Recent content by Jim37F

One time while we had the cab tilted on our Engine, I had my Yeti 30oz tumbler sitting on the side running board, apparently just a little too close to the edge, as when I lowered the cab, it caught the edge, and well, the hydraulics won that battle rather decisively....

Hey now, we get along just fine with Point and Grunt It's actually Japanese, you know, something nice and easy and straightforward, and not some crazy complicated 3 different alphabets language or anything

Post dinner breakdown/clean up done, showered, laying in bed, start my Duolingo lesson, which was a more involved "Story" vs the normal ones. I had a nice 30min bonus XP saved up from a previous challenge I had saved up to use with it to... So of course we catch a call halfway through, medical...

We could also ask why so many feel comfortable with a non-EMT/Paramedic with little to no experience running ambulances are routinely put in charge of one of the largest/busiest EMS Departments in the country... not like she's going Interior taking tactical command of crews while pulling a...

That awkward moment when they ask for any Doctors or Nurses on your flight... they even asked if anyone had any Ativan or Benzodiazepine... Luckily we were still on the taxiway so we returned to the gate and ARFF/Medical was there pretty quick

Def didn't need Dr House to see that clue, or to be sure it wasn't Lupus

You could say that... don't think it helped that his discharge paperwork (from earlier in the day) said he had a lung infection

Yikes, I thought our finger pulse ox was malfunctioning when it read 45%... and then EMS' Zoll also read <50% even on BiPap 😳

Happy Thanksgiving y'all! 🦃🥮

I suppose one of these days, I should get around to completing an Associates...

Wellp, that's one hospital that's not going to be skipping the "Is there any possibility you may be pregnant?" question for just about evvveerrryyyybody no matter how old or young (prob even guys too) for quite a while...

Aloha!

What I can see is right leaning people fully believe every protestor is some violent antifa terrorist who totally deserves getting slammed to the ground and every left leaning poster on the side that every ICE agent is just a masked Proud Boy shooting peaceful protesters in the face... There's...

Wow. A few months(?) ago we went to a medical call in a hoarder house. Like classical hoarding conditions, junk piled nearly to the ceiling with barely a couple inch wide path, very glad for your N95 house... Went back to the same house today, same lady, and it is *significantly* better. Like...

My FD is asking for guys to volunteer for Investigations training. It would involve a 6 month commitment to working with the Investigations in our Fire Prevention Bureau. A 40hr "office" work week (well "office" is as often as not a fire scene... just after the wet stuff has already been put on...