Dumbest thing heard on the radio

bw2529 said:
I'll grant you that she is likely an idiot, but I still would have just given my unit number.
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Any radio traffic I have always starts with my unit number.

And they still get it wrong.

"radio 123"
"last unit calling"
"123 1-2-3"
"143 go ahead"
 
Heard this one a few months back - Sorry anyone whos with AMR, but this is courtesy of AMR/Dispacth

Calstar: This is Calstar, were on approach, whats your current location
Medic XX: In the big open field
Calstar: Do you have the patient ready to go?
Medic XX: Negative, we're with the pt, but the gate is locked and we can't get the rig in.
Calstar: Copy, please contact dispatch, ETA 7 minutes.

Medic XX: Medic XX to Dispatch
Dispatch: Go ahead Medic XX.
Medic XX: Can you get someone to unlock the gate so we can pull our rig in.
Dispatch: Negative, that not our problem

There was more to it than that, but thats the short version, you can imagine there was so much bantering back and forth.
 
johnrsemt said:
one of the few times I didn't get in trouble for my radio traffic. Even though she wrote me up; (she got 8 hrs unpaid time off for that though).
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I'm sorry, but what did she get the 8 hrs off for? you were the one who didn't answer the simple question of what unit you were. had you answered what unit you were, the whole situation could have been resolved.

not only that, but maybe the dispatcher was on the phone, entering a new job, doing paperwork, doing QA, maybe trying to hit the little dispatcher's room when you called?

if I was your boss, I would have given you more than 8 hours off for making the situation worse and not being professional. But that's just my 2 cents, and I have worked on both sides of the mic
 
DrParasite said:
if I was your boss, I would have given you more than 8 hours off for making the situation worse and not being professional. But that's just my 2 cents, and I have worked on both sides of the mic
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Agreed, even of you're the only unit on at night the question was simple. No need to be ignorant.
 
DrParasite said:
I'm sorry, but what did she get the 8 hrs off for? you were the one who didn't answer the simple question of what unit you were. had you answered what unit you were, the whole situation could have been resolved.

not only that, but maybe the dispatcher was on the phone, entering a new job, doing paperwork, doing QA, maybe trying to hit the little dispatcher's room when you called?

if I was your boss, I would have given you more than 8 hours off for making the situation worse and not being professional. But that's just my 2 cents, and I have worked on both sides of the mic
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Yup, 100% agreed.

It was unprofessional of you to ignore such a simple question, and you should have gotten a suspension, not her.
 
I have also worked both sides of the mic; and enjoyed my time in dispatch.
But I am smart enough to know when I only have one truck showing on the screen that I only have one truck in service; unless I forgot to activate trucks.
And I was responding to her as she was disptaching; she wasn't saying "Medic 1 need you to take a run"; she was dispatching "hey guys need you to do this" (actually she told us face to face, as we were sitting in dispatch when the call came in).

I didn't complain about her to management; when they got the write up from her they investigated it; listened to the phone and radio recordings, talked to me and my partner (I told them I wasn't too professional about it, but was just proving a point with her on the dispatch traffic and that was why I didn't complain).
There were more reasons that she got the time off than just that night; and she turned into a decent dispatcher as long as it wasn't busy or there weren't emergencies.
 
Dispatch: Med 1... Respond to ___ for a sick person
Med 1: 10-8; any additional Pt info?
Dispatch: Yyyyeeessssss

No further traffic until on scene.
 
Here we get stuff like: " respond to _____. Patient non responsive, but breathing". I laugh every time because I have this image in my mind of someone breathing through their nether orifice. It is the eternal 11 year old in me I guess.
 
EMT424 said:
Here we get stuff like: " respond to _____. Patient non responsive, but breathing". I laugh every time because I have this image in my mind of someone breathing through their nether orifice. It is the eternal 11 year old in me I guess.
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Just because they are unresponsive doesn't mean they aren't breathing, we get that quite a bit in my area.
 
comppro said:
Just because they are unresponsive doesn't mean they aren't breathing, we get that quite a bit in my area.
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Pretty sure he giggles at the "butt breathing"

Breathing out of their butt
 
A couple weeks ago there was a fire at one of the old mine drys just north of town. The fire just happened to be at the part of the road where only one vehicle will barely fit this was the radio traffic that followed the page:
SO (newer dispatcher that wasn't speaking clearly)- 161 be advised to stage at the ore house.
*off air*
EMT- We have a w-h-o-r-e house?
 
10-4 unit 605. We have you clear there en route to here.
 
We once had a crazy psych patient who would call us every name under the sun, so we decided to accidentally key up the radio. Now, here in my area of New Jersey every EMS agency uses EMS Ops to talk on so the entire county could hear her cursing at us haha.

The dispatchers were quick to hit that "priority message" button and let us know we had an open mic lmfao.
 
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