMT Card Uniq Identifyer is 36031 |
| 32 | <apocsantos> there is no-one in portugal not firefighter or from any other organization with the same EMT Trainning Certification Number |
| 33 | <apocsantos> all the "credential system" is based on uniq identifyers that can be "cross-check" bettween databases |
| 34 | <apocsantos> for example if i respond to a car accident while off dutty the portuguese authority's (police) ask me for the EMT Training ID and Firefighter ID |
| 35 | <apocsantos> they can radio in the ID's an have my credentials validated |
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