Do you need GPS for a 911 job?

[DPM]

If you want to be the best you have to know your district. Every street. Seems less time on couch and more driving around familiarizing ones self to the areas we are responsible for is a lost art now with GPS. Seems tome there is Much higher instance of lodd secondary to Mva since these backseat drivers came out.

My service area is upwards of 3,000 Square Miles... Sometimes learning your service area can take a while!

 

[exodus]

For what it's worth, our service area is close to a thousand square miles. We cover that with eight medic units and paramedics who seldom work in the same district. We use mapping on our CAD, which provides routing and very precise addressing. We also have a tom-tom GPS as a backup in each medic unit and map books, which very rarely are used.

After you've worked in an area for a while, you can usually start heading in the right direction just by hearing cross streets. But there are several areas in no mans land where, without the CAD, you would be totally lost. Map books and the GPS are mostly useless.

I'll pull out a mapbook every now and then, just so I don't forget how to use it.

I wish our cads has addresses on them!