Dumbest thing heard on the radio

[DesertMedic66]

For us dispatch gives out the adress and the nature of the call but never the name, we do not have encryption. We will sometimes receive the name in a page or if we call dispatch on a cell phone. We have the option of calling the hospital via radio or via cellphone. Both of which gets recorded. Everyone calls in using the cellphone because it's easier. If for some reason we need to say the patients name over the cellphone to the hospital then we must ask the patient if that is ok with them.

 

[jjesusfreak01]

No names over the radio here. If the complaint should be kept confidential, the nature of the call is sent to our text pagers and shows on the MDC computer. The hospital doesn't need to know the name either, they'll get it as soon as we walk in the door.

 

[emtchick171]

We had a police chase going on and the dispatcher advised all units were 10-56 (intoxicated) rather than 10-6(busy)

 

[usalsfyre]

Address and complaint over the radio. Reports are usually by cell phone but my be called in on a statewide radio network. No names for the most part, occasionally we will give a name over cell phone to start the preregistration process for a STEMI or stroke.

 

[LucidResq]

Cop: "Can we get Fire to bring some gas masks back out here for the body-snatchers?"


Long story.

 

[sirengirl]

(This literally just happened. My unit is a volunteer BLS service with a dedicated lane line. We run 2 rigs 0700 - 1900 and 1 rig overnight. This call comes in at 7:04 after my crew has left; I'm still finishing PCRs and the night team is on a call.)

*tones*
Dispatcher: "what is your emergency?"
Caller: "I need an ambulance to-"
D: "we don't have any units available. Let me give you the number-"
*scuffling as my chief lunges in the dispatch room and hisses at her*
D: "oh! Oh, its 9-1-1."

:rofl:

 

[rmabrey]

Medic 6 I need you for a priority 6 out of Women's going to (hospital attached directly attached to womens)

 

[Sasha]

Medic 6 I need you for a priority 6 out of Women's going to (hospital attached directly attached to womens)

One of these days I'm going to open a business that builds tunnels from hospitals to the nursing homes that are directly across the street or in the parking lot.

 

[Bullets]

dispatched for local LEO with chest pain since 3, CAD says he says he has acid reflux before but not this long

Unit 10: Radio, eta on ALS?
Radio: 10 no medics were dispatched
Unit 10: Received radio, no medics for chest pain
Radio: 10, land line radio
Unit 10: Not until you get me medics

 

[rmabrey]

One of these days I'm going to open a business that builds tunnels from hospitals to the nursing homes that are directly across the street or in the parking lot.

That run took over an hour for a 2 minute transport time. It only took that long cause of the stop signs on the campus.

 

[daine.scott]

That was damn funny sirengirl. Damn there are so many but I can’t recollect even one to share.

 

[JJR512]

This wasn't a dumb thing I heard, it was more funny than anything else. OK, it was just mildly amusing.

Dispatch: "Your patient is breathing."
Medic unit: "OK. That's good."

 

[DesertMedic66]

Our dispatch was trying to talk to medic 406. Over the radio it sounded like 106. After 3 times the dispatcher changed it up.

"medic Quatro-O-sixo". Then 406 came back with "Medic Quatro-O-sixo go ahead"

 

[Martyn]

This wasn't a dumb thing I heard, it was more funny than anything else. OK, it was just mildly amusing.

Dispatch: "Your patient is breathing."
Medic unit: "OK. That's good."

We got told that on a call to a 93 yr old female fall at home 'Medic XX be advised patient is concious and breathing'...we get on scene and poor old lady was sat in her wheelchair, head tilted back, mouth wide open, pulseless and guess what? NOT BREATHING :wacko:

 

[fast65]

"Medic 123 I show you en route to that traffic collision. Be advised, there's a bunch of people running around, unknown reason."

Sent from my mobile command center

 

[addictedforever]

heard a ff/emt say "medic 81 has lifted off" instead of the chopper...dispatch was like "uh...would you repeat that?" we gave him a toy medic with chopper rotors on it later

 

[DESERTDOC]

...and the baby is 2 knuckles from coming out....

On the MED-NET, while I am driving.



WTF, over!

 

[DaniPhoenix]

One of these days I'm going to open a business that builds tunnels from hospitals to the nursing homes that are directly across the street or in the parking lot.

Ours HAS a tunnel and we still get called. At 4 am. Because they couldnt "spare an aide because they would have to wait with the patient." because you are busy doing.... What exactly?

 

[addictedforever]

Ours HAS a tunnel and we still get called. At 4 am. Because they couldnt "spare an aide because they would have to wait with the patient." because you are busy doing.... What exactly?

they pro'ly tho't they couldn't spare an aide, because if they are like either of the nursing homes i worked at...they're already maxed out at night...if you're allowed to have 25 residents per aide on noc, that's what we had, sometimes more than that...so even tho' it seems like they wouldn't have anything to do, when you have 25-30 residents your responsible for, it takes a while to do rounds and you have to be there all the time in case something happens...which it usually does in threes

 

[DaniPhoenix]

they pro'ly tho't they couldn't spare an aide, because if they are like either of the nursing homes i worked at...they're already maxed out at night...if you're allowed to have 25 residents per aide on noc, that's what we had, sometimes more than that...so even tho' it seems like they wouldn't have anything to do, when you have 25-30 residents your responsible for, it takes a while to do rounds and you have to be there all the time in case something happens...which it usually does in threes

they had at least one aid and 2 nurses.. and I'm pretty sure the hospital employs a porter or 5, though perhaps they don't work nights. anyways.