imurphy
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We've all had them! Here's mine, what's yours!
OOps moments...
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FF-EMT Diver
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OMG HAHA, That is too funny, Famous last words hey guys watch this!!!!
EMTinNEPA
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I almost got an ambulance hit by a train once. And no, NOT at a railroad crossing.
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One service I worked for, we'd pull the ambulance across the street to check it off (For flat ground and light, the bay had an incline plus the awning kept it darkish). I always had a routine: Fluids, Tires, Outside compartments, etc...
I had just finished checking off the outside compartments and was fixing to start checking off the inside when I got called back across the street by the supervisor. Took care of that, went back to the truck and finished checking it off. Went to pull it back across the stress and out came Backboards, headblocks, c-collars, a KED, Emergency road side equipment, etc.. ALLLLLLL in the middle of a fairly busy road *WITH* the supervisor still standing across the street.
I didn't see the passenger outside cabinets weren't latched tightly because I couldn't see that side from my direction of approach. It was an empty lot we used for vehicle training purposes and such so I wasn't concerned about vehicles. Little had I known that some EMT students were with us that day and my partner had shown them how we stock the ambulance and failed to mention that you really had to slam those doors to get them to latch.
I had just finished checking off the outside compartments and was fixing to start checking off the inside when I got called back across the street by the supervisor. Took care of that, went back to the truck and finished checking it off. Went to pull it back across the stress and out came Backboards, headblocks, c-collars, a KED, Emergency road side equipment, etc.. ALLLLLLL in the middle of a fairly busy road *WITH* the supervisor still standing across the street.
I didn't see the passenger outside cabinets weren't latched tightly because I couldn't see that side from my direction of approach. It was an empty lot we used for vehicle training purposes and such so I wasn't concerned about vehicles. Little had I known that some EMT students were with us that day and my partner had shown them how we stock the ambulance and failed to mention that you really had to slam those doors to get them to latch.
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You know you can't just leave us with that.
KEVD18
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ive had more than one oops moments, but i rarely take pictures(i hate leaving evidence around).....
HotelCo
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Ouch.... how did that come about?
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Wasn't me driving the supervisor vehicle.. but dang!
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mikie
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^ Soccer mom EMS chase car?!
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KEVD18
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im not one thats all tied up in image. i dont have to have a big shiny heavy rescue to feel good about being an emt. but i would immediatley resign as a supervisor and go back to the road if my company had caravans as fly cars. some things my ego just cant swallow.......
traumateam1
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Oh don't worry.. that's changed, I dunno why they used Caravan's.. I really don't.. But they don't use them here anymore.
KEVD18
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oh, i can handle that question for you.
they needed something that had the cargo capacity for the ems gear, that was at least decent on fuel(given the ungodly cost of petrol up there), and cheap(the only constant corporate requirment for anything.
so when the purchasing officer went out in search of a vehicle, he wasnt thinking about personal image. he had to meet his requirments. after all, he wasnt going to be the one trying to respond to calls in the 200x soccer express delux.
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Haha alright.
I was out in the boonies late one night with the volley service I run with. Chief Driver and I fulfilled and she went to scene, so it's just me taking the unit to scene. I'm driving up and down this backroad, with railroad tracks that run parallel with it, trying to find the place. I get directions from the ALS unit and I realize I missed it. So I throw the lights on, start turning around, inching forward, inching backward... doing like an 11-point turn because the space between the railroad tracks and the cliff wall on the other side of the road is microscopic. I see two lights coming down the road, I think, "Oh, there's a truck coming. He's gotta see my lights, he'll stop". Anyway, I inch forward, within inches of the tracks and WHOOOOOOOSSSSSHHH!!!!! I realize it wasn't a truck, but a train. My jaw drops and I just sit there for about thirty seconds. And that's how I almost got an ambulance hit by a train.
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imurphy
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The story I'm sticking to is I didn;t know Unit 25 (the Ambulance) couldn't be left sitting for 4 hours outside a bay with the ignition but no engine on powering my iPod and heater and be expected to start again!
Ahh. EMS. Lessons learnt every day!
KEVD18
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the heater killed it.
ive left my ipod playing on my car charger for days with no ill effects.
ive left my ipod playing on my car charger for days with no ill effects.
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It never fails that we have a newbie drive the rig and after a call they forget to plug it in. Sooo next call we try to start it and nothing. We end up throwing everything into PV and roll hillbilly style. I personally find it funny
EMTinNEPA
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Just so you know... they won't swerve out of your way.
I noticed -_- lol
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I had one yesterday at work!
My partner, the medic, had driven to our call because we had just left a BLS call and were on our way to a chest pain. Well, we were refused, so we climb back into the ambulance, im in the drivers seat, he in the passenger. Im start pushing on the gas pedal and the bambulance wont move, the engine revs and such but it wouldnt drive. Check it, yup, in Drive. Give it some more gas. It starts puttering down the road but there is a definite resistance and hesitation and engine problems so we stop on the side and im sitting there trying to figure out what to do.. My partner is like Here, let me do it. So I get out, he slides into the drivers seat, and then we go driving down the road like nothings wrong.
I forgot to take off the parking break
My partner, the medic, had driven to our call because we had just left a BLS call and were on our way to a chest pain. Well, we were refused, so we climb back into the ambulance, im in the drivers seat, he in the passenger. Im start pushing on the gas pedal and the bambulance wont move, the engine revs and such but it wouldnt drive. Check it, yup, in Drive. Give it some more gas. It starts puttering down the road but there is a definite resistance and hesitation and engine problems so we stop on the side and im sitting there trying to figure out what to do.. My partner is like Here, let me do it. So I get out, he slides into the drivers seat, and then we go driving down the road like nothings wrong.
I forgot to take off the parking break