How busy are your guys' ALS cars? Pure curiosity.
My childhood was a lie man. Adults got to drink beer, drive, and call the shots. Now I see that its beer guts, insurance ********, and the wife calling the shots.
Considering these were roughly my plans today (replace Umi Zoomi with "Sing") until an unexpected sick call? Why yes, yes I do.
How is that cheating?
I'm sleeping on the bed of my truck that is on the ground in a tent...
Love the truck. Already have 46,000 on it. Only thing is that it is very quiet stock. So if you want to actually hear it you have to put an exhaust system on it. So far I only have a cold air intake and a chip/programmer on it.
That's actually something I've been curious about myself. There aren't any ALS units out of my station, and none of them are in my normal dispatch "division" so I don't normally get to hear their calls go out over the radio. However from what I've gathered, the medic cars are generally considered "last up" for 911 calls during half of their shift in order to take ALS IFT requests, and are part of the normal 911 rotation (i.e. if out of a station with multiple units, they can become first up for the next 911 when the other unit is out) for the other half. I worked with another 1&1 EMT assigned to the medic unit out of West Hollywood (a recent change) and he said they'll typically get 3 or 4 ALS IFTs, usually at night, and they were trying to decide if that meant they should be last up for 911's during the day or night. Another time I got a chance to ask one of our medics how often they got Backup requests and he said it "wasn't uncommon" to get one a shift, but I have no numbers or anything. Hopefully a medic will pick up tomorrow and I can pick their brain a little more lol
eh take out a few baffles whats the harm
lol
They did. I get horrible mileage, about 14mph mixed highway/city.