the 100% directionless thread

Jim37F said:
Yay it's my birthday! Why does 27 feel so old?? And of course my birthday weekend is my drill weekend as well. It promised to be a pretty fun one. 4 days, 3 in the field shooting and 3 Airborne operations (jumping out of a plane) First off, when we tried to drive thru the Cajon Pass on Friday we found it completely shut down due to a wildfire that not only crossed the road, but burned up multiple vehicles on the 15 fwy in the pass. Yikes. We ended up going around through the Yucca Valley, and with traffic, turned our original 3, 3 1/2 hour drive into more like 7 hours. Then the weather decided that the only 4 days it'll rain this year, it'll not just rain, but dump thunderstorms on top of us all 4 days we were out lol. While we managed to shoot just fine, and slept inside of the vans we drove up in (which was actually more comfortable than it sounds lol), it seemed like we had a break in the weather just in time for our jumps. Got all the Pre jump stuff done, parachutes issued and rigged up, he'll we were actively loading the aircraft when they cancelled all the jumps because the thunderstorms moved in to close (this after the Air Force removed to move the time line forward to try and beat said weather).

Ah well, at least it was a decently action filled weekend full of interesting stuff to talk about lol :D
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Happy Birthday!!! I heard that all that rain shut I-10 down around Quartzite. Something like 4 inches of rain in an hour and a half?
 
DesertMedic66 said:
Bridge collapse is nothing, we can use the other near by roads to get around it... oh wait, there are none lol.

What's bad is that we are totally cut off from our response area in desert center. Hopefully no one has to call 911 there for a couple of months.
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I'm just glad that I'm not covering Blythe. That would be a hassle trying to get back to the valley.
 
DesertMedic66 said:
Bridge collapse is nothing, we can use the other near by roads to get around it... oh wait, there are none lol.

What's bad is that we are totally cut off from our response area in desert center. Hopefully no one has to call 911 there for a couple of months.
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I heard that the only alternate route is to go up to Parker and then somehow to Palm Springs. Is westbound still open?
 
ViolynEMT said:
I heard that the only alternate route is to go up to Parker and then somehow to Palm Springs. Is westbound still open?
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Eastbound and Westbound is shut down the alternative route is through quartzite on the 95 to El Centro then up the 86. The other I forgot the roads but you end up on the 62 coming out of Yucca Valley.

This was copied and pasted from the news article. Motorists were advised to avoid I-10 travel and use detour routes such as Arizona Route 95 to Interstate 40 or Interstate 8 to State Route 111 to Route 86 to get around the closure
 
DesertMedic66 said:
Bridge collapse is nothing, we can use the other near by roads to get around it... oh wait, there are none lol.

What's bad is that we are totally cut off from our response area in desert center. Hopefully no one has to call 911 there for a couple of months.
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Thats what helosuckers are for
 
Hmm Cath lab job open. Not sure if I am ready to give up ICU full time tho. I am sure CCL would be fun but would probably get repetitive.
 
Who could hate you DE? And yeah. I feel very behind on my 12 lead knowledge. I did call Sussex, they said they were going to email me my application... still no email. Maybe I will call again tomorrow?
 
In other news... I may have to decide between a company with amazing benefits but only does IFT with some "sloppy seconds 911" or a company that does primary 911 and IFT's but not as good benefits and is a long drive (2-3 hours). Why is this such a hard choice.
 
Do the primary 911 and move. Your'e a medic, so 911 is your end goal anyway right? You will lose all your skills in the IFT job.
 
That is kind of what I'm thinking. Wife an I are discussing this. Interview for the 911 gig tomorrow. So hopefully I will know in a few weeks.
 
FireWA1 said:
That is kind of what I'm thinking. Wife an I are discussing this. Interview for the 911 gig tomorrow. So hopefully I will know in a few weeks.
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You're not going to stay at the IFT more than a year or two anyway while you wait for a legit EMS job either. So as far as retirement and benefits, it isn't a *huge* deal.
 
exodus said:
You will lose all your skills in the IFT job.
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I very strongly disagree with that statement.


There are things you see in IFT that you don't typically see in the 911 field. I have noticed that a 911 job keeps your practical skills sharp. But transfers keep your mental skills sharp. Have you ever bothered to read patients paperwork during a transfer? I learned some pretty cool stuff when I did IFT that I would not of been exposed to if I went straight into 911. Pathology being a huge one. In a 911 setting, you see acute effects. In a transfer, you are exposed to more of the chronic effects.

Granted I am a 911 medic currently and it is a lot more fun, but I honestly learned more NEW information as an advanced scope transfer medic. I learn as a 911 medic too, but not on the same level.
 
FireWA1 said:
Who could hate you DE? And yeah. I feel very behind on my 12 lead knowledge. I did call Sussex, they said they were going to email me my application... still no email. Maybe I will call again tomorrow?
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Let me rephrase that. The senior staff loved me. The lazy "we've always done it that way" medics didn't like me very much. I'm a tiny bit opinionated, and I spent the previous 20 years building cohesive teams out of diverse groups of workers and streamlining bloated operations. So, it was pretty frustrating at times. It was difficult to go from being The Boss to simply being a number, which is the primary reason I let myself be recruited back to an operations management position in my previous industry.

It's a fine place to work as a medic. Good medicine and they spare no expense. And a much better place to work than any private. And no firefighter BS.
 
FireWA1 said:
That is kind of what I'm thinking. Wife an I are discussing this. Interview for the 911 gig tomorrow. So hopefully I will know in a few weeks.
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If this is the 911 job we talked about, you'll do a fair amount of ALS level IFT, too.
 
Given some of the recent threads I think it's time for a little sing along. Everyone follow along to the tune of "Rawhide."

Trollin' trollin' trollin'

Keep trollin', trollin', trollin',
Though they're disapprovin'
Keep them trolls postin'...Trollin'!
Don't try to understand 'em
Soon we'll be laughing in disgust.
Boy my heart's calculatin'
My detestation will be waitin', be waiting at the end of the thread.

Move 'em on, shut 'em down,
Shut 'em down, move 'em out,
Move 'em on, shut 'em down...Trollin'!
Shake yer head, ride 'em in
Ride 'em in, shake yer head,
Cut 'em out, ride 'em in...Trollin'!
 
LMFAO

That's a good one.
 
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