Recent content by wirk242

I don't know their policies. I have worked in adjacent counties to OC and have worked for multiple privates as a EMT and as a medic and for multiple municipal agencies as both pump medic and box medic. What is their policy for utilizing a non dispatched piece of equipment? Was this policy...

Exactly, there are crappy medic everywhere, both in the public side and the private side. You wake up every morning and determine who you are going to be. Your patch doesn't matter.

That's how they get paid homie. That's how those companies makes money. I have been dispatched to call, get cancelled because it's in AMRs area and pass them 5 mins later going the opposite way. Policies are policies. BTW not a ocfa apologist and have no interest working for them. Just...

Soooo, they had to wait for a ambulance to respond to a call in their own operating area. Lynch doesn't do 911 transport in placentia, emergency does. If anything this is emergencys fault for taking 30 mins to get on scene. I don't know OCs system but maybe it was a code 2 response for...

That is exactly what I saying. This is not a big step forward. This is not a career medic gig. It's going to be a stepping stone at best for most. Lynch will be able to pay people dirt cheap because they are the only private als in the OC. Medics will put up with it untill they get called up...

How is this different than the laco model? Dual medic squabulance with bls engines and bls transport. Main difference I see is that there are at least 6 less career medic positions in socal.

It's not the staffing patterns that are the main issue. It's just that the state is not competitive with local government in socal. Better schedule, more money.. most people do a few years the bounce. That leave the people left to back fill. If you don't have relife you don't get to go home...

Calfire Rivco, BAT 12 and 7. They have boxes at the stations. I can go into details but the suck is real. 120 hour shifts on vans that run 10-15 calls a day is normal for most people. On staffing patters it's not uncomoun to be on a 1st roll box for 10days in a row. My personal longest was 9...

Yeah actually this is a real thing. I was in your same boat. I have things that show up in my h6 that we're over 10 years old. There was a DMV number I had to call and they removed old moving violations off my H6. They purged everything that was older that 5 years. The purge date appears on...

Pull your own driving record. See how many points you have. 3 or more and I say it would be tough. Do you pay much more in car insurance then average individual? If so then it will cost them more to insure you. It also depends on where your trying to get hired. More EMTs and less jobs then they...

I live and worked in San Diego county. Now I work in Riverside county for the state. I love living in San Diego, but you do pay for the weather. The cost of living is pretty high compared to some other parts of the state, but comparable to the places you listed off. As far as EMS is concerned...

If you like working in the IE and have some fire experience apply for calfire and tell them you want to work on a box in the desert. Yeah it's a long drive but only once a week. Put in your time and then leave for greener pastures.

I used to work at Mercy. They have about 10-11 units in the San Diego county area. All rural eastern portion of the county. Most new medics start on special event units or the prison untill a better spot opens up and it can take a while move into a North county spot like Pala. I used to work at...

I live in SD. If you it shows up on your H6 you will not get hired in any driving position and all local ALS companies will not hire you as a medic if you get your Pcard.

Seriously Positive Attitude. Yeah IFTs can suck. But it could be worse, you can be stuck behind a desk sitting in a tiny office. If you make it a good day then you will be happier, your partner will be happier and your patients will be happier. I made my job fun, it was me and my homie...