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My little town gets swamped very summer with an electronic music festival and we end up with a lot of very interesting calls there. I was in the rig on site and we got all call from the security staff stating that a tent went flying with a person inside. You can...
My small Vollie squad covers two ARC homes that are fairly active. They generate about 30 calls a year for residents there that according to the staff "are not acting right". At a BLS level I have a hard time evaluating this group of PTs and wonder if anyone on here has some experience with...
My agency has a loathed 1997 Freightliner FL60 rig with a McCoy Miller box. It is slow as a dog, breaks far too often and some members are not great at maneuvering a large truck. Our CON has a lot of steep hills and the 195hp engine does not cut it for an Ambulance. We more or less use it only...
How are the police around your ERs? I constantly have problems at 3 ERs with local cops clogging up ambulance spaces when there is ample parking 20 feet away. Twice this month I have had words exchanged with cops either blocking my access to the ER or taking the last ambulance space and having...
I have the joy of being elected to the post of training officer of our vol. BLS squad.
In the past our trainings have consisted of a power point on cardiac issues, diabetes etc, all stuff word for word out of the EMT B text book. They are boring and nobody shows up for them. As far as I am...