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Yeah it's typically a 3-4 hour process, minimum here. Often they pull another company out of service to help out with the changeover (if nothing else for the unloading, and reloading a couple thousand feet of 4" and 2.5" hose...) It's actually easier for them, when an Engine has a relatively...

Our Reserve Engines already have minimal equipment, just the ground ladders and hard suction hose and that's about it. When ever they go in (or back out of) service, we have to bring just about everything over. Including the entire hose bed... And of course they have juuuussssttt enough...

Lovely... over on Big Island, a Hawaii County Fire Department ambulance suffered an engine fire while transporting a patient... luckily no one was hurt, and a second ambulance continued the transport without further incident, but still, no bueno...

Naw, if you party too hard, tomorrow will be Revenge of the Si(x)th...

Vacation request has (finally) been approved, will be in LA for a couple of weeks (in a couple of weeks lol)

Eid Mubarak for all here who currently celebrating Eid al Fitr

Bit of a puff piece, but basically they're adding two Paramedic Rapid Response units (single medic SUV fly car) to our system. And hope to add two more Ambulance Units by summer. (that would bring our EMS up to 25 ambulances I think? Just by way of comparison, Fire we have 43 stations with 63...

Good news, our station's backup generator works just fine, kicked in exactly as it was supposed to right after the neighborhood lost power. We had *just* backed into quarters at 0130 after running a call when everything went dark, and a couple min later the lights were back on... and then...

Probably a stand up 12 or 24hr shift with sleep measured in minutes, and thus a exhaustion driven decision

Well... you're not wrong 😅

So we're due to get a new set of auto extrication tools, so we spent a few hours this morning down at the Training Center cutting up a couple cars with them... Now this was just on one of the Cops clones (On Patrol something or other?) TV shows, but they have a segment where the cops are...

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Well we just had one this morning where they placed a tibial IO while the Lucas was running no problems (same with the previous CPR case we had), so if the humoral site is a concern, go to a different site like that? Or just not strap that arm into the wrist hold on the Lucas?

That really does look like something out of The Last of Us...

Good on the Dialysis center which noticed one of their patients had missed like 3 or 4 appointments in a row, and they called to check up on him. Which lead to PD doing a Welfare check... which lead to us breaking out the BVM because he was unconscious/unresponsive and breathing at like 40...

We just did our Dept required (in service) AHA BLS CPR recert. So of course a few hours later in shift we get a reported Cardiac Arrest call. At the airport. So cue our Engine PLUS Airport Fire and Medical (I honestly don't know why if ARFF is dispatched, why we go as well, we're both BLS...)...

I feel like I'm WEMT qualified now after watching that lol. Amazing how much things have changed while staying the same (in broad strokes of nothing else). Bit crazy they had the dedicated bandage container and dressings, knew enough to train on Tourniquet, but didn't actually make and provide...

Word is Ambulnz in LA/OC is shutting down...

Def something that can easily happen to any of us at anytime. I know I would struggle with a career ending injury. All my adult life, from the Army, to EMT, and now Fire, I'm in that sane boat of my identity getting wrapped up in my job (and jobs that all demand a certain physical ability...

Meanwhile I got told off for parking 1 foot too far away from the curb last time I drove lol...