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Random thought of the day. I've been perusing Drodge most of the morning and there are some potentially scary headlines, yes some are just click bait, but the different news sources keep beating the N. Korea drum, including the speculation that the Nork's two satellites might be capable of setting of an EMP over the US. Apparently they are updating their submarine launched missiles also.

Most EMS/FDs have new, or relatively new, equipment/trucks. If there is something like an EMP burst which allegedly will wipe out most of the electronics in the trucks rending them unusable...do you have any standby plans on how your agency will respond at a time like that when we would probably be needed most?
 
Old Tracker said:
Random thought of the day. I've been perusing Drodge most of the morning and there are some potentially scary headlines, yes some are just click bait, but the different news sources keep beating the N. Korea drum, including the speculation that the Nork's two satellites might be capable of setting of an EMP over the US. Apparently they are updating their submarine launched missiles also.

Most EMS/FDs have new, or relatively new, equipment/trucks. If there is something like an EMP burst which allegedly will wipe out most of the electronics in the trucks rending them unusable...do you have any standby plans on how your agency will respond at a time like that when we would probably be needed most?
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By foot.
 
IFT's are gonna be tuff. Getting up to the 10th floor without an elevator ain't gonna be a bowl of cherries either.
 
Old Tracker said:
Random thought of the day. I've been perusing Drodge most of the morning and there are some potentially scary headlines, yes some are just click bait, but the different news sources keep beating the N. Korea drum, including the speculation that the Nork's two satellites might be capable of setting of an EMP over the US. Apparently they are updating their submarine launched missiles also.

Most EMS/FDs have new, or relatively new, equipment/trucks. If there is something like an EMP burst which allegedly will wipe out most of the electronics in the trucks rending them unusable...do you have any standby plans on how your agency will respond at a time like that when we would probably be needed most?
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ruck it. Fireman carry. Pray it doesn't happen. Be like the rest of the country and be SOL... My signature says the rest :D
 
Just doesn't stack up to a good scenario and I don't live anywhere near a potential target. Dispatch will be out too, so how are we even gonna know where to go? Or let's pretend that there is communication, but no transportation, that translates into triage via radio or smoke signals or whatever.
 
Old Tracker said:
...the speculation that the Nork's two satellites might be capable of setting of an EMP over the US
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I'm not too worried about those satellites. The Norks haven't figured out how to make small, relatively light-weight warheads. Not yet. They are just figuring out how to make their warheads work. They've had a few low-power, low efficiency detonations (including a really low power fizzle). Once they're good enough to reliably detonate nukes that don't fizzle, then that'll be a problem. The worst thing, EMP-wise, would be if they can detonate a nuke above Kansas at about 250 miles up. From what I understand, most of the very populated areas of CONUS would suffer damage in that scenario. All they have to do is actually be able to get their ICBMs (in particular SLBMs) capable of actually surviving launch.
 
Old Tracker said:
Random thought of the day. I've been perusing Drodge most of the morning and there are some potentially scary headlines, yes some are just click bait, but the different news sources keep beating the N. Korea drum, including the speculation that the Nork's two satellites might be capable of setting of an EMP over the US. Apparently they are updating their submarine launched missiles also.

Most EMS/FDs have new, or relatively new, equipment/trucks. If there is something like an EMP burst which allegedly will wipe out most of the electronics in the trucks rending them unusable...do you have any standby plans on how your agency will respond at a time like that when we would probably be needed most?
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The moment that happens Im not going to be worried about what theyre doing at work. Ill be heading home to protect family and property. Slap my spare distributor into the old square body and drive there :)

There are varying theories on effects on vehicles after an EMP burst. If they arent running they may be unaffected. If they are running they may be able to be restarted. Nobody knows because, well it hasnt happened.




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If your car can survive (aka keep running) after being struck by or being in very close proximity to a lightning strike, you'll probably be OK, though that just means your car would survive the E2 pulse. It's the E1 pulse that apparently causes much of the damage. Interestingly enough during some testing, a PRC-77 radio (all solid state) survived an EMP burst while a PRC-25 radio (has a vacuum tube in the final amp) couldn't be certified to work properly, though I suspect that it did work to some extent. If that's the case, I would imagine that my Ham Radios would likely survive if they're disconnected from their antennas and power leads.
 
Old Tracker said:
Just doesn't stack up to a good scenario and I don't live anywhere near a potential target. Dispatch will be out too, so how are we even gonna know where to go? Or let's pretend that there is communication, but no transportation, that translates into triage via radio or smoke signals or whatever.
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hope you know how to ruck/walk :D, and carry a gun. worst in worst, you can manually say "fk all this electric jazz" and get your car going basic, engine make spinny, make tires go. There was a show called the colony a bunch of years back on discovery.
 
NysEms2117 said:
hope you know how to ruck/walk :D, and carry a gun. worst in worst, you can manually say "fk all this electric jazz" and get your M35A2 deuce and a half, multi-fuel merican engine make spinny, make tires go. There was a show called the colony a bunch of years back on discovery.
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Fixed it for you.
 
EMP is shenanigans.
 
RocketMedic said:
EMP is shenanigans.
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Yeah, I know what you're going to say....

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Bombs going off tonight. No sleepy.
 
Asked a question about how ideas get proposed to the committee that brings new ideas/suggestions to the table and one of the head dudes told me to write something up for Ketamine since that's what I referenced. Sounds like I have some homework to do.
 
StCEMT said:
Asked a question about how ideas get proposed to the committee that brings new ideas/suggestions to the table and one of the head dudes told me to write something up for Ketamine since that's what I referenced. Sounds like I have some homework to do.
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Lucky son of a!
 
Currently making chicken caprese lasagna...will report on the results.

What I will say. Homemade lasagna of any type involves a love of freaking work.


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