Recent content by Jim37F

Jokes aside, for our apparatus, because all the manufacturers are on the Mainland, after they build them, they drive them cross country to the ports as kind of a final road test from what I've heard. That and it's probably cheaper than paying to ship them that much further lol Idk if the same...

And sometimes we have to go help them out with lift assits on those long distance calls, just part of the job you know?

Batman Forever has always been a personal favorite for me

Lol Hey, when weather grounds Hawaii Life Flight, you gotta get that Pt to that Mainland specialty center *somehow* ;)

If the story is accurate, yeah that's bad, like... really really fkn bad, lose your job and possibly your cert for starters bad... How accurate is the story? That's the other question. Wouldn't be the first time details got glossed over, or allegations made that don't fit the facts, but these...

I mean it means to maintain the airway. To understand what that means properly, you need multiple chapters from EMS training curriculum on everything from Anatomy and Physiology to what an Oropharyngeal Airway (or maybe Nasopharyngeal Airway) are and how they work and what the dangers of emesis...

Had a CPR case last night, like 2am. Wife woke up to husband breathing really "funny", wasn't responding, so they called 911, and apparantly while on the phone with Dispatch, husband coded. So they started bystander CPR, which they were doing when we arrived (according to the timestamps ~10min...

Same outer size, the density inside the helmet is a whole other story...

Achievement unlocked: went down a size in my turnouts 👨‍🚒

To be fair, they're fine.......... until they're on fire, then they're generally way more annoying than an ICE vehicle fire. Buuuuttt... I've also had as many rather annoying gasoline fire where the gas tank was full, but leaking, and making a nice burning pool that also wouldn't go out (doesn't...

EV fires suck lol First in crew was there like an hour and a half before they called us for assistance, we were there another 3 hours, Hazmat was called, went thru as many SCBA Bottles as if we were on a structure fire, Chief eventually had us pull the car away from the building (so if it...

Depends. Sometimes you have a full Fire crew with 3 or 4 extra guys. Sometimes it's just you and a partner. Sometimes even with extra crew, you only have enough space to get one or two guys to pick someone out of such a tight space. Sometimes even with 4 crew carrying someone thru a maze of...

I mean it's easy to say "I'll only lift with my legs not my back" until it's 3am and you're trying to lift a 300lb Pt from in between the toilet and wall, and then carry them down the hall, a flight of steps (or two) to reach the gurney...

Well, as an aforementioned non-transporting hose dragger lol, from the BLS side, talking more specifically about interventions and skills (beyond general care/compassion as mentioned above), I would like the ability to check Blood Glucose levels (there's def been more than a few calls where...

Sounds like you should consult an attorney (preferably one familiar with business and ambulance company regulations in whatever part of the world you're located in). But hopefully, when you contact them, you use this thing called "punctuation". No one's expecting a College English class essay...