Just signed on to say hi. Shift is a bit boring today.
I am a ff/medic in Washington State on the wet side. On the dept. for 27 years on the box for over 25 and a medic starting my 24th year. I am 2 years past eligable retirement, but I can't seem to find anything as fun or that pays as much for actually gettting out of bed and going to work only 7 days a month. (8hrs 5 day a week?, what ? you want to kill me?) We work a 24 hour shift BTW.
Currently 2nd senior medic, second least time on engines but I have more fires under my belt than most of the new guys with 7 years on. ( we burnt it all down years ago)
Thanks to seniority I have the best spot in the dept right now. County rig with Interstate freeway and north county as my response area. Gives me more trauma than in town and I prefer trauma. Dept. gets about 13,000 calls a year. Four full time rigs. Two in the county with double medics and the two in town rigs usually have double coverage but not lately. Cross staffed with medics on several of the engines.
Recently, BLS has been taken over by the county FD's and we only give assists. It's been really nice to only roll on ALS most of the time after all these years. It might help me stretch this gig out to 30 or 35 years. :wacko:
That's the long and the short of it. Hope to meet some new people here and share some stories.
Later ffmedic
I am a ff/medic in Washington State on the wet side. On the dept. for 27 years on the box for over 25 and a medic starting my 24th year. I am 2 years past eligable retirement, but I can't seem to find anything as fun or that pays as much for actually gettting out of bed and going to work only 7 days a month. (8hrs 5 day a week?, what ? you want to kill me?) We work a 24 hour shift BTW.
Currently 2nd senior medic, second least time on engines but I have more fires under my belt than most of the new guys with 7 years on. ( we burnt it all down years ago)
Thanks to seniority I have the best spot in the dept right now. County rig with Interstate freeway and north county as my response area. Gives me more trauma than in town and I prefer trauma. Dept. gets about 13,000 calls a year. Four full time rigs. Two in the county with double medics and the two in town rigs usually have double coverage but not lately. Cross staffed with medics on several of the engines. Recently, BLS has been taken over by the county FD's and we only give assists. It's been really nice to only roll on ALS most of the time after all these years. It might help me stretch this gig out to 30 or 35 years. :wacko:
That's the long and the short of it. Hope to meet some new people here and share some stories.
Later ffmedic
