station life...
our station is a small house with 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, kitchen, living room w/tv (and cable!), a couch, 2 recliners and the front room which is our "office" - station computer for reports and other office equipt. that is where our walk-ins come in and we do blood pressure checks too. we have a garage with washer/dryer, some exercise equipt. and our supply room. we keep one ambulance parked between the station & garage, other one in front, 3rd at fire station as back up unit.
the full time crews work 48 on, 48 off, 48 on, 48 off, 48 on, 8 days off and all full time crew members have their own lockers and food shelves.
we provide our own food but our "association" buys condiments & coffee. we have set daily chores that need to be done & signed off plus rig check out on the first day of your 48 and we generally wash the unit daily unless it is raining!

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we are "on duty/in uniform" from 0800-1700 and can put on casual clothes after 1700 hrs. if we are up all night running calls we are allowed to put up our "crew sleeping" sign and keep the front door locked so we can sleep during the day. we do have a shared gym membership all full time staff pay into and we can work out during daytime hours but that is tough because half the time the gym is busy and then we get a call!
we are supposed to use our own personal computers for stuff like, oh what i'm doing now...cruising the 'net, but we can check our email on the station 'puter if we had to.
we can shower here but i prefer not to since i'm always paranoid my hair will be all soaped up & BAM the tones will go off!:blink: it hasn't happened yet in almost 2 1/2 years but ya never know! heh heh...
so we bring in homework (if in school), books/magazines, personal stuff to do during our down time. we can totally nap if we want to - i took my sleepy time in my recliner this afternoon and since i live in town i could always run by my house if i needed something, go by the pharmacy to pick stuff up or do other errands. B) B) unfortunately the line is drawn at pulling out the beach chair and enjoying the sun at the beach! LOL...
good luck to you!
~kb