Recent content by eman00

I went today to the DMV today to turn in my medical form, and took a lot longer than usual to complete the process. The DMV employee told me that their system doesn't recognize ambulance certs as commercial with a Class C DL (something like that). They had to call Sacramento to open up the...

Received a page with an address and the street name was Vespucci. I decided to mess with the dispatcher and requested for the address over the radio. Me: Dispatch, can you give me the address over the radio, it came out scrambled on the pager Dispatch: The address is 1234 Vespucci.....(the...

thanks for the info

Do not work for this company, they always mess up you pay check EVERY week, station is south bay is a joke (no showers, crappy and used furniture) and the supervisor is a total douche (once showed up to a meeting, talking about how to look professional, when he was dressed in company uniform...

Emergency Medical Dispatcher

Where are some locations in Los Angeles County to get a EMD cert? Thanks for any help you can provide.

Not so much anymore, many companies are actually going legit to avoid being raided by the government for medicare fraud. Look at what happened last year with the companies and doctors offices that were doing medicare fraud. One company in Los Angeles, Alpha Ambulance, was raided and closed down...

Ambulance companies here in So. Cal are getting sued for not giving their EMTs lunch breaks. I've worked for a few companies that have already had lawsuits against them, and lost; I've received a few nice checks as the result of the lawsuits. I know some companies are giving official lunch...

I worked for MedReach a few years back, and whichever shift I worked, it was really busy; even working a 24, I hardly got any sleep. I worked in the field for more than 6 years, and I would parked somewhere hidden, mainly because I didn't want to be bothered by people asking me for directions or...

I heard that MedReach Ambulance, based in Gardena, CA, has issued a new policy to their EMTs. The new policy is that EMTs cannot sleep while they post in the field because it looks unprofessional and any EMTs who are caught sleeping will be written up. What does everybody think of that policy?

I heard that the California Ambulance Driver Exam was recently revised. From what I heard, a few questions that were on the AMR sample exam (which was pretty much the same questions on the old exam) are now on the revised exam and new questions are on there that are taken out from the ambulance...