These are what the squads look like where I live. City and private. I do hope they keep Fire and EMS separate. I believe it will allow for better RP and make it more simulated and realistic with different players being forced to communicate on an incident. For example, there are different callouts in our city. Alpha, Bravo are used to dispatch just an ambulance say for a medical run. However Charlie and Omega are used to dispatch EMS AND the fire department for things like trauma and an arrest or MVA. And they'll act as EMRs and help with CPR or help the patient until EMS arrives or control traffic with the police. It'll make for better RP to have that communication between emergency agencies. Whoops the pictures didn't send

Whoops, I didn't get the body armor picture to show. Here is another I found on the internet with EMS in vests

I don't know where you guys are getting your paramedic ideas Those all look like Lifeflight or European outfitted paramedics. This is what a typical paramedic looks like. I love the dark blue polo with tac pants shown in the left picture. However where I live, city paramedics are mandated to wear bullet-resistant vests for protection like in the picture on the right. Some people might say that if you haven't been feeling well and call for an ambulance and you get 2 men in body armor that show up at your door is a little overkill. However take that same unit and now they have to respond to a domestic violence or active shooter/crime call with police because someone decided to shoot someone else and they need help. You don't pick and choose your calls and you don't have the luxury of dicking around deciding whether or not a vest is good to put on or not for that run.