Curious to know if this rig is still in service today or has it been Officially retired cause of either years in service or if it has r3eached its Maximim number of miles
FB1 GREAT VIDEO! I enjoyed the different view. Brought back lots of memories. Back in the old days I worked as a Paramedic in FL. I wish we would have had cameras back then like we do today. Nice work.
thanks bud, always glad to throw some ride along footage out there! haha. and to answer your question, the ambulances usually always take lead. i'm not sure if there's a real reason behind it but it's always been like that. sometimes the squad will take lead because of apparatus placement when on scene or sometimes the EMT's aren't familiar with the area and don't know the way to the hospital so the squad would lead in those cases.
I had thought that McCormick was only down in Norwalk area, I guess you learn something every day. They went to the hospital I was born at many years ago now.
Norwalk is actually covered by care. mccormick covers Compton, South Bay, Palos Verdes, Lomita, Carson, West Hollywood, Willowbrook, Malibu, Topanga, Agoura Hills, Gardena, Hawthorne, Lawndale, Marina Del Rey, Ladera Heights and View Park. I think that's all of them.
private ambulances are BLS level and staffed with EMT's. squads are ALS level, staffed with paramedics. if there is an ALS patient that requires a paramedic to be present, one medic from the squad with perform ALS interventions in the ambulance on the way to the hospital while the other medic drives to pick the other "patient man" up. thanks for watching, hope that helped
I am a little surprised that they don't wear headsets. Not necessarily to talk to the person next to you but for hearing protection of the siren. Maybe they are issued but no one wears them? Years of no hearing protection from the sirens do eventually cause hearing loss.
they are provided headsets but generally don't use them in a squad. with the windows up, the siren's honestly not that loud, same goes for the airhorns.
Very familiar with 58’s. Great station and people. Just wondering, what, if anything, did the Departments higher ups say about the music in the background while on a run ?
in my opinion, if they thought it was an issue, they would take the stereos out of squads before they hit the field. from a personal perspective, music is usually only played on hospital follow ups (cause you don’t really need to hear the radio) and when the crew is available on the radio. but usually enroute to runs, music is off or very low volume.
the ambulances are only staffed with EMT's which are BLS and the squads are staffed with paramedics and ALS equipment so on ALS calls, one medic will hop off the squad and ride the ambulance to administer ALS care while enroute to the hospital while the other medic follows the ambulance to the hospital.
lol, you mean Dual paramedic ambulance that la county fire does not allow to use their skills, so mcCormick medics don't do anything other than BLS, even though are surely qualified to do ALS.
One of my proudest moments after being an emt and transporting LA county paramedics patients for years was interning with Squad 47 and being on the other side as a paramedic. Proud 21 year old
Regarding the siren: elightbars-internal-data.s3.amazonaws.com/2016/01/105931_349748a4f0cf2e98ffc612d06a3f3d92.png Google found this. And I didnt know they had FM radio in those vehicles.
that's actually my instagram account. i posted that from LA County Squad 8 when i rode out there a while ago. all of LA County's squads have this panel
Didnt know. Now I know what account to follow. The other people on that forum also seem peeved about it. I think the reason they went with that is because I can imagine it costs less to buy sirens without controllers.
they're transporting a patient. would you wanna be thrown around in the back of a hauling ambulance as a patient for as much as you're gonna get charged? probably not. thanks for watching.
And the squad driver did it again. this time at time duration 4:03. Tell the squad driver to look both ways before crossing the intersection. Emergency vehicles such as that squad you're in are to stop at red lights and look both ways to make sure their way is clear. Like come in now this is ridiculous.
both of those intersections, were minor intersections, plus you can see that there's no traffic coming out, in the first intersection the traffic is completely stopped. besides, since we were behind the ambulance, they check traffic since they're first, if it's clear for one, it's clear for all. as long as the sirens were going to warn traffic that there was another unit coming, all is fine.