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[firefighter111]

This question's aimed at mikesphotos, but anyone else can anwser it about where they live. I saw a video tonight about LAFD rescue ambulances, and in it, they had a shot of the crew tying a patient to a backboard with what appeared to be gauze, and I was wondering, to they really do that. I know that any time I'm on a call with my ambulance corps, we used spider straps (brand name) on our back boards, and all the other crews I've worked with or seen have used some type of straps. It seems to me that straps would be easier, and faster to put on rather than having to tie the patient down. I would think it'd also waste alot of supplies. Just wondering what other people did else where in the country.

[TROOPER05]

Sometimes for head & neck stabilization they wrap gauze around entire backboard and forehead, - usually it is spider straps though... And sometimes even if they have spider straps - they will still gauze the head down - However not knowing the nature of the call - or the reason for doing so - - - I cant figure out why other then, missing equipment, to many patients not enough supplies, or just because lol...




TROOPER

[firefighter111]

Sometimes for head & neck stabilization they wrap gauze around entire backboard and forehead, - usually it is spider straps though... And sometimes even if they have spider straps - they will still gauze the head down - However not knowing the nature of the call - or the reason for doing so - - - I cant figure out why other then, missing equipment, to many patients not enough supplies, or just because lol...




TROOPER

I've heard of the gauze for the head, but I've never heard of or seen anyone using gauze for the whole back board. That was what supprised me.

[Xplorer4x4]

http://www.powerarc....rgepics/121.jpg
http://www.powerarc....rgepics/120.jpg
http://www.powerarc....rgepics/116.jpg

Can any one tell me what kind of trucks these are?

[MCERT1]

Rosenbauer



Question?

Anyone have a picture of the FDNY WMD unit?

[jab16]

All ESU members have WMB traning

http://firechief.com...-handles051605/

[MCERT1]

Interesting article, I did not know FDNY Firefighters could write parking tickets...

The FDNY EMS division has a truck called WMD-1 as well as trucks called LSU I was wondering if people had pictures of them or knew what LSU stood for.

[jab16]

From what I found:


LSU stands Logistical Support Unit. The unit(s) respond to MCI to provide equipment i.e backboards etc. The members of the department that work these units also go to the hospital in the areas of the stations that they turn out of to retrieve the equipment that this there to be returned to the station or stations.

[Xplorer4x4]

Rosenbauer

Thanks!


If cops say go car to car does that usually mean to call each other on ther cell phones?

[Xplorer4x4]

MCERT was right.


Few more questions to, all pd related.

First, if an officer requests a second run card for the same address, what does that mean?

Whats it mean if they say (insert officer name or unit number-224SAM for example) go south? Does it mean approach the incident from the south?

Is a CIT Officer pretty much the equivalent of the Negotiator of the LA Mod?

[Xplorer4x4]

How long do they usually keep an engine on scene after a 2 alarm fire? We had a 2 alarm fire with about 10 trucks responding, and most units were packing up around 5 or 6 PM but there was still an engine on scene at about 8 PM tonight with another truck showing up when we left, which i assume was there to relive the ffs and engine on duty.

[MCERT1]

Most likely they were sticking around to monitor for any hotspots to flare up. It's pretty standard on larger fires, also depends on the department procedures.

[Xplorer4x4]

I wasnt questioning why they were still there, just how long is typical for them to stay on scene. It was a pretty big fire though, thats for sure:
http://www.courierpr...le/?partner=RSS
http://www.14wfie.co....asp?s=11465681

[andrew2007]

I was wondering if someone would be able to give me the specs on the LAFD TP1 (Dozer Team 1 - Transport 1), specs as in the brand and model of the truck.

[Xplorer4x4]

The truck is a peterbuilt, not sure what year or model.


I had a question again as well, could some one explain why a FD would go TAC5 and TAC7 and what these mean? The meaning probably differ from place to place I would guess, but if any one has a rough idea. Not one of the responses this was used was a Horse stuck in a fence, the other an MVA with a car being flipped several times and knocked off the road way completely.

[jab16]

My gues would be that they are diffrent dispatch codes for diffrent kinds of either rescue assingments, like Tactal Rescue type 5 or 7, or the unit and call signs for a specialized rescue team numbers 5 and 7. Just a guess though.

I have seen records for places like Sacramento using the Tac call sign for command units, it may also be a special channel.

[Xplorer4x4]

Jab, you were right. After doing some research looks like there are several Tac talk groups available for the various county fire agencies around town.

[kyle308]

i know here in my county we have 3 fire tac channels. 1 EMS tac channel. and one talk around channel(itst the frequency that was used by an EMS provider here in my town in the late seventies that for some reason we still own the FCC rights to lol. so its programmed in everyones radio and we can chat on it)

[Xplorer4x4]

Yes its similar here. EFD has a Fire Tac channel, then each County Department has there own tac channel and since only the various county departments can provide mutual aid to each other(yet the county can provide hazmat mutual aid to the city), theres a mutual aid talkgroup as well. And since we utilize AMR for Ambulance service AMR has there own dispatch and actually codes the patient condition, which is stupid because fire is almost always dispatched first and fire doesnt code the conditions so its rather pointless if you monitor both FD and AMR. AMR also has there own Tac channel to but i never notice anything being said on there.


There was a younger female, probably in her 20s or so working dispatch last night about 2 or 3 AM. She was trying to dispatch an ambulance who wasnt reponding. She said Medic #, I have a run for you. Its a city run. No response from the crew. She tries again. No answer. She then says something like, that where you go to do your thing, where you do the other thing, and then you take them to the other thing. Kind of funny:p