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Ha good looking on the bright side I suppose.

We got 14.5 inches total snow fall from sat/sun.
 
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We are supposed to get a freezing rain/snow mix Friday.
Yeah, super cooled precipitation falling on the ground/ buildings/trees that are well below the freezing point...
I seem to recall back in '76 we had an ice storm that was preceded by very similar conditions. I remember not having power for several days. :sad:
 
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We had significant icing conditions here the week before this 'Arctic Vortex' came thru, utilities had just finally gotten all outages squared away. Looks like we may be headed into another freeze - thaw - freeze cycle by the looks of the forecast. Better stock up on TP and bottled water!
 
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Ah how I love So Cal and our 68° weather

So I was taking the Biddle PAT today. I didnt pass (10:16, cut off is 9:34) but found myself unexpectedly playing EMT when one of our guys manages to go shoulder first full speed into one of the obstacles. Didnt do much other than help him up, get him to a chair and take off his turnout coat and since we were right there got a quick CMS before the cadre shooed us away and decided to call paramedics. And by call paramedics I mean walk across the yard of the fire academy to the fire station (who's tower we were using) he was transported by ambulance to the hospital.


Later after the Biddle is over, I walk back to my truck and check my phone. I had two missed phone calks from AMR Santa Clarita wanting me to come in and interview with them tomorrow -_- Unfortunately Santa Clarita is about as far from me (~50min) as my current job in Torrance. Too bad it wasn't Rancho Cucamonga or Irwindale (considering I live all of 2.5 miles from the Irwindale station lol)
 
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Jim37F said:
Ah how I love So Cal and our 68° weather

So I was taking the Biddle PAT today. I didnt pass (10:16, cut off is 9:34) but found myself unexpectedly playing EMT when one of our guys manages to go shoulder first full speed into one of the obstacles. Didnt do much other than help him up, get him to a chair and take off his turnout coat and since we were right there got a quick CMS before the cadre shooed us away and decided to call paramedics. And by call paramedics I mean walk across the yard of the fire academy to the fire station (who's tower we were using) he was transported by ambulance to the hospital.


Later after the Biddle is over, I walk back to my truck and check my phone. I had two missed phone calks from AMR Santa Clarita wanting me to come in and interview with them tomorrow -_- Unfortunately Santa Clarita is about as far from me (~50min) as my current job in Torrance. Too bad it wasn't Rancho Cucamonga or Irwindale (considering I live all of 2.5 miles from the Irwindale station lol)
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Take it, do your 6 months, then transfer to where you want to go. That's the way it is at AMR. You take the first opening and deal with it. Then transfer over, and then there's me. I want to transfer over, but I don't want to do BLS again :(
 
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exodus said:
Take it, do your 6 months, then transfer to where you want to go. That's the way it is at AMR. You take the first opening and deal with it. Then transfer over, and then there's me. I want to transfer over, but I don't want to do BLS again :(
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Become a medic :p
 
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I suppose I should've also mentioned that I'm also in the middle of backgrounds fro a part time FD AO job. From what I gather it's basically a Kelly shift but 12 hr shifts not 24. So the part time Irwindale job I originally applied for would've fit very nicely lol

I've heard the local AMR divisions like to use a similar schedule. Two Kellys at once seems doable, but it also seems it'd be very rough with few off days. Maybe if it was 5 or 20 min away but a 50 min one way drive into work is one of the main reasons I'm looking to switch out of my current job lol
 
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Jim37F said:
I suppose I should've also mentioned that I'm also in the middle of backgrounds fro a part time FD AO job. From what I gather it's basically a Kelly shift but 12 hr shifts not 24. So the part time Irwindale job I originally applied for would've fit very nicely lol

I've heard the local AMR divisions like to use a similar schedule. Two Kellys at once seems doable, but it also seems it'd be very rough with few off days. Maybe if it was 5 or 20 min away but a 50 min one way drive into work is one of the main reasons I'm looking to switch out of my current job lol
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Sounds like suicide to me.

I'm also not really sure how you can have a part time Kelley type schedule, can you write it out?
 
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chaz90 said:
Sure didn't. We weren't dispatched on this fortunately. It was kept BLS as it was an Alpha call, but we can still view BLS calls in the county on our CAD.
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Ahh. A part of me is happy to not have a CAD so I can't be reminded of the ridiculousness we're headed to.

The iPhone pager only gives the EMD code and address and our dispatchers have a hard time, well dispatching. Ignorance is bliss I suppose.
 
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That's our first prompt in the EMD software whe we ask exactly what's happening... Alot of times I just type the first coherent words out of the callers mouths. We also don't have MDTs, so our units don't get to seem the ridiculous things I've typed.
 
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How is that not an Omega level call? There must be more to it than losing his smile....
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I'm guessing acute depression in a high risk age group.

Only reason I say that is it's 26-A-1 so sick person, BLS code 2, 1 meaning green 1 so "serious, non-life threatening- face to face assessment within 20 minutes." Tough to do psychiatric assessments without looking at the person and being able to read their body language. I know you know that, not talking down, just thinking out loud. I do wonder why it's not coded as a 25A1 though

I explained the process in this thread before but we're currently partially into a pilot program that triages omega calls out of the EMS system and to our Nurse Hotline and no responders go to the 911 call.
 
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Jim37F

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Tigger said:
Sounds like suicide to me.

I'm also not really sure how you can have a part time Kelley type schedule, can you write it out?
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Part-time Ambulance Operators respond with sworn personnel, providing assistance as needed and transporting patients to local hospitals. Shifts are usually 12 hours in duration and currently follow the A / B/ C platoon model, working days 1, 3 and 5 of a rotating nine-day cycle.
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From the website. So it sounds like 12 hour Kelly shifts instead of 24 so IDK if that really counts as part time or not (I've never worked a Kelly schedule so I don't really know how it compares to a weekly schedule)


I do agree, two Kelly's at once seems way to much at once so unless Santa Clarita is willing to offer part time I doubt I'd take it, just stick with my current job until I get AO.
 
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Went out wandering around today and got a couple good photos :)
 
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