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Whew, talk about a "welcome back to work after 2 weeks of vacation" 0330 we get woken up to Relocate to cover another stations area, not uncommon when a big incident is happening somewhere (my station is one specially designated to Relo to cover the gaps)... and then we get dispatched to the...

The Medic seemed quite confident in requiring the paperwork on hand. Like the Pt even pulled put her phone to record and the Medic reiterated the need for the actual paperwork on hand.

Lady wants to bring her service dog in the ambulance to the ER Medic says they can only take the dog if they have e the actual paperwork on hand "There is no paperwork for service dogs" "Yes there is, our SOG requires us to have the paperwork on hand" "No, there is no paperwork at all needed...

I mean, one party is generally more pro-Union, supports raising minimum wage, supports expanding healthcare access in general The other party is promoting a platform that is anti-Union, thinks any suggestions of raising the minimum wage is "communism" (and wouldn't mind getting rid of minimum...

And we didn't get a chance to do any of that, as instead, we spent 10 hours on a brush fire...

So my Department has a tradition where we brunch on the weekends. Like everyone buys something for brunch and brings it in and we do a group cook. Alternatively we could go out and order out from someplace. Last week we were coming on duty from one of the other watches that had ordered out from...

Landing Zone support earlier today

"The Eagle has landed."On July 20, 1969 — 55 years ago today — #Apollo11 touched down on the Moon.

Looks like they tried a couple times... I'm just wondering why they didn't block the road at that cul-de-sac?! Like you see him driving around, and yet they all dutifully pull off and give him enough room to drive out, instead of cutting off before he got around to drive on the sidewalk in the...

You see Chief, what had happened was...

Exactly. What are we Russia? (Looking at the way Putin dealt with Opposition like Navalny... (Too bad the bone spur draft dodger won't go "I don't feel safe" and drop out though... that would be best, let him focus on his remaining felony trials, and future impending Epstein related...

I swear I had a reverse opticom on this morning, caught Every. Single. Red. Light. pretty much at the top of their cycles, on my way home this AM. Always fun when you were up all night running calls...

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Dayam, one of our ambulances came within inches of crashing while transporting a patient, because of a boneheaded (I'd have some undue attention from the Mods if I wrote what I really thought about them) driver... Basically, transporting, two lane (1 lane ea direction) road, ambulance lights...

Kind of actually, yes. Tailboard is def big enough to stand on and ride fairly comfortably, and there's the buzzer buttons (1 for stop 2 for reverse, or whatever) to signal the driver (though we never use them, because we are strictly forbidden from actually tailboard riding haha)

Not an ambulance, but despite being a hot, humid, 80* year round, we can't seem to figure out A/C in any of our trucks, they always break, and the Maintenance Shop can't fix them, and we're just told "too bad so sad, roll down the window for A/C" In other news, because our 10 year old...

80th Anniversary, June 6th 1944

That moment when the insomnia strikes, and you don't end up going to bed until 4am the night (er morning?) before shift (normally wake up 6-6:30 for my 8am shift start)... and then we're up till midnight on calls (of which we hit double digits), decent night, slept until a 6am call... and then I...

Damn, that's horrific

My two cents, which really are only worth that $0.02 since it's been close to 7 years si cents I've worked in Los Angeles County.... but I remember LA and OC being relatively unique/"special" in that they were really some of the only County/LEMSAs that required an additional local Co cert on top...