Recent content by Jim37F

My two cents, which really are only worth that $0.02 since it's been close to 7 years si cents I've worked in Los Angeles County.... but I remember LA and OC being relatively unique/"special" in that they were really some of the only County/LEMSAs that required an additional local Co cert on top...

I'm sorry for your loss, and I hope you're able to grieve and process everything, but unfortunately, there really isn't much in the way of a single, solid answer to your question. It's nearly impossible to say how well they'd be conscious or when afterwards, because it varies greatly depending...

That was us last shift at 4am getting back into a station from a brush fire we initially got dispatched to at midnight...

Oooof https://www.khon2.com/local-news/ems-ambulance-involved-in-head-on-collision-in-waianae/amp/

Idk, prob some combo of 1970s logic "Well if there's a fire, we need the Engines available more than the Ladders" combined with "That's how we've always done it" and a dash of "Why *should* we change that?"

Where was your hotel? It's funny, because Honolulu sends Ladders first up for medicals over Engines... most of the multi Company station Engines are far slower than their counterparts lol

Actually not Five O (they finished that one before I got involved) but NCIS and Magnum on the other hand...

HS -> Active Duty Army (I was a 37F, PSYOP Specialist, working information operations, counter propaganda, basically trying to advertise "Taliban are the bad guys" hearts and minds type of stuff.... it was interesting but never really quite my forte) Decided I wanted to go Fire Department after...

Just finished binge watching Netflix's new live action Avatar: The Last Airbender series. I liked it, thought it was pretty neat, looking forward to the adaptation of Season 2. Granted I haven't watched the original cartoon version in a while (maybe a year or two?), I did feel like the live...

I'll let you know just as soon as I get around to all that lol

So Dune Part 1 was playing on the tv last night on shift (and we were able to watch the whole thing uninterrupted). Both the other FFs at the station wanted to watch it because they had both just seen Part 2 in theaters the day before (I hadn't watched Part 1 since it was in theaters...

Pretty sure that's exactly what the Reddit threat was referencing, and yup, never heard of these lol Guess I don't run enough jobs during my tour on the bus...

But in unrelated, Direction-less topic, I was welcomed back from vacation with a 10 car fire in a junkyard first shift back lol

hmm ,never heard of such, at least as a specific type, where someone would say "chore jacket" and I should picture the exact cut/style lol Vs just, you know, a jacket you happen to be wearing cuz it's chilly out, doing chores or not *shrugs*