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This whole past cycle got to use my BLS skills for bleeding control/bandaging wounds (as opposed to taking a BP or asking SAMPLE or Basic Lifting Services) on one singular patient.... Me, I is the Pt who stupidly tried to pry a can lid open in the kitchen lol

That moment when you're in the middle of your Vector Solutions CPR course, and get dispatched to a reported Cardiac Arrest.... (Only to find an awake and breathing Pt complaining of Fever, headache, and nausea... I guess the language barrier is to blame, and luckily the granddaughter was on the...

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The mechanic says I need a new, well, reman engine for my pickup. Quoted $10+k 😵 And maybe in a "this should've been obvious at the start bruh", I mentioned my current engine is already a reman, and he's like "Oooh, hang on let's check another fault reason"

Well there's your problem for not knowing enough material to pass the final... you haven't actually been taught the material yet! Most courses don't expect you to walk in the door on day 1 knowing everything and being able to immediately sit for the final, I mean, that's literally the entire...

https://www.khon2.com/top-stories/oahu-gets-ems-overhaul-with-new-fleet-of-life-saving-vehicles/

Yup. Actually this is the third.... The first one was a couple years ago, August 2022. That was the bad one, while they were unloading at the hospital, they believe there was a fault with the oxygen system. The Patient died and one of our Medics were burned pretty badly (but he's since...

😶 https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/05/18/ambulance-bursts-into-flames-crews-respond-patient-wailupe/

Well it was all at my regular station, but we don't really sleep in here. Like Dispatch tones out every station at 0630, and sleeping in means you're in bed till 7 (which is when you're largely expected to have your bed cleared, even tho the next "hit time" is the 0730 wiping of thr truck before...

Picked up 12hr overtime shift on the night leading into my regular shift today (we call it a Hold Under, the mirror of a hold over). And proceeded to run as many calls as my last full 24hr shift in that half (and of course by the 3rd call at 0200, couldn't go back to sleep after), so now...

Definitely pretty interesting! As many differences, there's still so many similarities to, but yeah, the intensity of their day is way more than ours lol How much is that played up for the video vice that's just the way Japan is, idk, one of these days I'd love to visit a station. Hoped to, but...

And Big Red over here isn't much bigger than the ambulances lol

Me, goes on a trip Also me, takes as many pics of the Kyūkyūshas as I do the temples and other stuff lol

We do actually have a phone number for people to call to say they're doing an Imu so we don't get dispatched to them lol

Abandoned Squatters house, it was very definitely very much "We saved the foundations!" situation (when 3/4 of the place was already collapsed by the time we arrived lol). So no "proper" interior work, but still, some nozzle time on something more than a grass fire... Plus we started off using...

Woot, got our Recruit his first structure fire last night

Jokes aside, for our apparatus, because all the manufacturers are on the Mainland, after they build them, they drive them cross country to the ports as kind of a final road test from what I've heard. That and it's probably cheaper than paying to ship them that much further lol Idk if the same...

And sometimes we have to go help them out with lift assits on those long distance calls, just part of the job you know?

Batman Forever has always been a personal favorite for me

Lol Hey, when weather grounds Hawaii Life Flight, you gotta get that Pt to that Mainland specialty center *somehow* ;)