A fair number of posters here work or worked in or around LA/OC.
Because out of the, what, 80 or so? ambulance companies in LA/OC, only like half a dozen have 911 Exclusive Operating Areas, where they're the only ambulance authorized to respond, even if it is a fire based system under the jurisdiction of fire medics, those companies are pretty much the only way to get any sort of real EMS experience without being the one out of a thousand applicants to get hired by the FD (when they are actually hiring, turns out lots of people like the idea of a municipal, union, benefits and pension, ~70K+ a year starting job lol, anyways I digress....) the remaining companies, are all pure IFT only, dialysis derby, hospital to nursing home discharges etc
So yeah, for those of us unable to escape to the greener pastures of Texas or even Kern lol, we like to know who's who when they redo the 10 year contracts (which the new ones take effect this year)