Recent content by chrls

As a Monday morning quarterback, these guys messed up. The guy who *almost* gets run over gets out of the way and doesn't raise his rifle to shoot. Good on him. You can even see in his shadow he doesn't join in with the others after he moves. I would be worried about the future if I was whoever...

Policy for my department is similar to what @Tigger mentioned. We can't put ourselves in harms way in an attempt to justify deadly force. There's more to it than one line but that's the main idea. Overall our policy is usually pretty restrictive and based on relevant case law. I have only...

Looks like an over zealous volunteer. Guns like his don’t stop cars like hers with any resemblance of reliability.

Stands for Too Long; Didn’t Read. Usually used when somebody writes a wall of text or quotes something and instead of reading the whole thing they summarize it for you.

I don’t have a real answer for you other than soap and water. Would Goo Gone chew up the helmet? More stickers can always help though.

@DrParasite, rather than reply to all your points I’ll just reference where I said my full time, non private job, doesn’t have these problems and the quote from @jgmedic

To make a long answer short, condescending combined with lacking knowledge of EMS operations outside the dark dispatch room. Ive been told I’m on the correct road and to “just keep going” because of where the AVLS/unit GPS put us on his map. We were on a dirt road that dead ended into a...

I know you’re asking about different companies but to second @jgmedic, Hemet and Desert Cities/Palm Springs are much better places to work and everybody is generally happier than at Riverside. There is much less us vs them with management without having a union. Pay wise both the other...

Welcome to EMTLife. This post is actually 7 years old so the person you replied to probably isn’t around anymore.

We looked into the laser glasses/visors for helmets but found there are different shades of plastic for different colors of lasers. We have some available that are supposed to help with red lasers as that’s what we see the most of out here but the green or blue lasers won’t care and can still...

Helicopter-ing. Vaguely HEMS related.

Looks like BFE. Actually just Palm Springs.

Welcome to California. California assembly bill 109(AB109) from 2011 is a blast to read about if you have some time. TLDR is the dollar amount of items taken matters a lot now and 7 years ago for him puts him within the new laws.

FTFY. For a real answer, it’s because people are lazy. Paramedic and medic mean the same thing to most people.

Both of us think a sloppy hole could be the culprit. I was just giving options earlier with the over penetration example. You’d know real quick if you went through. Like you said, medications wouldn’t have worked or would have been greatly delayed in absorption and/or potency. Also, if it...