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[bsbllthirteen]

Your department sends an awfully large amount of apparatus out for very minor incidents...don't you think? wink.gif

well our department is a split career-volley department and there is only 1 career guy or driver at each station at any point so they send an engine(33-11 or 33-12) and ladder(33-45) to most ems runs so there will beat least 2 guys there......the other vehicles are from the local volunteer ambulance corp. which send an ambulance(82-71, 82-72, 82-73) and there career medic(82-89) and there is also a volunteer flycar(82-67) so there is why so many units go to each

[Xplorer4x4]

BUT with your 10 codes the major problem is that they are not country wide. 10 codes are generally only specific to one state or even area.

indiana is a state wide 10 code place. but is completely diff from your 10 codes.

10-1 is bad signal here
10-2 is good signal
10-23 is on scene istead of your 10-6
10-8 is inservice here and 10-7 is out of service.

that is why there is a nationwide push to eliminate 10 codes. they are just not standard enough!

oh and btw I had 1 call today. 62 y/o F diff breathing she was a COPD'er had a temp and green sputum. can someone say pneumonia

yawn had another call bout 1 in the morn. for a male with stroke like symptoms. well they were right. Doc told us at the hospital after they took him to CT. he had a right intracranial blee. poor guy

I dont think I have ever heard a 10 code go out here. Even when there was 100 person riot the other day, the cop simply said I need more units.

The only department in the county to use codes regularly is AMR.
http://wiki.radioref...V...County_(IN)

[kyle308]

we are 10 code heavy here lol. EVERYTHING and i friggin hate it is said with 10 codes and signals. drives me nuts. cop pulls someone over he runs a signal 27 then a 10-27 and sometimes a 10-28. we have 10-50PI,and PD. enroute 10-76 on scene 10-23 back in service 10-8. We dont get disregarded from calls we gt signal 9'ed. we are also expected to use them. I hate it lol. I'm a plain english sorta guy haha

[Xplorer4x4]

Bout 6 AM I hear an Air Horn blasting traffic. Look outside see 9s coming in to the apt complex. I hear another Q and Air Horn as well which means 2s was coming in as well. Obviously it had been called in as a structure fire. Flip on the scanner 9s tells the other companies to stand down. The other companies would have been over 5 miles away, and Rescue 3 would have been coming from nearly 8 miles away. Turns out a drunk guy pulled the fire alarm.

Less then 30 min latter, call goes out for a domestic violence right across the street.

Busy morning.

Oh and crime scene was called after all this to come look at the fire alarm.

[Xplorer4x4]

http://www.14wfie.co....asp?S=11982427
The fire at Audience Response Systems required 12 engines.

The normal response for a structure fire here is something like 2 quints,2engines,a bc and a rescue. Fire broke out at about 7 PM. Its 2 AM and crews are still on scene.

[bsbllthirteen]

2 nice calls back to back today.

1) Microwave fire..7:15pm.......33-11, 33-12, 33-45, 33-1, 33-2, 82-72 responded
2) MVA in a neighboring fire district...the other district is a ver small volly department and was 4th dispatched so we were call in mutual aid on the 3rd dispatch of the other department..one car flipped over on roof..7:40.......33-11, 33-1, 33-2, 37-11, 37-2, 82-73, state police, city of beacon police responded

[Xplorer4x4]

Leaving Gamestop last night, I here a siren. See a cop or sheriff. Next thing I know I see a 1987 Spartan/FMC Pumper followed by a 2007 Mack MRU612/Ferrara Rescue Pumper, and to top it off a 2006 Ford F-350/Omaha Utility cab in the bed. I then see a ton of smoke. Its coming from a CVS Pharmacy parking lot. I stop at the gas station across the street well out of the way and watch for a few. By the time I left there was 2 or 3 EPD there and about another 6 Sheriff cars, not to mention a county FD EMS Supervisor, and a AMR Ambulance.

Turns out a guy had a seizure, hit 3 parked cars, and then his engine started smoking, may have even caught fire. FD had to pull the guy out through the window of his car. No one was in the parked cars, so no one else was injured.

Full story here:
http://www.courierpr...partner=popular

[jab16]

I remember an incident like that, a man was drunk and drove his car through a wall at CVS.

[hunter42]

Fire in either Dunfernline or Inverkeithing, not quite sure which.

Friend took this picture at about 5:00PM so there's no news stories at the moment, but quite a number of engines went passed.

[bsbllthirteen]

this fire was a while ago at the end of january

2nd alarm house fire....
33-11 first on scene (reported smoke showing)
33-45, 33-1 second on scene (confirmed and updated to heavy smoke showing)
33-12, 33-2, 33-9 third on scene and jumped on a line and entered the structure
33-55 forth on scene after 2nd alarm was issued
42-12 last on scene as the FASTeam (Firefighter Assist and Search Team AKA RIT team)

43-12 and 62-45 covered the city

fire started in the ceiling of the second floor and spread into 2 rooms on the third floor...the fire was knocked down in approximately 15-20 minutes...a very nice save


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[njboy13]

Last night, the east coast of the US got a whole lot of rain.

A neighboring fire department went out call after call after call, making a total of 86 runs at the end of the night. Including:

-1 Structure Fire ( I may have a picture for you guys, I'll post it if I can get it from my phone onto my computer)
-60+ flooded basement pumps
-about 10 vehicle rescues (Cars stuck on flooded streets with people trapped in them)
-2 car accidents
-the rest were all fire alarms, trees down, or power lines down.

crazy night on the east coast!

