the 100% directionless thread

EVOC is done. No more fighting with cones in a 23'x8.5'x10' box with a motor in it for two more years.

Almost had a perfect score, they said I bumped a cone doing the reverse slalom, they were all still standing so I call bull:censored::censored::censored::censored:! :lol:
 
Sitting through business math

This class is boring :( save me world save me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:ph34r::ph34r::ph34r:
 
Oh. Well hi. Welcome to the forum.

What skills must be feared? :D
 
Hooker on Fremont St. at 2 AM (there's no other reason to be sober AND just hanging around at 2 am) from across.

"Yoo hoo, Hello."
::nod, wave back:: "You have a good night"

"Oh, that's just cold."
 
DEmedic said:
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We also deal with several dispatch centers here. A couple of towns didn't want to give up their dispatch center and go in with the county consortium, so when these towns need medics, they dispatch their BLS ambulance and then call the county dispatch on the phone to request a medic. It can sometimes be upwards of 4 or 5 minutes before the medic unit is dispatched. Of course, we try to keep an ear on these dispatches and head in the direction that we're needed... but it's frustrating.

Again, thank the Lord for the CAD.
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In a fairly big town in Indiana, EMS is provided by AMR. Their dispatch center is in their own building, away from the 911 center. I have heard it take upwards to ten minutes from the time a fire unit is dispatched to AMR being dispatched. It's purely ridiculous.
 
FearTheSkill said:
I used to hardcore game, and the name just stuck :). Now i'm just trying to get through school to be in the medical field for something and i figured I would let it stick. lol
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Would you say that you are 1337? :P
 
With the exception of a meeting on Friday, I'm officially on vacation.
 
Chimpie said:
In a fairly big town in Indiana, EMS is provided by AMR. Their dispatch center is in their own building, away from the 911 center. I have heard it take upwards to ten minutes from the time a fire unit is dispatched to AMR being dispatched. It's purely ridiculous.
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That used to happen here, now the ambulance contract mandates that an AMR dispatcher be present at the city's dispatch center. For calls in the county however county dispatch still calls AMR's in house person and then they dispatch the ambulance, and the delays you mention still happen (though maybe not quite as bad).
 
Our whole dispatch center is screwed up. Our dispatchers are in a completely different building (I also believe city) than the fire dispatchers (who take the 911 calls). The fire department inputs the call into the computer system which is then transmitted to our dispatch. So our dispatch gives us the call at the same time fire dispatches it to their personnel (if that makes sense).

We have a city fire department in our response area that operates differently. The city fire gets the call and then dispatches it out to the fire crews and to our dispatchers who then dispatch it out to the ambulance crews.
 
DesertEMT66 said:
Our whole dispatch center is screwed up. Our dispatchers are in a completely different building (I also believe city) than the fire dispatchers (who take the 911 calls). The fire department inputs the call into the computer system which is then transmitted to our dispatch. So our dispatch gives us the call at the same time fire dispatches it to their personnel (if that makes sense).

We have a city fire department in our response area that operates differently. The city fire gets the call and then dispatches it out to the fire crews and to our dispatchers who then dispatch it out to the ambulance crews.
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What? :wacko:
 
So much stress gone as of today :P
Passed my phlebotomy/ med lab assistant NHA certification tests with a 98% and a 81%, respectively. Now, the senioritis is kicking in, though <_< Only 11 days left! lol
 
Achilles said:
What? :wacko:
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The 911 call center is a separate Primary PSAP, information is shared through a unified CAD system to the local Secondary PSAP (fire dispatchers)... A pretty standard layout if you can afford separate call takers and dispatchers.
 
We have 4, yes 4, separate dispatch centers. We have north county/city "A" dispatching for Fire, PD and SO in one building. Then we have city "B" that does their own Fire and PD, we have our dispatch center that does EMS and HEMS. Last but not least we have south county that dispatches SO and Fire, the name is self explanatory as to which part of the area they dispatch for. South County also dispatches for one of the small FDs at the Lake.

Talk about a cluster. I'll cancel an incoming apparatus and they'll still show up like 10-15 later, the telephone game doesn't work very well.

None of the CADs are synced with eachother. City B uses our EMD priority, city A and county respond code 3 to everything. The separate centers have to landline eachother to request resources except for ours, they can drop tones on City B's dispatch center when dispatching us to a priority call in that city. They have a speaker in the center and they hear our dispatch and dispatch fire out off of that.

It's ridiculous. Used to have tones for City A and County but they decided they didn't want to pay their share anymore so we're back to landlines for everything involving them.
 
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I found out that my ex boyfriend died of a heroin overdose yesterday. His dad is our risk safety manager and his brother is a medic.

So sad. He was premed and about to take the MCATs.

My heart breaks for his family.
 
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