Recent content by harkj

The stretcher did not move at all, now I'm not sure how it would do with a patient on it.

We both were up front and wearing our seat belts, just got done dropping off a patient at the hospital.

It all depends on the company. The company I work for we get an interaction, which is were they "talk" to us about what happened. Then we get written up, it takes 3 writes for the same thing to get suspended. We have the option of signing our write ups and suspensions but you dont have to either...

If you look above the captains chair... thats not supposed to be like that. The box has been disconnected.

Actually its totaled both front and back axles are broken and the box is now disconnected from the frame I get a better picture to show that. The car that hit us. was a Buick 4 door.

thats the side that got hit and also landed on.

I was not a fault there was nothing I could have done to have avoided it. It wont effect me being able to drive and I'm not responsible for any damage with the ambulance.

Last night at work I was driving and a lady ran a stop sign and hit the back end of the passenger side box. The driver hit with such force that it broke the back axle and in the end caused the ambulance to flip over onto its side. Both my medic and me where able to climb out, neither one of us...

Here in Arkansas there are a lot of jobs for both emts and medics more for medics though. I work full time for one company and prn for 2 others, which call me all the time to pick up extra days. Most services in Arkansas are privately owned. Pretty much all the services run als units with 1 emt...

same here

to be honest sounding stupid and not really knowing what to say, I don't feel that way now of course.

I have worked with a few people that are over weight and it has never been a problem at all. In fact there have been times I was glad they were there, for one they (meaning the people I have worked with) were able to lift more weight than me (me being 5'9 175 and lean) and some of our trucks...

yup I was scared out of my mind, I would get so nervous and forget to talk to the patients but I was lucky and had a really good medic that one day stopped doing all the talking so I just started talking.

The company I work for we work 48 on 96 off. When I come in I get the radio and ignition keys from the emt getting off, then I check fuel and O2 (The crew getting off will always say "yea your good on fuel and O2" and not be), then I will put up the stock for my medic(so they don't have to), and...