[emergency4freak]

In the past month for me, I have attended:
Ruptured Gas Line last week and a two car MVC on the QEW Highway. one vehicle into the centre median, the other into the right ditch going towards niagara falls. There were other calls (medicals and alarm conditions), but nothing very important to go to.

[Forensics]

That air ambulance landed in a field near my house today, a women with a suspected heart attack.

[Xplorer4x4]

Lots of events the past week.

1 Medic Assist - Baby Stopped Breathing - 1 Quint 9 - 2 AMR Ambulances
1 Medic Assist - No idea but AMR did NOT transport.

1 ??? - State Trooper running Code 3 makes a U-Turn well, starts to. It was more like an Q turn lol. He was headed northbound, busted a u turn and parked facing south in the right northbound lane. Gets out of his car dressed in a hoodie and sweat pants. Yells at girl walking across the field infront of the shopping complex. She stops, yells back, turns around and starts walking. Repeat 3 times. I drove off and came back home because we forgot our movie rentals. Come back to find 2 Evansville Police and 2 Sheriffs and 1 AMR. Cops escorted girl to Ambo and she gets in on her own free will.

1 Bomb Scare - Sheriffs get on scene. Find a cylinder shaped object wrapped in electrical tape. 6 Adam 60(BC) and 6 Engine 6 STAGE at the shopping center mentioned above.(WHY would fire stage????) BC tells Dispatch to have Evansville Police Bomb Squad(but yet it was a County Run, hints Sheriff Deputies and Volly Fire Company) call his cell. Bomb Squad calls, and eventually Fire gets the OK to move in all though bomb squad was 10-20 minuets away. Bomb Squad declares it a false alarm and defuses the device. News claims the device had no explosives in it, so how the hell can bomb squad defuse it?

1 - 2 Alarm Fire at an Automotive Factory - 3 Light Forces, 1 Hazmat 1, 1 Rescue 1, 1 BC(didnt catch the call sign) 1 AMR, 3 Evansville Police - A spark ignited some paint on the floor. Hazmat was called due partially to Paint I presume, and also due to a stock of Acetone on site. 2 People had to be Decontaminated, 1 person suffered some singed hair from trying to extinguish flames with an extinguisher. BC commanded all personnel to use SCBA Gear if going inside. Everyone was alright in the end and there didnt sound like there was any fire damage, just alot of smoke.


And I saved the best for last.

I hear a Q infront of our apt complex, odd since normally I hear the Q about a mile away...literally. Flip on the scanner. They report white smoke coming from the apt complex across the street. My girl and I grab the dog and head to the end of our parking lot. 1 Quint 9 on scene reported the smoke, and 1 Engine 4 comes in a minute latter and 1 Quint 16 and 1 Engine 2 roll in soon after. Oh and 1 Rescue 3. Standard Structure fire response here, 2 light forces(although the engine and ladder are from different stations usually), 1 BC, 3 Marked Evansville Police Cars, 1 Gold Crown Vic Unmarked(detective), 1 AMR, and 1 AMR Supervisor(in 25 years I have never seen an EMS supervisor on scene). Traffic was chaos as PD never bothered to block off the street. 1 injury - Burn Vic over 50% of his body covered in burns. 1 Vic - No injuries. Turns out the guy was cooking meth and his lab blew up. The force of the explosion was enough to buckle part of the wall:

Notice the windows in the top middle are slanted!

All this with in a half mile of where I live in the course of 1 week. I thought evansville wasnt that crazy, guess I was wrong...very wrong!

[njboy13]

There was a structure fire today. Not too major from what I could see n the exterior. It was in a restaurant, and it it looked that the fire was contained to the kitchen, and did not spread to neighboring business. It was knocked down pretty quick, and most units were gone after a few hours (Just the first arriving engine, and the investigators were still there after about 3 hours)

[Newfoundking]

Do they still count as my most recent call if I was on the receiving side of the aid? If so I've got a few stories

[randomperson139]

Do they still count as my most recent call if I was on the receiving side of the aid? If so I've got a few stories

Yeah, Why not?

[Newfoundking]

Well I've got a few then

I'll start with MOST recent... 8 hours ago while shopping for gifts, I was going down the escalator in the mall, when a man trips, falls and doesn't get up. Turns out he had a mental illness and they took him off in an ambulance. The woman he was with called 911 and I took care of basically checking to see he was okay like physically. I think before they took him off he had gained consciousness again, but considering his condition, they wanted to check him out first.

Yesterday I had heart troubles in DQ.. That was interesting.. I kinda spasmed and hit the floor and such, and well considering my girlfriend worries too much, I got to meet the paramedics.. I sent them on their way because by the time they'd arrived it'd subsided to just minor pains.. I'll survive more than likely..

What else...

There was a 2 car crash down the street from me, I basically played paramedic until people with actual equipment showed up.. I couldn't really rescue anyone seeing as the car had a number done to it, but the Cadillac Escalade was fine, just the driver was a little banged up. The two passengers in the car were taken to the hospital, the escalade driver was treated on scene(Further by paramedics) then released.

The rest is all pretty boring..

Life of NFK journal for March 27 complete.