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ThePants

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Dear non-medical and non-fire individula wearing an "Incident Response Team" jacket,

If you drive like an ****** in front of me on winding mountain roads while responding to a head on TA caused by that very behavior in a lifted pickup with a bunch of poorly placed lights on it, we will have be having words with law enforcement. And if you choose to confront me about it on scene, well you made a bad choice.
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Self dispatch?
 
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Yes, it is tough to get much done once we're all loaded up and on the go. With the way we're set up during a medevac I pretty much only have access to the head and chest if I don't want to try to crawl around inside a flying helicopter.



This is correct. All of our AirOps units that do rescues/medevacs have A-stars. Most are AS350 B3's and we are slowly phasing in the newer AS 350 B3e's. Since Eurocopter got bought out by Airbus they're calling these H125's now.

In the county I work in we are classified as ALS air rescue.

All of our pilots and medics are CHP officers having gone through the academy and worked the road in a patrol car. The requirement is generally 2 years as a road officer before being able to get a spot flying and even then they are competitive spots.



Hi there.
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H60? Worked with the team several times. Always love it as everyone is eager to help out. Even had you guys overhead see us working a TC and ask if we wanted any help or a transport. It's nice having eyes in the sky in thermal and mecca trying to find TC's off the roadway. Even when it's SO area.

Two questions - Do you guys have fixed operating hours? And do you allow ride-alongs?:cool:
 
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exodus said:
H60? Worked with the team several times. Always love it as everyone is eager to help out. Even had you guys overhead see us working a TC and ask if we wanted any help or a transport. It's nice having eyes in the sky in thermal and mecca trying to find TC's off the roadway. Even when it's SO area.

Two questions - Do you guys have fixed operating hours? And do you allow ride-alongs?:cool:
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Yeah, H60. We're glad to help. Generally the helicopter is from 0730 to 0200 with a crew change at 1630/1700. We also have 2 airplanes that are available during the hours of daylight. We're supposed to be getting a plane with a fancy camera that will make them operational at night as well.
 
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chrls said:
Yeah, H60. We're glad to help. Generally the helicopter is from 0730 to 0200 with a crew change at 1630/1700. We also have 2 airplanes that are available during the hours of daylight. We're supposed to be getting a plane with a fancy camera that will make them operational at night as well.
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Heard you guys come up on RRU3 about a week ago. Reported a small mulch fire in Thermal, you guys had to be flying low on the deck. What altitude do you guys typically fly at?
 
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@exodus

If you message me we can talk ride along.

Sorry for the double post.
CALEMT said:
Heard you guys come up on RRU3 about a week ago. Reported a small mulch fire in Thermal, you guys had to be flying low on the deck. What altitude do you guys typically fly at?
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We patrol at a minimum of 500 feet AGL during the day, 700 at night. We don't usually stay that low during routine flight. If we're working a call where we need to be closer we can move down lower to get what we need done.
 
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chrls said:
Feel free. Either I don't have enough posts to message yet or I can't figure it out on mobile. Haha.
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Unless the minimum has changed it should be 5. It can be somewhat of a pain on the phone.
 
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Texas HAS seasons!!!! We have football season, deer season, turkey season, and dove season. What else do you want?
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Bikini season, Cheerleader season, Halloween costume season, Deer season.

Preferably add in a "bigger, tougher game" season somewhere.
 
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exodus said:
H60? Worked with the team several times. Always love it as everyone is eager to help out. Even had you guys overhead see us working a TC and ask if we wanted any help or a transport. It's nice having eyes in the sky in thermal and mecca trying to find TC's off the roadway. Even when it's SO area.

Two questions - Do you guys have fixed operating hours? And do you allow ride-alongs?:cool:
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A certain EMT we have who is trying to move to Australia did a ride along with H60 around a year ago.
 
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A certain EMT we have who is trying to move to Australia did a ride along with H60 around a year ago.
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So about the time that he's been trying to move to Australia? Haha.
 
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CALEMT said:
So about the time that he's been trying to move to Australia? Haha.
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Ride out with H60 once and it makes you want to move out of the country.... I'm not saying it but..
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ThePants said:
Self dispatch?
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Nah, just your average low call department with no station staffing. We work with seven volunteer districts. Six of them do not allow lights or direct to scene response by non officers or paramedics. This particular district does allow it and provides by far the worst service. Correlation?

I am very proud of our other districts, these guys give them a bad name.
 
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Nah, just your average low call department with no station staffing. We work with seven volunteer districts. Six of them do not allow lights or direct to scene response by non officers or paramedics. This particular district does allow it and provides by far the worst service. Correlation?

I am very proud of our other districts, these guys give them a bad name.
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Ouch. Our volunteer service requires lights on response, but mandates safe driving. My chief would have my arse if I drove like an idiot. And never in a poorly lit vehicle. Our engines are held to national standards.
 
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ThePants said:
Ouch. Our volunteer service requires lights on response, but mandates safe driving. My chief would have my arse if I drove like an idiot. And never in a poorly lit vehicle. Our engines are held to national standards.
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That is unfortunate. Properly equipping vehicles for emergency response is not cheap.
 
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