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@Jim37F here’s one for you:

I’m driving on the freeway to work and see not one, but two Honolulu EMS ambulances oncoming in the opposite direction. A bit out of their jurisdiction? Super rando.
 
VentMonkey said:
@Jim37F here’s one for you:

I’m driving on the freeway to work and see not one, but two Honolulu EMS ambulances oncoming in the opposite direction. A bit out of their jurisdiction? Super rando.
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It's their IFT team.
 
VentMonkey said:
@Jim37F here’s one for you:

I’m driving on the freeway to work and see not one, but two Honolulu EMS ambulances oncoming in the opposite direction. A bit out of their jurisdiction? Super rando.
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Lol Hey, when weather grounds Hawaii Life Flight, you gotta get that Pt to that Mainland specialty center *somehow* ;)
 
And sometimes we have to go help them out with lift assits on those long distance calls, just part of the job you know?
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Jokes aside, for our apparatus, because all the manufacturers are on the Mainland, after they build them, they drive them cross country to the ports as kind of a final road test from what I've heard. That and it's probably cheaper than paying to ship them that much further lol

Idk if the same would be true of a new ambulance or not tho
 
Jim37F said:
Jokes aside, for our apparatus, because all the manufacturers are on the Mainland, after they build them, they drive them cross country to the ports as kind of a final road test from what I've heard. That and it's probably cheaper than paying to ship them that much further lol

Idk if the same would be true of a new ambulance or not tho
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I drove an ambulance from BraunNW (also builds for Honolulu) from Washington to Colorado. Save a bunch of money on freight and was a nice shakedown cruise (that went to the ford dealer soon after).
 
We get our ambulances from a dealer in Arkansas, so it's a mere 10 or 12 (roughly) hour round trip
 
Two weeks in New Zealand for the honeymoon. Almost as excited about two weeks off from being a probie as I am for the trip.

I was lucky to live in New Zealand for six months in 2012 and did a ride along with an Auckland ambulance. I remain envious of their system.
 
Congratulations!

I’d love to do a ride along with Auckland Ambulance.
 
Abandoned Squatters house, it was very definitely very much "We saved the foundations!" situation (when 3/4 of the place was already collapsed by the time we arrived lol). So no "proper" interior work, but still, some nozzle time on something more than a grass fire... Plus we started off using the turret which is always fun

Neighbors apparently had a whole outdoor garage setup on the other side of their fence that included multiple propane tanks, and that fence was getting burned on the exposure, so *that* could have been bad...

Was relieving at a different station yesterday and had another house fire, looked like the water heater in the garage blew (it was melted and scorched right by the electrical elements, and you could see the burn patterns on the wall spreading out from that point. But the homeowner heard the noise, saw smoke in the closet, and actually fought it with a garden hose. He ended being transported for smoke inhalation (he initially wanted to refuse), but did a good job, most of what we had to do when arrived was take over the garden hose and finish overhauling (so we got to break a bunch of holes in the wall/ceiling to make sure it didn't spread as well as dump all the burned stuff off the shelves between the water heater and kitchen fridge
 
We do actually have a phone number for people to call to say they're doing an Imu so we don't get dispatched to them lol
 
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